Quotes and Sayings

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.
Julius Henry Marx
Stephen vincent benet - life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by...
Carl von clausewitz, quoted by gene hackman in
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Hagar the Horrible
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.
Benjamin Franklin
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamilton
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
William shakespeare - reputation is an idle and most false imposition...
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
David Grayson
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher, in Observer April 4, 1989
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding Davis
My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line.
Steven Bernstein, Interview
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig Mises
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.
Albert Einstein
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Arapaho Prove
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - - Ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Author Unknown
Why think? Why not try the experiment?
John Hunte
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Henry David Thoreau
I feel a very unusual sensation - If it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
Titus Maccius Plautus
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.
William Shakspeare, Julius Cease
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Mort Sahl
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Charles Caleb Colton
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.
Johann von Goethe
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.
Doug Hall
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
Elisha Potte