Quotes and Sayings

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
Jane wagne - all my life i wanted to be someone i guess i...
Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.
Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
Carl Lotus Becke
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
George Orwell, 1984
Jonathan larson - forget regret, or life is yours to miss....
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.
Lord Byron
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
Familiarity breed contempt.
Aesop, The Fox and the Lion
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot
RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - - I had a mother who read to me.
Strickland Gillilan
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
Epictetus
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
We are always beginning to live, but are never living.
Manilius
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Quincy Adams
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Seneca
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
My only aversion to vice, is the price.
Victor Buono
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
Tyron Edwards
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.
James Madison
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spence
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Anonymous
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Albert Schweitze
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender.
Sir Winston Churchill
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.
Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey