Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

I don't care if I'm a lemming, I'm still not going.

Young girls are the biological equivalent of "new car smell.

Two cars in every pot and a chicken in every garage.

Your fortune stateth: Be careful! Is it classified?

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once.

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

Your fortune stateth: Be careful! UGLY strikes 9 out of 10!

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I found out why my car was humming. It had forgotten the words.

A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

How come on the condom dispensers it has a little picture of birds flying over a pretty mountain. They use sex to sell everything else... why don't they use sex to sell condoms?;"Jeff Carnegie

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On President Ronald Reagan)

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.