Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi


ÔÇ£You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with the logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life -- you find out what you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.ÔÇØ
Don Miguel Ruiz

"I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes."

"Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant."

"There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead."

"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."

"All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism."

"How is it one careless match can start a bush fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?"

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. "

Groucho Marx

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.ÔÇØ
Elbert Hubbard

ÔÇ£In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.ÔÇØ
John Churton Collins

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
Ray Bradbury

" I walked a while with pleasureÔÇÖ
She chatted all the way;
But she left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a while with sorrow,
And neÔÇÖer a word said sheÔÇÖ
But oh! The things I learned from her,
When sorrow walked with me."
Robert Browning Hamilton


"No woman in a burqa (or hijab or a burkini) has ever done me any harm. But I was sacked (without explanation) by a man in a suit. Men in suits missold me pensions & endowments, costing me thousands of pounds. A man in a suit led us on a disastrous & illegal war. Men in suits led the banks & crashed the world economy. Other men in suits then increased the misery to millions through austerity. If we are to start telling people what to wear, maybe we should ban suits."
Henry Stewart, London

[Lilith7]

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King

"It's hard to get a man to understand something if his paycheque depends upon him not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
James Neil Hollingworth

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant


"The women I admire did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong & they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes."
Melissa Gilbert

[Lilith7]

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: ÔÇ£No good in a bed, but fine up against a wallÔÇØ.
Eleanor Roosevelt


ÔÇ£Happiness is belonging, not belongings.ÔÇØ

"Work is a toad that squats on my life."
Philip Larkin



"The worldwide slobbering over celebrities who became celebrities by slobbering over celebrities, is a felony against journalism."
Walter Goodman.


"ItÔÇÖs my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
Lily Tomin


"IÔÇÖve got 99 problems & being trapped in a decaying body in a money hungry society on a dying planet in a mysterious dimension may be one."
Anon


A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ÔÇ£Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.
ÔÇ£That depends Sir,ÔÇØ said Disraeli, ÔÇ£whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£He is a self-made man and worships his creator.ÔÇØ
John Bright

ÔÇ£IÔÇÖve just learned about his illness. LetÔÇÖs hope itÔÇÖs nothing trivial.ÔÇØ
Irvin S. Cobb

ÔÇ£He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.ÔÇØ
Paul Keating


"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."


"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."


"He has not one single redeeming defect"
On William Gladstone


"The right honourable gentlemen's smile is like the silver fittings of a coffin."
On Robert Peel.
Disraeli

[Lilith7]

"A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy"
On Robert Peel's government

"Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel"
On Queen Victoria


"There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies and statistics."
On the art of politics
Benjamin Disraeli

"LifeÔÇÖs disappointmentÔÇÖs are harder to take if you donÔÇÖt know any swear words."
Bill Watterson


"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
Josh Billings


"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing."
Quentin Crisp

[Lilith7]

"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am a grown up they call me a writer."
Isaac Bashevis Singer


"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."
Groucho Marx


ÔÇ£I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.ÔÇØ

Quentin R. Bufogle


ÔÇ£The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.ÔÇØ



ÔÇ£As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.ÔÇØ

Sheri S. Tepper


"WhatÔÇÖs the difference between ignorance & apathy?
I donÔÇÖt know & I donÔÇÖt care."
Anon

[Lilith7]

"As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point the wrong way."
Irish proverb

"Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it."
Marc Bolan


"Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. "
Anonymous

"Prince Charles's vocal chords are plainly trying to strangle him. He may well become the first monarch to lose his head from the inside out."

"The baby back ribs were like eating the evidence in a war-crimes trial."

"We all know what ÔÇÿgetting our country backÔÇÖ means. ItÔÇÖs snorting a line of the most pernicious and debilitating Little English drug, nostalgia. The warm, crumbly, honey-coloured, collective ÔÇ£yesterdayÔÇØ with its fond belief that everything was better back then, that Britain (England, really) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty"

"I donÔÇÖt know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties"

"The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnÔÇÖt wishful thinking. ItÔÇÖs the rule"
A A Gill
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[Zurdo]

Courage is knowing it might hurt...and doing it anyway.

Stupidity is the same,

And that's why life is hard.

