Quotes

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. - Douglas Yates

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Elbert Hubbard

A fallacy that makes me glad is worth a truth that makes me sad. - Christoph Martin Wieland

No pleasure lasts if it's unseasoned by variety. - Publilius Syrus

Nobody can contribute to the best of humanity who does not make the best out of himself. - Johann Gottfried Herder

If blood be shed, let it be our blood. Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. - Mahatma Gandhi

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once gaised and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. - Amelia Earhart

Life is a buffet and only the suckers are starving. - Joan Collins

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. - H.L. Mencken

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. - Jonathan Swift

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. - Capt. Robert Falcon Scott

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen

The fair breeze blew, the foam flew, the furrow followed free: we were the first that ever burst into that silent sea. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of life is to live dangerously. - Fridrich Wilhelm Nietzche

The only way to be absolutely safe is never to tray anything for the first time. - Magnus Pyke

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. - Confucius

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity. - Andrew Linzey (1952- )

When I despair...I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it ... always. - Gandhi

Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. - Erich Topp

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others. - Sufism - Abdullah Ansari (Islam)

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act. - Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771)

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. - Confucius (B.C. 551-479)

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. - Horace (B.C. 65-8)

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. - Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. - Milan Kundera (1929 - )

To talk goodness is not good...Only to do it is. - Chinese Proverb

The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted. - Gilbert Murray (1866-1957)

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good. - Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we have left them. - La Rouchefoucauld (1613-1680)

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. - La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)