Quotes and Sayings
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.Oren Arnold
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.Robert Orben
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.Sarah Orne Jewett
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.James Taylo
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.Eric Hoffe
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.John Calvin
You are only as old as the woman you feel.Groucho Marx
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.Sir Francis Bacon
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.William Occam
Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
All mankind love a lover.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I exist as I am, that is enough.Walt Whitman
The only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.Johann von Goethe
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? - - - - The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?Author Unknown
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
He looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.Sir Winston Churchill
The public is a ferocious beast - - One must either chain it up or flee from it.Voltaire
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.Friedrich Nietzsche
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.Henry Kissinge
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.Paul Valery
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - Snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...Hugh Elliott
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.William Arthur Ward
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.Billy
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.Richard Royste
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T. I. P. S. - - TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.Author Unknown, (apocryphal)
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.Maurice Barrs
