Quotes and Sayings

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

Robert Byrne

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.

Chinese Prove

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie".

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Danish prove

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.

Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. D. Laing

We are always in our own company.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 166

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

U. Pete

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valery

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Alan Bleasdale

There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

William Rotsle

Civilization is a transient sickness.

Robinson Jeffers

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.

Unknown

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

George Dennison Prentice

J. F. K. - - The Man and the Airport.

Unknown, Suggested book title

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells