Quotes and Sayings

Marshal ferdinand foch (1851 - 1929), french military strategist, 1911, july 18 2005 information week, p. 72 - airplanes are interesting toys but of no military...
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabo
Theodor wiesengrund adorno - the hardest thing about any political campaign is...
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
Barry Lopez
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.
Paterculus
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato the Elde
For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Benjamin Franklin, ?
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.
Jeff Greenfield
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napolean Hill
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
There is no real excellence in all this world Which can be separated from right living.
David Starr Jordan
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
William Adams
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Brummond
There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
The wise man will love all others will desire.
Afranius
Truth is a pathless land.
Krishnamurti
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Time is the image of eternity.
Laertius Diogenes
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.
Joe Schwartz
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
Michel de Montaigne
A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T. V., and those are the wrong things.
Marion Hamme
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin Percy Whipple
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore, last words
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi