Quotes and Sayings

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Anonymous

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Charles Robert Darwin

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Danish Prove

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - - But to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

George Saintsbury

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.

Alan Stewart Paton

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Leon Battista Alberti

What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question.

Gertrude Stein

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Heinrich Heine

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.

Napolean Hill

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace, Epistles

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Russell Bake

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

What is the sound of one hand clapping.

Confucius

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.

John Milton

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.

Clement Stone

Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies One eats leaves, and the other eats caterpillars. Oh, I see now.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Seneca

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.

Edward Chapin

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

George Eliot

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Laurence J. Pete

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers