Quotes and Sayings

Conform and be dull.
James Frank Dobie
Maxwell maltz, communication bulletin for managers & supervisors, june 2004 - we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life...
Leo rosten - i learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and...
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitze
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Joseph Addison
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well - Known quotations.
H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
Live the questions.
Rainer Maria Rilke
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.
Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Ai
The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
Kahlil Gibran
Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Thomas Peters
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Johathan Edwards
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.
Eric Hoffe
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - Selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.
Author Unknown
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.
Andre Bernard Buruch
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Benjamin Franklin
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The time for thinkers has come.
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Gordon Byron
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Sidney Madwed
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A. E. Hotchne
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever - Lengthening, ever - Ascending, ever - Improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde