Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Bill Crawford

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't...

Bill Cosby

Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Bill Cosby

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Bill Cosby

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Bill Cosby

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

Big Pun

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

C. S. Lewis

As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

C. S. Lewis

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

Aristotle

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

Aristotle

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

Aristotle

A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is to short to be small.

Deepak Chopra

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

Bruce Willis

You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.

Dean Koontz

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Aldous Huxley

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Clifford Odets

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

Billy Graham

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

Alice Childress

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Drew Barrymore

I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?