Quotes and Sayings
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.Tony Kushne
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.Larry Niven, Ringworld
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.Vicki Baum
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.William Butler Yeats
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Ai
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.Alexander Chase
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luthe
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.C. Wright Mills
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952.Amy Vanderbilt
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.Max Lucado
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.Walt Disney
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.Henry Ford
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.Dennis Kucinich
The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.James A. Perkins
Innovation is the creation of the new, Or the re - Arranging of the old in a new way.Mike Vance
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.General Douglas MacArthu
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.Koran
In wildness is the preservation of the world. - From Walking.Henry David Thoreau
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.Aristotle, Politics
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
There but for the grace of God goes God.Sir Winston Churchill
Do not employ handsome servants.Chinese Prove
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.Sefer Hasidim
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.Judy Garland
He is rich who owes nothing.Hungarian
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.Thomas Fulle
With foxes we must play the fox.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
