Quotes and Sayings

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
Abraham lincoln - you may deceive all the people part of the time,...
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry
Seneca - i do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind,...
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Robert Staughton Lynd
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Publilius Syrus
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
Jesse Louis Jackson
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitze
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The presidency is temporary - But the family is permanent.
Yvonne De Gaulle
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
John Viscount Morley
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Winston Churchill
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
Louis Pasteu
Great artists have no country.
Alfred du Masset
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
American Prove
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
John Maxwell
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
Would you please shut up and sit down!
George Bush, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Kelle
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part II", Act 4 scene 1
He drew a circle that shut me out - - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
Edwin Markham
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Irving Layton
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walke
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.
Johann von Goethe
Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
Saadi