Quotes and Sayings

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide - Awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

Frank Shutts

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurbe

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Duke of Wellington

Go ahead, make my day.

Dean Riesner, Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in "Sudden Impact", 1983

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.

Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage

Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.

Lebanese Prove

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

George Herbert Walker Bush

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Annie Gottlie

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Bertrand Russell

We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.

Alanis Morissette

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

American Prove

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Benjamin Franklin

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994.

Gene Hackman

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

Anonymous

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.

Benjamin McLane Spock

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

H. L. Mencken

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

May Sarton