Quotes and Sayings

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas H. Huxley
Don juan matus, the second ring of power by carlos castaneda - when one has nothing left to lose one becomes...
Anatole france - the average man does not know what to do with his...
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Anonymous
Everything has two handles, - - One by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.
Epictetus
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Unknown
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.
Ben Stein
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Elliot Wayne Eisne
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.
Nora Ephron
Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
Clarence Darrow
I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do.
Edward E. Hale
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Henrik Ibsen
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.
Wayne Dye
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
Sarah Brady
You only live once - - But if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
Archibald Cox
Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.
Jason DeBruin, The poem "Temporary Shame".
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Cornelius Tacitus
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unse
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Dean Inge
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.
Bill Vaughan
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
Jack Holland