Quotes and Sayings

Leo buscaglia - no amount of time can erase the memory of a good...
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Sir francis bacon, essays: of building, 1623 - houses are built to live in, not to look on;...
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Prove
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
Leonid Brezhnev
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Eug? ne Delacroix
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Kelle
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton Hood
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
Shelley
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
Marcel Archard
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Sir Winston Churchill
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
Indian Prove
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabo
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Charles Horton Cooley
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverly Nichols
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw".
Life goes on within you and without you.
George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
The Talmud
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Woodrow Wilson
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
Jules Renard
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Charles Robert Darwin
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
Intel has announced its next chip the Repentium.
Anon.
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.
Carl R. Rogers