Quotes and Sayings

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.

Steve Chandle

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Gloria Steinem

The man who runs may fight again.

Menander, Monostikoi (Single Lines)

We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden, "September 1, 1939".

Working in the garden... gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Ruth Stout

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 5, 2003

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.

Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. Saluting crew of the Apollo 11.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Shut up he explained.

Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrants, 1920

The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

Hannah Whitall Smith

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

Swami Brahnmananda

This book fills a much - Needed gap.

Moses Hadas

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

Chinese Prove

There is no accountability in the public school system - Except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

H. L. Mencken

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

Robert Collie

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson