Quotes and Sayings

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.

G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

John Christian Bovee

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Dag Hammarskjold

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

David Joseph Schwartz

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Author Unknown

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beeche

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus.

Julius Caesa

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer, The Iliad

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan Quayle, 11/30/88

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang - Tzu

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.

Mennonite Prove

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.

Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

Report writing, like motor - Car driving and love - Making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

Jerry Coleman

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

Alla Yaroshinskaya

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napolean Hill

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Jack Nicklaus

Why learn at all if one day we will die and forget everything.

Unknown

Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Mille