Quotes and Sayings

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
Miguel de Cervantes

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close - Up" 1937

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Young

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Benjamin Disraeli

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Albert Einstein

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Muriel Rukeyse

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Tom Robbins

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was a flag of surrender. And after that, it was torn up and used for shoe - Shine rags, so the men would look nice for the surrender.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.
Polish Prove

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
Millicent Carey McIntosh

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sands

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.
Robert Cecil

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein

Write a wise saying and your name will live foreve.
Anonymous

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Unknown

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
Alvin Dark, former baseball coach

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor, The So - Called Human Race (1922)

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
Grant Wood

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Prove

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius, Telephus

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.
George Gordon Byron

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
Jules Feiffe

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
Halford E. Luccock