Quotes and Sayings

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides, Aegeus
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.
Unknown
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
Author Unknown
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Author Unknown
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Henri Frdric Amiel
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater, 1873
And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Henry David Thoreau
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Ronald Knox
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
David Williamson
We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
Sigmund Freud, Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
Isaac Watts
Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.
S? ren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus
The Joker What kind of a world is this where a man dressed as a bat gets ALL MY PRESS This town needs an enema.
Batman
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
We learn not in the school, but in life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.
Buddy Hackett
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
Kevin Kelly
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902