Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

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

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Ellie: "Do you have any two-headed friends?" Ellie's Mom: "Just you.

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths...

Ellie, age 7, doing homework: "Simple subject!" Ellie's brother, age 4: "What a bummer.

What's the wisdom we lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we lost in information? t.s. elliot

Ellie's Mom: "Are you going to bed now?" Ellie: "But I'm not hungry!" (I was VERY tired at the time.)

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Marla: "Did he talk to you about it?" Ellie: "Who, the Wizard of Oz? He doesn't talk to me; someone else takes care of that.

Steve: You couldn't do that because mine would be solid. Ellie: It would have a bottom? Eek!

Ellie:"Of course she wouldn't like you! You turned her into a McDonalds!" Ellie's Ex: "I only did that 'cause she said she hated their food.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Melissa: "I thought you said he was one of those animal rights people that goes around flinging pizzas at people!" Ellie: "No, I said he was like in Multiplicity.

Ellie (acting like a baby, age 8): "Waaaahhhhhhh!!!" Ellie's brother, age 5: "Dumb baby!" Store clerk: "Don't hurt the baby!" Ellie's brother: "It's not a baby, it's just my sister!

Heather: "Do you guys believe in reincarnation?" Ellie: "I didn't do it! I didn't kill your past life! I swear!

Mrs. Wagner: "I see. Then what do you do?" Ellie: "Stick a fish in your ear!" (Mrs. Wagner was Ellie's Anthropology teacher, and she was being weird, so Ellie was acting weirder.)

Ellie: We need to go to the men's hangy things. Melissa: Men's hangy things? Ellie: You know what I mean. Melissa: No I don't and I don't want to either.

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Ericka: "But now there's no room in the sugar thing for the little you in the black dress!" Ellie: "I know, that's why I'm in that one on the other table.

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.

K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

The greater the number of laws, the greater the number of offenses against them.