Quotes and Sayings

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire
Publilius syrus - it is more tolerable to be refused than deceived....
Peter de gaston levis - to judge the real importance of an individual, we...
Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.
Mark Twain
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Charles Dickens
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Storm Jameson
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan".
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebne
There is a good side to every situation.
David Schwartz
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
Napolean Hill
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Bertrand Russell
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Lech Walesa
Never read a book that is not a year old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some promises are better left unsaid.
Ashlee Simpson, In her album Autobiography.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Samuel Johnson
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. Robinson
Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Anonymous
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.
Carl Schurz
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.
Albert Einstein
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann von Goethe
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
William J. Broad
It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.
John Blasik
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.
Unknown
You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.
Carmen Electra
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington