Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly.

The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the admiration of the learned world.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Support the Girl Scouts! (Today's Brownie is tomorrow's Cookie!)

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

Forgive those who have hurt you.

What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

He who lives without folly is less wise than he believes.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Reverend Brown Girl, you look so good, someone ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit.

Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question.

Practice only makes for improvement.

Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. I am the sky, says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The best thing you've ever done for me…is to help me take my life less seriously…’cuz its only life after all…-Indigo Girls

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.