Quotes and Sayings

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.

Danish prove

As you teach, you learn.

Jewish Prove

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

Chinese Prove

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Kabbalah

Platitude an idea a that is admitted to be true by everyone, and b that is not true.

H. L. Mencken

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

Anon.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberge

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Margaret Fulle

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

Charles R. Swindoll

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

Henry Timrod

The best audience is intelligent, well - Educated, and a little drunk.

Alben W. Barkley, (vice president under Harry Truman)

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying.

Shantideva

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

George Shinn

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

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

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Jean Anouilh

In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.

David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?

Charles De Gaulle

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Bill Mahe

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly.

Solon