Quotes and Sayings

Aldous huxley - experience is not what happens to you. it is what...
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Baudjuin
Stanton delaplane - how much money did you make last year mail it in....
I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.
Thornton
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
Sir Anthony Hawkins
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Good food ends with good talk.
Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
John Lithgow
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
How nice - - To feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
Whom the gods love dies young.
Menander, The Double Deceive
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence George Durrell
I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 174 Bible
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.
Author Unknown
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
James Allen
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
William Carlos Williams
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
Blaise Pascal
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
People come up to me and say, Emo, do people really come up to you?
Emo Phillips
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
My empty waterdish mocks me.
Bob the Dog
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Victor Hugo
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Mae West