[Lilith7]

"Time goes, you say, Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. "     
Henry Austin Dobson


"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."    
Hector Louis Berlioz


"Half our time is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."      
Will Rogers


"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. "     
Michael Althsuler


ÔÇ£Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.ÔÇØ
Adam Lindsay Gordon

"The tongue has no bones but its strong enough to break a heart, so be careful with your words."
Anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Work for a cause, not for applause. Live your life to express, not to impress, donÔÇÖt strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.ÔÇØ
Anon

"He which hath no stomach to this fight.
Let him depart, his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
We would not die in that manÔÇÖs company
That fears his fellowship, to die with us."
Shakespeare, Henry V

ÔÇØ He who gives food to the people ┬áwill win ÔÇ£
Lech Walesa

ÔÇ£A straw poll ┬áonly shows which way the hot air blows.ÔÇØ
O. Henry

"You donÔÇÖt need a religion to have morals. If you canÔÇÖt determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion."
Anon


The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before the child is born.
Dean Inge

[Lilith7]

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Shakespeare, Hamlet

"The poor object to being governed badly, the rich to being governed at all."
GK Chesterton


ÔÇ£I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

"If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation and our childrenÔÇÖs futures, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models."
B. Lester


ÔÇ£If any man or woman, able to work, should refuse to labour and live idly for three days, he or she should be branded with a red hot iron on the breast with the letter V ┬áand should be judged the slave for two years of any person who should inform against such idlerÔÇØ
English Poor Act 1552


"A lie once told remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."
Joseph Goebbels


"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace & goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Xmas."
Calvin Coolidge


"Cemeteries are filled   with people who thought the world could not get along without them. "
Anon

[Lilith7]

"Humans are the only creatures on Earth that will cut down a tree, turn it into paper, then write ÔÇÿsave the treesÔÇÖ on it."
Anon

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."
Leo Buscaglia


"Everyone says love hurts but thatÔÇÖs not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts.
Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain & makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt."
Anon

"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone."
Robin Williams



"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

[Lilith7]

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Anon

ÔÇ£My religion is serving humanity and I believe that all the religions of the world have their basis in humanity,ÔÇØ
Abdul Sattar Edhi

ÔÇ£I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.ÔÇØ
Beatrice Evelyn Hall

"Da Deus nozes a quem nao tem dentes."
(God gives nuts to those who have no teeth.)
Anon


"Properly trained, a human can be a dogÔÇÖs best friend."
Corey Ford.

[Zurdo]

When you're dead, you don't know you're dead, the pain is felt by others.

The same thing happens when you're stupid.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£When the powerful ┬áuse their position to bully others we all lose. We need ┬áthe principled press ┬áto hold power ┬áto account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. Thats why ┬áour founders ┬áenshrined ┬áthe press ┬áand its freedoms ┬áin our Constitution ÔÇ£
Meryl Streep @ Golden Globes January 8th 2017ÔÇ│


"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
G B Shaw

ÔÇ£Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.ÔÇØ
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Norvell, dated 11 June 1807

"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work & enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire."
George Monbiot

[Lilith7]

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure & the intelligent are full of doubt.'

"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

Bertrand Russell

"I stand for...
honesty, equality , kindness, compassion, treating people the way we want to be treated, & helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values."
Ellen De Generes


"Some leaders are born womenÔÇØ
Geraldine Ferraro.

"As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind: every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder."
John Glenn (Astronaut)

[Lilith7]

"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, & justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."
Einstein

ÔÇ£We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately ÔÇ£
Benjamin Franklin


"We need to stop looking to politicians to make our world better. Politicians donÔÇÖt make the world a better place. Everything thatÔÇÖs ever made the world a better place has come from inventors, engineers, scientists, teachers, artists, builders, philosophers, healers & people who choose love over hate."
Don Freeman


"People have become educated, but have yet to become human."
Abdul Sattar Edhi



"A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Attributed to various people including Mark Twain


ÔÇ£By the time you find greener pastures you may be too old to climb the fenceÔÇØ
Anon

[Lilith7]

"Some of us think holding on makes us stronger, but sometimes it is letting go.'
Herman Hesse


'Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures & the whole of its beauty.'
Einstein


"Viagra is govt funded (41.6 million per year) If pregnancy is godÔÇÖs will so is limp dick."
(Placard at protest against funding cuts to planned parenthood.)


ÔÇ£And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.ÔÇØ
Thomas Jefferson

"If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women."
Bacha Khan


"You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"
The Doctor

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot

[Lilith7]

"I cannot understand anti abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we donÔÇÖt believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life long poverty show us that. Whatever we tell ourselves, we've only made the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred'.
Caitlin Moran

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
David Henry Thoreau.


ÔÇ£Human kindness has never weakened ┬áthe stamina or softened the fibre of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be toughÔÇØ
Franklin D. Roosevelt.


ÔÇ£Guard well ┬áwithin yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how ┬áto give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.ÔÇØ
George Sand

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£ People who are hungry & out of a job are the stuff dictatorships are made of.ÔÇØ
Franklin D Roosevelt



ÔÇ£When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.ÔÇØ
Dom H├®lder C├ómara


ÔÇ£In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.ÔÇØ
Dom H├®lder C├ómara


ÔÇ£It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.ÔÇØ
Upton Sinclair