Quotes and Sayings

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Michel de montaigne - nothing is so firmly believed as that which we...
Theodore roethke - i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. i feel...
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.
Andy Warhol
Dennis kucinich - we have weapons of mass destruction we have to...
Every nation ridicules other nations - - And all are right.
Arthur Schopenhaue
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
Anon.
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
John Dewey
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them.
Laurence Binyen
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
Marquis de Sade
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Titus Livius
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.
Anthony Sampson
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Charles Peguy
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
Will Durant
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
J. W. Alexande
The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Ke
Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.
Amanda Medinge
I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
Richard Wagne
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Titus Maccius Plautus
We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.
Scott Adams
Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 122 Bible
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
Madame de Maintenon