 
"The Best Ten Thousand Quotes"
part 3

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 3.

This third book contains yet another ten thousand quotes from both famous and ordinary people covering a wide variety of things. And as in part 1 & 2, 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

20001 - 21000 Quotes by: Yogi Berra, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jean Giraudoux and many others

21001 - 22000 Quotes by: Ben Franklin, Aristotle Onassis, Albert Schweitzer and many others

22001 - 23000 Quotes by: Casey Stengel, Henry David Thoreau, Dave Barry and many others

23001 - 24000 Quotes by: Conan Doyle, William Congreve, Marcel Marceau and many others

24001 - 25000 Quotes by: Peter Drucker, Rene Descartes, Peter Lynch and many others

25001 - 26000 Quotes by: G. K. Chesterton, George Burns, Robert Frost and many others

26001 - 27000 Quotes by: George Washington, T. S. Eliot, Carl Sagan and many others

27001 - 28000 Quotes by: Joan Baez, James Arthur Baldwin, Lucille Ball and many others

28001 - 29000 Quotes by: Alexander Graham Bell, Erma Bombeck and many others

29001 - 30000 Quotes by: Charles De Gaulle, Marquis de Sade, John Denver and many others

#20001

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, what Pierre Charron

#20002

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken

#20003

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. Don Herold

#20004

There is nobody as irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold

#20005

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. Scott Reed

#20006

I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea. I've run this poem threw it, I'm s Janet Minor

#20007

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. La Bruyere

#20008

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us. La Bruyere

#20009

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way La Bruyere

#20010

That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hand La Bruyere

#20011

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 La Bruyere

#20012

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. La Bruyere

#20013This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. La Bruyere

#20014

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. La Bruyere

#20015

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. La Bruyere

#20016

Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. Yogi Berra

#20017

It's deja vu all over again Yogi Berra

#20018

Half this game is 90 mental. Yogi Berra

#20019

It ain't over 'till it's over. Yogi Berra

#20020

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra

#20021

The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi Berra

#20022

You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra

#20023

This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra

#20024

I didn't really say everything I said. Yogi Berra

#20025

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra

#20026

If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. Yogi Berra

#20027

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical. Yogi Berra

#20028

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. Yogi Berra

#20029

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz

#20030

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz

#20031

'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. Octavio Paz

#20032

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone—m Richard Nelson Bolles

#20033

Up men to your posts don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. Gen. George Pickett

#20034

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry

#20035

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world. Wendell Berry

#20036

To change and to change for the better are two different things. German proverb

#20037

Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher. German proverb

#20038

No answer is also an answer. German proverb

#20039

It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain. German proverb

#20040

Who begins too much accomplishes little. German proverb

#20041

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. German proverb

#20042

One does evil enough when one does nothing good. German proverb

#20043

Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.) German proverb

#20044

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs. German proverb

#20045

Never give advice unless asked. German proverb

#20046

Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence. German proverb

#20047

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. German proverb

#20048

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit. German proverb

#20049

When the fox preaches, look to the geese. German proverb

#20050

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people. German proverb

#20051

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart. German proverb

#20052

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. German proverb

#20053

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them. German proverb

#20054

Old birds are hard to pluck. German proverb

#20055

Whose bread I eat his song I sing. German proverb

#20056

Charity sees the need not the cause. German proverb

#20057

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Sir Theodore Martin

#20058

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. Richard Kemph

#20059

I am become Death, the destroyer of world .N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. J. Robert Oppenheimer

#20060

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. J. Robert Oppenheimer

#20061

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. Tommy Bolt

#20062

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few month Kathleen Norris

#20063

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. Kathleen Norris

#20064

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see t Kathleen Norris

#20065

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. Kathleen Norris

#20066

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. Kathleen Norris

#20067

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. Kathleen Norris

#20068

Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat. Don't let the bastards grind you down. Gen. Joseph Stilwell

#20069

Don't let the bastards grind you down. Gen. Joseph Stilwell

#20070

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. Montesquieu

#20071

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. Edward W. Howe

#20072

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. Edward W. Howe

#20073

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. Christine Lavin

#20074

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

#20075

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher

#20076

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher

#20077

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher

#20078

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. Henry Ward Beecher

#20079

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins. Henry Ward Beecher

#20080

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. Henry Ward Beecher

#20081

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher

#20082

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. Henry Ward Beecher

#20083

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. Henry Ward Beecher

#20084

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher

#20085

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher

#20086

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a sta Henry Ward Beecher

#20087

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate Henry Ward Beecher

#20088

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher

#20089

Repentance is another name for aspiration. Henry Ward Beecher

#20090

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Henry Ward Beecher

#20091

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. Henry Ward Beecher

#20092

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher

#20093

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. Henry Ward Beecher

#20094

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher

#20095

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. Henry Ward Beecher

#20096

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. Henry Ward Beecher

#20097

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher

#20098

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. Henry Ward Beecher

#20099

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. Henry Ward Beecher

#20100

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. Henry Ward Beecher

#20101

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Henry Ward Beecher

#20102

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher

#20103

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. Henry Ward Beecher

#20104

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for Henry Ward Beecher

#20105

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door. Henry Ward Beecher

#20106

Where is human nature as weak as in the bookstore Henry Ward Beecher

#20107

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Henry Ward Beecher

#20108

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but. Henry Ward Beecher

#20109

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. Dante Alighieri

#20110

Through me you pass into the city of woe through me you pass into eternal pain through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the Dante Alighieri

#20111

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act Dante Alighieri

#20112

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. Dante Alighieri

#20113

All hope abandon, ye who enter here Dante Alighieri

#20114

A great flame follows a little spark. Dante Alighieri

#20115

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri

#20116

The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita. Dante Alighieri

#20117

He listens well who takes notes. Dante Alighieri

#20118

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. Dante Alighieri

#20119

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri

#20120

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. Dante Alighieri

#20121

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straightway was lost. Dante Alighieri

#20122

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. Dante Alighieri

#20123

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. John Barrymore

#20124

Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open. John Barrymore

#20125

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

#20126

Die I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Barrymore

#20127

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. John Barrymore

#20128

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux

#20129

A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as p Jean Giraudoux

#20130

Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux

#20131

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Jean Giraudoux

#20132

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. Fats Domino

#20133

Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. William Gibson

#20134

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. William Gibson

#20135

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. William Gibson

#20136

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Rubin

#20137

As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Maurice Wilkes

#20138

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and Geoffrey Cottrell

#20139

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which Napoleon Hill

#20140

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill

#20141

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. Cynthia Nelms

#20142

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20143

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20144

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20145

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20146

When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20147

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20148

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20149

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#20150

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson

#20151

Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselves And immortality. Emily Dickinson

#20152

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. Emily Dickinson

#20153

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson

#20154

My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson

#20155

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

#20156

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson

#20157

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

#20158

I dwell in possibility... Emily Dickinson

#20159

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- Emily Dickinson

#20160

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. Emily Dickinson

#20161

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson

#20162

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt Kahlil Gibran

#20163

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only Kahlil Gibran

#20164

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy after Kahlil Gibran

#20165

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers. Kahlil Gibran

#20166

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Kahlil Gibran

#20167

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. Kahlil Gibran

#20168

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Kahlil Gibran

#20169

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. Kahlil Gibran

#20170

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Kahlil Gibran

#20171

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds. Kahlil Gibran

#20172

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Kahlil Gibran

#20173

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Kahlil Gibran

#20174

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for the Kahlil Gibran

#20175

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Kahlil Gibran

#20176

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Kahlil Gibran

#20177

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing Kahlil Gibran

#20178

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. Kahlil Gibran

#20179

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and I Kahlil Gibran

#20180

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. Kahlil Gibran

#20181

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. Kahlil Gibran

#20182

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Kahlil Gibran

#20183

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighbor Kahlil Gibran

#20184

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran

#20185

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters Kahlil Gibran

#20186

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know myself, to know it completely, to know I Kahlil Gibran

#20187

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Kahlil Gibran

#20188

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck b Kahlil Gibran

#20189

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahlil Gibran

#20190

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. Kahlil Gibran

#20191

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with Kahlil Gibran

#20192

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am un grate Kahlil Gibran

#20193

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work Kahlil Gibran

#20194

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt Kahlil Gibran

#20195

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. Kahlil Gibran

#20196

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Kahlil Gibran

#20197

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Kahlil Gibran

#20198

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you Kahlil Gibran

#20199

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cher Kahlil Gibran

#20200

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Kahlil Gibran

#20201

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. Kahlil Gibran

#20202

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. Kahlil Gibran

#20203

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge Kahlil Gibran

#20204

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still Kahlil Gibran

#20205

Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before Kahlil Gibran

#20206

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. Kahlil Gibran

#20207

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Kahlil Gibran

#20208

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Kahlil Gibran

#20209

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran

#20210

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

#20211

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream Kahlil Gibran

#20212

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Kahlil Gibran

#20213

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your de Kahlil Gibran

#20214

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. Kahlil Gibran

#20215

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its head Kahlil Gibran

#20216

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and Kahlil Gibran

#20217

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. Kahlil Gibran

#20218

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affin Kahlil Gibran

#20219

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun. Kahlil Gibran

#20220

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Kahlil Gibran

#20221

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Kahlil Gibran

#20222

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

#20223

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with Kahlil Gibran

#20224

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song. Kahlil Gibran

#20225

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake Kahlil Gibran

#20226

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Kahlil Gibran

#20227

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Kahlil Gibran

#20228

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Kahlil Gibran

#20229

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran

#20230

To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction, is to live twice. Kahlil Gibran

#20231

My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a clot Kahlil Gibran

#20232

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Kahlil Gibran

#20233

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran

#20234

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. Kahlil Gibran

#20235

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. Kahlil Gibran

#20236

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies Kahlil Gibran

#20237

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran

#20238

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you. Kahlil Gibran

#20239

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Kahlil Gibran

#20240

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. Kahlil Gibran

#20241

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow. Kahlil Gibran

#20242

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran

#20243

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done. Kahlil Gibran

#20244

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. Kahlil Gibran

#20245

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain Kahlil Gibran

#20246

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. Kahlil Gibran

#20247

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. Kahlil Gibran

#20248

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

#20249

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. Kahlil Gibran

#20250

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. Kahlil Gibran

#20251

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. Kahlil Gibran

#20252

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges Kahlil Gibran

#20253

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran

#20254

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. Kahlil Gibran

#20255

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. Kahlil Gibran

#20256

To be closer to God, be closer to people. Kahlil Gibran

#20257

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is with Kahlil Gibran

#20258

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, t Kahlil Gibran

#20259

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would Kahlil Gibran

#20260

Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Kahlil Gibran

#20261

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life. Kahlil Gibran

#20262

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sw Kahlil Gibran

#20263

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion. Kahlil Gibran

#20264

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation. Kahlil Gibran

#20265

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. Kahlil Gibran

#20266

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. Kahlil Gibran

#20267

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live acc Kahlil Gibran

#20268

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil Gibran

#20269

Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent. Kahlil Gibran

#20270

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. Kahlil Gibran

#20271

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. Kahlil Gibran

#20272

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. Kahlil Gibran

#20273

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams. Kahlil Gibran

#20274

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. Kahlil Gibran

#20275

In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other Kahlil Gibran

#20276

Say no, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Kahlil Gibran

#20277

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. Kahlil Gibran

#20278

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. Kahlil Gibran

#20279

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. Kahlil Gibran

#20280

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. G. W. F. Hegel

#20281

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. Sir Arthur Eddington

#20282

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from Sir Arthur Eddington

#20283

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom Sir Arthur Eddington

#20284

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Sir Arthur Eddington

#20285

Something unknown is doing we don't know what. Sir Arthur Eddington

#20286

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account Sir Arthur Eddington

#20287

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. Sir Arthur Eddington

#20288

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal m Sir Arthur Eddington

#20289

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. Sir Arthur Eddington

#20290

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the Supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every Sir Arthur Eddington

#20291

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington

#20292

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. Sir Arthur Eddington

#20293

Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And T Keven Kwaku

#20294

Everything that can be invented, has been invented. Charles H. Duell

#20295

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. George Orwell

#20296

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. George Orwell

#20297

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels him George Orwell

#20298

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are George Orwell

#20299

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by George Orwell

#20300

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. George Orwell

#20301

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable o George Orwell

#20302

...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them a George Orwell

#20303

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell

#20304

It is a commonplace that the history of civilization is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the George Orwell

#20305

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. George Orwell

#20306

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

#20307

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell

#20308

Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness. George Orwell

#20309

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell

#20310

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell

#20311

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell

#20312

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell

#20313

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after George Orwell

#20314

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. Jacob Getlar Smith

#20315

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, bap Finley Peter Dunne

#20316

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. Finley Peter Dunne

#20317

Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has fur Finley Peter Dunne

#20318

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Herman Melville

#20319

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a Herman Melville

#20320

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threat Herman Melville

#20321

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

#20322

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. Herman Melville

#20323

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Herman Melville

#20324

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the Herman Melville

#20325

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. Norman Mailer

#20326

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer

#20327

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a Norman Mailer

#20328

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we Norman Mailer

#20329

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. Norman Mailer

#20330

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. Norman Mailer

#20331

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you c Norman Mailer

#20332

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 Ethel Barrymore

#20333

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the m Ethel Barrymore

#20334

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore

#20335

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. Dan Cook

#20336

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli

#20337

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli

#20338

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

#20339

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. Benjamin Disraeli

#20340

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli

#20341

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous on Benjamin Disraeli

#20342

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Disraeli

#20343

Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli

#20344

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli

#20345

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe. Benjamin Disraeli

#20346

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims Benjamin Disraeli

#20347

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offer Benjamin Disraeli

#20348

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. Benjamin Disraeli

#20349

Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.' Benjamin Disraeli

#20350

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli

#20351

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli

#20352

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. Benjamin Disraeli

#20353

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli

#20354

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way Benjamin Disraeli

#20355

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

#20356

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader Benjamin Disraeli

#20357

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli

#20358

Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseen Benjamin Disraeli

#20359

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

#20360

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think... Benjamin Disraeli

#20361

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Disraeli

#20362

There are three kinds of lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli

#20363

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli

#20364

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Benjamin Disraeli

#20365

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli

#20366

Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli

#20367

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli

#20368

Fear makes us feel our humanity. Benjamin Disraeli

#20369

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars a Benjamin Disraeli

#20370

Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli

#20371

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

#20372

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli

#20373

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. Benjamin Disraeli

#20374

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli

#20375

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli

#20376

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli

#20377

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being Benjamin Disraeli

#20378

What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli

#20379

It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. Benjamin Disraeli

#20380

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli

#20381

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli

#20382

Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli

#20383

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli

#20384

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. Benjamin Disraeli

#20385

I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all spring Benjamin Disraeli

#20386

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli

#20387

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political p Benjamin Disraeli

#20388

A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli

#20389

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Benjamin Disraeli

#20390

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate Benjamin Disraeli

#20391

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli

#20392

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. Benjamin Disraeli

#20393

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli

#20394

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli

#20395

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. Benjamin Disraeli

#20396

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies Benjamin Disraeli

#20397

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli

#20398

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli

#20399

When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli

#20400

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

#20401

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we a Benjamin Disraeli

#20402

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli

#20403

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 pr Benjamin Disraeli

#20404

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, John Donne

#20405

No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne

#20406

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name. John Donne

#20407

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. John Donne

#20408

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne

#20409

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne

#20410

No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the John Donne

#20411

Love all love of other sights controls, and makes one little room an everywhere. John Donne

#20412

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and John Donne

#20413

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dread full, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinks, thou John Donne

#20414

Pink All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself. Dazed and Confused

#20415

Wooderson The older you get the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin man. L-I-V- Dazed and Confused

#20416

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, sh Dazed and Confused

#20417

Slater Didja ever look at a dollar bill man there's some spooky shit going' on there. And it's green too. Dazed and Confused

#20418

Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Dazed and Confused

#20419

Wooderson that's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age. Dazed and Confused

#20420

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements ab Harry S Truman

#20421

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get the Harry S Truman

#20422

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours. Harry S Truman

#20423

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. Harry S Truman

#20424

Study men, not historians. Harry S Truman

#20425

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. Harry S Truman

#20426

It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't k Harry S Truman

#20427

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. Harry S Truman

#20428

How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt Harry S Truman

#20429

Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . . He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking ou Harry S Truman

#20430

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That Harry S Truman

#20431

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry S Truman

#20432

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman

#20433

The White House is the finest prison in the world. Harry S Truman

#20434

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. Harry S Truman

#20435

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of the Harry S Truman

#20436

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S Truman

#20437

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S Truman

#20438

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his dammed Harry S Truman

#20439

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman

#20440

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

#20441

The only new thing is history we don't know. Harry S Truman

#20442

The absence of war is not peace. Harry S Truman

#20443

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. Harry S Truman

#20444

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. Harry S Truman

#20445

When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all American Harry S Truman

#20446

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that t Harry S Truman

#20447

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created f Harry S Truman

#20448

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is u Harry S Truman

#20449

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S Truman

#20450

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually Harry S Truman

#20451

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've d Harry S Truman

#20452

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. Harry S Truman

#20453

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down Harry S Truman

#20454

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. Harry S Truman

#20455

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his dammed Harry S Truman

#20456

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. Harry S Truman

#20457

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survive Andrew Carnegie

#20458

The man who dies rich dies disgraced. Andrew Carnegie

#20459

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie

#20460

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. Andrew Carnegie

#20461

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Andrew Carnegie

#20462

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie

#20463

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indi Andrew Carnegie

#20464

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Andrew Carnegie

#20465

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deem That my days have been Edgar Allan Poe

#20466

I have great faith in fools -- self-confidence my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe

#20467

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe

#20468

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, Edgar Allan Poe

#20469

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe

#20470

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

#20471

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a Edgar Allan Poe

#20472

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity Edgar Allan Poe

#20473

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe

#20474

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. Edgar Allan Poe

#20475

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. William Strong

#20476

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. Og Mandino

#20477

Do all things with love. Og Mandino

#20478

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

#20479

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In Og Mandino

#20480

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world o Og Mandino

#20481

The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. Og Mandino

#20482

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and un Og Mandino

#20483

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will Og Mandino

#20484

Frost When was the last time you stopped to appreciate a good sunset- oh yeah that's right. You were born a vampire. Blade

#20485

Blade You better wake up. The world you live in is nothing but a sugarcoated topping There is another world beneath it. And if y Blade

#20486

Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct Blade

#20487

Dr. Karen Jenson Vampires like you aren't a species, you're just infected, a virus, a sexually transmitted disease. Frost I'll t Blade

#20488

Blade He makes the weapons, I use them. Blade

#20489

Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me. Blade

#20490

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

#20491

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Sir Arthur Helps

#20492

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of Sir Arthur Helps

#20493

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Sir Arthur Helps

#20494

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you. Seve Ballesteros

#20495

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor

#20496

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. Walter Savage Landor

#20497

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor

#20498

Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. Walter Savage Landor

#20499

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and Walter Savage Landor

#20500

We talk on principle, but we act on interest. Walter Savage Landor

#20501

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor

#20502

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. John Erksine

#20503

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Muhammad Ali

#20504

The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali

#20505

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. Muhammad Ali

#20506

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They ha Muhammad Ali

#20507

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance und Muhammad Ali

#20508

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. Muhammad Ali

#20509

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the Muhammad Ali

#20510

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 Muhammad Ali

#20511

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. Muhammad Ali

#20512

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali

#20513

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali

#20514

Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.) Muhammad Ali

#20515

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. Muhammad Ali

#20516

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. Muhammad Ali

#20517

My toughest fight was with my first wife. Muhammad Ali

#20518

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela

#20519

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

#20520

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela

#20521

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela

#20522

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela

#20523

I have not yet begun to fight John Paul Jones

#20524

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame Hal Borland

#20525

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these Hal Borland

#20526

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and Hal Borland

#20527

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. Hal Borland

#20528

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. Hal Borland

#20529

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. Robert Burton

#20530

Penny wise, pound foolish. Robert Burton

#20531

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incest Robert Burton

#20532

A good conscience is a continual feast. Robert Burton

#20533

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. Robert Burton

#20534

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. Robert Burton

#20535

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thou Golda Meir

#20536

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. Golda Meir

#20537

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. Golda Meir

#20538

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. Golda Meir

#20539

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew I Golda Meir

#20540

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. Golda Meir

#20541

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this Golda Meir

#20542

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in coo Golda Meir

#20543

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war. Golda Meir

#20544

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. Golda Meir

#20545

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the Golda Meir

#20546

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do ... Those who Golda Meir

#20547

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals. Golda Meir

#20548

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that w Golda Meir

#20549

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative. Golda Meir

#20550

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir

#20551

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir

#20552

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Golda Meir

#20553

Don't be so humble - you are not that great. Golda Meir

#20554

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. Golda Meir

#20555

The shades of night were falling fast, As though an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the s Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20556

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20557

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20558

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20559

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20560

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart the secret anniversaries of the heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20561

Talk not of wasted affection never was wasted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20562

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20563

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20564

Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returns, Was not spoken of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20565

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20566

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20567

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20568

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20569

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20570

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20571

The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20572

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20573

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. I Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20574

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors amid these earthly damps what seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's d Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20575

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20576

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20577

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20578

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20579

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20580

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20581

All things must change to something new, to something strange. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20582

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20583

Learn to labour and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20584

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20585

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20586

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, if it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning back to the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20587

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20588

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20589

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20590

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20591

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. Vincent McNabb

#20592

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. Vincent McNabb

#20593

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the fragrance of goodness. Vincent McNabb

#20594

Nothing recedes like success. Walter Winchell

#20595

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell

#20596

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. Walter Winchell

#20597

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. Walter Winchell

#20598

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir

#20599

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir

#20600

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir

#20601

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will b John Muir

#20602

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash you John Muir

#20603

All progress occurs because people dare to be different. Harry Millner

#20604

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view. Harry Millner

#20605

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce

#20606

f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng. Anon.

#20607

Optimization hinders evolution. Anon.

#20608

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. Anon.

#20609

If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works Anon.

#20610

Power (n) the only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. Anon.

#20611

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME. Anon.

#20612

Don't steal. The government hates competition. Anon.

#20613

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages. Anon.

#20614

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. Anon.

#20615

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. Anon.

#20616

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company Anon.

#20617

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Anon.

#20618

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though. Anon.

#20619

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. Anon.

#20620

I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself. Anon.

#20621

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything. Anon.

#20622

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Anon.

#20623

COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key. Anon.

#20624

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. Anon.

#20625

Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted. Anon.

#20626

That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown Anon.

#20627

The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out... Anon.

#20628

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Anon.

#20629

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. Anon.

#20630

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye. Anon.

#20631

Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying. Anon.

#20632

If a train station is where the train stops, what's a workstation... Anon.

#20633

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. Anon.

#20634

Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well. Anon.

#20635

There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works. Anon.

#20636

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. Anon.

#20637

Necessity is the mother of invention. Anon.

#20638

Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. Anon.

#20639

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. Anon.

#20640

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk Anon.

#20641

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. Anon.

#20642

Original Poems for Infant Minds My Mother Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to ma Anon.

#20643

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. Anon.

#20644

Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address. Anon.

#20645

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beat Anon.

#20646

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe. Anon.

#20647

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. Anon.

#20648

WARNING Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue. Anon.

#20649

Winners never quit and quitters never win. Anon.

#20650

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Anon.

#20651

Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can. Anon.

#20652

Good, better, best never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best. Anon.

#20653

Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one (YN) Anon.

#20654

Sped up my XT ran it on 220v Works great Anon.

#20655

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and Anon.

#20656

Intel has announced its next chip the Repentium. Anon.

#20657

We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their image Anon.

#20658

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand. Anon.

#20659

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. Anon.

#20660

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman. Anon.

#20661

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. Anon.

#20662

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. Anon.

#20663

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. Anon.

#20664

Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. Anon.

#20665

No one is listening until you make a mistake. Anon.

#20666

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it. Anon.

#20667

Hanlon's Razor Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Anon.

#20668

Great minds think alike. Anon.

#20669

Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. Anon.

#20670

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. Anon.

#20671

Smash forehead on keyboard to continue. Anon.

#20672

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. Anon.

#20673

Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota. Anon.

#20674

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. Anon.

#20675

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector. Anon.

#20676

What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator. Anon.

#20677

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. Anon.

#20678

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. Anon.

#20679

Hit any user to continue. Anon.

#20680

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. Anon.

#20681

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers Anon.

#20682

Old hackers never die. They just go to Bitnet. Anon.

#20683

LSD melts your mind, not in your hand. Anon.

#20684

Silence is one great art of conversation. Anon.

#20685

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. Anon.

#20686

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. Anon.

#20687

Why doesn't DOS ever say 'EXCELLENT command or filename' Anon.

#20688

CDOS CDOSRUN RUNDOSRUN Anon.

#20689

Want to make your computer go really fast throw it out a window. Anon.

#20690

General Failure's Fault. Not Yours. Anon.

#20691

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Anon.

#20692

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. Anon.

#20693

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. Anon.

#20694

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. Anon.

#20695

Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS... Anon.

#20696

Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green Anon.

#20697

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled Anon.

#20698

Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue... Anon.

#20699

Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE Anon.

#20700

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. Anon.

#20701

The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk the Anon.

#20702

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. Anon.

#20703

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever. Anon.

#20704

Let Love me faithfully See how I am faithful with all my heart and all my soul I am with you though I am far away. Anon.

#20705

Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. Anon.

#20706

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. Anon.

#20707

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Anon.

#20708

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

#20709

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other. Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

#20710

L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.) Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

#20711

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. Medgar Evers

#20712

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman

#20713

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson

#20714

N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see. Shaquille O'Neal

#20715

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. Shaquille O'Neal

#20716

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches Libertarianism by bankruptcy. Nick Nuessle

#20717

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause Stephen King

#20718

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality. Stephen King

#20719

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said Stephen King

#20720

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Stephen King

#20721

You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. Stephen King

#20722

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. C. G. Jung

#20723

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender t C. G. Jung

#20724

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not William Blake

#20725

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

#20726

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that d William Blake

#20727

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake

#20728

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. William Blake

#20729

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake

#20730

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. William Blake

#20731

I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake

#20732

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he can't Perceive And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe. William Blake

#20733

When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. William Blake

#20734

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one William Blake

#20735

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake

#20736

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake

#20737

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. William Blake

#20738

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake

#20739

What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake

#20740

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. William Blake

#20741

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake

#20742

Love seek not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's d William Blake

#20743

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake. William Blake

#20744

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake

#20745

The weak in courage is strong in cunning. William Blake

#20746

To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake

#20747

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. William Blake

#20748

And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury. William Blake

#20749

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

#20750

To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour William Blake

#20751

My mother groaned, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud. William Blake

#20752

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. William Blake

#20753

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. William Blake

#20754

Energy is eternal delight. William Blake

#20755

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. William Blake

#20756

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity William Blake

#20757

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake

#20758

When thou sees an eagle, thou sees a portion of genius lift up thy head William Blake

#20759

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. Henri Cartier-Bresson

#20760

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mendela

#20761

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. Dorothy Parker

#20762

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. Dorothy Parker

#20763

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the Dorothy Parker

#20764

They sicken of the calm that know the storm. Dorothy Parker

#20765

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker

#20766

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. Dorothy Parker

#20767

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment Dorothy Parker

#20768

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. Dorothy Parker

#20769

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Dorothy Parker

#20770

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. Dorothy Parker

#20771

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not o Dorothy Parker

#20772

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Dorothy Parker

#20773

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker

#20774

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker

#20775

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 Parker

#20776

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. Walter Bagehot

#20777

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot

#20778

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 Walter Bagehot

#20779

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot

#20780

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot

#20781

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot

#20782

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind. Walter Bagehot

#20783

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot

#20784

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. Walter Bagehot

#20785

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. Joseph Conrad

#20786

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad

#20787

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others Joseph Conrad

#20788

How does one kill fear, I wonder how do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, and take it by the spectre Joseph Conrad

#20789

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. Joseph Conrad

#20790

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions. Joseph Conrad

#20791

All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad

#20792

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad

#20793

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. Joseph Conrad

#20794

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality. Joseph Conrad

#20795

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad

#20796

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. Joseph Conrad

#20797

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent Joseph Conrad

#20798

The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. Joseph Conrad

#20799

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad

#20800

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. Joseph Conrad

#20801

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, Nan Fair brother

#20802

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

#20803

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. Will Rogers

#20804

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. Will Rogers

#20805

We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers

#20806

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that Will Rogers

#20807

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. Will Rogers

#20808

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. Will Rogers

#20809

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers

#20810

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act. Will Rogers

#20811

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. Will Rogers

#20812

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can s Will Rogers

#20813

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. Will Rogers

#20814

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. Will Rogers

#20815

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

#20816

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out Will Rogers

#20817

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers

#20818

We have the best Congress money can buy. Will Rogers

#20819

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat Will Rogers

#20820

Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects. Will Rogers

#20821

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers

#20822

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers

#20823

Never let yesterday use up too much of today. Will Rogers

#20824

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Will Rogers

#20825

The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the Pre Will Rogers

#20826

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers

#20827

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money. Will Rogers

#20828

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead. Will Rogers

#20829

If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry. Will Rogers

#20830

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what Will Rogers

#20831

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. Will Rogers

#20832

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't b Will Rogers

#20833

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House Will Rogers

#20834

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers

#20835

Nothing you can't spell will ever work. Will Rogers

#20836

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. Will Rogers

#20837

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. Will Rogers

#20838

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. Will Rogers

#20839

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. Will Rogers

#20840

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. Will Rogers

#20841

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. Will Rogers

#20842

Politics is applesauce. Will Rogers

#20843

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. Will Rogers

#20844

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four ye Will Rogers

#20845

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers

#20846

There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. Will Rogers

#2084

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. Will Rogers

#20848

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that' Will Rogers

#20849

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. Will Rogers

#20850

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers

#20851

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education. Will Rogers

#20852

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Will Rogers

#20853

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails Will Rogers

#20854

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. Will Rogers

#20855

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. Will Rogers

#20856

I bet you if I had met him Trotsky and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I ne Will Rogers

#20857

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers

#20858

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. Will Rogers

#20859

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. Blaine Lee

#20860

The great leaders are like the best conductors \- they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee

#20861

A winner never whines. Paul Brown

#20862

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. Paul Brown

#20863

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

#20864

The more laws, the less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

#20865

Form follows function. Louis Henri Sullivan

#20866

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. Johann von Schiller

#20867

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Henry Kissinger

#20868

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless Henry Kissinger

#20869

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. Henry Kissinger

#20870

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other. Henry Kissinger

#20871

Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted b Henry Kissinger

#20872

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal Henry Kissinger

#20873

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends Henry Kissinger

#20874

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. Henry Kissinger

#20875

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. Henry Kissinger

#20876

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the heart Henry Kissinger

#20877

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Kissinger

#20878

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

#20879

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Kissinger

#20880

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I t Henry Kissinger

#20881

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president Henry Kissinger

#20882

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. Henry Kissinger

#20883

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger

#20884

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry Kissinger

#20885

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of the Henry Kissinger

#20886

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. Henry Kissinger

#20887

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger

#20888

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha

#20889

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha

#20890

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to Buddha

#20891

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha

#20892

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways. Buddha

#20893

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wo Buddha

#20894

He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha

#20895

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha

#20896

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. Buddha

#20897

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha

#20898

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha

#20899

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha

#20900

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself Buddha

#20901

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care Buddha

#20902

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha

#20903

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt I Buddha

#20904

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. Buddha

#20905

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the t Buddha

#20906

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha

#20907

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes. Buddha

#20908

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by Buddha

#20909

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the pr Buddha

#20910

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. Buddha

#20911

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

#20912

To keep the body in good health is a duty . . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha

#20913

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha

#20914

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason Buddha

#20915

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. Buddha

#20916

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like m Buddha

#20917

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life Buddha

#20918

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject Buddha

#20919

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as tho Buddha

#20920

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. Buddha

#20921

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed. Buddha

#20922

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decry Buddha

#20923

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest Buddha

#20924

Everything changes, nothing remains without change. Buddha

#20925

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. Buddha

#20926

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. Buddha

#20927

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articular Thomas Mann

#20928

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. Thomas Mann

#20929

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, Thomas Mann

#20930

We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Thomas Mann

#20931

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 Thomas Mann

#20932

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know why Thomas Mann

#20933

It is love, not reason that is stronger than death. Thomas Mann

#20934

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of Thomas Mann

#20935

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann

#20936

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. Thomas Mann

#20937

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann

#20938

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'Rourke

#20939

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the P. J. O'Rourke

#20940

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. P. J. O'Rourke

#20941

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P. J. O'Rourke

#20942

The preamble to the Constitution states we, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Ju P. J. O'Rourke

#20943

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes P. J. O'Rourke

#20944

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. P. J. O'Rourke

#20945

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. P. J. O'Rourke

#20946

Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. P. J. O'Rourke

#20947

Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a P. J. O'Rourke

#20948

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. P. J. O'Rourke

#20949

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. P. J. O'Rourke

#20950

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. P. J. O'Rourke

#20951

Never fight an inanimate object. P. J. O'Rourke

#20952

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. P. J. O'Rourke

#20953

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. P. J. O'Rourke

#20954

With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created P. J. O'Rourke

#20955

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius

#20956

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius

#20957

The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. W.R. Wallace

#20958

Tommy If I wanted a kiss I'd call your mother. Tommy Boy

#20959

Tommy Richard, who's your favorite little rascal Alfalfa or is it Spanky Tommy Boy

#20960

Tommy Fat guy in a little coat. Tommy Boy

#20961

Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use one and a half Tommy Boy

#20962

Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take Tylenol for any headaches-Midol Tommy Boy

#20963

Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word Tommy Boy

#20964

Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to col Tommy Boy

#20965

Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell you what. If you don't know how to fasten you Tommy Boy

#20966

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismark

#20967

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. Otto von Bismark

#20968

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. Otto von Bismark

#20969

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. Otto von Bismark

#20970

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. Rupert Murdoch

#20971

Magneto you are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different. X2 X-Men United

#20972

Night crawler you know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why X2 X-Men United

#20973

Jean Grey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home... they marry the good guy. X2 X-Men United

#20974

Mrs. Madeline Drake This is all my fault. Pyro Actually they discovered that it's the male who carries the mutant gene and passed X2 X-Men United

#20975

Jean Grey Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant X2 X-Men United

#20976

Pyro You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news - I'm the worst one. X2 X-Men United

#20977

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George a Ben Johnson

#20978

Talking and eloquence are not the same to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Johnson

#20979

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine or leave a kiss but in the cup and I'll not look for wine. Ben Johnson

#20980

Justice delayed is justice denied. William Gladstone

#20981

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purp William Gladstone

#20982

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of pea William Gladstone

#20983

You know...that a blank wall is an appalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy is Edward Steichen

#20984

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser

#20985

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser

#20986

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser

#20987

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. Andr Dubus

#20988

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. John Andrew Holmes

#20989

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent. John Andrew Holmes

#20990

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Andrew Holmes

#20991

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Andrew Holmes

#20992

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. John Andrew Holmes

#20993

Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge John Andrew Holmes

#20994

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes

#20995

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break Louise Suggs

#20996

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol

#20997

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone Paul Gauguin

#20998

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin

#20999

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin

#21000

I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin

#21001

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. Josef Stalin

#21002

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. Josef Stalin

#21003

If you can't return a favor, pass it on. Louise Brown

#21004

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

#21005

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. J. W. Fulbright

#21006

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon

#21007

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. Sir Laurence Olivier

#21008

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. Laurence J. Peter

#21009

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

#21010

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. Laurence J. Peter

#21011

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. Laurence J. Peter

#21012

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Laurence J. Peter

#21013

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out. Laurence J. Peter

#21014

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. Laurence J. Peter

#21015

There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. Laurence J. Peter

#21016

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. Laurence J. Peter

#21017

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Laurence J. Peter

#21018

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter

#21019

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence J. Peter

#21020

You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter

#21021

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Laurence J. Peter

#21022

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter

#21023

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. Laurence J. Peter

#21024

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Laurence J. Peter

#21025

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. Laurence J. Peter

#21026

Every man serves a useful purpose a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. Laurence J. Peter

#21027

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. Laurence J. Peter

#21028

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. Laurence J. Peter

#21029

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter

#21030

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. Laurence J. Peter

#21031

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. Laurence J. Peter

#21032

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk Laurence J. Peter

#21033

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Laurence J. Peter

#21034

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct prod Laurence J. Peter

#21035

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. Laurence J. Peter

#21036

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

#21037

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Laurence J. Peter

#21038

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. Laurence J. Peter

#21039

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer

#21040

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing Hank Aaron

#21041

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron

#21042

Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. Pablo Picasso

#21043

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper Pablo Picasso

#21044

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso

#21045

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Pablo Picasso

#21046

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. Pablo Picasso

#21047

Accidents, try to change them-it impossible. The accidental reveals man. Pablo Picasso

#21048

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

#21049

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. Pablo Picasso

#21050

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso

#21051

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

#21052

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

#21053

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

#21054

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

#21055

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as t Pablo Picasso

#21056

Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. Pablo Picasso

#21057

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility Pablo Picasso

#21058

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso

#21059

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intellect Pablo Picasso

#21060

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso

#21061

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. Pablo Picasso

#21062

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

#21063

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

#21064

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

#21065

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Michel de Montaigne

#21066

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Michel de Montaigne

#21067

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves Michel de Montaigne

#21068

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne

#21069

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. Michel de Montaigne

#21070

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are dis Michel de Montaigne

#21071

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne

#21072

No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately. Michel de Montaigne

#21073

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. Michel de Montaigne

#21074

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Michel de Montaigne

#21075

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne

#21076

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne

#21077

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. Michel de Montaigne

#21078

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the cl Michel de Montaigne

#21079

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. Michel de Montaigne

#21080

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. Michel de Montaigne

#21081

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne

#21082

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White

#21083

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands. Darius Ogden Mills

#21084

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. John McNaughton

#21085

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. Joe E. Louis

#21086

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. Joe E. Louis

#21087

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach

#21088

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

#21089

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. Richard Bach

#21090

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

#21091

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Richard Bach

#21092

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. Richard Bach

#21093

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they k Richard Bach

#21094

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away. Richard Bach

#21095

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world Richard Bach

#21096

You teach best what you most need to learn. Richard Bach

#21097

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Richard Bach

#21098

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime Richard Bach

#21099

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one Richard Bach

#21100

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach

#21101

It's not failure, but low aim is crime. Lowell

#21102

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport. Julius Boros

#21103

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. Jane Fonda

#21104

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. Jane Fonda

#21105

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand. Frederick the Great

#21106

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. Gore Vidal

#21107

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candid Gore Vidal

#21108

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where Gore Vidal

#21109

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery. Gore Vidal

#21110

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal

#21111

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink. Gore Vidal

#21112

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either Gore Vidal

#21113

Never have children, only grandchildren. Gore Vidal

#21114

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. Gore Vidal

#21115

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal

#21116

I'm a born-again atheist. Gore Vidal

#21117

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal

#21118

A good deed never goes unpunished. Gore Vidal

#21119

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. Gore Vidal

#21120

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people Lao Tzu

#21121

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

#21122

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao Tzu

#21123

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao Tzu

#21124

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. Lao Tzu

#21125

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever Lao Tzu

#21126

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. Lao Tzu

#21127

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough. Lao Tzu

#21128

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Lao Tzu

#21129

Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature Lao Tzu

#21130

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu

#21131

He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk. Lao Tzu

#21132

He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao Tzu

#21133

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being for the more you leave it the less Lao Tzu

#21134

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being. Lao Tzu

#21135

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Lao Tzu

#21136

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with reality Lao Tzu

#21137

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others and shame is fear of humiliation at one Lao Tzu

#21138

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty. Lao Tzu

#21139

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of ear Lao Tzu

#21140

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others de Lao Tzu

#21141

The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things. Lao Tzu

#21142

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves hi Lao Tzu

#21143

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at Lao Tzu

#21144

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him. Lao Tzu

#21145

The Way of Heaven does not compete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to Lao Tzu

#21146

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. Lao Tzu

#21147

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. Lao Tzu

#21148

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. Lao Tzu

#21149

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu

#21150

The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that Lao Tzu

#21151

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them the first is deep love, the second is frugality, and the third is not to dare to be Lao Tzu

#21152

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. Lao Tzu

#21153

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. Lao Tzu

#21154

To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed. Lao Tzu

#21155

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. Lao Tzu

#21156

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as Lao Tzu

#21157

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster Lao Tzu

#21158

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. Lao Tzu

#21159

When armies are mobilized and issues are joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win. Lao Tzu

#21160

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in Lao Tzu

#21161

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao Tzu

#21162

To be worn out is to be renewed. Lao Tzu

#21163

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability Lao Tzu

#21164

Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE. Caddy Shack

#21165

Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it. Caddy Shack

#21166

Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all Caddy Shack

#21167

Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. Caddy Shack

#21168

Danny Noonan I haven't even told my father I'm not gonna get that scholarship. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest Caddy Shack

#21169

Al Czervik Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid. Caddy Shack

#21170

Judge Smails It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, Is the Caddy Shack

#21171

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Ben Franklin

#21172

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. Learned Hand

#21173

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. Learned Hand

#21174

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes be Learned Hand

#21175

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, s Pam Brown

#21176

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. Pam Brown

#21177

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no ho Dale Carnegie

#21178

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss Dale Carnegie

#21179

Are you bored with life then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you Dale Carnegie

#21180

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate Dale Carnegie

#21181

Take a chance All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie

#21182

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. Dale Carnegie

#21183

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done Dale Carnegie

#21184

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you Dale Carnegie

#21185

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And Dale Carnegie

#21186

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some ma Dale Carnegie

#21187

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain \- and most fools do. Dale Carnegie

#21188

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other Dale Carnegie

#21189

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie

#21190

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie

#21191

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie

#21192

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, Dale Carnegie

#21193

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21194

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21195

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral John Kenneth Galbraith

#21196

People for privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21197

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21198

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely per John Kenneth Galbraith

#21199

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21200

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21201

Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21202

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21203

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21204

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21205

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21206

In economics, the majority is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21207

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21208

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuade John Kenneth Galbraith

#21209

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21210

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21211

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a John Kenneth Galbraith

#21212

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21213

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21214

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21215

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will John Kenneth Galbraith

#21216

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21217

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21218

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21219

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith

#21220

Without a struggle, there can be no progress. Frederick Douglas

#21221

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. Frederick Douglas

#21222

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Frederick Douglas

#21223

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglas

#21224

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the Frederick Douglas

#21225

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of ea Frederick Douglas

#21226

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglas

#21227

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Frederick Douglas

#21228

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. I Frederick Douglas

#21229

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglas

#21230

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 Frederick Douglas

#21231

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society Frederick Douglas

#21232

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglas

#21233

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are u Eugene Kennedy

#21234

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life t Eugene Kennedy

#21235

You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin

#21236

Time is money. Benjamin Franklin

#21237

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin

#21238

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin

#21239

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin

#21240

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five. Benjamin Franklin

#21241

Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin

#21242

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Benjamin Franklin

#21243

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. Benjamin Franklin

#21244

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. Benjamin Franklin

#21245

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. Benjamin Franklin

#21246

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. Benjamin Franklin

#21247

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. Benjamin Franklin

#21248

Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin

#21249

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. Benjamin Franklin

#21250

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin

#21251

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. Benjamin Franklin

#21252

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin

#21253

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. Benjamin Franklin

#21254

Energy and persistence conquer all thing. Benjamin Franklin

#21255

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. Benjamin Franklin

#21256

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. Benjamin Franklin

#21257

No nation was ever ruined by trade. Benjamin Franklin

#21258

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin

#21259

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. Benjamin Franklin

#21260

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin Franklin

#21261

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. Benjamin Franklin

#21262

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin

#21263

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, bu Benjamin Franklin

#21264

Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin

#21265

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. Benjamin Franklin

#21266

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. Benjamin Franklin

#21267

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin

#21268

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best intend Benjamin Franklin

#21269

Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is th Benjamin Franklin

#21270

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. Benjamin Franklin

#21271

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

#21272

He does not possess wealth it possesses him. Benjamin Franklin

#21273

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at th Benjamin Franklin

#21274

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin

#21275

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

#21276

There never was a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin

#21277

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. Benjamin Franklin

#21278

Dost thou love life then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

#21279

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather. Benjamin Franklin

#21280

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin

#21281

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas. Benjamin Franklin

#21282

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue. Benjamin Franklin

#21283

There is no little enemy. Benjamin Franklin

#21284

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin

#21285

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferior's nobleness. Benjamin Franklin

#21286

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Benjamin Franklin

#21287

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful. Benjamin Franklin

#21288

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. Benjamin Franklin

#21289

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. Benjamin Franklin

#21290

The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin

#21291

Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin

#21292

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. Benjamin Franklin

#21293

Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin

#21294

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. Benjamin Franklin

#21295

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charge Benjamin Franklin

#21296

How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. Benjamin Franklin

#21297

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly. Benjamin Franklin

#21298

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin

#21299

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

#21300

Without justice courage is weak. Benjamin Franklin

#21301

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

#21302

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin

#21303

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

#21304

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade Benjamin Franklin

#21305

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin

#21306

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright a Benjamin Franklin

#21307

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin

#21308

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin

#21309

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. Benjamin Franklin

#21310

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. Benjamin Franklin

#21311

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin

#21312

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin

#21313

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Benjamin Franklin

#21314

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. Benjamin Franklin

#21315

Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody. Benjamin Franklin

#21316

Fish and visitors smell in three days. Benjamin Franklin

#21317

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the gove Benjamin Franklin

#21318

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 Benjamin Franklin

#21319

Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin

#21320

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. Benjamin Franklin

#21321

Wish not so much to live long as to live well. Benjamin Franklin

#21322

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. Walter Kerr

#21323

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. Charles Horton Cooley

#21324

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. Charles Horton Cooley

#21325

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley

#21326

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the vi Charles Horton Cooley

#21327

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley

#21328

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. Charles Horton Cooley

#21329

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes

#21330

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis

#21331

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle Onassis

#21332

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, and don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' Russell Long

#21333

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little Porterfield

#21334

Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking Signs

#21335

Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty Signs

#21336

Tracy I swore 37 times in the last month. I said the 'f-word' a couple of times, but it was mostly 'shits and 'bastards. I'd Signs

#21337

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles or do you Signs

#21338

Graham Swing away Merrill. Merrill... swing away. Signs

#21339

Bo There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water Signs

#21340

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. John Lancaster Spalding

#21341

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more fair John Lancaster Spalding

#21342

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. John Lancaster Spalding

#21343

Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy John Lancaster Spalding

#21344

Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. John Lancaster Spalding

#21345

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

#21346

Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to Plutarch

#21347

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. Plutarch

#21348

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the Plutarch

#21349

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is fault Plutarch

#21350

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch

#21351

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch

#21352

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. Plutarch

#21353

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves Plutarch

#21354

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. Plutarch

#21355

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. Plutarch

#21356

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch

#21357

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. Plutarch

#21358

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch

#21359

To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult. Plutarch

#21360

When the candles are out all women are fair. Plutarch

#21361

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it. Plutarch

#21362

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

#21363

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer. Ernest Holmes

#21364

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats

#21365

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. W John Keats

#21366

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination. John Keats

#21367

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. John Keats

#21368

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats

#21369

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which John Keats

#21370

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul John Keats

#21371

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats

#21372

There is a budding morrow in midnight. John Keats

#21373

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for John Keats

#21374

Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to l John Keats

#21375

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as John Keats

#21376

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as John Keats

#21377

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest though John Keats

#21378

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats

#21379

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. Michael Brian Schiffer

#21380

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole

#21381

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole

#21382

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a Horace Walpole

#21383

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown

#21384

A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or late Les Brown

#21385

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance Les Brown

#21386

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Salvador Dali

#21387

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. Salvador Dali

#21388

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot Salvador Dali

#21389

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. Salvador Dali

#21390

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. Salvador Dali

#21391

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham

#21392

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21393

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21394

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21395

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21396

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do the Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21397

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21398

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21399

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21400

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21401

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21402

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21403

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21404

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21405

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21406

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21407

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 Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21408

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21409

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21410

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21411

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21412

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21413

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21414

A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21415

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21416

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21417

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21418

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21419

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21420

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21421

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21422

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21423

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21424

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21425

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21426

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21427

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21428

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21429

Man has his will - but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21430

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21431

Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21432

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

#21433

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21434

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21435

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21436

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21437

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21438

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21439

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21440

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding di Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21441

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into rel Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21442

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21443

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21444

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21445

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21446

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#21447

Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. Michael Sinz

#21448

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Pascal

#21449

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve Patrick Henry

#21450

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense Patrick Henry

#21451

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what Patrick Henry

#21452

Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense W Patrick Henry

#21453

The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Everyone who is able may have a gun. Patrick Henry

#21454

It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to t Patrick Henry

#21455

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband someday. Franklin P. Jones

#21456

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones

#21457

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in. Franklin P. Jones

#21458

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

#21459

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians. Franklin P. Jones

#21460

Originality is the art of concealing your source. Franklin P. Jones

#21461

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. Franklin P. Jones

#21462

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones

#21463

The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them. Franklin P. Jones

#21464

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

#21465

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. Franklin P. Jones

#21466

Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening. Franklin P. Jones

#21467

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. Franklin P. Jones

#21468

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend as surely as success - yours or his. Franklin P. Jones

#21469

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. Franklin P. Jones

#21470

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying Franklin P. Jones

#21471

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship wh Jacob Chanowski

#21472

The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a c Jacob Chanowski

#21473

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Chanowski

#21474

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. Norman Douglas

#21475

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas

#21476

To find a friend one must close one eye to keep him, two. Norman Douglas

#21477

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. Norman Douglas

#21478

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas

#21479

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has t Henry Watton

#21480

Beth Are there any guys out there who are JUST NORMAL Road Trip

#21481

E.L. Or if, uh, you're too wasted to remember- it is not cheating. Because if you can't really remember it, it never really took Road Trip

#21482

E.L. Well, there are these rules that guys have, an understanding as to what exactly constitutes cheating. Take your situation f Road Trip

#21483

E.L. Think about it Josh, you're in college. The window of opportunity to drink and do drugs and take advantage of young girls I Road Trip

#21484

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer

#21485

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are Albert Schweitzer

#21486

Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing. Albert Schweitzer

#21487

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even Albert Schweitzer

#21488

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. Albert Schweitzer

#21489

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always. Albert Schweitzer

#21490

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good Albert Schweitzer

#21491

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person Albert Schweitzer

#21492

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives Albert Schweitzer

#21493

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. Albert Schweitzer

#21494

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have re Albert Schweitzer

#21495

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. Albert Schweitzer

#21496

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. Albert Schweitzer

#21497

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who h Albert Schweitzer

#21498

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Schweitzer

#21499

The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries. Albert Schweitzer

#21500

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer

#21501

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer

#21502

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. Albert Schweitzer

#21503

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get n Albert Schweitzer

#21504

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer

#21505

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. Cardinal Mermillod

#21506

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus

#21507

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Epicurus

#21508

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus

#21509

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Epicurus

#21510

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. Epicurus

#21511

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus

#21512

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. Epicurus

#21513

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need. Epicurus

#21514

He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others. Epicurus

#21515

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hope Epicurus

#21516

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. Epicurus

#21517

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus

#21518

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. Epicurus

#21519

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Epicurus

#21520

History is a vast early warning system. Norman Cousins

#21521

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. Norman Cousins

#21522

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins

#21523

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins

#21524

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy Norman Cousins

#21525

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . a form Norman Cousins

#21526

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. Norman Cousins

#21527

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history c Norman Cousins

#21528

Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins

#21529

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity. Harold J. Seymore

#21530

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. Lee Trevino

#21531

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body I Alain

#21532

What is a thousand years' Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. Alain

#21533

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the Alain

#21534

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 re Charles Austin Beard

#21535

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles Austin Beard

#21536

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speak any English Do you understand the words that are co Rush Hour

#21537

Carter Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy you can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man. Rush Hour

#21538

Carter this is the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in all the free world. My own mama's ashamed of me. She tells everybody I'm a Rush Hour

#21539

Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like Rush Hour

#21540

Carter this is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, and I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Rush Hour

#21541

Carter My daddy will kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Rush Hour

#21542

Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce

#21543

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce

#21544

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce

#21545

Cogito ergo cogito sum Ambrose Bierce

#21546

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Ambrose Bierce

#21547

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exempt Ambrose Bierce

#21548

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Ambrose Bierce

#21549

Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Bierce

#21550

Calamities are of two kind's misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce

#21551

Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce

#21552

Brain an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce

#21553

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce

#21554

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce

#21555

To be positive to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce

#21556

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. Ambrose Bierce

#21557

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce

#21558

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce

#21559

The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce

#21560

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce

#21561

Painting the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce

#21562

Quotation, in the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce

#21563

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd

#21564

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents Joseph Addison

#21565

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. Joseph Addison

#21566

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and r Joseph Addison

#21567

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

#21568

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Joseph Addison

#21569

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison

#21570

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison

#21571

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Joseph Addison

#21572

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. Joseph Addison

#21573

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. Joseph Addison

#21574

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. Joseph Addison

#21575

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. Joseph Addison

#21576

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Joseph Addison

#21577

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. Joseph Addison

#21578

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give those fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison

#21579

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. T Joseph Addison

#21580

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, Joseph Addison

#21581

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. Joseph Addison

#21582

'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison

#21583

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country Joseph Addison

#21584

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison

#21585

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison

#21586

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few d Joseph Addison

#21587

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the g Joseph Addison

#21588

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very Joseph Addison

#21589

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of charitableness and a Joseph Addison

#21590

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear Joseph Addison

#21591

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. Joseph Addison

#21592

Self-discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Joseph Addison

#21593

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, and caution your elder brother and Joseph Addison

#21594

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. Joseph Addison

#21595

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. Joseph Addison

#21596

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. Joseph Addison

#21597

How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue who would not be that youth what pity is it that we can die but once to serve our Joseph Addison

#21598

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's Joseph Addison

#21599

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. Joseph Addison

#21600

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret d Joseph Addison

#21601

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. Kenneth Chang

#21602

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#21603

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#21604

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beaut Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#21605

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#21606

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, you Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#21607

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#21608

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. Michael Levine

#21609

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard

#21610

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard

#21611

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the Michael Pritchard

#21612

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann

#21613

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

#21614

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann

#21615

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with su Walter Lippmann

#21616

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. Walter Lippmann

#21617

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of Walter Lippmann

#21618

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, and sedu Walter Lippmann

#21619

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is Walter Lippmann

#21620

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children Walter Lippmann

#21621

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be. Jeremy Schwartz

#21622

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. Brad Hull

#21623

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. Larry Wall

#21624

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations' professions, rightly measuring its sin Oscar W. Firkins

#21625

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels incre Oscar W. Firkins

#21626

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. David Harris

#21627

There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the s Robert Lynd

#21628

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting Robert Lynd

#21629

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 Robert Lynd

#21630

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. Max McGee

#21631

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell

#21632

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. James Russell Lowell

#21633

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. James Russell Lowell

#21634

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy a mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy. James Russell Lowell

#21635

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell

#21636

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we James Russell Lowell

#21637

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell

#21638

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell

#21639

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell

#21640

But all God's angels come to us disguised... James Russell Lowell

#21641

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. James Russell Lowell

#21642

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new,-and near the end the milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one James Russell Lowell

#21643

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. Sren Kierkegaard

#21644

Recognition is the greatest motivator. Gerard C. Eakedale

#21645

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really Arnold Schwarzenegger

#21646

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million. Arnold Schwarzenegger

#21647

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an ob William Osler

#21648

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. William Osler

#21649

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. William Osler

#21650

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. William Osler

#21651

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition William Osler

#21652

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler

#21653

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler

#21654

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. William Osler

#21655

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one as completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a launch Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#21656

Truth has beauty, power and necessity. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#21657

To measure the man, measure his heart. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21658

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21659

When you cease to dream you cease to live. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21660

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21661

Diversity the art of thinking independently together. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21662

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21663

Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21664

Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21665

If you never budge, don't expect a push. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21666

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21667

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21668

If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

#21669

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. Claude M. Bristol

#21670

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and the Claude M. Bristol

#21671

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. Claude M. Bristol

#21672

Rough wind, that meanest loud Grief too sad for song Wild wind, when sullen cloud knells all the night long sad storm, whose tears a Percy Bysshe Shelley

#21673

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#21674

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#21675

I love tranquil solitude And such society as is quiet, wise, and good. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#21676

Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#21677

We look before and after, and pine for what is not our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught our sweetest songs are those Percy Bysshe Shelley

#21678

I am the toughest golfer mentally. Tiger Woods

#21679

If you have a lemon, make lemonade. Howard Gossage

#21680

To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus

#21681

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. Publilius Syrus

#21682

Practice is the best of all instructors. Publilius Syrus

#21683

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. Publilius Syrus

#21684

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. Publilius Syrus

#21685

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. Publilius Syrus

#21686

No one knows what he can do till he tries. Publilius Syrus

#21687

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. Publilius Syrus

#21688

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them. Publilius Syrus

#21689

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. Publilius Syrus

#21690

Debt is the slavery of the free. Publilius Syrus

#21691

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus

#21692

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publilius Syrus

#21693

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. Publilius Syrus

#21694

Beware the fury of a patient man. Publilius Syrus

#21695

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. Publilius Syrus

#21696

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. Publilius Syrus

#21697

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. Publilius Syrus

#21698

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. Publilius Syrus

#21699

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. Publilius Syrus

#21700

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. Publilius Syrus

#21701

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. Publilius Syrus

#21702

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. Publilius Syrus

#21703

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. Publilius Syrus

#21704

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. Publilius Syrus

#21705

You should not live one way in private, another in public. Publilius Syrus

#21706

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. Publilius Syrus

#21707

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. Publilius Syrus

#21708

Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus

#21709

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. Publilius Syrus

#21710

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. Publilius Syrus

#21711

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. Publilius Syrus

#21712

To-day is the pupil of yesterday. Publilius Syrus

#21713

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. Publilius Syrus

#21714

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. Publilius Syrus

#21715

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. Publilius Syrus

#21716

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. Publilius Syrus

#21717

A rolling stone gathers no moss. Publilius Syrus

#21718

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. Publilius Syrus

#21719

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. Publilius Syrus

#21720

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. Publilius Syrus

#21721

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. Publilius Syrus

#21722

A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publilius Syrus

#21723

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. Publilius Syrus

#21724

Many receive advice, few profit by it. Publilius Syrus

#21725

It is not every question that deserves an answer. Publilius Syrus

#21726

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus

#21727

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Publilius Syrus

#21728

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. Publilius Syrus

#21729

It is better to learn late than never. Publilius Syrus

#21730

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. Publilius Syrus

#21731

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Publilius Syrus

#21732

It is only the ignorant who despise education. Publilius Syrus

#21733

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. Publilius Syrus

#21734

Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius Syrus

#21735

No man is happy who does not think himself so. Publilius Syrus

#21736

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Publilius Syrus

#21737

No one should be judge in his own case. Publilius Syrus

#21738

Never find your delight in another's misfortune. Publilius Syrus

#21739

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. Publilius Syrus

#21740

Money alone sets all the world in motion. Publilius Syrus

#21741

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. Publilius Syrus

#21742

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. Publilius Syrus

#21743

What is left when honor is lost Publilius Syrus

#21744

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. Publilius Syrus

#21745

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. Publilius Syrus

#21746

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. Publilius Syrus

#21747

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. Publilius Syrus

#21748

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

#21749

There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus

#21750

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. Publilius Syrus

#21751

The end always passes judgment on what has gone before. Publilius Syrus

#21752

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. Publilius Syrus

#21753

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. Publilius Syrus

#21754

Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion. Publilius Syrus

#21755

Hard work spotlights the character of people some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all Sam Ewig

#21756

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. Sam Ewig

#21757

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to co Sam Ewig

#21758

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. Sam Ewig

#21759

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it. Sam Ewig

#21760

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. Sam Ewig

#21761

Do not go gentle into that good night. Dylan Thomas

#21762

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. Dylan Thomas

#21763

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas

#21764

Someone's boring me. I think it's me. Dylan Thomas

#21765

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. Jack Benny

#21766

Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Jack Benny

#21767

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. John Gall

#21768

No one is as generous as he who has nothing to give. French Proverb

#21769

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of o French Proverb

#21770

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. French Proverb

#21771

To understand all is to forgive all. French Proverb

#21772

He who survives will see the outcome. French Proverb

#21773

Life is an onion and one peels it crying. French Proverb

#21774

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. French Proverb

#21775

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. French Proverb

#21776

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. French Proverb

#21777

He is rich who owes nothing. French Proverb

#21778

He that does not ask will never get a bargain. French Proverb

#21779

Everyone thinks his own burden heavy. French Proverb

#21780

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. French Proverb

#21781

Ready money works great cures. French Proverb

#21782

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. French Proverb

#21783

What was hard to endure is sweet to recall. French Proverb

#21784

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. French Proverb

#21785

We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it. French Proverb

#21786

Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day. French Proverb

#21787

Set a thief to catch a thief. French Proverb

#21788

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want. French Proverb

#21789

There is no flying without wings. French Proverb

#21790

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. French Proverb

#21791

A father is a banker provided by nature. French Proverb

#21792

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle. French Proverb

#21793

A white wall is the fool's paper. French Proverb

#21794

Travelers from afar can lie with impunity. French Proverb

#21795

Everything passes, everything wears out, and everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse) French Proverb

#21796

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done thin Henry Drummond

#21797

Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others. Henry Drummond

#21798

Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand. Henry Drummond

#21799

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. Henry Drummond

#21800

To get to heaven we must take it with us. Henry Drummond

#21801

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. Mother Theresa

#21802

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Theresa

#21803

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Theresa

#21804

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Theresa

#21805

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Theresa

#21806

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Mother Theresa

#21807

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. Mother Theresa

#21808

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Mother Theresa

#21809

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Theresa

#21810

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flow Mother Theresa

#21811

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. Mother Theresa

#21812

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. Mother Theresa

#21813

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Theresa

#21814

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Mother Theresa

#21815

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. Mother Theresa

#21816

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. Mother Theresa

#21817

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. S Mother Theresa

#21818

There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. Mother Theresa

#21819

One must really have suffered oneself to help others. Mother Theresa

#21820

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. Mother Theresa

#21821

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Theresa

#21822

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Theresa

#21823

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. Mother Theresa

#21824

Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. B Mother Theresa

#21825

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that Mother Theresa

#21826

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Theresa

#21827

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Theresa

#21828

I see God in every human being. Mother Theresa

#21829

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Theresa

#21830

Life is a promise fulfill it. Mother Theresa

#21831

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Theresa

#21832

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for Mother Theresa

#21833

We are all pencils in the hand of God. Mother Theresa

#21834

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you Mother Theresa

#21835

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first Mother Theresa

#21836

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will Mother Theresa

#21837

God doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try. Mother Theresa

#21838

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for e Mother Theresa

#21839

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Mother Theresa

#21840

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love \- Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Theresa

#21841

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may s Raymond Chandler

#21842

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. Raymond Chandler

#21843

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler

#21844

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Raymond Chandler

#21845

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air Edward R. Murrow

#21846

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from me Edward R. Murrow

#21847

If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated ' Edward R. Murrow

#21848

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. Edward R. Murrow

#21849

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow

#21850

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R. Murrow

#21851

The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting Edward R. Murrow

#21852

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply Edward R. Murrow

#21853

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. Edward R. Murrow

#21854

After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. Edward R. Murrow

#21855

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the Edward R. Murrow

#21856

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already t Edward R. Murrow

#21857

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

#21858

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. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21859

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21860

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21861

To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21862

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usual G. C. Lichtenberg

#21863

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21864

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21865

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21866

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21867

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it G. C. Lichtenberg

#21868

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21869

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usual G. C. Lichtenberg

#21870

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part G. C. Lichtenberg

#21871

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21872

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21873

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. G. C. Lichtenberg

#21874

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. William J. Clinton

#21875

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. William J. Clinton

#21876

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#21877

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#21878

It's always too early to quit. Norman Vincent Peale

#21879

Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to a Norman Vincent Peale

#21880

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level Norman Vincent Peale

#21881

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – a Norman Vincent Peale

#21882

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. Norman Vincent Peale

#21883

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale

#21884

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. Norman Vincent Peale

#21885

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be such Norman Vincent Peale

#21886

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

#21887

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never perm Norman Vincent Peale

#21888

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. William Blackstone

#21889

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. William Blackstone

#21890

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the Muriel Rukeyser

#21891

The universe is made of stories, not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser

#21892

The home is the chief school of human virtues. William Ellery Channing

#21893

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Ellery Channing

#21894

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slig William Ellery Channing

#21895

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which William Ellery Channing

#21896

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. William Ellery Channing

#21897

Error is discipline through which we advance. William Ellery Channing

#21898

To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not res William Ellery Channing

#21899

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. William Ellery Channing

#21900

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not William Ellery Channing

#21901

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing

#21902

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our E. M. Forster

#21903

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

#21904

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster

#21905

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E. M. Forster

#21906

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. E. M. Forster

#21907

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I E. M. Forster

#21908

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. E. M. Forster

#21909

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. Roger Caras

#21910

A fond kiss, and then we sever farewell, and then forever deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I Robert Burns

#21911

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. Robert Burns

#21912

The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And even the rigid feature Yet ne'er Robert Burns

#21913

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. Robert Burns

#21914

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, an' leave us naught but grief an' pain, for promised joy Robert Burns

#21915

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

#21916

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. Robert Burns

#21917

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland

#21918

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland

#21919

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland

#21920

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. Judy Garland

#21921

Practice is everything this is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. Periander

#21922

Freedom is a clear conscience. Periander

#21923

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis

#21924

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas B. Macaulay

#21925

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Thomas B. Macaulay

#21926

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story Thomas B. Macaulay

#21927

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Niccolo Machiavelli

#21928

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli

#21929

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. Niccolo Machiavelli

#21930

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the le Niccolo Machiavelli

#21931

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suf Niccolo Machiavelli

#21932

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability Niccolo Machiavelli

#21933

God creates men, but they choose each other. Niccolo Machiavelli

#21934

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trough Niccolo Machiavelli

#21935

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their Niccolo Machiavelli

#21936

There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a thing Niccolo Machiavelli

#21937

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization an Niccolo Machiavelli

#21938

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest l Niccolo Machiavelli

#21939

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. Niccolo Machiavelli

#21940

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli

#21941

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speak Niccolo Machiavelli

#21942

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Everyone sees what you appear to b Niccolo Machiavelli

#21943

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli

#21944

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. Charlie Parker

#21945

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore' de Balzac

#21946

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honore' de Balzac

#21947

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations it is seen with which Honore' de Balzac

#21948

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. Honore' de Balzac

#21949

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. Honore' de Balzac

#21950

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. Honore' de Balzac

#21951

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not e Honore' de Balzac

#21952

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

#21953

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. Honore' de Balzac

#21954

The more one judges, the less one loves. Honore' de Balzac

#21955

What is art Nature concentrated. Honore' de Balzac

#21956

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. Honore' de Balzac

#21957

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore' de Balzac

#21958

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty Honore' de Balzac

#21959

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. Honore' de Balzac

#21960

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity. Honore' de Balzac

#21961

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor t Honore' de Balzac

#21962

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

#21963

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

#21964

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

#21965

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualize... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees Robert L. Schwartz

