Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

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.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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.

In a false quarrel there is no true valour.

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.

If you know it's going to happen there's no need to call it a dream.

All you need is love.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that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.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

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

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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.

Living well is the best revenge.

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task

There is no god higher than truth.

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.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

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.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

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

All colors will agree in the dark.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

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.

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.

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

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.