Fun Loving Short Quotes & Sayings

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. — Walter Lippmann

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we've finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they've moved again. — Chrissie Wellington

And I said to myself, "Now I really don't see
Why trubles like this have to happen to me! — Dr. Seuss

She was a queen, yet saw through the thrones and palaces of this world. — Yasmin Mogahed

I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart. — Robert Michael Pyle

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare. — Richard Wilbur

Sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces. — Corra May Harris

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Stolid pack-animals are much more fit for carrying loads than thoroughbred horses: who ever subdued their noble speed with a heavy burden? — Seneca.

What Gibbie made of Mr. Sclater's prayers, either in congregational or family devotion, I am at some loss to imagine. Beside his memories of the direct fervid outpouring and appeal of Janet, in which she seemed to talk face to face with God, they must have seemed to him like the utterances of some curiously constructed wooden automaton, doing its best to pray, without any soul to be saved, any weakness to be made strong, any doubt to be cleared, any hunger to be filled. What can be less like religion than the prayers of a man whose religion is his profession, and who, if he were not "in the church," would probably never pray at all? — George MacDonald

Now is all I have. — Heidi Heilig

And that's just a terrifying and terrifying thing. And all the photographers and, you know, it's a different, unnatural setting that no one can prepare you for. But, you know, I just try and have as much fun as I can for as long as it lasts because I know it's a privilege. — Debra Messing