Quotes and Sayings

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato, The Republic

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Thomas Carlyle

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Seneca

Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.

William Punshon

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Eric Amble

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

We are all instantly forgiven but in order to benefit from this forgiveness, we must in turn forgive others and ourselves.

Unknown

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol

To have a choice at all is to be free - Even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

J. C. Penny

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes.

Morris Mandel

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

George Washington Carve

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

E. M. Cioran

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

Bob Wells

Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

George Meredith

If I love you, what business is it of yours.

Johann von Goethe

It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexande

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1

The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.

Scott Adams

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

Ray Douglas Bradbury

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Ann Landers

One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot.

Unknown

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Oscar Wilde

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - - It makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battone

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Charles De Gaulle