Quotes and Sayings

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Thomas Fulle

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot, The Rock

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese.

Charles De Gaulle

Washington D. C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

St. Jerome

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib, Mahfouz

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora".

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

John Ruskin

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Author Unknown

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Blaise Pascal

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

Underpromise overdeliver.

Tom Peters

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

Georges Guyneme

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

Debra Messing

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

John Steinbeck

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.

Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epicures