anne frank diary quotes

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~James McNeill Whistler



The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



You know you're an Arizona native when you take rain dances seriously. ~Skip Boyer, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993



And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke



A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb



Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. ~Voltaire, 1767



The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau



War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Writing is a product of silence. ~Carrie Latet



Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth



In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. ~Lenny Bruce



In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown



Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948



This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. ~Quentin Crisp



Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak. ~Author Unknown



Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~Channing Pollock



Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist



Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before... ~Philippians 3:13



All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887