Quotes and Sayings

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Italian Prove

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

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Anon.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Buddha, The Dhammapada

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Tryon Edwards

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense.

Patrick Henry

Behold the man.

Vulgate

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Saint Jerome

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

You call it madness, but I call it love.

Don Byas

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Cicero

The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.

Oscar Wilde, Foreward, The Picture of Dorian gray

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Titus Maccius Plautus

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.

Michael Jordan

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.

Douglas Noel Adams

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beeche

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

T. T. Munge

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

Author Unknown

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette".

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad. N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.

Psalms 11996

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine