quotes about kindness and respect

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake



I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein



It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~Eleanor Farjeon



Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings



God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, "The Gun"



When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support. ~Lancet, editorial on the "medical-industrial complex," 1973



One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too. ~Author Unknown



If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off. ~Charles B. Fairbanks



Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford



The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth Russell



Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. ~Elbert Hubbard



It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ~Proverbs 21:9



You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762



By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~Charles Wadsworth



Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared. ~Robbins B. Stoeckel



Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! ~Daniel Webster