Quotes and Sayings

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Margaret cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04 - love is the big booming beat which covers up the...
Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, 1891 - whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it...
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.
Robert J. Collie
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely - Read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Noel Adams
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
How should they answer?
Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jews always answer a question with a question? ".
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
German prove
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
Henry Louis Mencken
When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there.
Japanese Prove
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Unknown
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andr Gide
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Robyn Davidson
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardne
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Lord Byron
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.
John Guerrero
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts".
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin, Pre - Raphaelitism, 1850
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Edward Hagerup Grieg
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas H. Huxley
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Maitri Upanishads
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....
John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Faulkne
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
Shana Alexande
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason