Quotes and Sayings
For four - Fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.J. W. Schopf
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence Thomas
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.Jack London
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.Dr. Robert Schulle
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.Joseph Helle
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.Josh Billings
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.American Prove
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress - - Though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.Bertrand Russell
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.Adam Smith
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.Swami Vivekananda
See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way...Exodus 2320 Bible
We are all citizens of history.Clifton Paul Fadiman
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.Johann von Goethe
Who so loves believes the impossible.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.Agatha Christie
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.Ruby Manikan
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.Harry S Truman
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.Albert Camus
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.Jean - Paul Sartre
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.Unknown
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.S. Barry Lipkin
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand? and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.Marie Beyon Ray
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.Zeuxis
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
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.Ralph Waldo Emerson
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.Lou Holtz
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
