Quotes and Sayings

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine.

Abraham Kuype

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

German prove

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

Young

And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit - - Such are the just grounds for the regrets I have...

D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man".

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Prove

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Book of Common Praye

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.

Ene Riisna

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Robert A. Bake

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca, Epistles

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

When you come to a road block, take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Carl Sagan

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Margaret Drabble

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.

Paul Aubuchon

I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.

Madame de Stael

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Anon.