Quotes about Love and Affection

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gasses that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection. Jerome K. Jerome 

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. Somerset Maugham 

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that’s given closer than before; a promise more precise; the sealing of confessions that till then were barley breathed; a rosy dot placed on the i in loving. Edmond Rostand

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, you will consider your best and truest interests most hateful. Euripides 

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. Terence

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it. Cervantes 

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. Emerson

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran

When once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, the maiden herself will steal after it soon. Thomas Moore 

Though a man excel in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jeweled cup which can contain no wine. Yoshida Kenko

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed. George Jean Nathan 

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel DE Unamuno 

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy, and that is life. Jean Anouilh 

Every maiden’s weak and willing when she meets the proper villain. Clarence Day

No one deserves to be called a man whose life is filled only with romance, but neither does he whose life was never touched by it. Theodor Reik 

Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.  Charles Bukowski

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it is not. Rochefoucauld 

There can be little liking where there is no likeness. Aesop

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting point for further desires. Marcel Proust

She who trifles with all is less likely to fall than she who but trifles with one. John Gay 

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it’s fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter. Bertolt Brecht

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. Antonio Porchia 

The old man, especially if he is in society, in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on a woman. Giacomo Leopardi 

The best portion of a good man’s life, are his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.  William Wordsworth

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. LA Bruyere  

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke 

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder 

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes

When the bloom is on the fruit, the charm of novelty is to love; it imparts a luster which is easily effaced and which never returns. Rochefoucauld

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extent into heaven. Bertrand Russell 

Sometimes you know you could almost be a child.  Oh must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing. Lyrics: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Either you have a rival or you don’t. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don’t you must still please in order to avoid having one. Pierre Choderlos DE Laclos 

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope; but what the eternal love may still return, while any thread of green lives on in hope. Dante

Woman was taken out of man, not out of his head, to rule over him; nor out of his feet, to be trampled under by him; but out of his side, to be equal to him, under his arm, that he might protect her, and near his heart that he might love her. Matthew Henry

If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world. Saint Exupery

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. Pascal

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Isak Dinesen 

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement. Lillian Carter

Base men being in love have then nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Shakespeare 

Men may be allowed romanticism; woman, who can create life in their own bodies, dare not indulge in it. Phyllis Mcginley 

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. Jean Giraudoux 

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear. Rochefoucauld

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It’s a crutch, that’s all, and there isn’t a one of us doesn't need a crutch. Norman Mailer  

If one is sure of a woman’s love one asks one’s self if she is more or less beautiful; if one is in doubt as to her feelings one has no time to think of her appearance. Stendhal

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. Saint Exupery   

Better be courted and jilted; than never be courted at all. Thomas Campbell 

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love. Igor Stravinsky  

Quotes about Crime and Corruption

Beware of the Dandy Hound and his silver tongue.

Corruption is not the priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the law and fight crime. E J Kiernan

If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. If not voting could change the system, it would be illegal. Matthew Taylor

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible. Epicurus 

Crime does not pay as well as politics. Alfred E Newman

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to follow. W. E. B. Du Bois

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.  Unknown

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business. Robert Rice 

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance; his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. H. L. Mencken

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot. Woody Allen

As a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree; so the wrongdoer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all. Kahlil Gibran 

If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.  La Bruyere

It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain

You never need think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming and scattering of the horrid little population that dwells under it. Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. Mark Twain

Most vices may be committed very genteelly; a man may debauch his friend’s wife genteelly; he may cheat at cards genteelly. Samuel Johnson 

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young

I don't doubt that we suffer from a plentiful dose of corruption. But I doubt not less that people, who otherwise don't miss anything else can go on living and even prospering well. José Ortega y Gasset

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.  Marion Barry

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. Lucretius 

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Kissinger

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac

How many are there who do not sin from lack of desire or lack of occasion. Joseph Roux

Never leave anything to chance; make sure all your crimes are premeditated. Unknown

With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.  Otto Von Bismarck

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people’s throats.  Howard Aiken

Most people want either less corruption or more of a chance to participate in it. Ashleigh Brilliant 

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe; inactive, pale, and bloated. Walter Savage Landor

The faculties for getting into jail seem to be ample. We want more organizations for keeping people out. Charles Dudley Warner 

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. David Brin.

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.  Oscar Wilde

It’s harder to confess the sin that no one believes in, than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law; and the sin is in relation to the sinner. T. S. Eliot 

Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children.  W H Auden

If you have given a person serious cause of offence, and afterwards do him a hundred kindnesses, rest not secure from his revenge for that one offence; for the dart may be extracted from the wound, yet the smart of it will rankle in the heart. Sadi  

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. Marcus Aurelius 

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates 

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence; sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. Moliere

When I die, I would like to have a picture of Hitler on one side of my death bed and one of Goering on the other. Because then I’d die like Jesus; between two criminals. Spoken by a Priest killed at Dachau concentration camp in Nazi Germany

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.  Walter Lippmann

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.  George Bernard Shaw

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Milton

A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. Thomas Fuller

Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins. John Donne 

Imbalance of power corrupts and monopoly of power corrupts absolutely.  Genji

He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more, and ever bears about a silent court of justice in his breast. Himself the judge and jury, and himself the prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. Alfred Lord Tennyson  

Many a man’s vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare 

Our sires’ age was worse that our grandsires’. We their sons are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Quotes about Cities

Manhattan, New York City on an early morning

I have affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of streets. Longfellow

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle

The urban man is an uprooted tree; he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth. Juan Ramon Jimenez  

London, the great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. Herbert Prochnow

Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers. Jane Jacob

The only real advantage of New York is that all its inhabitants ascend to heaven right after their deaths, having served their full term in hell right on Manhattan Island. Barnard College newsletter  

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Caesar Augustus

Forgive us when we deplore violence in our cities if we live in suburbs, where lawns are clipped and churches enlarge, or in green villages where there are too many steeples. Church text

We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered.  Cleon, Thucydides, III

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. Ernest Hemingway 

Cities produce ferocious men, because they produce corrupt men; the mountain, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. Victor Hugo

The modern town-dweller has no god and no devil; he lives without awe, without admiration, without fear. William Ralph Inge 

In a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. Francis Bacon

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man? Emerson

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote 

The consequences of making this vision a reality, as most now recognize, has been disastrous, producing the shattered urban wastelands that have desolated entire communities and disemboweled some of our greatest cities.  Charles, Prince of Wales on Le Corbusier

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. E. B. White

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. Harvey Cox

The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. Edward Gibbon 

It is one of the sublime principals of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they’ve never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall. Louis Kronenberger 

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in the morning. Cyril Connolly 

God made the country and man-made the town.  William Cowper

I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses; a common possession for instruction and recreation. Henry Thoreau

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. Charles Caleb Colton 

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination. Architect: Le Corbusier

The city man in his neon and mazda glare, know nothing of nature’s midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age old night. Edwin Way Teal 

I live not in myself, but I become a portion of that around me; and to me high mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities a torture. Byron

The modern building like a gigantic machine…. Lifts must swarm up the facade like serpents of glass and iron. The house of concrete, iron and glass, without ornament; brutish in all its mechanical simplicity, must rise up the brink of a tumultuous abyss, the street… gathering up the traffic of the metropolis connected for necessary transfers to metal cat walks and high speed conveyor belts.  Marinetti: The Futurist Manifesto

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.  Samuel Johnson

In great cities men are like a lot of stones thrown together in a bag; their jagged corners are rubbed off till in the end they are as smooth as marbles. W Somerset Maugham 

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in ones judgement of others. Longfellow 

In the country we forget the town, and in town we despise the country. William Hazlitt

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble. John V. Lindsay 

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. Max Beerbohm 

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.  Albert Einstein

A ghetto can be improved in one way only; out of existence. James Baldwin

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. 

In the big city a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. O. Henry

A final dittie.

Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time’s eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth
The Cities rise again.
Rudyard Kipling

Quotes about Children

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. Bob Hope

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons and daughters of the Earth. Chief Seattle

Children are our most valuable national resource. Herbert Hoover

In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that’s just one of the risks he takes.  Adlai Stevenson

True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy, which is as thin a substance as the air. Shakespeare

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travelers or philosophers. Santayana

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.  William Phelps

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.  Ambrose Bierce

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.  Franklin P Jones

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that’s what parents were created for.  Ogden Nash

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. Unknown

He was a modest, good-humored boy. It was Oxford that made him insufferable. James Fry

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.  Oscar Wilde

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. Jason Hunter

Children who never come when called will grow up to be doctors. Children who come before they are called will grow up to be lawyers. James Burns 

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable. Fran Lebowitz

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. James Thurber

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.  Kin Hubbard

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero… must drink brandy.  Samuel Johnson

A child uneducated is a child lost. John F Kennedy

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew whether it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.  Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw

If parents would only realize how they bore their children. George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. George Bernard Shaw

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. George Frost

How do you know when you have attained higher skills and abilities? It is when children ask you, “why” and they understand your explanation. David Becks 

Pity is not natural to man, children always are cruel, and savages are always cruel. Samuel Johnson

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of childbearing out of the center of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women. Margaret Mead

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Proverb

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age regret. Benjamin Disraeli

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children. Dwight Eisenhower

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. Jonathan Swift

Youth is a disease from which we all recover. Dorothy Fuldheim

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children. Kingsley Amis

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Leo Tolstoy

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word. Horace Dyer

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. Ken Watts 

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.  C S Lewis,

Back when I was a boy, it was forty miles to everywhere, uphill both ways and it was always snowing. John Mark

My mother loved children; she would have given anything if I had been one. Groucho Marx

This would be a better world for children if parents had to eat the spinach. Groucho Marx

Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children. W H Auden

This world demands the qualities of youth. Not a time of life, it is a state of mind; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions, and a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. Robert F. Kennedy

Nature fits all her children with something to do. Lowell

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. Quentin Crisp

Get Revenge! Live long enough to be a problem for your children! Robert Hunt

What’s done to children, they will do to society. Unknown

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.  Plato

Oh, how do I know my youth is all spent? My get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went. But in spite of it all, I'm able to grin, and think of the places my get-up has been. Peter Sykes

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. Robert Louis Stevenson

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. Sigmund Freud

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation. The Hindu Code of Manu

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. Edmond Goncourt

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. John Updike

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Nietzsche

Youth and discretion are ill-wedded.  Francis Bacon

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings. Laurence J Peter

Only mothers can think of the future; because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. Malcolm X

How is it children are so intelligent and men so stupid; it must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience; while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence. Lyman Bryson 

One of the most delightful anecdotes in Brian Jay Jones book: Jim Henson, The Biography, he recounts the way Henson dealt with his son, Brian.  At five years old, Brian worked for a week on his father’s program,  featuring the Muppet's.  At the end of that week, Jim Henson presented his son with a check for $50, explaining that Brian had earned it.  He then suggested they go to the bank, where he would set up an account, and begin earning interest.  As a grown man, Brian reflects on this incident with pride in that his father had shown him the roots of both working and saving.  

Quotes about Teamwork

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love. Anatole France 

A fraternity is the antithesis of fraternity. The first that is, the order of organization is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second that is, the abstract thing is based on a feeling of total equality. E. B. White

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and therefore, brothers. Martin Luther King

Politics is like coaching a football team. You have to be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream; it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.  Oscar Wilde

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.  Francois Fenelon

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who love not their fellow beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. Shelley

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgia's, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace; and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.  Orson Welles

Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else. James Rayner 

That segment of the community with which one has the greatest sympathy as a liberal, inevitably turns out to be one of the most narrow-minded and bigoted segments of the community. Levy

Don’t let your neighbors set your standards: be yourself. Unknown

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius

It is clear that the individual, who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.  Voltaire

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. Max Lerner 

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran

There is neither east nor west, border, nor breed, nor birth when two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth. Rudyard Kipling

It has been said that Public Relations is the art of winning friends and getting people under the influence.  Jeremy Tunstall 

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. Edwin Markham 

Be together like brothers, but do business like strangers. Proverb

It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites. Henry Miller

We seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of men. John F. Kennedy 

Only in solitude do we find ourselves, and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. Miguel De Unamuno 

Man ceases to be concerned with himself; he recognizes of a sudden what he forms part of. If he should die, he would not be cutting himself off from his kind, but making himself one with them. Saint-Exupery 

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King. Jr

As man increases his knowledge of the heavens, why should he fear the unknown on earth? As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?  Lyndon B. Johnson 

Though men are brothers their pockets are not sisters. Unknown

The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to brotherhood. Lyndon B Johnson 

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. Somerset Maugham

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone.  Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. Jerome K. Jerome 

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us. Henry Ward Beecher

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze. Horace

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage. Alexis de Tocqueville 

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. Edgar Watson Howe 

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. Thorstein Veblen; 

There must be not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. Woodrow Wilson 

It is easy enough to be friendly towards one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mohandas K. Gandhi

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one’s relations to one’s fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one’s fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings. Cicero

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. Bertrand Russell

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things; and then we shall be very cautious. Pascal

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise. Pindar 

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. Eric Hoffer 

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. Mark Twain

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.  Michael Winner

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton

When the head aches, all the members partake in the pain. Cervantes

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. Proverb 

Quotes about Preaching

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel. Henry Ward Beecher

He that negotiates between God and man, as God's ambassador, the grand concerns of judgment and of mercy, should beware of lightness in his speech. William Cowper

I don’t practice what I preach because I’m not the kind of person I preach to. J Dobs

The first rule of public speaking. First, tell them what you're going to tell them; then tell them; then tell them what you've told them. Joyce Kramer

Preaching has become a by-word for a long and dull conversation of any kind, and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon. Sydney Smith 

Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries. John Donne

Practice yourself what you preach.  Titus Plautus

I preached as never sure to preach again and as a dying man to dying men. Richard Baxter

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. Eleanor Roosevelt

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. Charles DE Gaulle 

A woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. Samuel Johnson

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. Emerson

A good sermon does not share tenderness, love, joy, or security; it only talks about them and the fear of not finding them; unless! Brendon Pullman 

There are many preachers who don’t hear themselves. Proverb

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad. John F. Kennedy

The preacher’s garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. Shakespeare

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be written is musty the next day. Emerson

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.  Voltaire

Humility is a virtue all preach, non-practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. John Shelden

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. Jonathan Swift

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. Shakespeare

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. Emerson

It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick. Thomas Fuller

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. William Faulkner 

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. Harvey Cox

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher. Martin Luther

God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak. Proverb

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C S Lewis

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. Jonathan Swift

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. Martin Luther King

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth. Richard Storrs

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go. Emerson

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.  Plato

What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always. Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare

Finally: Three little ditties 

Mine is a way that is little trod,
I am bound by no sect or creed;
I say my prayers to Nature’s God
In the field where the lapwings breed.
I hear the wind preach, and its Psalms are sung
In praise of the infinite free;
And ne’er a sermon from human tongue
Is half so divine unto me.
                                                 Ammon Wrigley

For the preacher's merit or demerit,
It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer
In the earthen vessel, holding treasure,
But the main thing is, does it hold good measure?
Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
                                                    Robert Browning

Oh Preacher, my Preacher, does God really care?
Are all races equal? Are laws just and fair?
“Boy; here’s the answer, no need to despair:
Shine those new shoes and cut short that hair.”
Oh don’t the days seem lank and long
When all goes right and none goes wrong,
And isn’t your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at! 
                                                              Unknown

Quotes about Prayer

A prayer may chance to rise from whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded. Dante 

We all have our prayer-wheels which were set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven. Learned Hand

Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; I pray for no man but myself; Grant I may never prove so fond, to trust man on his oath or bond. William Shakespeare

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body; the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. Jonathan Swift 

In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in schools will be temporarily cancelled. Unknown

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously. Samuel Butler

More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well. Aesop

Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the double lock will keep; may no brick through the window break and, no one rob me till I awake. Walt Kelly

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands; life hath snares! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach where presence is denied them. Emily Dickinson 

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth; and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, cause there’s b--r all down here on Earth! Song Lyric

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. George Santayana 

Some people pray for more than they are willing to work for. John Billings 

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination. Anonymous 

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. Elbert Hubbard

Prayer is a strong will and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian’s weapon. Martin Luther 

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer. Thomas Carlyle

Affliction teaches a wicked person sometimes to pray; prosperity never. Ben Jonson

What are men better than sheep or goats that nourish a blind life within the brain if knowing God; they lift not hands of prayer both for themselves and those who call them friend? Alfred Lord Tennyson

Marriage is the only evil that men pray for. Unknown

The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being. Samuel Butler

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. Emerson

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius 

The soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. Douglas MacArthur

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power. Norman Peal

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is god whom you must ask to attend to them. Unknown

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands. Tagore

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. Mahatma Gandhi

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased. Voltaire

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain for himself. Epicurus 

Men say they are of the same religion for quietness sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion in all points. John Selden 

None can pray well but he that lives well. Thomas Fuller

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Mohandas Gandhi

How ready is heaven to those that pray? Ben Jonson

Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. John F. Kennedy

Prayer as a means to affect a private end is theft and meanness. Emerson 

The prayer of the agnostic: O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul. Unknown

In prayer we call ourselves “worms of the dust” but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken as par. Mark Twain

Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. Proverb

We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift

I never pray before meals; my mom’s a good cook. Unknown

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go. Shakespeare 

He worships God who knows him. Seneca

Morris had been down on his luck for months, and, though not a devoutly religious man had begun to visit the local synagogue to ask God’s help. One week, out of desperation, he prayed, “God, I’ve been a good and decent man all my life. Would it be so terrible if you let me win the lottery just once?”   The despondent fellow returned week after week. One day, Morris, nearly hopeless now, prayed, “God, I've never asked you for anything before. I just want to win one little lottery.”  As he dejectedly rose to leave, God’s voice boomed, “Morris, at least meet me halfway on this. Buy a ticket!”  Unknown

Quotes about Saints and Sinners

Quotes about Saints and Sinners

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones. Nathaniel Howe

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde

Saintliness is also a temptation. Jean Anouilh 

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. Santayana 

The ordinary life of men is like that of the saints. They all seek their satisfaction, and differ only in the object in which they place it; they call those their enemies who hinder them. Pascal 

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. George Orwell

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. Emerson

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Alexander Pope

I don't believe the devil would give half as much for the services of a sinner as he would for those of one of these folks that are always doing virtuous acts in a way to make them unpleasing. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sinning is the best part of repentance, and being sorry is of no consequence. Gracie Fields

A saint is a dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. Eric Hoffer

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees. William Cowper

“I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool” said my lawyer. I replied “Is there a difference?”  Frank Lloyd Wright

My respect for Jesus Christ arises from the fact that he seems to have been the most virtuous inhabitant of Planet Earth. But even educated Christians are frustrated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure of Jesus because of the undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural record. Steve Allen

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. George Santayana

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious “bad man” is the worst of all. C S Lewis

There’s no saint like a reformed sinner. Mark Twain

The seven deadly sins of food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. George Bernard Shaw

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car mechanic. Martin Quin  

Hate the sin and love the sinner.  Mahatma Gandhi

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. Ambrose Bierce

But what my power might else exact, like one whom having into truth, by telling of it.  Made such a sinner of his memory, to credit his own lie. Shakespeare

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.  Oscar Wilde

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense. Hurting yourself is not sinful; just stupid. Lazarus Long

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.  Anatole France

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.  Thomas Ybarra

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.  Josh Billings

Here lies a man with sundry flaws and numerous Sins upon his head; we buried him today because as far as we can tell, he’s dead. The epitaph of P. D. Bach

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.  St. Augustine