Quotes and Sayings

Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.

Robert Burton

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We live as we dream - Alone.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way...

Exodus 2320 Bible

They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Terminator Come with me if you want to live.

Terminator 2 Judgment Day

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Chief Seattle

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Wendell Willkie, An American Programme (1944)

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Rosenstock - Huessy

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Chinese Prove

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Periande

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.

Time Bandits

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitze

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Aeschylus

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

George Jean Nathan

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Henry Van Dyke

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty - Five I was wise, self - Confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty - Five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Jules Feiffe

Even the longest hours come to an end.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.

George Burns