Quotes and Sayings

Sir winston churchill - we make a living by what we get, we make a life...
Thomas hobbes - all generous minds have a horror of what are...
I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Georges bataille - literature... is the rediscovery of childhood....
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - No ideals.
Golda Mei
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8: 32
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Dr. Robert Schulle
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
Desmond Morris
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.
Kahlil Gibran
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
Max Percy
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Luther Standing Bea
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reade
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Schula
The American ideal is youth - - Handsome, empty youth.
Henry Mille
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.
J. M. Barrie
While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.
Elaine Richards
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
Lady Violet Bonham Carte
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend.
Paris Hilton
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.
Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
General John Stark
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
Sam Keen
Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
La Bruyere
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.
I Ching
For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.
Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, XVII, 59 - 60
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
Kongming (Zhuge Liang)
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
John Collins
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray