Quotes and Sayings

Thomas carlyle - the greatest of faults, i should say, is to be...
Before Elvis, there was nothing.
John Lennon
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....
Helena Cronin, 1992
Goldie nash - blood may be thicker than water, but love is...
Repetition is the death of art.
Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Robert Reich
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow".
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
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
Jean De la Fontaine
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Unknown
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.
James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Nick Diamos
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin Prove
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beeche
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.
Shakti Gawain
Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered.
Gaius Julius Caesa
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Katharine Graham
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson, No. 1333
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
Student: Can you do problem number twelve? Wyler: Twelve?... NO!... That problem is on the test.
Oswald Wyle
We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Starr Jordan
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
Rob Brown
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
Emily Dickinson
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.
John Comenius
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath - The beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.
Chief Seattle
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead