Sayings A - Z 2

• "There is only one thing that can keep growing without nourishment: the human ego.", -Marshall Lumsden
• "There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, -Mignon McLaughlin
• "There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.", -George Bernard Shaw
• "There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.", -Bat Masterson
• "There is no sense in having an argument with a man so stupid he doesn't know you have the better of him.", -John Raper
• "Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.", -Jean de La BruySre
• "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.", -George Santayana
• "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.", -Unknown
• "To say what you think will certainly damage you in society; but a free tongue is worth more than a thousand invitations.", -Logan Pearsall Smith
• "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.", -George Washington
• "To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.", -Mark Twain
• "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.", -James F. Byrnes
• "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair.", -George Burns
• "United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it.", -Gregory Nunn
• "We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.", -Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
• "We do not stop playing because we are old. We grow old because we stop playing.", -Anon
• "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?", -Jean Cocteau
• "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, -Eric Hoffer
• "We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.", -Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.", -George Bernard Shaw
• "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are not the best informed as to the events of the last sixty centuries.", -Will and Ariel Durant
• "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down ona hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit again, -Mark Twain
• "When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, -Kin Hubbard
• "When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.", -Bernard Baily
• "When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around.", -Mark Twain
• "When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.", -Thornton Wilder
• "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men.", -Marcus Pocius Cato
• "Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely.", -Kay Lyons
• "You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.", -Jean Kerr
• "You grow up the day you have the first real laugh -- at yourself.", -Ethel Barrymore
• "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.", -Dale Carnegie