Quotes and Sayings

Kahlil gibran - i existed from all eternity and, behold, i am...
Socrates - not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued....
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Fulton John Sheen
There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.
Ezra Loomis Pound
Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare
Faults are soon copied.
Horace
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
As your attorney i advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit.
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
He that is down can fall no lower.
Samuel Butle
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.
William Wordsworth
A word to the wise is enough.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said No.
Margaret "Stevie" Smith
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
Bishop Hall
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U. S. permits it to be sovereign.
Russell Smith
Daylight follows a dark night.
Maasai Prove
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Anonymous
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732