Quotes and Sayings

Arthur wing pinero - a financier is a pawnbroker with imagination....
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
Author Unknown
Tom wolfe - a cult is a religion with no political power....
Thomas paine - it is the duty of every patriot to protect his...
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Sir Arthur Keith
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non - Being is the greatest joy.
The Dhammapada
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
Unknown
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp
Eyes that see do not grow old.
Nicaraguan Prove
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Richard Russo
Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
Sophocles
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Unknown
The law respects form less than substance.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
The secret of all power is - Save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
J. P. McEvoy
You have to let people challenge your ideas.
Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
We are all instantly forgiven but in order to benefit from this forgiveness, we must in turn forgive others and ourselves.
Unknown
First deserve, and then desire.
English Prove
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Fredrich Halm
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
R. A. Lafferty
He that loves the law will get his fill of it.
Scottish Prove
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Victor Hugo
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust, Roman historian and politician (c. 86 - C. 35 B. C.)
Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.
Dumb & Dumbe
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing
When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One - The inner sound which kills the outer.
H Hahn Blavatsky
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
Rabindranath Tagore