Quotes and Sayings
I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.Casey Stengel
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.Henry David Thoreau
All men think all men are mortal but themselves.Edward Young
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.Bill Peterson, football coach
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.Alexander Pope
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.Joe Moore
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket.Frank McKinney Hubbard
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
Water generally flows downhill in this area.Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.Mark Twain
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.Alphonse Ka
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
A good book has no ending.R. D. Cumming
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.Alfred Montapert
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.Cicero
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.Aesop
It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.Latin Prove
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
What difference does it make how much you have What you do not have amounts to much more.Seneca
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.Seneca
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.Horace
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork.Stanislaw Lec
The man for whom law exists - - The man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.Henry David Thoreau
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.W. S. Gilbert
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.Casey Stengel
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.Horace
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
