Quotes and Sayings

The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley, Aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

Simonides

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.

Epictetus

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilme

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

Jules Verne

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn

It? s only when the tide goes out that you discover who? s been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Unknown

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Mark Beltaire

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Unknown

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Robert Jackson

If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Chinese Prove

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Erica Jong

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.

Newt Gingrich

And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.

Koran

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

Bill Hoest

Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Jules Renard

Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osle

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov