Quotes and Sayings

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mark A. Overby

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.

George Washington

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Many admire, few know.

Hippocrates, Regimen

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Bull Halsey

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne

Good laws have their origins in bad morals.

Ambrosius Macrobius

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Seneca

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Love Peacock

How do they who think they are unhappy differ from they who actually are?

Countess Diane

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar Bradley

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.

Heywood Brown

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.

Johann von Goethe

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe.

Maurice Mascaranhas

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors

All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Seven

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca, Epistles

Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.

Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

William A. Ward

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Charles W. Chesnutt

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Mark Twain

Every mile is two in winter.

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.

Henry Mille

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

S. G. Tallentyre