Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese?

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

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.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

Where would this country be without this great land of ours?

It's warmer in the country than in the summer.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Good counselors lack no clients.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.(1986)

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]

Every civilizaiton must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscience intention of the collectivity. (Tleilaxu Theorem);"Frank Herbert

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Only those live who do good.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?;"Neil Gaiman, 'Sandman: Dream County'

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

When do you party 'till if the cows are already in?;"Michelle, a former city girl who moved to the country.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful?

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children -- for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him -- and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram -- lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull -- he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins -- that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path -- he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales -- happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.