Quotes and Sayings

Henry david thoreau - i love to be alone. i never found the companion...
Dan quayle, 09/88 - people that are really weird can get into...
James thurber, new yorker, feb. 18, 1939
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adle
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Clarence Darrow
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gautie
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Edgar Watson Howe
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.
Edwin Holt Hughes
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Thomas Fulle
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
Anonymous
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography (1964)
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen, Emma
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Voltaire
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald R. Ford
Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning anf a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasgow
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitze
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint Augustine
It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
Gore Vidal
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Victor Frankl
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - Not sick, not wounded - Dead.
Woody Allen
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.
Miguel Cerbantes
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Watley
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do.
Unknown
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.
Richard Simmons
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
Tom Masson
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson