Quotes and Sayings

Gray davis - a family is a family not because of gender but...
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Buddha - just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men...
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci
If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.
Art Costa
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The truth is easiest to disprove - Its defenses are down.
Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)
In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.
Unknown
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides
You can do no great things, just small things with great love.
Mother Teresa, Robin Williams
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Robert Frost
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.
Ian Shoales
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
Abba Eban
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
Christopher Morley
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.
1 John 49 NIV Bible
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Sir William Bragg
To be somebody, you must last.
Ruth Gordon
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jules Renard
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
Huey Long
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato, The Republic
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Mark Twain
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
Martin Luthe
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS. - - I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols - - "Maxims and Arrows".
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
A good intention clothes itself with power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.
Chuang Tzu
Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.
William R. Matthews
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove