Quotes and Sayings
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.Albert Camus
This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.George Sanders
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.Unknown
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.Jim Bishop
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.Albert Camus
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.Giosu, Borsi
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.George Moore
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.Warren Bennis
Your very silence shows you agree.Euripides
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.Saint Augustine
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.Malcolm Muggeridge
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives.Hugh Elliott
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.Edmund Burke
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.Bertrand Russell
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams, 1780
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.Koran, (c. 651 AD)
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.Neil Postman
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.Brendan Francis Behan
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Vicki Baum
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas J. Watson
