Quotes and Sayings

Neo Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here.

Matrix, The

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Saint Francis de Sales

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only thing worse than a knee - Jerk liberal is a knee - Pad conservative.

Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)

The longer the title, the less important the job.

George Stanley McGovern

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy Davenport

Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Augusta E. Rundell

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Watley

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Shneur Zalman

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

Shunryu Suzuki

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

Gareth Roberts

I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches.

Gilda Radne

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Prove

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

Unknown

I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.

William Shakespeare

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.

Richard M. Nixon

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton, Dr. Faustus

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Thomas Dewa

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To philosophize is to doubt.

Michel de Montaigne

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabi

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

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

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca