Other Quotes


O God, give us the grace to accept with serenity those things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdomto know the difference.
-Reinhold Neibuhr

All that is not given is lost
-Hassari Pal

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his abilities.
-Oscar Wilde

Arguements are to be avoided. They are always vulgar and often convincing.
-Oscar Wilde

We see things not as they arebut as we are.
-Anais Nin

As long as you are convinced that you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
-Malcom X

The end is but the beginning of the beginning and all that has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
-H.G. Wells

Night brings our troubles to light rather than banishing them.
-Seneca

Just as a bird that flies about and beats itsself against the cage, finding at last no passage out, it sits and sings and so overcomes its rage.
-Abraham Crowley

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
-Ovid

Courage is the resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson

A financier is a pawn broker with imagination
-Arthur Wing Pinere

Home is the place that when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
-Robort Frost

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
-Richard Whately

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever
-John Keats

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-William Butler Yeats

no one ever told me grief felt so much like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is the like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep swallowing.
-C.S. Lewis

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
-Dr. Seuss

Faith is the bird that feels the light before the break of dawn.
-Langston Hughes

We must either find a way, or make one.
-Hannibal

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire four times; her intelligence eight times.
-Sanskrit Proverb

Our life is what are thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius

My thoughts are my company, I can bring them together, select them,, detain them, dismiss them
Walter Savage Landon

Each of you individually walk with the tread of a fox, but collectively, ye are geese.
-Solon

Sarcasim should not be like a saw, but like sword, it should cut, but not mangle.
-Lord Francis Jeffery

What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson

There are 3 things extremely hard, steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
-Benjamin Franklin

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity, we use it.
-Maya Angelou

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes no tears.

Everthing becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
-Herman Hesse

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself so even admist an army of soliders.
-Cervantes

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest of offices, so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.
-Jonathan Swift

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
-George Bernard Shaw

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
-Elinor Roosevelt

With no attempt, there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation.
-William James

Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer the question: What does a woman want?
-Sigmund Freud

It takes great genius to whine appealingly
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-Von Brown

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and you take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all who wander are lost.
-J.R.R. Tolkien

All good things which exisit are the fruits of originality
-John Stuart Mill

Everything comes if a man will only wait.
-Benjamin Disraeli

The past may not be your fault, but the future is your responsibility alone.
-Gene Cruz

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasim
-Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.
-Emerson

The main thing about being a hero is knowing when to die.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we find it not.
-Emerson Beware the barrenness of a busy life
-Socrates

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before
-Mae West

Never take life seriously, no one gets out alive.

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more, and all good things are yours.
-Swedish Proverb

Optimisim: the doctorine or belief that everything is beautiful, even what is ugly.
-Ambrose Bierce

You are only yong once, but you can stay immature indefinitly.

Sure, god created man before woman....but then, you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece

A man who wants to lead an orchestra must first turn his back to the crowd.

Cherish what you have for when it's gone, you'll realize no one knew how important it was to you.

I'm not dumb, I just have a command of completely useless material.
-Calvin

I'm am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Winston Churchill

Beware the fury of a patient man
-John Dryden

My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night. But ah my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light.
-Edna St Vincent Millay

It is through dreams that the intangible can be touched
-Chere Sampaio

Men have become the tools of their tools
-Henry David Thoreau

If I hve been able to see farther than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
-Sir Isaac Newton

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned. Nor hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
-William Congreve

A man is only truely free in his dreams, twas always thus and always thus will be.
-John Keating

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is like a broken winged bird and cannot fly
-Langston Hughes

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Criticisim is a kindness in disguise
-Arabian Proverb

Honor is important, but it was nver meant to be a crutch for the stupid

Life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced then ours.

Computers are useless, they can only give you answers.
-Pablo Picasso

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim
-George Santanya

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it
-Max Firsch

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
-Ann Landers

All that we do is done with an eye to something else
-Arisotle

It is nothing to die, it is frightful not to live
-Victor Hugo

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast to have the smallest
-Neil Kinnock

A shadow on the wall, a glimmer in the dark, faded before it began
-Shanon Shoemaker

When your world comes crashing down on you, then and only then do you realize how poorly it was built

What is demanded of genious is love and truth
-Goethe

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
-Margaret Thatcher

If it weren't for caffine I would have no personality whatsoever

The first draft of anything is always shit.
-Ernest Hemingway

Between what man desires and what the world offers him is the absurd
-Albert Camus

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion
-Samuel Johnson

A woman's heart always has a burned mark
-Louise Labe

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it deserves all the consequences
-Isadora Duncan

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
-Mary Wortly Monagu

I am ashes where once I was fire.
-Lord Byron

By all means marry, if you do it well, you'll be happy. If not, you'll become a philosopher.
-Arisotle

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction, it includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
-Julian Webster Gordon

To believe in anything, you have to believe in it completely
-Walt Disney

Never fear shadows, that simply means that there is a light shining someplace

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
-Mary Wilson Little

You'll never know how good it is to walk in the light till you've walked in the darkness

Language is the light of the mind
-John Stuart Mill

A great man is willing to be little
-Lao Tzu

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
-Marilyn Monroe

Speed limits are for people who don't have lives.
-Mae West

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
-Empedocles

Every exit is an entry somewhere else
-Tom Stoppard

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
-Lin Yutang

Beauty is but the concious sum of our perversions.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds
-Socrates

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On
-Robert Frost

If there was no tribulation, there would be no rest, if there was no winter there would be no summer.
-St. John Chrysostom

Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
-Dion Boucialt