Motley Fool Stock Quotes & Sayings

Discernment is trust put into practice. — Peter Santos

The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine

I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression. — Alix Kates Shulman

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity. — Trevor Nunn

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. — Sydney J. Harris

You'll never know if it's possible, unless you try it. — Brenda Lee

I'm not interested in what you know," said Herod. "I'm interested in watching you scream."
"Then you're going to be disappointed." "We'll see," said Herod with a smile. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Mediocrity is underrated. — Mary-Louise Parker

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius

Convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain. — Aesop

The deepwood is vanished in these islands
much, indeed, had vanished before history began
but we are still haunted by the idea of it. The deepwood flourishes in our architecture, art and above all in our literature. Unnumbered quests and voyages have taken place through and over the deepwood, and fairy tales and dream-plays have been staged in its glades and copses. Woods have been a place of inbetweenness, somewhere one might slip from one world to another, or one time to a former: in Kipling's story 'Puck of Pook's Hill,' it is by right of 'Oak and Ash and Thorn' that the children are granted their ability to voyage back into English history. — Robert Macfarlane

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig Von Mises

I don't mind not being cool. — Chris Martin

In order to retain a certain respect for sausages and laws, one must not see them being made. — Otto Von Bismarck

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. — Samuel Johnson