Quotes and Sayings

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.
Kahlil Gibran
Peter york - rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world....
Henry ward beeche - hold yourself responsible for a higher standard...
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.
Jack London
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
Lewis S Feue
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.
Cornelius Stam
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
George Osne
Charles churchill - genius is of no country....
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
Edward Morgan Forste
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
Joe Moore
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
Pliny The Elde
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.
Unknown
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Frank Zappa
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Pete
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menande
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
Ramakrishna
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.
Henry David Thoreau
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Babe Didrikson
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Anon.
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Thomas Jefferson
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
Author Unknown
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
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
Penn Jillette, in a Compuserve chat
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
Josh Billings
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butle
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck
What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand.
Sherri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2