Quotes and Sayings

Edith hamilton - when the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses...
Ralph waldo emerson - every burned book or house enlightens the world...
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
W. Wirt
Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.
Jean Anouilh
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry Robinson Luce
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push - Button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The wages of sin are unreported.
Unknown
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Albert Einstein
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
Kahlil Gibran
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
Look twice before you leap.
Charlotte Bronte
The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.
Bill Bowerman
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Vince Lombardi
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Charles Fillmore
All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.
Darrin Bell
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
Stephen Leacock, 1912
People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match.
Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar - B - Cue
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.
Henry David Thoreau
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.
C. Lee Hopkin
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood - Movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man".
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Ka
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Gustave Flaubert
If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn)
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Hermann Hesse
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Roosevelt
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Phoenix Flame
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill