Quotes and Sayings
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)
A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.Lord Halifax
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.Thucyclides
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.Home
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace, Odes
The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.Adam Smith
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.William Shakespeare
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?Oliver Wendell Holmes
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.George F. Will
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.Anonymous
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.James Stephens
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.Hank Aaron
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.Hellen Kelle
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.Author Unknown
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.Sallust
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.Polly Whitney
Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner?Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.Johann von Goethe
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.Edwin Teale
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Anna Quindlen
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.Houssaye
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.Bertrand Russell
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.C. C. Colton
Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.Saint Basil
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
