Quotes and Sayings

My mother buried three husbands... and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudne
Marco a. almazan - the truly skillful politician is one who, when he...
Oscar wilde, , in a letter to his friend, frances forbes - robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in london, but wilde wa - like dear st. francis of assisi i am wedded to...
Aristotle, nichomachean ethics - one swallow does not make a summer....
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
Claude T Bissell
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
William Shakespeare
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James
The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
H. L. Mencken
We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.
Paul Liu
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.
Phiroz Mehta
I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Ebner - Eschenbach
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
Josh Billings
As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
Saint Bernard
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.
Wayne Dye
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi
Appearances often are deceiving.
Aesop
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
George Eliot
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
Tshunka Witko
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Lord Nelson
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe I should have screwed up.
Ken Thompson
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare