Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

"The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the universe."
Peter Ustinov

"We shall not perish as a people even if we get our money supply wrong-but if we get our human relationships wrong, we shall destroy ourselves."
Robert Runcle

"If you keep looking in the rear vision mirror you'll miss the huge wreck coming up in front of you."

ÔÇ£Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our griefÔÇØ

"To err is human to arr is pirate."
Anon

[Lilith7]

A Civil War general a few seconds before being shot and after being told to take cover - "Don't be silly, they couldn't hit a barn door from that distance"


"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad....."
Anon

"We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one."
Tom Hiddleston

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
George Bernard Shaw


"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
      Confucius

[Lilith7]

"In the long run ,we shape our own lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt


ÔÇ£Nothing is more important than empathy for another human beings suffering. Nothing, Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we are going to survive with dignityÔÇØ
Audrey Hepburn


"One doesnÔÇÖt have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy & understanding are sufficient."
Charles M Blow

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
Bob Hope

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Attention is the rarest and purest form┬á of generosityÔÇØ
Simone Weil


┬á"As we attune ourselves more and more closely to the value of passing moments, we learn that┬á we are something of a moment ourselves.ÔÇØ
Julia Cameron


"If you found out you were dying, would you be nicer, love more ,try something new?
Well you are. We all are."
Anon

ÔÇÿIn the affairs of others even fools are wise. In their own business even sages err.ÔÇÖ
Po Chu-i

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived & lived well.ÔÇØ
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"We need leaders┬á not in love with money but in love with justice, not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King Jnr.

ÔÇ£Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say┬á I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.ÔÇØ
 Maya Angelou


ÔÇ£Now the New Year reviving old desires, the thoughtful soul to solitude retires.ÔÇØ
Omar Khayyam

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.ÔÇØ
Vern McLellan

ÔÇ£We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.ÔÇØ
Hillary DePiano

Famous last words
Humphrey Bogart, actor:
"I should never have switched from scotch to martinis."


Ludwig van Beethoven, composer and pianist:
There are a variety of reports regarding Beethoven's last words. Some say the composer, who was deaf by the end of his life, said:
"I will hear in heaven"

while others suggest he said:
"Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est" (Applaud, friends, the comedy is finished)

But still others say that after a publisher brought the composer 12 bottles of wine, his final words were:
"Pity, pity, too late!"


Groucho Marx, comedian and film star:
"This is no way to live!"

Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter:
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."


Augustus Caesar, first Roman emperor:
"I found Rome of clay; I leave it to you of marble." ÔÇö what he reportedly said to his subjects.
"Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit." ÔÇö what he reportedly said to his friends who were with him throughout his reign.

Karl Marx, philosopher:
"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.ÔÇØ
Colin Wilson

ÔÇ£Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.ÔÇØ
Idries Shah

[Lilith7]

"When thinking about life remember this; no amount of guilt can change the past, & no amount of worrying can change the future."
Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab

"My parents taught  me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also they encouraged m e to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is  not taking the adventure."
Brian Blessed

ÔÇÿLet me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ÔÇÿ

'What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Lilith7]

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
T. S. Eliot

[Lilith7]

The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age, you realise how much nonsense youÔÇÖve wasted the time on.
Anon


ÔÇ£Challenges are gifts┬á that force us to search for a new centre of gravity┬á
Oprah Winfrey

"Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace."
Martin Luther King

"A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of about each other."
Anon

ÔÇÿOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.ÔÇÖ
Jean-Paul Richter

[Lilith7]

There was a star danced, & under that star was I born.ÔÇÖ
Shakespeare


ÔÇ£We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.ÔÇØ
Ursula Le Guin


ÔÇÿMondayÔÇÖs child is full of grace,
TuesdayÔÇÖs child is fair of face,
WednesdayÔÇÖs child is full of woe,
ThursdayÔÇÖs child has far to go,
FridayÔÇÖs child is loving & giving,
SaturdayÔÇÖs child works hard for its living,
And a child thatÔÇÖs born on the sabbath day
Is fair & wise & good & gay.ÔÇÖ
 Traditional nursery rhyme

ÔÇ£Dancing is the best medicine that cures all mental & heart & body aches.
You dance, you fly. You dance with passion & love & you will be pretty much closer to your very own essence as a human.ÔÇØ
Eugenia Rakassah

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. ÔÇ£
Jeffrey D.Sachs (Economist.)


"Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you, no one would believe it."
Anon


"Acquire knowledge, it enables its professor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and an armour against enemies."
(widely attributed to the Prophet Mohammed)


ÔÇ£Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.ÔÇØ
Barbara Ehrenreich

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favours not only the clever but the murderous.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£America is addicted to wars of distraction.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.ÔÇØ

Barbara Ehrenreich

[Lilith7]

"When you have more than you need build a bigger table ÔÇô not a higher fence."
Anon


"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
John Bunyan


"The undefined negotiated by the unprepared, to get the unspecified for the uninformed."
Brexit definition, letter to the Irish times


"If we could look into each otherÔÇÖs hearts, & understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, & care."

"Your value doesnÔÇÖt decrease based on someoneÔÇÖs inability to see your worth."
Anon

[Lilith7]

"The moral crisis of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion; its insider trading, obscene CEO pay, wage theft from ordinary workers, Wall streets continued gambling addiction, corporate payoffs to friendly politicians & the billionaire takeover of our democracy."
Robert Reich


"Learn to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else."
Leonardo Da Vinci

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."
George Burns

ÔÇ£The┬á greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Life would be tragic, if it werenÔÇÖt so funny.ÔÇ£
Stephen Hawking


ÔÇ£I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Generally, we admire the thing we are not.ÔÇØ

Stephen Fry

[Lilith7]

"The premise of minimum wage when it was introduced, was that a single wage earner should be able to own a house & support a family. That was what it was based on; a full time job, any job, should be able to accomplish this.
The fact that people scoff at this idea if presented nowadays, as though the people who ring up your groceries or hand you your burgers donÔÇÖt deserve the luxury of a home & family is disgusting."
Detrea

"Also, if a livable wage breaks the system then the system deserves to be broken."
Femoids


ÔÇ£Do what you feel in your heart to be right ÔÇô for youÔÇÖll be criticized anyway. YouÔÇÖll be damned if you do, and damned if you donÔÇÖt.ÔÇØ

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt

[Lilith7]

"Friendship with oneÔÇÖs self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ÔÇÿI lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.ÔÇÖ You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give."

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
Eleanor Roosevelt


"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people taking themselves too seriously."
Robert Weighton

[Lilith7]

"If you can't laugh at yourself Jeffrey, you are missing out on the Joke of the Century"
Dame Edna Everidge to Baron Archer



ÔÇ£Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.ÔÇØ
Einstein

ÔÇ£I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankindÔÇÖs sole purpose on this planet. If youÔÇÖre wondering what I believe our purpose on this planet is, IÔÇÖll give you a hint: It has to do with creating and sharing.ÔÇØ
Bill Hicks



ÔÇ£The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£You canÔÇÖt help getting older, but you donÔÇÖt have to get old.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£When I was a boy, the Dead sea was only sick.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.ÔÇØ

George Burns

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£If we reach the limit of human endurance, if the pain goes beyond the grasp of palliative care; we should have the human right to say: ÔÇ£This far & no furtherÔÇØ & be assisted, with proper safeguards to take such steps as necessary to quit this life in dignity.ÔÇØ
Alex Cole-Hamilton

ÔÇ£I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Humour is reason gone mad.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.ÔÇØ


Groucho Marx






Groucho Marx


ÔÇ£I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.ÔÇØ



ÔÇ£If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.ÔÇØ
Groucho Marx

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I intend to live forever, or die trying.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Whatever it is, I'm against it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.ÔÇØ

Groucho Marx