Quotes and Sayings

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Woody Allen

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Shane Leslie

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD - ROM)

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am.

Jane Wagne

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Claude T Bissell

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.

H. P. Lovecraft

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.

Josh Billings

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.

Mick Lloyd Kerman

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Mark Twain

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

Louis Johannot

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Gore Vidal

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Mille

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

The Talmud

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser, 1524

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Meryl Streep

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Stephen Hawking

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Thomas Mann

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".