Quotes and Sayings
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.Soren Kierkegaard
Good teaching is one - Fourth preparation and three - Fourths theater.Gail Godwin
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.John Locke
Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest...Roger Zelazny
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.D. H. Lawrence
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.Alexander Pope
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.Susan Ertz
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.Celeste Holm
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.Han Suyin
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Know the masculine, keep to the feminine.Lao Tzu
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.Seneca
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.Madame Chiang
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.John Updike
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
Silence is a text easy to misread.A. A. Attanasio
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.Seneca
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.Henri Frdric Amiel
If worry were an effective weight - Loss program, women would be invisible.Nancy Drew
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.John Updike
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.Alexander Hamilton
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.George William Curtis
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.Anonymous
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.Unknown
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Pray you now, forget and forgive.William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 7
Every invalid is a doctor.Irish Prove
Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.Anon.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: The Creation of Human Ability
