Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Franz Grillparzer

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

Jermaine Jackson

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Jeff Bridges

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Georges Bernanos

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

George Sand

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

George S. Patton

Most battles are won before they are ever fought.

Jean Racine

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

Jim Hightower

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Evelyn Waugh

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Evan Esar

After wisdom comes wit.

Evan Esar

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

Ernest Hemingway

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

Ernest Hemingway

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

Erwin W. Lutzer

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Groucho Marx

Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter....

Groucho Marx

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

Groucho Marx

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

Girolamo Savonarola

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Harper Lee

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

Horace

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Horace

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Hank Aaron

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Guy Finley

On the other side of resistance is the flow.

Guy Finley

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

Guy Finley

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Guy Finley

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.