Quotes and Sayings
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.William Tecumseh Sherman
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.Bertrand Russell
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.Charles De Gaulle
Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.Ronald Reagan
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.Heinrich Heine
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.Woody Allen
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.John Tillotson
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.Joe Moore
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.Victor Borge
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well - Charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.Simms
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.Norman Thomas
It? s only when the tide goes out that you discover who? s been swimming naked.Warren Buffett
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.Cornelius Tacitus
There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.Richard Livingstone
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.H. L. Mencken
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.Henry Fielding
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - Nothing.Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.Lee Iacocca
I think; therefore I am.Rene Descartes
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.George Bernard Shaw
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.Charles Caleb Colton
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
Joel Ed, are you hallucinating Ed Oh, yeah, but not right now.Christian Williams
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.Harriet Braike
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...William Wadsworth
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.Lyndon Johnson
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
