Quotes and Sayings

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

I have no life, just e - Mail.

Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

Titus Maccius Plautus

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Joseph Addison

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Brummond

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

Seneca

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Dodie Smith

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

John C. Maxwell

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

Blade He makes the weapons, I use them.

Blade

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

Mark Patinkin

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Chinese Prove

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

Italian Prove

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.

Charles De Gaulle

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

Horace

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

George A. Dorsey