Quotes and Sayings

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

Bible, Proverbs 26: 4 (NIV)

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

David Letterman

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

James Russell Lowell

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Dylan Thomas

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

Jerry Coleman

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Evelyn Waugh

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Alfred Mercie

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Elvis Presley

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Henry Van Dyke

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Sir Winston Churchill

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

James Albert Michene

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius Telephus

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.

American Indian Prove

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.

Omar Khayym

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Billy Rose

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

C. H. Parkhurst

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.

Billy Graham

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Laurence Sterne

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Ben Stein

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West