Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

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.

I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Today is a king in disguise.

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

Security is a kind of death.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Kin, n.: An affliction of the blood

A happy kind of terror.

Kindness is wisdom.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Let us ask ourselves; ''What kind of people do we think we are?''

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Chaos is King, and Magic is loose in the world.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given.

Love is a kind of warfare.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

They finally got King Midas, I hear. Gild by association.

Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.