Quotes and Sayings

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace, Odes

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

The best car safety device is a rear - View mirror with a cop in it.

Dudley Moore

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like.

Cicero

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

John Dryden

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Jim Bishop, New York Journal - American, March 14, 1959

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Paul Valery

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Start slow and taper off.

Walt Stack

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Lowell Thomas

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Roosevelt

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.

Robert Brault

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

John Mason Good

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Author Unknown

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - - The apathy of human beings.

Helen Kelle

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Amaru Shaku

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. On President Ronald Reagan.

Muammar Qaddafi

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Oscar Wilde