love quotes sayings

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky



An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination. ~Ralph Seger



Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. ~Andrew Carnegie



Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt



If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. ~Auckland Geddes, The Practitioner



The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries



Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon



Chiastic quotation: see Chiasmus.



The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History



I've just arrived in New York City. What a place! Just smell those skyscrapers. Had breakfast at a little deli on Ninth Avenue. Cheese Danish and a cup of coffee, black as a moonless night. Hit the spot. ~From the television show Twin Peaks by David Lynch (Thanks, Rachel)



Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~William Henley



A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ~Saki



We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. ~Erich Fromm



I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. ~Edward Grey



All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman



A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard



What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1902



Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ~Galatians 6:7



Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? ~Gregory Clark