Quotes and Sayings

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Unknown

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Chinese Prove

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius, Analects

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato, Laws

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

H. L. Mencken

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African Prove

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Plato, The Republic

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Gore Vidal

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beeche

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

Author Unknown

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley, unknown

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Sbastien - Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Horace

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Clive Staples Lewis

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.

The Talmud

You are looking as fresh as paint.

F. E. Smedley

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara She

Great men are not always idiots.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

Sophocles, Antigone

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

Will Rogers

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - - But a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Charles E. Wilson

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

Harry Gray

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra