Quotes and Sayings

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Elayne Boosle

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

William A. Smith, 1908

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Joey Adams

Never underestimate the power of passion.

Eve Sawye

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Anonymous

Good - Bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders, last words

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

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

Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah.

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

Harold Stephens

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Kahlil Gibran

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be.

Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901)

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh