Quotes and Sayings

Homer, the iliad - it is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in...
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich Fromm
Benjamin jowett - to teach a man how he may learn to grow...
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.
Sir Walter Besant
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
Oscar Wilde
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Miguel de Cervantes
A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.
Mick Lloyd Kerman
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Francois Fenelon
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
Jean Anouilh
I put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel
Anger is a bad counselor.
French Prove
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
Fletche
To be amused by what you read - - That is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward Beeche
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
Kathleen Norris
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of Ten Best.
H. Allen Smith
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
Woodrow Wilson
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitze
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
Robert Louis Stephenson
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Aldous Huxley
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.
Anonymous
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Helen Kelle
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
Author Unknown
Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Lenny Bruce