Civilite French Quotes & Sayings

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. — George Santayana

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize. — Deena Metzger

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud. — Chris Gardner

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it. — Zig Ziglar

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives. — Charles Kettering

All ye young people now take my advice
Before crossing the ocean you'd better think twice
Cause you can't live without love, without love alone
The proof is round London in the nobody zone

Where the summer is fine, but the winter's a fridge
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge
And I'll never go home now because of the shame
Of misfit's reflection in a shop window pane. — Christy Moore

The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market. — Freeman Dyson

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. — Winston Churchill

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men! — Jay Leno