Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

George Henry Lewes

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

George Herbert

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

George Herbert

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

George Herbert

His bark is worse than his bite.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted...

Mike Rowe

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

Joseph Joubert

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Murray Rothbard

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

Moliere

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

J. K. Rowling

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

H. L. Mencken

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Grandma Moses

Life is what you make it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

Hudson Taylor

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

Hubert H. Humphrey

I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Hubert H. Humphrey

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

Hubert H. Humphrey

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Hubert H. Humphrey

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Hubert H. Humphrey

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.