Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Franz Kafka

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Erich Maria Remarque

Heaven Has No Favorites

Hey, it's like heaven. We're walking around, and people are snapping pictures of us. People want to come up to you and talk to you. It's Hollywood. It's like you're on a cloud.

Irwin Edman

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

B. B. King

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

C. S. Lewis

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Bette Davis

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

Anthony Storr

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

Bill Vaughan

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Bill Vaughan

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

Bill Vaughan

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

Bertrand Russell

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

Bertrand Russell

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

H. P. Lovecraft

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

James Hilton

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

James Hetfield

Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

Euripides

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

Euripides

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Freddy Fender

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Francois Rabelais

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Our whole strength rests on the validity of [Joseph Smith's] vision. It either occurred or it did not occur. If it did not, then this work is a fraud. If it did, then it is the most important and wonderful work under the heavens.

Horace

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Herman Melville

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Herman Melville

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Herb Caen

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

Henry David Thoreau

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

Henry David Thoreau

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Henry David Thoreau

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

Henry David Thoreau

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Henry David Thoreau

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.