Quotes and Sayings

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.
Unknown
Thomas tusse - a fool and his money are soon parted....
Albert einstein - how strange is the lot of us mortals each of us...
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.
Rig Veda
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James A. Forude
Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.
Wilfred Sheed
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.
Bruce Cockburn
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
Kahlil Gibran
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Robert Frost
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Hate no one hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. Brainard
Student: Can you do problem number twelve? Wyler: Twelve?... NO!... That problem is on the test.
Oswald Wyle
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.
Sidney Madwed
Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.
Granville Sharp
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
Josiah Quincy
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington
The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.
Proverbs 7: 17 - 18
Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!
Dr. Seuss, Seuss - Isms
Time is but a stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Prove
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
August Hare
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
When you come to a road block, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
Peter Mere Latham
As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.
Adelle Davis
This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.
Mark Twain