Quotes and Sayings

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

G. K. Chesterton

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Unknown

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Lord Acton

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Fontenelle

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elde

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stephenson

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell, 1984

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

Henry Mille

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Sir Winston Churchill

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.

Elbert Hubbard

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Louis Jackson

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Chinese Prove

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Jean Anouilh

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Sidney Poitie

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??

Friedrich Nietzsche

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie, letter to her brother, 1894

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long