Quotes and Sayings

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Tacitus - it is human nature to hate him whom you have...
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
Napolean hill - patience, persistence and perspiration make an...
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton
William makepeace thackeray - there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man...
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography (1964)
ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.
Calvin Trillin
Life is too long not to be happy.
Thom Barbe
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.
Mother Theresa
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
Charles A. Stoddard
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Alen Coren
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Voltaire
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Hellen Kelle
Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all.... .
Seneca
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas H. Huxley
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.
Henry Kissinge
It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Faulkne
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
William Shakespeare
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Geoffrey F. Abert
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
Alexander Pope
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
Joan Klempne
Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.
John Beeche
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
Arab Prove