Quotes and Sayings

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
P. L. Berge
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones.
Montagu Butle
Booth tarkington - take your work seriously but never take yourself...
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Peter drucke - so much of what we call management consists in...
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
Marsha Evans
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George Patton
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone.
The Dhammapada
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer, The Odyssey
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Jane Caminos
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk - Handsome, twentytwoyearold.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Hellen Kelle
The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
Oscar Wilde, Foreward, The Picture of Dorian gray
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita. The way to the stars is open.
Sergei Koroljov
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
Joel E. Ross
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - And often in the short one - The most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951
The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
Anonymous
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.
Robert Anson Heinlein
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Sophocles, Antigone
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
In false quarrels there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.
Socrates