Quotable Quotes

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:08 am

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."

George Burns

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:43 pm

The past at least is secure.

Daniel Webster, American statesman

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:04 pm

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know-- and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything

joyce Cary, British author

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:47 pm

Experienice is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.

Anonymous

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:18 am

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason.

Theodore Dreiser, American author

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:54 pm

Whether women are better than men I cannot say--but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir,Israeli prime minister

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:44 pm

Those who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.

Hindu proverb

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:15 pm

People generally querrel because they cannot argue.

G.K.Chesterton, British writer

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:35 am

In much wisdom is much grief; he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:13 pm

many people's tombstones should read, Died at 30. Buried at 60.

Nicholas Murray Butler, American educator

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:11 pm

If all mankind minus one,were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justisfied in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power,would be justisfied in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill English philosopher

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:40 pm

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King jr.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:46 pm

I am a believer in punctuality, though it makes me very lonely.

E.V. Lucas, English writer and publisher

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:48 am

I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like to be taught.

Winston Churchill, British statesman

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:53 pm

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

Rudyard Kipling, British author and poet

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:09 pm

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

bertrand Russell, British philosopher

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:47 pm

too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns, American comedian

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:59 pm

Praise underserved is satire in disquise

Henry Broadhurst, English politician

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:27 pm

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant,pianist-composer-actor

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:14 am

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.

Albert Schweitzer,German-born missionary and Nobel laureate