Quotes and Sayings
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk.Sophocles
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
No news at 430 a. m. is good.Lady Bird Johnson
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.Norman Maclean
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.J. R. R. Tolkien
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.Norman Maile
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.John Greenleaf Whittie
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.Mark Twain
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.Edmund Burke
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.Lillian Hellman
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.Jo Coudert
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something I will not refuse to do something I can do.Hellen Kelle
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Never cut what you can untie.Joseph Joubert
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.The "Xlib Programming Manual".
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.Homer, The Iliad
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.Karl Marx
Compassion is the basis of all morality.Arthur Schopenhaue
Plodding wins the race.Aesop
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.Oscar Wilde
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
We must love one another and die.W. H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939".
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Vicki Baum
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.Calvin Trillin
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.Henry Kissinge
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
