Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Love well, whip well.

Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Applause waits on success.

Observe all men, thyself most.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

There are no gains without pains.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles.

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Your fortune stateth: You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you have few friends.

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

All would live long, but none would be old.

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.