Quotes and Sayings
A healthy family is sacred territory.Unknown
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.David Letterman
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven".
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.Albert Einstein
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.Joseph Addison
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.Jean de la Bruyere
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.Anon.
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.Collen McCullough
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
Are we having fun yet.Carol Burnett
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.John Shedd
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.Plutarch, Lives
Fortune is like glass - - The brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.Publilius Syrus
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
Wasting sarcasm is a sin.R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 08 - 16 - 05
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.Janos Arnay
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.Seneca
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
After all, he thought he was God.FBI agent on why it was difficult to negotiate with David Koresh
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.Eustache Descamps
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.Epictetus
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.John Cleese
If worry were an effective weight - Loss program, women would be invisible.Nancy Drew
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.J. K. Rowling
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus eaten, the root mal bad, and logy study of. It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.Mike Kellen
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.Thomas Paine
Big thinking precedes great achievement.Wilfred Peterson
