Quotes and Sayings

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
George w. bush, robin williams, live on broadway - most of our imports come from other countries....
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
William Jennings Bryan
Benjamin disraeli - next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the...
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - No one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Freedom and indedendence form my character.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Sheare
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan McKinnon
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot
Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults.
Benjamin Franklin
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Mille
We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us? it simply reveals what we are made of already.
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 10
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.
Sacha Guitry
To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butle
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Henri Frdric Amiel
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Epictetus
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.
Selwyn Champion
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)
Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.
Naomi Bliven
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
Spanish Prove
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
Chinese Prove
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10 - 06 - 05
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Booth Luce
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan