Quotes and Sayings

Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie
Scott adams - creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes....
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop
Anon. - some authors should be paid by the quantity not...
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
Walt Whitman
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
William shakespeare - though i am not naturally honest, i am so...
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
W. S. Gilbert
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
I Ching
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
Mary Queen of Scots
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives
Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
Barbara Paley
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
Mort Sahl
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
J. B. Priestley
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffe
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry.
Unknown
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd - Instinct.
Author Unknown
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
Sankara
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin