Quotes and Sayings
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.Unknown
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.Johann von Goethe
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Courtly love - Poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.James Burke
American can do better, and help is on the way.John Kerry, speech in 2004
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.Dick Brandon
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.George Bernard Shaw
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.Helen Kelle
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.T. S. Eliot
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Measure your life in love.Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!Constanze
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.Rule of Life
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.Hesiod
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.Jean Cocteau
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.Jerome P. Fleishman
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.Cato the Elde
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.Frantz Fanon
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.George Bernard Shaw
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One forgives to the degree that one loves.La Rochefoucauld
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered.Woody Allen
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.Tom Hopkins
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.Tieck
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.Alan Watts
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.Albert Camus
I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.Julius Irving
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
