Quotes and Sayings
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.Leo Buscaglia
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.Unknown
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.Bill Cosby
Wooderson The older you get the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin man. L - I - V - I - N.Dazed and Confused
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.Author Unknown
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.Rosalind Russell
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.Ancient Egyptian Blessing
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork.Stanislaw Lec
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free - Thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.Andre Gide
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.Michel de Montaigne
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.Pamela Vaull Sta
May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.Irish Blessing
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.George Gordon Byron
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.Theodore Roosevelt
To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The sinning is the best part of repentance.Arab Prove
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.Henry Moore
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.John Milton
It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.Jerome K. Jerome
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well - Charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.Simms
O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.Orson Welles
Where there is a sea there are pirates.Greek Prove
Underpromise; overdeliver.Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.Adam Smith
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.Chuck Jones
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.Bill Watterson
