Quotes and Sayings

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov
To get to heaven we must take it with us.
Henry Drummond
Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.
Carl Polloi
George e. woodbury - always begin anew with the day, just as nature...
I ching - of all that is good, sublimity is supreme....
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Dr. Robert Schulle
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08 - 31 - 05
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton
Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.
Henry C. Blinn
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Mae West
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain
Henry ward beecher, last words - now comes the mystery....
If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
Walt Disney, Inauguration day of Disney World
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.
Eloise Salholz
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.
John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Guy
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
An English Professor, Ohio University
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.
Clement Stone
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schille
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Seneca
Whose life is it anyway.
Brian Clark
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.
Aristippus
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green.
Anon.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Anatole France