Quotes and Sayings

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
Roscoe Snowden

I think we agree, the past is over.
George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
Madame de Lambert

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett Marden

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.
Paulo Coelho, Brida

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
American Prove

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Peggy Noonan

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Jewish Prove

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Dr. Robert Schulle

It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli

One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
Nietzsche

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
Joachim du Bellay

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.
John S. Coleman

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
Christopher S. Drew

Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.
Thomas Dewa

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell

Hindsight is always twenty - Twenty.
Billy Wilde

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Virgil

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

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

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai

Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.
Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken