Quotes and Sayings

Character is what you are when no one is looking.
Unknown
John f. kennedy - a man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an...
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
Confucius, the confucian analects - by nature, men are nearly alike; by practice,...
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
Ed Macauley
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
The superfluous is very necessary.
Voltaire
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
Demosthenes
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Margaret Cho
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses (poem)
Law is order, and good law is good order.
Aristotle, Politics
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. Pete
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie A. Stanley
We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.
Muammar Qaddafi
We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.
Albert E. Cliffe
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Fishe
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Shelley
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Now comes the mystery.
Henry Ward Beecher, last words
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
Klemens Von Metternich
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinge
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
Mark Twain
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
Chester Bowles
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke