quotes

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

- Saperstein, Rose

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

- Madeleine L'Engle

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

- Thoreau, Henry David

The heart knoweth his own bitterness.

- Bible

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

- Michel de Montaigne

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

- Berra, Yogi

Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)

- Heinrich Heine

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

- Fuller, Thomas

10.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

- Yeltsin, Boris

11.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

- Bill Cosby

12.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

- Rogers, Will

13.

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

- Baudrillard, Jean

14.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

15.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

- Carroll, Lewis

16.

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

- Richard Guggenheimer

17.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

18.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.

- Proverb, South African

19.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

- Sir Winston Churchill

20.

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

- Tocqueville, Alexis De