Quotes and Sayings

Lewis thomas, the medusa and the snail (1979) - we pass the word around; we ponder how the case...
Claude m. bristol - undoubtedly, we become what we envisage....
Socrates - the only good is knowledge and the only evil is...
Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sallust
Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson
Faith is a cop - Out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can? t be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
Jesters do often prove prophets.
William Shakespeare
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.
Muammar Qaddafi
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
Bill Mahe
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Charles De Gaulle
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Dante Alighieri
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoi
When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
Charles A. Stoddard
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.
Thomas Jefferson
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
Cicero
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell
The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.
Jack Kerouac
Do it big or stay in bed.
Opera producer Larry Kelly
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.
Mouth organist Larry Adle
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton, Dr. Faustus
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
Benny Hill
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain
Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)
Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie Goldberg
I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.
Charles Barkley, "they said it" in Sports Illustrated
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.
Lady Wilde
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
Plato