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Saying and quotes page, on this page is a collection of sayings and quotes that I like, or that mean a lot to me. I also put some of my own quotes here that I tried to translate from Dutch. If you have a favorite quoute or saying to add to this page, please send me an email.

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Its food for thought that with every new invention, we first try to use it for sex.
(Hein Pragt)

You cannot demand freedom, but based on trust you can be very free..
(Hein Pragt)

The number of millionaires does not measure the quality of a society, the way it treats the weak and the elderly does.
(Hein Pragt)

Cheating on your partner is actually deceiving yourself.
(Hein Pragt)

A big difference between men and women is that men have other body parts in mind when they offer a shoulder to cry on.
(Hein Pragt)

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along
(Edward deBono)

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns
in order to look at things in a different way.
(Edward De Bono )

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
(Edward De Bono)

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
(Edward Albee)

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
(Brian Aldiss)

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals,
not spewed out by groups.
(Charles Browder)

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
(Mary Lou Cook )

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
(Anna Freud)

The things we fear most in organizations like fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances are the primary sources of creativity.
(Margaret J. Wheatley)

Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum.
The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.
(Robert Wieder)

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
(Mel Brooks)

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth.
Have you ever heard a joke about a father in law.
(Dick Clark)

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
(J. J. Procter)

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
(Chinese Proverb)

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
(Carl Reiner)

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
(Peter Ustinov)

The mind is like a parachute,
it only functions when its open.
(Unknown)

Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be Achieved!
(Unknown)

Those we loved but lost
are no longer where they were
but are always where we are.
(Unknown)

These simple words you can believe
If you will give, you shall receive
So share your heart in all you do
And all good will come right back to you.
(Unknown)

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,
than to take the lead in the introduction of
a new order of things.
(Niccolo Machiavelli, The prince, 1513)

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance.
We don't know because we don't want to know.
(Unknown)

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
(Albert Einstein)

When you stop learning you start dying
(M. Scott Adams)

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
(Oscar Wilde)

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
(Oscar Wilde)

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
(Doug Larson)

A man can be happy with any woman, so long as he does not love her.
(Oscar Wilde)

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.
(Oscar Wilde)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
(Balthasar Gracian)

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
(William James)

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
(Red Skelton)

All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
( Voltaire)

All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy; no man does, that is his.
(Oscar Wilde)

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
(Niels Bohr)

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend; it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friends' success.
(Oscar Wilde)

Crying is the refuge of plain women and the ruin of pretty ones.
(Oscar Wilde)

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
(A. Sachs)

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
(A.E. Newman)

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
(Lena Horne)

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
(George Iles)

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
(Norman Vincent Peale)

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
(Franklin P. Jones)

Experience is the name we all give to our mistakes.
(Oscar Wilde)

Fashion is what one wears oneself; what is unfashionable is what other people wear.
(Oscar Wilde)

For fascinating women, sex is a challenge; for others, it is merely a defence.
(Oscar Wilde)

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
(Billy Graham)

I can resisy everything except temptation.
(Oscar Wilde)

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.
("Yogi" Berra)

I have always been of the opinion that a man about to get married should know either everything or nothing.
(Oscar Wilde)

I like men who have a future, and women who have a past.
(Oscar Wilde)

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
(Rudyard Kipling)

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, rather overestimated His ability.
(Oscar Wilde)

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
(Buckminster Fuller)

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
(Evelyn Waugh)

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
(Marva Collins)

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.
(Michelle Walker)

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.
(Merle Meacham)

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
(Tom Brokaw)

It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.
(Bear Bryant)

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
(Zig Ziglar)

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
(Jenny Craig)

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
(Anthony Robbins)

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
(Theodore Isaac Rubin)

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
(John Ray)

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
( Voltaire)

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
(Oscar Wilde)

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
(Nikolai Lenin)

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
( Unknown)

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
(Katherine Paterson)

People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.
(Peter Drucker)

Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your own.
(Alice Koller)

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
(Brian Aldiss)

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
(Henry Van Dyke)

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty
( they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
(Martin Buxbaum)

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
(Stanley Baldwin )

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
( Plato)

The beginning of wisdom is silence. The second step is listening.
( Unknown)

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
(William Shakespeare)

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
(Thomas Fuller)

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
(Benjamin Franklin)

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
(Charles Caleb Colton)

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
(Oscar Wilde)

The proper basis for a marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
(Oscar Wilde)

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
(Henry Fielding)

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
(Claude Levi-Strauss)

There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
(Charles Caleb Colton)

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
(Mark Twain)

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
(Benjamin Franklin)

There are three things I always forget, names, faces and the third I can't remember.
(Italo Svevo)

There are three ways to get something done - do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or ask your kids not to do it.
(Malcolm L. Kushner)

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
( not going all the way, and not starting.
( Buddha)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
(Bertrand Russell)

Two roads diverged in a woods, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost)

We can only learn to love by loving.
(Iris Murdoch)

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
(Sonia Johnson)

When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you made a difference.
(Bob Dole)

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
(Denis Diderot)

Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
(Oscar Wilde)

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
(Benjamin Franklin)

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
(H. G. Bohn)

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
( Cato the Elder)

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
( Plato)

Women are meant to be loved, not understood.
(Oscar Wilde)

Women give to men the very gold of their lives; but they always want it back in small change.
(Oscar Wilde)

Last update: 12-06-2003

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