Quotes and Sayings

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Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
The limitations are limitless.
Beck
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
Hasidic Saying
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Louise Bogan
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
Black Hawk
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.
Michael Masukawa
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
Neil Postman
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.
American Indian Prove
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allen Poe
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Cynthia Ozick
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Pinda
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
I am not an optimist, but i am not a pessimist, what I am is a realist.
Bobby Sanghavi
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that.
Groucho Marx
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843
It is better to succeed with success than failure.
George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Anthony Burgess