Quotes and Sayings

Jorge luis borges - life itself is a quotation....
The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth.
Marvin D. Levy
Henry louis mencken - no man ever quite believes in any other man....
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Prove
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
Amy Vanderbilt
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
Make money, money, honestly if you can; if not, by any means at all, make money.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC
Eric Draven Jesus Christ Stop me if you heard this one Jesus Christ walks into a hotel. He hands the innkeeper three nails, and he asks... Can you put me up for the night.
Crow, The
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely - Read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Fools rush in and get the best seats.
Alfred E. Neuman (probably William Gaines), MAD Magazine
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
Scottish Prove
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Conan Doyle
The wicked at heart probably know something.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.
Elaine Richards
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - - And then everybody disagrees.
Boris Marshalov
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
Jean - Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do.
Ronnie Shakes
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain
Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.
Author Unknown
We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
Lord Bertrand Russell
Yes, risk - Taking is inherently failure - Prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure - Thing taking.
Tim McMahon
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Stupidities that succeed are still stupidities.
Yiddish Prove
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap.
Kathrine Palmer Peterson, 516 Sensational Cat Quotes
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office.
Henry Louis Mencken
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
Bishop Vincent
While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Seneca
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spence
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky
Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow