Wise Old Sayings [Archive]

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
~Author : Robert E Lee Famous Quotes

Enthusiasm…the sustaining power of all great action.
~Author : Samuel Smiles Inspirational Sayings

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.
~Author : Kurt Herbert Alder Nice Quotes

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
~Author : Erik H Erikson Great Sayings

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
~Author : Plato Meaningful Sayings

Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
~Author : Ralph Kiner Wise Quotes

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
~Author : Zsa Zsa Gabor Motivational Sayings

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~Author : Leon Blum Famous Quotes

I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual I’m too abstract I think too much.
~Author : Newt Gingrich Inspirational Sayings

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
~Author : Douglas Noel Adams Nice Quotes

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.
~Author : Quentin Great Sayings

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
~Author : Aristotle Meaningful Sayings

An act against my will is not my act.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

I was coming home from kindergarten–well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
~Author : Ellen DeGeneres Motivational Sayings

Dig the well before you are thirsty.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Famous Quotes

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
~Author : Turkish Proverb Inspirational Sayings

The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
~Author : Zeno Nice Quotes

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
~Author : Sallust Great Sayings

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
~Author : Malcolm S Forbes Meaningful Sayings

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
~Author : Christian Longe Wise Quotes

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~Author : Jennie Jerome Churchill Motivational Sayings

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
~Author : Christopher Morley Famous Quotes

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
~Author : Albert Einstein Inspirational Sayings

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
~Author : Christopher Morley Nice Quotes

One’s first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
~Author : Clifton Fadiman Great Sayings

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Meaningful Sayings

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
~Author : Brendan Francis Wise Quotes

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
~Author : William Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

 

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

My life needs a rewinderase button. – Calvin
~Author : Bill Watterson Famous Quotes

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
~Author : Voltaire Candide 1759 Inspirational Sayings

We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.
~Author : Bruce B Dan Nice Quotes

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Great Sayings

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Meaningful Sayings

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
~Author : Will Rodgers Wise Quotes

How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
~Author : Robert J Sawyer Motivational Sayings

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
~Author : Father Jerome Cummings Famous Quotes

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat)
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Inspirational Sayings

I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
~Author : Woody Allen Nice Quotes

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Great Sayings

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.
~Author : John Owen Wise Quotes

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Motivational Sayings

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Famous Quotes

Thank God kids never mean well
~Author : Lily Tomlin Inspirational Sayings

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
~Author : Nora Ephron Nice Quotes

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
~Author : Mark Twain Great Sayings

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
~Author : William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Act 2 scene 1 Meaningful Sayings

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
~Author : Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire Wise Quotes

I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, ‘Are you an American’ and merely return the accurate answer, ‘Yes, I am a Canadian.’
~Author : Lester Bowles Pearson Motivational Sayings

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
~Author : Thomas Kempis Famous Quotes

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
~Author : La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Sayings

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
~Author : Will Rogers Nice Quotes

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
~Author : Terry Thomas Great Sayings

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
~Author : R J Baughan Meaningful Sayings

I’m not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock.
~Author : Sam James Ervin Jr Wise Quotes

The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.’
~Author : Dorothy Parker Motivational Sayings

 

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
~Author : Dick Gregory Famous Quotes

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
~Author : Assyrian Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
~Author : Miles Davis Nice Quotes

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
~Author : TH Buxley Great Sayings

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~Author : Carl Gustav Jung Meaningful Sayings

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Wise Quotes

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
~Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein Motivational Sayings

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
~Author : George Jean Nathan Famous Quotes

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
~Author : Phillip K Dick Inspirational Sayings

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
~Author : Martin Tupper Nice Quotes

‘I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.’
~Author : J R R Tolkien Great Sayings

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
~Author : Romanian Proverb Meaningful Sayings

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
~Author : Stanley Lindquist Wise Quotes

Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.
~Author : John Wayne as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror 1956 Motivational Sayings

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
~Author : Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination 1950 Famous Quotes

We’re going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked.
~Author : Charles Eddie Wiseman Inspirational Sayings

I love life because what more is there.
~Author : Anthony Hopkins Nice Quotes

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Great Sayings

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.
~Author : Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air Meaningful Sayings

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
~Author : Anon Wise Quotes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
~Author : Rene Descartes Motivational Sayings

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
~Author : Horace Mann Famous Quotes

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
~Author : Victor Hugo Inspirational Sayings

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
~Author : George Washington Nice Quotes

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.
~Author : Haitian Proverb Great Sayings

The difference between our decadence and the Russians’ is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
~Author : James Grover Thurber Meaningful Sayings

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
~Author : Yasutani Roshi Wise Quotes

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
~Author : Sir Philip Sidney Motivational Sayings