Quotes and Sayings

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Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
Confucius
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You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - And getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - And reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collie
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - The apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.
Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government".
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Arabic Parable
Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.
Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Anais Nin
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Self - Help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.
Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.
Kin Hubbard
The African is my brother - But he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Albert Schweitze
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Brummond
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
No one wants advice - - Only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to.
Clarence Darrow
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
The only thing dumber than a pitcher is two pitchers.
Ted Williams
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Edmund Burke
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.
Jon Kabit - Zinn
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.
Arthur Gingold