Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “A closed mouth catches no flies.”

- “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”

- “There is a time for some things and a time for all things; a time for great things and a time for small things.”

- “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”

- “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

- “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”

- “Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”

- “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

- “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

- “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”

- “Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”

- “Every man is the son of his own works.”

- “Fair and softly goes far.”

- “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

- “For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”

- “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

- “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”

- “God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”

- “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”

- “He had a face like a blessing.”

- “He preaches well that lives well.”

Rain Quotes

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

- “A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” – Frederick The Great

- “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey

- “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.” – Ray Evans

- “And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.” – Ferdowsi

- “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

- “Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.” – Dwight Morrow

- “Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.” – Joshua Slocum

- “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

- “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank Howard Clark

- “Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” – Billie Holiday

- “Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there’s the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.” – John McGahern

- “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.” – John Cheever

- “For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.” – Thomas More

- “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.” – Douglas William Jerrold

- “Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” – Michael W. Smith

- “Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.” – Herbert Simon

- “I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.” – Eden Ahbez

- “I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.” – Glenn Beck

Vince Lombardi Quotes

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”

- “Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”

- “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

- “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”

- “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

- “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

- “I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?”

- “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”

- “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

- “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”

- “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”

- “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

- “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

- “It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.”

- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

- “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

- “Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

- “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”

- “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

- “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”

Niels Bohr Quotes

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”

- “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

- “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.”

- “Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”

- “Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

- “Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.”

- “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

- “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

- “If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”

- “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”

- “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”

- “Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”

- “No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.”

- “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”

- “Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

- “The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”

- “The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”

- “There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”

- “There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

- “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”

Don Adams Quotes

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “I am a quick study – I can memorize a script in an hour – but I can’t remember a name three seconds. I’ve even forgotten my wife’s name on occasion.”
- “I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.”
- “I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.”
- “I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn’t until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.”

- “I’ve been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That’s a joke, but not by much.”

- “It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.”

- “Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.”

- “Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.”

Gas Prices Quotes

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.” – Esa Tikkannen, 1979

- “I am having an out of money experience.” – Unknown

- “The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.” – Ralph Nader

- “The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.” – Bill Strickland

- “Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.” – Max Amsterdam

- “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright

- “I figured out Karl Rove’s political strategy – make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.” – John Kerry

- “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

- “It’s better to have beer in hand than gas in tank.” – Unknown

- “Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump. The only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.” – R. Owens

- “A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.” – Unknown

- “If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.” – George Gobel

- “Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.” – Bill Vaughan

- “Walking isn’t a lost art – one must, by some means, get to the garage.” – Evan Esar

- “The shortest distance between two points is under construction.” – Noelie Altito

- “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.” – Lewis Mumford

- “In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder.” – Unknown

Imagination Quotes

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

- “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden

- “Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.” – Joseph Addison

- “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

- “I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

- “I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” – Duane Michals

- “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

- “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Theodor Geisel

- “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” – Calvin Trillin

- “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso

- “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

- “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton

- “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil

- “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led – “Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum

- “Imagination rules the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

- “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan

- “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” – Paul Gauguin

- “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll

- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

- “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey

Funny Quotes

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.” – Spike Milligan

- “My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.” – Jay London

- “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres

- “My inner child is not wounded.” – Shannen Doherty

- “My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.” – Mike Myers

- “Never fight an inanimate object.” – P. J. O’Rourke

- “Never floss with a stranger.” – Joan Rivers

- “Never have more children than you have car windows.” – Erma Bombeck

- “Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.” – Robert Orben

- “Never wear anything that panics the cat.” – P. J. O’Rourke

- “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” – H. L. Mencken

- “O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.” – Saint Augustine

- “Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw

- “Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.” – Robert Orben

- “One man’s folly is another man’s wife.” – Helen Rowland

- “Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” – Laurence J. Peter

- “Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.” – Lewis Mumford

- “Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.” – Samuel Butler

- “Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.” – Chevy Chase

- “People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.” – Ellen DeGeneres

Respect Quotes

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Grim Cris

- “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe

- “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou

- “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou

- “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein

- “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill

- “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis

- “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin

- “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

- “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon

Top Inspirational Quotes for Speeches

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Grim Cris

1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein