Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

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.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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.

Thomas Jefferson still lives.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?;"Gwynn Thomas

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

I'm sure glad my ancestors did not invent the flush toilet. Then my name would be crap. Poor Thomas Crapper.

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, ''The world is bad enough with the Bible; what would it be without it?''

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Broadway, such as I see it now and have seen it for twenty-five years, is a ramp that was conceived by St. Thomas Aquinas while he was yet in the womb. It was meant originally to be used only by snakes and lizards, by the horned toad and the red heron, but when the great Spanish Armada was sunk the human kind wriggled out of the ketch and slopped over, creating by a sort of foul, ignominious squirm and wiggle the cunt-like cleft that runs from the Battery south to the golf links north through the dead and wormy center of Manhattan Island.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Jefferson -- still surv?

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, ''Candle making industry threatened''.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Words are the money of fools.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.

Thomas Jefferson--still surv...

Calvin : You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. Hobbes : What mood is that? Calvin : Last-minute panic.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.

The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.