Quotes and Sayings
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.Archimedes
Today a reader - - Tomorrow a leader.W. Fusselman
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.Roger King
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.David Reisman
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.Francis Bacon
Non - Violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.Mahtma Gandhi
Green Goblin We are who we choose to be... now, CHOOSE.Spider - Man
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.Harvey Cox
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.Benjamin Disraeli
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.La Rochefoucauld
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.Plato
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.Searamouche
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.Saint Francis de Sales
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.Carl Jung
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.Martin Heidegge
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - Absolutely no one - Is above the law.Leon Jaworski
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.South
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.Publilius Syrus
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.Homer, The Odyssey
