random sayings & quotes

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~Author : Albert Einstein Nice Quotes

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~Author : Jeseph Joubert Great Sayings

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
~Author : Simeon Strunsky No Mean City 1944 Meaningful Sayings

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
~Author : Horace Epistles Wise Quotes

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
~Author : General Douglas MacArthur Motivational Sayings

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Famous Quotes

The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons-in-law.
~Author : Joan Kiser Inspirational Sayings

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty

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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
~Author : Socrates from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Nice Quotes

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
~Author : William Shakespeare Great Sayings

They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it
~Author : Paul Sherer Meaningful Sayings

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.
It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.
It receives but does not keep.
~Author : Chuang Tzu Wise Quotes

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
~Author : Laurence J Peter Motivational Sayings

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
~Author : Alan Simpson Famous Quotes

We never know how far reaching something we may think

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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
~Author : Saint Teresa of Avila Famous Quotes

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow.
~Author : Dr B J Palmer Inspirational Sayings

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
~Author : Belva Plain Nice Quotes

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~Author : Mark Twain Great Sayings

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
~Author : Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Meaningful Sayings

Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow.
~Author : Adam R Gwizdala Wise Quotes

Desiderius Erasmus Wise Quotes

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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
~Author : Desiderius Erasmus Wise Quotes

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
~Author : George Orwell Motivational Sayings

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
~Author : Author Unknown Inspirational Sayings

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nice Quotes

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~Author : Victor Hugo Great Sayings

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
~Author : Aristotle Meaningful Sayings

Saint Augustine Great Sayings

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
~Author : Saint Augustine Great Sayings

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
~Author : Franklin D Roosevelt Wise Quotes

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
~Author : Warren Bennis Motivational Sayings

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~Author : Harriet Famous Quotes

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
~Author : Casey Stengel Inspirational Sayings

The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
~Author : Laertius Diogenes Nice Quotes

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Great Sayings

Ayn Rand Famous Quotes

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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
~Author : Ayn Rand Famous Quotes

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
~Author : James Ramsey Inspirational Sayings

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
~Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nice Quotes

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
~Author : Chuck The World According to Chuck weblog October 14 2003 Great Sayings

Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Meaningful Sayings

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
~Author : Robin Norwood Wise Quotes

'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.
~Author : Joseph Addison Motivational Sayings

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.
~Author : Susan Johnson Famous Quotes

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.
~Author : Robert M Pirsig Inspirational Sayings

Sydney Smith Inspirational Sayings

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What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
~Author : Sydney Smith Inspirational Sayings

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Nice Quotes

The best ideas are common property.
~Author : Seneca Epistles Great Sayings

Mahatma is one whose soul doesn't rest in peace while there are tears even in a single eye.
~Author : B J Gupta Meaningful Sayings

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.
~Author : Jeremy Rifkin Wise Quotes

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
~Author : Frederick Douglass Motivational Sayings

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
~Author : Aung San Suu Kyi Famous Quotes

Latin Proverb Inspirational Sayings

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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
~Author : Latin Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
but has trouble enough of its own.
~Author : Ella Wheeler Nice Quotes

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
~Author : Carl Jung Great Sayings

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Meaningful Sayings

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
~Author : Keith Degreen Wise Quotes

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

Virginia Famous Quotes

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
~Author : Virginia Famous Quotes

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
~Author : Horace Inspirational Sayings

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
~Author : Aprocrypha Nice Quotes

Taxation without representation is tyranny.
~Author : James Otis Great Sayings

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
~Author : William Shakespeare As You Like It Act 1 scene 2 Meaningful Sayings

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
~Author : Raymond Holliwell Wise Quotes

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~Author : Agnes Repplier Motivational Sayings

Mark Twain Nice Quotes

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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
~Author : Mark Twain Nice Quotes

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
~Author : Joe Moore Great Sayings

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~Author : Nelson Mandela Meaningful Sayings

Joy is not in things it is in us.
~Author : Richard Wagner Wise Quotes

What I dream of is an art of balance.
~Author : Henri Matisse Motivational Sayings

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
~Author : Alan King Famous Quotes

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
~Author : Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf Inspirational Sayings

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Inspirational Sayings

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
~Author : Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Inspirational Sayings

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
~Author : Sharon Salzberg Nice Quotes

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Hocus Pocus Great Sayings

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
~Author : Louis Kronenberger Meaningful Sayings

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
~Author : William Carlos Williams Wise Quotes

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
~Author : Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction Motivational Sayings

Francis Bacon Famous Quotes

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It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
~Author : Francis Bacon Famous Quotes

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Nice Quotes

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman
~Author : Woody Allen Great Sayings

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
~Author : Buddha Meaningful Sayings

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.
~Author : Dr Laura Schlessinger Wise Quotes

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
~Author : Anna Freud Motivational Sayings

George Orwell Great Sayings

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
~Author : George Orwell Great Sayings

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.
~Author : Barbara Tuchman Meaningful Sayings

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers.
~Author : Jewish Proverb Wise Quotes

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
~Author : Julius Caesar from Plutarch Lives Motivational Sayings

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.
~Author : Walter Beakel Famous Quotes

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
~Author : Nikola Tesla New York Times October 19 1931 Inspirational Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

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Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
~Author : Soren Kierkegaard Meaningful Sayings

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle Wise Quotes

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Author : Saint Francis of Assisi Motivational Sayings

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
~Author : Jewish Proverb Famous Quotes

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
~Author : Stephen King Inspirational Sayings

Simondes of Ceos Nice Quotes

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There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.
~Author : Simondes of Ceos Nice Quotes

A little more than kin, and less than kind.
~Author : William Shakespeare Hamlet Act 1 scene 2 Great Sayings

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Meaningful Sayings

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.
~Author : Stephen Baker Wise Quotes

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)
~Author : Ronald Reagan Motivational Sayings

Margaret Fuller Wise Quotes

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It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
~Author : Margaret Fuller Wise Quotes

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
~Author : Peter Ustinov Motivational Sayings

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
~Author : Quintilian Famous Quotes

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
~Author : Dr Karl Menninger Inspirational Sayings

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
~Author : Belgian Proverb Nice Quotes

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
~Author : Washington Irving Great Sayings

Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean Great Sayings

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Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
~Author : Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean Great Sayings

People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.
~Author : Henry Ford Meaningful Sayings

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Wise Quotes

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse
~Author : Derwood Fincher Motivational Sayings

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
~Author : Fred Allen Famous Quotes

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~Author : Elizabeth I Inspirational Sayings

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time Famous Quotes

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Beauty holds more worth than gold.
~Author : Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time Famous Quotes

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
~Author : Lord Chesterfield Letters to His Son 1746 published 1774 Inspirational Sayings

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
~Author : Robert Collier Nice Quotes

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Great Sayings

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
~Author : Aristotle Meaningful Sayings

Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.
~Author : CaddyShack Wise Quotes

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
~Author : Ed McMahon Motivational Sayings