Quotes and Sayings
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.Sue Grafton
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.Johann von Goethe
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.Ayn Rand
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.Asoka
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.Jean Houston
Why is this thus What is the reason for this thusness.Artemus Ward
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Joseph Addison
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis Bacon
As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.Heini Arnold
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
We need not think alike to love alike.Francis David
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation - Rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.Victor Hugo
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses (poem)
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.W. C. Fields
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.Denis Diderot
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.Sir Richard Francis Burton
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.Jonathan Swift
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.Scott Adams
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.J. Paul Getty
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.Thomas Carlyle
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.Elayne Boosle
God gives, but man must open his hand.German Prove
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.Unknown
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.G. K. Chesterton
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.Marquis de Vauvenargues
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
You have to eat the first piece of candy Before you can eat the whole bag.Unknown
