Sarason Test Quotes & Sayings

Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it's an ideal we don't all achieve. But in this modern world the great thing is to have an ideal. Achieving it is considerably less important. — Arthur C. Clarke

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. — John Dryden

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I found Him in the shining of the stars,
I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,
But in His ways with men I find Him not.
I waged His wars, and now I pass and die.
O me! for why is all around us here
As if some lesser god had made the world,
But had not force to shape it as he would,
Till the High God behold it from beyond,
And enter it, and make it beautiful? — Alfred Tennyson

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. — Max Frisch

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out. — Charles Revson