Quotes and Sayings

Bill watterson, calvin and hobbes - i have plentyof common sense! i just choose to...
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.
Boileau
G. c. lichtenberg - he was then in his fifty - fourth year, when even...
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides, Aeolus
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Ani DiFranco
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Lawana Blackwell
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Homer, The Odyssey
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed.
Johann von Goethe
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk - Handsome, twentytwoyearold.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold Glasgow
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Laurence J. Pete
We thought we were running away from the grown - Ups, and now we are the grown - Ups.
Margaret Atwod
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Quintilian
No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell, "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? ", 1947
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Ralph Nade
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
GB Shaw
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
To him who is determined it remains only to act.
Italian
Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Raven
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Edmund Burke
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardne
Persistence plus no dignity equals success.
Cynthia Wang