Quotes and Sayings
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.Author Unknown
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.Aldous Huxley
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.Henry Louis Mencken
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.Clark Mousakas
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.Author Unknown
The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.William Pickens
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.Mario M Cuomo
Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.
For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.Turkish Prove
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.John McEnroe
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.Ayn Rand
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.Bette Davis
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.Sir Winston Churchill
Sin is geographical.Bertrand Russell
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.George Orwell
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.Oscar Wilde
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.Christopher Morley
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.Martin Luther King
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.John Christian Bovee
To the pure, all things are pure.Arabic Prove
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.Paul Erlich
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise... the bleeding will not end.Robert Francis Kennedy
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.Muammar Qaddafi
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.Saint Francis de Sales