#21966

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans

#21967

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Vol S. G. Tallentyre

#21968

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. Igor Stravinsky

#21969

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides

#21970

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought. Euripides

#21971

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that Euripides

#21972

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Euripides

#21973

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Euripides

#21974

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. Euripides

#21975

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. Euripides

#21976

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist Euripides

#21977

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor. Euripides

#21978

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world. Euripides

#21979

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it. Euripides

#21980

Second thoughts are ever wiser. Euripides

#21981

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness. Euripides

#21982

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Euripides

#21983

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Euripides

#21984

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. Euripides

#21985

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them. Euripides

#21986

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Euripides

#21987

Waste not fresh tears over old grief's. Euripides

#21988

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. Euripides

#21989

Account no man happy till he dies. Euripides

#21990

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. Euripides

#21991

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. Euripides

#21992

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still Euripides

#21993

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends. Euripides

#21994

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. Euripides

#21995

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides

#21996

The good and the wise lead quiet lives. Euripides

#21997

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change Euripides

#21998

Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves. Euripides

#21999

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results it is foolish even to desire it. Euripides

#22000

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave. Euripides

#22001

I have found power in the mysteries of thought. Euripides

#22002

Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides

#22003

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. Euripides

#22004

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. Euripides

#22005

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Euripides

#22006

Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides

#22007

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. Euripides

#22008

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful. Euripides

#22009

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. Euripides

#22010

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasoning's of Euripides

#22011

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides

#22012

Time cancels young pain. Euripides

#22013

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides

#22014

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. Euripides

#22015

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. Euripides

#22016

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. Euripides

#22017

Leave no stone unturned. Euripides

#22018

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience. Euripides

#22019

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. Euripides

#22020

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth Fo Euripides

#22021

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. Euripides

#22022

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. Euripides

#22023

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you. Euripides

#22024

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness. Euripides

#22025

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides

#22026

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides

#22027

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. Euripides

#22028

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the great Euripides

#22029

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. Euripides

#22030

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripides

#22031

The wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides

#22032

When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and I Euripides

#22033

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. Euripides

#22034

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God o Arnold J. Toynbee

#22035

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination Arnold J. Toynbee

#22036

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins. Arnold J. Toynbee

#22037

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold J. Toynbee

#22038

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. Arnold J. Toynbee

#22039

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming Arnold J. Toynbee

#22040

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold J. Toynbee

#22041

Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talking 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out the Coming to America

#22042

King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea. Coming to America

#22043

Maurice Oh yeah, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. Then I moved up to washing lettuces. Now, I'm working the f Coming to America

#22044

Tough girl I'm almost single, my husband's on death row. Coming to America

#22045

Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by ki Coming to America

#22046

Rev. Brown If loving' the lord is wrong, I don't want to be right. Coming to America

#22047

Reverend Brown Girl, you look so good, someone ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit. Coming to America

#22048

Cleo McDowell Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. Coming to America

#22049

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap Rick Reilly

#22050

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash

#22051

When you come to a road block, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash

#22052

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. Mary Kay Ash

#22053

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. Mary Kay Ash

#22054

Give yourself something to work toward--constantly. Mary Kay Ash

#22055

People fail forward to success. Mary Kay Ash

#22056

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when Alec Waugh

#22057

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the f Jim Boulton

#22058

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

#22059

For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 2214

#22060

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her invent Leonardo DaVinci

#22061

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo DaVinci

#22062

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return. Leonardo DaVinci

#22063

Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the v Leonardo DaVinci

#22064

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. Leonardo DaVinci

#22065

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is m Leonardo DaVinci

#22066

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday school, but it's true. Leonardo DaVinci

#22067

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo DaVinci

#22068

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. Leonardo DaVinci

#22069

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, Leonardo DaVinci

#22070

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Leonardo DaVinci

#22071

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. Leonardo DaVinci

#22072

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. Leonardo DaVinci

#22073

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo DaVinci

#22074

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality. Leonardo DaVinci

#22075

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. J. B. Yeats

#22076

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. J. B. Yeats

#22077

God is in the details. Mies van der Rohe

#22078

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. Dudley Field Malone

#22079

A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall U. S. Constitution

#22080

The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers

#22081

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have. Joyce Brothers

#22082

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more Joyce Brothers

#22083

Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel

#22084

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest Russell Baker

#22085

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens Russell Baker

#22086

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terry Russell Baker

#22087

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Baker

#22088

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker

#22089

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real Russell Baker

#22090

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks Russell Baker

#22091

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker

#22092

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and t Russell Baker

#22093

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Russell Baker

#22094

Citius, Altius, Fortius Olympic Motto

#22095

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Max De Pree

#22096

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. John Madden

#22097

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames. Casey Stengel

#22098

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it. Casey Stengel

#22099

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. Casey Stengel

#22100

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. Casey Stengel

#22101

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. Casey Stengel

#22102

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them. Casey Stengel

#22103

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel

#22104

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things David Bailey

#22105

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. American Indian Proverb

#22106

I will not criticize another until I have walked a mile in his mocassins. American Indian Proverb

#22107

We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children. American Indian Proverb

#22108

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe American Indian Proverb

#22109

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo American Indian Proverb

#22110

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux American Indian Proverb

#22111

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. American Indian Proverb

#22112

After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni American Indian Proverb

#22113

Man has responsibility, not power. Tuscarora American Indian Proverb

#22114

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. American Indian Proverb

#22115

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass American Indian

Proverb

#22116

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself. American Indian Proverb

#22117

Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce American Indian Proverb

#22118

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. American Indian Proverb

#22119

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge

#22120

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything els Victor Borge

#22121

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose. to keep the junk from getting in the way of Victor Borge

#22122

Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. Victor Borge

#22123

I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. Victor Borge

#22124

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. Victor Borge

#22125

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. Henry David Thoreau

#22126

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau

#22127

Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Henry David Thoreau

#22128

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau

#22129

I have never found a companion that was as companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among Henry David Thoreau

#22130

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along ti Henry David Thoreau

#22131

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau

#22132

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was as companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

#22133

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau

#22134

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 w Henry David Thoreau

#22135

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau

#22136

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The s Henry David Thoreau

#22137

It is not enough to be busy the question is what are we busy about Henry David Thoreau

#22138

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable. Henry David Thoreau

#22139

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the Henry David Thoreau

#22140

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

#22141

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. Henry David Thoreau

#22142

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root. Henry David Thoreau

#22143

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if t Henry David Thoreau

#22144

That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau

#22145

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. Henry David Thoreau

#22146

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau

#22147

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule and e Henry David Thoreau

#22148

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle Henry David Thoreau

#22149

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without Principle Henry David Thoreau

#22150

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Henry David Thoreau

#22151

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. Henry David Thoreau

#22152

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate. Henry David Thoreau

#22153

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau

#22154

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau

#22155

It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau

#22156

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. Henry David Thoreau

#22157

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle Henry David Thoreau

#22158

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau

#22159

To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau

#22160

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little Henry David Thoreau

#22161

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, and find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island oppo Henry David Thoreau

#22162

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such ad Henry David Thoreau

#22163

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under the Henry David Thoreau

#22164

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of Henry David Thoreau

#22165

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. Henry David Thoreau

#22166

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau

#22167

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau

#22168

There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers. Henry David Thoreau

#22169

Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his life. Henry David Thoreau

#22170

Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his company Henry David Thoreau

#22171

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poor Henry David Thoreau

#22172

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated Henry David Thoreau

#22173

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau

#22174

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau

#22175

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. Henry David Thoreau

#22176

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau

#22177

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. Henry David Thoreau

#22178

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like Henry David Thoreau

#22179

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with Henry David Thoreau

#22180

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau

#22181

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man Henry David Thoreau

#22182

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau

#22183

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. Henry David Thoreau

#22184

Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. Henry David Thoreau

#22185

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours. Henry David Thoreau

#22186

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry David Thoreau

#22187

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain Henry David Thoreau

#22188

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language. Henry David Thoreau

#22189

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head. Henry David Thoreau

#22190

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. Henry David Thoreau

#22191

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau

#22192

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau

#22193

Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau

#22194

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Henry David Thoreau

#22195

What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. Henry David Thoreau

#22196

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet w Henry David Thoreau

#22197

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau

#22198

My friend is one... who take me for what I am. Henry David Thoreau

#22199

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe a Henry David Thoreau

#22200

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. Henry David Thoreau

#22201

No one is as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau

#22202

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life we are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch Henry David Thoreau

#22203

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us w Henry David Thoreau

#22204

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be strange Henry David Thoreau

#22205

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way. Henry David Thoreau

#22206

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau

#22207

In wildness is the preservation of the world. \- from Walking Henry David Thoreau

#22208

What is a country without rabbits and partridges they are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and vener Henry David Thoreau

#22209

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice Henry David Thoreau

#22210

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. Henry David Thoreau

#22211

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

#22212

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not lea Henry David Thoreau

#22213

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau

#22214

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau

#22215

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. Henry David Thoreau

#22216

To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life. Henry David Thoreau

#22217

The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. Henry David Thoreau

#22218

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau

#22219

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to Henry David Thoreau

#22220

The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau

#22221

Time is but the 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. I Henry David Thoreau

#22222

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends h Henry David Thoreau

#22223

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some de Henry David Thoreau

#22224

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority Henry David Thoreau

#22225

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. Henry David Thoreau

#22226

I stand in awe of my body. Henry David Thoreau

#22227

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 di Henry David Thoreau

#22228

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau

#22229

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

#22230

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe Henry David Thoreau

#22231

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau

#22232

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth Henry David Thoreau

#22233

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau

#22234

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. Henry David Thoreau

#22235

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world. Henry David Thoreau

#22236

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau

#22237

Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Henry David Thoreau

#22238

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Henry David Thoreau

#22239

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on Henry David Thoreau

#22240

Water is the only drink for a wise man. Henry David Thoreau

#22241

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau

#22242

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not Henry David Thoreau

#22243

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Henry David Thoreau

#22244

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. Henry David Thoreau

#22245

Things do not change we change. Henry David Thoreau

#22246

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. Henry David Thoreau

#22247

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Henry David Thoreau

#22248

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Henry David Thoreau

#22249

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. Henry David Thoreau

#22250

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. Marshall McLuhan

#22251

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan

#22252

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan

#22253

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan

#22254

The medium is the message. Marshall McLuhan

#22255

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan

#22256

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. Madame de Maintenon

#22257

He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain. John Moore

#22258

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Harold MacMillan

#22259

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. Harold MacMillan

#22260

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. Gale Sayers

#22261

'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. Walter Dwight

#22262

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees Emiliano Zapata

#22263

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in Benjamin Spock

#22264

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. Henry Waldorf Francis

#22265

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian

#22266

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. Baltasar Gracian

#22267

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Baltasar Gracian

#22268

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian

#22269

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Baltasar Gracian

#22270

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing. Baltasar Gracian

#22271

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian

#22272

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian

#22273

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed. Baltasar Gracian

#22274

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. Baltasar Gracian

#22275

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Baltasar Gracian

#22276

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Baltasar Gracian

#22277

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. Baltasar Gracian

#22278

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracian

#22279

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more Baltasar Gracian

#22280

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Baltasar Gracian

#22281

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Baltasar Gracian

#22282

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. Baltasar Gracian

#22283

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. Baltasar Gracian

#22284

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall as Baltasar Gracian

#22285

All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that. Baltasar Gracian

#22286

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. Baltasar Gracian

#22287

I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep. Big Daddy Lipscomb

#22288

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Pablo Casals

#22289

The capacity to care is what gives life its deepest significance. Pablo Casals

#22290

You must work--- we must all work to make the world worthy of its children. Pablo Casals

#22291

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad. N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good th Psalms 11996

#22292

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must Frank Crane

#22293

Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. Frank Crane

#22294

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. Frank Crane

#22295

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. Frantz Fanos

#22296

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars Louis Untermeyer

#22297

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry

#22298

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, Dave Barry

#22299

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming Dave Barry

#22300

In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn Dave Barry

#22301

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. Dave Barry

#22302

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you're RIGHT I NEVER would've though Dave Barry

#22303

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life with Dave Barry

#22304

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter Dave Barry

#22305

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign o Dave Barry

#22306

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. Dave Barry

#22307

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted Dave Barry

#22308

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry

#22309

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you Dave Barry

#22310

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form o Dave Barry

#22311

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth Dave Barry

#22312

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing Dave Barry

#22313

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. Dave Barry

#22314

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. William Reece Smith, Jr.

#22315

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as ha Neil Gershenfeld

#22316

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

#22317

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice Henry Van Dyke

#22318

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke

#22319

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke

#22320

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as Henry Van Dyke

#22321

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

#22322

A friend is what the heart needs all the time. Henry Van Dyke

#22323

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold Glasgow

#22324

The future is the past returning through another gate. Arnold Glasgow

#22325

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything. Arnold Glasgow

#22326

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. Arnold Glasgow

#22327

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. Arnold Glasgow

#22328

Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles. Arnold Glasgow

#22329

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. Arnold Glasgow

#22330

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold Glasgow

#22331

Make your life a mission - not an intermission. Arnold Glasgow

#22332

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. Charles Du Bos

#22333

The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles Du Bos

#22334

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. Stendhal

#22335

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal

#22336

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22337

The lusts and greed's of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22338

There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achi Logan Pearsall Smith

#22339

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink al Logan Pearsall Smith

#22340

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22341

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22342

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22343

I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22344

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22345

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know Logan Pearsall Smith

#22346

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22347

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always pu Logan Pearsall Smith

#22348

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22349

An improper mind is a perpetual feast. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22350

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of t Logan Pearsall Smith

#22351

If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22352

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22353

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22354

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their Logan Pearsall Smith

#22355

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22356

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say Logan Pearsall Smith

#22357

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22358

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22359

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true Logan Pearsall Smith

#22360

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22361

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22362

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22363

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. Logan Pearsall Smith

#22364

Wit is the lowest form of humor. Alexander Pope

#22365

To err is human to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope

#22366

In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor ye Alexander Pope

#22367

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of Mankind is Man. Alexander Pope

#22368

Hither the heroes and nymphs resort, to taste awhile the pleasures of a court in various talk the instructive hours they past, Who ga Alexander Pope

#22369

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope

#22370

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope

#22371

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. Alexander Pope

#22372

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return. Alexander Pope

#22373

In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. Alexander Pope

#22374

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it Alexander Pope

#22375

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. Alexander Pope

#22376

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Alexander Pope

#22377

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence doe Alexander Pope

#22378

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope

#22379

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Alexander Pope

#22380

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope

#22381

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. Alexander Pope

#22382

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope

#22383

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope

#22384

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that Alexander Pope

#22385

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB this quote is a paraphrase fr Robert Francis Kennedy

#22386

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

#22387

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. Robert Francis Kennedy

#22388

If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in Robert Francis Kennedy

#22389

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Robert Francis Kennedy

#22390

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends fort Robert Francis Kennedy

#22391

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise ... the bleeding will not Robert Francis Kennedy

#22392

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. Robert Francis Kennedy

#22393

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. Robert Francis Kennedy

#22394

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider th Robert Francis Kennedy

#22395

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

#22396

In crises the most daring course is often safest. Robert Francis Kennedy

#22397

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. Robert Francis Kennedy

#22398

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials Robert Francis Kennedy

#22399

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it ... I thought it would be me. Robert Francis Kennedy

#22400

Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not Robert Francis Kennedy

#22401

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil Robert Francis Kennedy

#22402

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own Ben Stein

#22403

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want. Ben Stein

#22404

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. Ben Stein

#22405

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. Ben Stein

#22406

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid tow Ben Stein

#22407

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeat Ben Stein

#22408

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. Fletcher

#22409

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. Alfred L. Kroeber

#22410

Motherhood all love begins and ends there. Robert Browning

#22411

A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning

#22412

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp \- or what's a heaven for Robert Browning

#22413

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. Robert Browning

#22414

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made our times are in his hand who saith Robert Browning

#22415

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. Robert Browning

#22416

What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. Robert Browning

#22417

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be. Robert Browning

#22418

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning

#22419

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, and worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept Robert Browning

#22420

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph Robert Browning

#22421

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. Robert Browning

#22422

No man is ever old enough to know better. Holbrook Jackson

#22423

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. Holbrook Jackson

#22424

Be contented when you have got all you want. Holbrook Jackson

#22425

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort Erich Fromm

#22426

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm

#22427

We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by c Erich Fromm

#22428

Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm

#22429

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In t Erich Fromm

#22430

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be g Erich Fromm

#22431

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successful Erich Fromm

#22432

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. Erich Fromm

#22433

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Erich Fromm

#22434

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of o Erich Fromm

#22435

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born every day to feel a sense of Erich Fromm

#22436

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Erich Fromm

#22437

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. Erich Fromm

#22438

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fa Erich Fromm

#22439

The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute Erich Fromm

#22440

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm

#22441

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of o Erich Fromm

#22442

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of c Erich Fromm

#22443

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm

#22444

Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time him g Erich Fromm

#22445

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm

#22446

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air Erich Fromm

#22447

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, ratio Erich Fromm

#22448

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their va Erich Fromm

#22449

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Erich Fromm

#22450

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in o Erich Fromm

#22451

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. Erich Fromm

#22452

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. Erich Fromm

#22453

The most beautiful as well as the ugliest inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but res Erich Fromm

#22454

Man's main task is to give birth to himself. Erich Fromm

#22455

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life. Brigham Young

#22456

The best remedy for anger is delay. Brigham Young

#22457

Still seems it strange, that thou should live forever is it less strange, that thou should live at all this is a miracle and Brigham Young

#22458

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. Brigham Young

#22459

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means everybody but me. Langston Hughes, the Black Man Speaks

#22460

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stud Sloan Wilson

#22461

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. Sloan Wilson

#22462

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. Stephen Stills

#22463

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang

#22464

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang

#22465

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone The wisdom of life consists in the e Lin Yutang

#22466

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought. Lin Yutang

#22467

'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. Lin Yutang

#22468

Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either. Gerald Barzan

#22469

A fool and his money are soon parted. Thomas Tusser

#22470

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, for the next trim beau Thomas Tusser

#22471

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. Thomas Tusser

#22472

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another. Jonathan Swift

#22473

May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift

#22474

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift

#22475

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not as much as take warning Jonathan Swift

#22476

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. Jonathan Swift

#22477

May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift

#22478

Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift

#22479

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift

#22480

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Jonathan Swift

#22481

Faith he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter. Jonathan Swift

#22482

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Jonathan Swift

#22483

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Jonathan Swift

#22484

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift

#22485

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift

#22486

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Jonathan Swift

#22487

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift

#22488

I row after health like a waterman... Jonathan Swift

#22489

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid Jonathan Swift

#22490

No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift

#22491

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is bro D. W. Brogan

#22492

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. Elaine A gather

#22493

Attitude is more important than reality. Elaine Agather

#22494

Dr. Emmett Brown Roads Where we're going we don't need roads. Back to the Future

#22495

Dr. Emmett Brown The appropriate question is WHEN the hell are they. Back to the Future

#22496

Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born. Back to the Future

#22497

Biff Tannen So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here Back to the Future

#22498

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. Gilbert K. Chesterton

#22499

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

#22500

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

#22501
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde

#22502

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Oscar Wilde

#22503

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde

#22504

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde

#22505

True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde

#22506

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde

#22507

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde

#22508

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde

#22509

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and have Oscar Wilde

#22510

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde

#22511

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word, the ko Oscar Wilde

#22512

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Oscar Wilde

#22513

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. Oscar Wilde

#22514

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde

#22515

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde

#22516

Biography lends to death a new terror. Oscar Wilde

#22517

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

#22518

Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde

#22519

I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

#22520

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde

#22521

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. Oscar Wilde

#22522

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

#22523

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. Oscar Wilde

#22524

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde

#22525

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. Oscar Wilde

#22526

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. Oscar Wilde

#22527

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde

#22528

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde

#22529

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some Oscar Wilde

#22530

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde

#22531

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. Oscar Wilde

#22532

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Oscar Wilde

#22533

Why was I born with such contemporaries Oscar Wilde

#22534

One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Oscar Wilde

#22535

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

#22536

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde

#22537

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. Oscar Wilde

#22538

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde

#22539

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde

#22540

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde

#22541

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde

#22542

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde

#22543

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde

#22544

I can resist anything but temptation. Oscar Wilde

#22545

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde

#22546

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. Oscar Wilde

#22547

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde

#22548

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde

#22549

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. Oscar Wilde

#22550

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

#22551

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde

#22552

To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness. Oscar Wilde

#22553

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with t Oscar Wilde

#22554

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde

#22555

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

#22556

Only the shallow know themselves. Oscar Wilde

#22557

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. Oscar Wilde

#22558

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde

#22559

But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all Oscar Wilde

#22560

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde

#22561

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never reg Oscar Wilde

#22562

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

#22563

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice Oscar Wilde

#22564

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde

#22565

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde

#22566

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. Oscar Wilde

#22567

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. Oscar Wilde

#22568

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde

#22569

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde

#22570

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confess Oscar Wilde

#22571

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. Oscar Wilde

#22572

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. Oscar Wilde

#22573

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his Oscar Wilde

#22574

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. Oscar Wilde

#22575

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Oscar Wilde

#22576

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

#22577

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it have Oscar Wilde

#22578

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde

#22579

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success Oscar Wilde

#22580

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Oscar Wilde

#22581

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. Oscar Wilde

#22582

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Oscar Wilde

#22583

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. Oscar Wilde

#22584

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. Henry Spencer

#22585

We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5. Henry Spencer

#22586

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. James A. LaFond-Lewis

#22587

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony D'Angelo

#22588

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. Anthony D'Angelo

#22589

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. Anthony D'Angelo

#22590

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. Anthony D'Angelo

#22591

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. Anthony D'Angelo

#22592

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. Anthony D'Angelo

#22593

Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Anthony D'Angelo

#22594

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. Anthony D'Angelo

#22595

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony D'Angelo

#22596

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement. Anthony D'Angelo

#22597

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. Anthony D'Angelo

#22598

If you have a vision, do something with it. Anthony D'Angelo

#22599

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. Anthony D'Angelo

#22600

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. Anthony D'Angelo

#22601

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. Anthony D'Angelo

#22602

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Anthony D'Angelo

#22603

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. Mary O'Hare Dumas

#22604

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in we're computer pr Nathaniel Borenstein

#22605

He conquers who endures. Persius

#22606

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne

#22607

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne

#22608

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. Robert Byrne

#22609

Partying is such sweet sorrow. Robert Byrne

#22610

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. Robert Byrne

#22611

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Robert Byrne

#22612

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. Robert Byrne

#22613

Getting caught is the mother of invention. Robert Byrne

#22614

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert Byrne

#22615

A thief believes everybody steals. E.W. Howe

#22616

We have met the enemy and it is us. Walt Kelly

#22617

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Walt Kelly

#22618

Now is the time for all good men to come to. Walt Kelly

#22619

Austin Powers No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protect Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

#22620

Austin Powers Do I make you horny Randy Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

#22621

Dr. Evil You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with firkin' laser beams attached to their heads Now e Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

#22622

Dr. Evil I demand the sum... OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS. Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

#22623

Dr. Evil the details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improve Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

#22624

Austin Powers yeah, baby, yeah Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

#22625

Surfing on the Internet is like sex everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it' Tom Fasulo

#22626

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy WI William Shakespeare

#22627

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name... William Shakespeare

#22628

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

#22629

This above all to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare

#22630

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive the William Shakespeare

#22631

Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare

#22632

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time William Shakespeare

#22633

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. William Shakespeare

#22634

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight. William Shakespeare

#22635

Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

#22636

To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have William Shakespeare

#22637

No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

#22638

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. William Shakespeare

#22639

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare

#22640

Angels and ministers of grace defend us. Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts William Shakespeare

#22641

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods they kill us for their sport. William Shakespeare

#22642

Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy... William Shakespeare

#22643

He was my friend, faithful, and just to me But Brutus says, he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many William Shakespeare

#22644

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare

#22645

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare

#22646

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where m William Shakespeare

#22647

The quality of mercy is not strained It dropped as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It William Shakespeare

#22648

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow. William Shakespeare

#22649

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. William Shakespeare

#22650

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare

#22651

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on. William Shakespeare

#22652

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare

#22653

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare

#22654

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. William Shakespeare

#22655

Thou should not have been old till thou had been wise. William Shakespeare

#22656

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. William Shakespeare

#22657

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare

#22658

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. William Shakespeare

#22659

What's in a name that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare

#22660

How like a winter hath my absence been from thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year what freezing's have I felt, what dark day's s William Shakespeare

#22661

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'were well It were done quickly. William Shakespeare

#22662

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more it is a tale William Shakespeare

#22663

The Possible slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. William Shakespeare

#22664

The earth has music for those who listen. William Shakespeare

#22665

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. William Shakespeare

#22666

Simply the thing I am shall make me live. William Shakespeare

#22667

How far that little candle throws his beams so shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare

#22668

Jesters do often prove prophets. William Shakespeare

#22669

When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence so sweet is zealous contemplation. William Shakespeare

#22670

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. William Shakespeare

#22671

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

#22672

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something, William Shakespeare

#22673

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. William Shakespeare

#22674

This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare

#22675

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. William Shakespeare

#22676

I wish you all the joy you can wish. William Shakespeare

#22677

What's done can't be undone. William Shakespeare

#22678

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. William Shakespeare

#22679

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare

#22680

The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare

#22681

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. William Shakespeare

#22682

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, William Shakespeare

#22683

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare

#22684

Lord, what fools these mortals be William Shakespeare

#22685

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, we bid be quiet when we hear it cry but were we burdened with like weight of pain, as m William Shakespeare

#22686

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnished and decked in modest com William Shakespeare

#22687

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceited William Shakespeare

#22688

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. William

Shakespeare

#22689

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of William Shakespeare

#22690

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. William Shakespeare

#22691

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. William Shakespeare

#22692

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. William Shakespeare

#22693

And thus I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ and seem a saint, when most I play the devil. William Shakespeare

#22694

I am not bound to please thee with my answers. William Shakespeare

#22695

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty William Shakespeare

#22696

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. William Shakespeare

#22697

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment. William Shakespeare

#22698

His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, and say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN William Shakespeare

#22699

He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike. William Shakespeare

#22700

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceased to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare

#22701

How poor are they who have not patience what wound did ever heal but by degrees. William Shakespeare

#22702

How use doth breed a habit in a man. William Shakespeare

#22703

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself. William Shakespeare

#22704

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumor of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and William Shakespeare

#22705

I pray thee cease thy counsel, which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. William Shakespeare

#22706

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. William Shakespeare

#22707

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare

#22708

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare

#22709

I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare

#22710

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabit William Shakespeare

#22711

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. William Shakespeare

#22712

I must be cruel, only to be kind thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William Shakespeare

#22713

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again. William Shakespeare

#22714

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. William Shakespeare

#22715

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. William Shakespeare

#22716

Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done. William Shakespeare

#22717

In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare

#22718

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. William Shakespeare

#22719

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. William Shakespeare

#22720

Lady you benefit me of all words, only my blood speaks to you in my veins, and there is such confusion in my powers. William Shakespeare

#22721

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end. William Shakespeare

#22722

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. William Shakespeare

#22723

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just a charitable war. William Shakespeare

#22724

The sands are numbered that make up my life. William Shakespeare

#22725

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. William Shakespeare

#22726

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. William Shakespeare

#22727

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him William Shakespeare

#22728

Strong reasons make strong actions. William Shakespeare

#22729

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. William Shakespeare

#22730

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. William Shakespeare

#22731

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that William Shakespeare

#22732

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. William Shakespeare

#22733

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause. William Shakespeare

#22734

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with. William Shakespeare

#22735

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. William Shakespeare

#22736

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute. William Shakespeare

#22737

We are advertised by our loving friends. William Shakespeare

#22738

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores that now lie foul and muddy William Shakespeare

#22739

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind. William Shakespeare

#22740

The soul of this man is in his clothes. William Shakespeare

#22741

My salad days, when I was green in judgment. William Shakespeare

#22742

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare

#22743

When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare

#22744

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind oppresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help William Shakespeare

#22745

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. William Shakespeare

#22746

While thou lives keep a good tongue in thy head. William Shakespeare

#22747

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. William Shakespeare

#22748

Small to greater matters must give way. William Shakespeare

#22749

True is it that we have seen better days. William Shakespeare

#22750

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. William Shakespeare

#22751

Since Cleopatra died, I have lived in such dishonor that the gods detest my baseness. William Shakespeare

#22752

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. William Shakespeare

#22753

I have Immortal longings in me. William Shakespeare

#22754

I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. William Shakespeare

#22755

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. William Shakespeare

#22756

A little more than kin, and less than kind. William Shakespeare

#22757

No, 'tis slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue out venoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath rides on the William Shakespeare

#22758

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. William Shakespeare

#22759

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. William Shakespeare

#22760

But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance. William Shakespeare

#22761

The game is up. William Shakespeare

#22762

Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This ab William Shakespeare

#22763

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear's that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy vo William Shakespeare

#22764

I have not slept one wink. William Shakespeare

#22765

Frailty, thy name is woman William Shakespeare

#22766

What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action William Shakespeare

#22767

Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare

#22768

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is. William Shakespeare

#22769

The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. William Shakespeare

#22770

The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. William Shakespeare

#22771

Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. William Shakespeare

#22772

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. William Shakespeare

#22773

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. William Shakespeare

#22774

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. William Shakespeare

#22775

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard... William Shakespeare

#22776

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Met William Shakespeare

#22777

To be, or not to be that is the question whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, William Shakespeare

#22778

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare

#22779

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven it hath the primal eldest curse upon, a brother's murder. William Shakespeare

#22780

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. William Shakespeare

#22781

O, woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see William Shakespeare

#22782

Et tu, Brute William Shakespeare

#22783

A hit, a very palpable hit. William Shakespeare

#22784

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare

#22785

Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand William Shakespeare

#22786

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He William Shakespeare

#22787

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. William Shakespeare

#22788

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest William Shakespeare

#22789

Beware the ides of March. William Shakespeare

#22790

The rest is silence. William Shakespeare

#22791

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day is crept into the bosom of the sea. William Shakespeare

#22792

For Brutus is an honorable man so are they all, all honorable men. William Shakespeare

#22793

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown William Shakespeare

#22794

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare

#22795

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so become William Shakespeare

#22796

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. William Shakespeare

#22797

There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bout William Shakespeare

#22798

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. William Shakespeare

#22799

He hath eaten me out of house and home. William Shakespeare

#22800

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them T William Shakespeare

#22801

Nothing will come of nothing. William Shakespeare

#22802

Pray you now, forget and forgive. William Shakespeare

#22803

Although the last, not least. William Shakespeare

#22804

The worst is not So long as we can say, this is the worst. William Shakespeare

#22805

'T is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a g William Shakespeare

#22806

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare

#22807

Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that. William Shakespeare

#22808

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. William Shakespeare

#22809

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child William Shakespeare

#22810

This England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. William Shakespeare

#22811

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. William Shakespeare

#22812

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. William Shakespeare

#22813

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us. William Shakespeare

#22814

A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse William Shakespeare

#22815

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. William Shakespeare

#22816

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. William Shakespeare

#22817

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, this f William Shakespeare

#22818

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. William Shakespeare

#22819

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, and all the clouds that lured upon our house in t William Shakespeare

#22820

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, that hath a mint of phrases in his brain. William Shakespeare

#22821

Lay on, Macduff, and dammed be him that first cries, Hold, enough William Shakespeare

#22822

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, And al William Shakespeare

#22823

Out, damned spot out, I say William Shakespeare

#22824

Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. William Shakespeare

#22825

The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. William Shakespeare

#22826

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee William Shakespeare

#22827

And oftentimes, to win we to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betrays In de William Shakespeare

#22828

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, whoever knocks William Shakespeare

#22829

Yet do I fear thy nature it is too full o' the milk of human kindness. William Shakespeare

#22830

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own ton William Shakespeare

#22831

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. William Shakespeare

#22832

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. William Shakespeare

#22833

They say, best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad. William Shakespeare

#22834

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. William Shakespeare

#22835

Silence is the perfects herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much. William Shakespeare

#22836

I thank God I am more honest as any man living that is an old man and no honesty than I. William Shakespeare

#22837

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare

#22838

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. William Shakespeare

#22839

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. William Shakespeare

#22840

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know, and he's not robbed at all. William Shakespeare

#22841

I understand a fury in your words, but not the words. William Shakespeare

#22842

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for draws to peck at. William Shakespeare

#22843

O, now, forever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars that make ambition virtue William Shakespeare

#22844

What a deformed thief this fashion is. William Shakespeare

#22845

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. William Shakespeare

#22846

Speak to me as to thy thinking's, as thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts the worst of words. William Shakespeare

#22847

I am not merry but I do beguile the thing I am, by seeming otherwise. William Shakespeare

#22848

Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again William Shakespeare

#22849

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. William Shakespeare

#22850

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. William Shakespeare

#22851

'This neither here nor there. William Shakespeare

#22852

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. William Shakespeare

#22853

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. William Shakespeare

#22854

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. William Shakespeare

#22855

Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. William Shakespeare

#22856

O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo William Shakespeare

#22857

A plague o' both your houses William Shakespeare

#22858

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. Aesop

#22859

The gods help them that help themselves. Aesop

#22860

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

#22861

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop

#22862

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop

#22863

Little friends may prove great friends. Aesop

#22864

There is always someone worse off than yourself. Aesop

#22865

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop

#22866

United we stand, divided we fall. Aesop

#22867

Appearances often are deceiving. Aesop

#22868

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop

#22869

Only cowards insult dying majesty. Aesop

#22870

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. Aesop

#22871

Familiarity breed contempt. Aesop

#22872

Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Aesop

#22873

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swale Aesop

#22874

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. Aesop

#22875

Plodding wins the race. Aesop

#22876

It is easy to despise what you cannot get. Aesop

#22877

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. Aesop

#22878

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. Aesop

#22879

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. Aesop

#22880

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. Aesop

#22881

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing. Aesop

#22882

You may share the labors of the great, but you may not share the spoil. Aesop

#22883

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Aesop

#22884

Please all, and you will please none. Aesop

#22885

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. Aesop

#22886

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything. Aesop

#22887

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. Aesop

#22888

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. Aesop

#22889

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop

#22890

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop

#22891

It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. Aesop

#22892

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. Aesop

#22893

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. Aesop

#22894

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. Aesop

#22895

Persuasion is often more effectual than force. Aesop

#22896

Put your shoulder to the wheel. Aesop

#22897

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop

#22898

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop

#22899

What a splendid head, yet no brain. Aesop

#22900

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. Aesop

#22901

Union gives strength. Aesop

#22902

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. Aesop

#22903

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own des Aesop

#22904

I am sure the grapes are sour. Aesop

#22905

Slow and steady wins the race. Aesop

#22906

I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. Aesop

#22907

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

#22908

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. Aesop

#22909

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing. Aesop

#22910

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am because Hindu Spiritual

#22911

The Devil finds work for idle hands. Proverb

#22912

First Appeared in 1721 Proverb

#22913

If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours. Proverb

#22914

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Proverb

#22915

How many angels are there one - who transforms our live - is plenty. Proverb

#22916

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the Christopher Morley

#22917

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something Christopher Morley

#22918

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley

#22919

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. Christopher Morley

#22920

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley

#22921

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. Christopher Morley

#22922

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age. Christopher Morley

#22923

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle

#22924

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a co Thomas Carlyle

#22925

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle

#22926

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle

#22927

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas Carlyle

#22928

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. Thomas Carlyle

#22929

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come Thomas Carlyle

#22930

Originality is a thing we constantly clamor for, and constantly quarrel with. Thomas Carlyle

#22931

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advance Thomas Carlyle

#22932

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, Thomas Carlyle

#22933

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. Thomas Carlyle

#22934

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle

#22935

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one. Thomas Carlyle

#22936

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books Thomas Carlyle

#22937

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle

#22938

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. Thomas Carlyle

#22939

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Thomas Carlyle

#22940

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. Thomas Carlyle

#22941

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. Thomas Carlyle

#22942

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle

#22943

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Thomas Carlyle

#22944

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle

#22945

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. Thomas Carlyle

#22946

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. Thomas Carlyle

#22947

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. Thomas Carlyle

#22948

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. Thomas Carlyle

#22949

Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Thomas Carlyle

#22950

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Thomas Carlyle

#22951

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle

#22952

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. Victor Frankl

#22953

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last p Victor Frankl

#22954

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. Victor Frankl

#22955

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stay Invention, Natures child, fled step-dame Study's blows...Biting my truant pe Sir Philip Sidney

#22956

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. Sir Philip Sidney

#22957

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney

#22958

We are the people our parents warned us about. Jimmy Buffett

#22959

If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me Jimmy Buffett

#22960

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. Jimmy Buffett

#22961

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. John Allston

#22962

If you don't control your mind, someone else will. John Allston

#22963

The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of f Robert Wibbelsman

#22964

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known Better Haile Selassie

#22965

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry Kaiser

#22966

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. Thomas Wolfe

#22967

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe

#22968

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, Thomas Wolfe

#22969

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he h Thomas Wolfe

#22970

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. Thomas Wolfe

#22971

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening Simone Weil

#22972

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and Simone Weil

#22973

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be cou Simone Weil

#22974

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to Simone Weil

#22975

Most idealistic people are skin. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have Simone Weil

#22976

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, what are you going through Simone Weil

#22977

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. Simone Weil

#22978

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it. Norman Thomas

#22979

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no ma Norman Thomas

#22980

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise Norman Thomas

#22981

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. Norman Thomas

#22982

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22983

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22984

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22985

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22986

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22987

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all form John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22988

Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22989

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of A John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22990

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22991

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22992

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22993

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept asi John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22994

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22995

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22996

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22997

A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22998

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#22999

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23000

I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23001

A child miseducated is a child lost. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23002

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23003

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicion John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23004

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23005

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23006

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men a John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23007

Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23008

The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23009

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23010

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. (When asked how he would choose to die) John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23011

Like dealing with Dad-all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev) John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23012

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23013

The human mind is our fundamental resource. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23014

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizen John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23015

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23016

A rising tide lifts all boats. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23017

Perfect valor consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23018

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23019

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23020

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23021

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23022

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23023

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23024

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23025

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23026

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23027

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that the John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23028

To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best effort John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23029

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent m John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23030

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John

Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23031

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23032

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive value John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23033

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23034

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23035

Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23036

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23037

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23038

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23039

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23040

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ei John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23041

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23042

When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23043

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23044

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23045

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23046

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23047

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23048

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry execute John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23049

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiate John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23050

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23051

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23052

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his leg John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23053

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23054

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23055

When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of ser John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23056

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of A John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23057

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23058

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but America John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23059

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23060

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23061

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poet John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23062

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23063

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#23064

There was never a great man who had not a great mother Oliver Schreiner

#23065

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Lang

#23066

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of Buck Rodgers

#23067

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

#23068

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the Louis Pasteur

#23069

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. Louis Pasteur

#23070

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur

#23071

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes MG Siriam

#23072

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Francis Bacon

#23073

Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon

#23074

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. Francis Bacon

#23075

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Francis Bacon

#23076

Men in Great Place are thrice Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strand Francis Bacon

#23077

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

#23078

The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span. Francis Bacon

#23079

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Francis Bacon

#23080

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Francis Bacon

#23081

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. Francis Bacon

#23082

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon

#23083

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Francis Bacon

#23084

Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise. Francis Bacon

#23085

Silence is the virtue of fools. Francis Bacon

#23086

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon

#23087

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon

#23088

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. Francis Bacon

#23089

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether Francis Bacon

#23090

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. Francis Bacon

#23091

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. Francis Bacon

#23092

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Francis Bacon

#23093

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. Francis Bacon

#23094

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Francis Bacon

#23095

We cannot command nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon

#23096

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. Francis Bacon

#23097

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend gives, and that a man gives himself, as there is between the cou Francis Bacon

#23098

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon

#23099

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. Francis Bacon

#23100

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Francis Bacon

#23101

Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or I Francis Bacon

#23102

A little philosophy inclined man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringer man's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon

#23103

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon

#23104

Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to c Francis Bacon

#23105

For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive limit Francis Bacon

#23106

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories o Francis Bacon

#23107

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may b Francis Bacon

#23108

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in ce Francis Bacon

#23109

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Francis Bacon

#23110

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon

#23111

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Francis Bacon

#23112

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in cert Francis Bacon

#23113

It is impossible to love and to be wise. Francis Bacon

#23114

Nothing is to be feared but fear. Francis Bacon

#23115

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and p Francis Bacon

#23116

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider Francis Bacon

#23117

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward more Francis Bacon

#23118

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon

#23119

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. Francis Bacon

#23120

Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study. Francis Bacon

#23121

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. Francis Bacon

#23122

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Francis Bacon

#23123

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. Francis Bacon

#23124

Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Francis Bacon

#23125

By far the best proof is experience. Francis Bacon

#23126

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. Francis Bacon

#23127

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

#23128

I have taken all knowledge to by my province. Francis Bacon

#23129

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. Francis Bacon

#23130

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior. Francis Bacon

#23131

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read o Francis Bacon

#23132

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought to law to weed it out. Francis Bacon

#23133

Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let us be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Francis Bacon

#23134

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Francis Bacon

#23135

Man seek in society comfort, use and protection. Francis Bacon

#23136

In charity there is no excess. Francis Bacon

#23137

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon

#23138

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I t Bruce Sterling

#23139

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow Frank Moore Colby

#23140

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. Frank Moore Colby

#23141

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. Frank Moore Colby

#23142

Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart aga Frank Moore Colby

#23143

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love. Frank Moore Colby

#23144

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of Frank Moore Colby

#23145

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. Frank Moore Colby

#23146

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson

#23147

In the civilization a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle. Colin Wilson

#23148

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. Bertha von Suttner

#23149

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 John Burroughs

#23150

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs

#23151

The secret of happiness is something to do. John Burroughs

#23152

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it. John Burroughs

#23153

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. John Burroughs

#23154

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred John Burroughs

#23155

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true source John Burroughs

#23156

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 in John Burroughs

#23157

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

#23158

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given th John Burroughs

#23159

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff

#23160

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. John Leonard

#23161

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't h Arnold Palmer

#23162

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer

#23163

Judges don't age time decorates them. Enid Bagnold

#23164

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was intrepid Leon Jaworski

#23165

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell

#23166

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it. Mark Russell

#23167

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police department James Brady

#23168

It is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it. on gun control James Brady

#23169

I'd rather be a cold-be if I cannot be an area because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-bee Milton Berle

#23170

Laughter is an instant vacation Milton Berle

#23171

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton

#23172

...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means Alexander Hamilton

#23173

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day Alexander Hamilton

#23174

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbed Alexander Hamilton

#23175

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this you must first enable the Alexander Hamilton

#23176

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those who Alexander Hamilton

#23177

Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflow Alexander Hamilton

#23178

Why has government been instituted at all because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, wi Alexander Hamilton

#23179

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton

#23180

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinion Alexander Hamilton

#23181

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved the Alexander Hamilton

#23182

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained Alexander Hamilton

#23183

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what' Stanley Kubrick

#23184

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think o Stanley Kubrick

#23185

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. Stanley Kubrick

#23186

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miss Sir Winston Churchill

#23187

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. Sir Winston Churchill

#23188

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

#23189

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Sir Winston Churchill

#23190

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Sir Winston Churchill

#23191

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Sir Winston Churchill

#23192

The price of greatness is responsibility. Sir Winston Churchill

#23193

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Sir Winston Churchill

#23194

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we s Sir Winston Churchill

#23195

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Sir Winston Churchill

#23196

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Sir Winston Churchill

#23197

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Sir Winston Churchill

#23198

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Sir Winston Churchill

#23199

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Sir Winston Churchill

#23200

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. Sir Winston Churchill

#23201

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Sir Winston Churchill

#23202

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-as Sir Winston Churchill

#23203

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Sir Winston Churchill

#23204

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Sir Winston Churchill

#23205

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Sir Winston Churchill

#23206

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston Churchill

#23207

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Sir Winston Churchill

#23208

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the ti Sir Winston Churchill

#23209

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Sir Winston Churchill

#23210

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill

#23211

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Sir Winston Churchill

#23212

One ought never to turn ones back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger Sir Winston Churchill

#23213

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill

#23214

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. Sir Winston Churchill

#23215

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and Sir Winston Churchill

#23216

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perf Sir Winston Churchill

#23217

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time Sir Winston Churchill

#23218

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill

#23219

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. Sir Winston Churchill

#23220

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to st Sir Winston Churchill

#23221

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be to Sir Winston Churchill

#23222

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. Sir Winston Churchill

#23223

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. Sir Winston Churchill

#23224

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

#23225

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither Sir Winston Churchill

#23226

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. Sir Winston Churchill

#23227

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Sir Winston Churchill

#23228

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. Sir Winston Churchill

#23229

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Sir Winston Churchill

#23230

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ' Sir Winston Churchill

#23231

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I Sir Winston Churchill

#23232

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, sol Sir Winston Churchill

#23233

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at o Sir Winston Churchill

#23234

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of hon Sir Winston Churchill

#23235

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must Sir Winston Churchill

#23236

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. Sir Winston Churchill

#23237

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Sir Winston Churchill

#23238

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Sir Winston Churchill

#23239

I wish they would only take me as I am. Vincent Van Gogh

#23240

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. Vincent Van Gogh

#23241

The best way to know God is to love many things. Vincent Van Gogh

#23242

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. Vincent Van Gogh

#23243

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what Vincent Van Gogh

#23244

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to Vincent Van Gogh

#23245

How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be Vincent Van Gogh

#23246

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the c Vincent Van Gogh

#23247

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. Vincent Van Gogh

#23248

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything Vincent Van Gogh

#23249

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things them Vincent Van Gogh

#23250

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. Vincent Van Gogh

#23251

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of man Vincent Van Gogh

#23252

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent Van Gogh

#23253

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh

#23254

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh

#23255

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. Vincent Van Gogh

#23256

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. Vincent Van Gogh

#23257

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley

#23258

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley

#23259

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley

#23260

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley

#23261

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. Aldous Huxley

#23262

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Aldous Huxley

#23263

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive Aldous Huxley

#23264

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley

#23265

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and Aldous Huxley

#23266

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gr Aldous Huxley

#23267

Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley

#23268

My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my so Aldous Huxley

#23269

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

#23270

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the Aldous Huxley

#23271

One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously Aldous Huxley

#23272

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is c Aldous Huxley

#23273

Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley

#23274

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley

#23275

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or Aldous Huxley

#23276

Death it's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Aldous Huxley

#23277

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley

#23278

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley

#23279

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that Aldous Huxley

#23280

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. Aldous Huxley

#23281

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and Aldous Huxley

#23282

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. Aldous Huxley

#23283

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley

#23284

When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been kn Aldous Huxley

#23285

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 Aldous Huxley

#23286

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Aldous Huxley

#23287

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley

#23288

Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley

#23289

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Aldous Huxley

#23290

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. Aldous Huxley

#23291

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look. Aldous Huxley

#23292

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today. Aldous Huxley

#23293

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley

#23294

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley

#23295

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley

#23296

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malic Aldous Huxley

#23297

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities Aldous Huxley

#23298

The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political di George McGovern

#23299

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and George McGovern

#23300

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern

#23301

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. Rainer Maria Rilke

#23302

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke

#23303

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers Rainer Maria Rilke

#23304

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke

#23305

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful li Rainer Maria Rilke

#23306

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate Rainer Maria Rilke

#23307

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke

#23308

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, Rainer Maria Rilke

#23309

Live the questions. Rainer Maria Rilke

#23310

If you're daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, and tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its rich Rainer Maria Rilke

#23311

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you goo Rainer Maria Rilke

#23312

For one human being to love another human being that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimo Rainer Maria Rilke

#23313

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. Gary Collins

#23314

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepted thy works. N.B. Eat, Drink and be Ecclesiastes 97

#23315

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Clive Staples Lewis

#23316

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is m Clive Staples Lewis

#23317

Why love if losing hurts so much we love to know that we are not alone. Clive Staples Lewis

#23318

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. Clive Staples Lewis

#23319

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robb Clive Staples Lewis

#23320

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give v Clive Staples Lewis

#23321

What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of ever Clive Staples Lewis

#23322

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth Clive Staples Lewis

#23323

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one. Clive Staples Lewis

#23324

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. Clive Staples Lewis

#23325

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling Clive Staples Lewis

#23326

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. Clive Staples Lewis

#23327

The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without Clive Staples Lewis

#23328

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all Clive Staples Lewis

#23329

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian Clive Staples Lewis

#23330

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. Clive Staples Lewis

#23331

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty pr Clive Staples Lewis

#23332

Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas rack Clive Staples Lewis

#23333

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place. Clive Staples Lewis

#23334

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately import Clive Staples Lewis

#23335

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else Clive Staples Lewis

#23336

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only s Clive Staples Lewis

#23337

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us. Clive Staples Lewis

#23338

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it t Clive Staples Lewis

#23339

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels. Clive Staples Lewis

#23340

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. Clive Staples Lewis

#23341

I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey. Clive Staples Lewis

#23342

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Hellen Keller

#23343

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which h Hellen Keller

#23344

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spire Hellen Keller

#23345

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something I will not refuse to do something I can d Hellen Keller

#23346

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, am Hellen Keller

#23347

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. Hellen Keller

#23348

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest work Hellen Keller

#23349

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure Hellen Keller

#23350

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Hellen Keller

#23351

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. Hellen Keller

#23352

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse Hellen Keller

#23353

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

#23354

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. Hellen Keller

#23355

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Hellen Keller

#23356

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Hellen Keller

#23357

College isn't the place to go for ideas. Hellen Keller

#23358

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

#23359

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is va Hellen Keller

#23360

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Hellen Keller

#23361

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire for Hellen Keller

#23362

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. Hellen Keller

#23363

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotion Hellen Keller

#23364

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom. Hellen Keller

#23365

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Hellen Keller

#23366

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another Hellen Keller

#23367

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Hellen Keller

#23368

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience Hellen Keller

#23369

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Hellen Keller

#23370

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

#23371

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Hellen Keller

#23372

Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle Hellen Keller

#23373

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great Hellen Keller

#23374

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense a Hellen Keller

#23375

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. Hellen Keller

#23376

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. Hellen Keller

#23377

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Hellen Keller

#23378

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fid Hellen Keller

#23379

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Hellen Keller

#23380

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Hellen Keller

#23381

The highest result of education is tolerance. Hellen Keller

#23382

You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races o Israel Zangwill

#23383

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part the average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a g Israel Zangwill

#23384

The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it. Israel Zangwill

#23385

The Past our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, Israel Zangwill

#23386

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people. Hair

#23387

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue. Don Marquis

#23388

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis

#23389

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. Don Marquis

#23390

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Don Marquis

#23391

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't Don Marquis

#23392

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis

#23393

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Don Marquis

#23394

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. Don Marquis

#23395

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. Don Marquis

#23396

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exact John W. Gardner

#23397

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next John W. Gardner

#23398

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings ha John W. Gardner

#23399

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only s John W. Gardner

#23400

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner

#23401

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the no pharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separate John W. Gardner

#23402

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and tall John W. Gardner

#23403

History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner

#23404

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not John W. Gardner

#23405

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He John W. Gardner

#23406

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner

#23407

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment Eliel Saarinen

#23408

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitute Gerald Early

#23409

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every t Emma Goldman

#23410

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. Emma Goldman

#23411

The most violent element in society is ignorance. Emma Goldman

#23412

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. Emma Goldman

#23413

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. Emma Goldman

#23414

The ends must justify the means. Matthew Prior

#23415

They talk most who have the least to say. Matthew Prior

#23416

They always talk who never think. Matthew Prior

#23417

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. Matthew Prior

#23418

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. Bobby Clarke

#23419

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. Charlie Brown

#23420

Love means never having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal

#23421

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. Erich Segal

#23422

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Henry Ford

#23423

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford

#23424

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. Henry Ford

#23425

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to k Henry Ford

#23426

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford

#23427

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford

#23428

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford

#23429

Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing ten Henry Ford

#23430

Don't find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford

#23431

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

#23432

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages Henry Ford

#23433

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. Henry Ford

#23434

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford

#23435

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford

#23436

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 re Henry Ford

#23437

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford

#23438

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work Henry Ford

#23439

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Henry Ford

#23440

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford

#23441

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that Henry Ford

#23442

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Henry Ford

#23443

History is more or less bunk. Henry Ford

#23444

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. Henry Ford

#23445

People can have the Model T in any color--so long as it's black. Henry Ford

#23446

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford

#23447

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

#23448

The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers little we see in Nature that is ours We William Wordsworth

#23449

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. William Wordsworth

#23450

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth

#23451

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth

#23452

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. William Wordsworth

#23453

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions. William Wordsworth

#23454

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. William Wordsworth

#23455

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold. William Wordsworth

#23456

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the press William Wordsworth

#23457

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought that gives to forms and images a breath and everlasting William Wordsworth

#23458

What though the radiance which was once so bright be not forever taken from my sight, though nothing can bring back the hour Of William Wordsworth

#23459

She was a phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight a lovely apparition, sent to be a moment's ornament. William Wordsworth

#23460

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all Ansel Adams

#23461

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams

#23462

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themself Ansel Adams

#23463

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying who Harold Abelson

#23464

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there This Is Spinal Tap

#23465

Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None blacker. This Is Spinal Tap

#23466

Marty this pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, what day did the Lord cre This Is Spinal Tap

#23467

Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll. This Is Spinal Tap

#23468

Nigel You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's so This Is Spinal Tap

#23469

Marty this tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot This Is Spinal Tap

#23470

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

#23471

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

#23472

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke

#23473

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it I Arthur C. Clarke

#23474

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. Arthur C. Clarke

#23475

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

#23476

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

#23477

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke

#23478

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke

#23479

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't Arthur C. Clarke

#23480

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. Clarke

#23481

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale Arthur C. Clarke

#23482

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

#23483

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Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching Casino

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Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a Casino

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#23488

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#23489

Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my da Mary Wortley Montagu

#23490

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be give Mary Wortley Montagu

#23491

Life is too short for a long story. Mary Wortley Montagu

#23492

Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Mary Wortley Montagu

#23493

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. Mary Wortley Montagu

#23494

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Mary Wortley Montagu

#23495

It has all been very interesting. Mary Wortley Montagu

#23496

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. Mary Wortley Montagu

#23497

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success. Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

#23498

Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness. Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

#23499

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked. Jeff Pesis

#23500

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. Warren Miller

#23501

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. Henri Fredric Amiel

#23502

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. Henri Fredric Amiel

#23503

A belief is not true because it is useful. Henri Fredric Amiel

#23504

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23505

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23506

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23507

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23508

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret Henri Frdric Amiel

#23509

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23510

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh Henri Frdric Amiel

#23511

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in Henri Frdric Amiel

#23512

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23513

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23514

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23515

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23516

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn Henri Frdric Amiel

#23517

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23518

All appears to change when we change. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23519

Liberty, equality - bad principles the only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and k Henri Frdric Amiel

#23520

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health .Henri Frdric Amiel

#23521

Hope is only the love of life. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23522

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23523

You desire to know the art of living, my friend it is contained in one phrase make use of suffering. Henri Frdric Amiel

#23524

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. Colonel Sanders

#23525

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. Bill Cosby

#23526

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. Bill Cosby

#23527

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all Bill Cosby

#23528

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people Bill Cosby

#23529

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning Bill Cosby

#23530

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it. Bill Cosby

#23531

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby

#23532

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby

#23533

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. Bill Cosby

#23534

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do a not Benjamin Jowett

#23535

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. Benjamin Jowett

#23536

I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me. Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964.

#23537

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. Isadora Duncan

#23538

Dancing the Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. Isadora Duncan

#23539

By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical Jerry Rubin

#23540

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests ma David Riesman

#23541

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thin Max Percy

#23542

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. Mistinguett

#23543

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. John Updike

#23544

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this com John Updike

#23545

There are times when fear is good it must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won John Updike

#23546

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right John Updike

#23547

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money John Updike

#23548

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. John Updike

#23549

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what on John Updike

#23550

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called sc John Updike

#23551

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach my John Updike

#23552

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being. John Updike

#23553

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike

#23554

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

#23555

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. John Updike

#23556

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little cloth box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even John Updike

#23557

We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike

#23558

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike

#23559

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

#23560

Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller

#23561

I have no money, no resources, and no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller

#23562

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult Henry Miller

#23563

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their b Henry Miller

#23564

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our Henry Miller

#23565

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation . . . The other eight are unimportant. Henry Miller

#23566

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the Henry Miller

#23567

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich t Henry Miller

#23568

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnify Henry Miller

#23569

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. Henry Miller

#23570

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller

#23571

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller

#23572

A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he got his Henry Miller

#23573

The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth. Henry Miller

#23574

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. Henry Miller

#23575

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to l Henry Miller

#23576

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller

#23577

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. Henry Miller

#23578

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller

#23579

Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from Henry Miller

#23580

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. Henry Miller

#23581

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it Henry Miller

#23582

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. Anatole France

#23583

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between who Anatole France

#23584

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it aft Anatole France

#23585

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

#23586

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to Anatole France

#23587

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture. Anatole France

#23588

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France

#23589

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. Anatole France

#23590

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France

#23591

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change Anatole France

#23592

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. Anatole France

#23593

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to st Anatole France

#23594

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France

#23595

It is better to understand little than to understand a lot. Anatole France

#23596

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France

#23597

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France

#23598

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France

#23599

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France

#23600

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France

#23601

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die too Anatole France

#23602

People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole France

#23603

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. Arabic Parable

#23604

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make Randolph Bourne

#23605

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Randolph Bourne

#23606

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche I Randolph Bourne

#23607

The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophon

#23608

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation Xenophon

#23609

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, and the butcher's the poet's equal there. E. M. Cioran

#23610

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ours E. M. Cioran

#23611

From each, according to his ability to each, according to his need. Karl Marx

#23612

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx

#23613

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in pas Archibald Cox

#23614

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. Archibald Cox

#23615

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Oval John Dean

#23616

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the John Dean

#23617

An answer is always a form of death. John Dean

#23618

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will John Dean

#23619

Trent you know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it's like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days Swingers

#23620

Trent you're so money and you don't even know it Swingers

#23621

Mike Look, we're going to spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks Swingers

#23622

Trent Let me tell you something Mike your money, and you know what else, you're a big winner. I'm going to ask you a simple question Swingers

#23623

Trent I'm telling you baby, you always double down on 11. Swingers

#23624

Trent I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the gu Swingers

#23625

Mike & Trent Vegas baby Vegas Swingers

#23626

Trent I'm making Gretzky's head bleed for super-fan 99 over here Swingers

#23627

Live free or die. New Hampshire State Motto

#23628

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. Ronnie Lott

#23629

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Satchel Paige

#23630

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige

#23631

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty

#23632

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty mile J. Paul Getty

#23633

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty

#23634

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. J. Paul Getty

#23635

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty

#23636

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome

#23637

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer Jerome K. Jerome

#23638

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them Jerome K. Jerome

#23639

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly b Jerome K. Jerome

#23640

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Jerome K. Jerome

#23641

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. Jerome

#23642

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of Plato

#23643

Thinking the talking of the soul with itself. Plato

#23644

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with Plato

#23645

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato

#23646

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

#23647

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something. Plato

#23648

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. Plato

#23649

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on t Plato

#23650

So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain. Plato

#23651

The harder you work, the luckier you get. Plato

#23652

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato

#23653

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth . . . He whose desires are drawn Plato

#23654

Philosophy is the highest music. Plato

#23655

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. Plato

#23656

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato

#23657

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato

#23658

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Plato

#23659

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

#23660

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato

#23661

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. Plato

#23662

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. Plato

#23663

Life must be lived as play. Plato

#23664

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Plato

#23665

No human thing is of serious importance. Plato

#23666

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato

#23667

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, Plato

#23668

There is no such thing as a lover's oath. Plato

#23669

Man...Is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all anima Plato

#23670

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato

#23671

Death is not the worse than can happen to men. Plato

#23672

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. Plato

#23673

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death Plato

#23674

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato

#23675

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato

#23676

You cannot conceive the many without the one. Plato

#23677

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince h Plato

#23678

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. Plato

#23679

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and Plato

#23680

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato

#23681

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

#23682

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato

#23683

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. Plato

#23684

Friends have all things in common. Plato

#23685

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato

#23686

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. Plato

#23687

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain thereof Plato

#23688

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. Plato

#23689

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. Plato

#23690

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato

#23691

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which Plato

#23692

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. Plato

#23693

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato

#23694

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court. Clarence Darrow

#23695

The law is a horrible business. Clarence Darrow

#23696

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. Clarence Darrow

#23697

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant m Clarence Darrow

#23698

None meet life honestly and few heroically. Clarence Darrow

#23699

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence Darrow

#23700

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow

#23701

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. Clarence Darrow

#23702

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. Clarence Darrow

#23703

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. Clarence Darrow

#23704

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever Clarence Darrow

#23705

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you l Clarence Darrow

#23706

To think is to differ. Clarence Darrow

#23707

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow

#23708

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to Clarence Darrow

#23709

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means. Clarence Darrow

#23710

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. Clarence Darrow

#23711

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. Clarence Darrow

#23712

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow

#23713

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and v Clarence Darrow

#23714

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Clarence Darrow

#23715

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. Steve Wozniak

#23716

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. Bobby Jones

#23717

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. Eric Hoffer

#23718

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer

#23719

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is some Eric Hoffer

#23720

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. Eric Hoffer

#23721

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their Eric Hoffer

#23722

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. Eric Hoffer

#23723

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

#23724

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. Eric Hoffer

#23725

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an ol Eric Hoffer

#23726

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the real Eric Hoffer

#23727

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Eric Hoffer

#23728

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. Eric Hoffer

#23729

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills Eric Hoffer

#23730

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. Eric Hoffer

#23731

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities Eric Hoffer

#23732

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. Eric Hoffer

#23733

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. Eric Hoffer

#23734

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer

#23735

Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform to nonconformity. Eric Hoffer

#23736

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer

#23737

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world Eric Hoffer

#23738

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere el Eric Hoffer

#23739

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to be Eric Hoffer

#23740

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. Eric Hoffer

#23741

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to Eric Hoffer

#23742

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or Eric Hoffer

#23743

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as Eric Hoffer

#23744

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer

#23745

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. Eric Hoffer

#23746

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. Eric Hoffer

#23747

Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gamble song, and Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kit Shel Silverstein

#23748

The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and Shel Silverstein

#23749

Years and sins are always more than owned. Italian Proverb

#23750

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. Italian Proverb

#23751

It is a good answer that knows when to stop. Italian Proverb

#23752

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. Italian Proverb

#23753

By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible. Italian Proverb

#23754

Love rules without rules. Italian Proverb

#23755

He who is not impatient is not in love. Italian Proverb

#23756

He who knows little quickly tells it. Italian Proverb

#23757

He who knows nothing doubts nothing. Italian Proverb

#23758

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. Italian Proverb

#23759

Let every fox take care of his own tail. Italian Proverb

#23760

Speak of the devil and he appears. Italian Proverb

#23761

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas. Italian Proverb

#23762

Who depends on another man's table often dines late. Italian Proverb

#23763

The best armor is to keep out of range. Italian Proverb

#23764

It is not enough to aim you must hit. Italian Proverb

#23765

Bed is the poor man's opera. Italian Proverb

#23766

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind. Italian Proverb

#23767

To a quick question, give a slow answer. Italian Proverb

#23768

Yet ah why should they know their fate since sorrow never comes too late, and happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy the Thomas Gray

#23769

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score then to that twenty, add a hundred more a thousand to that hundred so kiss on, to make Robert Herrick

#23770

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick

#23771

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matt Sigmund Freud

#23772

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct Sigmund Freud

#23773

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. Sigmund Freud

#2377

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud

#23775

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. Sigmund Freud

#23776

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud

#23777

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult Sigmund Freud

#23778

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud

#23779

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is what do Sigmund Freud

#23780

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to Sigmund Freud

#23781

One is very crazy when in love. Sigmund Freud

#23782

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud

#23783

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have d Sigmund Freud

#23784

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud

#23785

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud

#23786

We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, w Sigmund Freud

#23787

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud

#23788

Anatomy is destiny. Sigmund Freud

#23789

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. Sigmund Freud

#23790

America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud

#23791

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a professional praise. Osbert Sitwell

#23792

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps

#23793

The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Fidel Castro

#23794

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the ai Fidel Castro

#23795

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Ayn Rand

#23796

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. Ayn Rand

#23797

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what the root of all money Ayn Rand

#23798

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one Ayn Rand

#23799

Live a life as a monument to your soul. Ayn Rand

#23800

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in Ayn Rand

#23801

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. Ayn Rand

#23802

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursue Ayn Rand

#23803

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand

#23804

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and right Ayn Rand

#23805

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Ayn Rand

#23806

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand

#23807

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe Ayn Rand

#23808

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade Ayn Rand

#23809

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Ayn Rand

#23810

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Ayn Rand

#23811

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact Ayn Rand

#23812

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. Ayn Rand

#23813

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result a Ayn Rand

#23814

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand

#23815

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. Ayn Rand

#23816

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of per Ayn Rand

#23817

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kim Hubbard

#23818

A good front is half the battle in love or war. Kim Hubbard

#23819

It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. Kim Hubbard

#23820

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. Kim Hubbard

#23821

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. Kim Hubbard

#23822

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. Kim Hubbard

#23823

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kim Hubbard

#23824

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about. Kim Hubbard

#23825

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it Kim Hubbard

#23826

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony

#23827

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. Robert Anthony

#23828

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. Robert Anthony

#23829

If you are not leaning, no one will let you down. Robert Anthony

#23830

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. Tom Landry

#23831

The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down The swain mistrust less of his smutted face, While Oliver Goldsmith

#23832

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. Oliver Goldsmith

#23833

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Oliver Goldsmith

#23834

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. Oliver Goldsmith

#23835

Ill fares the land, to hastening ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade Oliver Goldsmith

#23836

Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sports, the motor heads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waist oids, derbies, dickheads--they all adore Ferris Bueller's Day Off

#23837

Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... A Ferris Bueller's Day Off

#23838

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign Ferris Bueller's Day Off

#23839

Ferris Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gone Ferris Bueller's Day Off

#23840

Ferris I do have a test today. That wasn't bull. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point I'm not European. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

#23841

Ferris Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

#23842

Today is your day Your Mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. Theodor Seuss Geisel

#23843

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Anthony Burgess

#23844

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess

#23845

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Anthony Burgess

#23846

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Conan Doyle

#23847

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest important Conan Doyle

#23848

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Conan Doyle

#23849

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than co Conan Doyle

#23850

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away Conan Doyle

#23851

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Conan Doyle

#23852

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. Conan Doyle

#23853

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. Conan Doyle

#23854

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Conan Doyle

#23855

You see, but you do not observe. Conan Doyle

#23856

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Conan Doyle

#23857

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom out Conan Doyle

#23858

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. Gay Talese

#23859

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. Ford Maddox

#23860

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as save William Congreve

#23861

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve

#23862

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. William Congreve

#23863

Every man plays the fool once in his life marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's William Congreve

#23864

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. William Congreve

#23865

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. William Congreve

#23866

I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar. William Congreve

#23867

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. William Congreve

#23868

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. William Congreve

#23869

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. Jimmy Breslin

#23870

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. Jimmy Breslin

#23871

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell

#23872

Folly, thou conquers, and I must yield against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, resplendent da Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller

#23873

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller

#23874

There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller

#23875

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Duffy Daugherty

#23876

When you are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. Duffy Daugherty

#23877

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. Joe Paterno

#23878

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. Joe Paterno

#23879

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. Joe Paterno

#23880

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself Harvey Fierstein

#23881

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more Talk less, say more Hate less, love more And all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb

#23882

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow. Swedish Proverb

#23883

Those who wish to sing always find a song. Swedish Proverb

#23884

Fear less, hope more whine less, breathe more Swedish Proverb

#23885

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. Swedish Proverb

#23886

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. Swedish Proverb

#23887

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees. Swedish Proverb

#23888

When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. Swedish Proverb

#23889

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. Swedish Proverb

#23890

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Swedish Proverb

#23891

It's good to shut up sometimes. Marcel Marceau

#23892

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost I Marcel Marceau

#23893

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. Marcel Marceau

#23894

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. Marcel Marceau

#23895

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words Marcel Marceau

#23896

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. Marcel Marceau

#23897

Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. Miguel de Unanimo

#23898

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. Joseph Farrell

#23899

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. Joseph Farrell

#23900

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. Joseph Farrell

#23901

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. Charles-Damian Boulogne

#23902

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing. Deacon Jones

#23903

The joy that isn't shared dies young. Anne Sexton

#23904

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. Anne Sexton

#23905

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. Charles Baudelaire

#23906

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Charles Baudelaire

#23907

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. Charles Baudelaire

#23908

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing Charles Baudelaire

#23909

There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire

#23910

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire

#23911

Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes. Swordfish

#23912

Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings Swordfish

#23913

Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you Swordfish

#23914

Stan Well you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl. Swordfish

#23915

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should besides, audiences love happy endings. Swordfish

#23916

Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down. Swordfish

#23917

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. Mignon McLaughlin

#23918

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. Mignon McLaughlin

#23919

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. Mignon McLaughlin

#23920

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might. Mignon McLaughlin

#23921

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. Mignon McLaughlin

#23922

Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.' Mignon McLaughlin

#23923

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Mignon McLaughlin

#23924

It's the unhappy people who most fear change. Mignon McLaughlin

#23925

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our Mignon McLaughlin

#23926

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. Mignon McLaughlin

#23927

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. Mignon McLaughlin

#23928

What you can't get out of... Get into wholeheartedly. Mignon McLaughlin

#23929

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. Mignon McLaughlin

#23930

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. Mignon McLaughlin

#23931

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. Mignon McLaughlin

#23932

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. Mignon McLaughlin

#23933

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

#23934

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. Mignon McLaughlin

#23935

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put the Mignon McLaughlin

#23936

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. Mignon McLaughlin

#23937

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. Mignon McLaughlin

#23938

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden

#23939

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden

#23940

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden

#23941

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation John Wooden

#23942

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. John Wooden

#23943

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are c John Wooden

#23944

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. John Wooden

#23945

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden

#23946

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read. Computer Museum

#23947

Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw. Computer Museum

#23948

Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt

#23949

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiant Theodore Roosevelt

#23950

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

#23951

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into Theodore Roosevelt

#23952

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 rai Theodore Roosevelt

#23953

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at al Theodore Roosevelt

#23954

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, a Theodore Roosevelt

#23955

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

#23956

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. Theodore Roosevelt

#23957

The government is us we are the government, you and I. Theodore Roosevelt

#23958

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Theodore Roosevelt

#23959

It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them bet Theodore Roosevelt

#23960

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt

#23961

All the resources we need are in the mind. Theodore Roosevelt

#23962

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep Theodore Roosevelt

#23963

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt

#23964

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must n Theodore Roosevelt

#23965

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt

#23966

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly remunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to over Theodore Roosevelt

#23967

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. Theodore Roosevelt

#23968

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt

#23969

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt

#23970

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt

#23971

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

#23972

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt

#23973

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those Theodore Roosevelt

#23974

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft Theodore Roosevelt

#23975

No man is above the law and no man below it. Theodore Roosevelt

#23976

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics. Theodore Roosevelt

#23977

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do j Theodore Roosevelt

#23978

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all. Theodore Roosevelt

#23979

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' Theodore Roosevelt

#23980

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak soft Theodore Roosevelt

#23981

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings. George Will

#23982

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. George Will

#23983

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. George Will

#23984

In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in George Will

#23985

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to wa George Will

#23986

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will

#23987

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. George Will

#23988

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities George Will

#23989

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. George Will

#23990

Americans are overreaches overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. George Will

#23991

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

#23992

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. John Sales

#23993

All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it. 'Columbia Record'

#23994

The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. Francesco Guicciardini

#23995

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are C. S. Lewis

#23996

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your C. S. Lewis

#23997

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair C. S. Lewis

#23998

Linus Apparently, he's got a record longer than my... well, it's long. Ocean's Eleven

#23999

Reuben Second most successful robbery. The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him. Of co Ocean's Eleven

#24000

Danny Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect Ocean's Eleven

#24001

Reuben Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it. Ocean's Eleven

#24002

Rusty Shane, you've got three pairs. You can't have six cards you can't have six cards in a five-card game Ocean's Eleven

#24003

Rusty you look down, they know you're lying and up, they know you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Ocean's Eleven

#24004

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot fee Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#24005

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#24006

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. Pearl Bailey

#24007

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life than take away a moment. Pearl Bailey

#24008

You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey

#24009

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on Pearl Bailey

#24010

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. Pearl Bailey

#24011

We must change in order to survive. Pearl Bailey

#24012

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey

#24013

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. Pearl Bailey

#24014

There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God- Pearl Bailey

#24015

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. Pearl Bailey

#24016

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter Drucker

#24017

The computer is a moron. Peter Drucker

#24018

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. Peter Drucker

#24019

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a no world. Peter Drucker

#24020

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

#24021

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people Peter Drucker

#24022

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter Drucker

#24023

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker

#24024

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course Peter Drucker

#24025

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker

#24026

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and supersite Peter Drucker

#24027

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker

#24028

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker

#24029

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker

#24030

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are follower Guy Kawasaki

#24031

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees. Boris Marshalov

#24032

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward

#24033

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward

#24034

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. William Arthur Ward

#24035

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward

#24036

Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not William Arthur Ward

#24037

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, William Arthur Ward

#24038

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. William Arthur Ward

#24039

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. William Arthur Ward

#24040

To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. William Arthur Ward

#24041

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William Arthur Ward

#24042

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Arthur Ward

#24043

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses. William Arthur Ward

#24044

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

#24045

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. William Arthur Ward

#24046

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Arthur Ward

#24047

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties b William Arthur Ward

#24048

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. John Heisman

#24049

When in doubt, punt John Heisman

#24050

Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine

#24051

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. Margaret Mead

#24052

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Margaret Mead

#24053

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever ha Margaret Mead

#24054

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead

#24055

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country Margaret Mead

#24056

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irrepl Margaret Mead

#24057

Women want mediocre men. And men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead

#24058

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn Margaret Mead

#24059

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. Margaret Mead

#24060

The mind is not sex-typed. Margaret Mead

#24061

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups with Margaret Mead

#24062

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. Elizabeth Drew

#24063

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. Elizabeth Drew

#24064

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. Joan Borysenko

#24065

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to gi Joan Borysenko

#24066

'Tisn't life that matters 'Tis the courage you bring to it. Joan Borysenko

#24067

Time is the fire in which we burn. Gene Roddenberry

#24068

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on or licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away Gene Roddenberry

#24069

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity. Gene Roddenberry

#24070

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson

#24071

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be. David Grayson

#24072

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of th David Grayson

#24073

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life. David Grayson

#24074

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died. David Grayson

#24075

Adventure is not outside a man it is within. David Grayson

#24076

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes

#24077

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes

#24078

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. Rene Descartes

#24079

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that Rene Descartes

#24080

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has Rene Descartes

#24081

Cogito, ergo, sum. (I think therefore I am.) Rene Descartes

#24082

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. Rene Descartes

#24083

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, Rene Descartes

#24084

Cogito ergo sum. Rene Descartes

#24085

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. Rene Descartes

#24086

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. Rene Descartes

#24087

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. Rene Descartes

#24088

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes

#24089

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all th Rene Descartes

#24090

Beanie you think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hang out with nineteen year old girls everyday Old School

#24091

Frank Blue you're my boy Old School

#24092

Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank Old School

#24093

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego Old School

#24094

Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man Old School

#24095

Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be Old School

#24096

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone. Old School

#24097

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time Old School

#24098

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. Peter Lynch

#24099

Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor Proverbs 47-8

#24100

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies John Jay Chapman

#24101

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. Dave Parnas

#24102

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one. Maupassant

#24103

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. Christy Mathewson

#24104

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, and it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan

#24105

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the William Jennings Bryan

#24106

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed. William Jennings Bryan

#24107

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. William Jennings Bryan

#24108

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is William Jennings Bryan

#24109

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. William Jennings Bryan

#24110

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather

#24111

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are ever Willa Cather

#24112

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather

#24113

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather

#24114

She used to drag her mattress beside her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibe Willa Cather

#24115

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather

#24116

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

#24117

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather

#24118

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather

#24119

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. Lily Tomlin

#24120

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent t Lily Tomlin

#24121

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin

#24122

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Lily Tomlin

#24123

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin

#24124

We're all in this alone. Lily Tomlin

#24125

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. Lily Tomlin

#24126

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet Lily Tomlin

#24127

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. Lily Tomlin

#24128

It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. Voltaire

#24129

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. Voltaire

#24130

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Voltaire

#24131

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire

#24132

'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage Voltaire

#24133

We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire

#24134

A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire

#24135

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

#24136

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. Voltaire

#24137

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Voltaire

#24138

All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. Voltaire

#24139

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire

#24140

Appreciation is a wonderful thing it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire

#24141

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

#24142

Anything too stupid to be said is sung. Voltaire

#24143

Prejudice is opinion without judgment. Voltaire

#24144

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

#24145

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire

#24146

Regimen is superior to medicine. Voltaire

#24147

Love truth, and pardon error. Voltaire

#24148

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire

#24149

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire

#24150

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire

#24151

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire

#24152

Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire

#24153

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire

#24154

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. Voltaire

#24155

The way to become boring is to say everything. Voltaire

#24156

Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need. Voltaire

#24157

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire

#24158

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember th Voltaire

#24159

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire

#24160

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

#24161

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire

#24162

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire

#24163

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. Voltaire

#24164

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. Voltaire

#24165

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire Voltaire

#24166

The secret of being boring is to say everything. Voltaire

#24167

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

#24168

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton

#24169

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. Lord Acton

#24170

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton

#24171

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power I Lord Acton

#24172

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the st Lord Acton

#24173

Learn as much by writing as by reading. Lord Acton

#24174

Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead David G. Farragut

#24175

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other some Thomas Henry Huxley

#24176

You shall go with me, newly-married bride, and gaze upon a merrier multitude. White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds, Feachra of the William Butler Yeats

#24177

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and angrier to the end. William Butler Yeats

#24178

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

#24179

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, we are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats

#24180

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats

#24181

Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world the best lack all conviction, while the worst Ar William Butler Yeats

#24182

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats

#24183

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. William Butler Yeats

#24184

I have spread my dreams under your feet William Butler Yeats

#24185

An intellectual hate is the worst. William Butler Yeats

#24186

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. William Butler Yeats

#24187

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. William Butler Yeats

#24188

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

#24189

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus

#24190

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the Epictetus

#24191

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus

#24192

No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus

#24193

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. Epictetus

#24194

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain. Epictetus

#24195

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will Epictetus

#24196

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers Epictetus

#24197

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus

#24198

Difficulties are things that show what men are. Epictetus

#24199

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. Epictetus

#24200

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater. Epictetus

#24201

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported. Epictetus

#24202

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. Epictetus

#24203

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you Epictetus

#24204

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty. Epictetus

#24205

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it. Epictetus

#24206

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

#24207

Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot. Epictetus

#24208

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus

#24209

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. Epictetus

#24210

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus

#24211

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that Epictetus

#24212

Where I am nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan. Epictetus

#24213

Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. Epictetus

#24214

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus

#24215

Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly. Epictetus

#24216

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase. Epictetus

#24217

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus

#24218

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. Epictetus

#24219

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. Epictetus

#24220

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. Epictetus

#24221

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third Epictetus

#24222

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. Epictetus

#24223

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is Epictetus

#24224

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy to get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin Epictetus

#24225

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers

#24226

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd stay away. Hughes Mearns

#24227

M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T is for the tears she shed to save me, H Howard Johnson

#24228

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. Carolyn Kenmore

#24229

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb

#24230

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. Kyle Schmidt

#24231

Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm

#24232

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. Max Beerbohm

#24233

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. Max Beerbohm

#24234

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a cro Max Beerbohm

#24235

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin

#24236

I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Ursula K. LeGuin

#24237

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

#24238

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. LeGuin

#24239

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. Ursula K. LeGuin

#24240

When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep. Ursula K. LeGuin

#24241

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. An Ursula K. LeGuin

#24242

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Ursula K. LeGuin

#24243

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and company Ursula K. LeGuin

#24244

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't ea Ursula K. LeGuin

#24245

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Ursula K. LeGuin

#24246

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy Ursula K. LeGuin

#24247

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country. Eugene McCarthy

#24248

Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success Eugene McCarthy

#24249

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. Eugene McCarthy

#24250

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. Eugene McCarthy

#24251

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think I Eugene McCarthy

#24252

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing bu Sam Ervin

#24253

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. William Feather

#24254

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather

#24255

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by some William Feather

#24256

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

#24257

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. William Feather

#24258

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather

#24259

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. William Feather

#24260

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. William Feather

#24261

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. William Feather

#24262

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. William Feather

#24263

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. Eric Bently

#24264

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson

#24265

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. William Ernest Hocking

#24266

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. William Ernest Hocking

#24267

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society. Ruth Nanda Anshen

#24268

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. Michael Konda

#24269

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser. Charles Schwab

#24270

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man Charles Schwab

#24271

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles Schwab

#24272

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. Charles Schwab

#24273

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. Charles Schwab

#24274

Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or Charles Schwab

#24275

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. John Holt

#24276

...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, John Holt

#24277

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself. John Holt

#24278

Ricky Excuse me Honey, umm, where the drinks are concerned, is that a hidden tax does that fall under complementary up front ser Made

#24279

Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to who gets their hands on this Max that's your per diem. Ricky Made

#24280

Ricky See that's what I'm talking about bobby, first class. You've got to get used to this my man, you deserve it. Hey ladies, you Made

#24281

Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sitting inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't' Made

#24282

Ricky Here's what I'm going to ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. Made

#24283

Ricky Let's drop it. Let's ecks-nay on the becks-nay. It-pay atlin-lay. Bobby Will you ut-shay your outh-may Ricky Ayn-saying-ay Made

#24284

Ricky Here's 50 bucks, take this in case I get drunk and call you a bitch later. Made

#24285

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine

#24286

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that Thomas Paine

#24287

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

#24288

Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine

#24289

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes Thomas Paine

#24290

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine

#24291

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine

#24292

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

#24293

A thing moderately good is not as good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle I Thomas Paine

#24294

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do well is my religion. Thomas Paine

#24295

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. Thomas Paine

#24296

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. Thomas Paine

#24297

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. Chris Clark

#24298

Ray D' you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds Jerry Maguire

#24299

Jerry Show me the money Jerry Maguire

#24300

Jerry I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing Jerry Maguire

#24301

Jerry I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing sieg Jerry Maguire

#24302

Rod it's a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it's a family motto. Now are you ready just checking to make sure you're r Jerry Maguire

#24303

Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete m Jerry Maguire

#24304

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#24305

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#24306

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#24307

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#24308

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#24309

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. Keith Bostic

#24310

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson

#24311

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. Roger Babson

#24312

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. Madame Swetchine

#24313

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things. Madame Swetchine

#24314

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden Wayne Gretzky

#24315

You miss 100 of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky

#24316

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. Wayne Gretzky

#24317

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

#24318

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. Albert Camus

#24319

In the depths of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

#24320

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus

#24321

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus

#24322

You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. Albert Camus

#24323

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world. Albert Camus

#24324

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. Albert Camus

#24325

I love my country too much to be a nationalist. Albert Camus

#24326

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus

#24327

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in t Albert Camus

#24328

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus

#24329

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant Albert Camus

#24330

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Albert Camus

#24331

'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus

#24332

A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged Albert Camus

#24333

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. Albert Camus

#24334

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. Albert Camus

#24335

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, Albert Camus

#24336

What is a rebel a man who says no. Albert Camus

#24337

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Albert Camus

#24338

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but lead Albert Camus

#24339

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never. Albert Camus

#24340

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read Albert Camus

#24341

The truth, as the light, makes blind. Albert Camus

#24342

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus

#24343

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we Albert Camus

#24344

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amount Albert Camus

#24345

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus

#24346

Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus

#24347

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus

#24348

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus

#24349

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal Albert Camus

#24350

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. Albert Camus

#24351

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism. Albert Camus

#24352

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. Albert Camus

#24353

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. Albert Camus

#24354

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

#24355

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus

#24356

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus

#24357

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus

#24358

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 Albert Camus

#24359

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. Albert Camus

#24360

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus

#24361

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. Albert Camus

#24362

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking

#24363

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have c Stephen Hawking

#24364

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That make Stephen Hawking

#24365

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Lord Chesterfield

#24366

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. Lord Chesterfield

#24367

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield

#24368

Common sense is the best sense I know of. Lord Chesterfield

#24369

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put of Lord Chesterfield

#24370

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it Lord Chesterfield

#24371

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Lord Chesterfield

#24372

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few loves it unless in them Lord Chesterfield

#24373

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Lord Chesterfield

#24374

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

#24375

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud

#24376

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. Eugene Debs

#24377

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. Sidney Poitier

#24378

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. Rod Kanehl

#24379

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

#24380

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. African Proverb

#24381

Where there is no shame, there is no honor. African Proverb

#24382

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse. African Proverb

#24383

It takes a village to raise a child. African Proverb

#24384

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African Proverb

#24385

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. African Proverb

#24386

When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers. African Proverb

#24387

When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot. African Proverb

#24388

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. African Proverb

#24389

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24390

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24391

When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. E Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24392

The spirit is the true self. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24393

While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24394

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24395

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24396

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24397

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24398

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live) Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24399

No one can give you better advice than yourself. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24400

A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24401

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain a Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24402

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24403

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24404

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24405

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24406

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24407

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24408

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24409

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24410

No Sane man will dance. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24411

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24412

A friend is, as it were, a second self. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24413

Never injure a friend, even in jest. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24414

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable and if it, o Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24415

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24416

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24417

Nothing quite new is perfect. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24418

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24419

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24420

There is no place more delightful than home. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24421

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24422

Don Corleone, do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real Godfather, The

#24423

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. Godfather, The

#24424

Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. Godfather, The

#24425

Tessio It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. Godfather, The

#24426

Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this Godfather, The

#24427

Sonny Hey, what you gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you want to gun down Godfather, The

#24428

Don Corleone What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that Godfather, The

#24429

Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a Godfather, The

#24430

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. Archibald Wavell

#24431

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. Michael Korda

#24432

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful p Michael Korda

#24433

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. Michael Korda

#24434

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you Michael Korda

#24435

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. Michael Korda

#24436

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8msecsec. Marcus Dolengo

#24437

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. Tupac Shakur

#24438

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't living. Gail Sheehy

#24439

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy

#24440

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. Gail Sheehy

#24441

As we reach midlife. we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't Gail Sheehy

#24442

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation Alfred Hitchcock

#24443

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop. Alfred Hitchcock

#24444

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. Alfred Hitchcock

#24445

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock

#24446

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. Alfred Hitchcock

#24447

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock

#24448

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will g Alfred Hitchcock

#24449

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

#24450

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and Mitch Ratliffe

#24451

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. Millard Fuller

#24452

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay. Millard Fuller

#24453

Tony Montana Me, I want what's coming to me. Manny Oh, well what's coming to you Tony Montana the world, Chico, and everything I Scarface

#24454

Tony Montana, you think you can take me You need a f***ing army if you gonna take me Scarface

#24455

Tony Montana What you looking' at You all a bunch of f***ing assholes. You know why You don't have the guts to be what you want to Scarface

#24456

Tony Montana in this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get Scarface

#24457

Tony Montana Say hello to my little friend Scarface

#24458

Tony Montana, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. Scarface

#24459

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectable Whitney Moore, Jr.

#24460

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard

#24461

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Elbert Hubbard

#24462

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard

#24463

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

#24464

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. Elbert Hubbard

#24465

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard

#24466

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard

#24467

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life. Elbert Hubbard

#24468

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Elbert Hubbard

#24469

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize a Elbert Hubbard

#24470

The artist needs no religion beyond his work. Elbert Hubbard

#24471

The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard

#24472

If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert Hubbard

#24473

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. Elbert Hubbard

#24474

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. Elbert Hubbard

#24475

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. Elbert Hubbard

#24476

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure. Elbert Hubbard

#24477

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

#24478

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own f Elbert Hubbard

#24479

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard

#24480

Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard

#24481

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. Elbert Hubbard

#24482

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard

#24483

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. Elbert Hubbard

#24484

We are punished by our sins, not for them. Elbert Hubbard

#24485

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard

#24486

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. Elbert Hubbard

#24487

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. Elbert Hubbard

#24488

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. Elbert Hubbard

#24489

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

#24490

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is worth. Elbert Hubbard

#24491

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. Elbert Hubbard

#24492

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. Elbert Hubbard

#24493

Editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is Elbert Hubbard

#24494

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. Elbert Hubbard

#24495

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. Elbert Hubbard

#24496

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard

#24497

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George E. Woodberry

#24498

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith George E. Woodberry

#24499

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Henry de Bracton

#24500

Every exit is an entry somewhere. Tom Stoppard

#24501

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. Tom Stoppard

#24502

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You must get everything into proportion. You compensate Tom Stoppard

#24503

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had Tom Stoppard

#24504

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard

#24505

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. Tom Stoppard

#24506

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. Tom Stoppard

#24507

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. Tom Stoppard

#24508

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. Tom Stoppard

#24509

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. Tom Stoppard

#24510

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 Tom Stoppard

#24511

The days of the digital watch are numbered. Tom Stoppard

#24512

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without Tom Stoppard

#24513

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard

#24514

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance Tom Stoppard

#24515

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end Tom Stoppard

#24516

We're actors - we're the opposite of people. Tom Stoppard

#24517

Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. Sicilian Proverb

#24518

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. Sicilian Proverb

#24519

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. E. V. Lucas

#24520

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who should wait for them. E. V. Lucas

#24521

Lefty When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it. Donnie Brasco

#24522

Lefty Wise guy don't carry wallets; they carry their money in a roll.... beanery on the outs Donnie Brasco

#24523

Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right. Donnie Brasco

#24524

Donnie Brasco Forget about it is like if you agree with someone, you know, like Raquel Welsh is one great piece of ass, forget a Donnie Brasco

#24525

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#24526

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

#24527

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#24528

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#24529

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#24530

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Pogo

#24531

It takes a great man to be a good listener. Calvin Coolidge

#24532

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with ta Calvin Coolidge

#24533

Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to Calvin Coolidge

#24534

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them. Calvin Coolidge

#24535

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. Calvin Coolidge

#24536

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have t Calvin Coolidge

#24537

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which Calvin Coolidge

#24538

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. Calvin Coolidge

#24539

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

#24540

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. Calvin Coolidge

#24541

No man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge

#24542

The chief business of the American people is business. Calvin Coolidge

#24543

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. Calvin Coolidge

#24544

The road to a friend's house is never long. Danish proverb

#24545

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse. Danish proverb

#24546

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. Danish proverb

#24547

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. Danish proverb

#24548

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child. Danish proverb

#24549

Children are a poor man's wealth. Danish proverb

#24550

Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them. Danish proverb

#24551

He who would leap high must take a long run. Danish proverb

#24552

The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage. Danish proverb

#24553

Bad is never good until worse happens. Danish proverb

#24554

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. Danish proverb

#24555

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. Danish proverb

#24556

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. Danish proverb

#24557

Life without a friend is death without a witness. Danish proverb

#24558

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it. Danish proverb

#24559

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. Danish proverb

#24560

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion. Danish proverb

#24561

Where there is love, there is pain. Danish proverb

#24562

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. Danish proverb

#24563

If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see. Danish proverb

#24564

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. Danish proverb

#24565

If you would live healthy, be old early. Danish proverb

#24566

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. Danish proverb

#24567

If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle. Danish proverb

#24568

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel. Danish proverb

#24569

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. Danish proverb

#24570

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. Danish proverb

#24571

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.) Danish proverb

#24572

If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else. Danish proverb

#24573

Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it. Danish proverb

#24574

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl. Danish proverb

#24575

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. Danish proverb

#24576

One drink is just right two is too many three are too few. Danish proverb

#24577

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. Danish proverb

#24578

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow. Danish proverb

#24579

From a fallen tree, all make kindling. Danish proverb

#24580

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests. Danish proverb

#24581

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken. Danish proverb

#24582

Don't offer me advice give me money. Danish proverb

#24583

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still. Danish proverb

#24584

To own is to fear. Danish proverb

#24585

The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water. Danish proverb

#24586

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. Danish proverb

#24587

Three Spaniards, four opinions. Danish proverb

#24588

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year. Danish proverb

#24589

To the good listener, half a word is enough. Danish proverb

#24590

Ask advice only of your equals. Danish proverb

#24591

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts

#24592

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it. Eden Phillpotts

#24593

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none. Eden Phillpotts

#24594

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent Richard Milhous Nixon

#24595

I have impeached myself by resigning. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24596

I concede Richard Milhous Nixon

#24597

A man is not finished when he's defeated he's finished when he quits. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24598

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate... Richard Milhous Nixon

#24599

When I retire, I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to Richard Milhous Nixon

#24600

While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter Richard Milhous Nixon

#24601

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24602

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24603

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24604

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... Richard Milhous Nixon

#24605

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24606

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be Richard Milhous Nixon

#24607

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24608

I gave 'them a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have Richard Milhous Nixon

#24609

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, Richard Milhous Nixon

#24610

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable cou Richard Milhous Nixon

#24611

Well, I'm not a crook. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24612

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (O Richard Milhous Nixon

#24613

So, you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have b Richard Milhous Nixon

#24614

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24615

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit the lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, b Richard Milhous Nixon

#24616

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong Richard Milhous Nixon

#24617

I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24618

'Good luck, Mr. President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with Richard Milhous Nixon

#24619

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24620

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his call Richard Milhous Nixon

#24621

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overturn Richard Milhous Nixon

#24622

I let the American people down. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24623

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24624

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white Richard Milhous Nixon

#24625

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24626

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24627

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24628

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24629

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24630

I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24631

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. On Richard Milhous Nixon

#24632

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to sup Richard Milhous Nixon

#24633

The only thing we must fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convey Richard Milhous Nixon

#24634

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate Richard Milhous Nixon

#24635

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24636

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor) Richard Milhous Nixon

#24637

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam W Richard Milhous Nixon

#24638

Certainly, in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to Richard Milhous Nixon

#24639

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as preside Richard Milhous Nixon

#24640

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're tested, when you take some Richard Milhous Nixon

#24641

Sure, there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24642

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals) Richard Milhous Nixon

#24643

The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may h Richard Milhous Nixon

#24644

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11) Richard Milhous Nixon

#24645

Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy) Richard Milhous Nixon

#24646

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever r Richard Milhous Nixon

#24647

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excite Richard Milhous Nixon

#24648

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24649

There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And Richard Milhous Nixon

#24650

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don' Richard Milhous Nixon

#24651

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mai Richard Milhous Nixon

#24652

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare p Richard Milhous Nixon

#24653

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24654

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24655

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24656

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the Richard Milhous Nixon

#24657

There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation) Richard Milhous Nixon

#24658

I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate) Richard Milhous Nixon

#24659

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers Richard Milhous Nixon

#24660

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness I Richard Milhous Nixon

#24661

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24662

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of Richard Milhous Nixon

#24663

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago Richard Milhous Nixon

#24664

I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of S Richard Milhous Nixon

#24665

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24666

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire. Richard Milhous Nixon

#24667

You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian ca Richard Milhous Nixon

#24668

Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court Richard Milhous Nixon

#24669

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code. Dan Salomon

#24670

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. Mike Gill

#24671

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus

#24672

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. Karl Kraus

#24673

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. Karl Kraus

#24674

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards. Karl Kraus

#24675

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted, the pictures are forgotten, and the more a p Henri Matisse

#24676

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse

#24677

What I dream of is an art of balance. Henri Matisse

#24678

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But Forest Witcraft

#24679

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, f A Bartlett Giamatti

#24680

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a A Bartlett Giamatti

#24681

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table. A Bartlett Giamatti

#24682

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a word A Bartlett Giamatti

#24683

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging A Bartlett Giamatti

#24684

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. A Bartlett Giamatti

#24685

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. A Bartlett Giamatti

#24686

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in pa A Bartlett Giamatti

#24687

I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction Ken Faver

#24688

No news at 430 a.m. is good. Lady Bird Johnson

#24689

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of some Lady Bird Johnson

#24690

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Lady Bird Johnson

#24691

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. Roger Rosenblatt

#24692

They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom a Roger Rosenblatt

#24693

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. Robert G. Ingersoll

#24694

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert G. Ingersoll

#24695

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. Robert G. Ingersoll

#24696

There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert G. Ingersoll

#24697

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. Robert G. Ingersoll

#24698

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Robert G. Ingersoll

#24699

At last is Hector stretched upon the plain, Who feared no vengeance for Patroclus slain Then, Prince You should have feared, what Homer

#24700

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their Homer

#24701

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer

#24702

A decent boldness ever meets with friends. Homer

#24703

How God ever brings like to like. Homer

#24704

In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men. Homer

#24705

I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another. Homer

#24706

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. Homer

#24707

A companion's words of persuasion are effective. Homer

#24708

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Homer

#24709

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibility Homer

#24710

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. Homer

#24711

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the co Homer

#24712

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wo Homer

#24713

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. Homer

#24714

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. Homer

#24715

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. Homer

#24716

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly Homer

#24717

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. Homer

#24718

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. Homer

#24719

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. Homer

#24720

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle Homer

#24721

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any he Homer

#24722

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death, all things appear fair. Homer

#24723

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. Homer

#24724

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to a not Homer

#24725

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. Homer

#24726

The single best augury is to fight for one's country. Homer

#24727

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. Homer

#24728

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love. Homer

#24729

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council. Homer

#24730

The fates have given mankind a patient soul. Homer

#24731

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. Homer

#24732

Thus, have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two Homer

#24733

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. Homer

#24734

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. Homer

#24735

By their own follies they perished, the fools. Homer

#24736

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. Homer

#24737

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two Homer

#24738

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. Homer

#24739

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. Homer

#24740

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. Homer

#24741

A small rock holds back a great wave. Homer

#24742

All men have need of the gods. Homer

#24743

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race Homer

#24744

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond th Homer

#24745

So, it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. Homer

#24746

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. Homer

#24747

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the p Homer

#24748

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over a Homer

#24749

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that Homer

#24750

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and Homer

#24751

For rarely are sons like their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. Homer

#24752

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for Homer

#24753

Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift. Homer

#24754

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. Homer

#24755

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. Homer

#24756

We are quick to flare up, we race of men on the earth. Homer

#24757

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer

#24758

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted Homer

#24759

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. Homer

#24760

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dan Homer

#24761

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few. Janet Erskine Stuart

#24762

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different ap Clyde Kluckhohn

#24763

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George

#24764

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done the worst is that which delays them. David Lloyd George

#24765

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if t Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24766

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24767

God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24768

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24769

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter ac Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24770

Dare to be naive. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24771

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24772

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24773

God is a verb. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24774

Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, th Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24775

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24776

Either war is obsolete or men are. Richard Buckminster Fuller

#24777

Come to the edge He said. They said We are afraid. Come to the edge He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew... Guillaume Apollinaire

#24778

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. William Westmoreland

#24779

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war a William Westmoreland

#24780

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. Maurice Hulst

#24781

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. English Proverb

#24782

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. English Proverb

#24783

The eyes are the window of the soul. English Proverb

#24784

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. English Proverb

#24785

The shortest answer is doing. English Proverb

#24786

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. English Proverb

#24787

He that has no charity deserves no mercy. English Proverb

#24788

Many things are lost for want of asking. English Proverb

#24789

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones. English Proverb

#24790

Advice is least heeded when most needed. English Proverb

#24791

In the morning, be first up, and in the evening, last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.

English Proverb

#24792

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. English Proverb

#24793

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty. English Proverb

#24794

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. English Proverb

#24795

Spread the table and contention will cease. English Proverb

#24796

A full cup must be carried steadily. English Proverb

#24797

Never fall out with your bread and butter. English Proverb

#24798

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. English Proverb

#24799

First deserve, and then desire. English Proverb

#24800

Don't fall before you're pushed. English Proverb

#24801

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason. English Proverb

#24802

Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb

#24803

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. English Proverb

#24804

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured. English Proverb

#24805

Every path has its puddle. English Proverb

#24806

We are usually the best men when in the worst health. English Proverb

#24807

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. English Proverb

#24808

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo Galileo Galilei

#24809

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself. Galileo Galilei

#24810

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature Galileo Galilei

#24811

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei

#24812

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei

#24813

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. Archie Griffin

#24814

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. Adolf Hitler

#24815

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches t Adolf Hitler

#24816

Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide Adolf Hitler

#24817

...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. Adolf Hitler

#24818

What luck for rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler

#24819

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler

#24820

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexible Leo Buscaglia

#24821

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

#24822

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice. Doug Larson

#24823

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. Doug Larson

#24824

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true. Doug Larson

#24825

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug Larson

#24826

There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number. Doug Larson

#24827

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. Doug Larson

#24828

If people concentrated on the important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson

#24829

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. Doug Larson

#24830

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

#24831

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson

#24832

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. Doug Larson

#24833

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. Doug Larson

#24834

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. Doug Larson

#24835

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson

#24836

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own Doug Larson

#24837

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. Doug Larson

#24838

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

#24839

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. Doug Larson

#24840

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is the cost of high living. Doug Larson

#24841

In war, there is no substitute for victory. Douglas MacArthur

#24842

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. Douglas MacArthur

#24843

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, o Douglas MacArthur

#24844

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living several years. People gr Douglas MacArthur

#24845

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur

#24846

Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. Laura Swenson

#24847

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. Laura Swenson

#24848

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24849

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24850

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

#24851

To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it William Makepeace Thackeray

#24852

To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24853

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24854

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to William Makepeace Thackeray

#24855

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24856

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24857

Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24858

I would rather make my name than inherit it. William Makepeace Thackeray

#24859

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

#24860

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion. Javan

#24861

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. Javan

#24862

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel

#24863

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own resp Giosu, Borsi

#24864

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. Ernest Dimnet

#24865

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet

#24866

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her soli Ernest Dimnet

#24867

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must con Bertrand Russell

#24868

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russell

#24869

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell

#24870

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

#24871

The trouble with the world is that the stupid is cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell

#24872

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell

#24873

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, Bertrand Russell

#24874

In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell

#24875

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

#24876

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. Bertrand Russell

#24877

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Bertrand Russell

#24878

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving Bertrand Russell

#24879

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure r Bertrand Russell

#24880

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient res Bertrand Russell

#24881

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell

#24882

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubt Bertrand Russell

#24883

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxid Bertrand Russell

#24884

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence. Bertrand Russell

#24885

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual--and the soul of a people. Bertrand Russell

#24886

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the Bertrand Russell

#24887

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

#24888

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is try Bertrand Russell

#24889

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell

#24890

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would Bertrand Russell

#24891

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern education Bertrand Russell

#24892

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Bertrand Russell

#24893

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

#24894

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization o Bertrand Russell

#24895

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. Bertrand Russell

#24896

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell

#24897

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a f Bertrand Russell

#24898

'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unb Bertrand Russell

#24899

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell

#24900

Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell

#24901

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell

#24902

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

#24903

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell

#24904

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has t Bertrand Russell

#24905

Man, needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell

#24906

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell

#24907

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell

#24908

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. Bertrand Russell

#24909

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell

#24910

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to prese Bertrand Russell

#24911

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bags hit me, so I Bertrand Russell

#24912

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Bertrand Russell

#24913

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger port Bertrand Russell

#24914

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. Bertrand Russell

#24915

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe a Bertrand Russell

#24916

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day Bertrand Russell

#24917

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelm Bertrand Russell

#24918

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and Bertrand Russell

#24919

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness Bertrand Russell

#24920

All movements go too far. Bertrand Russell

#24921

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into some Bertrand Russell

#24922

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. Bertrand Russell

#24923

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revoke Bertrand Russell

#24924

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possess not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell

#24925

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell

#24926

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell

#24927

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and see Bertrand Russell

#24928

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell

#24929

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell

#24930

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand Russell

#24931

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in inte Bertrand Russell

#24932

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, in Bertrand Russell

#24933

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

#24934

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

#24935

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 Bertrand Russell

#24936

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell

#24937

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. Bertrand Russell

#24938

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is n Bertrand Russell

#24939

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the clear majority by adequate governmental action. Bertrand Russell

#24940

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. Bertrand Russell

#24941

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

#24942

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell

#24943

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

#24944

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this Bertrand Russell

#24945

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell

#24946

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. Bertrand Russell

#24947

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell

#24948

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the selling Bertrand Russell

#24949

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything Bertrand Russell

#24950

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this l Bertrand Russell

#24951

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but Bertrand Russell

#24952

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. Bertrand Russell

#24953

It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything Bertrand Russell

#24954

Man, is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad o Bertrand Russell

#24955

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. George Shultz

#24956

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. Timothy Leary

#24957

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary

#24958

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary

#24959

Turn on, tune in and drop out. Timothy Leary

#24960

There are three side effects of acid. Enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary

#24961

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary

#24962

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. Kin Hubbard

#24963

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kin Hubbard

#24964

A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Kin Hubbard

#24965

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard

#24966

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. Kin Hubbard

#24967

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. Kin Hubbard

#24968

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it Kin Hubbard

#24969

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard

#24970

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Kin Hubbard

#24971

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. Kin Hubbard

#24972

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. Kin Hubbard

#24973

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24974

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24975

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flam Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24976

Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank th Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24977

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24978

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him win Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24979

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24980

He prayed best who loved best All things both great and small For the dear God who loved us, He made and loved all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24981

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24982

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24983

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-p Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24984

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24985

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24986

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24987

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard, by his own stable and the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and h Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24988

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24989

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24990

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24991

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24992

Poetry the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24993

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That ol Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24994

Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24995

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24996

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24997

Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24998

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, a Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24999

What comes from the heart goes to the heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#25000

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#25001

An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high but oh More horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#25002

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and with its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#25003

Oh, sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#25004

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to b Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#25005

Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I Luke Salisbury

#25006

The Terminator Come with me if you want to live. Terminator 2 Judgment Day

#25007

John Connor No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say affirmative, or some shit like that. You say Terminator 2 Judgment Day

#25008

John Connor, you just can't go around killing people. The Terminator Why John Connor What do you mean why Because you can't. The T Terminator 2 Judgment Day

#25009

Sarah Connor How are you supposed to know Men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so Terminator 2 Judgment Day

#25010

The Terminator I'll be back Terminator 2 Judgment Day

#25011

The Terminator Hasta la vista, baby. Terminator 2 Judgment Day

#25012

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Frank Herbert

#25013

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Frank Herbert

#25014

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 p Frank Herbert

#25015

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your mast Frank Herbert

#25016

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert

#25017

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. Frank Herbert

#25018

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. Frank Herbert

#25019

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can Frank Herbert

#25020

What do you despise by this are you truly known. Frank Herbert

#25021

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. Jack Anderson

#25022

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor

#25023

A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur p Harold Taylor

#25024

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. Harold Taylor

#25025

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent James Dale Davidson

#25026

I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman

#25027

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. Adam Smith

#25028

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy again Adam Smith

#25029

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975) Adam Smith

#25030

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. Abraham Maslow

#25031

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without few Abraham Maslow

#25032

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow

#25033

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can Abraham Maslow

#25034

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, calli Abraham Maslow

#25035

Pat Healy Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion. Mary and what's that Pat Healy I work with retards. Mary isn't that there's Something about Mary

#25036

Mary I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat There's Something About Mary

#25037

Hitchhiker No, no, not 6 I said 7. Nobody's coming' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes You won't even get your heart going, There's Something About Mary

#25038

Ted What about Brett Fav... ruh There's Something About Mary

#25039

Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans There's Something About Mary

#25040

Pat Healy Those goofy bastards are about the best thing I've got going. There's Something About Mary

#25041

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 Cheers

#25042

As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. Hippocrates

#25043

Walking is man's best medicine. Hippocrates

#25044

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates

#25045

Many admire, few know. Hippocrates

#25046

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates

#25047

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates

#25048

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. Hippocrates

#25049

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. Hippocrates

#25050

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit fr Hippocrates

#25051

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#25052

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match t Christian Cardell Corbet

#25053

Why don't you write books people can read Nora Joyce, to her husband James

#25054

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important like a league game or something. Dick Butkus

#25055

Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terror Joseph T. Chew

#25056

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. D. H. Lawrence

#25057

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. D. H. Lawrence

#25058

I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty thi D. H. Lawrence

#2505

We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run th D. H. Lawrence

#25060

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. D. H. Lawrence

#25061

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. D. H. Lawrence

#25062

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for th D. H. Lawrence

#25063

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. Lawrence

#25064

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. Lawrence

#25065

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present D. H. Lawrence

#25066

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. D. H. Lawrence

#25067

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. Lawrence

#25068

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

#25069

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life D. H. Lawrence

#25070

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. G. K. Chesterton

#25071

Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. G. K. Chesterton

#25072

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G. K. Chesterton

#25073

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. G. K. Chesterton

#25074

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular G. K. Chesterton

#25075

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. Chesterton

#25076

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

#25077

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other pr G. K. Chesterton

#25078

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

#25079

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G. K. Chesterton

#25080

My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My m G. K. Chesterton

#25081

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. G. K. Chesterton

#25082

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

#25083

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. G. K. Chesterton

#25084

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

#25085

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

#25086

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G. K. Chesterton

#25087

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G. K. Chesterton

#25088

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

#25089

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. G. K. Chesterton

#25090

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. G. K. Chesterton

#25091

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

#25092

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

#25093

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

#25094

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. G. K. Chesterton

#25095

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K. Chesterton

#25096

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. G. K. Chesterton

#25097

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. G. K. Chesterton

#25098

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton

#25099

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Eugene Ionesco

#25100

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugene Ionesco

#25101

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco

#25102

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

#25103

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual cons Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

#25104

History is full of surprises. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

#25105

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey

#25106

Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey

#25107

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choice Stephen Covey

#25108

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Stephen Covey

#25109

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. Stephen Covey

#25110

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. Stephen Covey

#25111

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such a Stephen Covey

#25112

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. Stephen Covey

#25113

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. Stephen Covey

#25114

Nothing is as strong as gentleness and nothing is as gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman

#25115

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger Ralph W. Sockman

#25116

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

#25117

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. Ralph W. Sockman

#25118

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney

#25119

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished b Walt Disney

#25120

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

#25121

All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney

#25122

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it Walt Disney

#25123

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. Walt Disney

#25124

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. Walt Disney

#25125

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjld

#25126

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made Dag Hammarskjld

#25127

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. Dag Hammarskjld

#25128

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. Dag Hammarskjld

#25129

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked w Dag Hammarskjld

#25130

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. Dag Hammarskjld

#25131

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth Dag Hammarskjld

#25132

If you seek yourself...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your Dag Hammarskjld

#25133

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. Dag Hammarskjld

#25134

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. Dag Hammarskjld

#25135

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumed Dag Hammarskjld

#25136

.....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intell Dag Hammarskjld

#25137

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. Dag Hammarskjld

#25138

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 Dag Hammarskjld

#25139

The longest journey is the journey inward. Dag Hammarskjld

#25140

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what Dag Hammarskjld

#25141

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjld

#25142

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. Dag Hammarskjld

#25143

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. Dag Hammarskjld

#25144

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. A. C. Benson

#25145

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they A. C. Benson

#25146

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. A. C. Benson

#25147

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. A. C. Benson

#25148

All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all t A. C. Benson

#25149

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. J. Russel Lynes

#25150

If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. J. Russel Lynes

#25151

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater J. Russel Lynes

#25152

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail. David Merrick

#25153

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million m Robert X Cringely

#25154

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person. Vi Putnam

#25155

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up. Jesse Jackson

#25156

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. George Burns

#25157

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. George Burns

#25158

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns

#25159

I get a standing ovation just standing. George Burns

#25160

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left. George Burns

#25161

Nice to be here at my age it's nice to be anywhere. George Burns

#25162

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. George Burns

#25163

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. George Burns

#25164

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. George Burns

#25165

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. George Burns

#25166

Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercise George Burns

#25167

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns

#25168

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. George Burns

#25169

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns

#25170

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working George Burns

#25171

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. Rotarian

#25172

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Ellen Glasgow

#25173

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. Ellen Glasgow

#25174

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow

#25175

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow

#25176

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. Ellen Glasgow

#25177

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Ellen Glasgow

#25178

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke

#25179

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert

Brooke

#25180

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo C. Rosten

#25181

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.... Leo C. Rosten

#25182

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists Leo C. Rosten

#25183

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. Leo C. Rosten

#25184

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. Leo C. Rosten

#25185

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo C. Rosten

#25186

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructive Leo C. Rosten

#25187

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate I Leo C. Rosten

#25188

Satire is focused bitterness. Leo C. Rosten

#25189

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. Leo C. Rosten

#25190

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I Carry Nation

#25191

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said b Colonel William Prescott

#25192

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. Sam Snead

#25193

When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. Dick Houser

#25194

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. Flora Whittemore

#25195

A will finds a way. Orison Swett Marden

#25196

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. Orison Swett Marden

#25197

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is such Orison Swett Marden

#25198

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Orison Swett Marden

#25199

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of Orison Swett Marden

#25200

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Orison Swett Marden

#25201

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his facu Orison Swett Marden

#25202

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never ha Orison Swett Marden

#25203

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through the Orison Swett Marden

#25204

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic t Orison Swett Marden

#25205

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. Orison Swett Marden

#25206

Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought co Orison Swett Marden

#25207

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. Orison Swett Marden

#25208

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. Orison Swett Marden

#25209

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. Charles Luckman

#25210

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. Charles Luckman

#25211

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 o Robert Frost

#25212

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

#25213

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

#25214

I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less travel Robert Frost

#25215

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

#25216

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost

#25217

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost

#25218

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on. Robert Frost

#25219

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost

#25220

The best way out is always through. Robert Frost

#25221

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost

#25222

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. M Robert Frost

#25223

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost

#25224

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. Robert Frost

#25225

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. Robert Frost

#25226

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. Robert Frost

#25227

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work. Robert Frost

#25228

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

#25229

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

#25230

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost

#25231

The only way round is through. Robert Frost

#25232

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves. Robert Frost

#25233

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. Robert Frost

#25234

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. Robert Frost

#25235

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. Robert Frost

#25236

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost

#25237

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost

#25238

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason And Robert Frost

#25239

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things. Robert Frost

#25240

Anything more than the truth would be too much. Robert Frost

#25241

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Robert Frost

#25242

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost

#25243

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been t Robert Frost

#25244

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. Robert Frost

#25245

Hell is a half-filled auditorium. Robert Frost

#25246

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost

#25247

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

#25248

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

#25249

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost

#25250

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 Robert Frost

#25251

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost

#25252

There's never a new fashion but it's old. Chaucer

#25253

He was as fresh as is the month of May. Chaucer

#25254

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it. Georges Duhamel

#25255

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Georges Duhamel

#25256

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges Duhamel

#25257

Fans don't boo nobodies. Reggie Jackson

#25258

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what' Sydney Harris

#25259

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney Harris

#25260

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that Sydney Harris

#25261

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. Sydney Harris

#25262

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for Sydney Harris

#25263

There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. Sydney Harris

#25264

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is Sydney Harris

#25265

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely de Sydney Harris

#25266

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon pose Sydney Harris

#25267

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. Sydney Harris

#25268

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get bet Sydney Harris

#25269

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Sydney Harris

#25270

Nobody can be as amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney Harris

#25271

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made w Sydney Harris

#25272

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost ever Sydney Harris

#25273

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be b Sydney Harris

#25274

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. Sydney Harris

#25275

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought f Thornton Wilder

#25276

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. Thornton Wilder

#25277

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. Hume

#25278

If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you. Matt Welsh

#25279

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. Maxim Gorky

#25280

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere. Maxim Gorky

#25281

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky

#25282

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man--Who knows Maxim Gorky

#25283

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy when work is a duty, life is slavery. Maxim Gorky

#25284

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. Maxim Gorky

#25285

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. Maxim Gorky

#25286

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots Paul Erdman

#25287

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson

#25288

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson

#25289

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson

#25290

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson

#25291

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. Samuel Johnson

#25292

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

#25293

Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and Samuel Johnson

#25294

It is better to live rich than to die rich. Samuel Johnson

#25295

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson

#25296

Round numbers are always false. Samuel Johnson

#25297

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson

#25298

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. Samuel Johnson

#25299

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Samuel Johnson

#25300

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson

#25301

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. Samuel Johnson

#25302

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. Samuel Johnson

#25303

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Samuel Johnson

#25304

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Samuel Johnson

#25305

ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition. Samuel Johnson

#25306

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Samuel Johnson

#25307

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson

#25308

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Samuel Johnson

#25309

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous mali Samuel Johnson

#25310

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson

#25311

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. Samuel Johnson

#25312

Learn that the present hour alone is men. Samuel Johnson

#25313

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. Samuel Johnson

#25314

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity Samuel Johnson

#25315

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. Samuel Johnson

#25316

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which make Samuel Johnson

#25317

He who praises everybody, praises nobody. Samuel Johnson

#25318

That fellow seems to possess but one idea and that is the wrong one. Samuel Johnson

#25319

As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise. Samuel Johnson

#25320

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure. Samuel Johnson

#25321

A cucumber would be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. Samuel Johnson

#25322

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. Samuel Johnson

#25323

Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson

#25324

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. Samuel Johnson

#25325

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. Samuel Johnson

#25326

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. Samuel Johnson

#25327

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive Samuel Johnson

#25328

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the Samuel Johnson

#25329

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson

#25330

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat Samuel Johnson

#25331

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I Samuel Johnson

#25332

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson

#25333

Your aspirations are your possibilities. Samuel Johnson

#25334

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix y Samuel Johnson

#25335

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson

#25336

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Samuel Johnson

#25337

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord w Samuel Johnson

#25338

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by Samuel Johnson

#25339

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men. Samuel Johnson

#25340

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience. Samuel Johnson

#25341

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Samuel Johnson

#25342

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson

#25343

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly Samuel Johnson

#25344

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his fri Samuel Johnson

#25345

Hope is necessary in every condition. Samuel Johnson

#25346

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. Samuel Johnson

#25347

A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. Samuel Johnson

#25348

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or Samuel Johnson

#25349

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. Samuel Johnson

#25350

Of all the grief's that harass the distress, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Samuel Johnson

#25351

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. Samuel Johnson

#25352

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson

#25353

If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle. Samuel Johnson

#25354

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson

#25355

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson

#25356

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. Samuel Johnson

#25357

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson

#25358

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson

#25359

The world is not yet exhausted let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. Samuel Johnson

#25360

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate Samuel Johnson

#25361

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Samuel Johnson

#25362

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson

#25363

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. Samuel Johnson

#25364

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Samuel Johnson

#25365

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Samuel Johnson

#25366

Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apothegm, at which many Samuel Johnson

#25367

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be c Samuel Johnson

#25368

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the cha Samuel Johnson

#25369

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Samuel Johnson

#25370

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson

#25371

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which Samuel Johnson

#25372

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage Samuel Johnson

#25373

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange Samuel Johnson

#25374

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose ca Samuel Johnson

#25375

Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke

#25376

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Edmund Burke

#25377

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

#25378

You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke

#25379

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Edmund Burke

#25380

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke

#25381

All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and Edmund Burke

#25382

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper. Edmund Burke

#25383

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. Edmund Burke

#25384

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. Edmund Burke

#25385

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke

#25386

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

#25387

Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke

#25388

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success. Edmund Burke

#25389

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, Edmund Burke

#25390

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. Edmund Burke

#25391

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund Burke

#25392

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. Edmund Burke

#25393

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke

#25394

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Edmund Burke

#25395

Ambition can creep as well as soar. Edmund Burke

#25396

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke

#25397

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But t Edmund Burke

#25398

Never despair but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke

#25399

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke

#25400

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke

#25401

The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and Edmund Burke

#25402

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. Edmund Burke

#25403

Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb

#25404

You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too. Japanese Proverb

#25405

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives. Japanese Proverb

#25406

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare Japanese Proverb

#25407

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. Japanese Proverb

#25408

We are no more than candles burning in the wind. Japanese Proverb

#25409

When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there. Japanese Proverb

#25410

If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese Proverb

#25411

One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese Proverb

#25412

After victory, tighten your helmet chord. Japanese Proverb

#25413

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. Japanese Proverb

#25414

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb

#25415

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. Japanese Proverb

#25416

The reverse side also has a reverse side. Japanese Proverb

#25417

Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. Japanese Proverb

#25418

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned. Japanese Proverb

#25419

The nail that sticks out is hammered down. Japanese Proverb

#25420

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. Japanese Proverb

#25421

Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other. Japanese Proverb

#25422

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home. Japanese Proverb

#25423

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Japanese Proverb

#25424

What passing bells for these who die as cattle Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can p Wilfred Owen

#25425

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet. Theodore White

#25426

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson

#25427

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson

#25428

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than Thomas Jefferson

#25429

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

#25430

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should Thomas Jefferson

#25431

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson

#25432

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against Thomas Jefferson

#25433

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson

#25434

Every man has two countries his own and France. Thomas Jefferson

#25435

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our fir Thomas Jefferson

#25436

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. Thomas Jefferson

#25437

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the precede Thomas Jefferson

#25438

When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred. Thomas Jefferson

#25439

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson

#25440

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson

#25441

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Thomas Jefferson

#25442

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. Thomas Jefferson

#25443

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Thomas Jefferson

#25444

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson

#25445

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the phys Thomas Jefferson

#25446

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. Thomas Jefferson

#25447

Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson

#25448

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear. Thomas Jefferson

#25449

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing Thomas Jefferson

#25450

In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson

#25451

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong Thomas Jefferson

#25452

One man with courage is a majority. Thomas Jefferson

#25453

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson

#25454

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful ho Thomas Jefferson

#25455

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson

#25456

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the Thomas Jefferson

#25457

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such Thomas Jefferson

#25458

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor Thomas Jefferson

#25459

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for h Thomas Jefferson

#25460

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings Thomas Jefferson

#25461

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. Thomas Jefferson

#25462

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the f Thomas Jefferson

#25463

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. Thomas Jefferson

#25464

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson

#25465

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson

#25466

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, Thomas Jefferson

#25467

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. Thomas Jefferson

#25468

Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by Thomas Jefferson

#25469

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair Thomas Jefferson

#25470

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson

#25471

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he h Thomas Jefferson

#25472

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson

#25473

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson

#25474

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Thomas Jefferson

#25475

...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

#25476

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson

#25477

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson

#25478

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to Thomas Jefferson

#25479

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson

#25480

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over other Thomas Jefferson

#25481

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy Thomas Jefferson

#25482

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left Thomas Jefferson

#25483

Information is the currency of democracy. Thomas Jefferson

#25484

This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever Thomas Jefferson

#25485

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain una Thomas Jefferson

#25486

When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Thomas Jefferson

#25487

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. Thomas Jefferson

#25488

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world Thomas Jefferson

#25489

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson

#25490

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance Thomas Jefferson

#25491

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent that from that equal creation t Thomas Jefferson

#25492

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea an Thomas Jefferson

#25493

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. Thomas Jefferson

#25494

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

#25495

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. Thomas Jefferson

#25496

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson

#25497

Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson

#25498

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. Thomas Jefferson

#25499

Health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson

#25500

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it. Thomas Jefferson

#25501

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson

#25502

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it Thomas Jefferson

#25503

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. Thomas Jefferson

#25504

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean Thomas Jefferson

#25505

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and Thomas Jefferson

#25506

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. Thomas Jefferson

#25507

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. Thomas Jefferson

#25508

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson

#25509

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson

#25510

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on Thomas Jefferson

#25511

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touché Thomas Jefferson

#25512

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. J. G. Gallimore

#25513

The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go' E. M. Kelly

#25514

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. Vladimir Nabokov

#25515

Solitude is the playfield of Satan. Vladimir Nabokov

#25516

My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov

#25517

All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.' Mickey Lolich

#25518

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as d Luigi Barzini

#25519

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of Luigi Barzini

#25520

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. Samuel Butler

#25521

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself Samuel Butler

#25522

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler

#25523

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler

#25524

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler

#25525

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. Samuel Butler

#25526

For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Samuel Butler

#25527

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler

#25528

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Samuel Butler

#25529

God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is Samuel Butler

#25530

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. Samuel Butler

#25531

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. Samuel Butler

#25532

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before Prove false again Samuel Butler

#25533

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places. Samuel Butler

#25534

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler

#25535

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. Samuel Butler

#25536

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler

#25537

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler

#25538

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler

#25539

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. Samuel Butler

#25540

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler

#25541

He that is down can fall no lower. Samuel Butler

#25542

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. Samuel Butler

#25543

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. Samuel Butler

#25544

The course of true anything does not run smooth. Samuel Butler

#25545

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, f Samuel Butler

#25546

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler

#25547

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can in the end get what Samuel Butler

#25548

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler

#25549

An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books. Samuel Butler

#25550

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains the Samuel Butler

#25551

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

#25552

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. Samuel Butler

#25553

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler

#25554

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. Samuel Butler

#25555

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler

#25556

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. Martha Grimes

#25557

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington

#25558

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Booker T. Washington

#25559

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Booker T. Washington

#25560

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington

#25561

There are two ways of exerting one's strength one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T. Washington

#25562

Character is power. Booker T. Washington

#25563

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington

#25564

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. William Carlos Williams

#25565

What power has love but forgiveness in other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise William Carlos Williams

#25566

If they give you lined paper, write the other way. William Carlos Williams

#25567

In summer, the song sings itself. William Carlos Williams

#25568

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. Theodore Hesburgh

#25569

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten h Theodore Hesburgh

#25570

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't m Theodore Hesburgh

#25571

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. Theodore Hesburgh

#25572

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. Theodore Hesburgh

#25573

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh

#25574

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan

#25575

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan

#25576

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

#25577

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong. Ronald Reagan

#25578

People don't start wars, governments do. Ronald Reagan

#25579

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow) Ronald Reagan

#25580

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-g Ronald Reagan

#25581

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work) Ronald Reagan

#25582

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy when Ronald Reagan

#25583

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' Ronald Reagan

#25584

If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too. Ronald Reagan

#25585

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again. Ronald Reagan

#25586

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya) Ronald Reagan

#25587

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. Ronald Reagan

#25588

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody. Ronald Reagan

#25589

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service. Ronald Reagan

#25590

I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people h Ronald Reagan

#25591

I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience. Ronald Reagan

#25592

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person Ronald Reagan

#25593

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the U Ronald Reagan

#25594

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya) Ronald Reagan

#25595

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat y Ronald Reagan

#25596

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act n Ronald Reagan

#25597

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the fi Ronald Reagan

#25598

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan

#25599

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. Ronald Reagan

#25600

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill) Ronald Reagan

#25601

It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.(1986) Ronald Reagan

#25602

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan

#25603

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. Ronald Reagan

#25604

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard. Ronald Reagan

#25605

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining ci Ronald Reagan

#25606

I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar. Ronald Reagan

#25607

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I Ronald Reagan

#25608

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Ronald Reagan

#25609

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow. Ronald Reagan

#25610

The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job. Ronald Reagan

#25611

It doesn't do well to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws Ronald Reagan

#25612

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

#25613

Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. Ronald Reagan

#25614

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four Ronald Reagan

#25615

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classroom Ronald Reagan

#25616

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- Ronald Reagan

#25617

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating. Ronald Reagan

#25618

The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that par Ronald Reagan

#25619

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by Ronald Reagan

#25620

This administration is totally colorblind. Ronald Reagan

#25621

My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is Ronald Reagan

#25622

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. Ronald Reagan

#25623

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified b Ronald Reagan

#25624

How do you tell a communist Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist It's someone who Ronald Reagan

#25625

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Ronald Reagan

#25626

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. Ronald Reagan

#25627

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will Ronald Reagan

#25628

Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars Ronald Reagan

#25629

America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward we believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for Ronald Reagan

#25630

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he Ronald Reagan

#25631

The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. Ronald Reagan

#25632

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form. Ronald Reagan

#25633

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day. Ronald Reagan

#25634

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the c Ronald Reagan

#25635

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control. Ronald Reagan

#25636

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about c Ronald Reagan

#25637

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiate Ronald Reagan

#25638

The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resi Ronald Reagan

#25639

Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth. Ronald Reagan

#25640

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who Ronald Reagan

#25641

The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each s Ronald Reagan

#25642

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would. Ronald Reagan

#25643

My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing Ronald Reagan

#25644

Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do we'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudea Ronald Reagan

#25645

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, and cluttered with gobble Ronald Reagan

#25646

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit. Ronald Reagan

#25647

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. Ronald Reagan

#25648

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be Ronald Reagan

#25649

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral co Ronald Reagan

#25650

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. Ronald Reagan

#25651

Facts are stupid things. Ronald Reagan

#25652

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan

#25653

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will Ronald Reagan

#25654

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five Ronald Reagan

#25655

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her p James Baldwin

#25656

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin

#25657

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up. James Baldwin

#25658

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin

#25659

The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording Ken Konecki

#25660

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

#25661

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. Mahatma Gandhi

#25662

Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

#25663

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma

Gandhi

#25664

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

#25665

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the Mahatma Gandhi

#25666

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

#25667

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi

#25668

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi

#25669

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi

#25670

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into c Mahatma Gandhi

#25671

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. Mahatma Gandhi

#25672

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. Mahatma Gandhi

#25673

I want freedom for the full expression on my personality. Mahatma Gandhi

#25674

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Mahatma Gandhi

#25675

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

#25676

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi

#25677

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of Mahatma Gandhi

#25678

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi

#25679

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi

#25680

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty Mahatma Gandhi

#25681

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might Mahatma Gandhi

#25682

I think it would be a good idea. Mahatma Gandhi

#25683

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi

#25684

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. Mahatma Gandhi

#25685

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been' John Greenleaf Whittier

#25686

The saddest thing of word or pen, to know the things that might have been. John Greenleaf Whittier

#25687

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but, grateful, take the good I find the best of now and here. John Greenleaf Whittier

#25688

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. John Greenleaf Whittier

#25689

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 Philip Caldwell

#25690

Happiness hates the timid so does science Eugene O'Neill

#25691

Critics I love every bone in their heads. Eugene O'Neill

#25692

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers. Rodan of Alexandria

#25693

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. A Rodan of Alexandria

#25694

Fascism is capitalism in decay. Lenin

#25695

A lie told often enough becomes truth. Lenin

#25696

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. Lenin

#25697

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. Henri de Lubac

#25698

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence. Franoise Mallet-Joris

#25699

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, sch Walt Whitman

#25700

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, and I know that the hand of Walt Whitman

#25701

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. Walt Whitman

#25702

Answer that you are here---that life exists and identity that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. Walt Whitman

#25703

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. Walt Whitman

#25704

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, and I have said that the body is not more than the soul, and nothing, not G Walt Whitman

#25705

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. Walt Whitman

#25706

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me and why should I not speak to you Walt Whitman

#25707

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. Walt Whitman

#25708

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman

#25709

My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd Walt Whitman

#25710

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfully Walt Whitman

#25711

From this hour I ordain myself loosed of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listen Walt Whitman

#25712

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, Walt Whitman

#25713

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

#25714

I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt Whitman

#25715

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself, Walt Whitman

#25716

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, g Walt Whitman

#25717

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman

#25718

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. Walt Whitman

#25719

Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman

#25720

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman

#25721

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. Walt Whitman

#25722

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman

#25723

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman

#25724

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with Thomas Hobbes

#25725

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes

#25726

The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Thomas Hobbes

#25727

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself called religion. Thomas Hobbes

#25728

Such truth as opposed no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. Thomas Hobbes

#25729

Leisure is the mother of philosophy. Thomas Hobbes

#25730

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair. Thomas Hobbes

#25731

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

#25732

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. David Russell

#25733

Not all who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25734

Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25735

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25736

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25737

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination J. R. R. Tolkien

#25738

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a J. R. R. Tolkien

#25739

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25740

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its press J. R. R. Tolkien

#25741

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25742

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25743

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25744

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25745

All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien

#25746

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R. Tolkien

#25747

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them then be not too eager to deal out death in J. R. R. Tolkien

#25748

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, be J. R. R. Tolkien

#25749

Nineties style isn't. David Borenstein

#25750

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. David Borenstein

#25751

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. David Borenstein

#25752

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. David Borenstein

#25753

Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, David Borenstein

#25754

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.' I replied, 'They used to say the same thin Roy Blount, Jr.

#25755

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace

#25756

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. Horace

#25757

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal. Horace

#25758

He has the deed half-done who has made a beginning. Horace

#25759

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with Horace

#25760

I strive to be brief, and become obscure. Horace

#25761

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. Horace

#25762

Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow. Horace

#25763

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. Horace

#25764

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by a Horace

#25765

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.) Horace

#25766

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away) Horace

#25767

Whatever your advice, make it brief. Horace

#25768

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all Horace

#25769

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.) Horace

#25770

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be you Horace

#25771

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him. Horace

#25772

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace

#25773

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. Horace

#25774

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. Horace

#25775

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have Horace

#25776

The appearance of right oft leads us wrong. Horace

#25777

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace

#25778

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace

#25779

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. Horace

#25780

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. Horace

#25781

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. Horace

#25782

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. Horace

#25783

I will not add another word. Horace

#25784

Faults are soon copied. Horace

#25785

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. Horace

#25786

With silence favor me. Horace

#25787

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. Horace

#25788

Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. Horace

#25789

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. Horace

#25790

The covetous man is ever in want. Horace

#25791

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin Horace

#25792

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. Horace

#25793

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place. Horace

#25794

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. Horace

#25795

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. Horace

#25796

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to en Horace

#25797

In adversity remember to keep an even mind. Horace

#25798

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace

#25799

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace

#25800

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment. Horace

#25801

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. Horace

#25802

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet Horace

#25803

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace

#25804

There is measure in all things. Horace

#25805

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a sa Horace

#25806

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. Horace

#25807

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. Christopher Columbus

#25808

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart

#25809

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart

#25810

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows Amelia Earhart

#25811

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Earhart

#25812

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others. Leib Lazarow

#25813

What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns Julie Cochrane

#25814

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. Willem de Kooning

#25815

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with Betty Smith

#25816

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. Fran Lebowitz

#25817

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz

#25818

The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. Fran Lebowitz

#25819

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

#25820

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. Fran Lebowitz

#25821

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. Fran Lebowitz

#25822

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beaut Fran Lebowitz

#25823

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract -- teach him to deduct. Fran Lebowitz

#25824

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. Fran Lebowitz

#25825

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Fran Lebowitz

#25826

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. Fran Lebowitz

#25827

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. Fran Lebowitz

#25828

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. Fran Lebowitz

#25829

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is inf Fran Lebowitz

#25830

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. Fran Lebowitz

#25831

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not. Fran Lebowitz

#25832

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz

#25833

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz

#25834

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation Fran Lebowitz

#25835

My favorite animal is steak. Fran Lebowitz

#25836

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the in Fran Lebowitz

#25837

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. Fran Lebowitz

#25838

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. Fran Lebowitz

#25839

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. Fran Lebowitz

#25840

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. Fran Lebowitz

#25841

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater

#25842

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Was Barry Goldwater

#25843

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone. Barry Goldwater

#25844

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. Barry Goldwater

#25845

Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt And who has not thought that the impersonal J. Bronowski

#25846

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. Ray Knight

#25847

It ain't bragging' if you can back it up. Dizzy Dean

#25848

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery

#25849

La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from stick Paul Valery

#25850

Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder. Paul Valery

#25851

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery

#25852

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery

#25853

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, Paul Valery

#25854

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. Paul Valery

#25855

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Paul Valery

#25856

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he Paul Valery

#25857

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Paul Valery

#25858

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery

#25859

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery

#25860

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery

#25861

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. Paul Valery

#25862

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Paul Valery

#25863

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#25864

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#25865

Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkeys. They were a huge influence on the Beatles. Dumb & Dumber

#25866

Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airp Dumb & Dumber

#25867

Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll b Dumb & Dumber

#25868

Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't real Dumb & Dumber

#25869

Lloyd what are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together Dumb & Dumber

#25870

Lloyd When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her. Dumb & Dumber

#25871

The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are Jack Trice

#25872

Bluntness is a virtue. Allison Ling

#25873

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all by uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. John Dickinson

#25874

The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him. N.B. From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things com Lamentations 325

#25875

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the component Doug Vargas

#25876

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. Bede Jarrett

#25877

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a Vail. Bede Jarrett

#25878

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world c Hermann Hesse

#25879

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

#25880

Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point Hermann Hesse

#25881

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. Hermann Hesse

#25882

Love of God is not always the same as love of good. Hermann Hesse

#25883

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Hermann Hesse

#25884

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is Hermann Hesse

#25885

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the image Hermann Hesse

#25886

...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one ne Hermann Hesse

#25887

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. Hermann Hesse

#25888

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called Hermann Hesse

#25889

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. Hermann Hesse

#25890

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse

#25891

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. Hermann Hesse

#25892

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse

#25893

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse

#25894

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. Glenn Dickey

#25895

The harder you work, the luckier you get. McAlexander

#25896

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland

#25897

Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland

#25898

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner

#25899

Society attacks early when the individual is helpless. B. F. Skinner

#25900

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, e B. F. Skinner

#25901

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner

#25902

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. Leonard Brandwein

#25903

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway Bernard Avishai

#25904

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buechner

#25905

No one wants advice -- only corroboration. John Steinbeck

#25906

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. John Steinbeck

#25907

I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. John Steinbeck

#25908

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, em John Steinbeck

#25909

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

#25910

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake this is commonly misquotes as you can't have your cake and eat it, too. John Heywood

#25911

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. John Heywood

#25912

A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink. John Heywood

#25913

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. Alan Coren

#25914

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. Alan Coren

#25915

There are two ways of constructing a software design one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, a C.A.R. Hoare

#25916

Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches. King Henry IV of France

#25917

Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. King Henry IV of France

#25918

Her children arise up, and call her blessed. Proverbs 3128

#25919

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. W. Edwards Deming

#25920

It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and *then* do your best. W. Edwards Deming

#25921

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, e W. Edwards Deming

#25922

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better W. Edwards Deming

#25923

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

#25924

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming

#25925

ARCHITECTURE, n the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson

#25926

All art is but imitation of nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25927

We learn not in the school, but in life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25928

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25929

It is well to be born either a king or a fool. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25930

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yours Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25931

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25932

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25933

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25934

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25935

In every good man a God doth dwell. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25936

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25937

Why does no one confess his sins because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25938

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25939

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25940

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25941

The best ideas are common property. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25942

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will not be right un Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25943

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25944

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25945

Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25946

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to s Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25947

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25948

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25949

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25950

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25951

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25952

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25953

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25954

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25955

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25956

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25957

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25958

No man ever became wise by chance. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25959

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25960

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25961

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25962

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25963

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. \- Epistulae ad Lucilium Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25964

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25965

...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Mora Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25966

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25967

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25968

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insulting and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or l Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25969

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25970

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25971

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25972

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25973

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25974

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25975

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25976

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worth Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25977

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better the Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25978

All cruelty springs from weakness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25979

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25980

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25981

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25982

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks t Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25983

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25984

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25985

That grief is light which can take counsel. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25986

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25987

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25988

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25989

If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25990

Malice drinks one half of its own poison. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25991

A great mind becomes a great fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25992

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, a Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25993

He who has great power should use it lightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25994

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25995

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25996

Time heals what reason cannot. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25997

Time discovers truth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25998

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#25999

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26000

The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself succeed Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26001

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquilities Animi Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26002

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26003

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26004

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Epistulae Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26005

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26006

To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26007

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. – Phoenissae Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#26008

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. Roger Starr

#26009

Real riches are the riches possessed inside. B. C. Forbes

#26010

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. Chapman Cohen

#26011

Green Goblin We are who we choose to be... now, CHOOSE. Spider-Man

#26012

Ring Announcer What's your name kid Peter The Human Spider. Ring Announcer That's it The Human Spider That's the best you've got Spider-Man

#26013

Green Goblin The itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out. Spider-Man

#26014

Spider-Man Go web. Fly. Up, up, and away web. Shazam. Web it. Tally ho. Spider-Man

#26015

Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility. Spider-Man

#26016

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option. Spider-Man

#26017

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know the story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy lit Spider-Man

#26018

J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone sa Spider-Man

#26019

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and ever Ty Cobb

#26020

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham

#26021

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham

#26022

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. W. Somerset Maugham

#26023

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. W. Somerset Maugham

#26024

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the W. Somerset Maugham

#26025

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. W. Somerset Maugham

#26026

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is child W. Somerset Maugham

#26027

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham

#26028

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love W. Somerset Maugham

#26029

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he real W. Somerset Maugham

#26030

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham

#26031

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. W. Somerset Maugham

#26032

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 W. Somerset Maugham

#26033

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. W. Somerset Maugham

#26034

Tolerance is another word for indifference. W. Somerset Maugham

#26035

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset Maugham

#26036

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. W. Somerset Maugham

#26037

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money th W. Somerset Maugham

#26038

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. W. Somerset Maugham

#26039

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the W. Somerset Maugham

#26040

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. W. Somerset Maugham

#26041

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. W. Somerset Maugham

#26042

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham

#26043

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, W. Somerset Maugham

#26044

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham

#26045

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. W. Somerset Maugham

#26046

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham

#26047

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham

#26048

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham

#26049

We do not write because we want to we write because we have to. W. Somerset Maugham

#26050

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham

#26051

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. W. Somerset Maugham

#26052

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are f W. Somerset Maugham

#26053

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. W. Somerset Maugham

#26054

I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. W. Somerset Maugham

#26055

D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been wort W. Somerset Maugham

#26056

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. W. Somerset Maugham

#26057

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. W. Somerset Maugham

#26058

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness W. Somerset Maugham

#26059

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. W. Somerset Maugham

#26060

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W. Somerset Maugham

#26061

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. W. Somerset Maugham

#26062

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. W. Somerset Maugham

#26063

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. W. Somerset Maugham

#26064

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. W. Somerset Maugham

#26065

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent W. Somerset Maugham

#26066

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. Somerset Maugham

#26067

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was stir W. Somerset Maugham

#26068

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. W. Somerset Maugham

#26069

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they see W. Somerset Maugham

#26070

When things are at their worst I find something always happens. W. Somerset Maugham

#26071

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. W. Somerset Maugham

#26072

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. W. Somerset Maugham

#26073

Life isn't long enough for love and art. W. Somerset Maugham

#26074

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which h W. Somerset Maugham

#26075

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot

#26076

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory out of desire, stirring Dull roots with spring ra T. S. Eliot

#26077

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My wo T. S. Eliot

#26078

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot

#26079

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T. S. Eliot

#26080

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot

#26081

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a T. S. Eliot

#26082

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot

#26083

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

#26084

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

#26085

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information T. S. Eliot

#26086

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls. T. S. Eliot

#26087

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. T. S. Eliot

#26088

Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion T. S. Eliot

#26089

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is T. S. Eliot

#26090

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot

#26091

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot

#26092

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

#26093

The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot

#26094

Humor is also a way of saying something serious. T. S. Eliot

#26095

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage William C. Bagley

#26096

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. Paul Eldridge

#26097

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

#26098

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

#26099

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. R. D. Laing

#26100

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning. R. D. Laing

#26101

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records. William A. Ward

#26102

RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you can never be --I had Strickland Gillilan

#26103

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a mo George Washington

#26104

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship George Washington

#26105

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. George Washington

#26106

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particular George Washington

#26107

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. George Washington

#26108

To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody. George Washington

#26109

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man. George Washington

#26110

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. George Washington

#26111

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

#26112

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington

#26113

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey George Washington

#26114

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington

#26115

Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary. George Washington

#26116

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... d George Washington

#26117

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington

#26118

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the c George Washington

#26119

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington

#26120

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington

#26121

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. Jerry Seinfeld

#26122

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be. Jerry Seinfeld

#26123

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. Jerry Seinfeld

#26124

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. Jerry Seinfeld

#26125

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. Jerry Seinfeld

#26126

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. Charlie Finley

#26127

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Morley

#26128

Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Morley

#26129

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, t John Morley

#26130

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan

#26131

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

#26132

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. Carl Sagan

#26133

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single Carl Sagan

#26134

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan

#26135

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus Carl Sagan

#26136

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged Carl Sagan

#26137

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan

#26138

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any me Carl Sagan

#26139

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct con Carl Sagan

#26140

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Carl Sagan

#26141

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

#26142

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disse Carl Sagan

#26143

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. Carl Sagan

#26144

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. A. J. Liebling

#26145

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. A. J. Liebling

#26146

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A. J. Liebling

#26147

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. A. J. Liebling

#26148

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A. J. Liebling

#26149

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Alva Edison

#26150

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. Thomas Alva Edison

#26151

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Alva Edison

#26152

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas Alva Edison

#26153

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas Alva Edison

#26154

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. Thomas Alva Edison

#26155

Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration. Thomas Alva Edison

#26156

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Alva Edison

#26157

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so terrifying Thomas Alva Edison

#26158

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years. Thomas Alva Edison

#26159

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison

#26160

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison

#26161

There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Alva Edison

#26162

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits. Thomas Alva Edison

#26163

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas Alva Edison

#26164

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends th Thomas Alva Edison

#26165

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.Thomas Alva Edison

#26166

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

#26167

Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas Alva Edison

#26168

Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas Alva Edison

#26169

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Alva Edison

#26170

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thomas Alva Edison

#26171

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare Blair Houghton

#26172

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

#26173

Vigny, more secret As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

#26174

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Desiderius Erasmus

#26175

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus

#26176

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus

#26177

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. Desiderius Erasmus

#26178

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food. Desiderius Erasmus

#26179

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Desiderius Erasmus

#26180

Our determination to imitate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters. Desiderius Erasmus

#26181

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight. Desiderius Erasmus

#26182

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus. Desiderius Erasmus

#26183

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. Ovid

#26184

All things change, nothing perishes. Ovid

#26185

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. Ovid

#26186

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are. Ovid

#26187

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. Ovid

#26188

Love is a kind of warfare. Ovid

#26189

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high. Ovid

#26190

What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. Ovid

#26191

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. Ovid

#26192

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. Ovid

#26193

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. Ovid

#26194

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. Ovid

#26195

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name. Ovid

#26196

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid

#26197

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. Ovid

#26198

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. Ovid

#26199

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. Ovid

#26200

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. Ovid

#26201

We two are to ourselves a crowd. Ovid

#26202

Time the devourer of all things. Ovid

#26203

So I can't live either without you or with you. Ovid

#26204

We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid

#26205

To be loved, be lovable. Ovid

#26206

Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid

#26207

The result justifies the deed. Ovid

#26208

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca

#26209

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. Seneca

#26210

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. Seneca

#26211

What difference does it make how much you have What you do not have amounts to much more. Seneca

#26212

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Seneca

#26213

Latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand. Seneca

#26214

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. Seneca

#26215

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which p Seneca

#26216

Let him that would move the world, first move himself. Seneca

#26217

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Seneca

#26218

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you. Seneca

#26219

This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll. Seneca

#26220

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . . Seneca

#26221

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. Seneca

#26222

All art is an imitation of nature. Seneca

#26223

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Go Seneca

#26224

Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. Seneca

#26225

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body. Seneca

#26226

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. Seneca

#26227

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own sel Seneca

#26228

An unpopular rule is never long maintained. Seneca

#26229

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. Seneca

#26230

As was his language so was his life. Seneca

#26231

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. Seneca

#26232

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca

#26233

He who spares the wicked injures the good. Seneca

#26234

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. Seneca

#26235

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity. Seneca

#26236

If virtue precede us every step will be safe. Seneca

#26237

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Seneca

#26238

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge. Seneca

#26239

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. Seneca

#26240

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have bee Seneca

#26241

It is pleasant at times to play the madman. Seneca

#26242

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca

#26243

Life without the courage for death is slavery. Seneca

#26244

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. Seneca

#26245

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. Seneca

#26246

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth. Seneca

#26247

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. Seneca

#26248

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. Seneca

#26249

One hand washes the other. Seneca

#26250

Speech is the mirror of the mind. Seneca

#26251

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Seneca

#26252

No one can wear a mask for very long. Seneca

#26253

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly. Seneca

#26254

The arts are the servant wisdom its master. Seneca

#26255

One should count each day a separate life. Seneca

#26256

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. Seneca

#26257

Many things have fallen only to rise higher. Seneca

#26258

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable. Seneca

#26259

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. Seneca

#26260

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature Seneca

#26261

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Seneca

#26262

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. Seneca

#26263

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Seneca

#26264

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. Seneca

#26265

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early. Seneca

#26266

To be feared is to fear no one has could strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. Seneca

#26267

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. Seneca

#26268

We most often go astray on a well-trodden and much frequented road. Seneca

#26269

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. Seneca

#26270

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing. Seneca

#26271

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men. Seneca

#26272

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. Seneca

#26273

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is ca Seneca

#26274

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. Seneca

#26275

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca

#26276

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature. Seneca

#26277

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. Seneca

#26278

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turn Seneca

#26279

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within n Seneca

#26280

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. Seneca

#26281

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. Seneca

#26282

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Seneca

#26283

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of Seneca

#26284

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening. Seneca

#26285

The best ideas are common property. Seneca

#26286

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. Seneca

#26287

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. J. B. Priestley

#26288

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is J. B. Priestley

#26289

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. J. B. Priestley

#26290

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the d Lydia Maria Child

#26291

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white Lydia Maria Child

#26292

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast. Press box Maxim

#26293

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. John Glenn

#26294

There is still no cure for the common birthday. John Glenn

#26295

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a fin Marc Chagall

#26296

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. Marc Chagall

#26297

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of l Marc Chagall

#26298

In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, Martin Niemller

#26299

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the T Martin Niemller

#26300

Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour Brightness falls from the air Queens have died young and fair Dust hath closed He Thomas Nash

#26301

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. Novalis

#26302

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. Novalis

#26303

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Agnes Repplier

#26304

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their Agnes Repplier

#26305

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier

#26306

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier

#26307

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Agnes Repplier

#26308

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier

#26309

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier

#26310

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. Agnes Repplier

#26311

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. Maya Angelou

#26312

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou

#26313

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other Maya Angelou

#26314

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' Maya Angelou

#26315

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unplanted by Maya Angelou

#26316

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start g Maya Angelou

#26317

My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about Maya Angelou

#26318

I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.' Maya Angelou

#26319

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. Maya Angelou

#26320

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is uns Maya Angelou

#26321

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you., Maya Angelou

#26322

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. Maya Angelou

#26323

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Maya Angelou

#26324

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Maya Angelou

#26325

We are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Maya Angelou

#26326

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exa Maya Angelou

#26327

I know why the caged bird sings. Maya Angelou

#26328

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou

#26329

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou

#26330

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou

#26331

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. Howard Aiken

#26332

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. Howard Aiken

#26333

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Howard Aiken

#26334

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. Howard Aiken

#26335

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

#26336

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

#26337

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than th Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

#26338

I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. (on those behind the 911 attacks) Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

#26339

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

#26340

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza

#26341

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza

#26342

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

#26343

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our Dalai Lama

#26344

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique Jardiel Poncela

#26345

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. David Brink

#26346

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children. Judith Pugh

#26347

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. Scottish Proverb

#26348

Here's to you ,as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I am as good as Scottish Proverb

#26349

Confessed faults are half mended. Scottish Proverb

#26350

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. Scottish Proverb

#26351

Get what you can and keep what you have that's the way to get rich. Scottish Proverb

#26352

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. Scottish Proverb

#26353

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Scottish Proverb

#26354

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Scottish Proverb

#26355

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

#26356

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the sou Ingrid Bergman

#26357

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman

#26358

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know. Alexis Carrel

#26359

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of Alexis Carrel

#26360

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. Alexis Carrel

#26361

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an I Alexis Carrel

#26362

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. Alexis Carrel

#26363

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. Alexis Carrel

#26364

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible Alexis Carrel

#26365

To accomplish our destiny, it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall Alexis Carrel

#26366

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo

#26367

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish. Ferdinand I

#26368

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller

#26369

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. Margaret Fuller

#26370

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Margaret Fuller

#26371

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. Margaret Fuller

#26372

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. Margaret Fuller

#26373

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. Margaret Fuller

#26374

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambi Margaret Fuller

#26375

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife. Margaret Fuller

#26376

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. Margaret Fuller

#26377

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Margaret Fuller

#26378

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. Margaret Fuller

#26379

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller

#26380

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. Margaret Fuller

#26381

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller

#26382

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Margaret Fuller

#26383

A camel is a horse designed by committee. Sir Alec Issigonis

#26384

'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had tumbled over a poodle in the Robert Smith Surtees

#26385

A Libertarian Movement slogan Robert A. Heinlein

#26386

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein

#26387

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Robert A. Heinlein

#26388

Theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persua Robert A. Heinlein

#26389

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert A. Heinlein

#26390

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert A. Heinlein

#26391

A motion to adjourn is always in order. Robert A. Heinlein

#26392

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert A. Heinlein

#26393

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. Robert A. Heinlein

#26394

Of course, the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win. Robert A. Heinlein

#26395

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, John Wesley

#26396

There is no such thing as a solitary Christian. John Wesley

#26397

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. John Wesley

#26398

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. Bjarne Stroustrup

#26399

If thou should never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26400

I hold it true, what're befall feel it, when I sorrow most 'is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26401

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26402

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26403

Ah Christ, that it was possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26404

Their lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26405

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26406

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26407

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26408

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26409

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26410

I am a part of all that I have met. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26411

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26412

The greater man the greater courtesy. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26413

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26414

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. Richard Harding Davis

#26415

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once. Cyril Connolly

#26416

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly

#26417

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once. Cyril Connolly

#26418

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. Cyril Connolly

#26419

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly

#26420

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. Cyril Connolly

#26421

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. Cyril Connolly

#26422

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Cyril Connolly

#26423

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. Cyril Connolly

#26424

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly

#26425

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. Cyril Connolly

#26426

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their s Isaiah

#26427

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 w Vaclav Havel

#26428

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourish Vaclav Havel

#26429

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of liv Vaclav Havel

#26430

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it Vaclav Havel

#26431

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously imp Vaclav Havel

#26432

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the Vaclav Havel

#26433

Society is a complex and mysterious creation and. it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a give Vaclav Havel

#26434

The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is sa Vaclav Havel

#26435

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry abo Mike Godwin

#26436

The observation of others is colored by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything A. R. Orage

#26437

Ed Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50 - 50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that. Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

#26438

Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright s Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

#26439

Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

#26440

Frank Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before birds singing, dew glistening on a newly Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

#26441

Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

#26442

Frank Wilma, I promise you whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Naked Gun from the Files of Police Squad

#26443

John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had wh So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26444\

Charlie And I'd like to kiss you, but that's not a good idea, because then we'd start kissing on the couch, and then we'd So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26445

Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it for So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26446

Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie a So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26447

Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like a So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26448

Harriet, do you like haggis Charlie No, I think it's repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is b So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26449

Charlie, you know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking peo So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26450

Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have t So I Married an Axe Murderer

#26451

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the h George Steiner

#26452

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other culture George Steiner

#26453

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. George Steiner

#26454

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enter George Steiner

#26455

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries

#26456

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Peter De Vries

#26457

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. Peter De Vries

#26458

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. Peter De Vries

#26459

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Peter De Vries

#26460

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries

#26461

Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries

#26462

George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of sum Blow

#26463

Fred Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, Blow

#26464

George the official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was a Blow

#26465

George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance Blow

#26466

George It was the greatest feeling I ever had. Followed abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had. Blow

#26467

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb

#26468

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese Proverb

#26469

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. Chinese Proverb

#26470

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb

#26471

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb

#26472

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted. Chinese Proverb

#26473

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. Chinese Proverb

#26474

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies. Chinese Proverb

#26475

I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. Chinese Proverb

#26476

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. Chinese Proverb

#26477

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. Chinese Proverb

#26478

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

#26479\

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot. Chinese Proverb

#26480

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in th Chinese Proverb

#26481

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. Chinese Proverb

#26482

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. Chinese Proverb

#26483

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. Chinese Proverb

#26484

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb

#26485

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. Chinese Proverb

#26486

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. Chinese Proverb

#26487

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. Chinese Proverb

#26488

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity Chinese Proverb

#26489

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb

#26490

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese Proverb

#26491

If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate Chinese Proverb

#26492

Behind an able man there are always other able men. Chinese Proverb

#26493

Climb mountains to see lowlands. Chinese Proverb

#26494

There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat. Chinese Proverb

#26495

Practice novice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so. Chinese Proverb

#26496

If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow. Chinese Proverb

#26497

Take a second look... It costs you nothing. Chinese Proverb

#26498

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Chinese Proverb

#26499

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Chinese Proverb

#26500

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. Chinese Proverb

#26501

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb

#26502

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn. Chinese Proverb

#26503

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb

#26504

With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough. Chinese Proverb

#26505

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. Chinese Proverb

#26506

A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Chinese Proverb

#26507

Enough shovels of earth a mountain. Enough pails of water a river. Chinese Proverb

#26508

If you always give You will always have. Chinese Proverb

#26509

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb

#26510

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese Proverb

#26511

If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it. Chinese Proverb

#26512

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift the heart of a Chinese Proverb

#26513

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. Chinese Proverb

#26514

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. Chinese Proverb

#26515

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. Chinese Proverb

#26516

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. Chinese Proverb

#26517

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. Chinese Proverb

#26518

Judge not the horse by his saddle. Chinese Proverb

#26519

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. Chinese Proverb

#26520

Use power to curb power. Chinese Proverb

#26521

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. Chinese Proverb

#26522

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely. Chinese Proverb

#26523

Never write a letter while you are angry. Chinese Proverb

#26524

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. Chinese Proverb

#26525

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night. Chinese Proverb

#26526

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities. Chinese Proverb

#26527

He who hurries cannot walk with dignity. Chinese Proverb

#26528

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Chinese Proverb

#26529

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. Chinese Proverb

#26530

In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft. Chinese Proverb

#26531

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him. Chinese Proverb

#26532

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Chinese Proverb

#26533

A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood. Chinese Proverb

#26534

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. Chinese Proverb

#26535

Do not employ handsome servants. Chinese Proverb

#26536

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. Chinese Proverb

#26537

Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech. Chinese Proverb

#26538

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. Chinese Proverb

#26539

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb

#26540

The palest ink is better than the best memory. Chinese Proverb

#26541

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. Chinese Proverb

#26542

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

#26543

If you bow at all, bow low. Chinese Proverb

#26544

When you drink the water, remember the spring. Chinese Proverb

#26545

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.' Shirley Chisholm

#26546

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. Shirley Chisholm

#26547

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. William Hazlitt

#26548

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean William Hazlitt

#26549

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we William Hazlitt

#26550

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. William Hazlitt

#26551

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are angrier at undeserved than at deserved good for William Hazlitt

#26552

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress \-- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance th William Hazlitt

#26553

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness I William Hazlitt

#26554

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength William Hazlitt

#26555

The more we do, the more we can do. William Hazlitt

#26556

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt

#26557

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred William Hazlitt

#26558

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. William Hazlitt

#26559

No great man ever thought himself so. William Hazlitt

#26560

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. William Hazlitt

#26561

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things a William Hazlitt

#26562

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt

#26563

Those who can command themselves command others. William Hazlitt

#26564

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires William Hazlitt

#26565

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning William Hazlitt

#26566

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by pla William Hazlitt

#26567

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. William Hazlitt

#26568

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. William Hazlitt

#26569

The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. William Hazlitt

#26570

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt

#26571

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt

#26572

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron

#26573

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron

#26574

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents Maxwell Planck

#26575

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting Gene Fowler

#26576

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler

#26577

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves. Gene Fowler

#26578

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26579

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life Jean-Paul Sartre

#26580

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26581

Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26582

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26583

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26584

In love, one and one are one. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26585

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26586

Existence precedes and rules essence. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26587

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

#26588

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre

#26589

There is only one terminal dignity -- love. Helen Hayes

#26590

From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover t Helen Hayes

#26591

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor ou Helen Hayes

#26592

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. Helen Hayes

#26593

Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introduction Helen Hayes

#26594

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing Helen Hayes

#26595

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are p Helen Hayes

#26596

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. Helen Hayes

#26597

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied Helen Hayes

#26598

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to gro Helen Hayes

#26599

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. Tha Albert Einstein

#26600

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

#26601

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything Albert Einstein

#26602

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

#26603

Insanity doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Albert Einstein

#26604

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for h Albert Einstein

#26605

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

#26606

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Albert Einstein

#26607

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein

#26608

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

#26609

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein

#26610

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. Albert Einstein

#26611

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein

#26612

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein

#26613

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein

#26614

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein

#26615

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

#26616

Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being Albert Einstein

#26617

I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell Albert Einstein

#26618

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein

#26619

I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones. Albert Einstein

#26620

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary. Albert Einstein

#26621

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. Albert Einstein

#26622

What interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Albert Einstein

#26623

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. Albert Einstein

#26624

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Albert Einstein

#26625

It is the theory that decides what we can observe. Albert Einstein

#26626

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

#26627

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastro Albert Einstein

#26628

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. Albert Einstein

#26629

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein

#26630

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable. Albert Einstein

#26631

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein

#26632

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein

#26633

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must Albert Einstein

#26634

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen Albert Einstein

#26635

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, Albert Einstein

#26636

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein

#26637

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen o Albert Einstein

#26638

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. Albert Einstein

#26639

A storm broke loose in my mind. Albert Einstein

#26640

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go Albert Einstein

#26641

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy) Albert Einstein

#26642

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity Albert Einstein

#26643

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right im Albert Einstein

#26644

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biologic Albert Einstein

#26645

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, Albert Einstein

#26646

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deter Albert Einstein

#26647

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me Albert Einstein?

#26648

There has already been published by the bucketful's such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone Albert Einstein

#26649

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 Albert Einstein

#26650

Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form Albert Einstein

#26651

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, why Albert Einstein

#26652

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insect Albert Einstein

#26653

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of Albert Einstein

#26654

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external wo Albert Einstein

#26655

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things. Albert Einstein

#26656

Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has Albert Einstein

#26657

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a Albert Einstein

#26658

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only about these sense-experiences Albert Einstein

#26659

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least Albert Einstein

#26660

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of Albert Einstein

#26661

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to. Albert Einstein

#26662

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

#26663

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and Albert Einstein

#26664

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains Albert Einstein

#26665

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein

#26666

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers) Albert Einstein

#26667

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or expert Albert Einstein

#26668

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, b Albert Einstein

#26669

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not though Albert Einstein

#26670

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he Albert Einstein

#26671

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

#26672

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein

#26673

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein

#26674

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

#26675

How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. Albert Einstein

#26676

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein

#26677

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. Albert Einstein

#26678

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

#26679

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Albert Einstein

#26680

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological program Albert Einstein

#26681

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 Albert Einstein

#26682

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion? Is there any Albert Einstein

#26683

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and Albert Einstein

#26684

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any super Albert Einstein

#26685

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or Albert Einstein

#26686

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein

#26687

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Albert Einstein

#26688

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hope Albert Einstein

#26689

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein

#26690

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer Albert Einstein

#26691

Considering knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it Albert Einstein

#26692

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element Albert Einstein

#26693

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein

#26694

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as cou Albert Einstein

#26695

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to b Albert Einstein

#26696

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food. Albert Einstein

#26697

It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing) Albert Einstein

#26698

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies Albert Einstein

#26699

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it Albert Einstein

#26700

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his tho Albert Einstein

#26701

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign Albert Einstein

#26702

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of Albert Einstein

#26703

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein

#26704

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsold Albert Einstein

#26705

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional Albert Einstein

#26706

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers. Albert Einstein

#26707

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein

#26708

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find Albert Einstein

#26709

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Albert Einstein

#26710

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. Albert Einstein

#26711

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein

#26712

If there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. Albert Einstein

#26713

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it Albert Einstein

#26714

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

#26715

If A equal's success, then the formula is A Equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. Albert Einstein

#26716

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. T Albert Einstein

#26717

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein

#26718

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

#26719

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we can Albert Einstein

#26720

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New Y Albert Einstein

#26721

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and ob Albert Einstein

#26722

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most Albert Einstein

#26723

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing Albert Einstein

#26724

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I conclude that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my Albert Einstein

#26725

Everything that is great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein

#26726

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a mean Albert Einstein

#26727

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands a Albert Einstein

#26728

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the America Albert Einstein

#26729

Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims a Albert Einstein

#26730

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein

#26731

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles Albert Einstein

#26732

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein

#26733

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein

#26734

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein

#26735

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

#26736

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle Albert Einstein

#26737

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unk Albert Einstein

#26738

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage Albert Einstein

#26739

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. Albert Einstein

#26740

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein

#26741

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important mot Albert Einstein

#26742

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein

#26743

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein

#26744

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to re Albert Einstein

#26745

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a mi Albert Einstein

#26746

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. Albert Einstein

#26747

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather o Albert Einstein

#26748

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

#26749

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein

#26750

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein

#26751

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Ma Albert Einstein

#26752

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. Albert Einstein

#26753

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein

#26754

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. Albert Einstein

#26755

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. Albert Einstein

#26756

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein

#26757

We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings. Albert Einstein

#26758

Yes, we must divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important Albert Einstein

#26759

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein

#26760

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

#26761

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein

#26762

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an arde Albert Einstein

#26763

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. Albert Einstein

#26764

The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who sa Albert Einstein

#26765

The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself Albert Einstein

#26766

If Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even tre Albert Einstein

#26767

Since that deluge of newspaper articles, I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I Albert Einstein

#26768

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not d Albert Einstein

#26769

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true sea Albert Einstein

#26770

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. Albert Einstein

#26771

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Albert Einstein

#26772

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity do Albert Einstein

#26773

The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein

#26774

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over Albert Einstein

#26775

To form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. Albert Einstein

#26776

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not. Albert Einstein

#26777

The man who regards his own life and that of his creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Albert Einstein

#26778

It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual Albert Einstein

#26779

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An ex Albert Einstein

#26780

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours. Albert Einstein

#26781

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. Albert Einstein

#26782

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. Albert Einstein

#26783

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. Albert Einstein

#26784

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and Albert Einstein

#26785

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Albert Einstein

#26786

I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein

#26787

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. Albert Einstein

#26788

The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true sci Albert Einstein

#26789

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein

#26790

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I h Albert Einstein

#26791

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein

#26792

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean. Albert Einstein

#26793

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things. Albert Einstein

#26794

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego. Albert Einstein

#26795

Imagination is more important than knowledge... Albert Einstein

#26796

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience Albert Einstein

#26797

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. Albert Einstein

#26798

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

#26799

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein

#26800

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

#26801

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own Albert Einstein

#26802

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Albert Einstein

#26803

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are Albert Einstein

#26804

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit o Albert Einstein

#26805

Truth is what stands the test of experience. Albert Einstein

#26806

At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice. Albert Einstein

#26807

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. Albert Einstein

#26808

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and Albert Einstein

#26809

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein

#26810

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. Ruth Benedict

#26811

There the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pt., Whitstable oysters, a sol S. J. Perelman

#26812

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. S. J. Perelman

#26813

A brother is a friend given by Nature. Legouve

#26814

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. Irwin Edman

#26815

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. Virgil

#26816

Nunc scio quit sit amor. Virgil

#26817

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands op Virgil

#26818

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. Virgil

#26819

Lat., Now I know what love is. Virgil

#26820

Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass) Virgil

#26821

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime. Virgil

#26822

As the twig is bent the tree inclines. Virgil

#26823

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. Virgil

#26824

The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way. Virgil

#26825

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean ri Virgil

#26826

Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid) Virgil

#26827

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid) Virgil

#26828

They are able because they think they are able. Virgil

#26829

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. Virgil

#26830

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all. Virgil

#26831

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love. Virgil

#26832

Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold. Virgil

#26833

Each man is led by his own liking. Virgil

#26834

Look with favour upon a bold beginning. Virgil

#26835

Death's brother, Sleep. Virgil

#26836

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. Virgil

#26837

In quarrels, such as these not ours to intervene. Virgil

#26838

Each of us bears his own Hell. Virgil

#26839

Your descendants shall gather your fruits. Virgil

#26840

They can do all because they think they can. Virgil

#26841

They can conquer who believe they can. Virgil

#26842

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. Virgil

#26843

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. Virgil

#26844

Trust one who has gone through it. Virgil

#26845

A snake lurks in the grass. Virgil

#26846

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. Virgil

#26847

Yield not to evils, but attack even more boldly. Virgil

#26848

Fortune favors the brave. Virgil

#26849

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's step Virgil

#26850

Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious. Virgil

#26851

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. Virgil

#26852

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke

#26853

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke

#26854

I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between John Locke

#26855

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke

#26856

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke

#26857

A dreamer lives forever, and a toiler dies in a day. John Locke

#26858

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. John Locke

#26859

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis

#26860

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things Jean Cocteau

#26861

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If Jean Cocteau

#26862

The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness. Jean Cocteau

#26863

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning around and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. Jean Cocteau

