Quotes and Sayings

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
Yugoslav Prove
Benjamin franklin, in response to the situation of the colonists - passion governs, and she never governs wisely....
Bernard bailey - when they discover the center of the universe, a...
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas H. Huxley
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.
Benjamin H. Brewste
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?
David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
C. G. Jung
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Corenk
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Henry Besseme
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - - That the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicholas Chamfort
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Randall Jarrell
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
A Course In Miracles
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
Kahlil Gibran
Haste is good only in catching fleas.
Alla Yaroshinskaya
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
Mark Twain
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Ernst Steinbeck
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Sainte - Beave
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
Author Unknown
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Rene Angelil
When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.
Martin Luthe
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Socrates
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Nicholas Butle
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot