Quotes and Sayings

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.

Nora Ephron

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Seneca

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

Bobby Knight

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

Prophet Muhammad, Muslim

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Hebrew Prove

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Who to himself is law, no law doth need.

Arthur Chapman

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

Do to others what you would have them do to you.

Bible

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

Author Unknown

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Bertrand Russell

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoi

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Harpo Marx, Harpo Speaks Autobiography - Paperback, pg. 400

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

P. L. Berge

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Yogi Berra, quoted in Sports Illustrated

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli