Quotes and Sayings

I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
Phaedrus

I am... a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
John M. Ford

To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.
Roosevelt, Eleano

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
Richard Wagne

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Seneca, 65 AD

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
William Carlos Williams

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
W. C. Fields, in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels".

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
I Ching

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.
Jerry Coleman

Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.
Thomas Jefferson

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform.
George Steine

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
Dr. Seuss

Faith... Must be enforced by reason... When faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
Maitri Upanishads

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly

Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Author Unknown

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.
Latin Prove

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
Publilius Syrus

I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 174 Bible

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford