Quotes and Sayings

Her children arise up, and call her blessed.

Proverbs 3128

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - Nay are dragged - Towards evil.

Hippocrates, Decorum

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Prove

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Dora Russell

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Philip Dormer Chesterfield

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Vincent Van Gogh

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B. C.

All proofs rest on premises.

Aristotle

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

M. Grundle

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Russell Bake

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blai

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

One never notices what has been done one can only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

The man who said he never had a chance, never took a chance.

Unknown

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Charles A. Stoddard

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Thomas Fulle

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Franklin P. Adams

If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

Danish prove

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

Ian Shoales

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

Chinese Prove

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Mao Zedong

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

Fran Lebowitz

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln