There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the clergyman.
~quote about Religion by Victor Hugo
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
~quotes on Adversity by Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
~sayings on Knowledge by Thomas Henry Huxley
Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.
~quotations on Baseball by Roger Simon, 1988
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~romantic french quotes by William Morris
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed
~saying about romantic french by D.H. Lawrence
The important thing is not to stop questioning
~quote about Graduation by Albert Einstein
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
~quotes on Philosophical by Edward Albee
The smart way to knock a chip off a man’s shoulder is to pat him on the back.
~sayings on Emotions by
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
~quotations on Intelligence by Albert Einstein
Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.
~romantic french quotes by Author Unknown
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~saying about romantic french by Abraham Flexner
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
~quote about Science by Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.
~quotes on Writing by Sharon O'Brien
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
~sayings on Prayer by Gerald Vann
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
~quotations on Solitude by Marya Mannes
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
~romantic french quotes by Plutarch
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
~saying about romantic french by Steven Wright
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
~quote about Art by Aristotle
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
~quotes on Risk by Author Unknown
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
~sayings on God by Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
~quotations on Science by Martin H. Fischer
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
~romantic french quotes by Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
~saying about romantic french by Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy
~quote about Birth by Felicia D. Hemas
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
~quotes on Funny Saying by Alfred Hitchcock
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
~sayings on Conformity by William H. Mauldin
This is the type of thing that as a kid you dream about. Something I've done in my backyard a hundred times. And you never know if you're going to get the opportunity to do it
~quotations on Baseball by Scott Brosius
The best mirror is an old friend
~romantic french quotes by George Herbert
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.
~saying about romantic french by Mark Twain
I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true
~quote about Patriotic by Wendell L. Wilkie
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better p
~quotes on Graduation by C. Hoppe
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
~sayings on Kindness by Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
~quotations on Walking by John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of J
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and no moon above.
~romantic french quotes by From a song
Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus.
~saying about romantic french by Martin H. Fischer
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.
~quote about Body by Frederick Alexander Lindemann
Some people hold themselves back because they’re too timid or proud to ask. Asking never kills. Asking makes you appear stupid a few seconds; wiser for life.
~quotes on Self Discipline by
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