Quotes and Sayings

Marcus tullius cicero - never injure a friend, even in jest....
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.
Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
Jean sibelius - pay no attention to what the critics say......
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx
He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
Sophocles
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittaiin
Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.
Buddy Hackett
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.
Lionel Richie
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It? s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I? ve won or lost. At sunrise, I? m out again, giving it the old try.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Coda
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
Dalton Camp
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
James Cash Penney
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
Bertrand Russell
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.
Honore de Balzac
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Word is a shadow of a deed.
Democritus, Fragment 145
If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.
Jewish Prove