Reflection Quotes

"Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

- William Wordsworth

"Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well."

- Anita Shreve

"In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word 'divorce' came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant 'divide.' In truth, it comes from 'divertere,' which means 'to divert.' I believe that. All divorce does is divert you."

- Mitch Albom

"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."

- Agnes Repplier

"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age."

- Seneca

"What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life."

- Seneca

"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."

- Thomas Jefferson

"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow."

- Franklin Knight Lane

"It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag."

- Frank McKinney Hubbard ("Kin Hubbard")

"Without Sunday, I wouldn’t know when to put on the brakes of a hurtling life."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

- Susan Ertz

"Time flows in a strange way on Sundays."

- Haruki Murakami

"...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth."

- Tom Waits

"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink."

- François Rabelais

"Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all."

- Lillian Hellman

"He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would've just broken his heart."

"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.""

"Play the tape forward"

"Drinking tonight is just borrowing happiness from tomorrow"

"There’s never been a time I regretted not drinking"

"I will never wake up in the morning and regret not drinking"