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Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits. -- Khalil Gibran
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. -- Quintilian
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan -- Frank Herbert
I prefer sayings over jokes. -- Robert Ballard
There are very few profound sayings in the world. -- Jeff Rich
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. -- Arthur Helps
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.' -- Robert M. Gates
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. -- Ramakrishna
I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'. -- Tony Oller
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. -- Armstrong Williams
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. -- John Milton
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. -- George Dennison Prentice
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. -- William Feather
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. -- Eduardo Galeano
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. -- Saint Augustine
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John. -- Alfred Noyes
The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light. -- Elaine Pagels
The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.' -- Said Nursi
The truest sayings are paradoxical. -- Laozi
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience. -- Zora Neale Hurston
All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self. -- Bassui Tokusho
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ... -- Han Suyin
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. -- Michel de Montaigne
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. -- Homer
A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings. -- Nancy Farmer
I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no". -- Richard Branson
Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard. -- C. S. Lewis
Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement. -- Les Brown
There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. -- Robert Breault
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education. -- William James
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. -- Robert M. Gates
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings. -- Robert Breault
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed. -- Larry Wall
The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help -- Louise Penny
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. -- Jelly Roll Morton
We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others. -- Thomas a Kempis
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand. -- Martin Luther
Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you. -- Tony Oller
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. -- Maya Angelou
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'. -- John Carroll
Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say. -- Umar
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. -- Francis Bacon
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. -- John Tillotson
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings. -- Honore de Balzac
A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is. -- Confucius
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide. -- Charles Simmons
Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense. -- Boris Kodjoe
It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it! -- Karen Marie Moning
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally. -- Thomas Hobbes
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain. -- Kabir
If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story. -- Pablo Picasso
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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