sayings by famous people

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

pichunter01 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:38:42 +0000

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings
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Writing only leads to more writing.
~Author : Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
~Author : Josh Billings Sayings

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
~Author : Saint Jerome Quotes

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
~Author : Mark Russell Sayings

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
~Author : Anna Freud Quotes

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

pichunter01 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:38:02 +0000

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
~Author : GK Chesterton Quotes
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
~Author : Aesop Sayings

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
~Author : Elias Schwartz Quotes

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
~Author : Cyril Connolly Enemies of Promise 1938 Sayings

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
~Author : HL Mencken Quotes

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
~Author : Jack London The Call of the Wild Sayings

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
~Author : Sydney Smith Quotes

A good home must be made, not bought.

pichunter01 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:37:19 +0000

A good home must be made, not bought.
~Author : Joyce Maynard Domestic Affairs Sayings

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Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker … If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
~Author : Patricia Roberts Harris Quotes

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
~Author : Albert Einstein Sayings

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Quotes

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
~Author : Mark Twain Sayings

Great madness quotes and Wise madness sayings

pichunter01 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:37:35 +0000

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
~good quotes about Genius of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On Tranquillity of the Mind, Moral Essays
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Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
~famous sayings on Math by Alfred North Whitehead

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
~motivational quotations on Sanity by Robin Williams

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
~wise madness sayings by Horace, Epistles

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
~saying by Don Quixote

luck sayings by famous people

pichunter01 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:15:22 +0000

My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
~luck sayings by Duffy Daugherty
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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work
~inspirational sayings about Adversity quotes by Harry Golden

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
~luck quotes by Garrison Keillor

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It’s a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can’t beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can’t beat anyone.
~famous quotes about Poker by Lou Krieger

George Eliot Quotes & Quotations

pichunter01 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:22:56 +0000

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot
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And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory. – George Eliot

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities, a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces, a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means, one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. – George Eliot

A woman’s hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. – George Eliot

George Bernard Shaw Quotes & Quotations

pichunter01 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:19:28 +0000

How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms. – George Bernard Shaw
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You see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream things as they never were and ask, ‘Why not?’ [Back to Methuselah] – George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. – George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that it is his duty. – George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. – George Bernard Shaw

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don’t like beer. – George Bernard Shaw

Sincerity Sayings & Quotes

pichunter01 — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:30:04 +0000

The hand that rounded Peter’s dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He build-ed better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. – Jean Rostand

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth. When perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. – Tacitus

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. – Samuel Johnson

To me, the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject. – Albert Einstein

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. – Ezra Pound

Sorrow Sayings & Quotes

pichunter01 — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:29:21 +0000

Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child! – Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. – Henry Louis Mencken

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. – Joseph Rudyard Kipling

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. – Confucius

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. – Mohandas K. ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi

meaningful words and sayings

pichunter01 — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:14:56 +0000

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
~sayings about life by Marty Bucella

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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners – let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
~quotes about Hypocrisy by Aldous Huxley

Statistics can be made to prove anything – even the truth.
~inspirational life quotes by Author Unknown

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
~saying on Animal Rights by Leo Rosten

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
~inspirational life quotes by James Buckham

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is – a vice?
~life by Friedrich Nietzsche, alluding to the proverb Idleness is the beginning of all vices