Quotes and Sayings

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Roosevelt, Eleano

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Friedrich von Hardenberg Novalis

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Thomas Mann

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Joey Adams

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Joe Gores

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Jackie Onassis

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

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Anon.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Dr. A. B. Meldrum

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - It is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Jack London

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

Follow the grain in your own wood.

Howard Thurman

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Aristide Briand

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

George Bernard Shaw

If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.

Chinese Prove

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sidney Madwed

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.

Derwood Finche

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Alexander Pope

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them.

Jules Feiffe

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes