Quotes and Sayings

Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

Buddy Hackett

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons.

Colin Greenwood

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man is so in the way in the house.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - How passionately I hate them.

Albert Einstein

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

Ancient Egyptian Blessing

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Lillian Eichler Watson

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookne

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Sicilian Prove

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

John Wooden

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Bernard M. Baruch

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

English Prove

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napolean Hill

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

Erik Pepke

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Alighieri Dante

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Henry C. Blinn

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Voltaire

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Margaret Cho

Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

George Orwell, 1984

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Kahlil Gibran

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Maria Mitchell