Quotations about Civilization

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

We pass through this world but once.  Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.  ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.”
~T.S. Eliot

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.  ~Albert Einstein

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.  ~Lois McMaster Bujold

K is for “Kenghis Khan.”  He was a very nice person.  History has no record of him.  There is a moral in that, somewhere.  ~Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

Scott Adams Meaningful Sayings

The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage–Management.
~Author : Scott Adams Meaningful Sayings

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
~Author : Anon Wise Quotes

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When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, it’s research.
~Author : Wilson Mizner Motivational Sayings

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Famous Quotes

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
~Author : Buddha Inspirational Sayings

Happy I’m stupid. You’re smart. I was wrong. You were right. You’re the best. I’m the wrost. You’re very good-looking. I’m not very attractive.
~Author : Happy Gilmore Nice Quotes

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
~Author : Martin Luther Great Sayings

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university … a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
~Author : John Masefield Meaningful Sayings

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
~Author : Richard Buckminster Fuller Wise Quotes

Po Bronson Great Sayings

As I get older, I’ve learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
~Author : Po Bronson Great Sayings

The excellent becomes the permanent.
~Author : Jane Adams Meaningful Sayings

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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
~Author : Edward George Earle Lytton BulwerLytton Wise Quotes

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
~Author : Mother Teresa Motivational Sayings

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.
~Author : Clive Staples Lewis Famous Quotes

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Inspirational Sayings

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~Author : Lillian Hellman Nice Quotes

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great Sayings

George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Famous Quotes

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
~Author : Mother Theresa Inspirational Sayings

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.
~Author : Robert Bridges Great Sayings

That’s the risk you take if you change that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
~Author : Lisa Alther Meaningful Sayings

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
~Author : Margaret of Valois Wise Quotes

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
~Author : Will Rogers Motivational Sayings

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
~sayings about sports by Robert Frost

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
~quotes about Curmudgeons by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~inspirational quotation sports by Barbara Jordan

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops
~saying on Teacher Appreciation by Henry Adams

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
~inspirational quotation sports by Buddha

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
~sports by James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I am with you kid. Let’s go.
~sayings about sports by Maya Angelou

Tis the most certain sign, the world’s accurst.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Famous Quotes

Tis the most certain sign, the world’s accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.
~Author : Sir John Denham Inspirational Sayings

If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more.
~Author : Shirley Mount Hufstedler Nice Quotes

All a man can betray is his conscience.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Great Sayings

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~Author : Kim Hubbard Meaningful Sayings

What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Wise Quotes

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
~Author : J R R Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring 1954 chapter 2 Motivational Sayings

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
~Author : Albert Einstein The World as I See It Famous Quotes

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Famous Quotes

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Inspirational Sayings

A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title –from The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
~Author : Mark Twain Nice Quotes

We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
~Author : Marie de RabutinChantal Great Sayings

The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Author : Francis William Bourdillon Meaningful Sayings

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.
~Author : Douglas Gerald Wise Quotes

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
~Author : Slovenian Proverb Motivational Sayings

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
~Author : Catherine de Hueck Doherty O Magazine October 2002 Great Sayings

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
~Author : Mark Twain in Christian Science Meaningful Sayings

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Wise Quotes

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone
~Author : James Grover Thurber Motivational Sayings

Truth is shorter than fiction.
~Author : Irving Cohen Famous Quotes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
~Author : Thomas Huxley Inspirational Sayings

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
~Author : Dan Quayle 81892 Nice Quotes

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn’t.
~Author : Erica Jong Great Sayings

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
~Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer New York Times Magazine Mar 12 1978 Meaningful Sayings

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
~Author : Cyril Connolly Wise Quotes

If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Motivational Sayings

It well becomes a young man to be modest.
~Author : Titus Maccius Plautus Famous Quotes

Spread the table and contention will cease.
~Author : English Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
~Author : Horace Nice Quotes