Quotes and Sayings

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
George bernard shaw - nothing ever is done in this world until men are...
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
Walter bagehot,
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare
Grub first, then ethics.
Bertolt Brecht
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex - wife.
Francis William Bourdillon
I am a part of all I have read.
John Kieran
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer, The Odyssey
Will rogers - alexander hamilton started the u. s. treasury...
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
We must have a program to learn the way out of prison.
Warren Earl Burge
How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
Junius
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Anonymous
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
Sophocles
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Albert Einstein
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Henry David Thoreau
Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.
E. M. Forste
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Brown
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
Gertrude Stein
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
Alvin Toffle
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Samuel Johnson
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.
Saint Francis de Sales
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Hermann Hesse
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian