Does Quotes

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.