Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I live for books.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

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.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

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.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Most bad government has grown out of too much government.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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

Blest is the Nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

This is the fourth?;"Thomas Jefferson, dying words

How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.