Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Haunted]

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

[blunthead]

Anonymous vol 5...

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

[omm poppa mow mow]

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
— Woody Allen

[Sundrop]

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
~ Marilyn Monroe

[Haunted]

"The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.
The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together."
-- Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Honor

[Becks19]

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
~anonymous~

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
- Stephen King

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- Thomas Wolfe

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.
- Jean de la Bruyere

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
- Saint Alfred of Rievaulx

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
- Robert Frost

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren

A good book has no ending.
- R. D. Dimming

[omm poppa mow mow]

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
— John F. Kennedy

[Becks19]

The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
- Adrienne Rich

Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
- Anonymous

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
- Pablo Picasso

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine

Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.
- Fredrick Buechner

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
- Henry Ward Beecher

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
- Bertrand Russell

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
- Greek proverb

Come in the evening, come in the morning, Come when expected, come without warning; Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come, the more we'll adore you.
- Irish Rhyme

[blunthead]

Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

You teach best what you most need to learn.
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Ray Bradbury
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together.
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Will Rogers
A fool and his money are soon elected.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

[fljoe0]

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

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