Quotes and Sayings
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.Eugene V. Debs
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.Francis Quarles
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
Satire is focused bitterness.Leo C. Rosten
The greatest power is often simple patience.E. Joseph Crossman
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.Jon Kabit - Zinn
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor Roosevelt
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.H. E. Martz
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.Native American
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.Frank Herbert, Dune
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.Osho, The art of Dying
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.Frederick William Fabe
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.Karl Weick
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.Isadora Duncan
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...George Bernard Shaw
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.Joseph Brodsky
Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.Jerry Coleman
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.Frank Moore Colby
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.Oscar Wilde
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.Bruce Barton
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.Frank Lloyd Wright
Help thyself, and God will help thee.Jean de La Fontaine
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.Harold J. Seymou
War is hell, and I mean to make it so.William Tecumseh Sherman
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Francis Bacon
Most of the luxuries and many of the so - Called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David Thoreau
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.Mary Ann Brussat
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.Henry David Thoreau
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.Saint Teresa Of Avila
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.William Shakespeare
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
