Quotes and Sayings

Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
Jerry Coleman

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.
La Rochefoucauld

The Good Book - One of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Ashley Montague

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
Will Rodgers

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vincent Lombardi

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
Max Lucado

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francois Sagan

Home - Keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andr Gide

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year - - - Everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operato

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Carl Zwanzig

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
Robert Pirsig

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Doug Larson

Of ex - President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
Gore Vidal

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinge

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck

Desire, ask, believe, receive.
Stella Terrill Mann

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.
B. J. Gupta

The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
Robert Hutchins

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Henry David Thoreau

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N. A. S. A. to make one.
Ross Perot

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To love someone is to identify with them.
Aristotle

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.
Gene Wolfe

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De Balzac

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.
Geoffrey Chauce