Quotes and Sayings

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Mort Sahl
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann von Goethe
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism".
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Charles Dudley Warne
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
Pope Gregory The Great
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.
Unknown
Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.
Anon.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
Walter J. Lippmann
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Anon.
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.
Douglas Adams, The Guardian
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The covetous man is ever in want.
Horace, Epistles
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.
Raynor Schein
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Saint Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio
Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.
Author Unknown
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know
Unknown
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.
Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Thomas Tusse
A good son makes a good husband.
American Prove
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
Charles H. Duell