"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

-- Mark Twain

#Inspirational Quotes #Country Quotes #Memorial Day Quotes

“The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.”
“True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.”

Source : Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile. So I would put the emphasis of a good life on activity, on the walk rather than the destination, and I think that most of the things that any of us do that are really valuable and really important are projects that we really shouldn't expect to be completed in our lifetime because if they could completed in our lifetime, they probably wouldn't be so important that we should devote our lives to them.”
“I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.”
“A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.”

Source : Aristophanes (2016). “The Knights”, p.15, Aristophanes
“Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”
“Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.”

Source : Gina Barreca (2009). “It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World”, p.13, Macmillan
“Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it's a choice, day to day.”

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