 
"The Best Ten Thousand Quotes"
part 2

Copyright 2016 Eric Landa

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Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading this book "The BEST ten thousand quotes" part 2.

This second book contains another ten thousand quotes from both famous and ordinary people covering a wide variety of things. And as in part 1, they'll make your face frown, your mouth smile and probably make your fingers scratch your head every now and then.

Thank you for downloading this book, I hope you'll enjoy it!

Eric Landa (www.ericlanda.com)
Table of Content

10001 - 11000 Quotes by: Steve Prefontaine, Carl Sandburg, Vincent Van Gogh and many others

11001 - 12000 Quotes by: Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad and many others

12001 - 13000 Quotes by: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Stalin and many others

13001 - 14000 Quotes by: Oscar Wilde, Ella Wheeler, Bill Cosby and many others

14001 - 15000 Quotes by: Albert Einstein, Gore Vidal, Henry Louis Mencken and many others

15001 - 16000 Quotes by: Gustave Flaubert, Edna Ferber, William Faulkner and many others

16001 - 17000 Quotes by: Herbert Clark Hoover, Leonard Hodgson and many others

17001 - 18000 Quotes by: Peter Marshall, Christopher Marlowe, Mary Marx and many others

18001 - 19000 Quotes by: Dutch Proverbs, Arab Proverbs, American Proverbs and many others

19001 - 20000 Quotes by: Arthur Schopenhauer, George Sand, William Safire and many others

#10001

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I?m a German, and Germany will say that I'm a Jew. Albert Einstein

#10002

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing. Gamel Abdel Nasser

#10003

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. Benjamin Franklin

#10004

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

#10005

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. Mahtma Gandhi

#10006

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. Adolf Hitler, His 3rd Public Speech After taking Power.

#10007

A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul. Elizabeth Grymeston

#10008

Friendship improves happiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)

#10009

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility. John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

#10010

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter. Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

#10011

I felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."

#10012

The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently. Bill Bowerman

#10013

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling

#10014

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift. Steve Prefontaine

#10015

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. Steve Prefontaine

#10016

If you have a body, you are an athlete. Bill Bowerman

#10017

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000-meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. Steve Prefontaine

#10018

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10019

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. Publilius Syrus

#10020

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. Spike Milligan, (1918 - 2002)

#10021

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause. William James

#10022

The life of the law has not been logic but experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10023

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams. Carl Sandburg

#10024

For I dip into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be. Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

#10025Beauty fades; dumb is forever. Judge Judy, From her book "Beauty fades; dumb is forever."

#10026

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. Albert Einstein

#10027

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. Thomas Edison

#10028

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns. Benjamin Franklin

#10029

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history. Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

#10030

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from Luther until noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occurred at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return. W. H. Auden

#10031

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens

#10032

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso

#10033

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen. C. S. Lewis

#10034

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. Claude Debussy

#10035

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

#10036

The very essence of love is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

#10037

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

#10038

Yet such is off the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. J. R. R Tolkien, Elrond from The Lord of the Rings

#10039

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart. Hellen Keller

#10040

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

#10041

Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. Benjamin Franklin

#10042

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming." Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10043

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul? Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26

#10044

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

#10045

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix

#10046

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality. Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre-match team talk

#10047

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

#10048

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. Winston Churchill

#10049

We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

#10050

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare. Lewis Ward

#10051

Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least. Lewis Ward

#10052

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959

#10053

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. Dorothy Parker

#10054

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. Dorothy Parker

#10055

When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned. Bruce Lee, During a television interview

#10056

No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840

#10057

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. Lauren Becall

#10058

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask. Yvette Gilbert, (1865-1944)

#10059

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Thorstein Veblen

#10060

Invention is the mother of necessity. Thorstein Veblen

#10061

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large. Plato

#10062

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. Epicurus, 300 B.C.

#10063

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves. George Washington

#10064

It is better to have done something than to have been someone. Claude Monet

#10065

Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts"

#10066

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me. Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03

#10067

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day. Native American Proverb

#10068

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh

#10069

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

#10070

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. John Updike

#10071

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive. Thich Nhat Hanh

#10072

Fashion changes, style remains. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

#10073

I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show"

#10074

Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistically structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. Alfred Korzybski, His book, Science And Sanity

#10075

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. Bob Dylan

#10076

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

#10077

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

#10078

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792

#10079

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo, Les Miserable, 1862

#10080

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. Yann Martel, Life of Pi

#10081

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

#10082

Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair. Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician

#10083

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh

#10084

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson

#10085

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Doug Larson

#10086

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Albert Einstein

#10087

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"

#10088

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

#10089

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. Lyndon B. Johnson, address to the nation, November 28, 1963

#10090

Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller

#10091

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller

#10092

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. Eleanor Roosevelt

#10093

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara De Angelis

#10094

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis

#10095 If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin

#10096

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Gandhi

#10097

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10098

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao-tzu

#10099

The family-that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. Dodie Smith

#10100

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A.D.

#10101

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. St. Francis of Assisi

#10102

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus

#10103

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis

#10104

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. Ludwig von Beethoven

#10105

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. Jean Cocteau

#10106

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. Friedrich Nietzsche

#10107

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

#10108

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

#10109

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

#10110

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf

#10111

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. Robertson Davies

#10112

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. Henry James

#10113

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. John F. Kennedy

#10114

Americans never quit. General Douglas Macarthur

#10115

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. Henry David Thoreau

#10116

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

#10117

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. Daniel Webster

#10118

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams

#10119

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. John Quincy Adams

#10120

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. John Ashcroft

#10121

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore

#10122

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out. Tony Blair

#10123

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Louis D. Brandeis

#10124

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. Jimmy Carter

#10125

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. Bill Clinton

#10126

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10127

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Herbert Hoover

#10128

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. Lyndon B. Johnson

#10129

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis

#10130

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961

#10131

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. Claiborne Pell

#10132

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. Carl Sandburg

#10133

America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana

#10134

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein

#10135

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

#10136

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. Margaret Thatcher

#10137

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. Woodrow Wilson

#10138

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson

#10139

When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Behan

#10140

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832

#10141

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot, Middlemarch

#10142

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. George Eliot, Romola

#10143

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot, Middlemarch

#10144

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. George Eliot, Middlemarch

#10145

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. Bob Marley

#10146

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley

#10147

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME! Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys" - broadcast on February 6, 1997

#10148

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

#10149

Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect. Jason DeBruin, The poem "Temporary Shame"

#10150

(I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands .e. cummings

#10151

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900

#10152

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit. Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

#10153

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. Will Rodgers

#10154

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world. Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

#10155

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be. Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha

#10156

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. Woody Allen

#10157

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark. Ovid

#10158

What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen

#10159

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these. Prophet Muhammad, Bukhari

#10160

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him. Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim

#10161

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms. Prophet Muhammad, Muslim

#10162

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like. Prophet Mohammad, Abu-Masud: Bukhari

#10163

Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcot

#10164

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

#10165

Eternity is very long, especially towards the end. Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71

#10166

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10167

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10168

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

#10169

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10170

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10171

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10172

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10173

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

#10174

The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap. Kathrine Palmer Peterson, 516 Sensational Cat Quotes

#10175

War is the continuation of politics by other means. General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War"

#10176

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing. Friedrich Nietzsche

#10177

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams

#10178

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. Honore de Balzac

#10179

Woe be to him that reads but one book. George Herbert

#10180

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott

#10181

Oh for a book and a shady nook... John Wilson

#10182

You can cover a great deal of country in books. Andrew Lang

#10183

I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn

#10184

Live always in the best company when you read. Sydney Smith

#10185

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. Mark Twain, Following the Equator

#10186

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

#10187

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. Mark Twain, Following the Equator

#10188

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead?"

#10189

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. Mark Twain, The Gorky Incident

#10190

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau

#10191

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. Izaak Walton

#10192

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. Eric Berne

#10193

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. J. G. Holland

#10194

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

#10195

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

#10196

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb

#10197

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry, Flight of White Crows

#10198

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

#10199

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People. Horace Greeley

#10200

Nobody picks on a strong man. Charles Atlas

#10201

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse. T. S. Eliot

#10202

Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me? Groucho Marx

#10203

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. George Orwell

#10204

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box

#10205

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952

#10206

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II

#10207

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence

#10208

Human beings cannot stand too much reality. Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

#10209

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me. Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil

#10210

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire, Zadig

#10211

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history. Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577

#10212

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac

#10213

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. Honore de Balzac

#10214

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963

#10215

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. Honore de Balzac

#10216

I do not know everything; still many things I understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#10217

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal-Mart, 10-Dec-2003

#10218

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. Martin Luther

#10219

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10220

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10221

All people want is someone to listen. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

#10222

Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24/7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world... Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003

#10223

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Elbert Hubbard

#10224

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

#10225

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant

#10226

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Maya Angelou

#10227

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books. Thomas More

#10228

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

#10229

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime. Henry Holt

#10230

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too. Heinrich Heine

#10231

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. Anatole France

#10232

I do begin to have bloody thoughts. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1

#10233

I would fain die a dry death. William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 1

#10234

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

#10235

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 2

#10236

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

#10237

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807

#10238

O would some power the giftie give us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.) Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" \- verse 8

#10239

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. George Herbert

#10240

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34

#10241

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19

#10242

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine, Common Sense

#10243

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. Robert Burns

#10244

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves. Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

#10245

No, it is remarkable that Everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been surprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains. Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

#10246

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situation where there is nothing left to do but pray. Victoria Damon

#10247

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done. George W. Bush

#10248

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it. Robert England

#10249

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887

#10250

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! William Blake

#10251

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Saskya Pandita

#10252

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson

#10253

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909

#10254

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh, Interview shortly before his death, 1974

#10255

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. J. R. R. Tolkien

#10256

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

#10257

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face. Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

#10258

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real. Audrey Hepburn

#10259

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government. Ralph Waldo Emerson,? Journal, 1860

#10260

When a traveler returned home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. Francis Bacon, 1597-1625

#10261

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

#10262

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. Saint Augustine

#10263

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997

#10264

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation

#10265

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers

#10266

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. Willa Cather, My Antonia

#10267

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

#10268

Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

#10269

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol

#10270

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl

#10271

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson, No. 1333

#10272

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999

#10273

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

#10274

When life hands us a beautiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book)

#10275

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

#10276

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Helen Keller

#10277

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach your patience, sweetness, insight. Helen Keller

#10278

If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish. Yeghishe

#10279

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore, if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me. Epictetus

#10280

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

#10281

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one. R. A. Salvatore, Homeland

#10282

Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

#10283

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time? Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

#10284

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

#10285

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

#10286

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now. Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992

#10287

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

#10288

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

#10289

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798

#10290

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994

#10291

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

#10292

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life single-mindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

#10293

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

#10294

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994

#10295

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli, speech, January 24, 1860

#10296

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars. Frederick Lang bridge

#10297

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

#10298

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

#10299

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

#10300

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out. Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991

#10301

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991

#10302

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

#10303

Repetition is the death of art. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

#10304

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

#10305

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

#10306

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

#10307

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us groveling in it. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

#10308

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

#10309

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore

#10310

Some of the best advice I ever received was "Man, that was terrible". Tom Hanks

#10311 You know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show. Buddy Hackett

#10312

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey

#10313

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean

#10314

Religion is pickled God. H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society

#10315

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia

#10316

We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy

#10317

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow. Theodore Epp

#10318

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

#10319

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie. Agnes De Mille

#10320

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

#10321

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau

#10322

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. Angela Monet

#10323

It is better to looked over than overlooked. Mae West

#10324

We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports. Mao Tse-Tung

#10325

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men. Michel de Montaigne

#10326

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned. Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On"

#10327

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31:30

#10328

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law. The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible- Galations 5:22-23 NIV

#10329

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977

#10330

When there are monsters there are miracles. Ogden Nash

#10331

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever. Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

#10332

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. Jules Renard

#10333

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

#10334

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004

#10335

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. Madonna, O Magazine, January 2004

#10336

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940

#10337

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

#10338

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

#10339

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us! Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

#10340

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004

#10341

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

#10342

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

#10343

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. Sir Winston Churchill, BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941

#10344

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004

#10345

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004

#10346

Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more. Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001

#10347

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

#10348

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999

#10349

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992

#10350

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

#10351

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992

#10352

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you. Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

#10353

Good food ends with good talk. Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

#10354

Real meaningful endeavors, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

#10355

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952

#10356

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

#10357

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993

#10358

I don't really do New Year's resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now. Clay Aiken

#10359

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson, baseball player

#10360

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration. Clay Aiken

#10361

People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself. Clay Aiken, Teen People

#10362

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

#10363

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves. Alexander Humboldt

#10364

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

#10365

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment. Dean Koontz, Watchers

#10366

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Ziggy Marley

#10367

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller

#10368

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller

#10369

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

#10370

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

#10371

In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism.... And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair. Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire

#10372

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Thomas Paine

#10373

Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free). Major Rudolph Hoss, Auschwitz Gate

#10374

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. Miss Piggy

#10375

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. Wernher Von Braun

#10376

Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend. Ludwig van Beethoven

#10377

We are what we love, not what loves us. Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation

#10378

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man. Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.

#10379

The most profound statements are often said in silence. Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04

#10380

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allen Poe

#10381

My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. Nancy Astor

#10382

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair. Mario Cuomo

#10383

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. Martin Luther King Jr.

#10384

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

#1038

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"

#10386

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. Ellen Goodman

#10387

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want. Janet Fitch, "White Oleander"

#10388

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

#10389

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest. W. Somerset Maugham

#10390

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions. Geoffrey Parsons

#10391

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10392

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued. Helen Keller

#10393

Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine. "Malcom X" ( 1964), The Autobiography of Malcom X

#10394

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963

#10395

Hobbies cost money but interests are free. George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased

#10396

You are free, and that is why you are lost. Franz Kafka

#10397

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show. Buddy Hackett

#10398

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself. Saadi, On the Duties of Society

#10399

He that has acquired learning and nor practiced what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed. Saadi, On the Duties of Society

#10400

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all. Saadi, On the Excellence of Contentment

#10401

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. Sir Winston Churchill, (1874-1965)

#10402

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. Bible, Isaiah 32:17

#10403

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. Marilyn Monroe

#10404

I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical. John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2

#10405

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10406

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli

#10407

Perfection is the enemy of the good. Gustave Flaubert

#10408

The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely. Oscar Wilde, Foreword, The Picture of Dorian gray

#10409

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Ralph Inge

#10410

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not. Malcolm Forbes

#10411

Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity. Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington

#10412

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa

#10413

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963

#10414

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. Clifton Fadiman

#10415

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. J. S. Bach

#10416

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey. Dolly Parton

#10417

It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as I do. Dolly Parton

#10418

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2

#10419

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Richard Bach

#10420

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me. Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank

#10421

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow. Phil Donahue

#10422

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10423

Imitation is suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10424

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death. Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death

#10425

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again. Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoir

#10426

I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots . Mark Twain

#10427

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. Marilyn Manson

#10428

So long as there are men there will be wars. Albert Einstein

#10429

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979

#10430

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether. Steve Martini

#10431

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection. E.C. Stedman

#10432

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. Chuck Palahniuk

#10433

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. Chuck Palahniuk

#10434

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am. Marilyn Manson

#10435

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour"

#10436

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom. Jerry Seinfeld

#10437

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982

#10438

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful

#10439

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. Albert Einstein

#10440

Propose to any Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it. Charles Babbage

#10441

It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift. Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929

#10442

What we think about, expands. Marc Allen, Interview with Michael Toms

#10443

Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity. Napoleon Hill

#10444

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

#10445

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907

#10446

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. Mark Twain, Mark Twain In Eruption

#10447

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. Mark Twain, quoted in Mark Twain and I, Opie Read, 1940

#10448

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. Don Wood

#10449

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover

#10450

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell

#10451

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. Tom Morris

#10452

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04

#10453

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04

#10454

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of DE maquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04

#10455

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-18-04

#10456

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29, 2004

#10457

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. Aristotle

#10458

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible. George Burns

#10459

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. Elayne Boosler

#10460

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton

#10461

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

#10462

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. Oscar Wilde

#10463

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince

#10464

Fail, fail again, fail better. Samuel Beckett

#10465

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life. Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I

#10466

Women are always being tested...but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it. Hillary Rodham Clinton

#10467

We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance. Marilyn King

#10468

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for. Florence Scovel Shinn

#10469

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. Mother Teresa

#10470

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. Marianne Williamson

#10471

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

#10472

It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies. Marion Woodman

#10473

Everything in your world is created by what you think. Oprah Winfrey

#10474

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch

#10475

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. Indira Ghandi

#10476

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. Alice Walker

#10477

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin

#10478

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. Diana Rankin

#10479

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. Nancy Lopez

#10480

I think all great innovations are built on rejections. Louise Nevelson

#10481

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#10482

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. Edith Hamilton

#10483

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter. Susan M. Watkins

#10484

Perseverance and audacity generally win. Dorothee Deluzy

#10485

Never underestimate the power of passion. Eve Sawyer

#10486

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Dorothy Bernard

#10487

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross

#10488

God loves the world through us. Mother Theresa

#10489

Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle. May Lamberton Becker

#10490

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled. Shakti Gawain

#10491

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny. Frances E. Willard

#10492

Limited expectations yield only limited results. Susan Laurson Willig

#10493

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer

#10494

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing. Elizabeth Janeway

#10495

Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them. Josie Bisset

#10496

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955

#10497

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Natalie Goldberg

#10498

If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth! Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.

#10499

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem. Dr. Laura Schlessinger

#10500

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated. Mia Hamm

#10501

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Margaret Drabble

#10502

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. Babe Didrikson

#10503

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blow worm in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. Frances Watkins Harper

#10504

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests. Mara Mitchell

#10505

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed. Rosalind Sussman Yalow

#10506

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. Hillary Rodham Clinton

#10507

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. Dr. Joyce Brothers

#10508

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength. Gloria Anzaldua

#10509

Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together. Anna Quindlen

#10510

The excellent becomes the permanent. Jane Adams

#10511

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential. Bette Midler

#10512

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller

#10513

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. Susan L. Taylor

#10514

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. Martina Navratilova

#10515

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers

#10516

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. Helen Hayes

#10517

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

#10518

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! Barbara Hoffman

#10519

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865

#10520

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. Barbara Sher

#10521

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. Sara Teasdale

#10522

Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self-talk. Caterina Rando

#10523

You are the product of your own brainstorm. Rosemary Konner Steinbaum

#10524

We just find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. George Eliot

#10525

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston

#10526

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep. Selma Lagerloef

#10527

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. Jane Addams

#10528

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. Robyn Davidson

#10529

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! Tom Lehrer

#10530

The difficulty in life is the choice. George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV

#10531

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within. Eleanor Roosevelt

#10532

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. Sophia Loren

#10533

People who keep journals have life twice. Jessamyn West

#10534

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. Sheilah Graham

#10535

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel. Mary Astor

#10536

Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt

#10537

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. Cardinal Richelieu

#10538

Self-trust, we know, is the first secret of success. Lady Wilde

#10539

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. Virginia Woolf

#10540

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Rita Mae Brown

#10541

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. Joanne Field

#10542

I am the only truth I know. Jean Rhys

#10543

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know. Yula Moses

#10544

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. Grace Paley

#10545

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. Fay Weldon

#10546

Sometimes you got to create what you want to be a part of. Geri Weitzman

#10547

How do they who think they are unhappy differ from they who actually are? Countess Diane

#10548

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. Anais Nin

#10549

If God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain? Claire Boothe Luce

#10550

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content. Helen Keller

#10551

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex... Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#10552

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?" Pat Schroeder

#10553

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. Maria Mitchell

#10554

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey

#10555

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME. Shirley MacLaine

#10556

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. Valdemar W. Setzer

#10557

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present. Barbara de Angelis

#10558

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing. Jack Kerouac, On the Road

#10559

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. Victor Hugo

#10560

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

#10561

Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so? Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcour

#10562

About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable. Oscar Wilde

#10563

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton

#10564

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran

#10565

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#10566

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. C. S. Lewis

#10567

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask. Billy Graham

#10568

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see. Hellen Keller

#10569

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. Stevie Wonder

#10570

Everything you do or say is public relations. Unknown

#10571

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Alfred North Whitehead

#10572

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. Henry Stimson

#10573

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. Bertrand Russell

#10574

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand Russell

#10575

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. Nicholas Butler

#10576

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Bertrand Russell

#10577

Live to learn... forget... and learn again. Brian

#10578

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10579

Art is science made clear. Jean Cocteau

#10580

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Bertrand Russell

#10581

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. Christopher Morley

#10582

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell

#10583

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. Jean-Paul Sartre

#10584

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. Bertrand Russell

#10585

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10586

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. Calvin & Hobbes

#10587

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. Stephen Covey

#10588

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R. R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

#10589

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. Thomas A. Edison

#10590

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth

#10591

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship. Chiam Potok, The Chosen

#10592

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin

#10593

Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff! Dr. Seuss, Seuss-isms

#10594

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Sir Francis Bacon

#10595

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

#10596

If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. Ben Franklin

#10597

Knowing is half the battle. GI Joe

#10598

What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

#10599

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. Oscar Wilde

#10600

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04

#10601

I call architecture frozen music. Goethe

#10602

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible. Marcel Proust

#10603

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate. Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

#10604

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm. Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

#10605

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

#10606

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it's magical. Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

#10607

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 13, Part II

#10608

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist. Sir Arthur Eddington

#10609

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes-Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was

#10610

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. Lee Iacocca

#10611

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

#10612

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the Centre. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10613

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. Henry David Thoreau

#10614

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein

#10615

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. Peter Drucker

#10616

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot

#10617

Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have. Andrew Soloman, ?The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression?, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide

#10618

I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was. George Bernard Shaw, when asked on his deathbed, ?What would you do if you could live your life over again?

#10619

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely. Andrew Soloman,? The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression?, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond

#10620

I have lost the half of myself ? a soul for which mine was made. Voltaire

#10621

Some people walk in the rain? others just get wet? Roger Miller

#10622

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy

#10623

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think. Benjamin Disraeli

#10624

The past is but the beginning of a beginning. H. G. Wells

#10625

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. Edward Young

#10626
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Slovenian Proverb

#10627

it's when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest. Robin Sharma, The Saint The Surfer and the CEO

#10628

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoevski

#10629

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight. The London Times

#10630

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship. Raul Armesto

#10631

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus

#10632

Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life. Maureen Hawkins

#10633

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Miguel de Cervantes

#10634

I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does. Warren Buffett

#10635

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. Warren Buffett

#10636

It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked. Warren Buffett

#10637

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

#10638

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

#10639

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius

#10640

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

#10641

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. Oscar Wilde

#10642

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. John Lennon

#10643

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. William James

10644

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled. Sir Winston Churchill

#10645

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it ? three minutes; to collect the data in it ? all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#10646

If I know what love is, it is because of you. Herman Hesse

#10647

We don't see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don't think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter. John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962

#10648

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

#10649

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. Mother Teresa

#10650

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Samuel Johnson

#10651

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

#10652

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. Ayn Rand

#10653

The more you suffer , the more you show you really care. The Offspring, Smash

#10654

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. Elias Schwartz

#10655

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. Edward R. Murrow

#10656

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana

#10657

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

#10658

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. Benjamin Disraeli

#10659

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo

#10660

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#10661

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. Mark Twain

#10662

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. Orwell

#10663

Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso

#10664

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. John Dewey

#10665

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. Henry Ford

#10666

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

#10667

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. George Bernard Shaw

#10668

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. Daniel Webster

#10669

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G. K. Chesterton

#10670

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw

#10671

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

#10672

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. Samuel Butler

#102673

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. Herbert Hoover

#10674

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost

#10675

Humankind cannot stand very much reality. T. S. Eliot

#10676

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. Margaret Thatcher

#10677

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. George F. Will

#10678

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. G. K. Chesterton

#10679

God is a verb. R. Buckminster Fuller

#10680

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

#10681

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles

#10682

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#10683

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. Malcolm Forbes

#10684

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain

#10685

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck

#10686

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. Benjamin Franklin

#10687

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

#10688

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend. Kurt Vonnegut

#10689

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10690

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Jerry Chin

#10691

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw

#10692

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. Ed Parker

#10693

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. Cullen Hightower

#10694

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke

#10695

A healthy family is sacred territory. Unknown

#10696

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. Cullen Hightower

#10697

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. Bertrand Russell

#10698

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. Bertrand Russell

#10699

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Bertrand Russell

#10700

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. Rebecca West

#10701

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. Unknown

#10702

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. LeGuin

#10703

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#10704

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"

#10705

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw

#10706

Good taste is always an asset. Rudy Bakalov

#10707

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

#10708

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. Washington Irving

#10709

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. Robert Redford

#10710

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. Carl Sagan

#10711

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri Poincare

#10712

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. Bertrand Russell

#10713

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

#10714

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln

#10715

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell

#10716

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer

#10717

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989

#10718

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong. Johann von Neumann, on being phoned at 10:00 AM

#10719

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves. Cesar Chavez, letter

#10720

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#10721

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin

#10722

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton

#10723

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B. White

#10724

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Jean Paul Richter

#10725

I'm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004

#10726

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)

#10727

Their plans were improved with the best advice. J. R. R.Tolkien, The Hobbit

#10728

I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down. Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved , pg. 336

#10729

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. Old Muslim Proverb

#10730

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Augustine, (AD 354-430)

#10731

The road to true love never did run smooth. Shakespeare

#10732

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beautiful.

#10733

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

#10734

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

#10735

Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

#10736

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

#10737

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

#10738

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124

#10739

My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

#10740

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

#10741

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson

#10742

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln

#10743

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

#10744

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower, A speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 14, 1957

#10745

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye

#10746

Well-behaved women rarely make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#10747

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. Aristotle

#10748

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all. William Hung, 2004 American Idol Auditions

#10749

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

#10750

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph"

#10751

Determined people working together can do anything. Jim Casey, Founder of UPS

#10752

Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden

#10753

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated. Oscar Wilde

#10754

We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#10755

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. H. L. Mencken

#10756

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. H. L. Mencken

#10757

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

#10758

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. H. L. Mencken

#10759

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. H. L. Mencken

#10760

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own. H. L. Mencken

#10761

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. H. L. Mencken

#10762

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. H. L. Mencken

#10763

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken

#10764

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. H. L. Mencken

#10765

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. H. L. Mencken

#10766

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. H. L. Mencken

#10767

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H. L. Mencken

#10768

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. H. L. Mencken

#10769

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. Frank Herbert, Dune

#10770

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune"

#10771

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Ann Landers

#10772

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan, "Contact"

#10773

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10774

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus

#10775

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky

#10776

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. Thomas H. Huxley

#10777

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas H. Huxley

#10778

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. Edward Abbey

#10779

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)

#10780

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. Anonymous

#10781

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso

#10782

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin

#10783

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. Frank Zappa

#10784

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire

#10785

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas H. Huxley

#10786

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. Paul Eldridge

#10787

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. John Burroughs

#10788

[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. Mark Twain

#10789

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. Mark Twain

#10790

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken

#10791

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. Georges Clemenceau

#10792

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. Edward Abbey

#10793

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoevsky

#10794

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10795

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Noam Chomsky

#10796

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph W. Sockman

#10797

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie

#10798

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace

#10799

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. Georges Guynemer

#10800

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#10801

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

#10802

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. Theodore Roosevelt

#10803

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt, Paris, Sorbonne 1910

#10804

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. Edward Everett Hale

#10805

Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. Woody Allen

#10806

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. Hunter S. Thompson

#10807

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Henry Kissinger

#10808

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George Sheehan

#10809

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. Johann Von Neumann

#10810

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

#10811

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The Falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the Centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... W. B. Yeats, the second coming

#10812

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04

#10813

A room without books is like a body without a soul. G. K. Chesterton

#10814

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. G. K. Chesterton

#10815

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. G. K. Chesterton

#10816

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. G. K. Chesterton

#10817

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. G. K. Chesterton

#10818

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. G. K. Chesterton

#10819

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G. K. Chesterton

#10820

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. G. K. Chesterton

#10821

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. Jay Gould

#10822

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

#10823

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. Russian proverb

#10824

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

#10825

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back. Joseph Smith Jr.

#10826

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes. Neal A. Maxwell

#10827

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

#10828

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell

#10829

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by. John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke"

#10830

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women. Carey Bowman

#10831

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

#10832

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. Cindy Lew

#10833

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

#10834

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

#10835

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Helen Keller, Quote of the day book

#10836

The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary. Max Lucado, "And the Angels were Silent the Final Week of Jesus"

#10837

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all! Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

#10838

No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn \- no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November! Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!

#10839

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

#10840

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#10841

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

#10842

"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

#10843

You have delighted us long enough. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#10844

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#10845

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#10846

The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness. Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.

#10847

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death. David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

#10848

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Vince Lombardi

#10849

A leader is a dealer in hope. Napolean Bonaparte

#10850

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. Joe Clark

#10851

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/society/coffin.html

#10852

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

#10853

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human. William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript310_full.html

#10854

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied. Hubert Humphrey

#10855

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

#10856

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)

#10857

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)

#10858

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

#10859

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly

#10860

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. Lord Acton

#10861

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey

#10862

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey

#10863

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now . Arthur C. Clarke

#10864

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke

#10865

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. Arthur C. Clarke

#10866

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783

#10867

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. Dick Gregory

#10868

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin

#10869

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. Arthur C. Clarke

#10870

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;<br> boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#10871

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. Frank Herbert

#10872

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back. Marcus Aurelius

#10873

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04

#10874

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03

#10875

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03

#10876

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. Bob Wells

#10877

I exist as I am, that is enough. Walt Whitman

#10878

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be. Jose Vasconcelos

#10879

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon. Albert Camus

#10880

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure. Corrine Dewlow

#10881

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#10882

This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven. Walt Whitman

#10883

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards

#10884

As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that someday, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved. Dave Barry

#10885

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawerence

#10886

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

#10887

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten. Abdul Baha, Bahai Writings

#10888

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts. Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

#10889

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people. Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154

#10890

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. Albert Einstein

#10891

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards. E. Kim Nebeuts

#10892

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. Arthur Cayley

#10893

If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!! Andy McIntyre

#10894

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Christopher Zeeman

#10895

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows--marriage does. Groucho Marx

#10896

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. Karl Rove, March 19, 2001

#10897

Go tell the Spartans,<br> Passerby,<br> That here, obedient to their laws,<br> We lie. Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

#10898

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

#10899

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. Kahlil Gibran

#10900

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always. Mahatma Gandhi

#10901

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams. John C. Maxwell, The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

#10902

No great leader in history fought to prevent change. John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader

#10903

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell

#10904

Boldness in itself is genius. L. Ron Hubbard

#10905

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home? So close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. Eleanor Roosevelt

#10906

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the dust descend. Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

#10907

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

#10908

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

#10909

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

#10910

A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates? The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal. Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.

#10911

The credit Union movement. It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty. Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U.S.

#10912

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943

#10913

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli, Speech at the House of Commons, January 24, 1860

#10914

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. Herman Melville

#10915

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Peter Ustinov

#10916

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. Peter Ustinov

#10917

The more you know, the less you need to show. Anonymous

#10918

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. Peter Ustinov

#10919

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year? Peter Ustinov

#10920

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov

#10921

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

#10922

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. Peter Ustinov

#10923

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. Peter Ustinov

#10924

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. Peter Ustinov

#10925

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. Peter Ustinov

#10926

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. Peter Ustinov

#10927

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. James Thurber

#10928

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James Thurber

#10929

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt

#10930

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

#10931

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. Mentat Prayer

#10932

I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice beaver crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62

#10933

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62

#10934

I don't want to be cross, Love cannot be forced. Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

#10935

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Matt Groening

#10936

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass

#10937

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Albert Einstein, Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his let

#10938

il faut laisser du temps au temps (you have to give time - approximate translation) Francois Mitterand

#10939

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. Tacitus

#10940

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. Anonymous

#10941

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. Voltaire

#10942

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire

#10943

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. Voltaire

#10944

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire

#10945

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

#10946

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored. Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

#10947

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Coda

#10948

While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca

#10949

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. Seneca

#10950

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy

#10951

Knowledge is true opinion. Plato

#10952

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato

#10953

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

#10954

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen

#10955

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John F. Kennedy

#10956

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. John F. Kennedy

#10957

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. Leonardo Da Vinci

#10958

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings. Hellen Keller

#10959

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Helen Keller

#10960

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz

#10961

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first. Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

#10962

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours. Golda Meir, to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks.

#10963

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. John Stuart Mill

#10964

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"

#10965

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! Edwin Louis Cole

#10966

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V

#10967

The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.

#10968

It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what? Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra

#10969

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. Robert F. Kennedy

#10970

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw

#10971

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience. David P. Mikkelson, Snopes.com, 04-10-04

#10972

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman

#10973

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about. Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

#10974

We come and go just like ripples in a stream. John V. Politis

#10975

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful... Sharon Old's, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

#10976

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. Florida Scott-Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

#10977

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul. George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004

#10978

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"

#10979

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life. Jimmy Carter

#10980

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7

#10981

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. Benjamin Franklin

#10982

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. Marilyn Monroe

#10983

Idiots...nothing can live forever. Magus Dactylus, Chronotrigger

#10984

Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land. Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci

#10985

We make our fortunes and call them fate. Benjamin Disraeli

#10986

Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10987

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Mahatma Gandhi

#10988

If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies. Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction

#10989

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones. Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5

#10990

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people. C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

#10991

Badness is only spoiled goodness. C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

#10992

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis, A preface to "Paradise Lost"

#10993

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Bob Wells

#10994

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

#10995

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

#10996

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

#10997

His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban

#10998

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it. Mark Twain

#10999

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty. John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

#11000

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." Aleister Crowley

#11001

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

#11002

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

#11003

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

#11004

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966

#11005

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. Aristotle, Politics

#11006

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

#11007

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo, Les Miserable, 1862

#11008

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881

#11009

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886

#11010

The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891

#11011

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. Henry Wallace, Speech in New York City, May 8, 1942

#11012

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Louis Blanc, The Organization of Work, 1840

#11013

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embassy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956

#11014

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963

#11015

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards. Gary Lee Phillips

#11016

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844

#11017

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845

#11018

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936

#11019

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939

#11020

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803

#11021

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974

#11022

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass

#11023

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass

#11024

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass

#11025

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels

#11026

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

#11027

The worst prison would be a closed heart. Unknown

#11028

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. Gerald R. Ford

#11029

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. J. William Fulbright

#11030

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. Henry David Thoreau, O Magazine, May 2004

#11031

We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004

#11032

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#11033

The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich, O Magazine, February 2004

#11034

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh

#11035

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

#11036

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?? Friedrich Nietzsche

#11037

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974

#11038

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

#11039

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. Anton Chekhov

#11040

All my possessions for a moment of time. Elizabeth I

#11041

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. Baltasar Gracian

#11042

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously. A. A. Milne

#11043

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. Max Frisch

#11044

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

#11045

A single day is enough to make us a little larger. Paul Klee

#11046

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11047

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. Plutarch

#11048

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

#11049

Read not to contradict and confute? Nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003

#11050

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

#11051

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003

#11052

What I dream of is an art of balance. Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003

#11053

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art. John A. Locke

#11054

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003

#11055

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003

#11056

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how? We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille

#11057

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#11058

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003

#11059

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002

#11060

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. M. Grundler

#11061

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002

#11062

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in O Magazine, October 2002

#11063

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

#11064

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002

#11065

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. Charlie Chaplin, O Magazine, October 2002

#11066

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen

#11067

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

#11068

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. Joseph Conrad

#11069

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell

#11070

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. Catherine de Hueck Doherty, O Magazine, October 2002

#11071

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

#11072

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, nor can it be done. Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002

#11073

The wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides

#11074

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them. Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002

#11075

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002

#11076

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. William Shakespeare

#11077

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002

#11078

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. Winifred Holtby, O Magazine, September 2002

#11079

One must desire something to be alive. Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002

#11080

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

#11081

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

#11082

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#11083

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others. Unknown

#11084

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003

#11085

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003

#11086

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. Christopher Morley

#11087

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

#11088

Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you. Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003

#11089

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003

#11090

My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible. Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003

#11091

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller

#11092

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. Unknown

#11093

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11094

To try to be better is to be better. Charlotte Cushman, quoted in O Magazine, December 2003

#11095

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. John F. Kennedy

#11096

Strive for excellence, not perfection. H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003

#11097

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it got even stronger. Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003

#11098

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#11099

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003

#11100

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. Unknown

#11101

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

#11102

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished. Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003

#11103

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003

#11104

I had learnt to seek intensity? More of life, a concentrated sense of life. Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003

#11105

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003

#11106

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003

#11107

As we grow old? The beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11108

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003

#11109

I grow more intense as I age. Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003

#11110

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003

#11111

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles

#11112

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Anonymous

#11113

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#11114

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

#11115

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. Agatha Christie

#11116

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003

#11117

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

#11118

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

#11119

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

#11120

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003

#11121

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. M. Grundler

#11122

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy C. Fisher, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

#11123

There is? Nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people. H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003

#11124

What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply. Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

#11125

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

#11126

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

#11127

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. Michel de Montaigne

#11128

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. Epictetus

#11129

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003

#11130

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

#11131

God creates men, but they choose each other. Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

#11132

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003

#11133

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. Mark Twain

#11134

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

#11135

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04-29-04

#11136

Use soft words and hard arguments. Unknown

#11137

They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first. Ho Chi Minh, When asked how Vietnam could possibly wage war against the West.

#11138

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion. Tich Nhat Han, The sun my heart

#11139

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ? Marie Henri Beyle, (1783-1842)

#11140

you may not be responsible for being down. but you are responsible for getting up. Jesse Jackson, B.F.A. 1982

#11141

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain. Emily Dickinson

#11142

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. T. E. Lawrence

#11143

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. Larry Leissner

#11144

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. Joseph Conrad

#11145

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04

#11146

You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits. Joe Orton

#11147

If it can be dreamed, it can be done. Walt Disney, Inauguration day of Disney World

#11148

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams

#11149

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquency. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

#11150

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Winston Churchill

#11151

We shape our buildings and they shape us. Winston Churchill

#11152

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

#11153

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits Anonymous

#11154

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. William James

#11155

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11156

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. John Steinbeck, East of Eden

#11157

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold"

#11158

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic. Alexis DE Tocqueville

#11159

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. Anonymous

#11160

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon

#11161

The more things change, the more they remain... insane. Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

#11162

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. Benjamin Franklin

#11163

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana, Vol. 53 / No. 18 MMWR page 391

#11164

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

#11165

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad. Seneca

#11166

All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

#11167

It is impossible to say just what I mean! T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, line 105

#11168

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size. J. R .R. Tolkien

#11169

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... J. R. R. Tolkien

#11170

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! J. R. R. Tolkien

#11171

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant

#11172

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R. Tolkien, Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor

#11173

The treacherous are ever distrustful. J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers

#11174

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond

#11175

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R. Tolkien

#11176

For though I do not ask for aid, we need it. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Boromir

#11177

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

#11178

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

#11179

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. H. P. Lovecraft

#11180

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded. Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

#11181

I like it [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like "The Cat In The Hat" Marilyn Manson

#11182

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk. Ancient Egyptian Blessing

#11183

Live simply, so that all may simply live. St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA, Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore

#11184

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? Oscar Wilde

#11185

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. Anonymous

#11186

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do. Joseph Stalin

#11187

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. Joseph Stalin

#11188

The only real power comes out of a long rifle. Joseph Stalin

#11189

Die, but do not retreat. Joseph Stalin

#11190

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs. Joseph Stalin

#11191

I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous. Jasper Johns (lithographer), Newsweek, Oct. 24, 1977 - page 42.

#11192

There is no eraser on the end of a scalpel. Douglas Leonard Martin, Douglas Leonard Martin in a letter to FDA in 1975.

#11193

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole, lived 1717-1797

#11194

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde

#11195

It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass. E. S. Dallas

#11196

The most painful state of living is remembering the future. Soren Kierkegaard

#11197

If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katherine Hepburn

#11198

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad. Kurt Cobain

#11199

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:?We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967

#11200

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

#11201

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Mario Cuomo

#11202

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library. Frank Zappa

#11203

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest

#11204

If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win. Walter Reuther

#11205

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda

#11206

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha

#11207

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. Donald Creighton

#11208

The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli

#11209

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan

#11210

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James

#11211

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. John Maxwell

#11212

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play. Mike Singletary

#11213

Every time you are not practicing someone else is. Boris Becker

#11214

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11215

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine

#11216

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich von Schiller

#11217

We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese

#11218

Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential. Black Elk, Native American

#11219

Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. Claude M Bristol

#11220

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. Henry Van Dyke

#11221

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. Louis L. Mann

#11222

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin Roosevelt

#11223

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. Michael Korda

#11224

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. Elbert Hubbard

#11225

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford

#11226

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields

#11227

The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11228

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. William Arthur Wood

#11229

Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth. Aesop

#11230

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. Martin Luther King Jr.

#11231

Where you start is not as important as where you finish. Zig Ziglar

#11232

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

#11233

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey

#11234

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein

#11235

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards. Vernon Law

#11236

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#11237

You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

#11238

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine

#11239

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. Zig Ziglar

#11240

Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Willa Foster

#11241

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen. Roy Moody

#11242

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh

#11243

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

#11244

The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi

#11245

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. Albert Einstein

#11246

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go William Feather

#11247

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln

#11248

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. Vince Lombardi

#11249

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step. Oswald Chambers

#11250

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

#11251

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBos

#11252

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!!! General Douglas McArthur

#11253

The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey. R. Goldberg

#11254

We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us? It simply reveals what we are made of already. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 10

#11255

To fail to plan is to plan to fail. Robert Wubbolding

#11256

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts. Paul Erlich

#11257

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me. West African proverb

#11258

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone. Michelangelo

11259

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman

#11260

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

#11261

Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open. Thomas Dewar

#11262

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. J. K. Rowling

#11263

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Tom Wilson, from comic strip "Ziggy"

11264

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. George Burns

#11265

Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing... Unknown

#11266

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock

#11267

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to Dorothy Parker

#11268

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln

#11269

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

#11270

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose. Winston Churchill

#11271

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

#11272

Too much rest is rust. Sir Walter Scott, The Betrothed

#11273

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

#11274

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous. Katharn Hepburn

#11275

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

#11276

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.

#11277

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

#11278

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. H. L. Mencken

#11279

Necessity makes even the timid brave. Sallust, Roman historian and politician (c. 86-c. 35 B.C.)

#11280

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak. Toni Morrison, American writer (1931-)

#11281

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws. Baruch Spinoza

#11282

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. George Orwell, 1984

#11283

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness. Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994

#11284

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes. Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001

#11285

We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour sticks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought. Joshua L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,

#11286

Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail. Neil A. Maxwell

#11287

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. C. S. Lewis, First things First

#11288

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette"

#11289

If there is no gardener there is no garden. Stephen R. Covey, First things First

#11290

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars. Tori Amos

#11291

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit"

#11292

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost, "The Death of a Hired Man"

#11293

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther

#11294

All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer. Sir Robert Owen

#11295

Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson

#11296

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens, Great expectations

#11297

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p.318 Houghton Mifflin

#11298

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! Henry David Thoreau, Simplify

#11299

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau, simplify

#11300

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe! Henry David Thoreau, Simplify

#11301

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify

#11302

Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. Micron

#11303

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation. Calvin Coolidge

#11304

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories. Muriel Rukeyser

#11305

Thomas Jefferson still lives. John Adams, On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier-July 4th, 1826

#11306

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. Chinese proverb

#11307

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? John Kerry, Statement on Vietnam before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971

#11308

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it. Arnold Schwarzenegger

#11309

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller

#11310

But all who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. Bertrand Russell, from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"

#11311

Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance. Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955

#11312

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford

#11313

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it's nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04

#11314

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. Unknown

#11315

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan

#11316

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will. Ronald Reagan

#11317

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. Ronald Reagan

#11318

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. Ronald Reagan

#11319

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. Ronald Reagan

#11320

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

#11321

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire

#11322

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

#11323

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon

#11324

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

#11325

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. Peter Borden

#11326

I am not dying, not any more than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06-11-04

#11327

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

#11328

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others. Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

#11329

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi

#11330

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

#11331

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself. Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

#11332

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. Frank Herbert, Dune

#11333

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead

#11334

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. Frank Herbert, Dune (First Law of Mentat)

#11335

Character is who you are when no one is looking. Allan Williams

#11336

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

#11337

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04

#11338

My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery. "Why" on Quartz

#11339

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

#11340

The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

#11341

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

#11342

Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

#11343

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004

#11344

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

#11345

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Hunter S. Thompson

#11346

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Hunter S. Thompson

#11347

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. Hunter S. Thompson

#11348

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Hunter S. Thompson

#11349

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. Hunter S. Thompson

#11350

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. Arnold Bennett

#11351

Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually. Jimi Hendrix

#11352

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi

#11353

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. John Lennon, in Strawberry Fields Forever

#11354

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

#11355

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you. Mary Ross

#11356

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. Bernard Berenson

#11357

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. Lewis Thomas

#11358

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life. Ronald Reagan

#11359

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Mark Twain

#11360

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein

#11361

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce

#11362

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924

#11363

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978

#11364

A poem is no place for an idea. Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

#11365

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? James Thurber

#11366

The secret to life is that there is no secret. "Swamp man" on Quartz

#11367

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber

#11368

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber

#11369

The world only goes round by misunderstanding. Charles Baudelaire

#11370

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. Charles Baudelaire

#11371

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. Charles Baudelaire

#11372

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. Charles Baudelaire

#11373

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004

#11374

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates

#11375

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11376

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I want to grow up and be a critic." Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004

#11377

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD-ROM)

#11378

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03

#11379

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. William Claire

#11380

It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell, "1984", first sentence

#11381

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

#11382

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. Socrates

#11383

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

#11384

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. R. A. Butler

#11385

Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler

#11386

Science is the only true guide in life. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22.09.1924

#11387

Freedom and independence form my character. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24.04.1921

#11388

If a man does his best, what more is there to ask for? George S. Patton

#11389

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears. Charles Grodin

#11390

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.... Unknown

#11391

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do. Bob Dylan, "To Ramona"

#11392

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds. Lenny Bruce

#11393

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#11394

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

#11395

It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#11396

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#11397

Unless we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. Chinese Proverb

#11398

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katharine Hepburn

#11399

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche

#11400

"Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colorists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five. Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life"

#11401

The future is no place to place your better days. Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom"

#11402

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. George Bernard Shaw

#11403

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams. Tupac Amaru Shakur

#11404

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net

#11405

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. Philip R. Zimmermann

#11406

Any fool can make a rule,<br>and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau

#11407

Nothing recedes like success. Walter Winchell, American Columnist and Broadcaster (1897-1972)

#11408

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)

#11409

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3

#11410

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf

#11411

What's the use of happiness? It can?t buy you money. Henny Youngman

#11412

The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn

#11413

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... Mark Twain

#11414

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Faramir

#11415

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. Robert Ingersoll, ?What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)

#11416

Don't get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house. Sydney James

#11417

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes

#11418

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes? Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist

#11419

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. G. M. Trevelyan

#11420

If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice! Neil Peart

#11421

Don't worry about a thing, ?cause every little thing gonna be all right. Bob Marley, "Three Little Birds" - song "Legend"- album

#11422

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#11423

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? Friedrich Nietzsche

#11424

Mental toughness is essential to success. Vince Lombardi

#11425

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate. Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw-Hill)

#11426

Trying is the first step towards failure. Homer Simpson

#11427

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#11428

A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds. Joanne K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore

11429

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare, Hamlet

#1143

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them. Ayn Rand, Anthem

#11431

The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll. George Whelton

#11432

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#11433

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil. Kara Vichko

#11434

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever. Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

#11435

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#11436

Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you. Winston Churchill

#11437

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. Winston Churchill

#11438

Every silver lining has a touch of grey. Jerry Garcia

#11439

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television. William Gibson

#11440

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. Washington Irving, American writer and poet

#11441

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living. Pablo Picasso

#11442

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

#11443

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything. Katharine Hepburn

#11444

Hell has no benefits, only torture. John Milton, Paradise Lost

#11445

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Thomas Fuller

#11446

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa

#11447

My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world. Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

#11448

Power is the great aphrodisiac. Henry Kissinger

#11449

I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while. Groucho Marx

#11450

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface

#11451

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

#11452

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. Anonymous

#11453

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time. Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

#11454

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe

#11455

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America. Michael Caine, www.aint-it-cool-news.com

#11456

A wise man is never too sure of what he knows to be true. James W. Gray

#11457

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Thomas Jefferson

#11458

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised. Napoleon Bonaparte

#11459

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

#11460

Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. Dinesh D?Souza

#11461

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. Woodrow Wilson

#11462

Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#11463

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Mark Twain

#11464

If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle. Samuel Johnson

#11465

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. Galileo Galilei

#11466

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. Robert Frost

#11467

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. Bill Watterson

#11468

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense! Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds

#11469

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited. Osho, The art of Dying

#11470

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. H. L. Mencken

#11471

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell. Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa

#11472

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspaper

#11473

Necessity, who is the mother of invention. Plato, The Republic

#11474

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

#11475

Plato is boring. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients

#11476

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29

#11477

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

#11478

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

#11479

God is dead. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

#11480

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#11481

Morality is herd instinct in the individual. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116

#11482

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 130

#11483

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191

#11484

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

#11485

We are always in our own company. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 166

#11486

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381

#11487

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2

#11488

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 16

#11489

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.<br>It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.<br>It receives but does not keep. Chuang Tzu

#11490

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell, (attributed)

#11491

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human. Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03

#11492

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." Paul Graham, September 2004

#11493

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

#11494

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer. Ayn Rand

#11495

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen

#11496

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands. George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

#11497

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. Dr. Seuss

#11498

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

#11499

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time." Dame Rebecca West

#11500

The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

#11501

The kingdom of God or nothing. John Taylor, former president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints

#11502

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. Bill Bernbach

#11503

God is in the details. Mies van der Rohe

#11504

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? <br> If I am not for others, what am I? <br> And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel

#11505

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

#11506

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. Thomas Huxley

#11507

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

#11508

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

#11509

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

#11510

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see. J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor"

#11511

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet

#11512

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash

#11513

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations. John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x

#11514

My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. ?I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,? I had written to these friends. ?I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.? The American white man?s press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man?s problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence. malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x

#11515

Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail.ca

#11516

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over. Chateaubriand

#11517

in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. Paul Valery

#11518

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. Brandon Lee

#11519

Life is something that everyone should try at least once. Henry J. Tillman

#11520

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? Ronnie Shakes

#11521

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengal

11522

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

#11523

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Lucille Ball

#11524

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. Jim Morrison

#11525

I am the lizard king. I can do anything. Jim Morrison

#11526

Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast) Julius Ceasar, when crossing the rubicon and thus starting civil war that effectively ended the Roman republic

#11527

truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit) seneca

#11528

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. Dan Gable, University of Iowa wrestling coach

#11529

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

#11530

Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.) Lakota belief

#11531r

Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious. Tor N'retranders, Mark Verden (English title not known)

#11532

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. Rodney Dangerfield

#11533

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. Rodney Dangerfield

#11534

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. Rodney Dangerfield

#11535

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. Rodney Dangerfield

#11536

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894

#11537

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921

#11538

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. Marie Curie

#11539

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie

#11540

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. Marie Curie

#11541

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. Marie Curie

#11542

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Jacques Derrida

#11543

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? A dead parent, for example? Can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994

#11544

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. Jascha Heifetz

#11545

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing

#11546

Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty. Unknown

#11547

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. R. D. Laing

#11548

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. R. D. Laing

#11549

It takes a village to raise an idiot. William Dukane

#11550

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11551

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. Plato

#11552

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. Ernesto "Che" Guevara

#11553

The end of all education should surely be service to others. Cesar E. Chavez

#11554

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions. Jose Antonio Burciaga

#11555

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman. Sandra Cisneros

#11556

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"

#11557

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights

#11558

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr

#11559

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein

#11560

Blinding ignorance does mislead us.<br> O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Leonardo Da Vinci

#11561

We might make mistakes but we will make other things too. Michael Joseph Savage

#11562

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. Dean Martin

#11563

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. Michael Bakunin, God and State

#11564

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthald Auerbach

#11565

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. Joe Lewis

#11566

Wisdom comes with winters. Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.

#11567

Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have. Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right

#11568

Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams

#11569

You guys over there, pair up into groups of three. Yogi Berra

#11570

Most people my age are dead at the present time. Casey Stengel

#11571

When words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Anderson

#11572

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry \- an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. Auguste Comte, Philosophies Positive (1830)

#11573

If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. William Lyon Phelps

#11574

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat". Theodore Roosevelt

#11575

If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. Abraham Lincoln

#11576

Sex is part of nature, I go with nature. Marylin Monroe

#11577

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. Upton Sinclair

#11578

Many of us are more capable than some of us...<br> but none of us is as capable as all of us!! Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)

#11579

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. It's exciting. Britney Spears

#11580

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling. Britney Spears

#11581

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare. Rachel Hunter

#11582

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it. Carmen Electra

#11583

Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day. Carmen Electra

#11584

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. Lindsay Lohan

#11585

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. Angelina Jolie

#11586

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley

#11587

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way. Hilary Duff

#11588

American can do better, and help is on the way. John Kerry, speech in 2004

#11589I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA. John Kerry

#11590

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002

#11591

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans. John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004

#11592

We must become the change we want to see. Mahatma Gandhi

#11593

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004

#11594

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

#11595

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities. George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

#11596

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

#11597

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again. George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

#11598

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift

#11599

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve

#11600

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

#11601

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978

#11602

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not reali

zing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

#11603

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

#11604

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness George Eliot, Romola, 1863

#11605

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

#11606

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. Philip K. Dick, Valis

#11607

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. Henry M. Robert

#11608

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

#11609

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

#11610

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

#11611

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

#11612

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

#11613

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

#11614

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused ? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

#11615

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001

#11616

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001

#11617

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

#11618

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

#11619

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

#11620

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world. George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

#11621

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04

#11622

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

#11623

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Abigail Adams

#11624

Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams

#11625

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams

#11626

Reputations are created every day and every minute . Christopher Ruel

#11627

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Ansel Adams

#11628

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. Arnold Toynbee

#11629

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. Arnold Toynbee

#11630

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. Arnold Toynbee

#11631

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment. Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004

#11632

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. Thomas Jefferson

#11633

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

#11634

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. Ovid

#11635

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

#11636

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. Arthur C. Clarke, 1983

#11637

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

#11638

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

#11639

All Faith is false, all Faith is true Truth is the shattered mirror strewn In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own. Sir Richard Francis Burton

#11640

The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman. Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04

#11641

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. Will Rogers

#11642

A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. Scottish Proverb

#11643

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb

#11644

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. Jewish Proverb

#11645

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. Chinese Proverb

#11646

A book holds a house of gold. Chinese Proverb

#11647

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire

#11648

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket . Chinese Proverb

#11649

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. Chinese Proverb

#11650

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. Native American Proverb

#11651

A camel never sees its own hump. African Proverb

#11652

A child is the root of the heart. Maria de Jesus

#11653

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity. Alfred North Whitehead

#11654

A clear conscience is a good pillow. American Proverb

#11655

A closed mind is a good thing to lose. Anonymous

#11656

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. James Klass

#11657

A closed mouth gathers no feet. Anonymous

#11658

A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor. Scottish Proverb

#11659

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. Harold Fricklestein

#11660

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. Anonymous

#11661

A contented mind is a continual feast. American Proverb

#11662

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Benjamin Franklin

#11663

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one. Anonymous

#11664

A crow is no whiter for being washed. French Proverb

#11665

A danger foreseen is half-avoided. Cheyenne Proverb

#11666

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. Chinese Proverb

#11667

Not all those who wonder are lost. Unknown

#11668

A different language is a different vision of life. Federico Fellini

#11669

A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing . Irish Proverb

#11670

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings

#11671

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. Irish Proverb

#11672

A dollar saved is a quarter earned. Oscar Levant

#11673

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash

#11674

A fault confessed is half redressed. Polish Proverb

#11675

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. Hannah Whitall Smith

#11676

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language. Chinese Proverb

#11677

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me . Woody Allen

#11678

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. Aristotle

#11679

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. African Proverb

#11680

A fool judges people by the presents they give him. Chinese Proverb

#11681

A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Adams

#11682

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11683

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Anonymous

#11684

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Erma Bombeck

#11685

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu

#11686

A functioning police state needs no police. William S. Burroughs

#11687

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. Chinese Proverb

#11688

A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#11689

A good book has no ending. R. D. Cumming

#11690

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. Benjamin Franklin

#11691

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. Danish Proverb

#11692

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. Anonymous

#11693

A good friend will fit you like ring to finger. Venezuelan Proverb

#11694

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. George S. Patton

#11695

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White, Photographer

#11696

A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden. Mexican Proverb

#11697

A good son makes a good husband. American Proverb

#11698

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. Barry Goldwater

#11699

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow

#11700

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness. Fontenelle

#11701

A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground. Anonymous

#11702

A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance. Yiddish Proverb

#11703

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. Polish Proverb

#11704

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Anonymous

#11705

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Robert Heinlein

#11706

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush. Irish Proverb

#11707

A half-truth is a whole lie. Yiddish Proverb

#11708

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Dutch Proverb

#11709

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment. American Proverb

#11710

A hedge between keeps friendship green. German Proverb

#11711

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11712

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying. Alexandre Dumas

#11713

Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.) Seneca, Epistuloe and Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9

#11714

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving

#11715

A kind word is like a spring day. Russian Proverb

#11716

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman. American Proverb

#11717

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost

#11718

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth. Cuban Proverb

#11719

A lie travels farther than the truth. Irish Proverb

#11720

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw

#1172

A light heart lives long. Irish Proverb

#11722

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Gilbert Highet

#11723

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

#11724

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about. Cuban Proverb

#11725

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

#11726

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. Anonymous

#11727

A man is as old as he feels himself to be. English Proverb

#11728

A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words. Russian Proverb

#11729

A man is known by the company he avoids. Anonymous

#11730

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. Samuel Johnson

#11731

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. Sir James Glover

#11732

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. Arnold Bennett

#11733

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. Michel de Montaigne

#11734

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#11735

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. Anna Quindlen

#11736

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. Charles Dickens

#11737

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. Paul Rudnick

#11738

A mother understands what a child does not say. Jewish Proverb

#11739

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. Alexander Hamilton

#11740

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity. Yiddish Proverb

#11741

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. Jewish Proverb

#11742

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats

#11743

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

#11744

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

#11745

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. James A. Garfield

#11746

A pretty woman is a welcome guest. Lord Byron

#11747

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles F. Kettering

#11748

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows. Bolivian Proverb

#11749

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. Clive James

#11750

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. John A. Shedd

#11751

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. Daniel J. Boorstin

#11752

A silent mouth is sweet to hear. Irish Proverb

#11753

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts

#11754

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. Benjamin Franklin

#11755

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. English Proverb

#11756

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal

#11757

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. Milton Friedman

#11758

A soft answer turned away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. Bible, Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)

#11759

A stumble may prevent a fall. English Proverb

#11760

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving

#11761

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance. Stephane Mallarme

#11762

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire

#11763Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

#11764

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. Irish Proverb

#11765

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. John Ciardi

#11766

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. Jim Sorensen

#11767

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user . Theodore Roosevelt

#11768

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. Thomas Carlyle

#11769

A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have. Italian Proverb

#11770

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Sir Francis Bacon

#11771

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. Greek Proverb

#11772

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher

#11773

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann

#11774

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. Gloria Pitzer

#11775

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. English Proverb

#11776

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. Charles Dickens

#11777

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila

#11778

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. Leo Rosten

#11779

Action is eloquence. William Shakespeare

#11780

Action is the foundational key to all success. Tony Robbins

#11781

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. G. M. Trevelyan

#11782

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship. French Proverb

#11783

Advice is least heeded when most needed. American Proverb

#11784

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#11785

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb

#11786

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan

#11787

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Sir Winston Churchill

#11788

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11789

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann

#11790

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Samuel Butler

#11791

All pleasures contain an element of sadness. Jonathan Eibeschutz

#11792

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle

#11793

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. Sun-Tzu

#11794

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. William Harvey

#11795

All would live long, but none would be old. Benjamin Franklin

#11796

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln

#11797

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes

#11798

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. American Proverb

#11799

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave

defenders. George W. Bush

#11800

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. Miguel De Cervantes

#11801

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. Alexander Pope

#11802

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick. William Butler Yeats

#11803

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. Sir Winston Churchill

#11804

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. Franklin P. Jones

#11805

An honest man is the noblest work of God. Alexander Pope

#11806

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

#11807

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. Henry Clay

#11808

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. Alexander Pope

#11809

And say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats

#11810

Anger is a bad counselor. French Proverb

#11811

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. G. M. Trevelyan

#11812

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Ingersoll

#11813

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul. Thomas Fuller

#11814

Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow. Czech Proverb

#11815

Anger without power is folly. German Proverb

#11816

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. Anonymous

#11817

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. Eric Gibson

#11818

Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. Bible, Proverbs 26:4 (NIV)

#11819

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. Robert G. Allen

#11820

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. Saul Bellow

#11821

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow. Edwin Teale

#11822

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. Dwight D. Morrow

#11823

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. Alice Walker

#11824

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. Lily Langtry

#11825

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde

#11826

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. Saint Teresa of Avila

#11827

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

#11828

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. William Rotsler

#11829

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. William S. Burroughs

#11830

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. Sun-Tzu

#11831

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde

#11832

Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown. American Proverb

#11833

Art is the illusion of spontaneity. Japanese Proverb

#11834

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Bible, Proverbs 23:7

#11835

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#11836

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived. German Proverb

#11837

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. Communist Manifesto

#11838

As he thinks in his heart, so he is. Jewish Proverb

#11839

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings

#11840

As you teach, you learn. Jewish Proverb

#11841

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart. Omaha Proverb

#11842

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler

#11843

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. Benjamin Franklin

#11844

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser

#11845

At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish. Thai Proverb

#11846

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. Oscar Wilde

#11847

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. Anonymous

#11848

Bad is never good until worse happens. Danish Proverb

#11849

Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet. Welsh Proverb

#11850

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. Fulton J. Sheen

#11851

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson

#11852

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. Leo Durocher

#11853

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Thomas Fuller

#11854

No pressure, no diamonds. Mary Case

#11855

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others. Anonymous

#11856

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Saint Teresa of Avila

#11857

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. Jimmy Durante

#11858

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. Confucius

#11859

Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#11860

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Benjamin Franklin

#11861

Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater. Thomas a Kempis

#11862

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch. Chinese Proverb

#11863

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau

#11864

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield

#11865

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt

#11866

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#11867

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. Scottish Proverb

#11868

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#11869

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell

#11870

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard. Japanese Proverb

#11871

Better be quarrelling than lonesome. Irish Proverb

#11872

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop

#11873

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. Thomas Paine

#11874

Better no law than laws not enforced. Italian Proverb

#11875

Better the foot slip than the tongue. French Proverb

#11876

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other. Raymond Loewy

#11877

Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn. Lebanese Proverb

#11878

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin

#11879

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon. Cosino DeGregrio

#11880

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown

#11881

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. James D. Watson

#11882

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabi

#11883

Blind belief is dangerous. Kenyan Proverb

#11884

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired. Venezuelan Proverb

#11885

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery

#11886

Books may well be the only true magic. Alice Hoffman

#11887

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. Benjamin Disraeli

#11888

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. William Phillips

#11889

Bravery never goes out of fashion. William Makepeace Thackeray

#11890

Break the leg of a bad habit. Puerto Rican Proverb

#11891

Comedy is tragedy plus time. Carol Burnett

#11892

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker

#11893

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. Irish Proverb

#11894

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. Knute Rockne

#11895

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. John Adams

#11896

By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible. Italian Proverb

#11897

By learning to obey, you will know how to command. Italian Proverb

#11898

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

#11899

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11900

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition

#11901

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about. Yiddish Proverb

#11902

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11903

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. Henry James

#11904

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11905

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. Horace Mann

#11906

Character is what you are in the dark. American Proverb

#11907

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks

#11908

Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of. Nigel

#11909

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. Cuban Proverb

#11910

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. Haim Ginott

#11911

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. Jess Lair

#11912

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold S. Hulbert

#11913

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. John Adams

#11914

Children speak in the field what they hear in the house. Scottish Proverb

#11915

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Lord Chesterfield

#11916

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. Jean Francois Revel

#11917

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. LeGuin

#11918

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. Ronald Reagan

#11919

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11920

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer

#11921

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. Anonymous

#11922

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. H. L. Mencken

#11923

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. Mencken

#11924

Conscience is the voice of the soul. Polish Proverb

#11925

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. Anonymous

#11926

The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness. John Maxwell

#11927

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. Epictetus

#11928

Conversation is food for the soul. Mexican Proverb

#11929

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. George S. Patton

#11930

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

#11931

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use . Ruth Gordon

#11932

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

#11933

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. Henry David Thoreau

#11934

Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision? Marilyn Monroe

#11935

Customs are more powerful than laws. The Talmud

#11936

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. English Proverb

#11937

Danger past, God forgotten. Scottish Proverb

#11938

Dare to be naive. R. Buckminster Fuller

#11939

Daylight follows a dark night. Maasai Proverb

#11940

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates

#11941

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. Chinese Proverb

#11942

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11943

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something. Sue S. Taylor

#11944

Dig the well before you are thirsty. Chinese Proverb

#11945

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle

#11946

Diligence is the mother of good luck. American Proverb

#11947

Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. Zhou En Lai

#11948

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. American Proverb

#11949

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg

#11950

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments . Frederick the Great

#11951

Diplomacy: lying in state. Oliver Hereford

#11952

Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy. Spanish Proverb

#11953

Discretion is the better part of valor. Anonymous

#11954

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#11955

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. Chinese Proverb

#11956

Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise. Czech Proverb

#11957

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin

#11958

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. Stanislaw J. Lec

#11959

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. Jewish Proverb

#11960

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson

#11961

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Unknown

#11962

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Hebrew Proverb

#11963

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. Persian Proverb

#11964

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. Chinese Proverb

#11965

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11966

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. Haitian Proverb

#11967

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. C. S. Lewis

#11968

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. Henry James

#11969

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. Mary Schmich

#11970

Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened. Egyptian Proverb

#11971

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho

#11972

Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by. Russian Proverb

#11973

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself. African Proverb

#11974

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

#11975

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? Pope Julius III

#11976

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Roger Caras

#11977

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way. Anonymous

#11978

There is no They, Only Us. Graffito

#11979

Dreams are wishes your heart makes. American Proverb

#11980

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. Spanish Proverb

#11981

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. Knute Rockne

#11982

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. Arab Proverb

#11983

Each bird loves to hear himself sing. Arapaho Proverb

#11984

Each body has its art... Gwendolyn Brooks

#11985

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11986

Each day provides its own gifts. American Proverb

#11987

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown. Chinese Proverb

#11988

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. Polish Proverb

#11989

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin

#11990

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. Greek Proverb

#11991

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

#11992

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. Aristotle

#11993

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

#11994

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain

#11995

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

#11996

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. Benjamin Franklin

#11997

Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin

#11998

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson

#11999

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. Ronald Reagan

#12000

Even the longest day has its end. Irish Proverb

#12001

Beware the man of one book. Saint Thomas Aquinas

#12002

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson

#12003

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. Henry Kissinger

#12004

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Carl Jung

#12005

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. H. L. Mencken

#12006

Every once in a while, take the scenic route. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#12007

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. G. Stanley Hall

#12008

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before. African Proverb

#12009

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha

#12010

Everyone is the age of their heart. Guatemalan Proverb

#12011

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. Italian Proverb

#12012

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. Julia T. Alvarez

#12013

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. Thomas A. Edison

#12014

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. Publilius Syrus

#12015

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies. French Proverb

#12016

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

#12017

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud

#12018

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. Albert Einstein

#12019

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

#12020

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer

#12021

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. Edgar Watson Howe

#12022

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. Paul Theroux

#12023

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater

#12024

Eyes that see do not grow old. Nicaraguan Proverb

#12025

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. William Makepeace Thackeray

#12026

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan"

#12027

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

#12028

The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC

#12029

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table. Herman Melville, Moby Dick

#12030

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. James Joyce

#12031

(I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) e. e. cummings

#12032

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#12033

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy

#12034

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance. Joseph Stalin

#12035

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Zora Neale Hurston

#12036

Which is worse: Hell or nothing? Chuck Palahniuk

#12037

A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season. Chuang Tzu

#12038

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. Longfellow

#12039

If The Way is made clear, it is no longer The Way. Chuang Tzu

#12040

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994

#12041

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? George Bernard Shaw

#12042

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people. Ben Harper

#12043

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Spencer Churchill

#12044

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. Steve Allen

#12045

Art is the Indispensible medium for the communication of a moral idea. Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

#12046

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. Sue Grafton

#12047

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn

#12048

Men, in general, are but great children. Napoleon

#12049

Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that. Bill Cosby

#12050

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men . Joseph Conrad

#12051

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. Charles Darwin

#12052

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his. George D. Prentice

#12053

This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 9<br>11. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home. Dick Cheney, KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004

#12054

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

#12055

Patience is the companion of wisdom. St. Augistine

#12056

it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

#12057

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. Martin Schulze

#12058

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech

#12059

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)

#12060

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx

#12061

Communications without intelligence is noise; <br> Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. Gen Alfred Gray, USMC

#12062

Specialization is for insects. Robert Heinlein, The voice of Lazarus Long

#12063

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

#12064

the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (essay)

#12065

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates

#12066

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, "Die Politik ist die Lehre von M?glichen.") Otto von Bismarck

#12067

The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock

#12068

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeates

#12069

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance. David Pratt

#12070

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

#12071

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. Hermione Gingold, from a press report, 1973

#12072

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks. Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944

#12073

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814

#12074

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

#12075

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. Gloria Steinem

#12076

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein, Sc

#12077

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there. Clare Booth Luce

#12078

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it. James Joyce

#12079

Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare

#12080

Truth fears no questions. Anonymous

#12081

I must be cruel, only to be kind. William Shakespeare

#12082

Death ends a life, not a relationship. Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

#12083

If you tell a lie -- tell a big one. Joespeh Goebbels

#12084

"I meant," said Implore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

#12085

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat. S. S. Biddle

#12086

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. Margo Kaufman

#12087

As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. Gregory Macguire, Wicked

#12088

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal--or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be. Elizabeth Peters

#12089

What will a child learn sooner than a song? Alexander Pope

#12090

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayna

#12091

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. George Will

#12092

The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back. David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat

#12093

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12094

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch, Twelve Seasons

#12095

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door. Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz

#12096

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

#12097

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

#12098

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou

#12099

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Thomas Carlyle, Profiles in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

#12100

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) Lucius Accius, Telephus

#12101

Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld

#12102

When you have a child, the world has a hostage. Ernest Hemingway

#12103

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

#12104

When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears. Dr. Ruth Westheimer

#12105

The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by Christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

#12106

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? W. H. Auden, Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier

#12107

In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you. Jason Mraz

#12108

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more. Jason Mraz

#12109

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God. Jason Mraz

#12110

I aught join a club and beat you over the head with it. Groucho Marx

#12111

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general. Frederick Nietzsche

#12112

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber

#12113

When you control the ball, you control the score. Pele

#12114

God is either everything, or He is nothing. Bill Wilson, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

#12115

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign

#12116

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem. Josef Stalin

#12117

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. Richard Russo

#12118

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you. Otto Von Bismarck

#12119

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe. Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard

#12120

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillips

#12121

When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates

#12122

We slew the goliath of racism, we now must contend with his offspring. Rev. Jesse Jackson

#12123

God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. Martin Luther King Jr.

#12124

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. General Omar Bradley

#12125

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett

#12126

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#12127

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

#12128

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. Terry Pratchett, Eric

#12129

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69

#12130

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention

#12131

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. J. S. Bach

#12132

Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin. Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

#12133

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. Oscar Wilde

#12134

my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#12135

Summertime, and the living is easy. George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

#12136

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country. George W. Bush

#12137

We shall not cease from our exploration<br> And at the end of all our exploring<br> Will be to arrive where we started<br> And know the place for the first time T. S. Eliot

#12138

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

#12139

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity. Orlando Bloom

#12140

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people. Thomas Jefferson

#12141

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sandiest me to God. Saint Thomas More, upon being executed

#12142

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato, Laws

#12143

I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003

#12144

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer

#12145

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope. James E. Faust

#12146

I intend to live forever or die trying. Joseph Heller, Catch-22

#12147

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

#12148

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell

#12149

In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen. Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004

#12150

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving. Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

#12151

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within! Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

#12152

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Greek Proverb

#12153

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

#12154

I have no life, just e-mail. Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)

#12155

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.<br> Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert G. Ingersoll

#12156

Art is anything you can get away with. Andy Warhol

#12157

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N.Y.

#12158

Brutality creates respect. Adolph Hitler

#12159

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte

#12160

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. General Douglas MacArthur

#12161

It is the province of knowledge to speak<br> And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#12162

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway

#12163

All is for the best in the best of all possible ways. Voltaire, Candide

#12164

In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without. Henri Cartier-Bresson

#12165

success is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait Teddy Carroll

#12166

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan

#12167

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. Logan Pearsall Smith

#12168

One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God. J. Gustav White

#12169

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. Unknown

#12170

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada. Lorne Bloch

#12171

Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate

#12172

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? Ernest Gaines

#12173

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W. Somerset Maugham

#12174

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic." Shelly Roberts

#12175

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. George Carlin, From his book \- Brain Droppings

#12176

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of conscious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. Saint Augustine, Confessions

#12177

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson

#12178

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys. Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

#12179

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln

#12180

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. Unknown

#12181

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. Robert A. Heinlein

#12182

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Robert A. Heinlein

#12183

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time. Robert A. Heinlein

#12184

A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events. Robert A. Heinlein

#12185

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. Robert A. Heinlein

#12186

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. Robert A. Heinlein

#12187

There are laws for everything except the harm families do. Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat

#12188

Emotion is a rotten base for politics. Dick Francis

#12189

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull? Dick Francis, Twice Shy

#12190

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#12191

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power. Dennis Kucinich

#12192

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

#12193

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. W. B. Yeats

#12194

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanislaw J. Lec

#12195

People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12196

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. Harry S. Truman

#12197

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives. Albert Schweitzer

#12198

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12199

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. Milton Friedman

#12200

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliot

#12201

You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones that do what you do. Jerry Garcia

#12202

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. Knights of Pythagoras

#12203

Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge

#12204

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place. Cicero

#12205

They are able because they think they are able. Virgil

#12206

[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway

#12207

If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started. Marcus Garvey

#12208

He who does not hope to win has already lost. Jose Joaquin de Olmedo

#12209

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they?ve got a second. Give your dreams all you?ve got and you?ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!! William James

#12210

Act as if were impossible to fail. Dorothea Broude

#12211

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Appius Claudius

#12212

The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. Ray Kroc

#12213

The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking. Annson Dorrance

#12214

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus

#12215

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar

#12216

As long as you are going to think anyway, think big. Donald Trump

#12217

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd

#12218

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. William James

#12219

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ?I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane. Ramtha

#12220

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

#12221

I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways. Tim Burton, Burton On Burton

#12222

I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri A. Gagarin

#12223

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace. Plato

#12224

To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

#12225

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Erma Bombeck

#12226

A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun. Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda

#12227

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. George Orwell

#12228

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead

#12229

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.<br> (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.) Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12230

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. Isodore Duncan

#12231

Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse. James Cagney

#12232

If at first you dont succeed, skydiving is not for you. Wendy Northcutt, Darwin Awards – literature

#12233

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything. Josef Stalin

#12234

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.<br> From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.<br> From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. Visions of Gregorian Chants

#12235

Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel. Thomas Paine

#12236

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words. St. Francis of Assissi

#12237

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12238

So long as there are men there will be wars. Albert Einstein

#12239

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell

#12240

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it. Erasmus

#12241

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12242

I think; therefore I am. Rene Descartes

#12243

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

#12244

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes. Herman Melville, Moby Dick

#12245

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. Frank Zappa

#12246

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

#12247

We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately. Benjamin Franklin

#12248

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him!<br> (said after capture of Saddam) George W. Bush, BBC/CNN

#12249

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb

#12250

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Robert Lynd

#12251

To be feared is much safer then to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#12252

Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love. The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917

#12253

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Robert Lynd, Book-"The Pleasures of Ignorance" (1921)

#12254

I wasted time, now time doth waste me. William Shakespeare, Richard II

#12255

I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed. Janis Joplin, Biography of Joplin by Myra Freidman

#12256

I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised. Raymond Justice

#12257

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

#12258

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

#12259

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? Art Hoppe

#12260

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12261

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot

#12262

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved. W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

#12263

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage

#12264

Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.

#12265

I exist as I am, that is enough. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

#12266

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy! Friedrich Nietzsche

#12267

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit! Ted Turner, A speech to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN

#12268

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being. Carl Jung

#12269

In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal. Unknown

#12270

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. C. S. Lewis

#12271

Perception is strong, sight is weak. Miyamoto Musashi, "A Book of Five Rings"

#12272

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the

#12273

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute Dag Hammarskjold

#12274

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith

#12275

When you choose the behaviour, you choose the consequences. Dr. Phillip McGraw

#12276

If rough be love with you, be rough with love. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

#12277

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

#12278

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

#12279

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs." Josef Stalin

#12280

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. Leonid Brezhnev

#12281

Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs. Konstantin Chernenko

#12282

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone. Charles Darwin

#12283

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Charles Darwin

#12284

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? Charles Darwin

#12285

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. Walter Scott

#12286

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand

#12287

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures. Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels

#12288

No question is ever settled until it is settled right. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12289

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Akiro Kurosawa

#12290

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#12291

lovers alone wear sunlight e.e. cummings

#12292

No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens. Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage

#12293

Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea. unknown, US Navy Wisdom

#12294

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity. Bruce Lee

#12295

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art. Bruce Lee

#12296

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

#12297

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney

#12298

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

#12299

It's more easy to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russians problems in 15 minutes Garry Kasparov, Baltic Development Forum, Hamburg, September 13, 2004

#12300

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato, The Republic

#12301

Here stand I. I can do no other. Martin Luther

#12302

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny? Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia

#12303

We live as we dream - alone. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

#12304

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. Maya Angelou

#12305

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live. Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people

#12306

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast. William Shakespeare, Richard III

#12307

All true wealth is biological. Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

#12308

You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923

#12309

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness. Kahlil Gibran

#12310

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato, The Republic

#12311

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost

#12312

On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws. Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun

#12313

Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport. Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

#12314

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about. Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

#12315

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

#12316

The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them. Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

#12317

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

#12318

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. Mark Twain

#12319

Necessity, who is the mother of invention. Plato, The Republic

#12320

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

#12321

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well. Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal"

#12322

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. Henry David Thoreau, book

#12323

Everything terrible is something that needs our love. Rilke

#12324

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. Bill Cosby, Time Flies

#12325

Reality is only just a word. Harry Chapin

#12326

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott

#12327

Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice... Marquis de Sade, Justine

#12328

Time heals what reason cannot. Seneca

#12329

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. H. L. Mencken

#12330

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa

#12331

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

#12332

Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you. Louis Keisler

#12333

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For

#12334

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else. Bruce Cockburn

#12335

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

#12336

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Herman Melville, Moby Dick

#12337

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla

#12338

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931

#12339

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934

#12340

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time. Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

#12341

You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have. Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

#12342

The world is my lobster. Henry J. Tillman

#12343

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. Lyndon B. Johnson

#12344

In wildness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862)

#12345

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed. Oprah Winfrey

#12346

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. Salvador Dali

#12347

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch

#12348

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again. Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

#12349

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right. Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

#12350

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation. Richard Feynman

#12351

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame

#12352

My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me. Egyptian Book of the Dead

#12353

Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend. Nicholas Venturella

#12354

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

#12355

To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine

#12356

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games. Earnest Hemingway

#12357

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)

#12358

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government. Henry Ward Beecher

#12359

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22

#12360

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. James Madison, Federalist 10

#12361

There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken

#12362

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E.L. Doctorow

#12363

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Osama Bin Laden, BBC

#12364

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

#12365

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. Albert Schweitzer

#12366

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. Thomas Jefferson

#12367

I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do. Edward E. Hale

#12368

In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail. Vincent T. Lombardi

#12369

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. Muhammad

#12370

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience

#12371

You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top

#12372

So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves. Niccollo Machavelli, The Prince.

#12373

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

#12374

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline"

#12375

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love. Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

#12376

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)

#12377

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose. Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42

#12378

An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it. Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto

#12379

In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau

#12380

James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

#12381

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155

#12382

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. Henry Thoreau

#12383

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison. Clive Lewis

#12384

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith

#12385

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own. Adam Smith

#12386

The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. Adam Smith

#12387

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. Adam Smith

#12388

The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference... Adam Smith

#12389

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

#12390

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

#12391

Apathy isn?t it. We can do something. So flower power didn?t work. So what. We start again. John Lennon

#12392

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. Thomas Hobbes

#12393

All wealth is the product of labor. John Locke

#12394

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. John Locke

#12395

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. John Locke

#12396

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke

#12397

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

#12398

The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke

#12399

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Thomas Hobbes

#12400

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society. James Dean

#12401

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that?s all you have. James Dean

#12402

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery. James Dean

#12403

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others. Niccolo Machiavelli

#12404

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H. P. Lovecraft

#12405

The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend. Paris Hilton

#12406

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994

#12407

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine

#12408

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. Bob Marley

#12409

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali

#12410

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not. Margaret Thatcher

#12411

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Theodore Roosevelt

#12412

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12413

Some men are born posthumously. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

#12414

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle, unknown

#12415

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her. Winston Churchill

#12416

It matters not how strait the gate,<br> How charged with punishments the scroll,<br> I am the master of my fate:<br> I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus"

#12417

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. Sigmund Freud

#12418

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. Rabbi Harold Kushner

#12419

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. Rabbi Harold Kushner

#12420

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls. Rabbi Harold Kushner

#12421

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. Rabbi Harold Kushner

#12422

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. Rabbi Harold Kushner

#12423

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

#12424

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

#12425

America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984

#12426

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Somerset Maugham, The New York Times Book Review, September 30, 1984

#12427

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth. Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

#12428

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive. John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

#12429

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974

#12430

Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998

#12431

Getting old is not for sissies. Bette Davis

#12432

What a beautiful morning. John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington

#12433

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. Sallust

#12434

If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go. Groucho Marx

#12435

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

#12436

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

#12437

War is Peace<br> Freedom is Slavery<br> Ignorance is Strength George Orwell, Book "1984"

#12438

Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus

#12439

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck

#12440

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them. Edgar Allan Poe

#12441

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. George Orwell, Essay: "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

#12442

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods

#12443

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

#12444

If you fear change, leave it here. Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip jar

#12445

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Celine Dion

#12446

Democracy works. Against us. Jon Stewart, The Daily Show: Referring to the victory of George W. Bush in the 2004 election.

#12447

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. Joesph Heller, Catch-22

#12448

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. P. L. Berger

#12449

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don?t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

#12450

You know what I say to people when I hear they?re writing an anti-war book?? I say, "why don?t you write an anti-glacier book instead?"<br> What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5

#12451

The way we see the problem is the problem. Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

#12452

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

#12453

The course of true love was never easy. William Shakespeare

#12454

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. Henry David Thoreau

#12455

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber

#12456

Security is a process, not a product. Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies - Digital Security in a Networked World \-- by Bruce Schneier - ISBN 0-471-25311-1

#12457

I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers. Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC

#12458

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. W. H. Auden

#12459

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine. George Sand

#12460

Stolen sweets are best. Colley Cibber

#12461

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. Mary Shelley

#12462

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. Leonardo da Vinci

#12463

Fools rush in and get the best seats. Alfred E. Neuman (probably William Gaines), MAD Magazine

#12464

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert Orben

#12465

What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American. Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?

#12466

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley

#12467

Everyone has a right to his own course of action. Moliere

#12468

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor. Mark Twain

#12469

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. Mark Twain

#12470

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. General Douglas MacArthur

#12471

There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

#12472

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness. David Weatherford

#12473

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran

#12474

The absence of love is the most abject pain. Herr Lipp

#12475

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. William Shakespeare

#12476

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot

#12477

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. Toledo Blade

#12478

All cats are gray in the dark. Benjamin Franklin

#12479

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman

#12480

Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country. Steven Wright

#12481

The Creator gave man two ears and one mouth;there is a reason why He did so. Thomas Barron

#12482

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus

#12483

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn

#12484

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. Dennis Kucinich

#12485

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally. Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

#12486

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate. Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

#12487

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Theresa

#12488

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand. Duffy Daugherty, football coach and sports analyst

#12489

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. Bill Peterson, football coach

#12490

You guys line up alphabetically by height. Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach

#12491

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver. Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman

#12492

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. Sy Parrish, One Hour Photo

#12493

The President can bomb anybody he likes. Richard Nixon, Nixon

#12494

Thinking evil is making evil. Friedrich Nietzsche

#12495

Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

#12496

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

#12497

When President Bush invaded Iraq after 9<br>11 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. John Kerry, Debate

#12498

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. Sir Thomas Beecham

#12499

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12500

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus

#12501

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. Harry S Truman

#12502

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S Truman

#12503

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America. Otto von Bismarck

#12504

Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon

#12505

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past. Patrick Henry

#12506

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon

#12507

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;<br> Weep, and you weep alone.<br> For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,<br> But has trouble enough of its own. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12508

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way. Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906

#12509

Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty... David Gridley, Indiantown

#12510

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; <br> There is no endless joy, <br> ...and yet no endless sorrow. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12511

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. Abraham Lincoln

#12512

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Sir Winston Churchill

#12513

Winter is come and gone,<br> But grief returns with the revolving year. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

#12514

Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

#12515

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

#12516

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy. Scott Alexander, film writer and director

#12517

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12518

Death ends a life, not a relationship. Morrie Swartz, Tuesdays with Morrie (book)

#12519

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death. Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

#12520

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows. George Orwell

#12521

English is the easiest language to speak badly. George Bernhard Shaw

#12522

Life, at best, is completely unpredictable. Chrisopher Walken

#12523

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us. Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

#12524

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#12525

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#12526

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Jerry Chin

#12527

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards. Jonathan Berry

#12528

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing. Malcom Mclaren

#12529

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning. Iggy Pop

#12530

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought. Mahatma Gandhi

#12531

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. Leo Tolstoy

#12532

Live simply that others may simply live. Mahatma Gandhi

#12533

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West

#12534

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Carl Zwanzig

#12535

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart. William Makepeace Thackeray

#12536

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. William Makepeace Thackeray

#1253

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well. Francis Bacon

#12538

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments. Francis Bacon

#12539

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life. Ecclesiastes

#12540

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone. Federico Fellini, 8 ½

#12541

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before. Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

#12542

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. Aristotle

#12543

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. Jane Goodall

#12544

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. Jane Goodall

#12545

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5:9

#12546

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear. Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital

#12547

If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book. Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

#12548

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. General Douglas MacArthur

#12549

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,<br> And the greatest good is little enough:<br> for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

#12550

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less. Robert E. Lee

#12551

There is no substitute for victory. General Douglas MacArthur

#12552

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free. Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

#12553

Is yours an honest lament?...Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights. R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

#12554

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts. R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

#12555

There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable. R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

#12556

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed. R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

#12557

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life. R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

#12558

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation. R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness

#12559

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. Hubert H. Humphrey

#12560

Evil is relative?You can?t hang a sign on it. You can?t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger. Glen Cook, The Black Company

#12561

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. Glen Cook, Shadow Games

#12562

Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day! Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

#12563

To laugh is to live profoundly. Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting

#12564

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

#12565

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win. Kongming (Zhuge Liang)

#12566

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck

#12567

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. J. C. Penny

#12568

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth

#12569

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost. M. Scott Peck

#12570

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. Unknown

#12571

You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences. Pia Melody

#12572

Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry James

#12573

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Albert Camus

#12574

If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing. Zimbabwean Proverb

#12575

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster

#12576

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime. Elsa Barker

#12577

Believing where we cannot prove. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

#12578

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3

#12579

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino

#12580

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it. Howard W. Newton

#12581

Drugs are a bet with your mind. Jim Morrison, Biography

#12582

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place. Oscar Levant

#12583

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. Eric Hoffer, True Believer or Theory of leisure class

#12584

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain

#12585

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. Mark Twain

#12586

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. Wilfred Funk

#12587

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. Epictetus, Enchiridion

#12588

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and<br>or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. Joseph Goebbels

#12589

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism

#12590

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Unknown

#12591

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. Henry James

#12592

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

#12593

You can do no great things, just small things with great love. Mother Teresa, Robin Williams

#12594

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being. Paul Tillich, From a lecture

#12595

Thou art a Man, God is no more.<br> Thy own humanity learn to adore. William Blake

#12596

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

#12597

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. George Washington

#12598

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Joseph Heller, Catch 22

#12599

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all. Alexander Pushkin

#12600

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. George Orwell, 1984

#12601

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell, 1984

#12602

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane. George Orwell, 1984

#12603

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. George Orwell, 1984

#12604

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. George Orwell, 1984

#12605

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. George Orwell, 1984

#12606

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. Unknown

#12607

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#12608

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven. William Wharton

#12609

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried. G. K. Chesterton

#12610

Men are only as unfaithful as their options. Chris Rock

#12611

Every child deserves a home and love. Period. Dave Thomas

#12612

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child. Jamie Lee Curtis

#12613

A word to the wise is infuriating. Hunter S Thompson

#12614

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. Hunter S Thompson

#12615

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

#12616

You can not gain peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf

#12617

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

#12618

All true wealth is biological. Lois McMasters Bujold, "Mirror Dance"

#12619

I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best. The Rock

#12620

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Frederick Douglass

#12621

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Webster

#12622

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts. Karin Mei?enburg, translator and author

#12623

Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Michael Crichton

#12624

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

#12625

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Abraham Lincoln

#12626

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

#12627

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime. Lou Reed

#12628

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein

#12629

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. Janeane Garofalo

#12630

Spend and be spent. Theodore Roosevelt, sign posted at his grave site

#12631

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you. Ramakrishna

#12632

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders. Friedrich Nietzsche

#12633

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses (poem)

#12634

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Frank Herbert

#12635

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

#12636

It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Tibetan Proverb

#12637

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Woodrow Wyatt

#12638

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

#12639

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. Mother Teresa

#12640

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Ian Fleming

#12641

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005

#12642

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him. Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars," 1964

#12643

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

#12644

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

#12645

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Spinoza

#12646

Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record. Steve Knight

#12647

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

#12648

A pessimist is never disappointed. Jack Cleary

#12649

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance

#12650

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On"

#12651

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes. Douglas Adams, Ford Prefect in "Life, the Universe, and Everything"

#12652

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; <br> if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. English proverb

#12653

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.<br> The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

#12654

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

#12655

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. Jane Austen, Emma

#12656

Keep thy religion to thyself. George Carlin

#12657

With great power comes great responsibility. Stan Lee, Spider-Man comic

#12658

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln

#12659

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. Douglas Adams

#12660

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. Douglas Adams

#12661

The perfect man of action, is the suicide. William Carlos Williams

#12662

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather. Jordan, Robert

#12663

Honor and shame from no condition rise.<br> Act well your part: there all the honor lies. Alexander Pope

#12664

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope

#12665

Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it. Martha Singleterry

#12666

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot. Johannes Trithemius, 1488

#12667

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished. John Stewart Mills

#12668

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned. Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf

#12669

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain

#12670

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love. Charles Manson

#12671

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. Michael Crichton, State of Fear

#12672

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. Steven Wright

#12673

Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated. S?ren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848

#12674

Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it. S?ren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838

#12675

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3<br>8 of a paragraph. S?ren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift

#12676

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

#12677

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

#12678

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo

#12679

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. George S. Patton

#12680

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran

#12681

Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#12682

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. John MacNaughton

#12683

Truth is a pathless land. Krishnamurti

#12684

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man. Timothy Leary

#12685

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi

#12686

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn

#12687

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. Katharine Hepburn

#12688

Enemies are so stimulating. Katharine Hepburn

#12689

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775

#12690

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power. Benjamin Franklin

#12691

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. John F. Kennedy

#12692

...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee. Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909?14, p.1)

#12693

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12694

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. G. M. Trevelyan

#12695

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back Fred Allen

#12696

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Sir Winston Churchill

#12697

The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding, Lord of The Flies

#12698

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don?t mind, it doesn?t matter. Satchel Paige

#12699

Give death a better name or die trying. Timothy Leary

#12700

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief. Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

#12701

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus, Serendipity

#12702

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert

#12703

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn?t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn?t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point. Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

#12704

Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry land?and finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley. Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

#12705

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare

#12706

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. Edna Woolman Chase

#12707

Success is never final. Sir Winston Churchill

#12708

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

#12709

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gough

#12710

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. Mark Twain

#12711

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry S Truman

#12712

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? Robert Mallet

#12713

The future belongs to those who dare. Anonymous

#12714

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it. Douglas Gerald

#12715

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! Constanze

#12716

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. Agnes de Mille

#12717

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. Mata Hari

#12718

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. J. M. Barry

#12719

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose

#12720

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not. Hilary Clinton

#12721

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#12722

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

#12723

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common! Oscar Wilde

#12724

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay

#12725

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language

#12726

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. G. Weilacher

#12727

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. Ann Landers

#12728

In war, there are no unwounded solders. Jose Narosky

#12729

Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis

#12730

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love. Dagobert D. Runes

#12731

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience. General Omar Bradley

#12732

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#12733

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12734

I am wealthy in my friends. William Shakespeare

#12735

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness. Ludwig van Beethoven

#12736

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain

#12737

A friend is a present you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson

#12738

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all. Leo Rosten

#12739

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain

#12740

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller

#12741

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Theresa

#12742

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#12743

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

#12744

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. Henri F. Amiel

#12745

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Emerson

#12746

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. H. H. Munro, (Saki)

#12747

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,<br> To come to me: of cureless ills thou art<br> The one physician. Pain lays not its touch<br> Upon a corpse. Aeschylus

#12748

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:<br> Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured<br> Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed<br> By hymns of praise. From him alone of all<br> The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

#12749

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. Aeschylus

#12750

If eyes were made for seeing, <br> Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12751

Without the smile from partial beauty won,<br> Oh what were man??a world without a sun. Thomas Campbell

#12752

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold

#12753

Is life worth living? Yes, so long<br> As there is wrong to right. Alfred Austin

#12754

So long as faith with freedom reigns<br> And loyal hope survives, <br> And gracious charity remains<br> To leaven lowly lives; <br> While there is one untrodden tract<br> For intellect or will, <br> And men are free to think and act,<br> Life is worth living still. Alfred Austin

#12755

The Night has a thousand eyes,<br> And the Day but one; <br> Yet the light of the bright world dies<br> With the dying sun. <br> The mind has a thousand eyes,<br> And the heart but one; <br> Yet the light of a whole life dies<br> When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon

#12756

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. Unknown

#12757

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. Liz Smith

#12758

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness. Aleister Crowley

#12759

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12760

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt

#12761

Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government"

#12762

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. C. S. Lewis

#12763

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Daniel Webster

#12764

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer

#12765

Love inspires, illuminates, designates and leads the way. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

#12766

The time for thinkers has come. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

#12767

That which is not just is not law. William Lloyd Garrison, Boston abolitionist

#12768

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

#12769

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. George S. Patton

#12770

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be. Shahrukh Khan, a famous actor in india

#12771

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact. George Orwell

#12772

Some promises are better left unsaid Ashlee Simpson, In her album Autobiography.

#12773

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other. Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire

#12774

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12775

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12776

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet. Lao-Tzu

#12777

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12778

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12779

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12780

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it. William Hazlitt

#12781

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12782

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12783

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12784

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

#12785

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

#12786

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. Ghandi, 1931

#12787

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12788

Truth is subject to too much analysis. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12789

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12790

Absolute power is the power to destroy. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12791

Beaurocracy destroys initiative. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12792

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12793

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12794

Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12795

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12796

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African proverb

#12797

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12798

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual. Frank Herbert, Dune

#12799

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin

#12800

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. Martin Luther King Jr.

#12801

Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton

#12802

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

#12803

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Dolly Parton

#12804

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. Thomas Jefferson

#12805

You either have to be first, best or different. Loretta Lynn

#12806

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend. Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

#12807

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. Pablo Picasso

#12808

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play. Charlie Parker

#12809

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore

#12810

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche

#12811

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Schweitzer

#12812

I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

#12813

Less is more. Mies van der Rohe, Referring to Modern Architecture

#12814

God is in the details. Mies van der Rohe

#12815

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman, The Princess Bride

#12816

To live is well, but to live well is better Russian proverb

#12817

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance, 1994, p. 287

#12818

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Abbie Hoffman

#12819

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#12820

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Emile Zola

#12821

Well behaved women seldom make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#12822

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

#12823

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis

#12824

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

#12825

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

#12826

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer. Carl Sandburg

#12827

I hate quotations. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12828

If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. G. K. Chesterton

#12829

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis

#12830

He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire. Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann

#12831

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter

#12832

Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube. Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

#12833

Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

#12834

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." Mary Anne Radmacher

#12835

Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

#12836

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

#12837

It?s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-09-05

#12838

For when the One Great Scorer comes<br> To write against your name,<br> He marks-not that you won or lost-<br> But how you played the game. Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)

#12839

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality. Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculptor

#12840

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. Edward P. Tryon

#12841

This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. John Ruskin

#12842

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive. Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine"

#12843

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him. Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light

#12844

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart. Paulo Coelho, Brida

#12845

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark. Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

#12846

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love. Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

#12847

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible. Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

#12848

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. Eleanor Roosevelt

#12849

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul. Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

#12850

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed. Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

#12851

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk. Stephen Hawking

#12852

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

#12853

Stop thinking, and end your problems. Lao Tzu

#12854

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

#12855

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Victor Hugo

#12856

Do not fear mistakes, there are none. Miles Davis

#12857

First you imitate, then you innovate. Miles Davis

#12858

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. Ivana Trump

#12859

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Steve Martin

#12860

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. Ann Landers

#12861

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. Napoleon Bonaparte

#12862

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. George Meredith

#12863

Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated Allphonse de Lamartine

#12864

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Elie Weisel

#12865

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Jr.

#12866

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson

#12867

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can. Mark Twain

#12868

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. Plato

#12869

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski

#12870

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. David Bailey

#12871

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. Ethel Barrymore

#12872

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. David Brink

#12873

Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care? Lemuel W. H. Ranier

#12874

And now the sequence of events in no particular order. Dan Rather

#12875

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows

#12876

My main hope for myself is to be where I am. Woody Harrelson

#12877

Life is very important to Americans. Bob Dole

#12878

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more. Terry Thomas

#12879

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12880

Weak people cannot be sincere. Le Rochefoucauld

#12881

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time. Richard M. Nixon

#12882

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. Langston Coleman

#12883

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden

#12884

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. Abraham Lincoln

#12885

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume

#12886

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God. Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)

#12887

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer. George Bernerd Shaw

#12888

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis

#12889

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. William James

#12890

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. John Locke

#12891

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. Jesus Christ

#12892

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998

#12893

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination. Sir Winston Churchill

#12894

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard

#12895

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Nelson Mandela

#12896

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Nelson Mandela

#12897

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets

#12898

Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. Thomas Huxley

#12899

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

#12900

The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005

#12901

Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it. Mahathma Gandhi

#12902

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; <br> They art no kings, though they posess the crown;<br> Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,<br> The good of subjects is the end of kings. Daniel Defoe

#12903

Its never too late to have a happy childhood. Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

#12904

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#12905

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln

#12906

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid. George Orwell

#12907

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary

#12908

Love is merely madness. Shakespeare

#12909

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. George Orwell, 1984

#12910

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination. Stephen King

#12911

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

#12912

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci

#12913

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. Alfred Hitchcock

#12914

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham

#12915

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

#12916

Drugs are a bet with your mind. Jim Morrison

#12917

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

#12918

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?" Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

#12919

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

#12920

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something. L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55

#12921

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel. L. Ron Hubbard, www.scientology.org

#12922

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow. L. Ron Hubbard, Book: The Creation of Human Ability

#12923

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don?t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity. L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

#12924

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing. L. Ron Hubbard

#12925

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. Will Rogers

#12926

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. George Moore

#12927

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell. George Moore

#12928

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. Henry Ward Beecher

#12929

Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche

#12930

No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage. Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

#12931

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. John Adams

#12932

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman

#12933

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything. Paris Hilton

#12934

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice. Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist

#12935

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy

#12936

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. La Rochefoucald

#12937

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence. Albert Camus, The Fall

#12938

I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind. Mariah Carey

#12939

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"

#12940

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. J. K. Rowling

#12941

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes? Anaximenes

#12942

I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

#12943

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. Marilyn Monroe

#12944

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

#12945

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. Marilyn Monroe

#12946

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. Marilyn Monroe

#12947

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. Marilyn Monroe

#12948

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them. Franklin Roosevelt

#12949

True strength lies in gentleness. Irish Proverb

#12950

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does. Harpo Marx, Harpo Speaks Autobiography - paperback, pg. 400

#12951

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp

#12952

Impossible is nothing. Mohammed Ali

#12953

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian"

#12954

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time. Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

#12955

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. Peter Sellers

#12956

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson

#12957

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,<br> That slaves however contented never know. Cowper

#12958

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson

#12959

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#12960

Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. Rabbi David Wolpe

#12961

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown. Alan Watts

#12962

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12963

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard

#12964

There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it. John Lydon

#12965

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano de Crescento

#12966

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. John Peter Zenger

#12967

God gives us our relatives--thank God he lets us choose our friends. Ethel Watts Mumford

#12968

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson

#12969

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think. Wayne Dyer

#12970

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius

#12971

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. Burton Hills

#12972

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, "I was always happy". Hopefully we will be able to say, "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments." Barbara DeAngelis

#12973

A man without trust is a man without life. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

#12974

Beauty holds more worth than gold. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

#12975

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

#12976

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Rousseau

#12977

Hardness shatters; strength endures. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

#12978

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

#12979

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

#12980

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle

#12981

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. Clive James

#12982

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackery

#12983

On with the dance! Let joy be undefined! Lord Byron

#12984

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know \--<br> This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. Kipling

#12985

As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express,the more joy you experience. Arnold Patent

#12986

Laughing deeply is living deeply. Milan Kundera

#12987

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom. Rosario Castellanos

#12988

Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained. Shirley MacLaine

#12989

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go. Havelock Ellis

#12990

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun. Henry Van Dyke

#12991

You only live once but if you work it right, once is enough. Joe E. Lewis

#12992

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow. J. M. Barrie

#12993

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. Jim Bishop

#12994

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Mark Twain

#12995

Love is letting go of fear. Gerald Jampolsky

#12996

When words leave off, music begins. Thomas Carlyle

#12997

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back. Eido

Tai Shimano Roshi

#12998

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

#12999

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. Edward

Hubbell Chaplin

#13000

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost

#13001

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. Plato

#13002

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003

#13003

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait. Jose Simon

#13004

The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

#13005

Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-03

#13006

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked. Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-25-05

#13007

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela

#13008

Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders. Friederich Nietzsche, quoted in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (movie)

#13009

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. John Fowles, The Magus

#13010

Well done is better than well said. Ben Franklin

#13011

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man. Hunter S. Thompson

#13012

Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.<br> (The way to the stars is open.) Sergei Koroljov

#13013

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between

#13014

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,<br> Throughout the sensual world proclaim,<br> One crowded hour of glorious life,<br> Is worth an age without name. Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

#13015

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place." Jennifer Aniston

#13016

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05

#13017

How do I know what I have to say until I see what I have said? E. M. Forster

#13018

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. Theodor W. Adorno

#13019

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005

#13020

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

#13021

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#13022

Never be indifferent to injustice. Esnesto "Che" Guevara

#13023

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy. Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land

#13024

You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him. Steve Biko

#13025

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

#13026

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

#13027

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. Confucius

#13028

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso

#13029

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963

#13030

Not going home is already like death. E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act

#13031

So many Gods, so many creeds<br> So many ways that wind and wind, <br> While just the art of being kind<br> is all this sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

#13032

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison

#13033

The envier praises me unknowingly. Khalil Gibran

#13034

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela

#13035

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. Socrates

#13036

Nothing is too wonderful to be true. Michael Faraday

#13037

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow

#13038

Persistence plus no dignity equals success. Cynthia Wang

#13039

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. Margaret Cho

#13040

Shall ignorance of good and ill<br> Dare to direct the eternal will?<br> Seek virtue, and of that possets,<br> To Providence resign the rest. Gay

#13041

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. Mark Twain

#13042

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. Sylvia Levi

#13043

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)

#13044

Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.<br> (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.) Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

#13045

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005

#13046

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

#13047

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves? Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13048

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. Frank Zappa

#13049

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

#13050

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. Gustave Flaubert

#13051

Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book. Frank McKinney Hubbard

#13052

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Charles Lamb

#13053

Common sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13054

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

#13055

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13056

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

#13057

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

#13058

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark. Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.

#13059

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best Frida Kahlo

#13060

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation. John Dewey

#13061 When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

#13062

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport. Bill Watterson

#13063

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. Delmore Schwartz

#13064

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammad Ali

#13065

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leoardo da Vinci

#13066

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13067

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. Desiderius Erasmus

#13068

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. Friedrich Nietzche

#13069

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson

#13070

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Thomas H. Huxley

#13071

All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Prologue

#13072

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain

#13073

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Doug Casey, Investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing"

#13074

As your attorney i advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

#13075

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. Pubilius Syrus

#13076

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. Homer

#13077

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. Mark Twain

#13078

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#13079

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. Demonax

#13080

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue

#13081

Only a fool walks backwards into the future. Terry Goodkind

#13082

She is a peacock in everything but beauty. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#13083

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13084

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. Voltaire

#13085

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

#13086

[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

#13087

Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate. Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown

#13088

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13089

A word to the wise is infuriating. Hunter S. Thompson

#13090

Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

#13091In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples. Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly

#13092

If you do something only for money, you will never succeed at it. Don Hall, (Hallmark CEO)

#13093

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them. Agatha Christie

#13094

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. Ursula Le Guin

#13095

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast. Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello"

#13096

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13097

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion. Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!

#13098

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach. Pearl Buck

#13099

It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others. Mark Twain

#13100

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach. Donna Bulger

#13101

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Albert Einstein

#13102

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. Helen Keller

#13103

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. Mark Twain

#13104

I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers

#13105

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance. Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

#13106

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much. Jawaherlal Nehru

#13107

To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine. Browning

#13108

The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world. V. S. Pritchett

#13109

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life. C. H. Cooley

#13110

All created things are impermanent. Strive on with diligence. Buddha, Last words before his death

#13111

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows. Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.

#13112

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

#13113

It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them. H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"

#13114

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#13115

Art is a lie that tells the truth. Pablo Picasso

#13116

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus, (1923-1971)

#13117

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

#13118

Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships. Ernst J?nger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)

#13119

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Joe Lewis

#13120

Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.<br> (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens) Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations

#13121

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Sir Winston Churchill

#13122

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus

#13123

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791

#13124

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05

#13125  
Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world. Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05

#13126

Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends. Everett Dirksen, Answering a question about a controversial senate bill. Quoted on a political talk show on WBEZ FM in Chicago.

#13127

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility. Everett Dirksen

#13128

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

#13129

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. Norm Papernick

#13130

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

#13131

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover

#13132

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson

#13133

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. Thomas Jefferson

#13134

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. Ellen Goodman

#13135

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. Ellen Goodman

#13136

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government. Ellen Goodman

#13137

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. Ellen Goodman

#13138

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can?t teach someone who writes columns to care. Ellen Goodman

#13139

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. Fyodor Dostoevsky

#13140

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Tom Lehrer

#13141

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vincent T. Lombardi

#13142

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Homer, The Illiad

#13143

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done." George Carlin

#13144

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet Isaac Bashevis Singer

#13145

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

#13146

To err is human, to purr is feline. Robert Byrne

#13147

A man who won?t die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King Jr.

#13148

The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu

#13149

Successful education is always a two-way street. Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice

#13150

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen. Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.

#13151

If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist? Unknown

#13152

Successful men are defined by thier actions; <br> Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken. Tom Rose

#13153

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future. Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria

#13154

Man can live far from God -- not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering. Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

#13155

And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

#13156

Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment. Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

#13157

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century. Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001

#13158

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity? Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001

#13159

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern <br> that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow

#13160

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all. Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000

#13161

Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination? Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

#13162

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done. John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859

#13163

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man E. E. Cummings

#13164

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. Michael Palin

#13165

In the end, everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin

#13166

There are people who make things happen,<br> those who watch what happens,<br> and those who wonder what happened. Unknown

#13167

I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. Judy Garland

#13168

I sing all kinds. Elvis Presley

#13169

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now, are you kidding ? All that I ever did was just jiggle. Elvis Presley

#13170

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you. Elvis Presley

#13171

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. Richard Feynman, Letter to Koichi Mano, February 3, 1966

#13172

There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

#13173

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all. Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grimm Grotto

#13174

Books are the way the dead talk to the living. Laurie Anderson

#13175

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Stephen R. Covey, Principle-centered Leadership

#13176

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away. Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition

#13177

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible

#13178

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. (Lesson of trust) Numbers 21:7, Holy Bible

#13179

Before Elvis, there was nothing. John Lennon

#13180

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly! Amelia Earhart

#13181

Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! Edgar Allen Poe

#13182

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... HP Lovecraft, From Beyond

#13183

That is not dead which can eternal lie <br> And with strange aeons even death may die. HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City

#13184

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. M. Shawn Cole

#13185

It?s a wonder I haven?t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

#13186

It?s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

#13187

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. Terry Pratchett

#13188

Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

#13189

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

#13190

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art. John Locke

#13191

Let the world change you and you can change the world. (Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.) Che Guevara

#13192

You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. Harriet Woods

#13193

People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know. James F. Hind

#13194

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. Baron Henry Peter Brougham

#13195

Charity sees the need not the cause. German Proverb

#13196

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy

#13197

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself. Jacob Neusner

#13198

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Andrew Holmer

#13199

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. George Lucas, Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

#13200

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. Salvador Dali

#13201

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website

#13202

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln

#13203

Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture. Steven Wright

#13204

He who controls the past controls the future. George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

#13205

You go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Donald Rumsfeld, http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208-secdef1761.html

#13206

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. John F. Kennedy

#13207

I am not sure I am willing to do what it takes to become President of the United States Jack Kemp, Seattle, Washington, Winter 1996/97 lecture series, when asked if he would run for president in 2000

#13208

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 (1532)

#13209

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

#13210

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling. Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

#13211

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness. Karl Marx

#13212

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us? Richard Bach, One

#13213

Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience. John Guerrero

#13214

Man have to have friends even in hell. Miguel de Cervantes

#13215

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S Truman

#13216

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do. James M. Barrie

#13217

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. Henry Ward Beecher

#13218

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife. Hilary J. Bader, Ferengi Rule of Aquisition #48, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Episode 26, "Rules of Aquisition"

#13219

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.

#13220

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen. Dostoyevsky

#13221

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain

#13222

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery

#13223

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. Emo Phillips

#13224

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthuer Schopenhauer

#13225

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates

#13226

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

#13227

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs

#13228

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck

#13229

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

#13230

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e- Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation)

#13231

Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue). Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13232

Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw

#13233

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13234

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13235

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13236

Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13237

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13238

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13239

Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full. Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

#13240

Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemmingway

#13241

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. Paul McCartney

#13242

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13243

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. Herman Wouk

#13244

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh

#13245

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

#13246

If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear. Lithuanian Proverb

#13247

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats

#13248

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework. Thomas A. Edison

#13249

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully. Abraham Lincoln

#13250

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. Doug Larson

#13251

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthuer Schopenhauer

#13252

Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress. Tony Blair, BBC news website

#13253

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln

#13254

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. George W. Bush, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524-3.html

#13255

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers&#8217; eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers&#8217; tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.

#13256

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble. Joe Schwartz

#13257

The writer is the engineer of the human soul. Joseph Stalin, Brainy Quote

#13258

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams

#13259

If you want to succeed,you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller

#13260

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character. Marie Stendhal

#13261

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. Karl Marx

#13262

Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second. Steven Wright

#13263

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. Mark Twain

#13264

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. Lily Tomlin

#13265

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then. Blaise Pascal

#13266

Punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde

#13267

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in face, you should go home and examine your conscience. Woodrow Wilson

#13268

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13269

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors' to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours Henry David Thoreau

#13270

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

#13271

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin

#13272

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin

#13273

Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition. Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson

#13274

I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth. Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews

#13275

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller

#13276

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78

#13277

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. Dee Hock

#13278

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones. William Shakspeare, Julius Ceaser

#13279

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself. Richard Simmons

#13280

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. Alfred North Whitehead, N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.

#13281

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23

#13282

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume

#13283

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. Arnold H. Glasgow

#13284

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius, Analects

#13285

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

#13286

We can never tell what is in store for us. Harry S Truman

#13287

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e. e. cummings

#13288

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton

#13289

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it. Samuel Butler

#13290

If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert Hubbard

#13291

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus

#13292

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#13293

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard

#13294

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote

#13295

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin

#13296

Fall down seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb

#13297

False enchantment can last a lifetime. W. H. Auden

#13298

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. Seneca

#13299

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes! Abigail van Buren

#13300

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13301

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus

#13302

First mend yourself, and then mend others. Jewish Proverb

#13303

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus

#13304

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila

#13305

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. Leo Rosten

#13306

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. Turkish Proverb

#13307

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie. The Talmud

#13308

Is there life before death? Graffito, in Belfast

#13309

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Mark Twain

#13310

Fortune is a giver and a taker. Polish Proverb

#13311

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. Ronald Reagan

#13312

From error to error one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud

#13313

From word to deed is a great space. French Proverb

#13314

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. Paul Theroux

#13315

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. George Bernard Shaw

#13316

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling

#13317

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Kahlil Gibran

#13318

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#13319

Genius is born--not paid. Oscar Wilde

#13320

Gentlemen prefer bonds. Andrew Mellon

#13321

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. Socrates

#13322

Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper. Irish Proverb

#13323

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. St. Francis Xavier

#13324

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it. English Proverb

#13325

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#13326

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended. Benjamin Franklin

#13327

Go and wake up your luck. Persian Proverb

#13328

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#13329

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart. African Proverb

#13330

God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13331

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. Swedish Proverb

#13332

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding. William Cooper

#13333

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. Ethel Mumford

#13334

God gives, but man must open his hand. German Proverb

#13335

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster

#13336

God has always been hard on the poor. Jean-Paul Marat

#13337

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. Izaak Walton

#13338

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes, Esprit

#13339

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Benjamin Franklin

#13340

God helps those who help themselves. Anonymous

#13341

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. Voltaire

#13342

God is always on the side of the big battalions. Voltaire

#13343

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. Harry Emerson Fosdick

#13344

God made man because He loves stories. Elie Wiesel

#13345

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. Kahlil Gibran

#13346

God pays, but not weekly wages. Polish Proverb

#13347

God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee. The Talmud

#13348

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. Roald Dahl, (Willie Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

#13349

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton

#13350

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. Anonymous

#13351

Good luck beats early rising. Irish Proverb

#13352

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. Clarence Thomas

#13353

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. French Proverb

#13354

Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear. Japanese Proverb

#13355

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. Walter Winchell

#13356

Gossip needs no carriage. Russian Proverb

#13357

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. Bertrand Russell

#13358

How far that little candle throws his beams! <br> So shines a good deed in a weary world. Shakespeare

#13359

Governments never learn. Only people learn. Milton Friedman

#13360

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar. Isaac Goldberg

#13361

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Italian Proverb

#13362

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. Duke Ellington

#13363

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt

#13364

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Washington Irving

#13365

Great necessities call forth great leaders. Abigail Adams

#13366

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch

#13367

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. Benjamin Disraeli

#13368

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh

#13369

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

#13370

Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth. French Proverb

#13371

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy. Honduran Proverb

#13372

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. Albert Schweitzer

#13373

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

#13374

Haste is good only in catching fleas. Alla Yaroshinskaya

#13375

Hate the sin, love the sinner. Mahatma Gandhi

#13376

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue. Benjamin Franklin

#13377

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer

#13378

He is most cheated who cheats himself. Danish Proverb

#13379

He is rich enough that wants nothing. Polish Proverb

#13380

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Ben Jonson

#13381

He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin

#13382

He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget. The Talmud

#13383

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Benjamin Franklin

#13384

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin

#13385

He that jokes confesses. Italian Proverb

#13386

He that lives on hope will die fasting. American Proverb

#13387

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. Walter J. Lippmann

#13388

He that loves the law will get his fill of it. Scottish Proverb

#13389

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. English Proverb

#13390

He that promises most will perform least. Gaelic Proverb

#13391

He that seeks trouble never misses. French Proverb

#13392

He that would be a leader must be a bridge. Welsh Proverb

#13393

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. Benjamin Franklin

#13394

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Jonathan Swift

#13395

He who begins many things finishes but few. Italian Proverb

#13396

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass. Thomas Adams

#13397

He who divides and shares is left with the best share. Mexican Proverb

#13398

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. Marian Anderson

#13399

He who does not venture has no luck. Mexican Proverb

#13400

He who hesitates is sometimes saved. James Thurber

#13401

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. Danish Proverb

#13402

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth. Spanish Proverb

#13403

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught. Saint Thomas Aquinas

#13404

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge. Richard Whatley

#13405

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#13406

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. John Milton

#13407

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Sir Winston Churchill

#13408

People are more easily led than driven. David Harold Fink

#13409

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles

#13410

He who refuses to obey cannot command. Kenyan Proverb

#13411

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton

#13412

He who teaches children learns more than they do. German Proverb

#13413

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time. Nigerian Proverb

#13414

He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#13415

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy. George W. Bush

#13416

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. John Russell

#13417

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. Jesse Jackson

#13418

History knows no resting places and no plateaus. Henry Kissinger

#13419

Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief. The Talmud

#13420

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman. Debra Messing

#13421

Freedom is from within. Frank Lloyd Wright

#13422

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#13423

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose. Sir Winston Churchill

#13424

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche

#13425

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#13426

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die. James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983

#13427

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live. Vince Lombardi

#13428

It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing. Jack Handey

#13429

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy. Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2-10-05

#13430

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death. T. S. Elliot

#13431

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh

#13432

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. Harold Geneen

#13433

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. William Wordsworth

#13434

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor. American Greetings Card

#13435

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut

#13436

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Chamfort

#13437

Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing. Leonid Sukhorukov

#13438

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde

#13439

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlye

#13440

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God. John Weiss

#13441

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller

#13442

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. John Henry Cardinal Newman

#13443

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is. Ivern Ball

#13444

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first. Thomas Fuller

#13445

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. Andy Rooney

#13446

If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it. Bill Cosby

#13447

Laugh and the world laughs with you;<br> Weep and you weep alone;<br> For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,<br> but has trouble enough of its own. Ella Wheeler

#13448

Be still sad heart and cease repining;<br> Behind the clouds the sun is shining,<br> Thy fate is the common fate of all,<br> Into each life a little rain must fall,<br> Some days must be dark and dreary. Longfellow

#13449

Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. John G. Vance

#13450

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. Robert Copeland

#13451

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. David Coblitz

#13452

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. Oscar Wilde

#13453

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. H. G. Wells

#13454

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Battone

#13455

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae Brown

#13456

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other. Bible, Ecclesaistes 7:14

#13457

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Bible, Luke 6:21

#13458

The only real training for leadership is leadership. Anthony Jay

#13459

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble...for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Bible, Deuteronomy 31:6 NAS

#13460

The Lord is my light and my salvation - so why should I be afraid. Bible, Psalm 27:1 NLT

#13461

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#13462

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them. Michael Jordan

#13463

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. Mahatma Gandhi

#13464

I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion. Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation

#13465

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

#13466

What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand. Sherri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty

#13467

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. Richard Bach

#13468

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems. S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

#13469

You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated. Maya Angelou

#13470

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin

#13471

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. Samuel Johnson

#13472

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that. Frances Burnett

#13473

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

#13474

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)

#13475

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. Mike Royko, columnist

#13476

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration. Alanis Morissette

#13477

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

#13478

Comedy is acting out optimism. Robin Williams

#13479

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. Mark Twain

#1348

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Ernest Hemingway

#13481

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville

#13482

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville

#13483

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. Nelson Mandela

#13484

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered. Joseph J. Lamb

#13485

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader

#13486

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

#13487

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

#13488

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05

#13489

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

#13490

In the desert a fountain is springing,<br> In the wide waste there still is a tree,<br> And a bird in the solitude singing,<br> Which speaks to my spirit of thee. Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta

#13491

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at. Lord Byron

#13492

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

#13493

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them \-- this is of the essence of leadership. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

#13494

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth. John Keats

#13495

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted. Percy B. Shelley

#13496

Life may change, but it may fly not;<br> Hope may vanish, but can die not;<br> Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;<br> Love replused - but it returneth Percy B. Shelley

#13497

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - died 1 year later

#13498

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy \- It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives. John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820

#13499

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817

#13500

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. Lord Byron, Don Juan

#13501

What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore

#13502

Learn to obey before you command. Solon

#13503

If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves. J. Paul Getty

#13504

They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it. Alice Cooper, BBC6 Radio, The Bruce Dickinson show

#13505

Justice is incidental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover

#13506

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. Latin proverb

#13507

Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey

#13508

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

#13509

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things. Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga

#13510

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

#13511

I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again. Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

#13512

The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard

#13513

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln

#13514

What a new face courage puts on everything. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13515

The future is no place to place your better days. Dave Matthews

#13516

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses. John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)

#13517

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. George W. Foote

#13518

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. Stephen Roberts

#13519

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass

#13520

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson

#13521

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte

#13522

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. David Brooks

#13523

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark. Michael Shermer

#13524

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. Peter Walker

#13525

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

#13526

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

#13527

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings. Shakespeare.

#13528

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child. Jack Kerouac

#13529

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion. Jack Kerouac

#13530

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town. Eleanor H. Porter

#13531

I dream for a living. Steven Spielberg

#13532

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? Steven Spielberg

#13533

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#13534

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise. Abraham Lincoln

#13535

Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain

#13536

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass.

#13537

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. Benjamin Franklin

#13538

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor. Mohammed

#13539

When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half<br> Mohammed

#13540

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13541

No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them. Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

#13542

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see. Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

#13543

Every answer asks a more beautiful question e e cummings

#13544

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground. Unknown

#13545

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

#13546

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Henry David Thoreau

#13547

Let him think I am more man that I am and I will be so. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

#13548

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful. Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

#13549

People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?" Emo Phillips

#13550

I reject your reality and substitute my own! Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

#13551

Death is not extinguishing the light<br> It is simply putting out the lamp <br> Because the dawn has come Rabindranath Tagore

#13552

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.<br> Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;<br> For love is sufficient unto love. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13553

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13554

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

#13555

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13556

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?<br> Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13557

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.<br> But you are life and you are the veil.<br> Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.<br> But you are eternity and you are the mirror. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13558

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?<br> And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#13559

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha

#13560

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Buddha

#13561

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha

#13562

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha

#13563

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them? Buddha (563 - 483 B.C.)

#13564

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha

#13565

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha

#13566

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha

#13567

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. Buddha

#13568

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha

#13569

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

#13570

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

#13571

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799

#13572

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82

#13573

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. Oscar Wilde

#13574

The human brain is like a railroad freight car \-- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. Unknown

#13575

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. Robert Anton Wilson

#13576

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. Anais Nin

#13577

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. From the I Ching

#13578

If you can read this, thank a teacher. Anonymous teacher

#13579

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S Truman

#13580

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. Anonymous

#13581

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

#13582

Honey is sweet but bees sting. French Proverb

#13583

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Sir Francis Bacon

#13584

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. Samuel Johnson

#13585

Hope is the nurse of misery American Proverb

#13586

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. Emily Dickinson

#13587

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#13588

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. Spanish Proverb

#13589

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Maya Angelou

#13590

However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source. Nigerian Proverb

#13591

However long the night, the dawn will break. African Proverb

#13592

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller

#13593

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#13594

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. Fran Lebowitz

#13595

Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. Mary Hirsch

#13596

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor. The Talmud

#13597

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#13598

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. Tammy Faye Bakker

#13599

Change is good, but dollars are better. Anonymous

#13600

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one. Clarence Darrow

#13601

I am a part of all I have read. John Kieran

#13602

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Clarence Darrow

#13603

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman

#13604

I am in the prime of senility. Benjamin Franklin

#13605

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. Nelson Mandela

#13606

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone. William Harvey

#13607

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. Arthur Wing Pinero

#13608

I live for books. Thomas Jefferson

#13609

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

#13610

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. Ben Lindsey

#13611

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. Saint Teresa of Avila

#13612

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together. Charles Dickens

#13613

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler

#13614

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller

#13615

I drink to make other people seem more interesting. George Jean Nathan

#13616

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. Oscar Levant

#13617

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Mary Montagu

#13618

I had rather be right than be President. Henry Clay

#13619

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. John Steinbeck

#13620

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. Emerson

#13621

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou

#13622

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker

#13623

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. Dudley Field Malone

#13624

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford. Thomas H. Huxley

#13625

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Leon Blum

#13626

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13627

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#13628

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. Cyrus Ching

#13629

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats

#13630

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft

#13631

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. Anthony Burgess

#13632

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. W. C. Fields

#13633

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#13634

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. Albert Camus

#13635

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud

#13636

I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble. Mennonite Proverb

#13637

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington

#13638

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santiano

#13639

I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln

#13640

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swift

#13641

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. Harriet Beecher Stowe

#13642

I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say. Enrique Tessieri

#13643

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. Jerome K. Jerome

#13644

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. Yiddish Proverb

#13645

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal

#13646

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. George W. Bush

#13647

The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it. John Gilmore

#13648

If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists. Jewish Proverb

#13649

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#13650

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. Arthur Goldberg

#13651

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. William McFee

#13652

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. George Gilder

#13653

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. Chinese Proverb

#13654

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. D. L. Moody

#13655

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. Kahlil Gibran

#13656

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard

#13657

I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!! Anonymous

#13658

If it were not for hope, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller

#13659

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov

#13660

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn

#13661

If not for fear, sin would be sweet. Jewish Proverb

#13662

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca

#13663

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? Alexander Solzhenitsyn

#13664

If someone betrays you once, it?s their fault; if they betray you twice, it?s your fault. Eleanor Roosevelt

#13665

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. Norman Augustine

#13666

If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living. Jewish Proverb

#13667

If the young only knew; if the old only could. French Proverb

#13668

If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. Ezra Bowen

#13669

If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this. Robert Burns

#13670

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

#13671

This world is the will to power - and nothing besides! Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064

#13672

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow. Erik Nupponen

#13673

He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

#13674

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. Marquis de Sade

#13675

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. Marquis de Sade

#13676

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you Aldous Huxley

#13677

Fear is a great motivator. Art Bell

#13678

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! Benjamin Franklin, 1759

#13679

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. Michael Landon

#13680

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

#13681

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981

#13682

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed. Benjamin Franklin

#13683

Nice guys finish last. Leo Durocher, (attributed, see notes)

#13684

The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier. Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

#13685

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

#13686

The goal of all life is death. Sigmund Freud

#13687

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary. Antonin Artaud

#13688

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death"

#13689

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. John Dryden, Imitation of Horace

#13690

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. Voltaire

#13691

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert

#13692

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

#13693

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

#13694

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

#13695

The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

#13696

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign. George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

#13697

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ? Book Three

#13698

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,<br> And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

#13699

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ? Book Six

#13700

All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ? Book Seven

#13701

instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities. Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995

#13702

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#13703

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. Thomas Paine, Common Sense

#13704

Originality is merely an illusion. M. C. Escher

#13705

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Frank Herbert, Dune

#13706

A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series

#13707

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden

#13708

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. William Shakespeare, Henry V

#13709

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Joseph Addison, Cato

#13710

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#13711

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them. Bo Jackson

#13712

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth... J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

#13713

We made too many wrong mistakes. Yogi Berra

#13714

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13715

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7

#13716

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot". Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

#13717

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

#13718

Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits. Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

#13719

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter. Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn)

#13720

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

#13721

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#13722

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#13723

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

#13724

All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America

#13725

When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror. Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#13726

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#13727

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#13728

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.) John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

#13729

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Diogenes Laertius, Zeno

#13730

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), French military strategist, 1911, July 18 2005 Information Week, P.72

#13731

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13732

Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes. John Mayer

#13733

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. Walt Disney

#13734

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

#13735

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

#13736

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain

#13737

Things are never as bad as they seem. Harper Lee, spoken by character Miss Maudie, To Kill A Mockingbird

#13738

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

#13739

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. H. P. Lovecraft, The White Ship

#13740

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

#13741

The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

#13742

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

#13743

Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery. Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine

#13744

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years. Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

#13745

Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living. Mother Jones

#13746

I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self. Anais Nin, House of Incest

#13747

Holiness is doing God?s will with a smile. Mother Theresa

#13748

God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him. Marcus Aristides

#1374

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. Elbert Hubbard

#13750

God is love,and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. John the Elder

#13751

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle, Rhetoric

#13752

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie

#13753

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis

#13754

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy

#13755

Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance. William Hazlitt

#13756

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. -- John F. Kennedy (to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.), 1962. John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

#13757

If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962. John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

#13758

Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963. John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

#13759

We live, as we dream, alone Joseph Conrad

#13760

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. Bessie Stanley

#13761

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ? Book Ten

#13762

Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven

#13763

All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ? Book Twelve

#13764

The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

#13765

If someone tells you who they are, believe them. Maya Angelou

#13766

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

#13767

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

#13768

The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

#13769

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. James Baldwin

#13770

Life goes on within you and without you. George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Pepper

#13771

Technology: No Place for Wimps! Scott Adams, Dilbert

#13772

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein

#13773

...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince

#13774

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied. Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

#13775

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Benjamin Disraeli

#13776

Tell me....And I Forget,<br> Teach me.....And I Learn,<br> Involve Me.....And I Remember. Benjamin Franklin, Card

#13777

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

#13778

Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear! Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

#13779

It?s not the fall that kills you; it?s the sudden stop at the end. Douglas Adams

#13780

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment. T. H. White

#13781

If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing. Anatole France

#13782

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read. Winston Churchill

#13783

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Phyllis Diller

#13784

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. Alfred Hitchcock

#13785

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. Henry Youngman

#13786

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. Rebecca West

#13787

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. Thomas Jefferson, 1801

#13788

On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin

#13789

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry

#13790

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. Homer Simpson

#13791

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway

#13792

Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you. Carl Jung

#13793

When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag. Huey Long

#13794

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise. Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speaker

#13795

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. Andy Rooney

#13796

To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so. Unknown

#13797

Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the fai

#13798

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3

#13799

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"

#13800

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. Marlon Brando

#13801

This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln. John F. Kennedy, 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khrushchev that he agreed on a plan to end the Cuban Missile Crisis

#13802

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. James Thurber

#13803

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway

#13804

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#13805

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#13806

Art washes away the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

#13807

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case. Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America

#13808

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. Diane Ackerman

#13809

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Diane Ackerman

#13810

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis

#13811

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. Diane Ackerman

#13812

No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from. George Eliot, internet

#13813

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive. Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05

#13814

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Sun-tzu

#13815

Wasting sarcasm is a sin. R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 08-16-05

#13816

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song! Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05

#13817

The art of being bored is lost. Ted Klauber, Senior Executive, FCB Worldwide

#13818

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire

#13819

Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas. Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest

#13820

You have to let people challenge your ideas. Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.

#13821

You have to reach a level of comfort with that risk. Sally Ride, President, Space.com

#13822

Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air. Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003

#13823

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own. Piero Milani

#13824

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer. J. Jacques, Something Positive Comic, 08-22-05

#13825

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak. Euripides

#13826

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.<br> Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. Samuel Hazo

#13827

He who flees will fight again... Tertullian

#13828

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Tse-Tung

#13829

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. Mao Tse-Tung

#13830

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

#13831

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

#13832

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. Tom Robbins

#13833

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. Tom Robbins

#13834

We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent. Ellen DeGeneres

#13835

Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church. John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1

#13836

Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. Nikita Khrushchev

#13837

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. Red Skelton

#13838

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever. Greg Proops

#13839

I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

#13840

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority. Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939

#13841

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939

#13842

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10

#13843

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost

#13844

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

#13845

Compassion is no substitute for justice. Rush Limbaugh

#13846

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man. John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t

#13847

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption. Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

#13848

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise. Mitchell Caplan, CEO, E*Trade Group Inc.

#13849

The best Web sites are better than reality. Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

#13850

Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently. Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-24-05

#13851

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Louis-Hector Berlioz

#13852

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. Faith Whittlesey

#13853

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Sir Winston Churchill

#13854

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton

#13855

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

#13856

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it. Arnold Schwarzenegger

#13857

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong

#13858

Your body is just the place your memory calls home. Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing

#13859

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155

#13860

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there. Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330

#13861

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven. Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51

#13862

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#13863

You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith. Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984

#13864

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them. Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338

#13865

Love is the life of humanity. Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1

#13866

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end. Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455

#13867

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#13868

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other. Mahatma Gandhi

#13869

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

#13870

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. Ralph Emerson, Nature: Addresses and Lectures

#13871

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil. Mark Twain

#13872

Golf is a good walk, ruined. Mark Twain

#13873

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali

#13874

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

#13875

"People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things." Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climber

#13876

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain. Chinese Proverb

#13877

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

#13878

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks. Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05

#13879

When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you. Anonymous

#13880

Even the best of friends need time apart. Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09-09-05

#13881

I?ll fight when needed, revel when there?s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes? but I won?t let anyone use me against my will. Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.

#13882

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe. Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

#13883

You can?t argue with all of the fools in the world. It?s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they?re not paying attention. Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

#13884

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost. Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

#13885

Find peace in where and what you are.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

#13886

Stupid is a boundless concept. Anonymous

#13887

Sometimes there are no answers. Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

#13888

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

#13889

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King Jr.

#13890

How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

#13891

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows"

#13892

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"

#13893

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties. Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

#13894

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention. Abraham Lincoln

#13895

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag. Zell Miller

#13896

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside. Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

#13897

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled. Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

#13898

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail. Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

#13899

When you tell the truth, people listen. Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

#13900

Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through. Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)

#13901

Even the longest hours come to an end. Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)

#13902

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards. Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

#13903

Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday. Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

#13904

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

#13905

A library is an arsenal of liberty. Unknown

#13906

Happiness is a way of praying. Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

#13907

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh. Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

#13908

We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%. Ellen DeGeneres

#13909

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. Blaise Pascal

#13910

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep. Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005

#13911

We want God to come and save us. But he won?t. God doesn?t stop levees from failing, he doesn?t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn?t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated. Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05

#13912

The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy. Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-07-05

#13913

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Unknown

#13914

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

#13915

Observe Everything. <br> Communicate Well. <br> Draw, Draw, Draw. Frank Thomas, Disney Animator, When asked to give advice to young animators

#13916

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives. Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05

#13917

Who is more busy than he who hath least to do? John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639

#13918

He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

#13919

None are so busy as the fool and knave. John Dryden, The Medal, 1682

#13920

When people think the world of you, be careful with them. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05

#13921

If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose. Dr. Seuss

#13922

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

#13923

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Unknown

#13924

In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. Paul McCartney

#13925

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian. Paul McCartney

#13926

It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_. Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe

#13927

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night

#13928

To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing. Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night

#13929

Only the insane is absolutely certain. Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy

#13930

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso. Pablo Piccaso

#13931

A single fact can spoil a good argument. Anonymous

#13932

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams

#13933

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government. Thomas Paine

#13934

They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything. Joseph Conrad

#13935

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

#13936

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

#13937

Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows. Joseph Conrad

#13938

Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west! Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

#13939

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory. Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC

#13940

Measure your life in love. Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent

#13941

No other road, no other way, no day but today. Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent

#13942

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

#13943

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world. Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

#13944

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#13945

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance. C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower

#13946

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp

#13947

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happiness's. Dante, The Divine Comedy

#13948

Courage atrophies from lack of use. Unknown

#13949

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005

#13950

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. Richard Feynman, Letter to Koichi Mano

#13951

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. Larry Wall

#13952

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family. Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10-06-05

#13953

The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

#13954

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy. Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

#13955

Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for. Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

#13956

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. Unknown

#13957

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong. Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

#13958

You create your opportunities by asking for them. Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05

#13959

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you. Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

#13960

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. H. G.Wells, The Time Machine

#13961

Strength is the outcome of need. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

#13962

It is better to give than to lend and it costs about the same. Polish Proverb

#13963

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

#13964

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. Helen Keller

#13965

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust. Gustave Flaubert, 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

#13966

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you. David McCullough

#13967

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert G. Ingersoll

#13968

VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill. Muhhammad Ali

#13969

I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there. John Flansburgh

#13970

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. Noam Chomsky

#13971

Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

#13972

This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you? People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren?t telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

#13973

An army marches on its stomach. Napolean Bonaparte

#13974

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army. Julius Caesar, (attributed)

#13975

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

#13976

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. Voltaire

#13977

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. Howard Tayler, Rule 12: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Schlock Mercenary

#13978

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Jung

#13979

It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity. Andy & Larry Wachowski, Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions

#13980

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. Marilyn Monroe

#13981

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on. George Santayana

#13982

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort. Vijay Krishna

#13983

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math. Isarel Gallegos

#13984

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde

#13985

Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product. Mel Levine, MD, A Mind At A Time

#13986

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. Rod Serling

#13987

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Napoleon

#13988

The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led. Spencer W. Kimball

#13989

The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy. Jean Anouilh

#13990

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

#13991

Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx

#13992

Live the wonderful life that is in you. Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey

#13993

Where did they put pictures, comic strips, and coupons before they invented the refrigerator door? Jerry Scott, Baby Blues: Ten Years and Still in Diapers

#13994

The more I see of men, the better I like dogs. Madame de Stael

#13995

I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman. Madame de Stael

#13996

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson

#13997

But search the land of living men,<br> Wher wilst thou find their like again. Walter Scott

#13998

If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it. Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

#13999

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. Coco Chanel

#14000

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. Robert E. Lee

#14001

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again. Jefferson Davis

#14002

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel. D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

#14003

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,<br> either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin

#14004

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?<br> Death thought about it.<br> Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice. Terry Pratchet, Sourcery

#14005

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it? Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

#14006

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005

#14007

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford

#14008

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. Oscar Wilde

#14009

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Al Bernstein

#14010

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. Daniel J. Boorstin

#14011

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one. Ross Perot

#14012

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Cicero

#14013

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - referring to the military system

#14014

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. Jawahar Lal Neheru

#14015

Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth. Archimedes

#14016

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning. Martin Luther

#14017

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Bible, Colossians 3:16

#14018

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. Brendan Behan

#14019

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. Brendan Behan

#14020

Life is short; live it up. Khrushchev

#14021

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. Brendan Behan

#14022

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde

#14023

If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze. St. Catherine of Sienna

#14024

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen, Emma

#14025

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

#14026

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

#14027

How much I love every thing that is decided and open! Jane Austen, Emma

#14028

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. Jane Austen, Emma

#14029

A woman should never be trusted with money. Jane Austen, The Watsons

#14030

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

#14031

An artist cannot do anything slovenly. Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798

#14032

Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown. Jane Austen, Emma

#14033

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Sydney Smith

#14034

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey

#14035

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe. Old Russian saying

#14036

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. Voltaire, Candide

#14037

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. George Eliot

#14038

Loneliness is a strange gift. E. B. White

#14039

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. Immanuel Kant

#14040

Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

#14041

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty? Joyce Carol Oates

#14042

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own. Michael Crichton, Prey

#14043

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities

#14044

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. Karl Popper

#14045

Live simply that others might simply live. Elizabeth Seaton

#14046

Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle

#14047

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. Carl Sagan

#14048

The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school?s curriculum. George F. Will, Newsweek, July 4, 2005

#14049

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

#14050

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. Thomas Edison

#14051

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;<br> One need not be a house;<br> The brain has corridors surpassing<br> Material place. Emily Dickinson

#14052

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin

#14053

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. Woody Allen

#14054

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go<br> Back to their quiet graves below. Theodosia Garrison

#14055

Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves. Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire

#14056

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. Henrik Tikkanen

#14057

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

#14058

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#14059

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. Chinese proverb

#14060

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. Unknown

#14061

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. H. L. Mencken

#14062

My work is a game, a very serious game. M. C. Escher

#14063

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell

#14064

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. Judge John Kane, US District Court

#14065

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. Anonymous

#14066

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop

#14067

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb

#14068

In war there is no substitute for victory. General Douglas MacArthur

#14069

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey

#14070

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence Peter

#14071

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

#14072

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. Margaret Bonnano

#14073

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement

#14074

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner

#14075

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. Art Spander

#14076

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert Simon, economist

#14077

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman

#14078

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. Learned Hand, jurist

#14079

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison

#14080

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright

#14081

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alec Bourne

#14082

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost

#14083

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain

#14084

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

#14085

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell

#14086

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Hans A. Bethe

#14087

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

#14088

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure. Mark Twain

#14089

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee

#14090

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France

#14091

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk

#14092

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. G. H. Lewes, Physiology of Common Life

#14093

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens, Bleak House

#14094

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Andrew Holmes

#14095

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Thomas Jefferson, Writings

#14096

What more felicity can fall to creature,<br> Than to enjoy delight with liberty. Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly

#14097

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

#14098

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

#14099

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

#14100

With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865

#14101

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself \-- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

#14102

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice. Sovereign

#14103

In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit. Sovereign

#14104

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

#14105

Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway

#14106

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

#14107

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Robert Orben

#14108

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. James Feibleman

#14109

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert Byrne

#14110

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte

#14111

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. Eric Ambler

#14112

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. Peter Sellers

#14113

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. Darrin Weinberg

#14114

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

#14115

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Voltaire

#14116

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken

#14117

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

#14118

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H. L. Mencken

#14119

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Lord Byron

#14120

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

#14121

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. Woody Allen

#14122

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

#14123

Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg

#14124

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Old Indian saying

#14125

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain

#14126

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. Joe Namath

#14127

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Unknown

#14128

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. Martin Luther King Jr.

#14129

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. Adolph Hitler

#14130

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell \-- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

#14131

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. Martin Luther King Jr.

#14132

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Basho

#14133

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. Hedrick Smith

#14134

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. Mahatma Gandhi

#14135

Cynics are made, not born. Max

#14136

Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson

#14137

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14138

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan

#14139

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

#14140

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

#14141

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. George Bernard Shaw

#14142

Still round the corner there may wait, <br> A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. Tolkien

#14143

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

#14144

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard

#14145

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14146

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. Nancy Kerrigan

#14147

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely. The Land Before Time

#14148

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. Dag Hammarskjold

#14149

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman

#14150

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future

#14151

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber

#14152

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier

#14153

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain

#14154

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. Woody Allen

#14155

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa

#14156

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen

#14157

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. M. C. Escher

#14158

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin

#14159

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln

#14160

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr

#14161

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Mark Twain

#14162

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein

#14163

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary

#14164

Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux

#14165

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. Eugene McCarthy

#14166

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. Tom Lehrer

#14167

I never know how much of what I say is true. Bette Midler

#14168

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke

#14169

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. William Shakespeare

#14170

I improve on misquotation. Cary Grant

#14171

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. Lily Tomlin

#14172

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams

#14173

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain \-- and most fools do. Dale Carnegie

#14174

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. Henry Cate VII

#14175

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp

#14176

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point

#14177

If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese proverb

#14178

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Garrison Keillor

#14179

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. Christopher Lasch

#14180

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. Janet Long

#14181

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche

#14182

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein

#14183

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. John Russell

#14184

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. Solomon Short

#14185

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. Wernher von Braun

#14186

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

#14187

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. H. H. Williams

#14188

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

#14189

Getting caught is the mother of invention. Robert Byrne

#14190

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell

#14191

Honesty is the best image. Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)

#14192

Ninety percent of everything is crap. Theodore Sturgeon

#14193

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

#14194

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell

#14195

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Jeff Marder

#14196

Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer

#14197

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot

#14198

It may be that those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock

#14199

Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw

#14200

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Friedrich Nietzsche

#14201

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain

#14202

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. Benjamin Franklin

#14203

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. John Harold

#14204

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. Anna M. Uhlich

#14205

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. Steven Wright

#14206

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. Unknown

#14207

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. Karol Newlin

#14208

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti

#14209

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano de Crescenzo

#14210

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson

#14211

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett

#14212

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein

#14213

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells

#14214

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Robert Byrne

#14215

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire

#14216

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it. Voltaire

#14217

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughn

#14218

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Bertrand Russell

#14219

Victory is a political fiction. Anonymous

#14220

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day. Anonymous

#14221

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw

#14222

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw

#14223

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francious de la Rochefoucauld

#14224

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Sir Francis Bacon

#14225

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... Carl Zwanzig

#14226

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. Woody Allen

#14227

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka

#14228

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. C. J. Jung

#14229

A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe

#14230

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. Friedrich Nietzsche

#14231

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner

#14232

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. Sir Henry Wotton

#14233

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. Martin Luther King Jr.

#14234

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Unknown

#14235

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey

#14236

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

#14237

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. James Baldwin

#14238

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Unknown

#14239

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. Mahatma Gandhi

#14240

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M.

Pirsig

#14241

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough. Adam Marshall

#14242

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. Alfred Alder

#14243

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949

#14244

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. Woody Allen

#14245

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. Jawaharlal Nehru

#14246

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman

#14247

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. General G. C. Patton

#14248

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur

#14249

War is based on deception. Sun-Tzu

#14250

To secure peace is to prepare for war. Carl von Clausewitz

#14251

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. Lao Tse

#14252

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. Frederick W. Taylor

#14253

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin

#14254

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Fraquhar Tupper

#14255

In the end, everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin

#14256

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin

#14257

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban

#14258

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. Charles William Stubbs

#14259

Sanity is a madness put to good use. George Santayana

#14260

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Sir Winston Churchill

#14261

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell

#14262

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Lao Tze

#14263

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

#14264

Silence is argument carried out by other means. Ernesto "Che" Guevara

#14265

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmond Burke

#14266

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung

#14267

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses. William Arthur Ward

#14268

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs 15:1

#14269

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.<br> If you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward

#14270

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Emerson

#14271

Do what you can with what you have where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

#14272

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. John Wesley

#14273

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. Unknown

#14274

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. Unknown

#14275

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. Irish Blessing

#14276

Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny. Unknown

#14277

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. Unknown

#14278

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Seneca

#14279

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. General Colin Powell

#1428

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson

#14281

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#14282

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. Ted Morgan

#14283

No one worth possessing<br> Can be quite possessed. Sara Teasdale

#14284

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine

#14285

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. Michel de Montaigne

#14286

All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad

#14287

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill

#14288

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. Confucius Analects

#14289

Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. David Armistead

#14290

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Elizabeth I

#14291

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Cicero

#14292

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world The Law of Thumb

#14293

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne

#14294

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head. Unknown

#14295

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne

#14296

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx

#14297

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche

#14298

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

#14299

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. John G. Riefenbaker

#14300

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. Albert Einstein

#14301

Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney

#14302

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus

#14303

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene

#14304

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. George Eliot

#14305

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#14306

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings

#14307

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin

#14308

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. Art Linkletter

#14309

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

#14310

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. Ani Difranco, Letter to a John

#14311

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it. Unknown

#14312

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. Justice William O. Douglas

#14313

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. Mark Twain

#14314

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. Mohammed Ali

#14315

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Forster

#14316

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville

#14317

My toughest fight was with my first wife. Muhammad Ali

#14318

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Bible, Mark 8:36

#14319

To philosophize is to doubt. Michel de Montaigne

#14320

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. Unknown

#14321

To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake

#14322

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. Mark van Doren

#14323

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. Unknown

#14324

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart. Bob Allisat

#14325

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

#14326

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future. Unknown

#14327

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. Barry Goldwater

#14328

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy

#14329

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. Shakespeare

#14330

Never eat more than you can lift. Miss Piggy

#14331

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. Mark Twain

#14332

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. Unknown

#14333

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out. W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen

#14334

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun. Katherine Hepburn

#14335

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. Unknown

#14336

In youth we learn; in age we understand. Ebner-Eschenbach

#14337

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams

#14338

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. Christopher Morley

#14339

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14340

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham Maslow

#14341

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain

#14342

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler

#14343

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Unknown

#14344

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm

#14345

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt

#14346

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats

#14347

An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright

#14348

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco

#14349

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom. Elbert Hubbard

#14350

There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche

#14351

All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism. North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon

#14352

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#14353

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. George Bernard Shaw

#14354

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius

#14355

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. Aristotle

#14356

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Anonymous

#14357

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger

#14358

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. Immanuel Hermass von Fichte

#14359

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. Ed Howe

#14360

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell

#14361

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

#14362

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. E. B. White

#14363

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden

#14364

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. Bergen Evans

#14365

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain

#14366

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Tom Robbins

#14367

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke

#14368

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. Ron Nesen

#14369

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. The Midrash

#14370

The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer? Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and animal rights activist

#14371

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. Alan Chadwick

#14372

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge

#14373

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Margaret Young

#14374

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert

#14375

They can because they think they can. Virgil

#14376

Conform and be dull. James Frank Dobie

#14377
A good conscience is a continual feast. Robert Burton

#14378

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? Woody Allen

#14379

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead

#14380

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. John M. Barrie

#14381

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. Seneca

#14382

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts

#14383

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain

#14384

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold

#14385

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr.

#14386

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. J. W. Fulbright

#14387

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Mahatma Gandhi

#14388

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Ziggy

#14389

Life has no rehearsals, only performances. Unknown

#14390

People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14391

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

#14392

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor

#14393

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling

#14394

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. Gustave Flaubert

#14395

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. Unknown

#14396

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. Jonathan Winters

#14397

You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin

#14398

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Eugene Ionesco

#14399

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. Samuel Johnson

#14400

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. Unknown

#14401

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, <br> the saddest are these, "It might have been!" John Greenleaf Whittier

#14402

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14403

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. African Proverb

#14404

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. Albert Schweitzer

#14405

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson

#14406

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Kin Hubbard

#14407

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato

#14408

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. Charles Austin Beard, historian

#14409

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire

#14410

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

#14411

Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution? C. D. Tavares

#14412

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. George Washington

#14413

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. Ludwig Mises

#14414

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. Nick Nuessle, 1992

#14415

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

#14416

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burrough

#14417

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway

#14418

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry

#14419

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen

#14420

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine

#14421

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus

#14422

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan

#14423

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides

#14424

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard

#14425

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. Unknown

#14426

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14427

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. Richard Armour

#14428

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese proverb

#14429

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Mark Twain

#14430

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it Unknown

#14431

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buechner

#14432

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. Rotarian

#14433

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. Philip Caldwell

#14434

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Ghandi

#14435

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. Herman Melville

#14436

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James

#14437

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. Unknown

#14438

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake

#14439

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. Herman Hesse

#14440

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce

#14441

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol

#14442

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. Unknown

#14443

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings

#14444

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. Unknown

#14445

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. Charles Luckman

#14446

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. Swedish proverb

#14447

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish proverb

#14448

Who begins too much accomplishes little German proverb

#14449

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham

#14450

Good questions outrank easy answers. Paul A. Samuelson

#14451

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. Unknown

#14452

My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus. The Lockhorns

#14453

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Cousin Woodman

#14454

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing. Lord Chesterfield

#14455

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg. Unknown

#14456

Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14457

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

#14458

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Vaclav Havel

#14459

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. From the last episode of "Cheers"

#14460

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. The Metro Para pledge

#14461

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather

#14462

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. Thomas Fuller

#14463

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#14464

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. John Russell

#14465

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift

#14466

There is a tide in the affairs of men,<br> Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;<br> Omitted, all the voyage of their life<br> Is bound in shallows and in miseries. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

#14467

California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange. Fred Allen

#14468

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca

#14469

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? Count Oxenstierna

#14470

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams

#14471

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller

#14472

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. Dr. Laurence J. Peter

#14473

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?<br> Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot, The Rock

#14474

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You

#14475

We shall never cease from exploration<br> And the end of all our exploring<br> Will be to arrive where we started<br> And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot

#14476

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. Frank Lloyd Wright

#14477

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

#14478

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise Strong

#14479

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell

#14480

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

#14481

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt

#14482

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus

#14483

Politics is applesauce. Will Rogers

#14484

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Adolph Hitler

#14485

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer

#14486

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. Edward Keating

#14487

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

#14488

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.

#14489

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.

#14490

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

#14491

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke

#14492

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan

#14493

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Hannah More

#14494

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. Napoleon

#14495

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Napoleon

#14496

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon

#14497

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan

#14498

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. Flower A. Newhouse

#14499

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. William Proxmire

#14500

Practice is the best of all instructors. Publilius Syrus

#14501

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash

#14502

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S Truman

#14503

Words divide us, actions unite us. Slogan of the Tupamaros

#14504

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! Emiliano Zapata

#14505

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14506

To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus

#14507

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#14508

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza

#14509

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace

#14510

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. #NAME?

#14511

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller

#14512

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... George Bernard Shaw

#14513

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. Shakespeare

#14514

You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke

#14515

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. Anonymous

#14516

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. Flora Whittemore

#14517

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. Shakespeare

#14518

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Sir Winston Churchill

#14519

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. A. N. Whitehead

#14520

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson

#14521

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery

#14522

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14523

Conservation is humanity caring for the future. Nancy Newhall

#14524

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14525

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#14526

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides

#14527

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates

#14528

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Sir Winston Churchill

#14529

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln

#14530

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx

#14531

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. W. R. Inge

#14532

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare

#14533

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#14534

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. Samuel Grafton

#14535

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities. Anonymous

#14536

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pine

#14537

To change and to change for the better are two different things. German proverb

#14538

He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves. A. P. Gouthey

#14539

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. Thomas Kempis

#14540

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. Peter York

#14541

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran

#14542

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

#14543

Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. Josh Billings

#14544

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Lang

#14545

Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#14546

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy

#14547

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith

#14548

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. La Rochefoucauld

#14549

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson

#14550

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau

#14551

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

#14552

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. Walter Kerr

#14553

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#14554

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#14555

"He means well" is useless unless he does well. Plautus

#14556

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

#14557

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. Fred Allen

#14558

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

#14559

Grace under Pressure. Ernest Hemingway

#14560

Live life to the fullest. Ernest Hemingway

#14561

In order to write about life, first you must live it! Ernest Hemingway

#14562

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Sir Winston Churchill

#14563

The price of greatness is responsibility. Sir Winston Churchill

#14564

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

#14565

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Sir Winston Churchill

#14566

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? Unknown

#14567

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. David Letterman

#14568

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Sir Winston Churchill

#14569

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge

#14570

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham

#14571

Learning is finding out what you already know Richard Bach

#14572

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France

#14573

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Alan Saporta

#14574

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

#14575

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman

#14576

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#14577

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. Sam Levenson

#14578

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Rubin

#14579

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. William Reece Smith Jr.

#14580

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. Spanish proverb

#14581

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895

#14582

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. Ogden Nash

#14583

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. Georges Pomidou

#14584

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

#14585

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson

#14586

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Cicero

#14587

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott, Economist

#14588

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. Oscar Wilde

#14589

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Boris Pasternak

#14590

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Sir Francis Bacon

#14591

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

#14592

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. E. J. Phelps

#14593

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields

#14594

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells

#14595

If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. Bernard M. Baruch

#14596

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. Harold Geneen

#14597

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. Mencken

#14598

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. J. Paul Getty

#14599

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson

#14600

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do. George F. Burns

#14601

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Norman Vincent Peale

#14602

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. Woody Allen

#14603

Common sense is not so common. Voltaire

#14604

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. Robert Greenleaf

#14605

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Dr. Linus Pauling

#14606

Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still. Chinese Proverb

#14607

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Clare Booth Luce

#14608

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon

#14609

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. An Wang

#14610

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect. English Proverb

#14611

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain

#14612

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. George Bernard Shaw

#14613

One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. Ida Scott Taylor.

#14614

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

#14615

Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit. Diane Westlake

#14616

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. Susan Polis Schutz

#14617

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley

#14618

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Sir James Barrie

#14619

All things are possible to him that believeth. Mark 9:23

#14620

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. Richard M. Nixon

#14621

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. Helen Keller

#14622

A dreamer lives for eternity. Anonymous

#14623

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. Anonymous

#14624

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller

#14625

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard

#14626

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm

#14627

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott

#14628

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. Maxwell Maltz

#14629

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor. The Best of the Best (motion picture)

#14630

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln

#14631

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence

#14632

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Israel Zangwill

#14633

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. Unknown

#14634

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable. Oscar Arias

#14635

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. Patrick Henry

#14636

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope

#14637

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides

#14638

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. Unknown

#14639

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. Arnold Bennett

#14640

Happiness lies, first of all, in health. George William Curtis

#14641

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoffer

#14642

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. Unknown

#14643

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. Toledo Blade

#14644

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde

#14645

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen

#14646

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest. Unknown

#14647

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. Wilma Askinas

#14648

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy

#14649

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley

#14650

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. Huey Long

#14651

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. Ted Morgan

#14652

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. Unknown

#14653

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14654

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W. Somerset Maugham

#14655

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. Confucius

#14656

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde

#14657

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3

#14658

Human kind cannot bear much reality. T. S. Eliot

#14659

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. Michel de Montaigne

#14660

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Russell

#14661

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger

#14662

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel

#14663

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. Unknown

#14664

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot Charlie Chaplin

#14665

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. Whitney Young Jr.

#14666

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Publilius Syrus

#14667

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. Frank W. Woolworth

#14668

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice. Proverbs 12:15

#14669

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

#14670

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling

#14671

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way. Unknown

#14672

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#14673

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Lord Chesterfield

#14674

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. Ingrid Bengis

#14675

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. Saint Francis of Assisi

#14676

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley

#14677

I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted. Mae West

#14678

Never complain. Never explain. Katherine Hepburn

#14679

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own. Emerson

#14680

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. John Lahr

#14681

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor

#14682

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde

#14683

Ability is of little account without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte

#14684

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. Frank Zappa

#14685

Someday is not a day of the week. Anonymous

#14686

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. William McFee

#14687

One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. Josh Billings

#14688

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes. Wilbur N. Nesbit

#14689

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. Unknown

#14690

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. Unknown

#14691

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . . Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)

#14692

If man does his best what else is there? George S. Patton

#14693

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer

#14694

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost

#14695

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. Nicholai Velimirovic

#14696

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw

#14697

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas Szasz

#14698

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. Gerald Burrill

#14699

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)

#14700

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. Ethel Barrymoore

#14701

Since when was genius found respectable? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#14702

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker, (attributed)

#14703

If you rest, you rust. Helen Hayes

#14704

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. Albert Schweitzer

#14705

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato

#14706

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. Anonymous

#14707

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca

#14708

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln

#14709

It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him. M. Thompson

#14710

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw

#14711

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is. Gertrude Stein

#14712

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Old Chinese Proverb

#14713

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so. Proverbs 3:27

#14714

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa

#14715

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

#14716

I am a part of all that I have met. John Milton

#14717

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln

#14718

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass

#14719

The future is much like the present, only longer. Dan Quisenberry

#14720

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. Anatole France

#14721

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter Jr.

#14722

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates

#14723

Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

#14724

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. Unknown

#14725

Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind. Kay Ingram

#14726

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. William James

#14727

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

#14728

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek

#14729

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. Karl Weick

#14730

We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves. Prophet Joseph Smith

#14731

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. Marilyn Ferguson

#14732

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer

#14733

Only the shallow know themselves. Oscar Wilde

#14734

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Will Durant

#14735

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud

#14736

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. Jim Beggs

#14737

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

#14738

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman

#14739

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole

#14740

There are two rules for success: <br>1) Never tell everything you know. Roger H. Lincoln

#14741

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington

#14742

The gods too are fond of a joke. Aristotle

#14743

Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. Unknown

#14744

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Unknown

#14745

The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them. Unknown

#14746

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14747

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Marie Hugo

#14748

I hear and I forget.<br> I see and I believe.<br> I do and I understand. Confucius

#14749

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx

#14750

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. John Paul Richter

#14751

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein, (attributed)

#14752

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. Nikos Kazantzakis

#14753

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones

#14754

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. John Schaar, futurist

#14755

I have learned, in whatever state I am ,therewith to be content. Epistle of Paul

#14756

Courage conquers all things. Ovid

#14757

Tempt not a desperate man. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

#14758

Love is my Sword,<br> Goodness my Armor,<br> And Humor my Shield. Unknown, epitaph for a loved one

#14759

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. Learned Hand

#14760

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. Errol Flynn

#14761

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Mark Twain

#14762

Never cut what you can untie. Joseph Joubert

#14763

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. Mary Howitt

#14764

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. Baltasar Gracian

#14765

We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. Eric Hoffer

#14766

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. John Ray

#14767

A good rest is half the work. Yugoslav Proverb

#14768

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels

#14769

Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open. Shakespeare

#14770

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. Unknown

#14771

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge. Unknown

#14772

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. David Searls

#14773

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Charlotte Bronte

#14774

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katherine Hepburn

#14775

If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal. Unknown

#14776

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life. Unknown

#14777

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert

#14778

Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

#14779

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. Walter Goodman

#14780

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966

#14781

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer

#14782

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#14783

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. William James

#14784

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. Wilhelm von Humboldt

#14785

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. Unknown

#14786

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion. Unknown

#14787

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis

#14788

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

#14789

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#14790

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. Benjamin Disreali

#14791

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. Hubert H. Humphrey

#14792

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr

#14793

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely... Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14794

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]

#14795

No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus

#14796

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

#14797

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

#14798

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson

#14799

As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose Bhagavad Gita

#14800

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle

#14801

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. George Washington

#14802

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

#14803

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind. Albert Schweitzer

#14804

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. Thomas S. Szasz

#14805

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Heraclitus of Ephesus

#14806

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglas

#14807

I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. Kathe Kollwitz

#14808

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty

#14809

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

#14810

It is the theory that decides what we can observe. Albert Einstein

#14811

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha

#14812

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Sir Francis Bacon

#14813

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. Herb Brody

#14814

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. Samuel Johnson

#14815

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. Mark Twain

#14816

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr

#14817

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust

#14818

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright

#14819

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. Woody Allen

#14820

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. Saint Benedict

#14821

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

#14822

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. George Orwell

#14823

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. Keller

#14824

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. Emerson

#14825

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Vince Lombardi

#14826

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Vince Lombardi

#14827

The good man is the teacher of the bad,<br> And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.<br> He who does not value the teacher,<br> Or greatly care for the material,<br> Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.<br> Such is the essential mystery. Lao-Tzu

#14828

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. William James

#14829

A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,<br> a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all,<br> the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him,<br> the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing. Thomas Nashe

#14830

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. Albert Einstein

#14831

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson

#14832

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. Isaac Watts

#14833

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin, "A Many Splendored Thing"

#14834

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. Jessamyn West

#14835

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner

#14836

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther. Isaac Watts

#14837

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin

#14838

A prudent question is one half of wisdom. Sir Francis Bacon

#14839

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children. Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony

#14840

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin

#14841

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

#14842

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. Ovid

#14843

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

#14844

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Calvin Coolidge

#14845

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. Croesus of Lydia

#14846

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert Maynard Hutchins

#14847

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Albert Einstein

#14848

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#14849

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. Malcolm S. Forbes

#14850

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3

#14851

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. Chinese Proverb

#14852

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats. Alvin Toffler

#14853

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. Robert P. Vanderpoel

#14854

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. Lao-Tzu

#14855

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

#14856

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. Martin Luther

#14857

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. Hannah More

#14858

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .. Isaac Asimov

#14859

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Isaac Asimov

#14860

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"

#14861

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, "Economy"

#14862

"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . . Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

#14863

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr

#14864

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

#14865

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge. George F. Will

#14866

Oppression can only survive through silence. Carmen de Monteflores

#14867

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley

#14868

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

#14869

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen

#14870

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. Shunryu Suzuki

#14871

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. Henry Ward Beecher

#14872

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910

#14873

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. Richard Byrd

#14874

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard Byrd

#14875

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. E. V. Lucas

#14876

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary

#14877

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Eleanor Roosevelt

#14878

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug Larson

#14879

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination. Ruth Ross

#14880

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. Marilyn Vos Savant

#14881

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. B. C. Forbes

#14882

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson

#14883

Never underestimate the power of the irate customer. Joel E. Ross

#14884

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. Roy L. Smith

#14885

...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton

#14886

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. Peter Drucker

#14887

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean-Paul Sartre

#14888

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease. Nicholas Boileau

#14889

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. Klopstock

#14890

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. Marcel Duchamp

#14891

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. Whitney M. Young Jr.

#14892

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. Maureen Murphy

#14893

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

#14894

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana

#14895

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. Milton R. Sapirstein

#14896

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin

#14897

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies. Gore Vidal

#14898

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead

#14899

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. De La Rochefoucauld.

#14900

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein

#14901

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison

#14902

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. Chinese proverb

#14903

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry

#14904

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. Chinese proverb

#14905

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long

#14906

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James

#14907

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

#14908

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . Aristophanes

#14909

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller Jr.

#14910

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen

#14911

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball

#14912

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. Dean Koontz

#14913

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Karl Menninger

#14914

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

#14915

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. Diogenes

#14916

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

#14917

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#14918

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover

#14919

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. Bruce Barton

#14920

Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden

#14921

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. Antonio Porchia, Voices

#14922

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. Indira Gandhi

#14923

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjold

#14924

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger

#14925

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou

#14926

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. Albert Pike

#14927

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers

#14928

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold Toynbee

#14929

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein

#14930

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. George Eliot

#14931

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson

#14932

He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity. The Talmud

#14933

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert G. Ingersoll

#14934

Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Robert G. Ingersoll

#14935

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated. Edith Hamilton

#14936

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. Edith Hamilton

#14937

Ability is nothing without opportunity. Napoleon I

#14938

Imagination rules the world. Napoleon I

#14939

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. Herb Caen

#14940

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon I

#14941

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. George Eliot

#14942

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. Peter Mere Latham

#14943

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Stephen Covey

#14944

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. Schiller

#14945

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family! Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

#14946

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe

#14947

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

#14948

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. Martin Mull

#14949

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton

#14950

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson

#14951

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle

#14952

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

#14953

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14954

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge

#14955

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. Thomas Fuller

#14956

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Samuel Johnson

#14957

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire

#14958

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Viscount Morley

#14959

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. Hippocrates

#14960

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848

#14961

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann

#14962

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

#14963

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious Friedrich Nietzsche

#14964

The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich

#14965

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"

#14966

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt

#14967

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

#14968

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Louis Bergson

#14969

Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. Author Unknown

#14970

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson

#14971

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable Business," by Louis E. Boone

#14972

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. Unknown

#14973

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken

#14974

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli

#14975

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Bragg

#14976

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. Edgar Z. Friedenberg

#14977

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look. Robert Fulghum

#14978

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin

#14979

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream"

#14980

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell

#14981

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. Paul Val?ry

#14982

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. Seneca, 65 AD

#14983

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? Natalie Clifford Barney

#14984

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford

#14985

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. George Bernard Shaw

#14986

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#14987

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America. . .

#14988

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas

#14989

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way. Gurdjieff

#14990

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? Woody Allen

#14991

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. Ovid

#14992

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein

#14993

Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. Leonard Bernstein

#14994

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. Confucius

#14995

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. Confucius

#14996

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke

#14997

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

#14998

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#14999

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. Maria Montessori

#15000  
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. Maria Montessori

#15001

Democritus says, but we know nothing for truth lies deep down. Laertius Diogenes

#15002

When Thales was asked, what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.' Laertius Diogenes

#15003

The mob is the mother of tyrants. Laertius Diogenes

#30003

Blushing is the color of virtue. Laertius Diogenes

#15004

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless t Laertius Diogenes

#15005

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are ta Baba Dioum

#15006

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money. Senator Everett Dirksen

#15007

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't be those in c Senator Everett Dirksen

#15008

A billion here, a billion there, soon it adds up to real money. Senator Everett Dirksen

#15009

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

#15010

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. J. Frank Dobie

#15011

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. J. Frank Dobie

#15012

Conform and be dull. J. Frank Dobie

#15013

If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot. John A. Dix

#15014

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Isaac Disraeli

#15015

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, per their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. Th Macneile Dixon

#15016

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final. Mike Ditka

#15017

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. Mike Ditka

#15018

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. Ken Dodd

#15019

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55. Robert Joseph Bob Dole

#15020

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red C Robert Joseph Bob Dole

#15021

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably Robert Joseph Bob Dole

#15022

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See Robert Joseph Bob Dole

#15023

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire. Robert Joseph Bob Dole

#15024

If there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Sena Robert Joseph Bob Dole

#15025

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

#15026

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling Robert Joseph Bob Dole

#15027

Generally, we study too much and think too little. Hary Latham Doherty

#15028

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart. H. W. Dodds

#15029

The greatest wealth consistent in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the Tibetan Doctrine

#15030

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its product, E. L. Doctorow

#15031

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow

#15032

It just isn't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is Jim Dodge

#15033

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything J. P. Donleavy

#15034

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at Michael Dorris

#15035

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett

#15036

Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neig Danielle Donoho

#15037

We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain. Danielle Donoho

#15038

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the a Lou Dorfsman

#15039

No one ever excused his way to success. Dave Del Dotto

#15040

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, o Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15041

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is less Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15042

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15043

Man, has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15044

Man, is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15045

Oh, if only I did nothing simply because of laziness. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15046

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15047

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The great men must, I think, have gre Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

#15048

Play is the beginning of knowledge. George Dorsey

#15049

For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wan Cathleen Douglas

#15050

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets Helen Gahagan Douglas

#15051

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow. George W. Douglas

#15052

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. Mack R. Douglas

#15053

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military William Orville Douglas

#15054

Common sense often makes good law. William Orville Douglas

#15055

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom. William Orville Douglas

#15056

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. William Orville Douglas

#15057

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor. William Orville Douglas

#15058

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. William Orville Douglas

#15059

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could m William Orville Douglas

#15060

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it ... makes him landlord to a ghost. Lloyd Douglas

#15061

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such Lawrence Downs

#15062

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs

#15063

The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below. Glen Drake

#15064

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish. Christopher S. Drew

#15065

Change starts when someone sees the next step. William Drayton

#15066

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. Steve Droke

#15067

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser

#15068

If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible. Nancy Drew

#15069

What a wretched lot of old shriveled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the Marie Dressler

#15070

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow. Louise Driscoll

#15071

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears Maurice Druon

#15072

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to William Sherman Pene du Bois

#15073

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future. Diane Elizabeth Duane

#15074

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. Mark Duffy

#30075

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. Mark Duffy

#15076

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not. Mark Duffy

#15077

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. David Duchovny

#15078

This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand...I'm going to fly till I die. Jessica Dubroff

#15079

Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and Lowell Duckett

#15080

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand c W. E. B. Du Bois

#15081

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. W. E. B. Du Bois

#15082

If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and Joyce Duco

#15083

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas

#15084

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas

#15085

love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing. Alexandre Dumas

#15086

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. Alexandre Dumas

#15087

Nothing succeeds like success. Alexandre Dumas

#15088

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas

#15089

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas

#15090

The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not. William Dugger

#15091

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requ John Foster Dulles

#15092

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are sc John Foster Dulles

#15093

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant

#15094

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana, A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or s Will Durant

#15095

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. Will Durant

#15096

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant

#15097

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle. Will Durant

#15098

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant

#15099

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing Will Durant

#15100

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Will Durant

#15101

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Will Durant

#15102

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. Will Durant

#15103

The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things repeatedly night after night, but Elaine Dundy

#15104

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can Frank Herbert Dune

#15105

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary. Frederick Sherwood Dunn

#15106

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle. Stan Dunn

#15107

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. Lawrence George Durrell

#15108

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. Lawrence George Durrell

#15109

In love, there are no vacations No such thing. Love must be lived fully with its boredom and all that. Marguerite Duras

#15110

The best way to fill time is to waste it. Marguerite Duras

#15111

Nice guys finish last. Leo Durocher

#15112

If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pic Leo Durocher

#15113

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. John Dykes

#15114

When you live on a around planet, there's no choosing sides. Wayne W Dyer

#30115

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. Wayne W Dyer

#15116

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guara Wayne W Dyer

#15117

Infinite patience brings immediate results. Wayne W Dyer

#15118

Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of the Wayne W Dyer

#15119

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Wayne W Dyer

#15120

To live outside the law, you must be honest. Bob Dylan

#15121

All this talk about equality. The only thing people have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan

#15122

Money doesn't talk, it swears. Bob Dylan

#15123

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. Bob Dylan

#15124

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. Bob Dylan

#15125

What's money A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan

#15126

He not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan

#15127

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to Bob Dylan

#15128

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. Bob Dylan

#15129

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan

#15130

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. Freeman John Dyson

#15131

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life, it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations Freeman John Dyson

#15132

There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking. John M. Eades

#15133

The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence. Sue Atchley Ebaugh

#15134

Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities. Sue Atchley Ebaugh

#15135

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. Clint Eastwood, Jr.

#15136

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban

#15137

His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban

#15138

Everybody continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

#15139

In youth, we learn in age we understand. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

#15140

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

#15141

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

#15142

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by. Kermit Eby

#15143

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth Umberto Eco

#15144

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. Umberto Eco

#15145

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to intent Umberto Eco

#15146

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco

#15147

I felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco

#15148

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. Aubrey Eben

#15149

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal. Mary Baker Eddy

#15150

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger

#15151

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. Johannes Meister Eckhart

#15152

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. Johannes Meister Eckhart

#15153

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, of Marian Wright Edelman

#15154

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman

#15155

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelet. Sir Robert Anthony Eden

#15156

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. Flora Edwards

#15157

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. Edwin W. Edwards

#15158

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. Bob Robert Alan Edwards

#15159

All's fair in love and war. Francis Edwards

#15160

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the s Bernard Edmonds

#15161

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII

#15162

Nature is God's greatest evangelist. Johnathan Edwards

#15163

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. Johathan Edwards

#15164

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. Johathan Edwards

#15165

Resolve to live as with all your might while you do live, and as you shall wish you had done ten thousand years hence. Johathan Edwards

#15166

There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character a Johathan Edwards

#15167

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the co Johathan Edwards

#15168

To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase Tryon Edwards

#15169

Thoughts lead on to purposes go forth in action actions form habits decide character and character fixes our des Tryon Edwards

#15170

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both. Tryon Edwards

#15171

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than Tryon Edwards

#15172

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards

#15173

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. Tryon Edwards

#15174

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards

#15175

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards

#15176

Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both. Tryon Edwards

#15177

He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow. Tryon Edwards

#15178

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety. Tryon Edwards

#15179

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep Tryon Edwards

#15180

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which Tryon Edwards

#15181

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Max Ehrmann

#15182

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear Max Ehrmann

#15183

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich

#15184

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a dr Barbara Ehrenreich

#15185

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. Edward Eggleston

#15186

Sure, you're entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong you are. Ralph Carl Eichelberger

#15187

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a mo. Jill Eikenberry

#15188

You must hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child, and he will be wonderful again Jill Eikenberry

#15189

A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant. Manfred Eigen

#15190

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above Loren

#15191

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. Loren

#15192

If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren

#15193

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. Larry Eisenberg

#15194

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. Anwar el Sadat

#15195

Russians can give your arms but only the United States can give you a solution. Anwar el Sadat

#15196

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. Anwar el Sadat

#15197

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. Anwar el Sadat

#15198

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. Michael Eisner

#15199

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being po Elliot Wayne Eisner

#15200

The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and win Earl Eisenhower

#15201

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking. Jenna Elfman

#15202

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our Elizabeth II

#15203

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. Elizabeth II

#15204

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and Elizabeth II

#15205

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains. Elizabeth II

#15206

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impo Elizabeth II

#15207

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed, this is quite a popular pastime. Elizabeth II

#15208

I prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. (After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit) Elizabeth II

#15209

Whoever said Marriage is a 5-5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language Austin Elliot

#15210

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. Professor Elledge

#15211

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington

#15212

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter. Duke Ellington

#15213

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington

#15214

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Henry Havelock Ellis

#15215

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human h Henry Havelock Ellis

#15216

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. Henry Havelock Ellis

#15217

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from Henry Havelock Ellis

#15218

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Henry Havelock Ellis

#15219

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life Henry Havelock Ellis

#15220

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. Henry Havelock Ellis

#15221

If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter. Henry Elliot

#15222

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. George Ellis

#15223

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliott

#15224

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. W. T. Ellis

#15225

Better and ugly face than an ugly mind. James

#15226

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison

#15227

On love, I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to ab Harlan Ellison

#15228

The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound. Pat Elphinstone

#15229

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. Nathaniel Emmons

#15230

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. Nathaniel Emmons

#15231

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute. Nathaniel Emmons

#15232

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. Paul Engle

#15233

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined not to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from Ted W. Engstrom

#15234

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. Ted W. Engstrom

#15235

I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies Abd Er-Rahman III

#15236

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about. Joseph Epstein

#15237

Love won't be tampered with; love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Louise Erdrich

#15238

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the bound Louise Erdrich

#15239

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. Louise Erdrich

#15240

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fuss Louise Erdrich

#15241

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine

#15242

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine

#15243

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts. Paul Erlich

#15244

The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse. Ralph Erskine

#15245

Walking isn't a lost art -- one must, by some means, get to the garage. Evan Esar

#15246

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. Evan Esar

#15247

Statistician A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. Evan Esar

#15248

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week Evan Esar

#15249

Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. Evan Esar

#15250

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. Evan Esar

#15251

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. Evan Esar

#15252

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently. Ira Erwin

#15253

Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is p John Ervine

#15254

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz

#15255

He talked with more claret than clarity. Susan Ertz

#15256

I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That I Sam James Ervin, Jr.

#15257

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Sam James Ervin, Jr.

#15258

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features Sam James Ervin, Jr.

#15259

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with cr Sam James Ervin, Jr.

#15260

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes Sam James Ervin, Jr.

#15261

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural k Henri Estienne

#15262

He who wonders discovers that this is wonder. M. C. Escher

#15263

My work is a game, a very serious game. M. C. Escher

#15264

I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. M. C. Escher

#15265

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and M. C. Escher

#15266

We adore chaos because we love to produce order. M. C. Escher

#15267

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and th M. C. Escher

#15268

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I have made, I ended M. C. Escher

#15269

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. M. C. Escher

#15270

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. Ignacio Estrada

#15271

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world. John Evelyn

#15272

Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind. Eve

#15273

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can h Marsha Evans

#15274

I have one rule-attention. They give me theirs and I give them mine. Sister Evangelist

#15275

The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs. Rowland Evans, Jr.

#15276

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum-security twilight ho Dame Edna Everage

#15277

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without dou Bergen

#15278

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett Hale

#15279

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something And because I cannot do everything I will Edward Everett Hale

#15280

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into Douglas H. Everett

#15281

Knowing where to lead people is not the same as convincing them to follow you. Douglas H. Everett

#15282

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. Chris Marie Evert

#15283

Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment. B. A. Fajimi

#15284

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some large Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs

#15285

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. Frederick William Faber

#15286

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Paul Fadiman

#15287

We are all citizens of history. Clifton Paul Fadiman

#15288

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. Clifton Paul Fadiman

#15289

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am Clifton Paul Fadiman

#15290

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. Clifton Paul Fadiman

#15291

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does Richard Exely

#15292

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble. Dennis Fakes

#15293

We all grew up despite our parents. I trust our children will do likewise. Sandy Farquhar

#15294

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural. Philip Jose Farmer

#15295

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. Peter Farquharson

#15296

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles De Gaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of r Oriana Fallaci

#15297

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life George Farquhar

#15298

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instru Michael Faraday

#15299

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. David Fasold

#15300

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try William

#15301

I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail. William Faulkner

#15302

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So, I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. William Faulkner

#15303

If people liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. William Faulkner

#15304

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible. William Faulkner

#15305

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Faulkner

#15306

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job. William Faulkner

#15307

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action William Faulkner

#15308

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Faulkner

#15309

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it. William Faulkner

#15310

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to wr William Faulkner

#15311

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. Owen Felltham

#15312

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be all Federico Fellni

#15313

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. James Feibleman

#15314

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day Jerry Della Femina

#15315

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them Jules Feiffer

#15316

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself Jules Feiffer

#15317

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they beli Jules Feiffer

#15318

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. Jules Feiffer

#15319

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns. Charles Feidelson, Jr.

#15320

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, Marilyn Ferguson

#15321

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open Marilyn Ferguson

#15322

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me Marilyn Ferguson

#15323

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. Marilyn Ferguson

#15324

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information Marilyn Ferguson

#15325

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the de Marilyn Ferguson

#15326

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses o Marilyn Ferguson

#15327

What did you ask at school today Richard Fenyman

#15328

The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frighten Herbert Fenstermeim

#15329

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

#15330

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

#15331

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death—fascinating Edna Ferber

#15332

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going Edna Ferber

#15333

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-di Edna Ferber

#15334

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. Edna Ferber

#15335

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. Millicent Fenwick

#15336

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choo Lewis S Feuer

#15337

There's two possible outcomes if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to Enrico Fermi

#15338

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi

#15339

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. Paul Karl Feyerabend

#15340

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Phillips Feynman

#15341

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of t Richard Phillips Feynman

#15342

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. Richard Phillips Feynman

#15343

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. Richard Phillips Feynman

#15344

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. Richard J. Ferris

#15345

In this dispensation, God has clearly included the burial and resurrection of Christ along with His death as a part of 'the gasp Joel Finack

#15346

I have been both rich and poor--while I have respect for both, I am unimpressed and unawed by both as well. John A. Field

#15347

It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress. Millard Fillmore

#15348

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). Edgar R. Fiedler

#15349

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields

#15350

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. W. C. Fields

#15351

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. W. C. Fields

#15352

I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. W. C. Fields

#15353

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. W. C. Fields

#15354

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. W. C. Fields

#15355

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy. W. C. Fields

#15356

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. W. C. Fields

#15357

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W. C. Fields

#15358

I never vote for anyone I always vote against. W. C. Fields

#15359

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and wat W. C. Fields

#15360

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. W. C. Fields

#15361

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profound Henry Fielding

#15362

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding

#15363

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding

#15364

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding

#15365

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through Sally Field

#15366

Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at Dan Fielding

#15367

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse Derwood Fincher

#15368

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion. Melvin Fitting

#15369

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap. Carrie

#15370 If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly. Guy Finley

#15371

Spend every day casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed. Guy Finley

#15372

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, John Martin Fischer

#15373

The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain. Ronald Firbank

#15374

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H. Fischer

#15375

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

#15376

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. F Scott

#15377

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little F Scott

#15378

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F Scott

#15379

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. F Scott

#15380

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. F Scott

#15381

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. F Scott

#15382

Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinni F Scott

#15383

It's not a slam at you when people are rude-it's a slam at the people they've met before. F Scott

#15384

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like spy F Scott

#15385

Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civil F Scott

#15386

Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us passed the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, F Scott

#15387

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain th F Scott

#15388

Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone that is what I learn as I get old. Edward Fitzgerald

#15389

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#15390

No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in oth Penelope Fitzgerald

#15391

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there Penelope Fitzgerald

#15392

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't Peter Fitzgerald

#15393

We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on Tom Fitzgerald

#15394

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. Paul Fix

#15395

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity R. I. Fitzhenry

#15396

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold. Zelda

#15397

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. Zelda

#15398

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating Zelda

#15399

A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something. Phoenix Flame

#15400

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this Gustave Flaubert

#15401

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form. Gustave Flaubert

#15402

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert

#15403

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure d Gustave Flaubert

#15404

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. Gustave Flaubert

#15405

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

#15406

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. Peter Fleming

#15407

Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how. Rudolf Franz Flesch

#15408

It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Doris Fleeson

#15409

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it. Peggy Fleming

#15410

If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you. Ken Flaton

#15411

Deeds, not words shall speak to me. John William Fletcher

#15412

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. John William Fletcher

#15413

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life we Pink Floyd

#15414

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. Marechal Ferdinand Foch

#15415

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective. Marechal Ferdinand Foch

#15416

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. Errol Flynn

#15417

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. Errol Flynn

#15418

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

#15419

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

#15420

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. Bertha Flowers

#15421

Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable. Jean de La Fontaine

#15422

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine

#15423

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine

#15424

Help thyself, and God will help thee. Jean de La Fontaine

#15425

The opinion of the strongest is always the best. Jean de La Fontaine

#15426

By the work one knows the workmen. Jean de La Fontaine

#15427

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Jean de La Fontaine

#15428

In everything one must consider the end. Jean d

e La Fontaine

#15429

No path of flowers leads to glory. Jean de La Fontaine

#15430

We heed no instincts but our own. Jean de La Fontaine

#15431

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. Jean de La Fontaine

#15432

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. Jean de La Fontaine

#15433

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. Jean de La Fontaine

#15434

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind. Jean de La Fontaine

#15435

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend A wise enemy is worth more. Jean de La Fontaine

#15436

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. Saying Folk

#15437

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They w Bertie Forbes

#15438

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#15439

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#15440

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's sel Margot Fonteyn

#15441

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch Margot Fonteyn

#15442

A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out att Gerald R. Ford

#15443

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford

#15444

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I exp Gerald R. Ford

#15445

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissem Gerald R. Ford

#15446

The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by Gerald R. Ford

#15447

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It' Gerald R. Ford

#15448

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon) Gerald R. Ford

#15449

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, whoever s Gerald R. Ford

#15450

My Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)Gerald R. Ford

#15451

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. Gerald R. Ford

#15452

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. Gerald R. Ford

#15453

It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must. Gerald R. Ford

#15454

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. Gerald R. Ford

#15455

On being an actor. nothing more than a worker in a service occupation. It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but Harrison Ford

#15456

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes. Harrison Ford

#15457

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford

#15458

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. Harrison Ford

#15459

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. Max L. Forman

#15460

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. George Foreman

#15461

Generally, when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke. George Foreman

#15462

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be Eugene Forsey

#15463

We're not lost. We're location ally challenged. John M. Ford

#15464

I am. a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. John M. Ford

#15465

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our Edward Morgan Forster

#15466

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Edward Morgan Forster

#15467

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It' Edward Morgan Forster

#15468

They go forth with well-developed bodies, developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. Th Edward Morgan Forster

#15469

In America, you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal rel Edward Morgan Forster

#15470

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave. Edward Morgan Forster

#15471

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. Edward Morgan Forster

#15472

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be Edward Morgan Forster

#15473

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. Edward Morgan Forster

#15474

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I Edward Morgan Forster

#15475

Do what you love and the business will follow. Michel Fortin

#15476

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God to solve them. P. T. Forsyth

#15477

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' Jim Fox

#15478

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity. William Hiram Foulkes

#15479

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. Jodie Foster

#15480

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead. Emmet Fox

#15481

Life is consciousness. Emmet Fox

#15482

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide. Steffen Francisco

#15483

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be How much you can love Anne Frank

#15484

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank

#15485

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank

#15486

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank

#15487

We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank

#15488

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their ow Anne Frank

#15489

I have often been downcast, but never in despair I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the s Anne Frank

#15490

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

#15491

I am responsible only to God and history. Francisco El Caudillo Franco

#15492

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. Rose Dorothy Franken

#15493

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the Ameri Waldo Frank

#15494

The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Dr. Viktor E Frankl

#15495

What is to give light must endure burning. Dr. Viktor E Frankl

#15496

Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circum Dr. Viktor E Frankl

#15497

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self-transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become hi Dr. Viktor E Frankl

#15498

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment Dr. Viktor E Frankl

#15499

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.' Dr. Viktor E Frankl

#15500

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Felix Frankfurter

#15501

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the Tyra Felix Frankfurter

#15502

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. Aretha Franklin

#15503

It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame) Aretha Franklin

#15504

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. Don Fraser

#15505

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light Maurice Freehill

#15506

The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about John Fredericksen

#15507

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they Pauline Frederick

#15508

When they kept you out it was because you were black when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress Marilyn French

#15509

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who Paulson Frenckner

#15510

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. Rose Dorothy Freeman

#15511

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire

#15512

It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and Barbara Friedman

#15513

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundam Betty Naomi Friedan

#15514

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our ma Betty Naomi Friedan

#15515

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. Betty Naomi Friedan

#15516

Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut Betty Naomi Friedan

#15517

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. Betty Naomi Friedan

#15518

An old man loved is winter with flowers. Edgar Z. Friedenberg

#15519

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. Nancy Friday

#15520

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes Nancy Friday

#15521

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nation David Friedman

#15522

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. Isaac Friedmann

#15523

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. Sonya Friedman

#15524

Today is here yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes. Alyssa Fritch

#15525

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all t Robert Fritz

#15526

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement Sextus Julius Frontinus

#15527

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth. David Frost

#15528

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. David Frost

#15529

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. David Frost

#15530

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. David Frost

#15531

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simu Stephen Fry

#15532

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itsel James Anthony Froude

#15533

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. William Fullbright

#15534

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could William Fullbright

#15535

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangko William Fullbright

#15536

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a com William Fullbright

#15537

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the Ameri William Fullbright

#15538

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a c William Fullbright

#15539

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless William Fullbright

#15540

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others Carlos Fuentes

#15541

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. Athol

#15542

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important Lavina Christensen Fugal

#15543

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. Libbie Fudim

#15544

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names Robert Martin Fuoss

#15545

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. J. J. Fumas

#15546

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technology G Gaia

#15547

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are it's master once you utter it, you are it's slave. Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#15548

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#15549

Today a reader--tomorrow a leader. W. Fusselman

#15550

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Gagehot

#15551

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. Roth Gabrielle

#15552

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. Ernest J. Gaines

#15553

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a r Gloria Gaither

#15554

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. Gloria Gaither

#15555

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else... Noah Gallagher

#15556

I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footstep Benito Perez Galdos

#15557

The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive. Charles Galloway

#15558

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. John Galsworthy

#15559

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. John Galsworthy

#15560

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me Indira Nehru Gandhi

#15561

People with clenched fists can not shake hands. Indira Nehru Gandhi

#15562

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. Indira Nehru Gandhi

#15563

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Nehru Gandhi

#15564

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of Indira Nehru Gandhi

#15565

Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I wa Garry Gamble

#15566

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, George Gallup

#15567

I could prove God statistically. George Gallup

#15568

The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes Albert Gallatin

#15569

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15570

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgot. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15571

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15572

Hate the sin and love the sinner. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15573

(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15574

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15575

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15576

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15577

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15578

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the c Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15579

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the bl Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15580

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15581

Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15582

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15583

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15584

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15585

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15586

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I ca Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15587 I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15588

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15589

Truth never damages a cause that is just. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15590

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15591

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15592

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15593

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15594

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15595

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and wisest might e Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15596

Where there is love there is life. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15597

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#15598

I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the A Lizzy Gardiner

#15599

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach. Jerry Garcia

#15600

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. Jerry Garcia

#15601

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old ch Jerry Garcia

#15602

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. Herbert Gardner

#15603

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live. David P Gardner

#15604

Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it le David P Gardner

#15605

If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. James Abram Garfield

#15606

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. James Abram Garfield

#15607

Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently mai James Abram Garfield

#15608

Ideas control the world. James Abram Garfield

#15609

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rheto John Gargin

#15610

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Giuseppe Garibaldi

#15611

Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the Stuti Garg

#15612

Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority. Marion Garretty

#15613

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. Lucius Gary

#15614

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, Michael Gartner

#15615

With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where t William Lloyd Garrison

#15616

I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--and I will be heard. William Lloyd Garrison

#15617

On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a Lloyd Garrison

#15618

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind. Milton Garland

#15619

In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated 'build all things according to the pattern (blueprint) shown to you.' Ron Garner

#15620

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. Barbara Garrison

#15621

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world Barbara Garrison

#15622

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have Marcus

#15623

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life. Stephen

#15624

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless I Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15625

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15626

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15627

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15628

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'h Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15629

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15630

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those wh Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15631

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15632

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15633

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15634

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward Jose Ortega y Gasset

#15635

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There William H Gass

#15636

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest. Michael

#15637

No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination. Ben Gaye, III

#15638

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and e Shakti Gawain

#15639

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, tru Shakti Gawain

#15640

When I'm trusting, and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. Shakti Gawain

#15641

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. Shakti Gawain

#15642

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. Shakti Gawain

#15643

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. Shakti Gawain

#15644

What I am saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance Shakti Gawain

#15645

We will discover the nature of our genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn Shakti Gawain

#15646

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience. Shakti Gawain

#15647

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. Shakti Gawain

#15648

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling. Tom Gates

#15649

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This Michael J. Gelb

#15650

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to Michael J. Gelb

#15651

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and h Michael J. Gelb

#15652

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. Michael J. Gelb

#15653

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. Michael J. Gelb

#15654

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. Michael J. Gelb

#15655

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive n Michael J. Gelb

#15656

We only part to meet again. John Gay

#15657

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. John Gay

#15658

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. John Gay

#15659

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Marvin

#15660

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. Larry Gelbart

#15661

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen

#15662

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. Harold S. Geneen

#15663

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude th Harold S. Geneen

#15664

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it. Harold S. Geneen

#15665

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. Henry George

#15666

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied. Henry George

#15667

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light Henry George

#15668

He's no failure. He's not dead yet. William Lloyd George

#15669

The most popular labor-saving device is still money. Phyllis George

#15670

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry

#15671

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet

#15672

The highest of distinctions is service to others. King George VI

#15673

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills. Miguel Gervantes

#15674

Of course, life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself David Gerrold

#15675

My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which ha Stan Getz

#15676

I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics) Matt Ghaffari

#15677

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbon

#15678

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon

#15679

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philo Edward Gibbon

#15680

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon

#15681

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon

#15682

We improve ourselves by victories over our self. There must be contests, and you must win. Edward Gibbon

#15683

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon

#15684

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. Wolcott Gibbs

#15685

I was never less alone than while by myself. Edward Lawrence Gibson

#15686

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of Paula Giddings

#15687

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. Wilfred Wilson Gibson

#15688

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have Amanda Grier

#15689

It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering. Patrice Gifford

#15690

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. George F. Gilder

#15691

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you. Dr. Rob Gilbert

#15692

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. Dr. Rob Gilbert

#15693

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you must do to educate a chil Ellen Gilcrist

#15694

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet William S. Gilbert

#15695

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, William S. Gilbert

#15696

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. William S. Gilbert

#15697

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

#15698

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

#15699

The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it. John Gilmore

#15700

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. Newt Gingrich

#15701

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened. Newt Gingrich

#15702

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. Newt Gingrich

#15703

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much. Newt Gingrich

#15704

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you t Newt Gingrich

#15705

Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. Roy R. Gilson

#15706

The people have for friends You common sense appall But the people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#15707

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gillies

#15708

The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more f Bhagavad Gita

#15709

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds Bhagavad Gita

#15710

God is seated in the hearts of all. Bhagavad Gita

#15711

The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace. Bhagavad Gita

#15712

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. Bhagavad Gita

#15713

Death is as sure for the born, as birth is for the dead. Therefore, grieve not for what is inevitable. Bhagavad Gita

#15714

As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes. Bhagavad Gita

#15715

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature. Bhagavad Gita

#15716

Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor Bhagavad Gita

#15717

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men. Bhagavad Gita

#15718

There are two ways of passing from this world \- one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come bac Bhagavad Gita

#15719

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer Bhagavad Gita

#15720

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. Bhagavad Gita

#15721

All created beings are un manifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and un manifest again when they are annihi Bhagavad Gita

#15722

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou should not grieve. Bhagavad Gita

#15723

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to intact Bhagavad Gita

#15724

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent o Allen Ginsberg

#15725

We love because it's the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni

#15726

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. Nikki Giovanni

#15727

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Nikki Giovanni

#15728

Love builds highways out of dead ends. Louis Gittner

#15729

For every romantic possibility, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capa Malcom Gladwell

#15730

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much. Germain G. Glidden

#15731

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permit John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

#15732

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday. John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

#15733

Harrison Ford as the President of the United States in Air Force One is such a perfect piece of casting that it's once a fantasy Owen Gleiberman

#15734

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain sea Ira Glasser

#15735

Falling Doesn't Make You a Failure, Staying Down Does. God's Little Instruction Book

#15736

Sorrow looks back... Worry looks around... But, faith looks up. God's Little Instruction Book

#15737

If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything. God's Little Instruction Book

#15738

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money. Arthur Godfrey

#15739

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Arthur Godfrey

#15740

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail

#15741

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. Gail

#15742

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms depl Maurice Godelier

#15743

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. Jan Glidewell

#15744

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last gener Max Gluckman

#15745

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sy William Golding

#15746

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. Sidney Goff

#15747

Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman

#15748

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. William Goldman

#15749

Diplomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg

#15750

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Thaddeus Golas

#15751

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. Robert F. Goheen

#15752

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. Robert F. Goheen

#15753

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. Robert F. Goheen

#15754

The harder I work, the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn

#15755

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his br Samuel Goldwyn

#15756

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. Samuel Goldwyn

#15757

If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. Samuel Goldwyn

#15758

Spare no expense to save money on this one. Samuel Goldwyn

#15759

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. Samuel Goldwyn

#15760

Let's have some new clichés. Samuel Goldwyn

#15761

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. Samuel Goldwyn

#15762

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. Samuel Goldwyn

#15763

A Hospital is no place to be sick. Samuel Goldwyn

#15764

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn

#15765

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. Samuel Goldwyn

#15766

I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn

#15767

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. Samuel Goldwyn

#15768

When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn

#15769

You've got to take the bitter with the sour. Samuel Goldwyn

#15770

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel

Goldwyn

#15771

Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn

#15772

I'd rather be lucky than good. Lefty Gomez

#15773

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. Foka Gomez

#15774

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. Terry Good kind

#15775

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is. Terry Goodkind

#15776

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight. Terry Goodkind

#15777

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. John Mason Good

#15778

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. Annette Goodheart

#15779

Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything. it was being scared, and do Missy Good

#15780

Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because your articles are rejected. It may be that Lavina Goodell

#15781

Do you want to know who you are Don't ask? Act Action will delineate and define you. Witold Gombrowicz

#15782

Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing If democracy develops here, if we succ Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15783

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15784

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So th Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15785

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15786

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan) Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15787

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement ... in relations between th Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15788

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15789

Without glasnost, there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

#15790

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. Roy M. Goodman

#15791

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, ar Ellen Goodman

#15792

The impossible is often the untried. Jim Goodwin

#15793

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. Steve Goodman

#15794

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. Raisa M. Gorbachev

#15795

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. Nadine Gordimer

#15796

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think. Nadine Gordimer

#15797

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. Nadine Gordimer

#15798

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you. Charles Gordon

#15799

Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. Adam L. Gordon

#15800

I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after d William Gordon

#15801

In the 20th century, specialization has become the counterfeit of brilliance. Richard Gordon

#15802

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. Ruth Gordon

#15803

To be somebody, you must last. Ruth Gordon

#15804

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a Ruth Gordon

#15805

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, this that I may not weep. George Gordon

#15806

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Julian Weber Gordon

#15807

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction. Julian Weber Gordon

#15808

When I write love songs, people think they're soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life. Martin Gore

#15809

God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has. Arthur John Gossip

#15810

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter. Annie Gottlieb

#15811

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world John B. Gough

#15812

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave t John B. Gough

#15813

What is a minority the chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority? There is not a social, political, or religious privy John B. Gough

#15814

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our Stephen Jay Gould

#15815

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. Stephen Jay Gould

#15816

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from on Stephen Jay Gould

#15817

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose Stephen Jay Gould

#15818

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. Wilbert Donald Gough

#15819

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away Rmy de Gourmont

#15820

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. Rmy de Gourmont

#15821

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Rmy de Gourmont

#15822

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. Samuel Grafton

#15823

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. Alexander Graham

#15824

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun Katharine Graham

#15825

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. Katharine Graham

#15826

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. Katharine Graham

#15827

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to Sue Grafton

#15828

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn. Sue Grafton

#15829

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. Phil Gramm

#15830

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time) Phil Gramm

#15831

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality ha Antonio Gramsci

#15832

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at b Antonio Gramsci

#15833

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish William Franklin Billy Graham

#15834

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. William Franklin Billy Graham

#15835

A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said William Franklin Billy Graham

#15836

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it. Judy Grahn

#15837

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once being I. As low as I you once must be, prepare yourself and follow me. Gravestone from the 1800's

#15838

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love. Bernard Grasset

#15839

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. Amy Grant

#15840

To forgive is human, to forget divine. . .. James Grand

#15841

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and Ulysses S. Grant

#15842

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor. Ulysses S. Grant

#15843

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution Ulysses S. Grant

#15844

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. Ulysses S. Grant

#15845

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often mad Robert Graves

#15846

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Robert Graves

#15847

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Robert Graves

#15848

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the midd Curtis Grant

#15849

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account. Richard R. Grant

#15850

Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door. Steve Gray

#15851

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. Paul E. Gray

#15852

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. John Gray

#15853

It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. John Gray

#15854

One must love a cat on its own terms. Peter Gray

#15855

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. Harry Gray

#15856

The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the re Hanna Holborn Gray

#15857

There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige. Hanna Holborn Gray

#15858

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty... Senator William Grayson

#15859

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery. Jameson Green

#15860

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. Horace Greeley

#15861

Something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you have the time of your life. Greenday

#15862

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future. Graham Green

#15863

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later. Harold Green

#15864

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge Bette Greene

#15865

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. Sidney Greenberg

#15866

A man is measured by the size of things that anger him. Geof Greenleaf

#15867

Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you. Geof Greenleaf

#15868

Good leaders must first become good servants. Robert Greenleaf

#15869

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson mu Jeff Greenfield

#15870

I know that you think you know what I said. But I'm not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what I meant. Alan Greenspan

#15871

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values Alan Greenspan

#15872

He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we belong.Henry Graham Greene

#15873

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. Henry Graham Greene

#15874

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. Henry Graham Greene

#15875

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. Vartan Gregorian

#15876

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education Vartan Gregorian

#15877

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. Vartan Gregorian

#15878

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. Vartan Gregorian

#15879

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer

#15880

There's no such thing as security. There never has been. Germaine Greer

#15881

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it. Germaine Greer

#15882

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. Germaine Greer

#15883

It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of Colin Greenwood

#15884

In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a Colin Greenwood

#15885

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was Colin Greenwood

#15886

I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fell Stephan Grellet

#15887

Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my R. M. Grenon

#15888

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as A. Whitney Griswold

#15889

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have A. Whitney Griswold

#15890

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days, we know what it means to have them. Edward Hagerup Grieg

#15891

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. W. Kelly Griffith

#15892

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute. John P. Grier

#15893

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. Sir Wilfred Grenfell

#15894

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Sir Wilfred Grenfell

#15895

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. Gerald W. Grummet

#15896

There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dis Henry Grube

#15897

The game of life is a lot like football. You must tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get Lewis Grizzard

#15898

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Lewis Grizzard

#15899

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Matt Groening

#15900

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels Matt Groening

#15901

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. Bruce Grocott

#15902

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who doesn't care about the answer. Charles Grodin

#15903

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank G Charles Grodin

#15904

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the Paul Gruchow

#15905

History repeats itself historians repeat each other. Philip Guedalla

#15906

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla

#15907

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plai Henry Anatole Grunwald

#15908

Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is Henry Anatole Grunwald

#15909

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground Henry Anatole Grunwald

#15910

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline. John Guarrine

#15911

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as les Edgar Albert Guest

#15912

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be I'd like Edgar Albert Guest

#15913

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky. Edgar Albert Guest

#15914

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. Edgar Albert Guest

#15915

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. M. Grundler

#15916

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. M. Grundler

#15917

You can pretend to be serious you can't pretend to be witty. Sacha Guitry

#15918

The little I know; I owe to my ignorance. Sacha Guitry

#15919

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry

#15920

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. Sacha Guitry

#15921

Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy. Arthur Guiterman

#15922

Silence is argument carried out by other means. Ernesto Che Guevara

#15923

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. Cathy Guisewite

#15924

I see something that must be done and I organize it. Elinor Guggenheimer

#15925

God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference. B. J. Gupta

#15926

Do to others, before they do to you. B. J. Gupta

#15927

Poor are poor because rich are rich. B. J. Gupta

#15928

Exploit or get exploited. B. J. Gupta

#15929

High living and high thinking are poles apart. B. J. Gupta

#15930

Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances. B. J. Gupta

#15931

In past people, never questioned existence of god, because they knew he exists. In future, too they will not, because they will kn B. J. Gupta

#15932

All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equ B. J. Gupta

#15933

Earn but don't burn. B. J. Gupta

#15934

Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money. B. J. Gupta

#15935

You did touch me but didn't feel my pain. B. J. Gupta

#15936

Inflation continues till common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues till he becomes suck B. J. Gupta

#15937

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive. B. J. Gupta

#15938

There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question. B. J. Gupta

#15939

Mahatma is one whose soul doesn't rest in peace while there are tears even in a single eye. B. J. Gupta

#15940

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after get B. J. Gupta

#15941

Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of. B. J. Gupta

#15942

In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned. B. J. Gupta

#15943

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy. B. J. Gupta

#15944

Organizations rarely progress in absence of well-defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to B. J. Gupta

#15945

Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral. B. J. Gupta

#15946

Man, is a social animal. Without society, he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self-made'. B. J. Gupta

#15947

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they lo B. J. Gupta

#15948

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do B. J. Gupta

#15949

Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man. B. J. Gupta

#15950

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. Forrest Gump

#15951

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't Shusha Guppy

#15952

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, Bryant Gumbel

#15953

If it's meant to be it's up to me. Terri Gulick

#15954

If enough people who wanted to stop war did gather together, they would first begin by making war Gurdjieff

#15955

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective. David Guterson

#15956

What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew b William Gurnall

#15957

To your friends, you're like a trash bag they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out. Adam R. Gwizdala

#15958

Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, then one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found so Adam R. Gwizdala

#15959

Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yours Adam R. Gwizdala

#15960

If you go with the flow you'll eventually end up over the waterfall. Adam R. Gwizdala

#15961

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie

#15962

Truth is not determined by majority vote. Doug Gwyn

#15963

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. Georges Guynemer

#15964

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. Alexander Meigs Haig

#15965

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. Alexander Meigs Haig

#15966

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrire than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue. Alexander Meigs Haig

#15967

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre. Uta Hagan

#15968

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers Uta Hagan

#15969

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas

#15970

This book fills a much-needed gap. Moses Hadas

#15971

I have read your book and much like it. Moses Hadas

#15972

Nothing counts so much as family; the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994) Gene Hackman

#15973

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices take it, or leave it. Buddy Hackett

#15974

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. Hfiz

#15975

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into t Hfiz

#15976

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. Jane Haddam

#15977

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes. William Wister Haines

#15978

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta

#15979

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Robert Half

#15980

What happens when the future has come and gone Robert Half?

#15981

Free advice is worth the price. Robert Half

#15982

No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. Robert Half

#15983

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

#15984

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

#15985

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. Manly P. Hall

#15986

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart. Manly P. Hall

#15987

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists. Calvin S. Hall

#15988

Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthuse Doug Hall

#15989

A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. Lord Halifax

#15990

Get the best out of your body that you can get. Pat Hall

#15991

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with Arsenio Hall

#15992

On doing another talk show It would be like going back to a relationship. Ever do that You go out with a girl you used to date, Arsenio Hall

#15993

He is great enough that is his own master. Joseph Hall

#15994

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. Joseph Hall

#15995

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging lit Margaret Halsey

#15996

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence. Margaret Halsey

#15997

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. Fredrich Halm

#15998

Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity than William Hallman

#15999

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its Robert Hall

#16000

There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. William Bull Halsey

#16001

It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. Jane Hamilton

#16002

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated. Edith Hamilton

#16003

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their b Edith Hamilton

#16004

Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16005

To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16006

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16007

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to re Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16008

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be h Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16009

I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a go Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16010

If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye co Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16011

You know one thing that will make a woman mad Just run up and kick her in the butt. (P.S. This also works with men.) Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16012

I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a lar Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16013

You know something that would make me applaud A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16014

Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window the guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16015

Children need encouragement. So, if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, luck Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16016

Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody First, take out the garbage. Then go around and collect Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16017

How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol How about the pillow It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16018

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16019

One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just a Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16020

Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he p Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16021

If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or t Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16022

If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EAS Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16023

I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16024

Sometimes I think you must march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the per Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16025

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16026

When you go ice-skating, try not to swing your arms too much, because that annoys me. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16027

If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would make you mad if you looked back and the g Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16028

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I can bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16029

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and t Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16030

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby Maybe we'll never know. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16031

I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16032

If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has b Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16033

I hope that after I die, people will say of me 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.' Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16034

If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16035

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vu Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16036

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, w Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16037

If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but the Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16038

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16039

Instead of a Seeing Eye dog, what about a gun It's cheaper than a dog, plus if you walk around shooting all the time people are Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16040

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and sp Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16041

Whenever I need to get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water I Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16042

Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16043

Most of the time it was probably bad being stuck down in a dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you' Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16044

Marta likes to talk about sensuality, but I don't think she would know sensuality if it bit her on the ass. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16045

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd ne Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16046

If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16047

I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to hi Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16048

Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS It probably lasts longer, plus it moves around. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16049

If you're a boxing referee, it's probably illegal to wear a bow tie that spins or changes colors. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16050

I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16051

There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16052

When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16053

For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip Why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16054

I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16055

Can't the Marx Brothers be arrested and maybe even tortured for all the confusion and problems they've caused Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16056

I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16057

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I'd rather be rich than stupid. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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I remember we were all horrified to see Grandpa up on the roof with his Superman cape on. 'Get down' yelled Uncle Lou. 'Don't mo Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16251

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16252

It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16253

I don't think God put me on this planet to judge others. I think he put me on this planet to gather specimens and take them back Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16254

If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16255

The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did Good for him Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16256

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes I bet you can really see it in those genitals. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16257

If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to f Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16258

I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16259

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what Throws you into a panic. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16260

I think my favorite monster movie is 'Gone with the Wind', because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16261

Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16262

If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife T Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16263

It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume I Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16264

One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with a wooden stake. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16265

I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16266

If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing bet Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16267

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16268

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16269

I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like 'Hey, when are you going to pay me that hundred Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16270

I wish a robot would get elected President. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16271

If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ri Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16272

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home, his face might burn up. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16273

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16274

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll m Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16275

A quiz If I am my brother's keeper, who am I (Answer me.) Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16276

I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his h Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16277

I think a good way to get in a movie is to show up where they're making the movie, then stick a big cactus plant onto your button Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16278

If I was a cowboy in a lynch mob, I think I'd try to stay near the back. That way, if somebody shamed us into disbanding, I could Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16279

I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16280

Just because swans mate for life, I don't think it's that big of a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16281

Here's a suggestion for a new animal, if some new ones get created or evolve something that stings you, then laughs at you. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16282

I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the br Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16283

If you're pretty happy, but you have a little Chihuahua that's always biting you on the ankles, still that's pretty good isn't I Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16284

If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like y Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16285

Something tells me that the first mousetrap wasn't designed to catch mice at all, but to protect little cheese 'gems' from burgl Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16286

Whenever I open a door, I pull on the doorknob real hard, because isn't there a saying that if it comes off in your hand, you can Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16287

If I could be a bird, I think I'd be a penguin, because then I could walk around on two feet with a lot of other guys like me. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16288

Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16289

Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad. And then I think, 'Aw, who cares' And then I think, 'Hey, what's for supper Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16290

I don't say that the bird is 'good' or the bat is 'bad.' But I will say this At least the bird is less nude. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16291

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mis Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16292

Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can b Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16293

Instead of having 'answers' on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions,' and if you got a different 'impression,' s Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16294

It's easy to sit and scoff at an old man's folly. But also, check out his Adam's apple Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16295

One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16296

When Rick told, me he was having trouble with his wife, I had to laugh. Not because of what he said, but because of a joke I thou Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16297

It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets his wings. But what they don't tell you is, every time you hear a mouse Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16298

If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and sa Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16299

You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16300

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied-up man with the gag in his Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16301

When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16302

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to te Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16303

You know what makes good hair for a snow man REAL hair. Don't ask me why, but it works. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16304

I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihua Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16305

Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood scr Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16306

Carl would have to be fast to beat the stranger. Real fast. 'Draw,' said the stranger. Carl went for his gun, but then 'Hey, whe Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16307

When you're going up the stairs and you take a step, kick the other leg up high behind you to keep people from following too clo Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16308

If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because m Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16309

If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, 'Can't you Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16310

If you ever must steal money from your kid, and later he discovers it's gone, I think a good thing to do is to blame it on Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16311

I think Superman and Santa Claus are the same guy, and I'll tell you why Both fly, both wear red, and both have a beard Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16312

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank-you note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful word Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16313

If you had to list the different types of haircuts in order of how warm they kept the head, you'd probably put the flat-top down Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16314

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16315

Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise. Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16316

When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattle Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

#16317

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me Oscar Hammerstein, II

#16318

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific) Oscar Hammerstein, II

#16319

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. Hammurabi

#16320

A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things. Marion Hammer

#16321

What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches th George Frederick Handel

#16322

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one. Tom Hanks

#16323

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. Terry Hands

#16324

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a Peter Handke

#16325

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves Thich Nhat Hanh

#16326

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh

#16327

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flower Thich Nhat Hanh

#16328

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may Thich Nhat Hanh

#16329

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. Thich Nhat Hanh

#16330

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh

#16331

Every day we do things, we are things that must do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, Thich Nhat Hanh

#16332

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh

#16333

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try some John W. Hanley

#16334

We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a Virginia Hanson

#16335

I am like SPAM Some people like me, some people hate me, but nobody knows what I'm made of. C.J. Harbison

#16336

Don't be afraid your life will end be afraid that it will never begin. Grace Hansen

#16337

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward. Lori Hard

#16338

We will either find a way, or make one Hannibal

#16339

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. Lorraine Hansberry

#16340

When you want something, it's not that easy. You must know what you want and keep going for it. Taylor Hanson

#16341

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me Warren Gamaliel Harding

#16342

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are ever Warren Gamaliel Harding

#16343

War will cease when men refuse to fight. F. Hansen

#16344

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the wo Elizabeth Hardwick

#16345

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. There are already enough people to do that. G. H. Hardy

#16346

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Augustus Hare

#16347

The greatest truths are the simplest. Augustus Hare

#16348

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Augustus Hare

#16349

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. Augustus Hare

#16350

For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with o Arthur S. Hardy

#16351

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy

#16352

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy

#16353

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. Thomas Hardy

#16354

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. Thomas Hardy

#16355

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. Thomas Hardy

#16356

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. Thomas Hardy

#16357

Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her. Mohammad Haroon

#16358

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by every Rena Harmon

#16359

Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word Gerard Hargraves

#16360

There is only one way to come into this world there are too many ways to leave it. Donald Harington

#16361

Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the c Chitto Harjo

#16362

What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary? Richard Harkness

#16363

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. John Harold

#16364

Books give not wisdom where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more. Sir John Harington

#16365

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity Frances Watkins Harper

#16366

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... I Patricia Roberts Harris

#16367

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. John Harrigan

#16368

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. Lucille S. Harper

#16369

Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you sha Gary Harrington

#16370

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasure Pierce Harris

#16371

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. Edward H. Harriman

#16372

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. Edward H. Harriman

#16373

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. Richard Harris

#16374

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. Corra Harris

#16375

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid t Benjamin Harrison

#16376

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. Benjamin Harrison

#16377

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps there are always failures of love, of will, of ima Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#16378

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) con William Torrey Harris

#16379

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. Ernest Haskins

#16380

Loving someone is easy but losing someone is hard. Shelby Harthcock

#16381

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey

#16382

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where b Molly Haskell

#16383

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all. Henry H. Haskins

#16384

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. Elizabeth Harrison

#16385

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise o William Henry Harrison

#16386

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making William Henry Harrison

#16387

Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we Jane Harrison

#16388

Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace. We all desire to have more David Havard

#16389

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on Orrin Hatch

#16390

And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he reply Minnie Haskins

#16391

A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it. Hastings

#16392

We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're Frances Hasselbein

#16393

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. Roy Hattersley

#16394

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to w Paul Hawken

#16395

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself. Paul Hawken

#16396

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth or Stephen William Hawking

#16397

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. Stephen William Hawking

#16398

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen William Hawking

#16399

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe. Stephen William Hawking

#16400

God not only plays dice; he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. Stephen William Hawking

#16401

It matters if you just don't give up. Stephen William Hawking

#16402

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. Joel Hawes

#16403

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. Coleman Hawking

#16404

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16405

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16406

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16407

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in reality Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16408

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16409

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewilder Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16410

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16411

For every ailment under the sun, there is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never m Dean Hawkins

#16412

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it. Larry Hawkins

#16413

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily e Goldie Hawn

#16414

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. Goldie Hawn

#16415

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the John Hay

#16416

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. John Hay

#16417

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise Hay

#16418

Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha Ian Hay

#16419

No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next. Ernest Haycox

#16420

How anybody dresses are indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in S Hayakawa

#16421

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he say S Hayakawa

#16422

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. S Hayakawa

#16423

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were per Benjamin Haydon

#16424

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all thing James L. Hayes

#16425

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is t Friedrich August von Hayek

#16426

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of dist. Friedrich August von Hayek

#16427

Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it. E. R. Hazlip

#16428

Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will Brooks Hays

#16429

Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing. Donna Hedges

#16430

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. Amanda Heggs

#16431

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. Frederick Henry Hedge

#16432

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. Samuel Hazo

#16433

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#16434

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#16435

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#16436

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#16437

Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take Cynthia Heimel

#16438

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like Cynthia Heimel

#16439

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is Heinrich Heine

#16440

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. Heinrich Heine

#16441

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, Heinrich Heine

#16442

Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. Heinrich Heine

#16443

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. Heinrich Heine

#16444

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the Heinrich Heine

#16445

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. Heinrich Heine

#16446

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine

#16447

Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.) Heinrich Heine

#16448

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine

#16449

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Heinrich Heine

#16450

Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than Heinrich Heine

#16451

There are more fools in the world than there are people. Heinrich Heine

#16452

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine

#16453

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative. H. Heimlich

#16454

If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race. Grand Heidrich

#16455

The Universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. Piet Hein

#16456

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh. Robert Anson Heinlein

#16457

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wo Robert Anson Heinlein

#16458

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Anson Heinlein

#16459

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the sole Robert Anson Heinlein

#16460

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can ki Robert Anson Heinlein

#16461

The star's incline, but do not impel. Robert Anson Heinlein

#16462

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Anson Heinlein

#16463

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, Robert Anson Heinlein

#16464

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecure Robert Anson Heinlein

#16465

Self-awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. Robert Anson Heinlein

#16466

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. Joseph Heller

#16467

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller

#16468

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditate Joseph Heller

#16469

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller

#16470

Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. Werner Karl Heisenberg

#16471

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. Werner Karl Heisenberg

#16472

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistake Lillian Hellman

#16473

People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman

#16474

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman

#16475

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. Lillian Hellman

#16476

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. Lillian Hellman

#16477

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Lillian Hellman

#16478

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier. Lillian Hellman

#16479

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. Lillian Hellman

#16480

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. Lillian Hellman

#16481

Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets. Suzanne Heller

#16482

Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel. Suzanne Heller

#16483

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. Ernest Hello

#16484

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue w Claude Adrien Helvetius

#16485

To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fool's o Claude Adrien Helvetius

#16486

Genius is nothing but continued attention. Claude Adrien Helvetius

#16487

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend e Doris Wild Helmering

#16488

Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you Dane Helmers

#16489

Only the little people pay taxes. Leona Helmsly

#16490

I don't hire people who must be told to be nice. I hire nice people. Leona Helmsly

#16491

Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri

#16492

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for bet Robert Henri

#16493

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. Robert Henri

#16494

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But tr Mary Hemingway

#16495

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. Jimi Hendrix

#16496

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are under Hazel Henderson

#16497

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. Howard Hendricks

#16498

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. Garth Henrichs

#16499

One does not make friends. One recognizes them. Garth Henrichs

#16500

Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but Herbert Hensley Henson

#16501

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude Katharine Hepburn

#16502

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. Katharine Hepburn

#16503

Sometimes I wonder if men and women suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn

#16504

Without discipline, there's no life at all. Katharine Hepburn

#16505

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...if you have any sense....And if you don't Katharine Hepburn

#16506

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made Katharine Hepburn

#16507

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the a Katharine Hepburn

#16508

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. Matthew Henry

#16509

Those who complain most are most to be complained of. Matthew Henry

#16510

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover than Audrey Hepburn

#16511

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus

#16512

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. Heraclitus

#16513

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It wo Heraclitus

#16514

You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you. Heraclitus

#16515

Man, is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Heraclitus

#16516

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. Heraclitus

#16517

A man's character is his fate. Heraclitus

#16518

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. Heraclitus

#16519

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. Heraclitus

#16520

You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Heraclitus

#16521

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice. Heraclitus

#16522

All if flux, nothing stays still. Heraclitus

#16523

The road up and the road down is one and the same. Heraclitus

#16524

Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus

#16525

Nature is wont to hide herself. Heraclitus

#16526

Sometimes the best gain is to lose. George Herbert

#16527

The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert

#16528

Love and a cough cannot be hiding. George Herbert

#16529

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert

#16530

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. George Herbert

#16531

Hope is the poor man's bread. George Herbert

#16532

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. George Herbert

#16533

Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert

#16534

Woe be to him that reads but one book. George Herbert

#16535

Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert

#16536

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. George Herbert

#16537

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate Hermes

#16538

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success Jeff Herman

#16539

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. James Leo Herlihy

#16540

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. Oliver Herford

#16541

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope Oliver Herford

#16542

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. Lewis Blaine Hershey

#16543

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear but around you in awareness. Ross Hersey

#16544

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else. Abraham J. Herschel

#16545

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves. Mark S. Hertzog

#16546

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. Abraham Joshua Heschel

#16547

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, always, who suffers harm done to others, who Abraham Joshua Heschel

#16548

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Abraham Joshua Heschel

#16549

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. Damien Hess

#16550

I'm not naive. I realize that quality of life and income are inextricably bound together, but sooner or later we're going to have Daron Hicklin

#16551

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of t Robert Hewison

#16552

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons. George T. Hewitt

#16553

Paranoids are people, too they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid to D. J. Hicks

#16554

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is. Max R. Hickerson

#16555

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception. Hietzsche

#16556

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. Thomas W. Higginson

#16557

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists. Cullen Hightower

#16558

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. Cullen Hightower

#16559

Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest. Cullen Hightower

#16560

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. Cullen Hightower

#16561

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. Cullen Hightower

#16562

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. Cullen Hightower

#16563

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. Cullen Hightower

#16564

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. Cullen Hightower

#16565

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. Cullen Hightower

#16566

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. Cullen Hightower

#16567

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those Gilbert Highet

#16568

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to Jim Hightower

#16569

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. Jim Hightower

#16570

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. Jim Hightower

#16571

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions... Kenneth Hildebrand

#16572

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Kenneth Hildebrand

#16573

The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too prec Joel H. Hildebrand

#16574

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. Napolean Hill

#16575

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. Napolean Hill

#16576

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying Napolean Hill

#16577

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small Napolean Hill

#16578

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found Napolean Hill

#16579

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napolean Hill

#16580

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit. Napolean Hill

#16581

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. Napolean Hill

#16582

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be. Napolean Hill

#16583

Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental at Napolean Hill

#16584

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. Napolean Hill

#16585

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your Napolean Hill

#16586

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napolean Hill

#16587

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. Napolean Hill

#16588

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. Napolean Hill

#16589

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge. Napolean Hill

#16590

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary

#16591

You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing (about Mount Ev Sir Edmund Hillary

#16592

Success seems to relate to action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton

#16593

If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when Rabbi Hillel

#16594

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Culture E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

#16595

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. James Hillman

#16596

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. M. Hirschfield

#16597

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's Etty Hilsum

#16598

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways. Randy J. Hinrichs

#16599

Calling Atheism, a religion is like calling bald a hair color. Don Hirschberg

#16600

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness Newell Dwight Hillis

#16601

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no matter what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...y Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#16602

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some Edward Hoagland

#16603

On the touchstone of misfortune, a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and hims The Hitopadesa

#16604

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a po The Hitopadesa

#16605

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

#16606

If you don't ask why this often enough, somebody will ask why you Tom Hirshfield

#16607

If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh. Patricia Hitchcock

#16608

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the Edward Wallis Hoch

#16609

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is Dee W. Hock

#16610

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, Dee W. Hock

#16611

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the Russell Hoban

#16612

Nothing to be done about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here Russell Hoban

#16613

Some things must be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson

#16614

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition A. A. Hodge

#16615

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy. Ferdinand Hodler

#16616

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily company Leonard Hodgson

#16617

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own Edward Hodnett

#16618

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. Luther H. Hodges

#16619

Celebrations are the juice of life. John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.

#16620

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never Peter Hoeg

#16621

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. Charles Hodge

#16622

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you Samuel Hoffenstein

#16623

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all Richard Hofstadter

#16624

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anyt Richard Hofstadter

#16625

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal Richard Hofstadter

#16626

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess Richard Hofstadter

#16627

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. Lisa Hoffman

#16628

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirect able, lines. The only James P. Hogan

#16629

It's hard to stay committed...to stay in touch with the goal without saying there's something wrong with myself, my goal, the wo Nancy Hogshead

#16630

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how t Billie Holiday

#16631

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. Billie Holiday

#16632

The heart is wiser than the intellect. Josiah Gilbert Holland

#16633

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. Th Josiah Gilbert Holland

#16634

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. Geoffrey Holder

#16635

Hell is paved with good Samaritans. William M. Holden

#16636

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post. L. Thomas Holdcroft

#16637

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind—no William E. Holler

#16638

When in the pursuit of happiness Obstacles cross our way, when all seems lost And there is a darkening of the day. Remember God Janet Louise Holman

#16639

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good. Ernest Holmen

#16640

No matter what we want of life we must give up something to get it. Raymond Holliwell

#16641

Desire creates the power. Raymond Holliwell

#16642

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sherlock Holmes

#16643

To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess. Glenn Holm

#16644

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. Marjorie Holmes

#16645

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your cla Marjorie Holmes

#16646

We live by encouragement and die without it--slowly, sadly, angrily. Celeste Holm

#16647

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who ju Michael K. Hooker

#16648

Ignorance is the mother of fear. Harry Homes

#16649

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. Herbert Clark Hoover

#16650

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created Herbert Clark Hoover

#16651

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. Herbert Clark Hoover

#16652

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. Herbert Clark Hoover

#16653

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next. Herbert Clark Hoover

#16654

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from oth Herbert Clark Hoover

#16655

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. Herbert Clark Hoover

#16656

Children are our most valuable natural resource. Herbert Clark Hoover

#16657

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him. Herbert Clark Hoover

#16658

It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon Herbert Clark Hoover

#16659

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. Bob Hope

#16660

I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money. Bob Hope

#16661

I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap. Bob Hope

#16662

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. Bob Hope

#16663

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. Bob Hope

#16664

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. Bob Hope

#16665

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. Anthony Hope

#16666

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in dire Tom Hopkins

#16667

For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the Laurence Hope

#16668

I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say ' Grace Murray Hopper

#16669

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. Grace Murray Hopper

#16670

You manage things you lead people. Grace Murray Hopper

#31671

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Grace Murray Hopper

#16672

I love life because what more is there. Anthony Hopkins

#16673

You always smile but in you eyes your sorrow shows. William Peter Horn

#16674

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Martina Horner

#16675

England expects that every man will do his duty. Lord Nelson

#16676

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. A. E. Houseman

#16677

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. A. E. Houseman

#16678

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind. A. E. Houseman

#16679

When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is vi Michael Horton

#16680

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target Michael Horton

#16681

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. Karen Horney

#16682

Of course, we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you pos A. E. Hotchner

#16683

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. Libby Houston

#16684

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. Libby Houston

#16685

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. Houssaye

#16686

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. Henry S. Hoskins

#16687

I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn an Ty Howard

#16688

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. Edgar Watson Howe

#16689

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. Edgar Watson Howe

#16690

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool. Edgar Watson Howe

#16691

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. Edgar Watson Howe

#16692

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have. Edgar Watson Howe

#16693

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do I Edgar Watson Howe

#16694

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. Edgar Watson Howe

#16695

Instead of loving your enemies, treat you friends a little better. Edgar Watson Howe

#16696

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. Edgar Watson Howe

#16697

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. Edgar Watson Howe

#16698

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. Edgar Watson Howe

#16699

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. Edgar Watson Howe

#16700

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. Barbara Howar

#16701

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a Vernon Howard

#16702

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day. Vernon Howard

#16703

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation. Vernon Howard

#16704

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, ing Philip Howard

#16705

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy James Howell

#16706

Respect a man, he will do the more. James Howell

#16707

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, Gordie Howe

#16708

Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they Harold Howe II

#16709

For visions come not to polluted eyes. Mary Howitt

#16710

Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers. Frank McKinney Hubbard

#16711

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket. Frank McKinney Hubbard

#16712

Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down. Fred Hufnagel, Sr.

#16713

Be a fountain, not a drain. Rex Hudler

#16714

Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood. D. B. Hudson

#16715

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition Ruth Hubbard

#16716

I am who I am, You are who you are, So, be who you are, not what you are. Teo Chee Huen

#16717

ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION. L. Ron Hubbard

#16718

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educations. Shirley Mount Hufstedler

#16719

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource Shirley Mount Hufstedler

#16720

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more. Shirley Mount Hufstedler

#16721

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. Richard Hughes

#16722

I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance. Rod Hughes

#16723

If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility, we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed. Edwin Holt Hughes

#16724

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute. Edwin Holt Hughes

#16725

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. Charles Evans Hughes

#16726

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes

#16727

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, Thomas Hughes

#16728

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human exp Johann Huizinga

#16729

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it. E. D. Hulse

#16730

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. Raymond Hull

#16731

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. Wilhelm von Humboldt

#16732

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on t Wilhelm von Humboldt

#16733

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume

#16734

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature. David Hume

#16735

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume

#16736

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume

#16737

Custom is the great guide of human life. David Hume

#16738

Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man. David Hume

#16739

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Leigh Hunt

#16740

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take o Leigh Hunt

#16741

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Douglas Hurd

#16742

It's too much to ask one to love his enemy. Let's compromise on forgetting him. William C. Hunter

#16743

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. Fannie Hurst

#16744

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

#16745

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the hor Zora Neale Hurston

#16746

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Zora Neale Hurston

#16747

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being v Zora Neale Hurston

#16748

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death. Zora Neale Hurston

#16749

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lo Zora Neale Hurston

#16750

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off Zora Neale Hurston

#16751

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is. Catfish Hunter

#16752

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time. Catfish Hunter

#16753

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. Robert Hutchins

#16754

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, the case, different points of view. Robert Hutchins

#16755

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of serious Robert Hutchins

#16756

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's remedial reading', remedial 'rating' and remedy Robert Hutchins

#16757

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. Robert Hutchins

#16758

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. Robert Hutchins

#16759

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, Robert Hutchins

#16760

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, Robert Hutchins

#16761

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Hutchins

#16762

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. Robert Hutchins

#16763

I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, rou John K. Hutchens

#16764

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. Francis Hutcheson

#16765

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. Francis Hutcheson

#16766

Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into Kevin R. Hutson

#16767

Time is like a river. It flows one direction, but with a little force you can go back. But like a river, everything you do has a Kevin R. Hutson

#16768

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself? Henrik Ibsen

#16769

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. Henrik Ibsen

#16770

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen

#16771

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen

#16772

What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else Henrik Ibsen

#16773

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and t Henrik Ibsen

#16774

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. Henrik Ibsen

#16775

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. Henrik Ibsen

#16776

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ideda

#16777

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. George Iles

#16778

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. George Iles

#16779

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships. Ibycus

#16780

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society Eric Idle

#16781

People think we make 3 million and 4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make 500,000. Pete Incaviglia

#16782

Now of death, I hope to be surprised. Ivan Illich

#16783

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groa Daisaku Ikeda

#16784

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. Jean Ingelow

#16785

The happiest people seem to be Those who have no cause for being happy Except that they are so. William Ralph Inge

#16786

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. William Ralph Inge

#16787

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge

#16788

What is originality Undetected plagiarism. William Ralph Inge

#16789

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. William Ralph Inge

#16790

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. William Ralph Inge

#16791

It takes only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while William Ralph Inge

#16792

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph Inge

#16793

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William Ralph Inge

#16794

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. William Ralph Inge

#16795

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would William Ralph Inge

#16796

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16797

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16798

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16799

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. Th Robert Green Ingersoll

#16800

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16801

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16802

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that genera Robert Green Ingersoll

#16803

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16804

The triumph of justice is the only peace. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16805

In nature, there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16806

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16807

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convicted Robert Green Ingersoll

#16808

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dun Robert Green Ingersoll

#16809

Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll

#16810

A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the U Paul Ingram

#16811

No man can know God unless God has taught him that without God, God cannot be known. Iranaeus

#16812

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do. Karin Ireland

#16813

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst Roy Innis

#16814

It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't Richard Ingrams

#16815

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perf John Irving

#16816

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you w John Irving

#16817

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood

#16818

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. Yoshimi Ishikawa

#16819

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect. Julius Irving

#16820

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. Wallace Irwin

#16821

Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefit Rick Irving

#16822

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so your ca Glenda Jackson

#16823

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal. Isocrates

#16824

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. Isocrates

#16825

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. C. D. Jackson

#16826

You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you. J & A Foundation

#16827

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere. J & A Foundation

#16828

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and its cowardice. George Jackson

#16829

One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

#16830

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

#16831

It may be five years from now, but at some point, we'll be better than them. Dan Issel

#16832

Above all be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. Hardy D. Jackson

#16833

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its Helen Hunt Jackson

#16834

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side. Janet Jackson

#16835

America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more l Henry M. Jackson

#16836

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the Jesse Louis Jackson

#16837

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change. Jesse Louis Jackson

#16838

Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Louis Jackson

#16839

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Marti Jesse Louis Jackson

#16840

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achie Jesse Louis Jackson

#16841

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides. Jesse Louis Jackson

#16842

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes Jesse Louis Jackson

#16843

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's Jesse Louis Jackson

#16844

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my Jesse Louis Jackson

#16845

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. Jesse Louis Jackson

#16846

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not Jesse Louis Jackson

#16847

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. Jesse Louis Jackson

#16848

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. Jesse Louis Jackson

#16849

America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like Jesse Louis Jackson

#16850

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesse Louis Jackson

#16851

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horror Alice James

#16852

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James

#16853

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible. Al Jaffee

#16854

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fulle Anna James

#16855

Never take counsel of your fears. General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

#16856

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silk Henry James

#16857

Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If Henry James

#16858

Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind. Henry James

#16859

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. Henry James

#16860

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and Henry James

#16861

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this Henry James

#16862

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy. what was talent but the art of being complete Henry James

#16863

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

#16864

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be Henry James

#16865

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. Henry James

#16866

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the mos Henry James

#16867

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. Henry James

#16868

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot. Sarah Jackson

#16869

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James

#16870

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. Clive James

#16871

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. Clive James

#16872

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being. Hakim Jami

#16873

If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to Hakim Jami

#16874

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson

#16875

For what I have received, the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. Storm Jameson

#16876

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The Kaleel Jamison

#16877

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. Susan Jeffers

#16878

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. Susan Jeffers

#16879

Civilization is a transient sickness. Robinson Jeffers

#16880

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice. Robinson Jeffers

#16881

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. Robinson Jeffers

#16882

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. Richard Jefferies

#16883

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine. Richard Jefferies

#16884

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. Alfred Jarry

#16885

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky

#16886

Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage. Samuel S. Janus

#16887

What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to God. Kelly Jeppesen

#16888

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, a Bruce Jenner

#16889

Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept Amy Hillyard Jensen

#16890

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. Jewel

#16891

I'm becoming more and more myself with time, I guess that's what grace is, the refinement of your soul through time. Jewel

#16892

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. Jesus

#16893

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be Jesus

#16894

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jesus

#16895

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by th Jesus

#16896

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is o Jesus

#16897

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens. Douglas Jerrold

#16898

To saints their very slumber is a prayer. Saint Jerome

#16899

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. Saint Jerome

#16900

The friendship that can cease has never been real. Saint Jerome

#16901

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. Saint Jerome

#16902

A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. Saint Jerome

#16903

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Saint Jerome

#16904

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what Saint Jerome

#16905

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the pr Saint Jerome

#16906

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. Saint Jerome

#16907

The scars of others should teach us caution. Saint Jerome

#16908

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. Saint Jerome

#16909

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Saint Jerome

#16910

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. Saint Jerome

#16911

Yes's, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett

#16912

'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. Sarah Orne Jewett

#16913

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. Louis Johannot

#16914

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. Billie Joe

#16915

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket' she sneered. I Jake Johanson

#16916

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Stephen Jobs

#16917

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche Roger John

#16918

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. Why Roger John

#16919

As an atheist, you must rationalize things... Then you must try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you Billy Joel

#16920

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. Billy Joel

#16921

It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. Billy Joel

#16922

Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from Andrew Johnson

#16923

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy I Saint Adela Rogers Johns

#16924

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Barbara Johnson

#16925

There are no speed limits on the road to success. David W. Johnson

#16926

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

#16927

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a w Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

#16928

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

#16929

This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

#16930

I like bubbles and the whole thing. That's the fun of taking a bath. (on his new Magic's Elixir Bubble Bath) Earvin Johnson

#16931

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. Kimberly Johnson

#16932

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. Gerald W. Johnson

#16933

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. John Johnson

#16934

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. Jimmy Johnson

#16935

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our y Stewart B. Johnson

#16936

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by bri Michael Johnson

#16937

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power. Susan Johnson

#16938

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring Pete Johnson

#16939

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. Philander Johnson

#16940

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go. Percy H. Johnson

#16941

I never been in no situation where having' money make it any worse. Clinton Jones

#16942

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the Denis Johnston

#16943

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes. Tod Johnson

#16944

The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them. Zachariah Johnson

#16945

Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here. Bill T. Jones

#16946

No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people Eric J. Joiner, Jr.

#16947

You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate Charles Jones

#16948

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. Howard Mumford Jones

#16949

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win. Paul Jones

#16950

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who Sir William Alton Jones

#16951

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise James Earl Jones

#16952

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. James Earl Jones

#16953

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater th James Earl Jones

#16954

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. Jennifer Jones

#16955

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones

#16956

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Thomas Jones

#31957

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn. Marla Jones

#16958

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin

#16959

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility. Barbara Charline Jordan

#16960I

live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say 'What is my exciting thing for today' T Barbara Charline Jordan

#16961

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. Barbara Charline Jordan

#16962

The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.- Richard Jordan

#16963

Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely o Richard Jordan

#16964

Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur. Deane Jordan

#16965

The Statue of Liberty is not that monument's name. It is Liberty Enlightening the World. Deane Jordan

#16966

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money. Deane Jordan

#16967

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of I Clarence Jordan

#16968

Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordan

#16969

There is no real excellence in all this world Which can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan

#16970

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. David Starr Jordan

#16971

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. David Starr Jordan

#16972

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through Michael Jordon

#16973

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees thin Chief Joseph

#16974

Hear me, my chiefs I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph

#16975

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. Terry Josephson

#16976

I am not God, but I am my creator. Terry Josephson

#16977

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. Terry Josephson

#16978

There's no I in TEAM. Terry Josephson

#16979

If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it. Terry Josephson

#16980

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. Terry Josephson

#16981

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in Anandabai Joshee

#16982

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind. Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#16983

History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. James Joyce

#16984

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

#16985

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for

centuries arguing over what I meant, and that' James Joyce

#16986

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

#16987

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring Philo Judaeus

#16988

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge H. Stanley Judd

#16989

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Gustav Jung

#16990

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Gustav Jung

#16991

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The cre Carl Gustav Jung

#16992

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could b Carl Gustav Jung

#16993

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Gustav Jung

#16994

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Carl Gustav Jung

#16995

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Gustav Jung

#16996

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health. Carl Gustav Jung

#16997

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just if the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be wit Carl Gustav Jung

#16998

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice sa Carl Gustav Jung

#16999

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Gustav Jung

#17000

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the Carl Gustav Jung

#17001

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Gustav Jung

#17002

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Gustav Jung

#17003

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. Carl Gustav Jung

#17004

Your vision will become clear only when you consider your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Gustav Jung

#17005

Nobody, if he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Gustav Jung

#17006

Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and s Brian Judge

#17007

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. Junius

#17008

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. Norman Juster

#17009

The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form Kabbalah

#17010

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and Kabbalah

#17011

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, Kabbalah

#17012

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. Juvenal

#17013

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. Juvenal

#17014

Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Juvenal

#17015

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. Juvenal

#17016

Two things only the people desire bread and circuses. Juvenal

#17017

Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.) Juvenal

#17018

But who is to guard the guards themselves Juvenal

#17019

Peace visits not the guilty mind. Juvenal

#17020

One path alone leads to a life of peace the path of virtue. Juvenal

#17021

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Juvenal

#17022

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having. Juvenal

#17023

A healthy mind in a healthy body. Juvenal

#17024

Refrain from doing ill for one all-powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate wh Juvenal

#17025

Be gentle with the young. Juvenal

#17026

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. Juvenal

#17027

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. Juvenal

#17028

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Juvenal

#17029

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for ju Juvenal

#17030

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. Juvenal

#17031

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. John Junor

#17032

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. Alice Kahn

#17033

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are. Jon Kabit-Zinn

#17034

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it' Jon Kabit-Zinn

#17035

New capabilities emerge just by having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. Robert E. Kahn

#17036

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise because of impatience we Franz Kafka

#17037

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka

#17038

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka

#17039

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also wo Franz Kafka

#17040

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka

#17041

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. Franz Kafka

#17042

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and Franz Kafka

#17043

If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the pas John Van de Kamp

#17044

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant

#17045

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

#17046

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Immanuel Kant

#17047

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant

#17048

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a Immanuel Kant

#17049

Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant

#17050

We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us. Michael Kamen

#17051

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today wel Kalidasa

#17052

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. Judge John Kane

#17053

I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person. Tony Kanal

#17054

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#17055

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness. Ellie Katz

#17056

Failure is only postponed success if courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman

#17057

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. Barry Neil Kaufman

#17058

To a talkative woman Madam, don't you have any unexpressed thoughts Barry Neil Kaufman

#17059

He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (Ellen Karsh

#17060

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. Alphonse Karr

#17061

The more things change, the more they are the same. Alphonse Karr

#17062

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr

#17063

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Ryszard Kapuscinski

#17064

The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we Thomas H. Kean

#17065

The best way to predict the future is to create it Jason Kaufmann

#17066

Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfa Nikos Kazantzakis

#17067

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small e Nikos Kazantzakis

#17068

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action. Nikos Kazantzakis

#17069

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool. Sylvia Fine Kaye

#17070

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. Margo Kaufman

#17071

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye

#17072

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. Kenneth Kaunda

#17073

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized. Allison Kearney

#17074

You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one. Edward Keating

#17075

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present. Bill Keane

#17076

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That w Barnaby C. Keeney

#17077

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost Barnaby C. Keeney

#17078

I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't. Wee Willie Keeler

#17079

When I'm loved I'm the universe, If I'm not I'm merely a dying star. Angela Keith

#17080

God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. Garrison Keillor

#17081

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart Garrison Keillor

#17082

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. Garrison Keillor

#17083

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Garrison Keillor

#17084

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does Richard Kehl

#17085

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. Sam Keen

#17086

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. Sir Arthur Keith

#17087

My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Buddinton Kelland

#17088

If you've got to resist, you're chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want h Dr. Arthur Kellerman

#17089

Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you. Dan Kelly

#17090

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is retur Dan Kelly

#17091

Heal another's heart and in the process you will heal your own. Dan Kelly

#17092

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Lord Kelvin

#17093

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural ab Bruce Kemper

#17094

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and q Bruce Kemper

#17095

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man. James Kelly

#17096

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, Kitty Kelley

#17097

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams Mary Ellen Kelly

#17098

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Walt Crawford Kelly

#17099

The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer. Sheila M. Kelly

#17100

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. Yoshida Kenko

#17101

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it t Thomas a Kempis

#17102

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. Thomas a Kempis

#17103

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you. Thomas a Kempis

#17104

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis

#17105

Of two evils we must always choose the least. Thomas a Kempis

#17106

Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Thomas a Kempis

#17107

Remember that lost time does not return. Thomas a Kempis

#17108

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him I Thomas a Kempis

#17109

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. Thomas a Kempis

#17110

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own Thomas a Kempis

#17111

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back. Thomas a Kempis

#17112

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. Thomas a Kempis

#17113

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas a Kempis

#17114

On CBS Radio the news of his Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. Alexander Kendrick

#17115

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. George Frost Kennan

#17116

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable moun George Frost Kennan

#17117

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. George Frost Kennan

#17118

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith- George Frost Kennan

#17119

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to pr George Frost Kennan

#17120

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. George Frost Kennan

#17121

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Donald Kendall

#17122

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its o Justice Anthony Kennedy

#17123

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. Edward M. Kennedy

#17124

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. Edward M. Kennedy

#17125

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. Leo Kennedy

#17126

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. Marilyn Moats Kennedy

#17127

Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

#17128

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

#17129

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

#17130

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

#17131

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. Francis Keppel

#17132

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Johann Kepler

#17133

The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or s Jack Kerouac

#17134

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible Clark Kerr

#17135

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Brian W. Kernighan

#17136

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because Dorothea Kent

#17137

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. Jean Kerr

#17138

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. Jean Kerr

#17139

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because t Jean Kerr

#17140

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left. Jean Kerr

#17141

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then h Jean Kerr

#17142

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye. Jean Kerr

#17143

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr

#17144

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr

#17145

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas Jean Kerr

#17146

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. Jean Kerr

#17147

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. Jean Kerr

#17148

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things. Ken Kesey

#17149

Take what you can use and let the rest go by. Ken Kesey

#17150

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing. Sophie Kerr

#17151

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts. Al Kersha

#17152

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of Nancy Kerrigan

#17153

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17154

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17155

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17156

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance Charles Franklin Kettering

#17157

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17158

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17159

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17160

People are very open-minded about new things--if they're exactly like the old ones. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17161

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17162

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Charles Franklin Kettering

#17163

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes

#17164

In the long run we are all dead. John Maynard Keynes

#17165

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes

#17166

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greatest good of John Maynard Keynes

#17167

Ideas shape the course of history. John Maynard Keynes

#17168

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes

#17169

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Jr. Keyes

#17170

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Ken Jr. Keyes

#17171

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. Mohammed Daud Khan

#17172

The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assert Ayatullah Khamenei

#17173

The sage said, 'The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love.' That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven Hazrat Inayat Khan

#17174

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan

#17175

the inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless Eli Khamarov

#17176

Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the Eli Khamarov

#17177

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life. Eli Khamarov

#17178

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an antici Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

#17179

We first must find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

#17180

Everything is energy in motion. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

#17181

For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which Omar Khayym

#17182

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, some letter of that After-life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Omar Khayym

#17183

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by th Omar Khayym

#17184

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, where under crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It Omar Khayym

#17185

The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all Omar Khayym

#17186

We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Around with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight Omar Khayym

#17187

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderne Omar Khayym

#17188

Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water, willy-nilly flowing and out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I kn Omar Khayym

#17189

Think, in this batter's Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his de Omar Khayym

#17190

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. Nikita Khrushchev

#17191

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev

#17192

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdr Nikita Khrushchev

#17193

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. Nikita Khrushchev

#17194

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you. Nikita Khrushchev

#17195

I once said, we will bury you, and I got into trouble with it. Of course, we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working cl Nikita Khrushchev

#32196

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. Nikita Khrushchev

#17197

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Khrushchev

#17198

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. Nikita Khrushchev

#17199

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Nikita Khrushchev

#17200

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military p Nikita Khrushchev

#17201

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. Nikita Khrushchev

#17202

We say the name of God, but that is only habit. Nikita Khrushchev

#17203

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in pow Nikita Khrushchev

#17204

If it sounds good, you'll hear it If it looks good, you'll see it If it's marketed right, you'll buy it but if it's real, you'll Kid Rock

#17205

Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us Robert J. Kibbee

#17206

The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. Robert J. Kibbee

#17207

What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we' Victor Kiam

#17208

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-fl Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17209

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17210

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17211

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17212

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the e Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17213

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17214

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he can do and becoming. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17215

To date is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17216

To love another person is to help them love God. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17217

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns I Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17218

Don't forget to love yourself. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17219

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

#17220

On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday. Ralph Kiner

#17221

The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July. Ralph Kiner

#17222

Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox. Ralph Kiner

#17223

Kevin McReynolds stops at third and he scores. Ralph Kiner

#17224

The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning. Ralph Kiner

#17225

Solo homers usually come with no one on base. Ralph Kiner

#17226

There's a lot of heredity in that family. Ralph Kiner

#17227

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. Ralph Kiner

#17228

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame 5 years in a row. Ralph Kiner

#17229

The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball. Ralph Kiner

#17230

Sutton lost 13 games in a row without winning a ballgame. Ralph Kiner

#17231

Tony Gwynn was named player of the year for April. Ralph Kiner

#17232

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Kiner's Corner. This is....uh. I'm...uhRalph Kiner Ralph Kiner

#17233

George Shinn. He's the owner of the Charlotte Harlots basketball team. Ralph Kiner

#17234

All his saves have come in relief appearances Ralph Kiner

#17235

You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything. Robert Killinger

#17236

'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Miles Kindera

#17237

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. B. B. King

#17238

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King

#17239

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. T. Starr King

#17240

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the who Serge Kahili King

#17241

My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right' Dexter Scott King

#17242

Nowhere to fall but off, nowhere to stand but on. Benjamin King

#17243

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. Frank Kingdon

#17244

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, Daphne Rose Kingma

#17245

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - Charles Kingsley

#17246

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley

#17247

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and wo Charles Kingsley

#17248

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him. Charles Kingsley

#17249

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to Charles Kingsley

#17250

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and s Charles Kingsley

#17251

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. Barbara Kingsolver

#17252

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me. Neil Kinnock

#17253

History is a better guide than good intentions. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

#17254

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of hi Grayson Kirk

#17255

Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their li Andrew Klaven

#17256

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making Jeffrey Klein

#17257

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live. Loren Klein

#17258

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. Paul Klee

#17259

A single day is enough to make us a little larger. Paul Klee

#17260

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible. Paul Klee

#17261

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school. Wayne Knight

#17262

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. Edward Irving Koch

#17263

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but now, the state legislature has more to say than God. Edward Irving Koch

#17264

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. Edward Irving Koch

#17265

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an Edward Irving Koch

#17266

If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs Edward Irving Koch

#17267

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the hu John Knowles

#17268

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It se Otto Kleppner

#17269

Figures won't lie, but liars can figure. Beth Knight

#17270

We can't begin to understand what God has planned for us, but we face each day with a smile, and in his name we trust For in this Beth Knight

#17271

We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think. Nigel Kneale

#17272

Days change so many things -- yes, hours -- we see so differently in suns and showers. George Klingle

#17273

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Fletcher Knebel

#17274

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. Anita Roddick

#17275

And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito. Anita Roddick

#17276

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch

#17277

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. Arthur Koestler

#17278

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been affli Arthur Koestler

#17279

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler

#17280

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotion Arthur Koestler

#17281

In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. Sheldon Kopp

#17282

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue-sky Kathe Kollwitz

#17283

I do not want to die until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the la Kathe Kollwitz

#17284

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. J. Martin Kohe

#17285

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different t J. Martin Kohe

#17286

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage Dean Koontz

#17287

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better Dean Koontz

#17288

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise Dean Koontz

#17289

I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in see Dean Koontz

#17290

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kind Dean Koontz

#17291

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with one another- and ourselves. Jack Kornfield

#17292

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

#17293

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. Midori Koto

#17294

Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the Koran

#17295

And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height Koran

#17296

Wealth and children are the adornment of life. Koran

#17297

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better Koran

#17298

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. Koran

#17299

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as Larry Kramer

#17300

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue Charles Krauthammer

#17301

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. Charles Krauthammer

#17302

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy th Charles Krauthammer

#17303

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. Charles Krauthammer

#17304

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those H. A. Kramers

#17305

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may. Sonia Kovevsky

#17306

Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. Ernie Kovacs

#17307

Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum. Alex Kroll

#17308

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17309

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17310

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17311

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17312

Ford used to have a better idea now they don't have a clue. Steve Kravitz

#17313

You're only as good as the people you hire. Ray Kroc

#17314

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. Ray Kroc

#17315

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. Irving Kristol

#17316

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. Irving Kristol

#17317

Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and ne Lawrence Kubie

#17318

If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting Pan Ku

#17319

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny Peter Kropotkin

#17320

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you Louis Kronenberger

#17321

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turned Louis Kronenberger

#17322

One mind awake can awaken another, the second awake can awaken their next-door brother. Three awake can awaken the town by turning Helen Kromer

#17323

Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable. Joseph Wood Krutch

#17324

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet Joseph Wood Krutch

#17325

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch

#17326

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch

#17327

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who Milan Kundera

#17328

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. Milan Kundera

#17329

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is so Milan Kundera

#17330

The great secret that all old people share is that you haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but Maggie Kuhn

#17331

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive Irv Kupcinet

#17332

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. William Kunstler

#17333

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. Charles Kuralt

#17334

It does no harm just occasionally to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country Charles Kuralt

#17335

Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything. Madeleine L'Engle

#17336

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our Madeleine L'Engle

#17337

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle

#17338

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept Madeleine L'Engle

#17339

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility... Madeleine L'Engle

#17340

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. Madeleine L'Engle

#17341

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. Madeleine L'Engle

#17342

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called Tony Kushner

#17343

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L'Amour

#17344

He might never do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. Louis L'Amour

#17345

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. Louis L'Amour

#17346

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. Louis L'Amour

#17347

If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life. Kwan-Tzu

#17348

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare Abraham Kuyper

#17349

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus, they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us. Jean de la Bruyere

#17350

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way Jean de la Bruyere

#17351

That man is good who does good to others if he suffers because the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hand Jean de la Bruyere

#17352

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the ma Jean de la Bruyere

#17353

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. Jean de la Bruyere

#17354

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. Jean de la Bruyere

#17355

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. Jean de la Bruyere

#17356

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Jean de la Bruyere

#17357

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. Jean de la Bruyere

#17358

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed Jean de la Bruyere

#17359

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he fo Jean de la Bruyere

#17360

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. Jean de la Bruyere

#17361

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to Jean de la Bruyere

#17362

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, Michio Kushi

#17363

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. John Lahr

#17364

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. Marquis de Lafayette

#17365

We must realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die. Ronald David Laing

#17366

When you have shot, and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer R. A. Lafferty

#17367

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. Lactantius

#17368

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

#17369

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as Anthony Lake

#17370

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

#17371

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

#17372

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

#17373

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

#17374

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never. Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

#17375

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel. Eugene Lam

#17376

If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never Jesse Lair

#17377

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it. Jesse Lair

#17378

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. Jesse Lair

#17379

A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb

#17380

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. Edwin H. Land

#17381

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. Richard Lamm

#17382

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what Richard Lamm

#17383

Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present. Ken Lancaster

#17384

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. Charles Lamb

#17385

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb

#17386

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Charles Lamb

#17387

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. Charles Lamb

#17388

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. Charles Lamb

#17389

It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Christine Lane

#17390

Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of t Christine Lane

#17391

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life. Michael Landon

#17392

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. Michael Landon

#17393

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans. Alf Landon

#17394

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Rose Lane

#17395

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. Byron J. Langenfeld

#17396

Boys will be boys... and so will most men. Jean R. Langley

#17397

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination. Andrew Lang

#17398

You can cover a great deal of country in books. Andrew Lang

#17399

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange

#17400

The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jes Walter Dale Langtry

#17401

Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin. K. D. Lang

#17402

Two men look out through the same bars One sees the mud and one the stars. Frederick Langbridge

#17403

The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them. Ossian Lang

#17404

Music is Love in search of a word. Sidney Lanier

#17405

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll John Larroquette

#17406

'Are you lost, daddy' I asked tenderly. 'Shut up,' he explained. Ring Lardner

#17407

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to com Ring Lardner

#17408

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. Ring Lardner

#17409

Goal achievement is hero's work. Earnie Larsen

#17410

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire Peter Mere Latham

#17411

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. Christopher Lasch

#17412

Music is the vernacular of the human soul. Geoffrey Latham

#17413

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich. Estee Lauder

#17414

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination. Tommy Lasorda

#17415

I know where we're going, I just don't know where that IS Las

#17416

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

#17417

Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to a Andrew Bonar Law

#17418

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work. Sister Mary Lauretta

#17419

Keep right on to the end of the road. Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder

#17420

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one w Johann Kaspar Lavater

#17421

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embr Johann Kaspar Lavater

#17422

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. William Law

#17423

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson. Vernon Law

#17424

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't l Lynn Lavner

#17425

It's not Jerusalem, It's not Baghdad. It's not Bolivia. It's Oklahoma. V. Z. Lawton

#17426

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it wants T. E. Lawrence

#17427

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty Emma Lazarus

#17428

Anarchy is not chaos, but order without control. David Layson

#17429

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they t Robin Leach

#17430

The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to c Stephen Butler Leacock

#17431

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes' clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. Stephen Butler Leacock

#17432

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the l Stephen Butler Leacock

#17433

It may be that those who do most, dream most. Stephen Butler Leacock

#17434

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Stephen Butler Leacock

#17435

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Butler Leacock

#17436

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. Irving Layton

#17437

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On Presi Irving Layton

#17438

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. Irving Layton

#17439

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pric Irving Layton

#17440

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you. Irving Layton

#17441

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

#17442

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you Norman Lear

#17443

Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it. John Leax

#17444

I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding. Jacques LeBlanc

#17445

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts Robert Keith Leavitt

#17446

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle Bruce Lee

#17447

When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit--it hits all b Bruce Lee

#17448

As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization. Bruce Lee

#17449

To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without dis Bruce Lee

#17450

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confin Bruce Lee

#17451

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

#17452

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do. Bruce Lee

#17453

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. Bruce Lee

#17454

True refinement seeks simplicity. Bruce Lee

#17455

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement. Bruce Lee

#17456

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that. Bruce Lee

#17457

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. Bruce Lee

#17458

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration. Bruce Lee

#17459

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Bruce Lee

#17460

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church. Bill Lee

#17461

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee

#17462

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish Robert E. Lee

#17463

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are se Robert E. Lee

#17464

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. Robert E. Lee

#17465

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should Robert E. Lee

#17466

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee

#17467

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee

#17468

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you Harper Lee

#17469

Some of us just go along . . . until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us -- or should I say we refuse to let them into Peggy Lee

#17470

You must be deviant if you're going to do anything new. David Lee

#17471

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities Christine Leefeldt

#17472

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose. Richard Leider

#17473

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days. Robert Leighton

#17474

I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of cou Jim Lehrer

#17475

Disclaimer If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ev T. Lehrer

#17476

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. John Lehman

#17477

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is Jay Leno

#17478

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true frie Jay Leno

#17479

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. Jay Leno

#17480

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is quite good Maybe you're not the best, so you should w Jay Leno

#17481

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that. Jay Leno

#17482

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. Jay Leno

#17483

Here's something to think about How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery' Jay Leno

#17484

There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will Jay Leno

#17485

Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual. Rune Leknes

#17486

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with c Jack Lemmon

#17487

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes Michel Leiris

#17488

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. Michel Leiris

#17489

We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free. Aldo Leopold

#17490

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question w Aldo Leopold

#17491

A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends o Aldo Leopold

#17492

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which pro Giacomo Leopardi

#17493

Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you fo Thomas Leonard

#17494

Life is too serious to be taken seriously. Mike Leonard

#17495

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. Max Lerner

#17496

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Max Lerner

#17497

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. Max Lerner

#17498

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to under Max Lerner

#17499

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner . Max Lerner

#17500

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.... Ursala Lequin

#17501

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. Doris Lessing

#17502

You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrinate Doris Lessing

#17503

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like you Doris Lessing

#17504

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing

#17505

Laughter is by definition healthy. Doris Lessing

#17506

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing

#17507

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don' Doris Lessing

#17508

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bon Doris Lessing

#17509

To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables

#17510

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous. Shane Leslie

#17511

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – yourself Eda LeShan

#17512

When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive Eda LeShan

#17513

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it. Sam Levenson

#17514

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button. Sam Levenson

#17515

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. Sam Levenson

#17516

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson

#17517

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leuning

#17518

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant

#17519

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends, they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights. Oscar Levant

#17520

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember. Oscar Levant

#17521

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. Oscar Levant

#17522

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away. Oscar Levant

#17523

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant

#17524

So little time and so little to do. Oscar Levant

#17525

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. Oscar Levant

#17526

I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll double cross that bridge when he comes to it.' Oscar Levant

#17527

I am no more humble than my talents require. Oscar Levant

#17528

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. Oscar Levant

#17529

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. Oscar Levant

#17530

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. Stanislaw I. Leszczynski

#17531

A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. G. F. Lessing

#17532

Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant Leon Lessinger

#17533

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

#17534

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. Claude Levi-Strauss

#17535

The wise man doesn't give the right answers; he poses the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss

#17536

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. George Levinger

#17537

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too we Primo Levi

#17538

The past is the tomorrow that got away. Leonard L. Levinson

#17539

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. Beranrd Levin

#17540

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein

#17541

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say And why are Stephen Levine

#17542

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. Kurt Lewin

#17543

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steady Kurt Lewin

#17544

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity. Cassia Lewis

#17545

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. Cindy Lew

#17546

The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth. Marvin D. Levy

#17547

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin

#17548

It is easier to judge a person's mental capacity by his questions than by his answers. Le Duc de Levis

#17549

The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the Wilmarth S. Lewis

#17550

If you ain't never pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about falling' on it. Meldrick Lewis

#17551

There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis

#17552

People will buy anything that is one to a customer. Sinclair Lewis

#17553

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless Sinclair Lewis

#17554

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country Sinclair Lewis

#17555

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, le Jerry Lewis

#17556

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ou Daniel Day Lewis

#17557

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two Daniel Day Lewis

#17558

Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so J. Arthur Lewis

#17559

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic f Michael Lews

#17560

My boat goes west, yours east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys. Chao Li-hua

#17561

You know why there's a Second Amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one. Rush Limbaugh

#17562

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. John Lilly

#17563

Nature loves a burst of energy. Boe Lightman

#17564

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the Rensis Likert

#17565

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17566

...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17567

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17568

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. T Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17569

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17570

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17571

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17572

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

#17573

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, b Victoria Lincoln

#17574

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

#17575

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a b Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

#17576

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

#17577

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

#17578

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive wo Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

#17579

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that give Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

#17580

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a m Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

#17581

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link

#17582

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

#17583

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. James Ling

#17584

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we Stanley Lindquist

#17585

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself. Brian Lindsay

#17586

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished. Ed Lindeman

#17587

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow. Margaret Lindsey

#17588

The little things are most worthwhile-- quiet word, a look, a smile. Margaret Lindsey

#17589

The best love affairs are those we never had. Norman Lindsay

#17590

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. Walter Linn

#17591

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand Linus

#17592

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. George Linley

#17593

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry. S. Barry Lipkin

#17594

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. Art Linkletter

#17595

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence. Art Linkletter

#17596

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you. J. M. Linsner

#17597

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. Titus Livius

#17598

Better late than never. Titus Livius

#17599

There is always more spirit in attack than in defense. Titus Livius

#17600

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. Titus Livius

#17601

I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handlin Titus Livius

#17602

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. Titus Livius

#17603

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. Titus Livius

#17604

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. Titus Livius

#17605

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. Titus Livius

#17606

Greater is our terror of the unknown. Titus Livius

#17607

We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers. Paul Liu

#17608

Slow and steady wins the race. Robert Lloyd

#17609

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. Mary Wilson Little

#17610

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little

#17611

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. William J. Locke

#17612

I'd better get off the phone now, I've already told you more than I heard myself. Loretta Lockhorn

#17613

Failure is a path, not a destination. Robert Logan

#17614

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready t Cesare Lombroso

#17615

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. Cesare Lombroso

#17616

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter. Guy Albert Lombardo

#17617

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class. Jack London

#17618

The proper function of man is to live - not to exist. Jack London

#17619

I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by Jack London

#17620

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London

#17621

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ec Jack London

#17622

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London

#17623

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. Lazarus Long

#17624

100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing. Lazarus Long

#17625

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me t Haniel Long

#17626

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But ever Haniel Long

#17627

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers. John P. Loughrane

#17628

The average person thinks he isn't. Father Larry Lorenzoni

#17629

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren

#17630

Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be ab Sophia Loren

#17631

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with Sophia Loren

#17632

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#17633

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#17634

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#17635

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#17636

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the b Adure Lord

#17637

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you ha George Horace Lorimer

#17638

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them. George Horace Lorimer

#17639

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of a George Lorimer

#17640

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by full Harold Loukes

#17641

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals. Richard F. Lovelace

#17642

The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft

#17643

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. Sir John Lubbock

#17644

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us m Sir John Lubbock

#17645

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or Sir John Lubbock

#17646

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock

#17647

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, an Sir John Lubbock

#17648

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, h Sir John Lubbock

#17649

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. Max Lucado

#17650

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado

#17651

I guess grace doesn't have to be logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace. Max Lucado

#17652

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature. Phillip Lubin

#17653

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. Edward Verall Lucas

#17654

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss Edward Verall Lucas

#17655

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. Lucan

#17656

A show of daring oft conceals great fear. Lucan

#17657

Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls. Lucan

#17658

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge. Lucan

#17659

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exe Henry Robinson Luce

#17660

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. H. E. Luccock

#17661

No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Booth Luce

#17662

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there. Clare Booth Luce

#17663

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They Clare Booth Luce

#17664

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world. Clare Booth Luce

#17665

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. Clare Booth Luce

#17666

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Clare Booth Luce

#17667

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. George Lucas

#17668

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. George Lucas

#17669

In my experience, there is no such thing as 'luck.' George Lucas

#17670

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the n Marlin Finch Lupus

#17671

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just n Eric Lustbader

#17672

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in pope Dom but if a cross or tribulation come upon Martin Luther

#17673

Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will Martin Luther

#17674

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. Martin Luther

#17675

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor Martin Luther

#17676

Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther

#17677

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ. Martin Luther

#17678

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to Martin Luther

#17679

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shave lings Martin Luther

#17680

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. Martin Luther

#17681

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless h Martin Luther

#17682

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns. Martin Luther

#17683

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther

#17684

If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. Martin Luther

#17685

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly. Martin Luther

#17686

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. Martin Luther

#17687

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his recur Martin Luther

#17688

A man cannot do well before he is made good. Martin Luther

#17689

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principle Martin Luther

#17690

The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Martin Luther

#17691

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon. Martin Luther

#17692

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. Martin Luther

#17693

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. Martin Luther

#17694

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but Martin Luther

#17695

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. Martin Luther

#17696

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars. Martin Luther

#17697

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of Martin Luther

#17698

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. Martin Luther

#17699

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of Martin Luther

#17700

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. Martin Luther

#17701

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more re Martin Luther

#17702

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective. Shannon Lucid

#17703

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am Charles Fletcher Lummis

#17704

Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio Frank Luntz

#17705

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received in Lucretius

#17706

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not became Lucretius

#17707

Such evil deeds could religion prompt. Lucretius

#17708

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. Lucretius

#17709

Nothing can be created from nothing. Lucretius

#17710

In order to become successful, you must only promise what you can deliver and deliver more than what you've promised. Beau K. Ly

#17711

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants. Charles J. C. Lyall

#17712

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession. Charles J. C. Lyall

#17713

Man, was predestined to have free will. Hal Lee Luyah

#17714

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of p Lyster

#17715

Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely. Kay Lyons

#17716

Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest Guy Lynch

#17717

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth. John Lyly

#17718

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. John Lyly

#17719

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. Croesus of Lydia

#17720

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. Robert Stoughton Lynd

#17721

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid e Helen Merrell Lynd

#17722

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freed Lord Macaulay

#17723

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Lord Macaulay

#17724

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against not with the wind. Hamilton Mabie

#17725

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. Ross MacDonald

#17726

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. Mary MacCracken

#17727

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. John D. MacDonald

#17728

The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christian J. Gresham Machen

#17729

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwan

#17730

'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms. Niall MacDermot

#17731

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be give George MacDonald

#17732

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. George MacDonald

#17733

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. Dame Rose Macaulay

#17734

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. Dame Rose Macaulay

#17735

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be as distressing as a life unlived. Dame Rose Macaulay

#17736

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. Dame Rose Macaulay

#17737

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

#17738

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explain Archibald MacLeish

#17739

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contra Archibald MacLeish

#17740

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life ca Archibald MacLeish

#17741

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine

#17742

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. Shirley MacLaine

#17743

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. Shirley MacLaine

#17744

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't. Harvey Mackay

#17745

Inside each one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look, is waiting to be disco Neill MacRae

#17746

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything. It just keeps you from enjoying it. Salvador de Madaringa

#17747

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue. Dolly Payne Todd Madison

#17748

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new Michel MacLiammir

#17749

A man's work is his dilemma his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being Melvin Maddocks

#17750

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish wi James Madison

#17751

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their na James Madison

#17752

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perh James Madison

#17753

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those James Madison

#17754

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison

#17755

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong th Robert Macleod

#17756

I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethic Jeb Stuart Magruder

#17757

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. William Connor Magee

#17758

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that wen Maurice Masterlinck

#17759

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Masterlinck

#17760

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Maurice Masterlinck

#17761

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee

#17762

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full p Sidney Madwed

#17763

If your only measure of value is color, then you shall never appreciate the transparence of diamonds. Ameer Sadet Mahdy

#17764

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness. Marabeth Madsen

#17765

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress. Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

#17766

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

#17767

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter de Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon

#17768

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. Bill Maher

#17769

During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. Bill Maher

#17770

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. Frederic William Maitland

#17771

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man Andre Malraux

#17772

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else. Andre Malraux

#17773

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone – even Andre Malraux

#17774

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. Andre Malraux

#17775

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. Andre Malraux

#17776

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within Andre Malraux

#17777

The biggest liar in the world is They Say. Douglas Malloch

#17778

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you John Malkovich

#17779

Dreams have as much influence as actions. Stephane Mallarme

#17780

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to Andrew H. Malcolm

#17781

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. David Mamet

#17782

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life Maxwell Maltz

#17783

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort. Lord Mancroft

#17784

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes. Morris Mandel

#17785

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann

#17786

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann

#17787

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. Horace Mann

#17788

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock you Horace Mann

#17789

Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann

#17790

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make I Horace Mann

#17791

Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable Mickey Manfield

#17792

Listening is a form of accepting. Stella Terrill Mann

#17793

Desire, ask, believe, and receive. Stella Terrill Mann

#17794

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. Stella Terrill Mann

#17795

Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens. Stella Terrill Mann

#17796

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. Louis L. Mann

#17797

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him Golo Mann

#17798

We are always beginning to live, but are never living. Manilius

#17799

When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning. Manilius

#17800

Even pleasure itself is a toil. Manilius

#17801

There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a t Charlie Manuel

#17802

I had it all, and I blew it. (Shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism) Mickey Mantle

#17803

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. Mickey Mantle

#17804

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield

#17805

Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for you Katherine Mansfield

#17806

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's Katherine Mansfield

#17807

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders there Katherine Mansfield

#17808

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. Stanley Marcus

#17809

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. Beryl Markham

#17810

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius

#17811

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith Martin

#17812

There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. Judith Martin

#17813

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. Judith Martin

#17814

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. Judith Martin

#17815

There is a destiny that makes us brothers none goes his way alone all that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our Edwin Markham

#17816

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. Jacques Maritain

#17817

We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Jacques Maritain

#17818

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a ch Jacques Maritain

#17819

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. Jacques Maritain

#17820

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain

#17821

Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom. Michael Marino

#17822

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Mark

#17823

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the Gabrid Garcia Marquez

#17824

No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabrid Garcia Marquez

#17825

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living' Bob Marley

#17826

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. John Phillips Marquand

#17827

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17828

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17829

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17830

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17831

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17832

The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17833

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17834

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17835

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him Whose Donald Robert Perry Marquis

#17836

Whoever loved that loved not at first sight Christopher Marlowe

#17837

Things that are not at all, are never lost. Christopher Marlowe

#17838

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. Peter Marshall

#17839

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Peter Marshall

#17840

It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow. Kelly Marshall

#17841

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. Garry Marshall

#17842

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. J. Willard Marriott

#17843

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. General George Catlett Marshall

#17844

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well. Eleanor Marx

#17845

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. Harriet Martineau

#17846

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the Harriet Martineau

#17847

Readers are plentiful thinkers are rare. Harriet Martineau

#17848

So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of Arthur Marx

#17849

It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets. Dennis Martin

#17850

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, and whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It Aimee Martin

#17851

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in Sybil Marshall

#17852

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Julius Henry Marx

#17853

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bout Julius Henry Marx

#17854

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Julius Henry Marx

#17855

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you. Julius Henry Marx

#17856

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. Julius Henry Marx

#17857

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Julius Henry Marx

#17858

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Julius Henry Marx

#17859

I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that. Julius Henry Marx

#17860

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. Julius Henry Marx

#17861

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Julius Henry Marx

#17862

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech. Julius Henry Marx

#17863

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe Maurice Mascaranhas

#17864

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the s Eric Mascall

#17865

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. Tom Masson

#17866

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record. Tom Masson

#17867

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, when John Masefield

#17868

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. John Masefield

#17869

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. George Mason

#17870

I ask, who are the militia they consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers. George Mason

#17871

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. Jackie Mason

#17872

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. Jackie Mason

#17873

You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to sp Richard M. Mathews

#17874

I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging Charles Mathias, Jr.

#17875

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have Charles Mathias, Jr.

#17876

It's not the rules and regulations you follow carefully that will win you favor with God but rather offering your life to Him in James L. Mathews

#17877

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves. Caitlin Matthews

#17878

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does Edgar Lee Masters

#17879

Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and the Michael Masukawa

#17880

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal Michael Masukawa

#17881

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body William R. Matthews

#17882

'True love' isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially \--even, or perhaps William R. Mattox, Jr.

#17883

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. Henry Maudsley

#17884

No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Mauriac

#17885

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. Elsa Maxwell

#17886

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. John C. Maxwell

#17887

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell

#17888

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. John C. Maxwell

#17889

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John C. Maxwell

#17890

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best. John C. Maxwell

#17891

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. John C. Maxwell

#17892

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination. Melissa Mayer

#17893

Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world. Giuseppe Mazzini

#17894

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual Giuseppe Mazzini

#17895

The family is the country of the heart. Giuseppe Mazzini

#17896

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, t Vladimir Mayakovsky

#17897

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about. Don Mazankowski

#17898

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, and the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, Charles H. Mayo

#17899

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'. Michael McClary

#17900

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without Rollo May

#17901

This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. Referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist Atta John McCain

#17902

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Charlie McCarthy

#17903

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator Christa McAuliffe

#17904

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. Peter McArthur

#17905

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. Peter McArthur

#17906

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon

#17907

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story. Mary McCarthy

#17908

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art. Charles McCabe

#17909

McCabe's Law Nobody has to do anything. Charles McCabe

#17910

Make no judgments where you have no compassion. Anne McCaffrey

#17911

Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than Forest McDonald

#17912

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what the Barbara McClintock

#17913

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. John McEnroe

#17914

Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life. Hugh McColl, Jr.

#17915

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. David McCullough

#17916

Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it. Mark McClinchie

#17917

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick

#17918

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power. David McCord

#17919

I'm not running, and I'm not walking fast. I'm going where I need to be. Johnny McEntyre

#17920

What should we emphasize in our teaching we learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored each and sent the Mark McGee

#17921

Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom Apostles, but in many ways the same. The Kingdom Apostles preached Je Mark McGee

#17922

God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Chris Mark McGee

#17923

We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us That Love caused Him to do something about Mark McGee

#17924

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. William McFee

#17925

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that w George Stanley McGovern

#17926

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of time George Stanley McGovern

#17927

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. George Stanley McGovern

#17928

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the c George Stanley McGovern

#17929

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer George Stanley McGovern

#17930

The longer the title, the less important the job. George Stanley McGovern

#17931

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. Danny McGoorty

#17932

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. Phyllis Mcginley

#17933

To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes and an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a p Phyllis Mcginley

#17934

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other Phyllis Mcginley

#17935

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. Phyllis Mcginley

#17936

Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving. Bill McIntire

#17937

I think the world is run by 'C' students. Al McGuire

#17938

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. Tim McGraw

#17939

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence David McIntosh

#17940

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them. Dan McKinnon

#17941

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. Dan McKinnon

#17942

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side \-- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. Bethania McKenstry

#17943

If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God Dennis McKinsey

#17944

Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will Mike McLaren

#17945

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which Millicent Carey McIntosh

#17946

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual. Millicent Carey McIntosh

#17947

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. Isha McKenzie-Mavinga

#17948

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness. Sarah McLachlan

#17949

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter T. McIntyre

#17950

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either. Homer McLin

#17951

Money is a poor man's credit card. Herbert Marshall McLuhan

#17952

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Herbert Marshall McLuhan

#17953

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because Herbert Marshall McLuhan

#17954

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking. Tim McMahon

#17955

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come. William H. McNeill

#17956

Cliques are groups, groups are great, and great are cliques of people. Arthur McNallan

#17957

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. Peter McWilliams

#17958

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence I Peter McWilliams

#17959

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do. Peter McWilliams

#17960

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on Peter McWilliams

#17961

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. Peter McWilliams

#17962

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be. Peter McWilliams

#17963

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or ac Peter McWilliams

#17964

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, and mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, bu Peter McWilliams

#17965

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due Peter McWilliams

#17966

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth. Peter McWilliams

#17967

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil wi Peter McWilliams

#17968

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do. Peter McWilliams

#17969

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power. Peter McWilliams

#17970

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves Peter McWilliams

#17971

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. Peter McWilliams

#17972

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. Peter McWilliams

#17973

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind Larry McMurtry

#17974

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. Larry McMurtry

#17975

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you Amanda Medinger

#17976

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in ... Fear Peter Medawar

#17977

The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all-inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and th Phiroz Mehta

#17978

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer

#17979

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, Lord Melbourne

#17980

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which Henry Louis Mencken

#17981

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. Henry Louis Mencken

#17982

The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong p Henry Louis Mencken

#17983

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without Henry Louis Mencken

#17984

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This make Henry Louis Mencken

#17985

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evi Henry Louis Mencken

#17986

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop. Henry Louis Mencken

#17987

A formula for answering controversial letters \-- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) you may be right. Henry Louis Mencken

#17988

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and Henry Louis Mencken

#17989

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. Henry Louis Mencken

#17990

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the Henry Louis Mencken

#17991

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, an Henry Louis Mencken

#17992

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevail Henry Louis Mencken

#17993

A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incont Henry Louis Mencken

#17994

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unplea Henry Louis Mencken

#17995

But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesu Henry Louis Mencken

#17996

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. Henry Louis Mencken

#17997

Every man is his own hell. Henry Louis Mencken

#17998

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. Henry Louis Mencken

#17999

No man ever quite believes in any other man. Henry Louis Mencken

#18000

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. Henry Louis Mencken

#18001

There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken

#18002

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary Henry Louis Mencken

#18003

The only cure for contempt is counter contempt. Henry Louis Mencken

#18004

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Henry Louis Mencken

#18005

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. Henry Louis Mencken

#18006

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. Henry Louis Mencken

#18007

Life is a dead-end street. Henry Louis Mencken

#18008

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. Henry Louis Mencken

#18009

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it Henry Louis Mencken

#18010

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another. Henry Louis Mencken

#18011

A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. Henry Louis Mencken

#18012

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age. Henry Louis Mencken

#18013

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. Henry Louis Mencken

#18014

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. Henry Louis Mencken

#18015

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken

#18016

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. Henry Louis Mencken

#18017

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. Henry Louis Mencken

#18018

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.Henry Louis Mencken

#18019

...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free. Henry Louis Mencken

#18020

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. Henry Louis Mencken

#18021

Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endured long. Menander

#18022

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander

#18023

Whom the gods love dies young. Menander

#18024

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. Menander

#18025

The man who runs may fight again. Menander

#18026

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado Menander

#18027

The character of a man is known from his conversations. Menander

#18028

Deus ex machina A god from the machine Menander

#18029

Culture makes all men gentle. Menander

#18030

Riches cover a multitude of woes. Menander

#18031

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind. Menander

#18032

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. Menander

#18033

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius

#18034

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. Mencius

#18035

Sincerity is the way of Heaven. Mencius

#18036

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. Mencius

#18037

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. Mencius

#18038

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Dr. Karl Menninger

#18039

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. Dr. Karl Menninger

#18040

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. Dr. Karl Menninger

#18041

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we a Dr. Karl Menninger

#18042

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken. Dr. Karl Menninger

#18043

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many differ Dr. Karl Menninger

#18044

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We Dominique de Menil

#18045

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else Aubrey Menen

#18046

Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few. H. G. Mendelson

#18047

Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. George Meredith

#18048

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes that look on it The diverse things they see. George Meredith

#18049

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton

#18050

Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, Thomas Merton

#18051

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. Thomas Merton

#18052

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suff Thomas Merton

#18053

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the ques Thomas Merton

#18054

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book. Thomas Merton

#18055

The least of learning is done in the classrooms. Thomas Merton

#18056

Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. Dr. William Claire Menninger

#18057

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there. Andrew Mercer

#18058

When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist. Kevin Meyers

#18059

The obvious is always least understood Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich

#18060

I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing. Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich

#18061

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, Worthwhile, Personal Goals. Paul Meyer

#18062

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility. Mark L. Mika

#18063

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything. Alexander Michael

#18064

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. James Albert Michener

#18065

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. James Albert Michener

#18066

Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles. George Mikes

#18067

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. Ambrose of Milan

#18068

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. Stanley Milgram

#18069

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. Bradley Miller

#18070

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold. Susanne Millen

#18071

It's not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways. Edna St. Vincent Millay

#18072

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay

#18073

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vincent Millay

#18074

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in Edna St. Vincent Millay

#18075

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Edna St. Vincent Millay

#18076

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb. Edna St. Vincent Millay

#18077

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid Harlan Miller

#18078

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. Arthur Miller

#18079

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. Arthur Miller

#18080

My spelling is Wobbly. Its good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Alan Alexander Milne

#18081

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. Alan Alexander Milne

#18082

We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it. Alan Alexander Milne

#18083

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you. Alan Alexander Milne

#18084

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... D Jean Nathan Miller

#18085

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions a Jean Nathan Miller

#18086

Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself. Shannon Miller

#18087

The road to success is always under construction. Jim Miller

#18088

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him C. Wright Mills

#18089

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan

#18090

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs Spike Milligan

#18091

If we cannot trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote? Surely the Thomas Mincher

#18092

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile. Yukio Mishima

#18093

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an o Harvey Mindess

#18094

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. Marvin Minsky

#18095

Reality is something you rise above. Liza Minnelli

#18096

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. John N. Mitchell

#18097

Those truly linked don't need correspondence, when they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever. Deng Ming-Dao

#18098

Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingu

#18099

Beside other art to be learned -- not to see what is not. Maria Mitchell

#18100

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Maria Mitchell

#18101

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. Addison Mizner

#33102

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you' Wilson Mizner

#18103

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner

#18104

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner

#18105

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, its research. Wilson Mizner

#18106

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. Wilson Mizner

#18107

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner

#18108

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. Wilson Mizner

#18109

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. Wilson Mizner

#18110

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. Wilson Mizner

#18111

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner

#18112

Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down. Wilson Mizner

#18113

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. Wilson Mizner

#18114

God help those who do not help themselves. Wilson Mizner

#18115

It's not what happens to you it's what you do about it that makes the difference. Wilson Mitchell

#18116

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. Franois Maurice Mitterrand

#18117

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples Franois Maurice Mitterrand

#18118

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few p Herbert Mitgang

#18119

Nixon bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot o Martha Mitchell

#18120

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. Mohammad

#18121

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Mohammad

#18122

Flowers feed the soul. Mohammad

#18123

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands o Bob Moawad

#18124

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. Bob Moawad

#18125

I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of David Mohler

#18126

Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it. Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr.

#18127

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

#18128

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

#18129

To live without loving is not really to live. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

#18130

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

#18131

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

#18132

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns. Walter Frederick Mondale

#18133

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marve Walter Frederick Mondale

#18134

In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on Walter Frederick Mondale

#18135

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle like seeing your family being with you Walter Frederick Mondale

#18136

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and ther Walter Frederick Mondale

#18137

Marriage is like vitamins we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements. Kathy Mohnke

#18138

Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision Marilyn Monroe

#18139

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe

#18140

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and Ashley Montague

#18141

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montague

#18142

When the tea is brought at five o'clock and all the neat curtains are drawn with care, the little black cat with bright green eye Harold Monro

#18143

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. Adolph Monod

#18144

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. Angela Mont

#18145

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when th Elizabeth Montagu

#18146

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18147

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18148

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18149

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18150

No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18151

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18152

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18153

To philosophize is to doubt. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18154

God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18155

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18156

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18157

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18158

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18159

We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18160

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18161

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18162

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18163

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without e Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18164

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18165

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18166

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18167

Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18168

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18169

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18170

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18171

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18172

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18173

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

#18174

You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made some just need time to heal... Christina Montano

#18175

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, ass Alfred A. Montapert

#18176

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult s Alfred A. Montapert

#18177

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. Alfred A. Montapert

#18178

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Alfred A. Montapert

#18179

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted. Alfred A. Montapert

#18180

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has Eugenio Montale

#18181

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them. Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

#18182

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

#18183

Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the Susanna Moodie

#18184

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Susanna Moodie

#18185

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause I Robert Montgomery

#18186

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about It just makes me feel glad to be alive \-- it's such an Lucy Montgomery

#18187

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. Dwight Lyman Moody

#18188

Character is what you are in the dark. Dwight Lyman Moody

#18189

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. Maria Montessori

#18190

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and fee Maria Montessori

#18191

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori

#18192

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. Maria Montessori

#18193

We like someone because. We love someone although. Henri De Montherlant

#18194

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever. Axel Monthe

#18195

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. Dudley Moore

#18196

A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing. Joe Moore

#18197

Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles. Joe Moore

#18198

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most. Joe Moore

#18199

America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the govern Joe Moore

#18200

It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close. Joe Moore

#18201

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. Joe Moore

#18202

Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. Joe Moore

#18203

If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it. Joe Moore

#18204

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. Joe Moore

#18205

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other Joe Moore

#18206

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible. Joe Moore

#18207

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. Joe Moore

#18208

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people. Joe Moore

#18209

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate. Joe Moore

#18210

It's hard to tell if the world is actually growing worse, or if the news coverage is just better. Joe Moore

#18211

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Joe Moore

#18212

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. Joe Moore

#18213

There are no answers, only cross-references. Joe Moore

#18214

After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers. Joe Moore

#18215

Appetizers are the little things you keep eating until you lose your appetite. Joe Moore

#18216

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some. Joe Moore

#18217

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to. Joe Moore

#18218

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office. Joe Moore

#18219

There are still some honest people left in the world, but they never seem to find anything you lose. Joe Moore

#18220

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born, and doesn't stop until you get up to speak in public. Joe Moore

#18221

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad. Brad Moore

#18222

To know one thing, you must know the opposite. Henry Moore

#18223

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. Henry Moore

#18224

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen. Roy E. Moody

#18225

There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. William Least Heat Moon

#18226

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. George Moore

#18227

The difficulty in life is the choice. George Moore

#18228

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore

#18229

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore

#18230

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God loves us. Sebastian Moore

#18231

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fe Charles Langbridge Morgan

#18232

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved it is God's finger on man's shoulder. Charles Langbridge Morgan

#18233

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to ch Charles Langbridge Morgan

#18234

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. Rick Moranis

#18235

If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance. D. Morgan

#18236

See the conquering hero comes Sound the trumpets, beat the drums Thomas Morell

#18237

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself Jeanne Moreau

#18238

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

#18239

One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. No Hannah More

#18240

The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibble Ted Morgan

#18241

Howard Hughes could afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove Ted Morgan

#18242

The love of nature is consolation against failure. Berthe Morisot

#18243

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they need to see. G. Campbell Morgan

#18244

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale Edmund S. Morgan

#18245

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time. Marabel Morgan

#18246

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. John Pierpoint Morgan

#18247

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn you bleed, you learn You scream, you learn Alanis Morissette

#18248

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. Alanis Morissette

#18249

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. Alanis Morissette

#18250

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. Cristion Morgenstern

#18251

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. Edward P. Morgan

#18252

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings Lisa Moriyama

#18253

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy Christopher Darlington Morley

#18254

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied Christopher Darlington Morley

#18255

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon Christopher Darlington Morley

#18256

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea Christopher Darlington Morley

#18257

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty. Christopher Darlington Morley

#18258

Work hard, live cheap, and save your money. Edward C. Moroney, Jr.

#18259

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another Mary Manin Morrissey

#18260

The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door Lance Morrow

#18261

I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me. Toni Morrison

#18262

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. Toni Morrison

#18263

She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. Toni Morrison

#18264

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take I'll watch the tears fall from Mortal

#18265

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing. Jim Morrison

#18266

The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there Dwight Morrow

#18267

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another Desmond Morris

#18268

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can. M. Morris

#18269

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision wide Mark Morrison-Reed

#18270

Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for t W. G. Morrice

#18271

Love is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Will Moss

#18272

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is Anna Mary Robertson Moses

#18273

Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A Oswald Mosley

#18274

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it Oswald Mosley

#18275

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. John L. Motley

#18276

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman

#18277

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. Richard Moss, M.D.

#18278

Life is a lying dream, he only wake who casts the World aside. Seami Motokiyo

#18279

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#18280

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials' desire. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#18281

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy sk Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#18282

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#18283

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such c Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#18284

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#18285

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is t Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#18286

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#18287

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. Ethel Watts Mumford

#18288

I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic consta Jerrold Mundis

#18289

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions. James X. Mullen

#18290

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major m Jean Iris Murdoch

#18291

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself lo Jean Iris Murdoch

#18292

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. Hector Hugh Munro

#18293

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Hector Hugh Munro

#18294

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Hector Hugh Munro

#18295

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Lewis Mumford

#18296

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, this man was an absolute fool. None of the disaster Lewis Mumford

#18297

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. Lewis Mumford

#18298

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every sci Lewis Mumford

#18299

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray

#18300

...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much. W. H. Murray

#18301

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. Maureen Murphy

#18302

We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along. Alfred De Musset

#18303

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. Alfred De Musset

#18304

A 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. Joyce A. Myers

#18305

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same t Eddie Myers

#18306

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a dista Miyamoto Musashi

#18307

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a h Constance Naden

#18308

When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because Lyle Myhur

#18309

My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

#18310

I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

#18311

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in th Gunnar Myrdal

#18312

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader

#18313

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. Ralph Nader

#18314

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government Ralph Nader

#18315

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. Ralph Nader

#18316

He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the who Siddha Nagarjuna

#18317

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but failed to practice them, Is like unto one who lighted a lamp and then shuttled his e Siddha Nagarjuna

#18318

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions. Siddha Nagarjuna

#18319

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage Siddha Nagarjuna

#18320

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon I

#18321

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray Napoleon I

#18322

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test n Napoleon I

#18323

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. Napoleon I

#18324

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit them V Naipaul

#18325

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. Joe Namath

#18326

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

#18327

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

#18328

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash

#18329

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#18330

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash

#18331

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash

#18332

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash

#18333

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work Ogden Nash

#18334

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash

#18335

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are nave. Ogden Nash

#18336

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. Ogden Nash

#18337

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash

#18338

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Ogden Nash

#18339

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash

#18340

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. Jose Narosky

#18341

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything. Goldie Nash

#18342

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. (Running for mayor of Bucharest, Romania) Ilie Nastase

#18343

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at Gamal Abdel Nasser

#18344

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. Gamal Abdel Nasser

#18345

People do not want words-they want the sound of battle ... the battle of destiny. Gamal Abdel Nasser

#18346

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over Gamal Abdel Nasser

#18347

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. George Jean Nathan

#18348

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It I George Jean Nathan

#18349

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan

#18350

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George Jean Nathan

#18351

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindle George Jean Nathan

#18352

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. George Jean Nathan

#18353

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. George Jean Nathan

#18354

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan

#18355

There is nothing worse than falling prey To someone else's confusion. Valerie Natress

#18356

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place. Tanielle Naus

#18357

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men m Native American

#18358

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it sho Native American

#18359

It all meant nothing but 'Move a little farther. You are to near me.' Native American

#18360

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise. Native American

#18361

I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from Dave Navarro

#18362

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18363

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism the way you play it is free will. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18364

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18365

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the a Jawaharlal Nehru

#18366

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18367

The only alternative to coexistence is codes ruction. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18368

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18369

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18370

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru

#18371

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be. Vinny Nayak

#18372

A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody. Richard Needham

#18373

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. Richard Needham

#18374

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem. Richard Needham

#18375

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs. Richard Needham

#18376

You don't marry one person you marry three. the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going t Richard Needham

#18377

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal

#18378

My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. Granni Nazzano

#18379

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abst Tom Naylor

#18380

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rat Stephen Neill

#18381

Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas. Rolfe Neill

#18382

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than ac A. S. Neill

#18383

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. Christian Nestell

#18384

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. Ron Nesen

#18385

Don't hold on to anything too tightly sooner or later, you'll have to let go. David Nestor

#18386

What an artist the world is losing in me Nero Claudius Caesar

#18387

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be ag Willie Nelson

#18388

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson

#18389

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neill

#18390

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven. Russell M. Nelson

#18391

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. Bob Newhart

#18392

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it Bob Newhart

#18393

It is as hard to take success as it is failure. Louise Nevelson

#18394

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. Louise Nevelson

#18395 I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. Louise Nevelson

#18396

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons... Alfred E. Newman

#18397

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. Alfred E. Newman

#18398

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the te Dorothy Nevill

#18399

Genius is perseverance in disguise. Mike Newlin

#18400

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. John von Neumann

18401

The world is content with setting right the surface of things. John Henry Newman

#18402

Growth is the only evidence of life. John Henry Newman

#18403

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure a John Henry Newman

#18404

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have domin John Henry Newman

#18405

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning. John Henry Newman

#18406

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. Flower A. Newhouse

#18407

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the n A. Edward Newton

#18408

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. Joseph F. Newton

#18409

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. Paul Newman

#18410

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears. John Newton

#18411

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss s John Newton

#18412

When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinne John Newton

#18413

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. Howard Newton

#18414

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Howard Newton

#18415

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton

#18416

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and dive Isaac Newton

#18417

I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great Isaac Newton

#18418

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton

#18419

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton

#18420

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, in Isaac Newton

#18421

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last. Jack William Nicklaus

#18422

The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face. Jack William Nicklaus

#18423

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals others by their acts. Sir Harold George Nicolson

#18424

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. Sir Harold George Nicolson

#18425

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. Kimon Nicolaides

#18426

Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friend Nicholson

#18427

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents. Edward R. Nida

#18428

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18429

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18430

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18431

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18432

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18433

This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18434

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18435

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18436

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18437

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18438

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18439

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18440

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18441

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18442

Hold a true friend with both your hands. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18443

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18444

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18445

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18446

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18447

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think different Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18448

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18449

If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18450

Believe me the secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18451

This secret spoke Life herself unto me 'Behold,' said she, 'I am that which must ever surpass itself.' Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18452

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18453

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18454

The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18455

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18456

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immedia Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18457

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18458

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18459

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18460

Without music life would be a mistake. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18461

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18462

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18463

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18464

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old a Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18465

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18466

In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18467

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18468

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one mo Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18469

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#18470

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. Chester William Nimitz

#18471

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it. Florence Nightingale

#18472

Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of th Florence Nightingale

#18473

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into Florence Nightingale

#18474

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitua Earl Nightingale

#18475

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale

#18476

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway Earl Nightingale

#18477

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it Earl Nightingale

#18478

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. Earl Nightingale

#18479

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. Kitaro Nishida

#18480

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. Leonard Nimoy

#18481

The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have. Leonard Nimoy

#18482

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times. Larry Niven

#18483

You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, f Hannah Nixon

#18484

I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one Hannah Nixon

#18485

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Bernhard Nobel

#18486

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. Alfred Bernhard Nobel

#18487

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. A. J. Nock

#18488

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. Dorothy Law Nolte

#18489

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you Alex Noble

#18490

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance ... was a neat idea. Oliver L. North

#18491

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be un Oliver L. North

#18492

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it. Oliver L. North

#18493

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. Oliver L. North

#18494

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment) Oliver L. North

#18495

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America ever violated an order-not Oliver L. North

#18496

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. Oliver L. North

#18497

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Oliver L. North

#18498

Laws were made to be broken. Christopher North

#18499

I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head-butt somebody. (after losing the Masters tournament Greg Norman

#18500

All things are difficult before they are easy. John Norley

#18501

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, Peggy Noonan

#18502

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That world is gone.' Peggy Noonan

#18503

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in o Peggy Noonan

#18504

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there I Peggy Noonan

#18505

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. Peggy Noonan

#18506

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry Andre Norton

#18507

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you. Grace Fallow Norton

#18508

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of give Henri Nouwen

#18509

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. Caroline Norton

#18510

Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words S. O'Brien

#18511

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O'Casey

#18512

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like the keener the effort Sean O'Casey

#18513

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. Nozick

#18514

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult Alden Nowlan

#515

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any Diana Nyad

#18516

There is nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own tw Diana Nyad

#18517

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority Karen Nussbaum

#18518

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. Basil O'Connor

#18519

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. Friedrich von Hardenberg Novalis

#18520

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow. Erik Nupponen

#18521

I told you he had a cash register mind. Rings every time he opens his mouth. Dennis O'Keefe

#18522

Tomorrow I'll think of some way . . . after all, tomorrow is another day. Scarlett O'Hara

#18523

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend ta Georgia O'Keeffe

#18524

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. Georgia O'Keeffe

#18525

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so nat Georgia O'Keeffe

#18526

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. An Flannery O'Connor

#18527

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are there Flannery O'Connor

#18528

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. Flannery O'Connor

#18529

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor

#18530

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor

#18531

It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose Sen O'Faolin

#18532

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. John Boyle O'Reilly

#18533

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. John Boyle O'Reilly

#18534

Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing Paul O'Neill

#18535

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. Austin O'Malley

#18536

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. Austin O'Malley

#18537

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. Austin O'Malley

#18538

A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it. Austin O'Malley

#18539

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. Austin O'Malley

#18540

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim. Odetta

#18541

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the o Roger von Oech

#18542

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but Joyce Carol Oates

#18543

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this Joyce Carol Oates

#18544

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. Ken Olson

#18545

I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it. Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier

#18546

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them. James Oliver

#18547

To err is human to refrain from laughing, humane. Lane Olinghouse

#18548

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse

#18549

A good friend can shield you from the storm. Rhea Olsen

#18550

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. David Ogilvie

#18551

Smile a lot Not only will you turn heads, you'll turn hearts Andrea Oldham

#18552

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been o Richard Olton

#18553

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life re Gene Oliver

#18554

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory Julius Robert Oppenheimer

#18555

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. Julius Robert Oppenheimer

#18556

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of her Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

#18557

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

#18558

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin-- I will die in the last ditch. William Of Orange

#18559

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

#18560

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. William A. Orton

#18561

An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. Baroness Orczy

#18562

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. Origen

#18563

Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift W. E. Orchard

#18564

In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the Katherine D. Ortega

#18565

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present. Fairfield Osborne

#18566

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us Alexander Osborn

#18567

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themself Bonaro Overstreet

#18568

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one o Frank Outlaw

#18569

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. John Osborne

#18570

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth no need of them, no toleration Marie Louise de la Rame Ouida

#18571

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time. H. A. Overstreet

#18572

Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your h Patrick Overton

#18573

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown we must believe that one of Patrick Overton

#18574

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. John Owen

#18575

But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt w John Owen

#18576

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and John Owen

#18577

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it. John Owen

#18578

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christ John Owen

#18579

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. John Owen

#18580

No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy. John Owen

#18581

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, just John Owen

#18582

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with Camille Paglia

#18583

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that p Camille Paglia

#18584

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating Camille Paglia

#18585

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#18586

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#18587

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#18588

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, co Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#18589

Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Leroy Robert Satchel Paige

#18590

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. Leroy Robert Satchel Paige

#18591

Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. Leroy Robert Satchel Paige

#18592

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. Samuel Palmer

#18593

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow. Dr. B. J. Palmer

#18594

The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it. Jim Palmer

#18595

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. Saskya Pandita

#18596

Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers Are the characteristic Saskya Pandita

#18597

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ant Saskya Pandita

#18598

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Oth Saskya Pandita

#18599

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great pr Michael Parenti

#18600

Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. Christopher Parker

#18601

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. Ed Parker

#18602

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Rou Dorothy Rothschild Parker

#18603

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe Dorothy Rothschild Parker

#18604

Hell's afloat in lover's tears. Dorothy Rothschild Parker

#18605

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. Dorothy Rothschild Parker

#18606

Success is never final, but failure can be. Bill Parcells

#18607

Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject Dan Parker

#18608

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear. Blaise Pascal

#18609

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all Blaise Pascal

#18610

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. Blaise Pascal

#18611

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal

#18612

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal

#18613

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted. Blaise Pascal

#18614

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal

#18615

Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know. Blaise Pascal

#18616

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. Blaise Pascal

#18617

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Blaise Pascal

#18618

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal

#18619

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image. Blaise Pascal

#18620

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. Blaise Pascal

#18621

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. Blaise Pascal

#18622

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal

#18623

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. Blaise Pascal

#18624

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal

#18625

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal

#18626

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Blaise Pascal

#18627

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal

#18628

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it love Blaise Pascal

#18629

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing bette Blaise Pascal

#18630

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal

#18631

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal

#18632

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up the rain. Dolly Parton

#18633

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Dolly Parton

#18634

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Theodore Parker

#18635

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are' but 'you are as good as I am.' Theodore Parker

#18636

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. Theodore Parker

#18637

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr

#18638

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. Cyril Northcote Parkinson

#18639

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Cyril Northcote Parkinson

#18640

There's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude. (after his client signed an 80 million contract with Virgin Record Don Passmani

#18641

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love Boris Pasternak

#18642

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicit Boris Pasternak

#18643

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another Alan Stewart Paton

#18644

Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose Alan Stewart Paton

#18645

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. Alan Stewart Paton

#18646

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we Alan Stewart Paton

#18647

Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from th Alan Stewart Paton

#18648

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen Coventry Patmore

#18649

Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen Samuel Paterson

#18650

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove t Katherine Paterson

#18651

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility Katherine Paterson

#18652

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon Patanjali

#18653

The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. Kenneth Patton

#18654

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. John H. Patterson

#18655

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18656

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18657

If a man does his best, what else is there George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18658

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18659

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18660

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18661

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18662

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. George Smith Patton, Jr.

#18663

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. John Patrick

#18664

You don't need any brains to listen to music. Luciano Pavarotti

#18665

The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese

#18666

We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese

#18667

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. Cesare Pavese

#18668

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the ac Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

#18669

We come to feel as we behave. Paul Pearsall

#18670

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. Thomas Love Peacock

#18671

Education a debt due from present to future generations. George Peabody

#18672

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies. Lester Bowles Pearson

#18673

I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate an Lester Bowles Pearson

#18674

This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag) Lester Bowles Pearson

#18675

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian Lester Bowles Pearson

#18676

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. Donald Culross Peattie

#18677

If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice Neil Peart

#18678

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Neil Peart

#18679

Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsor's, as th John Pearson

#18680

The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, hum John Pearson

#18681

Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself. John Peet

#18682

When you control the ball, you control the score. Pele

#18683

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses. Charles Peguy

#18684

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. Charles Peguy

#18685

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. John Peel

#18686

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. Alexander Penney

#18687

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner. James Cash Penney

#18688

My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. Claiborne Pell

#18689

The secret is to always let the other man have your way. Claiborne Pell

#18690

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total Claiborne Pell

#18691

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposes. William Penn

#18692

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. William Penn

#18693

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn

#18694

No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown. William Penn

#18695

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. William Penn

#18696

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is William Penn

#18697

Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some William Penn

#18698

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn

#18699

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood William Penn

#18700

Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely. William Penn

#18701

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. Jack Penn

#18702

The Whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst Nez Perces

#18703

Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (O Shimon Peres

#18704

Leading the Jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, shar Shimon Peres

#18705

It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic Shimon Peres

#18706

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier. Shimon Peres

#18707

He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible. Shimon Peres

#18708

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to Shimon Peres

#18709

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. Shimon Peres

#18710

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. Walker Percy

#18711

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something. Walker Percy

#18712

Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. Claude Pepper

#18713

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. Claude Pepper

#18714

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Alan J. Perlis

#18715

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. Pericles

#18716

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. Pericles

#18717

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering Fritz Perls

#18718

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement Fritz Perls

#18719

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. Fritz Perls

#18720

The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the applic James A. Perkins

#18721

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. Alfred Edward Perlman

#18722

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And a Alfred Edward Perlman

#18723

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever di Anthony Perkins

#18724

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury. Steve Pershing

#18725

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability. John Perry

#18726

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Eva Pern

#18727

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating. Val Peters

#18728

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. Thomas Peters

#18729

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. Thomas Peters

#18730

Life is pretty simple you do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy Thomas Peters

#18731

Formula for success under promise and over deliver. Thomas Peters

#18732

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle Wilfred A. Peterson

#18733

The secret of greatness is simple do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. Wilfred A. Peterson

#18734

It is because they took the easy way out, that rivers and people, go crooked. Jill Peterson

#18735

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Edward Phelps

#18736

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infalli Francesco Petrarch

#18737

Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Cour Paul E. Pfuetze

#18738

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn Gaius Petronius

#18739

One good turn deserves another. Gaius Petronius

#18740

What power has law where only money rules. Gaius Petronius

#18741

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life Eugene Peterson

#18742

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do William Lyon Phelps

#18743

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. William Lyon Phelps

#18744

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, go William Lyon Phelps

#18745

This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. William Lyon Phelps

#18746

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young Luella F. Phean

#18747

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. Wendell Phillips

#18748

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips

#18749

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Wendell Phillips

#18750

What is defeat nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips

#18751

It is all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself. But when you start disagreeing with the answers R. E. Phillips

#18752

But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem. R. E. Phillips

#18753

Money will come when you are doing the right thing. Mike Phillips

#18754

You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn't take long to call the roll. Bum Philips

#18755

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generate Jean Piaget

#18756

Can't I live while I'm young Phish

#18757

This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as Phylos the Tibetan

#18758

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, pa Marge Piercy

#18759

Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was T. Boone Pickens, Jr.

#18760

Living together is an art. William Pickens

#18761

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done. William Pickens

#18762

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistake Mary Pickford

#18763

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying Mary Pickford

#18764

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford

#18765

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling do Mary Pickford

#18766

Only dreamers can teach us to soar. Anne Marie Pierce

#18767

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. Pilpay

#18768

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments. James A. Pike

#18769

You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your ability t Eric Pio

#18770

I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here. Eric Pio

#18771

Hollywood actors and actress are not better than you -- They just act like they are. Eric Pio

#18772

Madonna is just a hooker that doesn't get paid. Eric Pio

#18773

A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury. Eric Pio

#18774

You are not an artist, an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate. Eric Pio

#18775

A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times. Eric Pio

#18776

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. Eric Pio

#18777

If you know it's going to happen there's no need to call it a dream. Eric Pio

#18778

Make friends not enemies, and you will always have eyes in the back of your head. Eric Pio

#18779

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the Eric Pio

#18780

If you don't make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams. Eric Pio

#18781

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

#18782

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself. Luigi Pirandello

#18783

You see things and you say 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not' Luigi Pirandello

#18784

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. Luigi Pirandello

#18785

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. Gifford Pinchot

#18786

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not m John Piper

#18787

The measure of a man is what he does with power. Pittacus

#18788

Know the right moment. Pittacus

#18789

Money mad. My wife says I spend money like a drunken sailor. Wonder what she'd say if I spent it like a sober congressman R. W. Plagge

#18790

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

#18791

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

#18792

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

#18793

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponent Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

#18794

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt

#18795

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. William Pitt

#18796

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker. William Pitt

#18797

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to ri Robert M. Pirsig

#18798

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig

#18799

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pat Robert M. Pirsig

#18800

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig

#18801

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer

#18802

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. Pliny

#18803

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. J. R. Platt

#18804

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. John J. Plomp

#18805

Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-B Simon Pokagon

#18806

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation a Georges Pompidou

#18807

Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, impo Valerie Polakow

#18808

They say that death kills you, but death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. Iggy Pop

#18809

Nihilism is best done by professionals. Iggy Pop

#18810

Split the atom's heart, and low within it thou wilt find a sun. Persian Mystic Poem

#18811

Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile. Allison Poler

#18812

We come and go just like ripples in a stream. John V. Politis

#18813

He who laughs, lasts Mary Pettibone Poole

#18814

To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains. Mary Pettibone Poole

#18815

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. Mary Pettibone Poole

#18816

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. Pope John Paul I

#18817

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, an Pope Gregory The Great

#18818

I don't dream about actors and actresses they dream about me. I am reality, they are not. Alexander Popov

#18819

I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Alexander Popov

#18820

The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training. Pope Pius XI

#18821

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws Pope Pius XI

#18822

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic act Pope Pius XI

#18823

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. Pope John XXIII

#18824

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. C Pope John XXIII

#18825

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of Pope John Paul II

#18826

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. Pope John Paul II

#18827

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fa Pope John Paul II

#18828

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing Pope John Paul II

#18829

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a Pope John Paul II

#18830

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn Pope John Paul II

#18831

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the his Sir Karl Popper

#18832

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. Laurens Van der Post

#18833

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is Laurens Van der Post

#18834

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. Laurens Van der Post

#18835

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strip Jane Porter

#18836

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. Katherine Anne Porter

#18837

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you Katherine Anne Porter

#18838

Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot. Steve Post

#18839

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Antonio Porchia

#18840

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. Antonio Porchia

#18841

Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Beatrix Potter

#18842

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently Beatrix Potter

#18843

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and am Neil Postman

#18844

The web eliminates all hiding places. Jim Povec

#18845

The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than Ezra Loomis Pound

#18846

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Loomis Pound

#18847

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48. Ezra Loomis Pound

#18848

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he Ezra Loomis Pound

#18849

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president) Alma Powell

#18850

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the Dennis Potter

#18851

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. William Powell

#18852

History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

#18853

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen. Enoch Powell

#18854

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. Anthony Powell

#18855

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so of Anthony Powell

#18856

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone Colin

#18857

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin

#18858

A sense of share is not a bad moral compass. Colin

#18859

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin

#18860

Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung. Colin

#18861

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate. David Pratt

#18862

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may bett Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer

#18863

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them. Hugh Prather

#18864

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition. Hugh Prather

#18865

Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow Hugh Prather

#18866

The price of being the best is having to be the best. Terry Pratchett

#18867

Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot. Terry Pratchett

#18868

Personal isn't the same as important. Terry Pratchett

#18869

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a chi Dennis Prager

#18870

Educate the heart -- educate the heart. Let us have good men. Hiram Powers

#18871

To give anything less than your best is to give away the gift. Steve Prefontaine

#18872

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intoler George Dennison Prentice

#18873

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true. George Dennison Prentice

#18874

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else. George Dennison Prentice

#18875

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. George Dennison Prentice

#18876

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep Jewish Prayer

#18877

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live graceful Native American Prayer

#18878

I'd rather go on hearing your lies than to go on living without you. Elvis Presley

#18879

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley

#18880

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. Mentat Prayer

#18881

We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you le Book of Common Prayer

#18882

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been c Book of Common Prayer

#18883

Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and g Catholic Prayer

#18884

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a do Ivy Baker Priest

#18885

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest

#18886

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prvert

#18887

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Jacques Prvert

#18888

What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life. Reynolds Price

#18889

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that Joseph Priestly

#18890

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain I Alvin Price

#18891

Man is the measure of all things. Protagoras

#18892

There are two sides to every question. Protagoras

#18893

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart. Alessandro Pronzato

#18894

All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often viol Sir V Pritchett

#18895

There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered w Sir V Pritchett

#18896

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. Herbert V. Prochnow

#18897

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. Herbert V. Prochnow

#18898

Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught Cree Indian Prophecy

#18899

The true paradises are paradises we have lost. Marcel Proust

#18900

The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but a Marcel Proust

#18901

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding Marcel Proust

#18902

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant Marcel Proust

#18903

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. Marcel Proust

#18904

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

#18905

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. Marcel Proust

#18906

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. Marcel Proust

#18907

A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. Marcel Proust

#18908

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. Marcel Proust

#18909

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

#18910

Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust

#18911

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. Marcel Proust

#18912

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. Marcel Proust

#18913

The only paradise is paradise lost. Marcel Proust

#18914

Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade. Marcel Proust

#18915

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. Marcel Proust

#18916

In God we trust all others must pay cash. American Proverb

#18917

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. American Proverb

#18918

Never trouble until trouble troubles you. American Proverb

#18919

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. American Proverb

#18920

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense. American Proverb

#18921

Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers. American Proverb

#18922

If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. American Proverb

#18923

Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. American Proverb

#18924

He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup. American Proverb

#18925

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of Arab Proverb

#18926

Never give advice in a crowd. Arab Proverb

#18927

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything. Arab Proverb

#18928

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it. Arab Proverb

#18929

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion. Arab Proverb

#18930

The sinning is the best part of repentance. Arab Proverb

#18931

Examine what is said, not him who speaks. Arab Proverb

#18932

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. Arab Proverb

#18933

All sunshine makes the desert. Arab Proverb

#18934

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. Arab Proverb

#18935

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. Arab Proverb

#18936

Ask the experienced rather than the learned. Arab Proverb

#18937

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. Arab Proverb

#18938

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees. Arab Proverb

#18939

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Arab Proverb

#18940

After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile. Arab Proverb

#18941

Make your bargain before beginning to plow. Arab Proverb

#18942

Friendship is love with understanding. Ancient Proverb

#18943

Good habits result from resisting temptation. Ancient Proverb

#18944

All sunshine makes a desert. Arabic Proverb

#18945

To the pure, all things are pure. Arabic Proverb

#18946

If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart. Arabic Proverb

#18947

God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk. Arabic Proverb

#18948

The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears. Arabic Proverb

#18949

Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance. Biblical Proverb

#18950

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. Biblical Proverb

#18951

He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast. Biblical Proverb

#18952

Great men are not always wise. Biblical Proverb

#18953

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. Biblical Proverb

#18954

Those who lose dreaming are lost. Australian Aboriginal Proverb

#18955

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to Australian Aboriginal Proverb

#18956

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald. Belgian Proverb

#18957

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you. Belgian Proverb

#18958

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are. Assyrian Proverb

#18959

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides. Assyrian Proverb

#18960

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either. Assyrian Proverb

#18961

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out. Assyrian Proverb

#18962

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. Assyrian Proverb

#18963

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue. Assyrian Proverb

#18964

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe. Assyrian Proverb

#18965

Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'. (If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.) Assyrian Proverb

#18966

He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne. Assyrian Proverb

#18967

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel. Assyrian Proverb

#18968

Ask a lot, but take what is offered. Assyrian Proverb

#18969

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. Assyrian Proverb

#18970

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is Assyrian Proverb

#18971

Gossip needs no carriage. Assyrian Proverb

#18972

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. Assyrian Proverb

#18973

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. Assyrian Proverb

#18974

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. Assyrian Proverb

#18975

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. Assyrian Proverb

#18976

You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal. Assyrian Proverb

#18977

One cannot both feast and become rich. Ashanti Proverb

#18978

Who lies for you will lie against you. Bosnian Proverb

#18979

Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. Burmese Proverb

#18980

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Cherokee Proverb

#18981

He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles. Colombian Proverb

#18982

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. Czech Proverb

#18983

The big thieves hang the little ones. Czech Proverb

#18984

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. Czech Proverb

#18985

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds. Dutch Proverb

#18986

A little pot boils easily. Dutch Proverb

#18987

When two quarrel, both are to blame. Dutch Proverb

#18988

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him. Dutch Proverb

#18989

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Dutch Proverb

#18990

A man's ruin lies in his tongue. Egyptian Proverb

#18991

When spiders unite they can tie down a lion. Ethiopian Proverb

#18992

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee. Gaelic Proverb

#18993

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything. Greek Proverb

#18994

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom. Greek Proverb

#18995

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Greek Proverb

#18996

A heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb

#18997

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. Greek Proverb

#18998

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. Greek Proverb

#18999

No need to teach an eagle to fly. Greek Proverb

#19000

Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults. Greek Proverb

#19001

Where there is a sea there are pirates. Greek Proverb

#19002

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. Greek Proverb

#19003

The beginning is the half of every action. Greek Proverb

#19004

The net of the sleeper catches fish. Greek Proverb

#19005

All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek Proverb

#19006

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. Greek Proverb

#19007

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor. Haitian Proverb

#19008

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself. Haitian Proverb

#19009

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Hindustani Proverb

#19010

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him. Hindustani Proverb

#19011

Eating while seated makes one of large size eating while standing makes one strong. Hindustani Proverb

#19012

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. Hebrew Proverb

#19013

Man plans and God laughs. Hebrew Proverb

#19014

A rich man has no need of character. Hebrew Proverb

#19015

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. Indian Proverb

#19016

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Indian Proverb

#19017

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun. Indian Proverb

#19018

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep f Indian Proverb

#19019

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love. Irish Proverb

#19020

Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying. Irish Proverb

#19021

It is not a fish until it is on the bank. Irish Proverb

#19022

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. Irish Proverb

#19023

Better be quarreling than lonesome. Irish Proverb

#19024

A dimple in the chin a devil within. Irish Proverb

#19025

Every invalid is a doctor. Irish Proverb

#19026

All sins cast long shadows. Irish Proverb

#19027

Praise youth and it will prosper. Irish Proverb

#19028

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him. Jamaican Proverb

#19029

Truth is the safest lie. Jewish Proverb

#19030

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. Jewish Proverb

#19031

People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off. Jewish Proverb

#19032

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers. Jewish Proverb

#19033

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. Jewish Proverb

#19034

He who puts up with insult invites injury. Jewish Proverb

#19035

Your friend has a friend don't tell him. Jewish Proverb

#19036

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. Jewish Proverb

#19037

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors. Jewish Proverb

#19038

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. Jewish Proverb

#19039

If you can't go over, you must go under. Jewish Proverb

#19040

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. Jewish Proverb

#19041

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys. Jewish Proverb

#19042

Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile. Jewish Proverb

#19043

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. Jewish Proverb

#19044

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. Jewish Proverb

#19045

With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. Jewish Proverb

#19046

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten. Jewish Proverb

#19047

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. Jewish Proverb

#19048

If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. Jewish Proverb

#19049

A half-truth is a whole lie. Jewish Proverb

#19050

Worries go down better with soup than without. Jewish Proverb

#19051

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. Jewish Proverb

#19052

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. Jewish Proverb

#19053

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. Jewish Proverb

#19054

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. Jewish Proverb

#19055

You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation. Kenyan Proverb

#19056

Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important. Korean Proverb

#19057

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

#19058

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. Latin Proverb

#19059

The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your Latin Proverb

#19060

If there is no wind, row. Latin Proverb

#19061

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. Latin Proverb

#19062

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places. Latin Proverb

#19063

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. Latin Proverb

#19064

Live your own life, for you will die your own death. Latin Proverb

#19065

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping. Latin Proverb

#19066

It is easier to pull down than to build up. Latin Proverb

#19067

Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the hours wound you, the last one kills) Latin Proverb

#19068

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.

Latin Proverb

#19069

He fishes well who uses a golden hook. Latin Proverb

#19070

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. Latin Proverb

#19071

Love is a kind of military service. Latin Proverb

#19072

Deliberate often--decide once. Latin Proverb

#19073

God will be present, whether asked or not. Latin Proverb

#19074

Never give a child a sword. Latin Proverb

#19075

It is honorable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused. Latin Proverb

#19076

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb

#19077

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. Kurdish Proverb

#19078

In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy. Legal Proverb

#079

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori Proverb

#19080

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. Moroccan Proverb

#19081

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. Muslim Proverb

#19082

Time gives good advice. Maltese Proverb

#19083

God gave teeth He will give bread. Lithuanian Proverb

#19084

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. Moorish Proverb

#19085

He who fears something gives it power over him. Moorish Proverb

#19086

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground. Malayan Proverb

#19087

Trumpet in a herd of elephants crow in the company of cocks bleat in a flock of goats. Malayan Proverb

#19088

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. Malayan Proverb

#19089

Hold a true friend with both hands. Nigerian Proverb

#19090

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were s Nigerian Proverb

#19091

When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby. Nigerian Proverb

#19092

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. New England Proverb

#19093

Epigrams succeed where epics fail. Persian Proverb

#19094

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength. Persian Proverb

#19095

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string. Persian Proverb

#19096

It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning. Persian Proverb

#19097

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. Persian Proverb

#19098

The blind man is laughing at the bald head. Persian Proverb

#19099

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. Persian Proverb

#19100

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. Persian Proverb

#19101

Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true. Polish Proverb

#19102

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. Polish Proverb

#19103

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine. Polish Proverb

#19104

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after. Polish Proverb

#19105

Words must be weighed, not counted. Polish Proverb

#19106

The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's. Polish Proverb

#19107

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. Polish Proverb

#19108

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. Portuguese Proverb

#19109

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. Portuguese Proverb

#19110

The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. Portuguese Proverb

#19111

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. Romanian Proverb

#19112

When a thing is done, advice comes too late. Romanian Proverb

#19113

Eating and scratching want but a beginning. Romanian Proverb

#19114

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. Romanian Proverb

#19115

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. Romanian Proverb

#19116

Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all. Romanian Proverb

#19117

If you wish good advice, consult an old man. Romanian Proverb

#19118

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom. Romanian Proverb

#19119

The anvil fears no blows. Romanian Proverb

#19120

Abundance, like want, ruins many. Romanian Proverb

#19121

Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you. Romanian Proverb

#19122

To know and to act are one and the same. Samurai Proverb

#19123

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. Rwandan Proverb

#19124

Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path. Scandinavian Proverb

#19125

It is the great north wind that made the Vikings. Scandinavian Proverb

#19126

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow Sanskrit Proverb

#19127

If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow. Saudi Proverb

#19128

What one fool can do, another can. Ancient Simian Proverb

#19129

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Slovenian Proverb

#19130

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little Swahili Proverb

#19131

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. Sufi Proverb

#19132

There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere. Sufi Proverb

#19133

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see. Taoist Proverb

#19134

The journey is the reward. Taoist Proverb

#19135

Man has responsibility, not power. Tuscarora Proverb

#19136

Love tells us many things that are not so. Ukranian Proverb

#19137

The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully. Ukranian Proverb

#19138

Patience is the key to paradise. Turkish Proverb

#19139

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. Turkish Proverb

#19140

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.. Turkish Proverb

#19141

A heart in love with beauty never grows old. Turkish Proverb

#19142

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup. Turkish Proverb

#19143

When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything. Swiss Proverb

#19144

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools. Welsh Proverb

#19145

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise. Welsh Proverb

#19146

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. Welsh Proverb

#19147

It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission. US Marine Proverb

#19148

There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth. Venezuelan Proverb

#19149

What you give you get, ten times over. Yoruba Proverb

#19150

Complain to one who can help you. Yugoslav Proverb

#19151

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. Yugoslav Proverb

#19152

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right. Richard Pryor

#19153

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. Zen Proverb

#19154

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. Zen Proverb

#19155

The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, Nathan M. Pusey

#19156

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a p Nathan M. Pusey

#19157

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell. A. L. Prusick

#19158

Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world. Zulu Proverb

#19159

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. Emerson Pugh

#19160

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. Bonnie Prudden

#19161

Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin. Michael Pupin

#19162

But respect yourself most of all. Golden verses of the Pythagoreans

#19163

Technology is dominated by two types of people those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do n Putt's Law

#19164

Respect yourself most of all. Pythagorus

#19165

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for Pythagorus

#19166

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. Pythagorus

#19167

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagorus

#19168

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. Pythagorus

#19169

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. Pythagorus

#19170

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, fort The Divine Pymander

#19171

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the v The Divine Pymander

#19172

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things. Amelia Earhart Putnam

#19173

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me. Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin

#19174

I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty he Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin

#19175

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Francis Quarles

#19176

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. Francis Quarles

#19177

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society o Francis Quarles

#19178

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. (Reply to President Ronald Reagan in defense of Palestinian terrorist Muammar Qaddafi

#19179

I am sailing out along parallel 32.5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand an Muammar Qaddafi

#19180

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated. Muammar Qaddafi

#19181

We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose. Muammar Qaddafi

#19182

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On Preside Muammar Qaddafi

#19183

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. J Danforth Quayle

#19184

... I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and J Danforth Quayle

#19185

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled. J Danforth Quayle

#19186

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. J Danforth Quayle

#19187

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could J Danforth Quayle

#19188

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. J Danforth Quayle

#19189

What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is. J Danforth Quayle

#19190

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. J Danforth Quayle

#19191

You do the policy, I'll do the politics. J Danforth Quayle

#19192

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an is J Danforth Quayle

#19193

But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all. Don Quixote

#19194

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is pe Peter Quennell

#19195

Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking Thamas De Quincey

#19196

If life indeed is a stage, then how can we act our parts if we can't read our script Vu Quyen

#19197

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel. John Quinton

#19198

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those w Qwatsinas

#19199

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. Francois Rabelais

#19200

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. Francois Rabelais

#19201

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. Robin Quivers

#19202

A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love. Marysarah Quinn

#19203

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear begi Gilda Radner

#19204

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. Gilda Radner

#19205

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our c Gilda Radner

#19206

True friendship is never serene. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

#19207

We cannot destroy kindred our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

#19208

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning. Sir Walter Raleigh

#19209

'This a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. -- last words before his beheading Sir Walter Raleigh

#19210

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered. Sir Walter Raleigh

#19211

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it. Sir Walter Raleigh

#19212

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a pa Sir Walter Raleigh

#19213

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou blindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please Sir Walter Raleigh

#19214

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality. Radiquet

#19215

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself. Arthur W. Radford

#19216

Nothing in the world lasts save eternal change. Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

#19217

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be. Ted Rall

#19218

Blow O wind to where my loved one is. Touch him and come touch me soon. I'll feel his gentle touch through you and meet his beau Ramayana

#19219

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. James Ramsey

#19220

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. Marie Louise De La Ramee

#19221

A person without character is just as body without soul. Ranjan

#19222

Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a Glen Raphael

#19223

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overn Diana Rankin

#19224

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin

#19225

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. James Randi

#19226

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That Burton Rascoe

#19227

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving. Phylicia Rashad

#19228

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully Arlene Raven

#19229

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. Paul De Rapin

#19230

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and John A. Rassias

#19231

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, John A. Rassias

#19232

Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream ca Karen Raven

#19233

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather

#19234

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. Dan Rather

#19235

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. Dan Rather

#19236

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more Anatol Rapoport

#19237

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand Marie Beyon Ray

#19238

. . .you said good friends are hard to come by I laughed and bought you a beer 'cause it's too corny to cry well sentiment given Amy Ray

#19239

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. Dixie Lee Ray

#19240

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved b Colin Raye

#19241

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that di Colin Raye

#19242

Adversity makes men wise but not rich. John Ray

#19243

The younger brother hath the more wit. John Ray

#19244

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul. John Ray

#19245

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch

#19246

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band 'Be kind to one another.' This is the Golden Rule of Marriage and the se Randolph Ray

#19247

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tend Randolph Ray

#19248

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn

#19249

If you want to get along, go along. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn

#19250

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. Lady Reading

#19251

Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it-not you, not me and certainly not Nancy Davis Reagan

#19252

A woman is like a tea bag--you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Nancy Davis Reagan

#19253

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going Nancy Davis Reagan

#19254

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. Charles Reade

#19255

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. Keanu Reeves

#19256

Get busy living or get busy dying. Red

#19257

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out. Christopher Reeve

#19258

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. Christopher Reeve

#19259

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. Thomas B. Reed

#19260

Every one is the architect of his own fortune. Mathurin Regnier

#19261

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. Hans Reichenbach

#19262

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that w Robert Reich

#19263

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. Robert Reich

#19264

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. Gottfried Reinhardt

#19265

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality. Theodor Reik

#19266

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. Theodor Reik

#19267

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of Alastair Reid

#19268

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within W. J. Reichmann

#19269

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into Auguste Renoir

#19270

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. Auguste Renoir

#19271

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his p Auguste Renoir

#19272

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and Auguste Renoir

#19273

Let him who desires peace prepare for war. Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#19274

No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. Robin Renwick

#19275

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that di James Barrett Scotty Reston

#19276

Half circus and half Supreme Court. James Barrett Scotty Reston

#19277

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the James Barrett Scotty Reston

#19278

An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past. James Barrett Scotty Reston

#19279

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. James Barrett Scotty Reston

#19280

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. We Anne Rice

#19281

Love can't be proven until you both die loving each other. Airon T. Reyes

#19282

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize Beah Richards

#19283

So little done, so much to do. Cecil John Rhodes

#19284

Allow me someday to touch you. The way that you've all touched me. Happy Rhodes

#19285

The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation in Christ. God is not only Eugene Reuweler

#19286

A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wish Edward Hersey Richards

#19287

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight. Helen Steiner Rice

#19288

Lying is done with words and also with silence. Adrienne Rich

#19289

Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation o Robert D. Richardson

#19290

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love Lionel Richie

#19291

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade. Miranda Richardson

#19292

Calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson

#19293

Good men must be affectionate men. Samuel Richardson

#19294

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wo John M. Richardson, Jr.

#19295

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

#19296

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19297

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19298

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19299

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19300

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19301

A scholar knows no boredom. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19302

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19303

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19304

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distan Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#19305

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out. Nick Richardson

#19306

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacker

#19307

Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey

#19308

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lea Hyman Rickover

#19309

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. Hyman Rickover

#19310

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. Hyman Rickover

#19311

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover

#19312

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love. Saint Alfred of Rievaulx

#19313

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob August Riis

#19314

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as Jacob August Riis

#19315

Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick, and Harry is going to Miss Pierr Al Ries

#19316

As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went Larry Riemersma

#19317

Historical reminder always put Horace before Descartes. Donald O. Rickter

#19318

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. John G. Riefenbaker

#19319

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the disc James Whitcomb Riley

#19320

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable. Ene Riisna

#19321

Relativity keeps anything from happening at once. Quantum mechanics keeps everything from really happening at all. Lou A. Riley

#19322

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Robert J. Ringer

#19323

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours. Earl Riney

#19324

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment. Lord Ritchie-Calder

#19325

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change Molly Ringwald

#19326

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. Antoine Rivarol

#19327

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. Frank Rizzo

#19328

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take Anthony Robbins

#19329

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own Anthony Robbins

#19330

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute...that gives meaning to our lives. Anthony Robbins

#19331

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Anthony Robbins

#19332

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the sa Anthony Robbins

#19333

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that ha Anthony Robbins

#19334

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain. Anthony Robbins

#19335

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer. Anthony Robbins

#19336

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Anthony Robbins

#19337

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do. Anthony Robbins

#19338

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision-making muscles. Anthony Robbins

#19339

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack. Anthony Robbins

#19340

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly -- hurt, bitterness, grief and, m Joan Rivers

#19341

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. Joan Rivers

#19342

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. Joan Rivers

#19343

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. Tom Robbins

#344

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Tom Robbins

#19345

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. Tom Robbins

#19346

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vi Tom Robbins

#19347

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Tom Robbins

#19348

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Tom Robbins

#19349

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been p Tom Robbins

#19350

Every man dies. Not every man lives. Tim Robbins

#19351

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying. Tim Robbins

#19352

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough. Wess Roberts

#19353

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. Nora Roberts

#19354

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the en Gareth Roberts

#19355

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. Henry Martyn Robert

#19356

...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left. Pat Robertson

#19357

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. Walter S. Robertson

#19358

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. Frederick W. Robertson

#19359

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kind Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

#19360

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are Arthur Somers Roche

#19361

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson

#19362

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. James Harvey Robinson

#19363

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and t James Harvey Robinson

#19364

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. Dennis Roch

#19365

Be not surprised if thou fondest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it. James J. Roche

#19366

And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead. Philip Robinson

#19367

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

#19368

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

#19369

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

#19370

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

#19371

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

#19372

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

#19373

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

#19374

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty. Nelson Rockefeller

#19375

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

#19376

Nobody does good to man with impunity. Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

#19377

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Natu Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

#19378

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

#19379
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its int Rudolph Rocker

#19380

One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. Knute Kenneth Rockne

#19381

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke

#19382

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. Theodore Roethke

#19383

A mind too active is no mind at all. Theodore Roethke

#19384

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and Frances Rodman

#19385

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with Al Rogers

#19386

They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun. Roy Rogers

#19387

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. John Rogers

#19388

Harvard doesn't consider anyone a loss until he dies without a diploma, because they say he can always come back and finish. Manley E. Rogers

#19389

Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur Manley E. Rogers

#19390

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is real Fred Rogers

#19391

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge. Rutherford D. Rogers

#19392

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress w Jim Rohn

#19393

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness--great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great repute Jim Rohn

#19394

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. Jim Rohn

#19395

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

#19396

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. Jim Rohn

#19397

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. Jim Rohn

#19398

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt won Jim Rohn

#19399

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far gr Jim Rohn

#19400

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read and third, who Jim Rohn

#19401

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn

#19402

The book you don't read can't help. Jim Rohn

#19403

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. Jim Rohn

#19404

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day... Jim Rohn

#19405

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become. Jim Rohn

#19406

Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

#19407

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. Felix G. Rohatyn

#19408

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. Jeanne-Marie Roland

#19409

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. Jeanne-Marie Roland

#19410

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it. Jeanne-Marie Roland

#19411

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. Jeanne-Marie Roland

#19412

O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name Jeanne-Marie Roland

#19413

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. Jeanne-Marie Roland

#19414

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering. Trevor Rook

#19415

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. Sanaya Roman

#19416

When you are feeling depreciated, angry and drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy. Sanaya Roman

#19417

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression. John Romano

#19418

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. Andrew A. Rooney

#19419

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran. Andrew A. Rooney

#19420

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians. Andrew A. Rooney

#19421

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new se Andrew A. Rooney

#19422

You always pass failure on the way to success. Mickey Rooney

#19423

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. Mickey Rooney

#19424

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, and other people's labor. Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19425

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19426

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19427

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19428

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19429

Wise and prudent men -- intelligent conservatives -- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserve Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19430

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19431

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19432

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19433

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people s Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19434

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19435

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19436

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19437

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this co Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19438

We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19439

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19440

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19441

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19442

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19443

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19444

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19445

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19446

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19447

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be t Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#19448

The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love. Don Rose

#19449

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting. Billy Rose

#19450

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. Pete Rose

#19451

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is w Pete Rose

#19452

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. Julius Rosenwald

#19453

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a Julius Rosenwald

#19454

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less. Joel Rosenberg

#19455

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. 'Legend' means, basically, 'bullshit.' Joel Rosenberg

#19456

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. Yasutani Roshi

#19457

It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours. A. M. Rosenthal

#19458

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you A. M. Rosenthal

#19459

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a sauce A. M. Rosenthal

#19460

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. Richard Rosen

#19461

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination. Ruth Ross

#19462

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases Harold Ross

#19463

If you can't be funny, be interesting. Harold Ross

#19464

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass Christina Georgina Rossetti

#19465

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. Christina Georgina Rossetti

#19466

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. Christina Georgina Rossetti

#19467

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign. Christina Georgina Rossetti

#19468

And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying. Christina Georgina Rossetti

#19469

We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of Painting Bob Ross

#19470

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. Bob Ross

#19471

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand

#19472

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. Jean Rostand

#19473

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. Jean Rostand

#19474

To be an adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand

#19475

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. Jean Rostand

#19476

The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dry Theodore Roszak

#19477

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like become Theodore Roszak

#19478

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another. Kristen Ashley Roth

#19479

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey. Kristen Ashley Roth

#19480

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. William Rotsler

#19481

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. William Rotsler

#19482

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. Jean

Jacques Rousseau

#19483

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19484

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19485

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19486

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself I Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19487

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19488

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces even Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19489

Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19490

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19491

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#19492

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires t Mayer Amschal Rothschild

#19493

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. Helen Rowland

#19494

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper Helen Rowland

#19495

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Helen Rowland

#19496

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. Helen Rowland

#19497

One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Rowland

#19498

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir. Martin Routh

#19499

Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. Carl T. Rowan, Jr.

#19500

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. Carl Rowen

#19501

There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers. Carl Rowen

#19502

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. Josiah Royce

#19503

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Darrel Royal

#19504

You're born naked, the rest is drag. Ru Paul

#19505

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society. Richard Royster

#19506

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune Claude Roy

#19507

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. Theodore Isaac Rubin

#19508

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

#19509

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Isaac Rubin

#19510

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult Theodore Isaac Rubin

#19511

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking. Theodore Isaac Rubin

#19512

Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness. Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford

#19513

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. Giovanni Ruffini

#19514

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. Paul Rudnick

#19515

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the Helena Rubinstein

#19516

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When Jalal ud-Din Rumi

#19517

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Jalal ud-Din Rumi

#19518

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Jalal ud-Din Rumi

#19519

I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but Jalal ud-Din Rumi

#19520

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. Jalal ud-Din Rumi

#19521

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck

#19522

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck

#19523

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having. Margaret Lee Runbeck

#19524

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

#19525

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner

#19526

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. Rita Rudner

#19527

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner

#19528

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something Rita Rudner

#19529

Most turkeys taste better the day after my mother's tasted better the day before. Rita Rudner

#19530

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Rita Rudner

#19531

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner

#19532

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Rita Rudner

#19533

My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. Rita Rudner

#19534

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be Rita Rudner

#19535

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with' Rita Rudner

#19536

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner

#19537

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the sea Damon Runyon

#19538

Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave Augusta E. Rundell

#19539

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern history Steven Runciman

#19540

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequel Steven Runciman

#19541

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie

#19542

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the Salman Rushdie

#19543

Our lives teach us who we are. Salman Rushdie

#19544

It does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. Harold Ruopp

#19545

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Ol Horace Rumpole

#19546

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. David Dean Rusk

#19547

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. David Dean Rusk

#19548

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world. David Dean Rusk

#19549

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one. David Dean Rusk

#19550

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of a David Dean Rusk

#19551

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks. David Dean Rusk

#19552

Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin

#19553

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a build John Ruskin

#19554

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who cons John Ruskin

#19555

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all John Ruskin

#19556

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin

#19557

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

#19558

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of John Ruskin

#19559

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart. John Ruskin

#19560

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin

#19561

It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit with John Ruskin

#19562

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and div John Ruskin

#19563

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. John Ruskin

#19564

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. John Ruskin

#19565

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off John Ruskin

#19566

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and del John Ruskin

#19567

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any John Ruskin

#19568

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work John Ruskin

#19569

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much John Ruskin

#19570

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. John Ruskin

#19571

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin

#19572

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible word John Ruskin

#19573

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. John Ruskin

#19574

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Ruskin

#19575

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it Theodore Ruskin

#19576

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at. Anna Russell

#19577

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Utterly Russell

#19578

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You Bayard Rustin

#19579

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. Lord John Russell

#19580

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul. Samual Rutherford

#19581

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some o Samual Rutherford

#19582

If Christ Jesus be the period, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend. . Samual Rutherford

#19583

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior. Samual Rutherford

#19584

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way. Samual Rutherford

#19585

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun

#19586

The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't. Ernest Rutherford

#19587

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. Ernest Rutherford

#19588

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford

#19589

It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, no Mark Rutherford

#19590

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth

#19591

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. Babe Ruth

#19592

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide John Ryman

#19593

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. Saadi

#19594

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste. Saadi

#19595

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not Saadi

#19596

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. Saadi

#19597

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. Saadi

#19598

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. Saadi

#19599

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others. Johathan Sacks

#19600

Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for so Albert P. Ryder

#19601

As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two program Paul Sadler

#19602

Why Paul God already had called twelve apostles of the kingdom Although Judas had fallen in transgression, the seat of his apostle Paul Sadler

#19603

It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave Paul Sadler

#19604

When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret set of plans. With t Paul Sadler

#19605

As members of the Body of Christ, each of us have been endowed with a special measure of grace to use in His service. Paul develop Paul Sadler

#19606

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide. Paul Sadler

#19607

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible. Mavette Sadile

#19608

Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers. C. Ryland

#19609

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. Morley Saefer

#19610

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. Morley Saefer

#19611

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciate William Safire

#19612

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know. William Safire

#19613

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old William Safire

#19614

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back William Safire

#19615

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. William Safire

#19616

Decide on some imperfect somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody William Safire

#19617

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached. William Safire

#19618

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care. William Safire

#19619

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. Franoise Sagan

#19620

The bravest thing that men do is love women. Mort Sahl

#19621

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost. Mort Sahl

#19622

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were. Mort Sahl

#19623

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. George Saintsbury

#19624

Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children Eloise Salholz

#19625

To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty P Eloise Salholz

#19626

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you. Saint Francis de Sales

#19627

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly. Saint Francis de Sales

#19628

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by lo Saint Francis de Sales

#19629

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. Saint Francis de Sales

#19630

Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength. Saint Francis de Sales

#19631

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good Saint Francis de Sales

#19632

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to Saint Francis de Sales

#19633

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections Saint Francis de Sales

#19634

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales

#19635

Promote yourself, but do not demote another. Israel Salanter

#19636

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never real Saki

#19637

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. Saki

#19638

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. Saki

#19639

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. Saki

#19640

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Saki

#19641

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Saki

#19642

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measure Dr. Jonas Salk

#19643

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Dr. Jonas Salk

#19644

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Dr. Jonas Salk

#19645

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. Dr. Jonas Salk

#19646

You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't. Emily Saliers

#19647

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions a boy can pass from Eton to the Guards Anthony Sampson

#19648

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger

#19649

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to liv J. D. Salinger

#19650

Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their tr J. D. Salinger

#19651

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford J. D. Salinger

#19652

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood J. D. Salinger

#19653

Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and Herbert Samuel

#19654

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. Herbert Samuel

#19655

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. Jim Samuels

#19656

Mire Hacia Las Estrellas. Look At The Stars. Raul E. Sanchez

#19657

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears. Leon Samson

#19658

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand

#19659

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only b George Sand

#19660

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved. George Sand

#19661

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand

#19662

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire George Sand

#19663

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with s George Sand

#19664

Your love will last forever, if you do not expect her to walk the same path, but you look in the same direction. T. Clay Sanders

#19665

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want. Bill Sands

#19666

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#19667

I am not an optimist, but I am not a pessimist, what I am is a realist. Bobby Sanghavi

#19668

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when Sankara

#19669

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooper Scott Russell Sanders

#19670

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. Milton R. Sapirstein

#19671

Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds. Helen Hoover Santmyer

#19672

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. Susan Sarandon

#19673

Good friends are good for your health. Dr. Irwin Sarason

#19674

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. May Sarton

#19675

Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff. May Sarton

#19676

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. May Sarton

#19677

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. May Sarton

#19678

There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves mo. May Sarton

#19679

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. George Sarton

#19680

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces David Sarnoff

#19681

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all you might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get William Saroyan

#19682

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan

#19683

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan

#19684

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn vos Savant

#19685

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. Marilyn vos Savant

#19686

It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition that giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn vos Savant

#19687

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant

#19688

Cosmic upheaval is not as moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. Thomas Savage

#19689

Just being happy helps other souls along their burdens may be heavy and they not strong and your own sky will lighten, If other Ripley D. Saunders

#19690

Life's simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature's sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with ri Ripley D. Saunders

#19691

Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits their pattern. John Saul

#19692

The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the Erich Sauer

#19693

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communicated Virginia Satir

#19694

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. Hasidic Saying

#19695

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. Hasidic Saying

#19696

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. Hasidic Saying

#19697

Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say Alexis Sayle

#19698

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions. West African Saying

#19699

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. Sir George Savile

#19700

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or Sir George Savile

#19701

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. Rabbinical Saying

#19702

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can Dorothy L. Sayers

#19703

I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers

#19704

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. Dorothy L. Sayers

#19705

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Dorothy L. Sayers

#19706

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our Dorothy L. Sayers

#19707

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. Dorothy L. Sayers

#19708

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments. Saville

#19709

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You c Antonin Scalia

#19710

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming Antonin Scalia

#19711

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart. Raynor Schein

#19712

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. Rabbi H. Schachtel

#19713

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but Nathan C. Schaeffer

#19714

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing. Charles Schaefer

#19715

Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music. Friedrich von Schelling

#19716

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in you Walter Schirra, Sr.

#19717

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19718

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fry Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19719

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot-wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19720

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19721

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19722

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19723

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19724

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19725

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19726

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of. Dr. Laura Schlesinger

#19727

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people Mary Schmich

#19728

History's lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them. David Schoenbrun

#19729

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes Arthur Schopenhauer

#19730

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19731

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistake Arthur Schopenhauer

#19732

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for bri Arthur Schopenhauer

#19733

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being s Arthur Schopenhauer

#19734

Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19735

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before t Arthur Schopenhauer

#19736

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19737

Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19738

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the thin Arthur Schopenhauer

#19739

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19740

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19741

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19742

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19743

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer

#19744

...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's image Imgard Schloegl

#19745

Applause is a receipt, not a bill. Arthur Schnabel

#19746

When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not cough Arthur Schnabel

#19747

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides Arthur Schnabel

#19748

If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear. Rolland W. Schloerb

#19749

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democrat Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#19750

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examine Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#19751

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#19752

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. Helen Schucman

#19753

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. Don Schula

#19754

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always res Dr. Robert Schuller

#19755

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary impossible. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19756

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19757

Build a dream and the dream will build you. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19758

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19759

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19760

Impossible situations can become possible miracles. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19761

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19762

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19763

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19764

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19765

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19766

Life is but a moment, death also is but another. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19767

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly Dr. Robert Schuller

#19768

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19769

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail Dr. Robert Schuller

#19770

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19771

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Dr. Robert Schuller

#19772

Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles Monroe Schultz

#19773

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles Monroe Schultz

#19774

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... Charles Monroe Schultz

#19775

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right Charles Monroe Schultz

#19776

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational. Charles Monroe Schultz

#19777

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame. Will Schutz

#19778

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting Howard Schultz

#19779

Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of w Carl Schurz

#19780

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz

#19781

If you want to be free, there is but one way it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There Carl Schurz

#19782

A resurrection waits in the future of all people, whether saved or lost, kingdom saints or the Body of Christ. 'Marvel not at the Vernon Schutz

#19783

Defeated enemies in battle have to confess the superiority of their captors, but this does not give them citizenship in that cou Vernon Schutz

#19784

Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow. Cristina Rose Schumacher

#19785

To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone. David Joseph Schwartz

#19786

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficult David Joseph Schwartz

#19787

All great achievements require time. David Joseph Schwartz

#19788

Do what you fear and fear disappears. David Joseph Schwartz

#19789

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David Joseph Schwartz

#19790

The success combination in business is Do what you do better...and Do more of what you do... David Joseph Schwartz

#19791

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David Joseph Schwartz

#19792

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty Barry Schwartz

#19793

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. Delmore Schwartz

#19794

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. Elias Schwartz

#19795

Criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott

#19796

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt

#19797

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the common Charles Scribner, Jr.

#19798

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives Charles Scribner, Jr.

#19799

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it. David Searles

#19800

What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad. Searamouche

#19801

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on. Anderson H. Scruggs

#19802

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. Zachary Scott

#19803

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. Pete Seeger

#19804

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

#19805

The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same b Chief Seattle

#19806

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save the Chief Seattle

#19807

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand Chief Seattle

#19808

What is man without the beasts If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happen Chief Seattle

#19809

In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his Al Seckel

#19810

Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth. Delores Seats

#19811

Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. The Henry Seely

#19812

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom. Pesach Seder

#19813

You can't reach your goals if you don't try. Kathy Seligman

#19814

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can' Kathy Seligman

#19815

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man. John Selden

#19816

Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man c John Selden

#19817

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure. Lee Segall

#19818

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of t George J. Seidel

#19819

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition. Nick Seitz

#19820

there will always be pressures and time sin your life when you'll need answers, but coke and the rest offer nothing -- no out Bob Seger

#19821

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak

#19822

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -- because when you William Sessions

#19823

If an eye never falls asleep, All dreams will by themselves cease If the mind retains its absoluteness, the ten thousand things Seng-T'San

#19824

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Dr. Seuss

#19825

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. Dr. Seuss

#19826

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss

#19827

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent. Dr. Seuss

#19828

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Dr. Seuss

#19829

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through Dr. Seuss

#19830

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. John Petit Senn

#19831

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. Maurice Setter

#19832

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Rod Serling

#19833

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupt Rod Serling

#19834

Know thyself. The Seven Sages

#19835

Do not speak ill of the dead. The Seven Sages

#19836

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself... If you don't have friends you see mu Merle Shain

#19837

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. Eric Sevareid

#19838

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. Eric Sevareid

#19839

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. Eric Sevareid

#19840

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow--to the end at all costs. Harold J. Seymour

#19841

Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear. Granville Sharp

#19842

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious Bill Shankly

#19843

In Lebanon there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him. Ariel Sharon

#19844

Why I was so blind that I couldn't see our love was changing underneath our very noses Jessica Sharp

#19845

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted. Robert Sheckley

#19846

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George Sheehan

#19847

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body. George Sheehan

#19848

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. William Shedd

#19849

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. Irwin Shaw

#19850

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. John Shedd

#19851

Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigured, or depraved, - Sir Martin Archer Shee

#19852

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. Fulton John Sheen

#19853

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything. Fulton John Sheen

#19854

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Fulton John Sheen

#19855

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, and every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. Fulton John Sheen

#19856

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual e Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#19857

The beginning is always today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#19858

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another. Odell Shepard

#19859

Opportunities are seldom labeled. John H. Shield

#19860

Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.

#19861

Isolation is a dream killer. Barbara Sher

#19862

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just be Florence Shinn

#19863

Giving opens the way for receiving. Florence Shinn

#19864

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy Florence Shinn

#19865

They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it Paul Sherer

#19866

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them. Tsutomu Shimomura

#19867

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspirant Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#19868

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#19869

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time a Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#19870

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#19871

The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we a Stephen Shober

#19872

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Dinah Shore

#19873

You can sort of be married, you can sort of be divorced, you can sort of be living together, but you can't sort of have a baby. David Shire

#19874

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. George Shinn

#19875

Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. John Shirley

#19876

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against David K. Shipler

#19877

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, David K. Shipler

#19878

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky Solomon Short

#19879

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of t Solomon Short

#19880

Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliché -- a cliché is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. Solomon Short

#19881

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. Solomon Short

#19882

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. Emperor Sigismund

#19883

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. Frank Shutts

#19884

The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. David M. Shoup

#19885

The coming together of two laudable movements \-- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right t Mark Siegler

#19886

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the George Pratt Shultz

#19887

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. George Pratt Shultz

#19888

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. George Pratt Shultz

#19889

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never g George Pratt Shultz

#19890

Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. Richard Sibbes

#19891

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. Spencer Silver

#19892

Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster. Curt Simmons

#19893

Some people never say the words 'I love you' It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words 'I love you' Paul Simon

#19894

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one. Simonides

#19895

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. Simonides

#19896

Not even the gods fight against necessity. Simonides

#19897

Keep working your way through the maze. You'll know what it is when it happens, but you won't know until then. God grinds the ax Dave Sim

#19898

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. John Simon

#19899

This is the doctrine of justification. It is the wonderful fact that God imputes His righteousness to us and makes us immune to Art Sims

#19900

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or profession Alan Simpson

#19901

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point Alan Simpson

#19902

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on Alan Simpson

#19903

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad Alan Simpson

#19904

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. Donald Sinden

#19905

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. Lee Simonson

#19906

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. Gary Sinise

#19907

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals. Peter Singer

#19908

An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Water John J. Sirica

#19909

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

#19910

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life. Philip Skelton

#19911

In a mirror, last place becomes first place... Just depends on how you wish to look at it. Debbie

Skelly

#19912

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

#19913

Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese Edith Sitwell

#19914

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell

#19915

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell

#19916

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man Edith Sitwell

#19917

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith Sitwell

#19918

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand Swami Sivanada

#19919

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivanada

#19920

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be goo Swami Sivanada

#19921

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, win Swami Sivanada

#19922

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. Swami Sivanada

#19923

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us Sitting Bull

#19924

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were s Cornelia Otis Skinner

#19925

A kiss to a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity. V. P. Skipper

#19926

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, Samuel Smiles

#19927

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles

#19928

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles

#19929

Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel Smiles

#19930

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained Samuel Smiles

#19931

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we Samuel Smiles

#19932

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success Samuel Smiles

#19933

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own n Samuel Smiles

#19934

Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action. Samuel Smiles

#19935

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, Samuel Smiles

#19936

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will be Ruth Smeltzer

#19937

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurt Sir William Joseph Slim

#19938

All's fair in love and war. F. E. Smedley

#19939

You are looking as fresh as paint. F. E. Smedley

#19940

If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that I Donald G. Smith

#19941

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical. Donald G. Smith

#19942

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane. Donald G. Smith

#19943

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other. Donald G. Smith

#19944

I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring. Dodie Smith

#19945

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something Dodie Smith

#19946

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith

#19947

It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irra Alexander Smith

#19948

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. Alexander Smith

#19949

Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith

#19950

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the w Ashley Smith

#19951

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. Albert Smith

#19952

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst H. Allen Smith

#19953

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing Frederick Smith

#19954

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart. Hannah Whitall Smith

#19955

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. Hannah Whitall Smith

#19956

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, a Hannah Whitall Smith

#19957

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talk Hannah Whitall Smith

#19958

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon. Kevin Smith

#19959

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. Liz Smith

#19960

Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith

#19961

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into t Lillian Smith

#19962

To believe in something to yet prove and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open. Lillian Smith

#19963

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and suppress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are a L. Neil Smith

#19964

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. Russell Smith

#19965

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future. Roger Smith

#19966

Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all Robert Smith

#19967

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. Margaret Chase Smith

#19968

When in doubt, do the courageous thing. Jan Smuts

#19969

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. Tobias G. Smollett

#19970

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. Carrie P. Snow

#19971

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there. Will Smith

#19972

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. Tommy Smothers

#19973

Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you Tommy Smothers

#19974

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

#19975

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is the Raymond Smullyan

#19976

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, Raymond Smullyan

#19977

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with Roscoe Snowden

#19978

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself Joseph Sobran

#19979

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. Joseph Sobran

#19980

There is one universal gesture that has one universal message--a smile Valerie Sokolosky

#19981

Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master uncut Antigonus of Sokho

#19982

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

#19983

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

#19984

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them t Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

#19985

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

#19986

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

#19987

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

#19988

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

#19989

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love. King Soloman

#19990

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder. Susan Sontag

#19991

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to Susan Sontag

#19992

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all Susan Sontag

#19993

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag

#19994

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. Susan Sontag

#19995

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive a Robert Merton Solow

#19996

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achieve Charles Sorenson

#19997

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. Julia Sorel

#19998

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey

#19999

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Robert Southey

#20000

If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey

#20001

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live not where I love, but where I am, I die. Robert Southey

#20002

You can tell the ideas of a nation by its advertisements. Douglas South

