Quotes: sayings

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

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.

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

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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

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

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.

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

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

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.