Quotes and Sayings

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
Phil condit - none of us is as smart as all of us....
Alexander pope - histories are more full of examples of the...
Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
Heinrich Heine
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
Mark Twain
I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will mediate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Psalm 7711, 12 Bible
Golf is a good walk, ruined.
Mark Twain
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.
Charles De Gaulle
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
Moroccan Prove
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato, The Republic
Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Prove
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
Neil Kinnock
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Pubilius Syrus
Eating while seated makes one of large size eating while standing makes one strong.
Hindustani Prove
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
Auguste Renoi
When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.
Harold Walke
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .
Phylos the Tibetan
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George Frost Kennan
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Hemingway
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andr Gide
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osle
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
Bartholomew
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
Jerry Coleman
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Frank Gelett Burgess
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903