Quotes and Sayings

Mark twain - go and surprise the whole country by doing...
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
Ben Stein
Persian prove - do not cut down the tree that gives you shade....
Margaret halsey - some people talk because they think sound is more...
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
William James
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.
Anon.
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry Wallace, Speech in New York City, May 8, 1942
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
Anwar el - Sadat
I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.
Chinese prove
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33 - Percent plausible.
Will Rogers
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.
Jacob Bigelow
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
David Williamson
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Ettiene De Grellet
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.
Robert H Bork
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
Gossip needs no carriage.
Russian Prove
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Yiddish Prove
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.
Frank Herbert, Dune
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
Karl Kraus
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
Woody Allen
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!
Amelia Earhart
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Sir Thomas More
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln