Quotes and Sayings

H. jackson browne - let the refining and improving of your own life...
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Roosevelt, eleano - you gain strength, courage, and confidence by...
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Isadora Duncan
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
Sun - Tzu
Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
Thomas J. Watson
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Arthur Baldwin
Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
J. R. R Tolkien, Elrond from The Lord of the Rings
Stanilaus - science when well - digested is nothing but good...
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles De Gaulle
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann von Goethe
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock
What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
Alexandra Stoddard
From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.
William Shakespeare, Henry V.
Friends are like melons, Shall I tell you why To find one good, you must a hundred try.
Unknown
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard
The road to true love never did run smooth.
Shakespeare
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. Chesterton
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
Hermann Hesse
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
Mark Leepe
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
Menande
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
Bartholomew