Quotes and Sayings
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.Pablo Picasso
Continual improvement is an unending journey.Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.Confucius
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst.William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 1
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.Pope John XXIII
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.Albert Einstein
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.Albert Schweitze
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother - In - Law.Japanese Prove
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
The notion of political correctness. declares certain topics. certain expressions. even certain gestures off - Limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.George Herbert Walker Bush
Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.H. L. Mencken
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.Charles De Gaulle
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
Good place to put things - - Cellars.Doctor Who
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.Golda Mei
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.Lucius Accius Telephus
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - - As hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - - Then I am nothing.Elizabeth Janeway
The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.Leo Tolstoy
Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.Anonymous
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.Edward Clarke
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.Napoleon
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.Honore de Balzac
Worry is a misuse of imagination.Dan Zadra
