Quotes and Sayings

Thomas paine - he that would make his own liberty secure must...
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Josh traege - the quickest way to reach the point of success is...
Tryon edwards - quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most...
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
Gertrude Stein
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle, Politics
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
Rensis Likert
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Allen
Television has brought murder back into the home - - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
Georges Rouault
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
Rebecca West
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.
Radiquet
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Anon.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffe
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph F. Newton
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Raymond Holliwell
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for. success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.
Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Miguel de Cervantes
Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesa
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
G. K. Chesterton
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Parke
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Brummond
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
Vicomte de Chateaubriand
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Oliver Herford