Quotes and Sayings

Biblical prove - he that is of a merry heart hasth a continual...
He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.
I Ching
George herbert walker bush - surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in...
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
Bishop Hall
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.
Aesop
There is one universal gesture that has one universal message - - A smile.
Valerie Sokolosky
Randolph silliman bourne - about the rhinoceros here is an animal with a...
The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
Ogden Nash
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Brendan Francis
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret Fulle
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, Worthwhile, Personal Goals.
Paul Meye
You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
Author Unknown
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
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
William James
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
G. K. Chesterton
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.
Joseph Stalin
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno
If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Ben Franklin
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl Sagan
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
Truth is the mother of hatred.
Ausonius
Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
Richard Moss, M. D.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitze
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
Henry Mille