Quotes and Sayings
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Abraham Lincoln
No one can wear a mask for very long.Seneca
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.Tom Lehre
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.H. T. Leslie
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.Groucho Marx
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.Richard Bach
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.Dame Rebecca West
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.Thomas Merton
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...Donald Barthelme
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.Titus Livius
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.Joseph Helle
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.Stefan Kanfe
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.Chinese Prove
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.Israel Zangwill
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.Don Marquis
It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.Francis Bacon
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Albert Einstein
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
A book holds a house of gold.Chinese Prove
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.John C. Maxwell
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.Leonard Nimoy
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.Sir George Savile
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.Logan Pearsall Smith
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.Robert Byrne
When the candles are out all women are fair.Plutarch, Morals
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.Ivan Pavlov
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.William A. Ward
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.David Letterman
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicholas Boileau
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.Paul Fussell
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.Christian Nestell Bovee
