Quotes and Sayings

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Flower a. newhouse - lack of will power has caused more failure than...
W. c. fields - i like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in...
Always have some project under way... an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.
Dr. Lillian Troll
Paranoia means having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
Living in a vacuum sucks.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens.
Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations
What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
Phil Donahue
Once upon a time - - Of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - - Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting - House.
Charles Dickens
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Marian anderson - leadership should be born out of the...
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Beja
To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
You guys line up alphabetically by height.
Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.
Donna Summe
The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
What we plan we build.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung
In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
Epictetus
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
From the I Ching
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Dr. Karl Menninge
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii
But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes