Moorish Proverb Famous Quotes
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Proverb Quotations
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
Sinclair Lewis
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."
Clive Staples Lewis
"I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead."
Andrew Schneider
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
Russell Hoban
"Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it."
CaddyShack
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
Alexander Meigs Haig