Favorite Quotations
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Great Quotes
Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
Hell is other people.
Paul Val�ry
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
J. William Fulbright
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Arabic Parable
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Thomas H. Huxley
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
Cicero
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
Michel de Montaigne
No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Kyle Schmidt
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Johann von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Lewis Mumford
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ¶ 8:32 PM 0 comments
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Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
Hell is other people.
Paul Val�ry
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
J. William Fulbright
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Arabic Parable
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Thomas H. Huxley
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
Cicero
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
Michel de Montaigne
No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Kyle Schmidt
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Johann von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Lewis Mumford
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ¶ 8:32 PM 0 comments
More Famous Quotations
Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Philip Guedalla
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.
Ambrose Bierce
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Henry David Thoreau
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers. ¶ 5:05 PM 0 comments
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Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Philip Guedalla
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.
Ambrose Bierce
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Henry David Thoreau
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers. ¶ 5:05 PM 0 comments
Latest greatest Quotations
Howard Johnson
M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me,O means only that she's growing old,T is for the tears she shed to save me,H is for her heart of purest goldE is for her eyes, with love-light shining,R means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,A word that means the world to me.
George Santayana
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Mencius
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Mencius
The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.
John Ciardi
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
Lao Tzu
He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.
Horace, Odes
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Garrison Keillor
God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
George Gordon Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ¶ 2:43 PM 0 comments
Today's Quotations:
Howard Johnson
M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me,O means only that she's growing old,T is for the tears she shed to save me,H is for her heart of purest goldE is for her eyes, with love-light shining,R means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,A word that means the world to me.
George Santayana
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Mencius
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Mencius
The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.
John Ciardi
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
Lao Tzu
He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.
Horace, Odes
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Garrison Keillor
God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
George Gordon Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ¶ 2:43 PM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotations
Franz Kafka
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Marilyn Ferguson
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Walt West
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
Thomas Mann
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Confucius
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The triumph of justice is the only peace. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
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Franz Kafka
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Marilyn Ferguson
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Walt West
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
Thomas Mann
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Confucius
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The triumph of justice is the only peace. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
Quotations for Today
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Bertrand Russell
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Danish proverb
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
George Sands
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Unknown
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Michel de Montaigne
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Richard Bach
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Bertrand Russell
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Danish proverb
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
George Sands
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Unknown
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Michel de Montaigne
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Richard Bach
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
Latest Quotes
Shannon Miller
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.
Matthew Arnold
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
Philo Vance
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.
Elizabeth Adamson
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
Marilyn Ferguson
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Scott Adams
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
Quotes:
Shannon Miller
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.
Matthew Arnold
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
Philo Vance
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.
Elizabeth Adamson
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
Marilyn Ferguson
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Scott Adams
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
Daily Quotations
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.'
Johann von Goethe
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
I grow more intense as I age.
Lucan
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Roland, "The Last Gunslinger"
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Aristotle, Politics
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Leo Buscaglia
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.'
Johann von Goethe
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
I grow more intense as I age.
Lucan
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Roland, "The Last Gunslinger"
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Aristotle, Politics
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Leo Buscaglia
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
Great Famous Quotes
Stephen Covey
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Alice Hoffman
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Andrew A. Rooney
The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Donald R. Gannon
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Jean Iris Murdoch
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.
Denis Diderot
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Mahatma Gandhi
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.' ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
Check out these Famous Quotes:
Stephen Covey
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Alice Hoffman
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Andrew A. Rooney
The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Donald R. Gannon
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Jean Iris Murdoch
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.
Denis Diderot
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Mahatma Gandhi
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.' ¶ 12:26 AM 0 comments
