Favorite Sayings I Have Collected
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A Heinlein
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
-Helen Rowland
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
-Alexander Woollcott
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain-
I've never liked philosophers. They make it all sound so grand and simple, and then you step out into a world that's full of complications
-Terry Pratchett--Thief of Time
Man is the only Animal who blushes... And the only one who needs too!
-Mark Twain-
Age and wisdom don't necessarily go together. Some people just become stupid with more authority.
-Terry Pratchett--Thief of Time
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
�Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry-
In the end, you�re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
�Donald Trump-
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
�John Maynard Keynes-
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
�Laurence J. Peter-
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
�Charles Scribner, Jr.-
Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.
�Ronni Lundy-
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
�Dr. Seuss-
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
�Tom Stoppard-
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
�Hannah Arendt-
Hell is other people.
�Jean Paul Sartre-
It is impossible to please all the world and one�s father.
�J. de La Fontaine-
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
�William Shakespeare-
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
�Vanessa Redgrave-
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,�conscience.
�George Washington-
If [students] can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
�Jesse Jackson-
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
�Viscount John Morley-
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
�Alexander Pope-
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
�Rudyard Kipling-
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
�Thomas Jefferson-
I�ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
�Mike Todd-
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
�Benjamin Franklin-
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-e. e. cummings
Having served on various committees, I have drawn up a list of rules: Never arrive on time; this stamps you as a beginner. Don�t say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as being wise. Be as vague as possible; this avoids irritating the others. When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be appointed. Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular; it�s what everyone is waiting for.
�Harry Chapman-
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
�Agha Hasan Abedi-
If you�ve never been hated by your child, you�ve never been a parent.
�Bette Davis -
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
�Samuel Smiles-
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
�Truman Capote-
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
�Lou Holtz-
The leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.
�Clarence B. Randall-
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
�Noel Coward-
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
�Jacques Barzun-
If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.
�Robert Anthony-
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
�Louis Nizer-
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
�Stanislaw Lem-
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
�J.R.R. Tolkien-
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
�Montaigne-
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
�Goethe-
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute�and it�s longer than any hour. That�s relativity.
�Albert Einstein-
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
�John F. Kennedy-
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
�John Cleese-
Man�s inhumanity to man / Makes countless thousands mourn.
�Robert Burns-
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
�Petrarch-
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
�Gerald R. Ford-
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,�Independence now and Independence forever.
�Daniel Webster-
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
�Albert Einstein-
Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground. Faced with adversity, I will persevere.
�Bill Clinton-
There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one�s own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
�Jean de La Bruy�re-
They�ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
�Gen. Creighton Abrams-
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
�F. Scott Fitzgerald-
I sit on a man�s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means�except by getting off his back.
�Leo Tolstoy-
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
�Mark Twain-
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
�George Santayana-
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
�Edmund Burke-
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
�J.R.R. Tolkien-
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
�George Washington-
A friend in power is a friend lost.
�Henry Adams-
The greatest love is a mother�s; / Then comes a dog�s, / Then comes a sweetheart�s.
�Polish Proverb-
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
�Wernher von Braun-
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
�George Burns-
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that�s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
�Ludwig Wittgenstein-
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
�Dean Acheson-
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
�Salvador Dali-
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
�Karl Barth-
It�s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
�Lyndon B. Johnson-
Anywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.
-Steven Wright-
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
-Anonymous-
People so seldom say "I love you" and then it either too late or love goes.. So when I tell you "I love you" it doesnt mean that I know you'll never go, only that I wish you didn't have to.
-Lawrence Craig Green-
Absence is a foe to love; out of sight, out of mind.
-Italian Proverb-
The best way to get praise is to die.
-Italian Proverb-
Only two things are infinite, the universe and stupidity--and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein-
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Jeanne Moreau-
The road to success is always under construction.
-Lily Tomlin-
"Do you know what Paradise is? It's a lie, a fantasy that we create about people and places as we'd like them to be. But do you know what Truth is? It's that little baby your holding and that man you fought with this morning, the same one your going to make love with tonight.. Thats Truth.. Thats Love!
--From the song 'I've never been to me' by Charlene-
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
-Henry Ford-
Women are meant to be loved, not understood.
