Quotes and Sayings

Henry wadsworth longfellow - know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be...
Woodrow wilson - it is as hard to do your duty when men are...
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Sibert Cathe
Mark twain - religion consists of a set of things which the...
lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. e. cummings
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin Franklin
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
Lewis S Feue
The perfect host requires the perfect parasite.
Adopted from Lance Fusco.
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Mary Ellen Kelly
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
Charles L. Allen
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius, Analects
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Sophocles
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas Edison
Obviously something slipped through here.
Reverend John Vaughan, Financial administrator for the Archdiocese of Miami (when asked why they held stock in companies that ma
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
Archbishop Ireland
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
Leo Tolstoy
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We must love one another and die.
W. H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939".
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.
Eleanor H. Porte
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray