Quotes and Sayings
Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.Marcel Proust
Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.Virginia Woolf
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.Sir Walter Scott
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.Mark Twain
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.J. G. C. Brainard
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X Cringely
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.Brian Tracy
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.John Lennon
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.Shana Alexande
Exterminate.The Daleks (Doctor Who)
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.Jacques Martin Barzun
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.Edward Abbey
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.George Bernard Shaw
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...J. R. R. Tolkien
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.Arnold Bennett
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.Vince Lombardi
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.Victor Hugo
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.Henry Christopher Bailey
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.Leo Rosten
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.Stephen Stills
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.H. L. Mencken
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.Bruce Barton
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.Robert Valett
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A hedge between keeps friendship green.German Prove
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.Herbert Clark Hoove
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.Jewish Prove
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
Sometimes I think the so - Called experts actually ARE experts.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody.Carl Sandburg


