Quotes and Sayings

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sir Winston Churchill
R. buckminster fulle - dare to be naive....
Mahatma gandhi - i am prepared to die, but there is no cause for...
If it is too good to be true.... it is probably a fraud.
Ron Webe
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.
Jane Goodall
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feathe
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
Blaise Pascal
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
Louise Nevelson
By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
Italian Prove
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James F. Byrnes
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.
R. E. Hellmund, 1929
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa
When in doubt, do without.
Hofni Samuel
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Unknown
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Calyle
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo DaVinci
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw".
If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man.
J. Paul Getty
If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.
Zig Zigla
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Professor Edsger Dijkstra
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Prove
The wise man will love; all others will desire.
Afranius
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andr Gide
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.
Clarence Birdseye
The most efficient labor - Saving device is still money.
Franklin P Jones
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson