Francois de La Rochefoucauld Motivational Sayings

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~Author : Francois de La Rochefoucauld Motivational Sayings

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
~Author : John Still Famous Quotes

I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
~Author : Stephen Leacock Inspirational Sayings

Appearances often are deceiving.
~Author : Aesop Nice Quotes

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
~Author : Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla James Reston Galileo A Life HarperCollins NY 1994 p 461 Great Sayings

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
~Author : Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Meaningful Sayings

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
~Author : Thomas Mann Wise Quotes

C S Lewis Meaningful Sayings

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
~Author : C S Lewis Meaningful Sayings

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
~Author : Dante Alighieri Wise Quotes

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
~Author : Simone Weil Famous Quotes

Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
~Author : Polish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
~Author : Jimmy Cannon Nice Quotes

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Great Sayings

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
~Author : Mell Lazzarus Meaningful Sayings

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattlesnake that granted me all those wishes.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
~Author : Walter Elliott Inspirational Sayings

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
~Author : Gamal Abdel Nasser Nice Quotes

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
~Author : Arnold J Toynbee Great Sayings

I feel like a million tonight --- but one at a time.
~Author : Mae West Meaningful Sayings

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)
~Author : Jesse Louis Jackson Wise Quotes

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
~Author : Baruch Spinoza Motivational Sayings

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
~Author : Nikki Giovanni Inspirational Sayings

On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
~Author : American Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
~Author : Sir Thomas More Wise Quotes

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Motivational Sayings

On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
~Author : Lloyd Garrison Famous Quotes

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
~Author : Mae West Inspirational Sayings

I'm a born-again atheist.
~Author : Gore Vidal Nice Quotes

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
~Author : Real Live Preacher Great Sayings

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.
~Author : Charles De Gaulle Inspirational Sayings

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
~Author : George Tooker Nice Quotes

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
~Author : Baruch Spinoza The Ethics Great Sayings

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Meaningful Sayings

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.
~Author : Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs Wise Quotes

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
~Author : Henry C Blinn Motivational Sayings

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
~Author : Zora Neale Hurston Famous Quotes

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
~Author : Marcus Terentius Varro Famous Quotes

In war there is no substitute for victory.
~Author : General Douglas MacArthur Inspirational Sayings

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?
~Author : Chris Martin Rolling Stone Magazine Nice Quotes

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
~Author : Albert Einstein Great Sayings

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
~Author : JeanJacques Rousseau Wise Quotes

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Motivational Sayings

The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
~Author : Mao Zedong Nice Quotes

The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
~Author : Nikola Tesla Great Sayings

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
~Author : Albert Schweitzer Wise Quotes

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~Author : William James Motivational Sayings

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Famous Quotes

Life's two Great Questions Why me and What do I do now
~Author : William L DeAndrea Inspirational Sayings

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
~Author : William Shakespeare Hamlet Act 1 scene 2 Nice Quotes

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
~Author : Jane Addams Speech Honolulu 1933 Inspirational Sayings

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
~Author : John D Rockefeller Nice Quotes

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
~Author : Henri Poincare Great Sayings

Imitation is suicide.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
~Author : Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Wise Quotes

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
~Author : Edwin W Edwards Motivational Sayings

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
~Author : Edwin Conklin Famous Quotes

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~Author : Jeanne Moreau Inspirational Sayings

O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~Author : Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Chapter 7 Famous Quotes

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
~Author : Albert SzentGyorgyi Inspirational Sayings

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
~Author : George Orwell Nice Quotes

O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit
~Author : Heinrich Heine Meaningful Sayings

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
~Author : Anon Wise Quotes

Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
~Author : Marcus Aelius Aurelius Motivational Sayings

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
~Author : Samuel Butler Famous Quotes