Matlabou Quotes & Sayings

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William Kingdon Clifford

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty. — Orestes Brownson

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key. — Rumi

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. — Karl Jaspers

Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late. — David Letterman

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed. — E. M. Forster

But just because something was possible didn't mean that it should — David Derrico

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. — Bobby Flay

Do as they bid you ... but in your heart, remember who and what you are. — George R R Martin

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit — Klaus Topfer

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. — Thomas Hardy

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion. — John Maynard Keynes