Quotes and Sayings

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

Two people kissing always look like fish.

Andy Warhol

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Karen Horney

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.

Yvette Gilbert, (1865 - 1944)

Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.

J. Petit - Senn

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Hannah More

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Italian Prove

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Elde

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Bible, Proverbs, XLI, 32

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.

Rush Hou

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Robert Chapman

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

What is originality Undetected plagiarism.

William Ralph Inge

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

Robert Staughton Lynd

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Janet Erskine Stuart

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

We want God to come and save us. But he won? t. God doesn? t stop levees from failing, he doesn? t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn? t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09 - 09 - 05

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca