Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram -- lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull -- he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins -- that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path -- he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales -- happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself Leonardo da Vinci

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Why didn't Leonardo DiCaprio ever make educational science movies?;"Allyson, complaining about the monotonous films we have to watch in science

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

LEO (July 23 - Aug 22) You consider yourself a born leader. Others think you are pushy. Most Leo people are bullies. You are vain and dislike honest criticism. Your arrogance is disgusting. Leo people are thieves.

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

I'm a Leo. Leos don't believe in this astrology stuff.

The more that is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Historians are the deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.