Quotes and Sayings
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.Ted Williams
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard
The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.Batman
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.John Kenneth Galbraith
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.Ernest Hemingway
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.Ellen G. White
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.Paul De Rapin
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.Rene Descartes
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.Jim Ryun
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.Seneca
The spirit is the true self.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.Alice May Brock
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.John Gillespie Magee
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.Gene Spafford, 1992
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.Alfred L. Kroebe
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.Rollo May
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.Sir Winston Churchill
It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.Latin Prove
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.Homer, The Iliad
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.Carl Jung
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.Edward Clarke
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
