Quotes and Sayings

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe - Struck before his soul.

Kahlil Gibran

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Jesse Louis Jackson

The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

The die is cast.

Gaius Julius Caesa

Poets generally love cats - - Because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Marion Garretty

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

Thomas Hardy

To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.

Roosevelt, Eleano

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Harper Lee, spoken by character Miss Maudie, To Kill A Mockingbird

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 2311, 12 Bible

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Edward Irving Koch

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Mario Cuomo

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Trumpet in a herd of elephants crow in the company of cocks bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Prove

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Lillian Eichler Watson

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10 - 06 - 05

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Euripides

Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.

Rune Leknes

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

P. T. Barnum

Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

Chitto Harjo

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Assyrian Prove

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.

Charles Babbage

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - - A christian.

Mark Twain

Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.

Anon.

The President can bomb anybody he likes.

Richard Nixon, Nixon