Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Ben Lindsey

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Anna Jameson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Alain Rene Le Sage

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Thomas Fuller

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Thomas Fuller

Good is not good, where better is expected

Thomas Fuller

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Desmond Tutu

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

D. H. Lawrence

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Confucius

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

Ambrose Bierce

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Michael Tippett

Nature has different times.

Michael Tilson Thomas

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

Matsuo Basho

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

Charles Parker

He turned and shouted at me not to run. I just had to go. It's not my nature to stay.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

George Washington Carver

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Helen Keller

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.