Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

 There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ✏ Paul Eldridge

There’s an alternative. There’s always a third way, and it’s not a combination of the other two ways. It’s a different way. ✏ David Carradine

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. ✏ François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld,

The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken. ✏ Antonio Porchia,

If you see the world in black and white, you’re missing important grey matter. ✏ Jack Fyock

A boil is no big deal. On someone else’s neck. ✏ Jewish Saying

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. ✏ Matthew Henry

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. ✏ Brooks Atkinson

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. ✏ Stevie Wonder

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ✏ Socrates

A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first… is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. ✏ E.B. White,

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. ✏ Robert Brault

Retreat, hell! We’re just advancing in another direction. ✏ Oliver Prince Smith

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. ✏ Saint Thomas Aquinas

An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. ✏ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. ✏ Samuel Butler,

All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear hisside. ✏ Mark Twain

The shadows: some hide, others reveal. ✏ Antonio Porchia,

No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ✏ Joan Baez

Daughter am I in my mother’s house; But mistress in my own. ✏ Rudyard Kipling

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. ✏ Joseph Joubert

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ✏ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Notebook L,"

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home. ✏ Robert Brault

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ✏ Andre Gide

‘Tis not the meat, but ’tis the appetite makes eating a delight. ✏ John Suckling,

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The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. ✏ Martin H. Fischer

The enemy of your enemy is your friend. ✏ Proverb

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. ✏ Philip W. Anderson, "More Is Different,"

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ✏ Carl Jung

Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day. ✏ Carrie Latet