Quotes and Sayings

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Homer, The Odyssey
Thomas carlyle - a vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men....
George meredith - i expect woman will be the last thing civilized...
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace, Satires
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Carl Sandburg
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkle
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.
Alan Stewart Paton
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
Elie Wiesel
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner?
Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Storm Jameson
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.
William Bake
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one - Track mind.
Endre Balogh
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Wally Lam
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Shelley
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
Karl Marx
The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11 - 11 - 04
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Garrison Keillo
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
George W. Bush, Speech (2005)
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Author Unknown
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
Sir Walter Raleigh
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?
William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats