Quotes and Sayings

Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
Salvador dali - the first man to compare the cheeks of a young...
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles De Gaulle
Christopher fry - poetry is the language in which man explores his...
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Prove
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Successful education is always a two - way street.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark Twain
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Sterne
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Portuguese Prove
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Albert Einstein
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Jose Joaquin de Olmedo
Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tuppe
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
It matters not how long we live but how.
Philip James Bailey
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Gordon Byron
For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?
Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
All true wealth is biological.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles De Gaulle
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
Menande
No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
Anatole France
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
Goodnight.
Lord Byron, last words
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adle
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson