Quotations and Sayings 4
"The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance."
(Ourika by John Fowles)
"Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation
only in the present moment"
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
"It was overheard that the USA Olympic Gold medal skier, Picabo Street is donating the money she gets from endorsements to the local hospital in Denver. They are going to name a wing of the hospital after her. It will be called "Picabo, I.C.U." "
(unknown)
"I've always kinda thought of Earth as the Penalty Planet."
(DJ on KCRW-FM, Los Angeles)
"Murphy's First Law of Infinite Priority: "Whatever you set out to do, something else must be done first."
(unknown)
"Making a left turn in L.A. is one of the hardest things you can do in this life"
(Mack - Kevin Kline in Grand Canyon)
"The Pentagon: four walls and a spare - a monument to Murphy's Law"
(Col. Sherman Potter - Harry Morgan in MASH)
"Homer no function beer well without"
(Homer Simpson - Dan Castellaneta)
"I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just sit at home and play with my breasts all day"
(Harris - Steve Martin in L.A. Story (1991)
"A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle."
(William Faulkner)
"God cannot save them from fools."
(John Muir)
"What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?"
(Martin Mull)
"When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to take recourse in any other."
(Michael Uhlman- Laws Beyond Murphy's Law)
"Absolute Peace and absolute Beauty are the two eyes of the Absolute, which is Being-Consciousness-Bliss"
(Swami Omkarananda)
"The Universe is an infinite sphere, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
"
(Pensées, Blaise Pascal)
"Andromeda! Sweet woman! why delaying, So timidly
among the stars: come hither! Join this bright throng, and nimbly follow whither
They all are going."
(Endymion - John Keats)
"Earth is dearer than gold."
(Estonian )
"Empty vessels make the most sound."
(John Lydgate)
"Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout."
(Ben Franklin )
"Envy is based on an incomplete understanding of the other person's situation."
(George Chapman )
"Even children of the same mother, look different."
(Korean saying)
"E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within."
(Ben Franklin)
"Even though you have ten thousand fields, you can eat but one measure of rice a day"
(Chinese Proverb)
"Every day of your life is a page of your history."
(Arabic Saying )
"Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die."
(Emerson - The Poet)
"Every adversity carries with it the seed of equal or greater benefit."
(Napolean Hill)
"Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other."
(R. Cotgrave )
"Every man has to seek his own way to make himself more noble and to realize his own true worth. "
(Albert Schweitzer)
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
(Appius)
"He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree."
(Scottish Proverb)
"He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself."
(Aesop)
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
"
(Kant - Critique of Pure Reason)
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. "
(Abraham Lincoln)
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "
(Abraham Maslow)
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
(Chinese Proverb)
"A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. "
(St. John Cassian )
"So raise me up, as I am fallen, and summon me, Saviour,
Thou who dost will that all men be saved. "
(Kontakia of St. Romanos)
"Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself "
(Sir Walter Scott
"There liveth none under the sunne, that knows what to make of the man in the moone.
"
(Endymion - John Lilly)
"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
(Einstein)
"Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count"
(Anne Frank)
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."
(Winston Churchill)
"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."
(Mao Zedong )
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
(Unknown)
"Every phase of life has in it some poetry. Every facet of life is aglow with the eternal Energy and Light of the infinite Truth. Every circumstance of life is rich with the splendour of spiritual glory. The whole world is throbbing with the divine Consciousness that is the source, the soil and the fulfilment of all that is. Man's primary duty consists in knowing, and being in harmony with, this all-pervading, all-sustaining, infinite Light of the supreme Reality, Being, Existence, Consciousness."
(Swami Omkarananda)
"May you have warm words on a cold evening, A full moon on a dark night, And the road downhill all the way to your door."
(Mary Engelbreit)
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes"
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
(Henry Ford)
"Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was
suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still"
(Tycho Brahe)
"...Torrent of light and river of the air, Along whose
bed the glimmering star are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine...
"
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
(Carl Sagan)
"May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries
And the breeze blow new strength into your being,
And all the days of your life may you walk
Gently through the world and know its beauty."
(Apache Blessing)
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
"
(Henry Ford)
"Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the
young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
"
(Heinz R. Pagels)
"The perception of the one Life Principle or God, in all, the merging of the personal self in the Divine Self of all creatures, great and small, is the ultimate meaning and end of life. To rise from this world of limitations while yet breathing on earth into the boundless world of Freedom and Beauty, Power and Joy, is the purpose of our brief, but meaningful existence"
(Swami Omkarananda)
"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and
the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
"
(Sir James Jeans - English Astronomer)
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
(Einstein)
"May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding."
(James Dillet Freeman)
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?"
(George Eliot)
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity--everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul"
(Thomas Moore)
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
(Thomas Carruthers)
"Are we not like two volumes of one book? "
(Marceline Desbordes-Valmore)
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never
shows to anybody."
(Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar - Mark Twain,)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
(Derek Bok )
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil"
(Baltasar Gracian)
"Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this Joy, the Light, the Grace, the Power, the Perfections of your supreme inner Consciousness appear in your outer everyday life"
(Swami Omkarananda)
"One who looks for a friend without faults will have none"
(Hasidic Saying
)
"Though the day still lingers, the rose-scattering fire of the evening star already scintillates through the azure sky."
(Willem Kloos)
"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
(Honore de Balzac
)
"Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune"
(Ben Franklin)
"Forethought is easy, repentance is hard. "
(Chinese Saying)
"
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. "
(Bertrand Russell)
"Great actions are not always true sons of great and mighty resolutions."
(Samuel Butler )
"Marriage--a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. "
(Beverly Nichols)
"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try."
(Claude Mermet)
"Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow"
(Samuel Paterson)
"Happiness depends on ourselves."
(Aristotle)
"Great oaks from little acorns grow."
(Chaucer )
"The stars That Nature hung in Heav'n, and filled their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller."
(Milton - Comus)
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
(H. H. Williams)
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
(Carl Rogers)
"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty"
(Sicilian Proverb)
"Wake! for the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light."
(Omar Khayyam, Rubaijat translated by FitzGerald)
"Every pot will find its lid."
(Yiddish Saying)
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
(Anne Frank)
"Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent."
(Danish Saying)
"Someday I would like to stand on the moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say, "There certainly is a
beautiful earth out tonight."
(Lt. Col. William H. Rankin)
"Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone."
(Patrick Moore)
"I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him"
(Carl Sagan)
"Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same
reason, their long beards and pretences to foretell events."
(Jonathan Swift)
"Fine feathers don't make fine birds."
(Aesop)
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
(Winston Churchill)
"Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there."
(To a Skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley)
"How to know God? By being still. How to be still? By practice of meditation. Meditation is the art of being still in body, in mind, in heart, in will, in the entire inner being, and enabling the higher Divine Consciousness in us to have direct, immediate perception of God."
(Swami Omkarananda)
"Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man"
(Thomas Fuller)
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
(Charles Caleb Colton)
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
(Samuel Johnson)
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
(Mark Van Doren)
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures"
(Kahil Gibran )
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit"
(Aristotle)
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
(The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.)
"
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch."
(John F. Kennedy)
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire"
(La Rochefoucauld)
"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often"
(Winston Churchill)
"False friends leave you in times of trouble."
(Aesop)
"Stars in the summer night! Far in yon azure deeps
Hide, hide your golden light! She sleeps! My lady sleeps!"
(Longfellow - The Spanish Student)
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.""
(Bernard Meltzer)
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose"
(Tehyi Hsieh)
"The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship"
( Proverbs 24:26
)
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. "
(Leo Buscaglia)
"Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
(Emily Bronte)
"The present is the only reality and the only certainty."
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
"It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter."
(Marlene Dietrich)
"When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."
(Joseph Campbell)
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
(Socrates)
"What men want is not knowledge, but certainty"
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
"I'd like to think that one day people won't be judged by their color or their gender, but by the things that really matter - their taste in music."
(Murphy Brown- Candice Bergen)
"
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
(Oscar Levant)
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
(William Arthur Ward)
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
(Patricia Neal)
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."
(Horace Mann)
"When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble."
(Mark Twain)
"No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity"
(Winston Churchil)
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
(Alexander Pope)
"Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best."
(Thomas J. Watson Sr.)
"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes."
(James Anthony Froude)
"The more we are conscious of God's presence in daily life, the more intense is the fullness of the joy we experience. God means infinitely more to our existence than the light of the sun means to the plants and trees"
(Swami Omkarananda)
"Many a night I saw the Pleiades, rising thro' the
mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid."
(Locksley Hall - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
"
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once."
(Tallulah Bankhead)
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
(Kahlil Gibran )