Miscellaneous Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

99,217 Miscellaneous Quotes
“My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want--for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.”
Chavalier Jackson Quotes
“Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.”
William H. Welch Quotes
“The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.”
John Shaw Billings Quotes
“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure of Franchard.”
William Feather Quotes
“Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
Ernie Kovacs Quotes
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
Calvin Trillin Quotes
“Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.”
Ben Hecht Quotes
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
Fran Lebowitz Quotes
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.”
Alan Paton Quotes
“Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.”
Alan Paton Quotes
“What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?”
Alan Paton Quotes
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler Quotes
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
Frank Herbert Quotes
“Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.”
H. W. Longfellow Quotes
“You would attain to the divine perfection....”
H. W. Longfellow Quotes
“If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
J. Danforth Quayle Quotes
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