Quotes and Sayings

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

J. Paul Getty

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism.

B. J. Gupta

Never explain - - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41: 12)

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James Barrie

Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Black Elk

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.

G. K. Chesterton

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

Elinor Glyn

The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Marcelene Cox

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Bill Cosby

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street - Cleansing, fruit - Picking and subway - Guitar - Playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

Thomas Jefferson

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.

Ted Morgan

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Alexander Pope

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips