Quotes and Sayings

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
Benjamin franklin - in rivers and bad governments, the lightest...
To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam.
Anonymous
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
James Agee
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
Hesiod
Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.
US Supreme Court
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
Dave Barry
During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Albert Einstein
Revolution is not a onetime event.
Audre Lorde
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than... an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
William Hazlitt
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.
Author Unknown
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
Richard Milhous Nixon
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
George Carlin
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.
Joe Moore
My only aversion to vice, is the price.
Victor Buono
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.
Philip Sheridan
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie".
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
Francis Jeffrey
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3
It is possible to fail in many ways... while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
William Shakespeare
The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach