Quotes and Sayings

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Edgar Allan Poe

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

The law respects form less than substance.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitze

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

David W. Johnson

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Stanislaw Lec

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

John Keats

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

God gives, but man must open his hand.

German Prove

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Alexander Tyle

Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

Noel Coward

History is full of surprises.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil, Aeneid

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

Niels Boh

Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

William Gibson

Truth is the safest lie.

Jewish Prove

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson