Top 129 Sayings Quotes & Sayings

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

My dad has sayings for days. 'You bloom where you're planted' ties into farming, but it also sums up the ideals and morals that we have as a family by staying in Firebaugh.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

One of the best sayings in tennis and sport is that pressure is a privilege.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

People say 'dream big,' that's kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

For years, I've worn my dainty gold bracelets with inspirational sayings and encouraging one-liners to motivate me in my career. I liked to look down at my wrist and be reminded of my goals.

William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

As a huge admirer of Vivekananda, I love reading 'Sayings of Vivekananda.'

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.

A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.