Quotes and Sayings

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

Lao Tzu

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I would rather reach for the stars, Then at least I know That I could never end up with dirt on my hands.

Unknown

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

Every invalid is a doctor.

Irish Prove

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

A. J. Nock

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Ronald Reagan in 1973

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

David Chambless

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Welsh Prove

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Francois Arouet

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Beryl Pfize

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo DaVinci

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Arthur Powell Davies

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

Max Lucado

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Eric Hoffe

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Flora Edwards

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Sir Winston Churchill

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Robert Ingersoll

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - - That is being educated.

Edith Hamilton

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Archard

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore