Quotes and Sayings

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.

Donna Summe

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurbe

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.

Thomas Jefferson

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.

Jerry Coleman

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

J. William Fulbright

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.

James Madison

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Angela Mont

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Author Unknown

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know

Steven Wright

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Jon Kabit - Zinn

There are two ways to write error - Free programs. Only the third one works.

Anon.

To be amused by what you read - - That is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - Excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Nathaniel Branden