Quotes and Sayings

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Unknown
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
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)
Blaise pascal - we are generally the better persuaded by the...
Clare booth luce - censorship, like charity, should begin at home;...
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
I told you I was sick.
Erma Bombeck, on her tombstone
Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Bertrand Russell
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
Our brains are seventy - Year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Hfiz
Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Anonymous
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
Kara Vichko
Reputations are created every day and every minute.
Christopher Ruel
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
Sherwood Anderson
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Cicero
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Anon.
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
Author Unknown
There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.
Unknown
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Sidney Madwed
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
Eugene V. Debs
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
Blair Houghton
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.
Y. Yakigawa
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Albert Einstein
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Sovereign