Quotes

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. - William James

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. - L. E. Landon

He that wrestled with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Burke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. - Woodrow Wilson

The more noise a man or a motor makes the less power there is available. - W. R. McGeary

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. - Pascal

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. - Buddha

In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. - Adam Smith

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. - Honore de Balzac

No one grows old by living--only by losing interest in living. - Marie Beynon Ray

Where there is unity there is always victory. - Publilius Syrus

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile. - Mary Beard

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun. - Thomas Alva Edison

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers. - Nikita Khrushchev

The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind. - G. Young

The man who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato. The only good belonging to him is underground. - Sir Thomas Overbury

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - J. Paul Getty

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. - Galileo

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. - Cicero

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. - Aldous Huxley

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. - Benjamin Disraeli

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. - Sir William Preece

The art of acting consists of keeping people from coughing. - Sir Ralph Richardson

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C. Clarke

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. - Benjamin Franklin

Perfection, then, is finally achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de St. Exupry

Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation. - John Tudor

Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - Vladimir Nabokov

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. - Kathleen Norris

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Winston Churchill

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. - Blaise Pascal