Quotes and Sayings

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.

Dolly Parton

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn? t mean he lacks vision.

Stevie Wonde

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Jesus Christ

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann von Goethe

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Gaius Petronius

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Albert Einstein

He who knows nothing doubts nothing.

Italian Prove

If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Alan B. Watts

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

William Shakespeare

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

Frederick E. Crane

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Hermann Weyl

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath

No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Michel de Montaigne

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

G. K. Chesterton

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Laurens Van der Post