Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

We're happy. It's better than being 2-2 and having to drive three hours like Lincoln has to.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else.

Money can't buy happiness but it will get you a better class of memories.

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

Donnie Brasco Forget about it is like if you agree with someone, you know, like Raquel Welsh is one great piece of ass, forget about it. But then, if you disagree, like A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac Forget about it you know But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like mingia peppers, forget about it. But it's also like saying Go to hell too. Like, you know, like Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker and Paulie says Forget about it Sometimes it just means forget about it

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Better to get wisdom than gold.

Question: Is it better to abide by the rules until they're changed or help speed the change by breaking them?

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Anatomy (n): something everyone has, but which looks better on a girl.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

It is better to be a happy chicken than a sick tiger.

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones. -Philippos

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying next to him.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and _You_ come home.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

It sucks when you see the person you love with another girl and its even worst when you know you´re better than her!

Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.