Quotes and Sayings

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
Quentin Crisp
Philip wylie - god must hate common people, because he made them...
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
John Calvin
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison
Alea Iacta est... the dice is cast.
Julius Ceasar, when crossing the rubicon and thus starting civil war that effectively ended the Roman republic
Jane austen, northanger abbey - friendship is certainly the finest balm for the...
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.
Galileo Galilei
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it.
Albert Einstein
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangste
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Pinda
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion.
Richard Whately
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Diane Ackerman
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de Bono
He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side.
Channing Pollock
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Josh Billings
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.
James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.
Assyrian Prove
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
William Orville Douglas
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Virgil
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
As thou hast sown, so shall thou reap.
Pinarius
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
Ninety - Nine percent of this game is half mental.
Lawrence Peter Berra
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
John Erksine, The Complete Life
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Faulkne
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze