“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
— Charles Dickens
“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.”
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
“I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”
“Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...”
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
“It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
“To a young heart everything is fun.”
“Least said, soonest mended.”
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
“A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.”
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
“The law is an ass, an idiot.”
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
“It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
“Death is a mighty, universal truth.”
“A new heart for a New Year, always!”
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”
“Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.”
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.”
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
“And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”
“Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.”
“We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?”
“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
“The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.”
“Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.”
“Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.”
“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
“There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.”
“I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”
“I only ask for information.”
“People like us don’t go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are.”
“Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.”
“I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!”
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.”
“Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.”
“Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man’s pockets.”
“For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.”
“My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.”
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
“Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.”
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature .”
“The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.”
“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.”
“I was a blacksmith’s boy but yesterday; I am – what shall I say I am today?”
“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”
“I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.”
“The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”
“I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.”
“I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That’s the best way, ain’t it?”
“In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”
“In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article.”
“And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”
“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!”
“Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
“There wasn’t room to swing a cat there.”
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