Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

A good scapegoat is hard to find.

Soft words are hard arguments.

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

There is no success without hardship.

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan

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.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

When Christ said: ''I was hungry and you fed me,'' he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

I was extremely happy with them. We played really hard.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Peter When I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Thomas Jefferson still lives.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

So if you're gonna touch me, touch me hard. [pause] See, that's why I need a girlfriend so I can say stuff like that to her.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.