Quotes and Sayings
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.Danny McGoorty
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
Hear me, my chiefs I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.Chief Joseph
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.Marquis de Sade
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.Ann Landers
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Jim
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
Do we really deserve top billing?Fred Allen
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.Robert J. Kibbee
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.Jonathan Swift
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.Mark Twain
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.Norman Podhoretz
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
Continual improvement is an unending journey.Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch - Engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.A Bartlett Giamatti
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness.Appianus
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.Hermann Hesse
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.Neil Postman
I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.Jerrold Mundis
One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.Unknown
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.Mignon McLaughlin
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.Aldous Huxley
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.Author Unknown
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.J. B. Yeats
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.Peggy Noonan
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.James Russell Lowell
