Quotes and Sayings

Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Aldous Huxley
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John milton - he who reigns within himself and rules his...
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
Anonymous
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p. 318 Houghton Mifflin
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.
Richard M. Devos
What is left when honor is lost.
Publilius Syrus
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
Madame de Stael
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.
Norman Lewis Smith
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Eykis
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Erik Pepke
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them.
Dame Rose Macauley
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkle
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.
E. e. cummings
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - Especially if he has a teenage daughter.
Guy Albert Lombardo
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
Donald Creighton
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
A. J. Nock
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Athol Fugard
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
Thomas Huxley
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Continual improvement is an unending journey.
Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F Scott
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
Erica Jong