Quotes and Sayings

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

Gertrude Stein

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Danish prove

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katharine Graham

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1

To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness.

George Orwell

Money, the root of all evil... but the cure for all sadness.

Mike Gill

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

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

I have one rule - Attention. They give me theirs and I give them mine.

Sister Evangelist

We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.

Prophet Joseph Smith

There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Lynd

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles, Electra

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

D. A. Battista

It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.

Jacobi

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle, Parts of Animals

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.

Eileen Caddy

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Sir Winston Churchill

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Harpo Marx, Harpo Speaks Autobiography - Paperback, pg. 400

In the land of the blind, the one - Eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish Prove

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz