quotes and sayings life

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. ~Russell B. Long



The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anais Nin



They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. ~Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, "Illiteratus princeps"



Information should be used as food for thought, not poison to the soul. ~Shellie R. Warren



Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~Ernie Kovacs



Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub. ~Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines



If a neurotic can't stand the heat, he complains about it until they kick him out of the kitchen. ~Terri Guillemets



A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan. ~Pam Brown



Don't argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour. ~Don Rittner



We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ~Lane Olinghouse



Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. ~Author Unknown



Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith



At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb



Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929



Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ~H.L. Mencken



We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963



Maxim: a concisely expressed principle or rule of conduct, or a statement of a general truth; a saying of proverbial nature.



Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.