Quotes and Sayings

Jessamyn west - people who keep journals have life twice....
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon
Do or do not, there is no try.
Yoda
Nancy mitford - i love children, especially when they cry, for...
I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabo
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Listen to your heart, because in the end it is your heart that matters.
Jennifer Tyle
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Cicero
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
Claude Swanson
Richard brinsley sheridan - when of a gossiping circle it was asked, what are...
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
To ask the hard question is simple.
Wystan Hugh Auden
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
Pablo Picasso
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Euripides
Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.
West African prove
The true science and study of man is man.
Pierre Charron
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.
Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Steven Pearl
Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K. Chesterton
The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Brian Tracy
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.
Fairfield Osborne
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Captain J. A. Hadfield
The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.
Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Irish Prove
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Joseph Helle
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Margaret Thatche
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden