Quotes and Sayings
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.Bertrand Russell
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.Albert Einstein
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.Alfred North Whitehead
Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.R. W. Emerson
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.Henry Ford
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.John Russell
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.T. S. Eliot
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William Feathe
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.Andrew Carnegie
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.Tieck
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine - Millimeter bullet.Dave Barry
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.Aldous Huxley
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.Amos Tversky
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.Brigham Young
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.Henri de Lubac
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.Cato the Elde
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man - Made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.Alfred Hitchcock
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.Andrew Schneide
My heart is pure as the driven slush.Tallulah Bankhead
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.Henry David Thoreau
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18, 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1. 5 tons.Unknown
Nietsche is Pietsche.Ogden Nash
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.Author Unknown
Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
