Quotes and Sayings

- - aristotle - of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is...
This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwate
Christopher paolini, author of eragon and eldest. quote from eragon. - many people have died for their beliefs? the real...
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.
La Rochefoucauld
The sun sets without thy assistance.
The Talmud
We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.
Buddha
I shall soon be six - And - Twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty - Five.
George Gordon Byron
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexande
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Sigmund freud, his essay on war & death - if you want to endure life, prepare yourself for...
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Aristotle, Rhetoric
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitle
My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.
Norman Lewis Smith
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
George Gilde
The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap.
Kathrine Palmer Peterson, 516 Sensational Cat Quotes
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel Cervantes
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit.
Heinrich Heine
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
Chateaubriand
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John W. Gardne