-Oscar Wilde-
If you're going to do something wrong, enjoy it!
-Yiddish Proverb-
I smile because I have NO idea Whats going on!
-Anonymous-
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats-
This is the measure of true love... When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
-Unknown-
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent
-Jean Kerr-
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are wonderful.
-Juliana Lewis-
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
-Dave Tyson Gentry-
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde-
Time heals what reason cannot.
-Seneca the Younger-
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
-Woody Allen-
Why Do I Love You?
I Love You
Not Only For What
You Have Made of Yourself
But For What
You Are Making of Me.
-Roy Croft-
A unicorn symbolizes the most elusive thing in the world - true happiness- He is a creature fashioned from the fabric of dreams and happiness, too, is fashioned from the same fabric. For some, it can be rent by pain and disaster but never really destroyed. For others, if there is a flaw in the fabric from the very beginning, it can fall into irreparable fragents at the first touch of disaster.
-from "The Honey is Bitter" by Violet Winspear-
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
-Anonymous-
The best don't need rules, and the worst won't be helped by them.
-Voltaire-
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to e heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes
-Walter M. Schirra, Sr.-
Every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their own minds, someone will do it for them
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
-Anonymous-
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
--Aesop--
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
-Kahlil Gibran-
All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allen Poe-
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
-Dorothy Canfield Fisher-
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
-Moliere-
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-Walter Elliott-
Nothing in life is "fun for the whole family."
-Jerry Seinfeld-
Moderation is a fatal thing Nothing succeeds like excess.
-Oscar Wilde-
Love is the most terrible and also, the most generous of the passions; It is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
-Alphonse Karr-
I've loved you since the sun first rose...My love has no shame, no pride. It is only what it is, always has been and always will be.
-unknown-
A saint is not a man who never falls; he is a man who gets up and goes on every time he falls.
-William Barclay-
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
-Henry Kissinger-
Love is not a matter of counting the years, it's making the years count.
-William Barclay-
Escape me?
Never--
Beloved!
While I am I and you are you.
-Browning-
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in th palm of His hand.
-Irish Blessing-
Bitterness comes as a result of real or supposed ill-treatment. It doesn't really matter which.
-unknown-
My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?
-W.C. Fields-
I will never allow another person to ruin my life by making me hate him.
-unknown-
Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
-Louisa May Alcott-
The scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever touching bottom.
-St Jerome-
How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?
-Larson-
Rather you absent than anyone else present.
-unknown-
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
-Andre Maurois-
A mans life is characteristic of himself.
-Carl Jung-
Happiness is a place between too little and too much
-Anonymous-
People never love other people. They love themselves through other people.
-Alejo Carpenter-
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
-David Viscott-
We can accept the unpleasant more readily than we can accept the inconsequential.
-Goethe-
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
-Anonymous-
Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.
-Phillippine Proverb-
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan Pearsall Smith-
The world is constantly threatened by two things; order and disorder.
-Paul Valery-
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin-
A sentimental person thinks things will last. A romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald-
The bitterness of studying is preferable to the bitterness of ignorance.
-Phillippine Proverb-
I am the master of my Fate. I am the captain of my Soul.
-William Ernest Henley-
Wisdom is what many of us don't get until it is almost too late to use it.
-Ruth Burke-
If there is something wrong with society, there is something wrong with the individual. And if there is something wrong with the individual, there is something wrong with me.
-Carl Jung-
Opinions are easy; solutions are hard.
-Sam Ewing-
For taking in the rain when I'm feeling so dry
For giving me the answers when I'm asking you Why
My oh My for that I thank you!
For taking in the sun when I'm feeling so cold
For giving me a child when my body is old
Don't you know for that I need you!
For coming to my room when you know I'm alone
For finding me a highway and driving me home
You've got to know for that I serve you!
For pulling me away when I'm starting to fall
For revving me up when I'm starting to stall
All in All for that I want you!
For taking and for giving and for playing the game
For praying for my future in the days that remain
Oh Lord For that I hold you!
Ah but most of all...For crying out loud.. For that I love you!
--From "For crying out Loud" by Meatloaf
