Quotes and Sayings

George bernard shaw - i want to be thoroughly used up when i die, for...
Live..... Laugh..... GOLF.
Kathryn Schaefer Plaum
Dax ward - mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away...
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
The Talmud
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Much that passes for education... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
David P Gardne
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Plutarch
O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
Sigmund Freud
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel Cerbantes
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Von Weizsacke
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
Unknown
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one - Track mind.
Endre Balogh
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - That is the fact.
Jean - Paul Sartre
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. Lewis
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
Where there is love, there is pain.
Danish prove
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf Virchow
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Give, and forget Receive, and remembe.
Unknown
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
G. K. Chesterton
He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
Dutch Prove
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Philip Massinge
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace, Odes
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man - And after that, praying.
Irish Prove
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero