Quotes and Sayings

Friedrich nietzsche - blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best...
Elizabeth kubler - ross - people are like stained - glass windows. they...
Oscar wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation - i suppose that i shall have to die beyond my...
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
German prove
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Unknown
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Clive Staples Lewis
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Jacob Getlar Smith
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjold
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - The apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim Wenders
To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.
Helen Rowland
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.
Biblical Prove
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.
Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.
Kabbalah
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Who will bell the cat.
William Langland
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
Robert Frost
We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.
Paul Liu
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers