Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger.

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

It is now 10 p.m. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is?;"Elizabeth Carpenter

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

[In Spanish Class] Sra. Ward: Javier, why are you talking? Javier: I wasn't! (He was.) Sra. Ward: Do you have a TV?

Love is the river of life in the world.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

There was definitely frustration about Henri's non-appearance. We weren't happy about it.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.