Quotes and Sayings

Brendan francis - no man can discover his own talents....
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
H. g. wells - the past is but the past of a beginning....
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann von Goethe
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.
H. L. Mencken
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Martin Schulze
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - And keep on doing it.
Wilfred A. Peterson
Batman - the joker tell me something, my friend. you ever...
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
Jeanne Moreau
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Maitri Upanishads
Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
Terry Thomas
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
US Marine Prove
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
David Bissonette
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
A Libertarian Movement slogan.
Robert A. Heinlein
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.
Eduard Sagalaev
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Prove
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
Marquis de Sade
When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
Liberace
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Laertius Diogenes
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Donald J. Trump
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Great men are not always idiots.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace, Odes