Quotes and Sayings

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

George Eliot

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander, Unidentified fragment

Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.

Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcom S. Forbes

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted.

Fred Allen

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

A. W. Toze

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Albert Schweitze

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.

Edward George Bulwer - Lytton

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

John Milton

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution.

C. D. Tavares

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Henry G. Strauss

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Chinese Prove

In Mexico we have a word for sushi Bait.

Jose Simon

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Robert Graves

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

John Calhoun

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

J. William Galbraith

Nothing succeeds like address.

Fran Lebowitz

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Matthew Arnold

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you want to make good use of your time, you? ve got to know what? s most important and then give it all you? ve got.

Lee Iacocca