Quotes and Sayings

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Barbara Hoffman

Know thyself.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Richard Wagne

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmond Burke

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Quentin Crisp

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Dille

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.

Pete Johnson

A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden.

Mexican Prove

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Blaise Pascal

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.

Bruce Lee

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

Paulette Bates Alden

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

R. S. Donnell

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

George Crabbe

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann von Goethe

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

John Leonard

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

Shakti Gawain

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill