Sayings | Quotes

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

And, “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.”

“Life is just one damned thing after another.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”

But my most favorite remains this one by James Dean “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose. “

“No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. ”

“Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ”

“I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee. ”

“Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. ”

“In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour. ”

“I don’t have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without caffeine!”

“Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. ”

“Coffee sometimes, but normally tea with two sugars and milk out of that big plastic bottle we don’t know the price of. ”

“Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. “

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s quote on sorrow,” A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”

“Authority forgets a dying king. ”

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? ”

“Their’s not to make reply, Their’s not to reason why, Their’s but to do and die”

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

“Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.”

“Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be. “

“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

“Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.”

“The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

“We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.”

“To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

And as Oscar Wilde puts it, “I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”

“A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available”

“In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”

“So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. “

“Why can’t they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, “Who’d you call a faggot?”

“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”

“The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.”

“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
- Sun Tzu

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave…”

“A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. ”

“Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much. “

This is a page that list some famous Cicero Quotes, ie Quotes, Saying, Proverbs and wisdom quotation by Marcus Tullius Cicero.

A saying on advice by Cicero, “Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.”

A Friendship Quote by cicero, “A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

On Books, “A home without books is a body without soul. ”

A Life Quote by Cicero, “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

A Freedom Quote by Cicero, “Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. ”

This is a saying on habits, “Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ”

I find this Cicero Quote very Motivating, “If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.”

“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. ”

To Envy is a sin, and this is what Lord Gautama Buddha Had to say on Envy, “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ”

“Envy shoots at others and wounds itself”

“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ”

“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ”

“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.”

‘Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. “

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.”

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ”

“Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God’s residence is next to min,
His furniture is love.”

“My profession is to always find God in nature.”

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ”
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

“An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.”

Of all the wedding quotes and sayings, I like this quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche the best, “It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

And to all mothers, we need to tell this famous quote, “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“Ah, yes, divorce…from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“The institution of marriage itself strikes me as being in no trouble at all. How many
things do 95% of people do? They should have a Defense of Voting Act. ”

“Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.”

“Gold Medal Marriages: marriages that exhibit longevity, resilience, loyalty, support,
service and durability in the face of challenges and trials.”