Quotes and Sayings

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

C. C. Colton

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles De Talleyrand

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

Kenneth A. Wells

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Guess again.

The Running Man, movie

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

W. Somerset Maugham

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchinson

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through.

Simone Weil

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.

Chuck Jones

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Masterlinck

Money, the root of all evil... but the cure for all sadness.

Mike Gill

Hello, he lied.

Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

Elias Schwartz

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl R. Rogers

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - For credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.

Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Mark Russell

Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest - Timbered oak.

William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1