Quotes and Sayings
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.Eugene Ionesco
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.- Epicurus
Brains are like sponges... If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy.Angela White
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.Albert Camus
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.David McClure Brinkley
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.William A. Foste
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.Robert Cecil
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.Henry George
They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.Steven Wright
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.G. C. Lichtenberg
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.Marya Mannes
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.Jawaharlal Nehru
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.Walt Whitman
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.Henry Ford
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.Brandon Lee
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
When you go ice - Skating, try not to swing your arms too much, because that really annoys me.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.Kathleen Norris
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.Johannes Meister Eckhart
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen
Above all things, reverence yourself.Pythagoras
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.George Washington
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.Alexander Pope
Underpromise overdeliver.Tom Peters
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
