Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Steve's Girlfriend: "I'll have the chicken sandwich.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Everyone lives by selling something.

He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Steve: You couldn't do that because mine would be solid. Ellie: It would have a bottom? Eek!

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

Robert: Hey, that's my pen. You stole it! Joe: No, my father gave me this pen. Robert: Your father is a thief!

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Which way is the ocean?;"the ever quotable Grandma E, while visiting St. Louis.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. -- Robert Quillen

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Sue (from England) "I've been looking for you all my life!" Robert (from Tazmania) "Why didn't you just give me a ring?

On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of think he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, This I am today, that I will be tomorrow Louis L'Amour

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.