Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crud.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

In every man is a cry for self expression. He either expresses this by contributing to society's good, or if gagged, by pulling at the very fabrics that hold society together.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

We must become the change we want to see.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Anger is short madness

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.

If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars'

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours Respectfully, A. Lincoln

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

A single word often betrays a great design.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man: he loves to see him work.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

Smiles are the language of love.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

It was a virgin forest, a place where the Hand of Man had never set foot.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Yesterday is a cancelled checked and tomorrow is a promissory note and today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely and earnestly...and the most important is you love yourself and your family (including friends) with the guidance of GOD.And don't forget to take time and to smile much

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?