Quotes and Sayings

John lecarre, the secret pilgrim - the only reward for love is the experience of...
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Benjamin Franklin
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - Called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George F. Will
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri F. Amiel
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.
C. C. Colton
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
Vince lombardi - the green bay packers never lost a football game....
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
The best audience is intelligent, well - Educated, and a little drunk.
Alben W. Barkley, (vice president under Harry Truman)
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
Author Unknown
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
One essential to success is that your desire be an all - Obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co - Ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
Claude M. Bristol
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
Solon
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
Martin Luthe
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
Neil Postman
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high.
Henry David Thoreau
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Prove
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
Marquis de Sade
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
John Dewey
Deliberate often - - Decide once.
Latin Prove
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
Where did you put it? Put what? You know? Where do you think? Oh.
Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human - Computer interaction
Grown - Ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.
Eda LeShan
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
Mark Twain
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations