Quotes and Sayings
I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), The Self - Tormentor (Heautontimoroumenos)
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent.Ellen DeGeneres
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Dr. Martin Luther King
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.Laurence J. Pete
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.Ronald Reagan
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.Joseph Conrad
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.John Henry Newman
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure.Nicolas Boileau
Brass bands are all very well in their place - Outdoors and several miles away.Sir Thomas Beecham
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Not many people know this... but I happen to be famous.Sam Malone, Cheers
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.Clarence Darrow
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.Anonymous
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.Ice T, The Ice Opinion
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.Chinese Prove
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.Robert Frost
We live, as we dream, alone.Joseph Conrad
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.Joan Rivers
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.Akiro Kurosawa
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - - In nothing, great or small, large or petty - - Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.James Ramsey
Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
Billy Shampoo is better. I go on first and clean the hair. Conditioner is better. I leave the hair silky and smooth. Oh, really, fool Really.Billy Madison
Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow them.Madame de Stael
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.Irish Prove
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.Helen Kelle
