Quotes and Sayings

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Will Rogers

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napolean Hill

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

We relish news of our heroes, Forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Helen Hayes

The world is round it has no point.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Will Rogers

To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

George Washington

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nelson Mandela

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Unknown

Jive Lady Just hang loose blood. She gonna handa your rebound on the med side.

Airplane

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Lyman Bryson

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Plutarch

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.

Patrick Overton

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Benjamin Harrison

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

Corrine Dewlow

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Evelle J. Younge

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

James Russell Lowell

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Eda J. Le Shan

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Robert Benchley