Quotes and Sayings

E. w. dijkstra - the use of cobol cripples the mind; its teaching...
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
Elbert hubbard - the love we give away is the only love we keep....
Author unknown - imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for...
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
Paul De Rapin
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
Rita Mae Brown
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981 - 1987
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
Richard R. Grant
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Mother Theresa
The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Johann von Goethe
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Human science is an uncertain guess.
Edward G. Prio
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katharine Whitehorn
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffe
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
McCovey swings and misses, and its fouled back.
Jerry Coleman
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
Laurens Van der Post
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
George Santayana
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
Mencius, Works
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
Leonard Bernstein
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Steven Spielberg
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Walter Bagehot
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
Terence
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadte
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin H. Land