Quotes and Sayings

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
Nicholas Chamfort
Bill vaughan - muscles come and go; flab lasts....
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - Hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Prove
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
Man has responsibility, not power.
Tuscarora prove
We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.
La Rochefoucauld
Charles dickens, great expectations - we need never be ashamed of our tears....
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Gustave Flaubert
Sir francis bacon, essays: of building, 1623 - houses are built to live in, not to look on;...
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
Bill Peterson, football coach
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason Good
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.
Marabel Morgan
A woman can look book moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferbe
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - - A test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
T. S. Eliot
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Arthur Baldwin
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
Leo Rosten
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.
Cosino DeGregrio
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
David Coblitz
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.
Charlie Chaplin
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gough
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
M. R. Vincent
Knowledge is expensive.
Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.
Kelly Le Brock
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S Truman
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
English Prove
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...
Antoine Laurent Lavoisie