Quotes and Sayings

Benjamin disraeli - we are all born for love. it is the principle of...
Pearl buck - at my age the bones are water in the morning...
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman
We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
Mark Twain
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Henry Ward Beeche
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Thomas H. Huxley
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion.
Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory".
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
H. Mumford Jones
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater, 1873
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Theresa
When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
Manilius
She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.
Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
Grace Speare
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Ferdinand I
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates, In "Phaedo, " sct. 98, by Plato.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Watley
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabo
I am my nearest neighbour.
Cornelius Tacitus
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.
Richard Kehl
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster - - It is an opportunity.
Alfred North Whitehead
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butle
National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!
Seen on a bumper sticke
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
Chauncey Depew
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte
The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn