Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Living well is the best revenge.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

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

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. (Reply to President Ronald Reagan in defense of Palestinian terrorist)

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

I just remember George smiling and how happy he was.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.

George Orwell was an optimist.

People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

George It was the greatest feeling I ever had. Followed abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had.

George The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.

Night is the mother of counsels.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; 'I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.'

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences;'' angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

One enemy is too much.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.

He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.