Quotes and Sayings
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.Leo Tolstoy
Jack You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before.Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push - Button finger.Frank Lloyd Wright
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.Conan Doyle
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.John Burrough
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.Samuel Johnson
Common sense is not so common.Voltaire
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.Raymond Holliwell
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.Thomas Jefferson
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.Alphonse Ka
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.H. Jackson Jr. Brown
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.Johann von Goethe
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.William Penn
All general statements are false.Unknown, The Ultimate Law
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
Do not employ handsome servants.Chinese Prove
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.Steven Wright
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.John Christian Bovee
Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding.Lord Kelvin
If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.Peter De Vries
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.Lane Olinghouse
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.Peter De Vries
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.Pliny the Elde
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.Thomas Carlyle
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.Albert Camus
