Quotes and Sayings

Ralph waldo emerson - the reliance on property is... the want of self -...
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.
Navajo Chant
Ben stein - there is no sudden leap into the stratosphere......
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot
The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.
Author Unknown
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
Evelle J. Younge
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
Psalm 27 - the lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall...
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George D. Prentice
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
Cornelius Tacitus
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
Rose Dorothy Freeman
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
Heinrich Heine
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
William Penn
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
Robert Leighton
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.
US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
Sir William Drape
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
George Osne
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle