He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. (Anthony Powell)
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life. (Malcolm Boyd)
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. (Athenus)
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. (Hellen Keller)
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. (Laurence J. Peter)
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just. (Rose Elizabeth Bird)
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. (Robert Valett)
There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high. (Ovid)
Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. (Plato)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. (Georges Duhamel)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. (Max De Pree)
Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race (Albert Einstein)
By the work one knows the workmen. (Jean de La Fontaine)
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. (Herbert Clark Hoover)
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse. (Chilo)
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. (Albert Einstein)
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. (Robert Frost)