Sayings that make you Stop and Think

Sayings that make you Stop and Think

1. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."   George Carlin 
   
   
2. We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.   Tom Stoppard. 
   
   
3. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.   Samuel Butler 
   
   
4. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.   Mark Twain 
   
   
5. Politeness, n.  The most acceptable hypocrisy.   Ambrose Bierce 
   
   
6. The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.   James Baldwin 
   
   
7. The least of learning is done in the classrooms.   Thomas Merton 
   
   
8. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.   Alfred Lord Tennyson 
   
   
9. Art is science made clear.   Jean Cocteau 
   
   
10. The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.   Benjamin Disraeli 
    
    
11. The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.   Helen Rowland 
    
    
12. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.   John Kenneth Galbraith 
    
    
13. The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.   Jane Wagner 
    
    
14. Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.   Fran Lebowitz 
    
    
15. You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.   Michael Pritchard