Alcohol Quotes and Sayings

Alcohol Quotes

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. ~Author Unknown

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. ~John Marcellus Huston

If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi. ~Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker

Draft beer, not people. ~Author Unknown

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity. ~Author Unknown

Wine is bottled poetry. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic. ~Author Unknown

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! ~William Shakespeare, Othello

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. ~Raymond Chandler

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while. ~Joseph Schenck

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ~Lady Astor

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." ~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ~W.C. Fields

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. ~Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. ~Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, Fourth Series, 1924

Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside. ~Author Unknown

You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps. ~Author Unknown

Here's to a long life and a merry one

A quick death and an easy one

A pretty girl and an honest one

A cold beer and another one!

~Author Unknown

I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it. ~Stonewall Jackson

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. ~Jack Handey

When the wine is in, the wit is out. ~Proverb

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ~Frank Sinatra

What's drinking?

A mere pause from thinking!

~George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. ~W.C. Fields

Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902

 

   

 

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of Mind"

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. ~Dave Barry

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. ~Robert Benchley

Wine is how classy people get wasted. ~Author Unknown

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on. ~Oscar Levant

Remember: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser. ~Author Unknown

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. ~Graham Greene

I'll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, "Ceasefire," 1973

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness — or so good as drink. ~Lord Chesterton

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. ~Jean Kerr

We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good. ~Horace Hutchinson

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

It's like an angel crying on your tongue. ~The Mentalist, "My Bloody Valentine," written by Bruno Heller and Tom Szentgyorgyi, spoken by the character Patrick Jane, about alcohol

Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink. ~Author Unknown

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ~Samuel Johnson

Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle. ~Big Bang Theory, "The Agreement Dissection" (season 4, episode 21, original airdate April 28, 2011), written by Lorre, Prady, Molaro, Kaplan, Goetsch, and Gorodetsky, spoken by the character Sheldon Cooper

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. ~George Burns

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak

In dog beers, I've only had one. ~Author Unknown

The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, translated from French by Kendall Warren

Let me advise you, Madam, leave off your damn'd adulterated water, your tea, and take to wine. It will paint your face better than vermilion, and put more honesty in your heart than all the sermons you can read. ~Henry Fielding

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck. ~Author Unknown

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ~George Bernard Shaw

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy, I've done it a thousand times. ~W.C. Fields

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party. ~Ron White

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. ~William Butler Yeats

Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. ~Author Unknown

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin. ~P.G. Wodehouse

[H]uman feet are conspicuously absent from beer making. ~Steve Mirsky, "Ale's Well with the World," Scientific American, May 2007

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her. ~W.C. Fields

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more. ~H.L. Mencken

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. ~P.J. O'Rourke

Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. ~Homer Simpson

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? ~Jack Handey

The drunk mind speaks the sober heart. ~Author Unknown

There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom. ~Terri Guillemets

Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill. #Gewurztraminer ~Steve Miller, www.born-today.com/Choose_bDay.htm

I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver. ~Phil Harris

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ~Seneca

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. ~Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: Some Confessions and Contradictions, 2010

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. ~Kin Hubbard

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity. ~Abraham Lincoln, address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, 22 February 1842

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. ~Dave Barry

I drink only to make my friends seem interesting. ~Don Marquis

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. ~Plato

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. ~Robert Heinlein

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine? ~Isak Dinesen

I'd prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. ~Frank Nicholson, attributed

Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini? ~Robert Benchley

I don't get drunk, I get awesome. ~Author Unknown

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk. ~Rita E. Torres

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ~Henny Youngman

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ~Henny Youngman

A drunken man is fitly named: he has drank, till he is drunken: the wine swallows his consciousness, and it sinks therein. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~Winston Churchill

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink. ~Mark Twain, Note-Book, 1935

Teetotalers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. ~W.H. Davies

Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. ~Ambrose Bierce

Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink. ~Seán Ó Faoláin

Take life with a grain of salt, a slice of lime, and a shot of tequila. ~Author Unknown

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. ~Knute Rockne

Candy is dandy

But liquor is quicker.

~Ogden Nash, Reflection on Ice-Breaking

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~Ovid

First waft, the landscape ahead flashes before me

First sip, I stumble gently over the threshold

Each sip, one more step into another world

Tentative steps, then bold, then giddy skipping along the path,

One more sip....

~Terri Guillemets, "Red Wine"

Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life. ~Author Unknown

Health — what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. ~Phyllis Diller

[O]ne sip of this

Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight

Beyond the bliss of dreams.

~John Milton

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

I quote my soul

I quote my heart

But sometimes I just quote the wine.

~Terri Guillemets

Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. ~From the movie Arthur

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink? ~Author Unknown

      "What sleep!" I said. "Surely this man does not dream.... A thousand gnawing cares, a thousand mortal sorrows await his return to consciousness; nevertheless, this evening he had a piece of money in his pocket, he entered a tavern where he purchased oblivion....."

      And I... I do not sleep, I who have enough in my pocket at this moment to purchase sleep for a year; I am so proud and so foolish that I dare not enter a tavern, and I do not understand that if all unfortunates enter there, it is in order that they may come out happy. Oh! God! the juice of a grape crushed under the foot suffices to dissipate the deepest sorrow and to take all the invisible threads that the fates weave about our pathway. We weep like women, we suffer like martyrs; in our despair it seems that the world is crumbling under our feet and we sit down in our tears as did Adam at Eden's gate. And in order to cure our wound we have but to make a movement of the hand and moisten our throats. How pitiable our grief since it can be thus assuaged. We are surprised that Providence does not send angels to grant our prayers; it need not take the trouble, for it has seen our woes, it knows our desires, our pride and bitterness, the ocean of evil that surrounds us, and is content to hang a small black fruit along our paths.

      Thus, inspired by a fierce joy, I set out in quest of a tavern. As it was past midnight some were closed; that put me in a fury. "What!" I cried, "even that consolation is refused me!" I ran hither and thither knocking at the doors of taverns crying: "Wine! Wine!"

      At last I found one open; I called for a bottle and without caring whether it was good or bad I gulped it down; a second followed and then a third. I dosed myself as with medicine, and I forced the wine down as though it had been prescribed by a physician to save my life.

      The heavy fumes of the liquor, which was doubtless adulterated, mounted to my head. As I had gulped it down at a breath, drunkenness seized me promptly; I felt that I was becoming muddled, then I experienced a lucid moment, then confusion followed. Then consciousness left me, I leaned my elbows on the table and said adieu to myself. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, translated from French by Kendall Warren

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. ~James Thurber

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat — in other words, turn you into an adult. ~P.J. O'Rourke

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy. ~Terri Guillemets

Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey. ~"Pappy" Maverick, in Maverick

Advertising Quotes and Sayings

Advertising Quotes

With no ads, who would pay for the media? The good fairy? ~Samuel Thurm

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~Steuart Henderson Britt

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown

And there is no question but that you can’t sustain a mood, a dramatic mood of any particular kind, when at the end of the climactic moment of the scene, out come a couple of dancing rabbits with toilet paper. ~Rod Serling, quoted in Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Plays by Alan B. Howes, 1968; various wordings exist, including "How can you put on a meaningful drama or documentary that is adult, incisive, probing, when every fifteen minutes the proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper?" ~Rod Serling, speech at Ithaca College (New York), quoted in Reader’s Digest, vol.121, 1982

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. ~Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985

I think that I shall never see

A billboard lovely as a tree.

Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,

I’ll never see a tree at all.

~Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown’s Book of Political Quotations, 1982

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. ~David Ogilvy

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ~Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media’s Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974

As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ~George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it. ~Will Rogers

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~George Orwell

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ~Norman Douglas, South Wind

Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. ~Hartman Jule

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~Bill Cosby

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. ~J.B. Priestley

 

   

 

So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. ~Jason Love

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. ~Edgar A. Shoaff

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein

Advertising is only another form of statistics. ~Hartman Jule

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. ~Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. ~B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations, 1992

I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. ~Colin McEnroe

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn’t danced on TV. ~Erma Bombeck

Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson

History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."  ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988

When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~Printers’ Ink, 27 May 1915

Don’t tell my mother I work in an advertising agency — she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. ~Jacques Seguela

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure. ~Douglas Adams

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ~Louis Kronenberger

If you don’t find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. ~Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer’s Guide, 1897

Action Quotes and Sayings

Action Quotes

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke

Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown

The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall

Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway

Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. ~Zig Ziglar

Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

      Well-matured and well-disciplined talent is always sure of a market, provided it exerts itself; but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought for. There is a good deal of cant, too, in the whining about the success of forward and impudent men, while men of retiring worth are passed over with neglect. But it happens often that those forward men have that valuable quality of promptness and activity, without which worth is a mere inoperative property.

      A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Endeavor to make your talents convertible to ready use, prompt for the occasion, and adapted to the ordinary purposes of life; cultivate strength rather than gracefulness; in our country it is the useful, not the ornamental, that is in demand.

      ~Washington Irving, letter to Pierre Paris Irving (nephew), 1824 December 7th [the dog/lion line being a less fatal twist of Ecclesiastes 9:4 —te??¡?g]

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~Author Unknown

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke

Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton

If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ~Maria Edgeworth

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960

Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez

Doing things is not the same as getting things done. ~Jared Silver, jaredsilver.name (@JaredSilver)

 

   

 

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ~John McPhee

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell. ~Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson

A nod,

a bow,

and a tip of the lid

to the person

who coulda

and shoulda

and did.

~Robert Brault, "A Poem Missing the Word Woulda," rbrault.blogspot.com

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford

When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable. ~Greg Anderson

What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb

One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~Mark Twain

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~James Baldwin

Action is taking the first step. Action is climbing the hill. Action combined with desire, harmonious intent, and undoubting yesfulness is invincible. Hallelujah! ~Terri Guillemets

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh

Now and then it’s good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate

When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey

The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock

When it seems that something can’t be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~Lewis Cass

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge

Education Quotes and Sayings

Education Quotes

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound, "The Instructor: II," Chapter Eight, ABC of Reading, 1934

Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~Martin H. Fischer

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ~Tallulah Bankhead

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana

 

   

 

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong. ~R. Baker

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The True Function and Value of Criticism; With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing: A Dialogue," The Nineteenth Century, July 1890 (Gilbert speaking)

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~G.K. Chesterton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education! ~Grant Allen, 1894, commonly attributed with various wordings to Mark Twain (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)

Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ~Martin H. Fischer

A man must serve his time to every trade,

Save censure—critics all are ready made.

Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote

With just enough learning to misquote...

~Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire," 1809

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An "education" that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must "teach" by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny. ~Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, September 1982

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. ~Richard Yates

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ~Al McGuire

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes — incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~Brander Matthews

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ~Heinrich Heine

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." ~Peter Brodie

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey

Who knows the difference between education and training? For those of you with daughters, would you rather have them take sex education or sex training? Need I say more? ~Dennis Rubin

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. ~George Boas

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~Michel de Montaigne

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H. Fischer

It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~George Santayana

The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963

You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ~Will Rogers

My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." ~Thomas L. Friedman

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot

Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Ariel and Will Durant

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Mandell Creighton

If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail

Family Quotes and Sayings

Family Quotes

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller

The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead

Families are like fudge — mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb

Blood’s thicker than water, and when one’s in trouble

Best to seek out a relative’s open arms.

~Author Unknown

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard

 

   

 

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~Herbert Prochnov

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford

Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing. ~Donna Hedges

’Ohana means family — no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten. ~Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets

The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie — not perfect but who’s complaining? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. ~Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact

In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb

Family is just accident.... They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. ~Marsha Norman

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~Lee Iacocca

Friends are God’s apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this — animated, but collateral. ~Rose Macaulay

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable — each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families — that they are least two-thirds incontinent. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt

There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife. ~Hitopadesa

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap. ~Fred Allen

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people — no mere father and mother — as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck