Quotes and Sayings

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Nadine Gordime

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Colton

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

Frank Herbert, Dune

I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Kahlil Gibran

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegge

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

Margaret Mead

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - The best part under ground.

Thomas Overbury

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleano

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

Author Unknown

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

One does not make friends. One recognizes them.

Garth Henrichs

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

The Soviet Union would remain a one - Party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - Because everyone would join that party.

Ronald Reagan

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Jim Morrison, Biography

Out, damned spot out, I say.

William Shakespeare

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Rue McClanahan

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Quentin Crisp

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittaiin

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor, The So - Called Human Race (1922)

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

W. C. Fields

With great power comes great responsibility.

Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

Josephine Herbst

They say dreams are the windows of the soul - - Take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Ionesco