Quotes and Sayings
As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend.Proverbs 2717 Bible
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.Arthur Koestle
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.James Thurbe
Work is the curse of the drinking class.Oscar Wilde
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say nowGeorge Bernard Shaw
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.Thomas Troward
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.Napoleon Bonaparte
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To err is human, to purr is feline.Robert Byrne
Brass bands are all very well in their place - Outdoors and several miles away.Sir Thomas Beecham
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.Mother Theresa
I have no need of your God - Damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.Alexander Woollcott
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.General Omar Bradley
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.Kahlil Gibran
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.Marilyn Monroe
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.Isaiah 58: 12
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
A bully is not reasonable - He is persuaded only by threats.Marie De France, 12th Century
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.Hannah Whitall Smith
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
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.Stephen Roberts
The shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.William John Bennett
Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.Thomas Peters
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.Peter Farquharson
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.Alexander Hamilton
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
