Quotes and Sayings
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.Geoffrey Chauce
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.Author Unknown
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - But not without poetry.Charles Baudelaire
Washington D. C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Take a chance All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.Dale Carnegie
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.Dr. Martin Henry Fische
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.Thomas Fulle
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do.Unknown
By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.Italian Prove
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.Sir Walter Scott
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.Marcus Aurelius
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.Tupac Shaku
Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.Robert A. Heinlein
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.Alan Watts
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.John Barth
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.Benjamin Franklin
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended - Not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.Barber B. Conable, J
Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita. The way to the stars is open.Sergei Koroljov
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams
