Pary Quotes

Give a girl the right shoes,

and she can conquer the world.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

I’m as proud of many of the things

we haven’t done as the things we have done.

You know you are on the road to success,

if you would do your job,

and not be paid for it.

Life is a puzzle,

and comedy is the way we try to make sense of it.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,

but because he loves what is behind him.

Only as far as the masters of the world

have called in nature to their aid,

can they reach the height of magnificence.

This is the meaning of their hanging

gardens, villas, houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

I call it like it is.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

A single death is a tragedy;

a million deaths is a statistic.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Over grown military establishments are

under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,

and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Man is the only animal that blushes

or needs to.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Til your good is better and your better is best

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,

but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!

His real life is led in his head,

and is known to none but himself.