Quotes and Sayings

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Pete

Having something to say is overrated.
Adair Lara

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.
Henri Frdric Amiel

We was robbed!
Joe Jacobs

As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark Twain

I let the American people down.
Richard Milhous Nixon

The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world.
V. S. Pritchett

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
Author Unknown

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carte

Prove all things hold fast that which is good.
Bible

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
Phaedrus

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardne

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitze

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Sir William Osle

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
Saint Augustine

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.
Ronald Reagan