Quotes and Sayings

I always have a quotation for everything - - It saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
John kenneth galbraith - the only function of economic forecasting is to...
So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.
Plato
B. j. gupta - one of the many ways of managing peers is to...
A very ancient and fish - Like smell.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
Every invalid is a doctor.
Irish Prove
Many things are worse than defeat, and compromise with evil is one of them.
Author Unknown
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Roosevelt, Eleano
When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.
Clive Staples Lewis
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly".
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
John Updike
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas Higginson
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
Anonymous
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.
Nicolas Martin, www. iatrogenic. org
Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
Horace
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitze
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
W. C. Fields, in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels".
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
Miguel de Cervantes
If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Dryden
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
Samuel Butle
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
Hannah More
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert G. Ingersoll