Quotes and Sayings

Charles krauthamme - where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to...
The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
Maurice Barrs
Friedrich nietzsche, so spake zarathoustra - it is time, it is high time... yes, but to do...
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
William Butler Yeats, Autobiography
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
Author Unknown
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman, Anarchism (1910)
To forgive is human, to forget divine....
James Grand
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
Charles H. Mayo
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Mark Yost
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
Charles Babbage
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
Eleanor Hamilton
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. On leaving the Executive Office Building.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The African is my brother - But he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Albert Schweitze
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.
Elizabeth Henry
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
It is better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
Polish Prove
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
Thomas Andrew Bailey
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.
Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie
Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
Exploit or get exploited.
B. J. Gupta
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
George Mason
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
Idiots... nothing can live forever.
Magus Dactylus, Chronotrigge
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Italian Prove
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Lucius Accius