Quotes and Sayings

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Homer, the iliad - miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment...
Gentlemen prefer bonds.
Andrew Mellon
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare
If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.
Carl Sagan
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.
Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculpto
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
The Metro Para pledge
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
Herbert Rappaport
There are no office hours for leaders.
Cardinal James Gibbons
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
I married beneath me - All women do.
Nancy Asto
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beeche
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Thomas Tusser, 1524
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D. C.
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Lord Byron
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel Trilling
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods.
Paul Claudel
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.
Buddy Hackett
Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.
Bob Marley
For though I do not ask for aid, we need it.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Boromi
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Terence
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.
Amelia Earhart Putnam
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Euripides, Aegeus
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Alan Alda
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
La Rochefoucauld
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.
Kristen Ashley Roth
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown