Quotes and Sayings

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

African Prove

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Cicero

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

Napolean Hill

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan".

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

There is no time like the pleasant.

George Bergman

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John Keats

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

Josef Stalin

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

G. K. Chesterton

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

Maya Angelou

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter - Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules".

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

Pauline Kael

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

Seneca

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince".

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben - Gurion

Never explain - - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.

Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Edward Hagerup Grieg

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Dave Barry

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

Romanian Prove

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Koran

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk.

Sophocles

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - How passionately I hate them.

Albert Einstein

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

John V. Politis

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

John Milton