Quotes and Sayings

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Mao Zedong

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcke

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four - Leaf clovers.

Unknown

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Bertrand Russell

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Voltaire

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long - Range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Henry Truman

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toome

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

Francis Beaumont

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France

Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.

"A Canticle for Leibowitz".

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When in doubt, duck.

Malcolm Forbes

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

George Gissing

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

Samuel Butle

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Henry Louis Mencken

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

David Dunham

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year - - - Everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operato

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

David P Gardne

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Ann Landers

Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.

William Shakespeare

Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita. The way to the stars is open.

Sergei Koroljov

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.

Richard M. Nixon