Quotes and Sayings

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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
Bill Hoest
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse
Deus ex machina A god from the machine.
Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - And will.
Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
Theodore Hesburgh
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him Whose.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann von Goethe
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith
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You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Author Unknown
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Lane Olinghouse
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Henry Fielding
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
Jacques Cousteau
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
Author Unknown
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Dr. Thomas Dooley
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
Arthur Wellesley, (first Duke of Wellington)
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
La Rochefoucauld
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butle
On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting - - Died.
George W. Cecil
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Oscar Wilde
We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others.
Rabbi Mark David Finkel, Gov. Craig Benson Inaugural Speech, January 9, 2003
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Money is a good servant, but a poor master.
Dominique Bouhours
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Llama
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas Paine
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.
Janis Joplin, Biography of Joplin by Myra Freidman