#26864

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. Jean Cocteau

#26865

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like Jean Cocteau

#26866

Art is science made clear. Jean Cocteau

#26867

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simply Jean Cocteau

#26868

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Jean Cocteau

#26869

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme. Bible

#26870

Do to others what you would have them do to you. Bible

#26871

Faith without works is dead. Bible

#26872

The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Bible

#26873

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Bible

#26874

Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it w Bible

#26875

Ask, and it shall be given you Seek, and ye shall find Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Bible

#26876

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. Bible

#26877

Prove all things hold fast that which is good. Bible

#26878

Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him. Bible

#26879

And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. Bible

#26880

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Bible

#26881

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. Joe Theismann

#26882

The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. Joe Theismann

#26883

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more fait Ferdinand Magellan

#26884

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. Malcolm Muggeridge

#26885

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. Malcolm Muggeridge

#26886

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. Malcolm Muggeridge

#26887

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. Ellen Frankfort

#26888

Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your specie Matrix, The

#26889

Morpheus There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path. Matrix, The

#26890

Trinity The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to. Matrix, The

#26891

Neo, I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know Matrix, The

#26892

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind. Matrix, The

#26893

Morpheus If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain Matrix, The

#26894

Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of iron Matrix, The

#26895

Neo Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here. Matrix, The

#26896

I am convinced that most people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner

#26897

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a Charles Dudley Warner

#26898

Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. Charles Dudley Warner

#26899

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Charles Dudley Warner

#26900

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Charles Dudley Warner

#26901

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly everyone who tries his power touches the walls Charles Dudley Warner

#26902

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. Charles Dudley Warner

#26903

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture. Publius Ovidius NasoOvid

#26904

There is no way to peace peace is the way. A. J. Muste

#26905

He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny

#26906

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny

#26907

No one is entitled to the truth. E. Howard Hunt

#26908

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Roger Baldwin

#26909

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. Roger Baldwin

#26910

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderate Molire

#26911

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. Russell Green

#26912

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale

#26913

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. Nathan Hale

#26914

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the abi F. Scott Fitzgerald

#26915

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#26916

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#26917

Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals ... with their eyes opened. ricS

#26918

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keys

#26919

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. Gary Mark Gilmore

#26920

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. Ed Koch

#26921

'He means well' is useless unless he does well. Plautus

#26922

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. Frederick W. Faber

#26923

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey

#26924

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey

#26925

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, John Dewey

#26926

Failure is instructive. The person who thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey

#26927

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is inte John Dewey

#26928

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world an John Dewey

#26929

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey

#26930

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey

#26931

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

#26932

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey

#26933

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development John Dewey

#26934

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. John M. Barrie

#26935

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. Doug McLeod

#26936

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26937

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26938

There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26939

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26940

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26941

N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26942

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26943

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26944

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26945

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26946

Be sincere be brief be seated. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26947

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26948

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26949

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26950

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26951

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26952

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26953

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26954

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26955

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26956

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26957

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. Spiro T. Agnew

#26958

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity Joseph Weizenbaum

#26959

Let the sun shine in. Anti-War Poster

#26960

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, why Charles Sanders Pierce

26961

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git ate Alice Walker

#26962

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker

#26963

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying' Alice Walker

#26964

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't Alice Walker

#26965

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. Alice Walker

#26966

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker

#26967

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception. Alice Walker

#26968

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker

#26969

In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and Alice Walker

#26970

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of Alice Walker

#26971

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker

#26972

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. Alice Walker

#26973

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. Alice Walker

#26974

'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made Miguel de Cervantes

#26975

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Miguel de Cervantes

#26976

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. Miguel de Cervantes

#26977

I think it a very happy accident. Miguel de Cervantes

#26978

I shall be as secret as the grave. Miguel de Cervantes

#26979

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes

#26980

It is good to live and learn. Miguel de Cervantes

#26981

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket. Miguel de Cervantes

#26982

A good name is better than riches. Miguel de Cervantes

#26983

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone. Miguel de Cervantes

#26984

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all. Miguel de Cervantes

#26985

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. Miguel de Cervantes

#26986

I must follow him through thick and thin. Miguel de Cervantes

#26987

As they use to say, spick and span new. Miguel de Cervantes

#26988

A closed mouth catches no flies. Miguel de Cervantes

#26989

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. Miguel de Cervantes

#26990

A word to the wise is enough. Miguel de Cervantes

#26991

An honest man's word is as good as his bond. Miguel de Cervantes

#26992

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. Miguel de Cervantes

#26993

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. Miguel de Cervantes

#26994

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Miguel de Cervantes

#26995

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. Miguel de Cervantes

#26996

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face Miguel de Cervantes

#26997

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and Miguel de Cervantes

#26998

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy. Miguel de Cervantes

#26999

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world Miguel de Cervantes

#27000

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies. Miguel de Cervantes

#27001

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be Miguel de Cervantes

#27002

You may as well expect pears from an elm. Miguel de Cervantes

#27003

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. Miguel de Cervantes

#27004

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. Miguel de Cervantes

#27005

Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase Miguel de Cervantes

#27006

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. Miguel de Cervantes

#27007

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. Miguel de Cervantes

#27008

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain. Miguel de Cervantes

#27009

What a man has, so much he is sure of. Miguel de Cervantes

#27010

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Miguel de Cervantes

#27011

In the night all cats are gray. Miguel de Cervantes

#27012

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie. Miguel de Cervantes

#27013

He is as mad as a March hare. Miguel de Cervantes

#27014

I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. Miguel de Cervantes

#27015

Within a stone's throw of it. Miguel de Cervantes

#27016

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. Miguel de Cervantes

#27017

All is not gold that glitters. Miguel de Cervantes

#27018

Let every man look before he leaps. Miguel de Cervantes

#27019

Let every man mind his own business. Miguel de Cervantes

#27020

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun. Miguel de Cervantes

#27021

Let us make hay while the sun shines. Miguel de Cervantes

#27022

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. Miguel de Cervantes

#27023

Little said is soonest mended. Miguel de Cervantes

#27024

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death. Miguel de Cervantes

#27025

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things. Miguel de Cervantes

#27026

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. Miguel de Cervantes

#27027

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. Miguel de Cervantes

#27028

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. Miguel de Cervantes

#27029

Sing away sorrow, cast away care. Miguel de Cervantes

#27030

Spare your breath to cool your porridge. Miguel de Cervantes

#27031

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes

#27032

Love not what you are, but what you may become. Miguel de Cervantes

#27033

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and Miguel de Cervantes

#27034

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. Miguel de Cervantes

#27035

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock. Miguel de Cervantes

#27036

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Miguel de Cervantes

#27037

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fri Miguel de Cervantes

#27038

Delay always breeds danger. Miguel de Cervantes

#27039

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Miguel de Cervantes

#27040

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. Miguel de Cervantes

#27041

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Miguel de Cervantes

#27042

As ill-luck would have it. Miguel de Cervantes

#27043

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains. Miguel de Cervantes

#27044

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be. Miguel de Cervantes

#27045

Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. Miguel de Cervantes

#27046

The pot calls the kettle black. Miguel de Cervantes

#27047

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots. Miguel de Cervantes

#27048

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other. Miguel de Cervantes

#27049

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. Miguel de Cervantes

#27050

There is no love lost between us. Miguel de Cervantes

#27051

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. Miguel de Cervantes

#27052

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. Miguel de Cervantes

#27053

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Miguel de Cervantes

#27054

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. Miguel de Cervantes

#27055

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. Miguel de Cervantes

#27056

The pen is the tongue of the mind. Miguel de Cervantes

#27057

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Miguel de Cervantes

#27058

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes

#27059

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it. Miguel de Cervantes

#27060

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. Miguel de Cervantes

#27061

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. Lou Brock

#27062

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

#27063

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. George Santayana

#27064

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. George Santayana

#27065

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. George Santayana

#27066

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have sup George Santayana

#27067

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

#27068

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. George Santayana

#27069

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana

#27070

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana

#27071

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or George Santayana

#27072

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. George Santayana

#27073

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana

#27074

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language George Santayana

#27075

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, per his interest in the p George Santayana

#27076

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. George Santayana

#27077

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George Santayana

#27078

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana

#27079

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender George Santayana

#27080

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana

#27081

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. George Santayana

#27082

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived. George Santayana

#27083

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. George Santayana

#27084

... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. George Santayana

#27085

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. George Santayana

#27086

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility George Santayana

#27087

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always diff George Santayana

#27088

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you George Santayana

#27089

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment George Santayana

#27090

Sanity is a madness put to good use. George Santayana

#27091

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots. George Santayana

#27092

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana

#27093

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament. George Santayana

#27094

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the hu George Santayana

#27095

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana

#27096

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. George Santayana

#27097

Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana

#27098

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana

#27099

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the George Santayana

#27100

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of im George Santayana

#27101

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if w George Santayana

#27102

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. George Santayana

#27103

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. George Santayana

#27104

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

#27105

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana

#27106

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana

#27107

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana

#27108

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

#27109

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana

#27110

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. George Santayana

#27111

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana

#27112

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana

#27113

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George Santayana

#27114

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. George Santayana

#27115

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana

#27116

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likel George Santayana

#27117

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana

#27118

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana

#27119

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and George Santayana

#27120

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana

#27121

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana

#27122

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute H. Ross Perot

#27123

If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes. H. Ross Perot

#27124

Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time. H. Ross Perot

#27125

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. Kareem Abdul-Jabar

#27126

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt t Kareem Abdul-Jabar

#27127

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. Kareem Abdul-Jabar

#27128

I try to do the right thing at the right time.They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winni Kareem Abdul-Jabar

#27129

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Kareem Abdul-Jabar

#27130

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the Kareem Abdul-Jabar

#27131

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. Geoffrey F. Albert

#27132

The most important thing about having goals is having one. Geoffrey F. Albert

#27133

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask p Geoffrey F. Albert

#27134

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Geoffrey F. Albert

#27135

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. Geoffrey F. Albert

#27136

One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. Geoffrey F. Albert

#27137

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants o Edward Abbey

#27138

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey

#27139

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

#27140

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

#27141

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences. Howard Abrahamson

#27142

Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be al M. I. Abramowitz

#27143

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. Bella Abzug

#27144

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. Chinua Achebe

#27145

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them. Chinua Achebe

#27146

The bed fellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. Marcel Archard

#27147

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise Marcel Archard

#27148

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. Marcel Archard

#27149

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. Russell L Ackoff

#27150

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Gooderham Acheson

#27151

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. Dean Gooderham Acheson

#27152

The future comes one day at a time. Dean Gooderham Acheson

#27153

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Emerich Edward Dalbert

#27154

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple de Emerich Edward Dalbert

#27155

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Emerich Edward Dalbert

#27156

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. Emerich Edward Dalbert

#27157

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it Diane Ackerman

#27158

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman

#27159

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Diane Ackerman

#27160

Success produces success, just as money produces money. Diane Ackerman

#27161

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. Diane Ackerman

#27162

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams

#27163

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

#27164

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe Abigail Adams

#27165

If it helps to make people think a little bit more what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing this uniform. Barbara Adams

#27166

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-a Donald J. Adams

#27167

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. Douglas Noel Adams

#27168

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.... Douglas Noel Adams

#27169

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their Douglas Noel Adams

#27170

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news Douglas Noel Adams

#27171

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that can Douglas Noel Adams

#27172

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Noel Adams

#27173

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. Douglas Noel Adams

#27174

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excuse Douglas Noel Adams

#27175

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and bo Douglas Noel Adams

#27176

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of comp Douglas Noel Adams

#27177

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Noel Adams

#27178

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long Douglas Noel Adams

#27179

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird Douglas Noel Adams

#27180

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Noel Adams

#27181

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and Douglas Noel Adams

#27182

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Noel Adams

#27183

You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Noel Adams

#27184

Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does. Douglas Noel Adams

#27185

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Douglas Noel Adams

#27186

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist Douglas Noel Adams

#27187

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense. Douglas Noel Adams

#27188

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instant Douglas Noel Adams

#27189

It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear. Douglas Noel Adams

#27190

The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less. Franklin P. Adams

#27191

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams

#27192

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Adams

#27193

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you Franklin P. Adams

#27194

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to Franklin P. Adams

#27195

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent vo Franklin P. Adams

#27196

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good Franklin P. Adams

#27197

To err is human to forgive, infrequent. Franklin P. Adams

#27198

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for u George Burton Adams

#27199

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opp George Burton Adams

#27200

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. Henry Adams

#27201

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympa Henry Adams

#27202

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams

#27203

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own. Henry Adams

#27204

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams

#27205

A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Adams

#27206

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams

#27207

The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone. Henry Adams

#27208

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Henry Adams

#27209

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

#27210

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. Henry Adams

#27211

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about Henry Adams

#27212

Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams

#27213

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. Henry Adams

#27214

Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely. Henry Adams

#2721

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Henry Adams

#27216

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry Adams

#27217

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unalt James Truslow Adams

#27218

Seek out that mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner v James Truslow Adams

#27219

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. James Truslow Adams

#27220

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. James Truslow Adams

#27221

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. James Truslow Adams

#27222

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. James Truslow Adams

#27223

If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink Jay Edward Adams

#27224

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. John Adams

#27225

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year. John Adams

#27226

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they ar John Adams

#27227

Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter th John Adams

#27228

Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter John Adams

#27229

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, John Adams

#27230

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the John Adams

#27231

Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams

#27232

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Quincy Adams

#27233

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service w John Quincy Adams

#27234

Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter t John Quincy Adams

#27235

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams

#27236

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

#27237

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal. Richard Adams

#27238

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. Richard Adams

#27239

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religi Richard Adams

#27240

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams

#27241

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity. Joey Adams

#27242

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for ci Samuel Adams

#27243

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the right Samuel Adams

#27244

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home fro Samuel Adams

#27245

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, o William Adams

#27246

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. William Adams

#27247

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it. William Adams

#27248

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter William Adams

#27249

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have William Adams

#27250

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that William Adams

#27251

You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to acco William Adams

#27252

Faith is a continuation of reason. William Adams

#27253

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

#27254

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. Konrad Adenauer

#27255

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in Felix Adler

#27256

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic Felix Adler

#27257

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquir Felix Adler

#27258

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Morris Adler

#27259

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right. Kurt Herbert Alder

#27260

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success. Kurt Herbert Alder

#27261

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Kurt Herbert Alder

#27262

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Kurt Herbert Alder

#27263

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler

#27264

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. Alfred Adler

#27265

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. Alfred Adler

#27266

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment Alfred Adler

#27267

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth. Alfred Adler

#27268

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler

#27269

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind Mortimer Adler

#27270

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Mortimer Adler

#27271

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. Mortimer Adler

#27272

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. Mortimer Adler

#27273

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

#27274

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

#27275

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

#27276

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking do Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

#27277

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

#27278

'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. Aeschylus

#27279

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. Aeschylus

#27280

Sweet is a grief well ended. Aeschylus

#27281

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won Aeschylus

#27282

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. Aeschylus

#27283

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. Aeschylus

#27284

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. Aeschylus

#27285

The wisest of the wise may err. Aeschylus

#27286

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. Aeschylus

#27287

Exiles feed on hope. Aeschylus

#27288

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Aeschylus

#27289

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder. Aeschylus

#27290

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. Aeschylus

#27291

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. Aeschylus

#27292

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it. Aeschylus

#27293

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in. Aeschylus

#27294

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart. Aeschylus

#27295

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus

#27296

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus

#27297

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus

#27298

Time as he grows old teaches all things. Aeschylus

#27299

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Aeschylus

#27300

In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus

#27301

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. Aeschylus

#27302

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. Aeschylus

#27303

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus

#27304

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. Aeschylus

#27305

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. Aeschylus

#27306

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. James Agee

#27307

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. James Agee

#27308

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. James Agee

#27309

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is b James Agee

#27310

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

#27311

Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. (Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.) Caspar de Aguilar

#27312

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget. Charles Hamilton Aide

#27313

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. Spiro Agnew

#27314

In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. Spiro Agnew

#27315

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Wher John Fellows Akers

#27316

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to John Fellows Akers

#27317

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action a John Fellows Akers

#27318

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. Akhenaton

#27319

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to Akhenaton

#27320

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and tho Akhenaton

#27321

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence. Akhenaton

#27322

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in Akhenaton

#27323

As the moon retained her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remained perfect even Akhenaton

#27324

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth Akhenaton

#27325

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance. Akhenaton

#27326

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry. Anouk Aimee

#27327

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. Anouk Aimee

#27328

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. Anouk Aimee

#27329

An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage - Hoshang N. Akhtar

#27330

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. Hoshang N. Akhtar

#27331

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Hoshang N. Akhtar

#27332

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. Emma Albani

#27333

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it. Emma Albani

#27334

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. Alcaeus

#27335

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use th Alcaeus

#27336

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. Alcaeus

#27337

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to Leon Battista Alberti

#27338

A man can do all things if he but wills them. Leon Battista Alberti

#27339

Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause Bob Alberti

#27340

Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than n Edward Albee

#27341

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. Edward Albee

#27342

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. Edward Albee

#27343

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

#27344

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without po Louisa May Alcott

#27345

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do a Louisa May Alcott

#27346

Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott

#27347

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott

#27348

Housekeeping ain't no joke. Louisa May Alcott

#27349

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe Louisa May Alcott

#27350

STAY is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. Amos Bronson Alcott

#27351

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train. Amos Bronson Alcott

#27352

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from him Amos Bronson Alcott

#27353

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. Amos Bronson Alcott

#27354

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. Amos Bronson Alcott

#27355

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott

#27356

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

#27357

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott

#27358

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself. Peter Alcantara

#27359

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent. Andrew Alden

#27360

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. Alan Alda

#27361

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda

#27362

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yo Alan Alda

#27363

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without someb Alan Alda

#27364

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness Alan Alda

#27365

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. Alan Alda

#27366

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you Shana Alexander

#27367

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Shana Alexander

#27368

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. Shana Alexander

#27369

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now. Lamar Alexander

#27370

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. M. H. Alderson

#27371

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#27372

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#27373

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions. Russell G. Alexander

#27374

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we drea Brian Aldiss

#27375

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

#27376

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Lloyd Alexander

#27377

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. Conte Vittorio Alfieri

#27378

What we plan we build. Conte Vittorio Alfieri

#27379

The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence. James Waddell Alexander, II

#27380

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. James Waddell Alexander, II

#27381

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to g Saul David Alinsky

#27382

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents oppor Saul David Alinsky

#27383

If a cow can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. Dick Allen

#27384

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. Charles L. Allen

#27385

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. Gracie Allen

#27386

Man is what he believes. George Herbert Allen

#27387

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because George Herbert Allen

#27388

California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange. Fred Allen

#27389

The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand. Fred Allen

#27390

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. Fred Allen

#27391

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there. Fred Allen

#27392

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

#27393

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway see Fred Allen

#27394

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. Fred Allen

#27395

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. Fred Allen

#27396

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen

#27397

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen

#27398

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. Fred Allen

#27399

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement Fred Allen

#27400

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen

#27401

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done. Fred Allen

#27402

Television is the triumph of machine over people. Fred Allen

#27403

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style a William R Allen

#27404

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scar William R Allen

#27405

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear. W. Allingham

#27406

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. Gordon William Allport

#27407

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy. Gordon William Allport

#27408

The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways. Marco A. Almazan

#27409

It's hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world. Peter's Almanac

#27410

Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise. Peter's Almanac

#27411

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. George Washington Allston

#27412

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. George Washington Allston

#27413

The more I know about men the more I like dogs. Gloria Allred

#27414

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. Joseph Alsop

#27415

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist. Steward Alsop

#27416

That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do wil Lisa Alther

#27417

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. Lisa Alther

#27418

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. Lisa Alther

#27419

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can Lisa Alther

#27420

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from th Oscar Ameringer

#27421

Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason fo Robert Altman

#27422

To play it safe is not to play. Robert Altman

#27423

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with sub Eric Ambler

#27424

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most Eric Ambler

#27425

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obst John Amatt

#27426

When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. A. Alvarez

#27427

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. A. Alvarez

#27428

Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline. Becky Alunan

#27429

Trying to be normal is the greatest abnormality in the world. Becky Alunan

#27430

The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something. Andy Anderson

#27431

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually Tori Amos

#27432

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is. Tori Amos

#27433

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. Clevand Amory

#27434

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Anderson

#27435

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to Eric Anderson

#27436I

both love and do not love and am mad and not mad. Anacreon

#27437

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye. Duncan Maxwell Anderson

#27438

On packing Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Butler Anderson

#27439

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too. Sherwood Anderson

#27440

Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yield Roger Anderson

#27441

Let us be very careful not to fall into the trap of the world. The world views things only relative to man and to self. The Word Roger Anderson

#27442

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of yo Marian Anderson

#27443

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. Marian Anderson

#27444

We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. A Joan Wester Anderson

#27445

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Poul Anderson

#27446

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more com Poul Anderson

#27447

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson

#27448

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara DeAngelis

#27449

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under Barbara DeAngelis

#27450

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the Barbara DeAngelis

#27451

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara DeAngelis

#27452

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives. Father Andrew SDC

#27453

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours. Father Andrew SDC

#27454

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson

#27455

If everything's under control, you're going too slow. Mario Andretti

#27456

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants. Mario Andretti

#27457

The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world. Cecil Andrus

#27458

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist. Rene Angelil

#27459

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something out Ethel Perry Andrus

#27460

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. Fernandez de Andrada

#27461

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. Joan Walsh Anglund

#27462

Ask not for whom the bell tolls You might get an answer you don't especially like. Earnst Angst

#27463

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. Jean Anouilh

#27464

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Jean Anouilh

#27465

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, ev Jean Anouilh

#27466

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. Jean Anouilh

#27467

God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. Jean Anouilh

#27468

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. Jean Anouilh

#27469

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. Jean Anouilh

#27470

Saintliness is also a temptation. Jean Anouilh

#27471

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh

#27472

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. Anne

#27473

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question Edith Ann

#27474

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Edith Ann

#27475

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Edith Ann

#27476

They tell me I have got a mind of my own, but sometimes it's like my mind itself has its own mind. Edith Ann

#27477

Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us. Edith Ann

#27478

Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim. Edith Ann

#27479

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation re Louis K. Anspacher

#27480

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. Antisthenes

#27481

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27482

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27483

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27484

Very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27485

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27486

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27487

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27488

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27489

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those th Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27490

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27491

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27492

Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27493

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27494

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27495

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27496

If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27497

All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27498

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27499

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27500

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27501

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27502

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by a Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27503

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27504

'Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.' Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27505

No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27506

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27507

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27508

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27509

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So I Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27510

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27511

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27512

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, a Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27513

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27514

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27515

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you hav Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27516

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.' Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27517

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27518

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to m Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27519

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27520

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27521

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27522

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27523

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27524

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 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#27525

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony

#27526

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take Susan B. Anthony

#27527

Never utter these words 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know know to understand understand to jud Apothegm of Narda

#27528

... information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine. Stan Aogartem

#27529

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. Gloria Anzaldua

#27530

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him. Saint Thomas Aquinas

#27531

Beware the man of one book. Saint Thomas Aquinas

#27532

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing hi Saint Thomas Aquinas

#27533

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know Saint Thomas Aquinas

#27534

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. Saint Thomas Aquinas

#27535

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this dream a great dre John A. Appleman

#27536

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them. Aharon Appelfeld

#27537

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

#27538

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

#27539

All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

#27540

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

#27541

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace a Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

#27542

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. Diane Arbus

#27543

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. Yassir Arafat

#27544

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. Dr. Arbthnot

#27545

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arnay

#27546

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to Janos Arnay

#27547

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creatin Detronius Arbiter

#27548

All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live Julie Arabi

#27549

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery. Julie Arabi

#27550

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air. Julie Arabi

#27551

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency Julie Arabi

#27552

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in act Hannah Arendt

#27553

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. Hannah Arendt

#27554

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt

#27555

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they Hannah Arendt

#27556

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Hannah Arendt

#27557

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt

#27558

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think. Hannah Arendt

#27559

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Archilocus

#27560

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to kee Moshe Arens

#27561

Never answer a hypothetical question. Moshe Arens

#27562

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Moshe Arens

#27563

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. Aristophenes

#27564

Comedy is allied to justice. Aristophenes

#27565

The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophenes

#27566

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. Aristophenes

#27567

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a c Pietro Aretino

#27568

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies Pietro Aretino

#27569

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing t Pietro Aretino

#27570

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it h Richard

#27571

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. Louis

#27572

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Louis

#27573

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Louis

#27574

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. Robert Armstrong

#27575

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. Richard Willard Armour

#27576

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then. Richard Willard Armour

#27577

He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. Richard Willard Armour

#27578

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake th Richard Willard Armour

#27579

Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle Matthew Arnold

#27580

...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Matthew Arnold

#27581

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Matthew Arnold

#27582

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. Matthew Arnold

#27583

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the Matthew Arnold

#27584

Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold

#27585

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold

#27586

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as Matthew Arnold

#27587

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold

#27588

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold

#27589

As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever. Heini Arnold

#27590

Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose. Edwin L. Arnold

#27591

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron

#27592

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, Sir William Arthur

#27593

In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home. Francois Arouet

#27594

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and mur Francois Arouet

#27595

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service Oren Arnold

#27596

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrue Oren Arnold

#27597

Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose. Maduro Ash

#27598

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. Thomas Arnold

#27599

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 Thomas Arnold

#27600

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe

#27601

From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe

#27602

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in p Alan Ashley-Pitt

#27603

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a chan Jan Ashford

#27604

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. Elizabeth Ashley

#27605

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. Saint Francis of Assisi

#27606

Preach the gospel at all times -- If necessary, use words. Saint Francis of Assisi

#27607

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as Saint Francis of Assisi

#27608

For it is in giving that we receive. Saint Francis of Assisi

#27609

Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Saint Francis of Assisi

#27610

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know Saint Francis of Assisi

#27611

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 Saint Francis of Assisi

#27612

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Saint Francis of Assisi

#27613

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told. Margot Asquith

#27614

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Margot Asquith

#27615

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. Wilma Askinas

#27616

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. Reubin Askew

#27617Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken

precedent. Lady Nancy Astor

#27618

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.Lady Nancy Astor

#27619

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Lady Nancy Astor

#27620

I married beneath me. All women do. Lady Nancy Astor

#27621

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing. Lady Nancy Astor

#27622

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Lady Nancy Astor

#27623

The only thing I like about rich people is their money. Lady Nancy Astor

#27624

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. Athenus

#27625

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. Athenus

#27626

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, ha Athenus

#27627

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. Athenus

#27628

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to b Athenus

#27629

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. Athenus

#27630

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Car Janina Atkins

#27631

Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first. Brooks Atkinson

#27632

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement a Brooks Atkinson

#27633

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe an Brooks Atkinson

#27634

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. Brooks Atkinson

#27635

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of cri Brooks Atkinson

#27636

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. John Atkinson

#27637

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. Margaret Atwood

#27638

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood

#27639

As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left t Rowan Atkinson

#27640

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Atlee

#27641

She knows there's no success like failure and that failure's no success at all. Paul Aubuchon

#27642

He who fails to question is asking for trouble. Paul Aubuchon

#27643

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness I Paul Aubuchon

#27644

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength Paul Aubuchon

#27645

Everyone in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination. Paul Aubuchon

#27646

Money doesn't talk, it swears. Paul Aubuchon

#27647

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27648

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 Wystan Hugh Auden

#27649

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27650

Weep for the lives your wishes never led. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27651

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which Wystan Hugh Auden

#27652

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile Wystan Hugh Auden

#27653

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27654

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27655

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27656

When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them Wystan Hugh Auden

#27657

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27658

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so Wystan Hugh Auden

#27659

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27660

To ask the hard question is simple. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27661

As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27662

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27663

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. Wystan Hugh Auden

#27664

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these Wystan Hugh Auden

#27665

Only little boys and old men sneer at love. Louis Auchincloss

#27666

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustine

#27667

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father. Saint Augustine

#27668

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine

#27669

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Saint Augustine

#27670

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine

#27671

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved Saint Augustine

#27672

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. Saint Augustine

#27673

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Saint Augustine

#27674

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly Saint Augustine

#27675

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the Saint Augustine

#27676

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness. Saint Augustine

#27677

Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine

#27678

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate I Saint Augustine

#27679

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace. Saint Augustine

#27680

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Saint Augustine

#27681

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have s Saint Augustine

#27682

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the m Saint Augustine

#27683

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all. Saint Augustine

#27684

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible li Saint Augustine

#27685

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God. Saint Augustine

#27686

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. Saint Augustine

#27687

The argument is at an end. Saint Augustine

#27688

I was in love with loving. Saint Augustine

#27689

Hear the other side. Saint Augustine

#27690

Unless you believe, you will not understand. Saint Augustine

#27691

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine

#27692

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. Saint Augustine

#27693

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, Saint Augustine

#27694

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach

#27695

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them. Berthold Auerbach

#27696

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. Berthold Auerbach

#27697

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in Norman R. Augustine

#27698

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. Norman R. Augustine

#27699

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to Norman R. Augustine

#27700

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen atta Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27701

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27702

Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27703

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27704

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27705

To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their w Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27706

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27707

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27708

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own o Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27709

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27710

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27711

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27712

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27713

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entert Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27714

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27715

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27716

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no m Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27717

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27718

Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, an Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27719

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27720

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27721

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27722

Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27723

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observe Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27724

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27725

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it wi Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27726

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27727

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27728

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. Marcus Aelius Aurelius

#27729

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself. Ausonius

#27730

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. Ausonius

#27731

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. Ausonius

#27732

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. Ausonius

#27733

Truth is the mother of hatred. Ausonius

#27734

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read. Ausonius

#27735

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. Jane Austen

#27736

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen

#27737

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which p Jane Austen

#27738

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong Jane Austen

#27739

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen

#27740

Those who do not complain are never pitied. Jane Austen

#27741

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen

#27742

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than Jane Austen

#27743

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Jane Austen

#27744

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I Jane Austen

#27745

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. Jane Austen

#27746

Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen

#27747

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen

#27748

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stand Jane Austen

#27749

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more Jane Austen

#27750

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. Jane Austen

#27751

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen

#27752

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. Jane Austen

#27753

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. Jane Austen

#27754

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen

#27755

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness Jane Austen

#27756

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of info Jane Austen

#27757

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation Jane Austen

#27758

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and Jane Austen

#27759

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance. James A. Autry

#27760

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

#27761

Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through Sri da Avabhas

#27762

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. Sri da Avabhas

#27763

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of Sri da Avabhas

#27764

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Sri da Avabhas

#27765

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. Sri da Avabhas

#27766

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Sri da Avabhas

#27767

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love. Sri da Avabhas

#27768

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see \-- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the w Paul Auster

#27769

No vision and you perish No Ideal, and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to Harriet Du Autermont

#27770

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can f Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

#27771

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

#27772

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

#27773

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

#27774

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from Amer Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

#27775

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way Alfred Jules Ayer

#27776

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. Saint Teresa of Avila

#27777

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila

#27778

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila

#27779

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their Marcel Ayme

#27780

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#27781

Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love – Enjo Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#27782

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. Lauren Bacall

#27783

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall

#27784

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. Thomas Babington

#27785

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. Thomas Babington

#27786

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. James Gilmore Backus

#27787

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard

#27788

A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't. Burt Bacharach

#27789

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. Burt Bacharach

#27790

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. June Masters Bacher

#27791

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. Joan Baez

#27792

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just Joan Baez

#27793

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. Joan Baez

#27794

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now. Joan Baez

#27795

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. Joan Baez

#27796

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. Joan Baez

#27797

Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning. Michael R. Baer

#27798

Faith is a higher faculty than reason. Henry Christopher Bailey

#27799

It matters not how long we live but how. Philip James Bailey

#27800

Art is a man's nature nature is God's art. Philip James Bailey

#27801

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. George Baker

#27802

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. George Baker

#27803

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. Robert Bakker

#27804

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. Thomas Andrew Bailey

#27805

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled. Thomas Andrew Bailey

#27806

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love. L. O. Baird

#27807

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. Nicholson Baker

#27808

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part Scott Bairstow

#27809

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Wayne Baker

#27810

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and Russell Wayne Baker

#27811

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off th Russell Wayne Baker

#27812

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. ames Arthur Baldwin

#27813

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, th James Arthur Baldwin

#27814

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. James Arthur Baldwin

#27815

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Arthur Baldwin

#27816

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. James Arthur Baldwin

#27817

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. James Arthur Baldwin

#27818

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. James Arthur Baldwin

#27819

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you James Arthur Baldwin

#27820

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garmen James Arthur Baldwin

#27821

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to James Arthur Baldwin

#27822

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. James Arthur Baldwin

#27823

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Arthur Baldwin

#27824

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indi James Arthur Baldwin

#27825

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Arthur Baldwin

#27826

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating James Arthur Baldwin

#27827

To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced. James Arthur Baldwin

#27828

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And James Arthur Baldwin

#27829

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be for James Arthur Baldwin

#27830

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. James Arthur Baldwin

#27831

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Arthur Baldwin

#27832

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like a James Arthur Baldwin

#27833

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates th Stephen Baker

#27834

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. Faith Baldwin

#27835

The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the in Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

#27836

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge. William Baker

#27837

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how we Monica Baldwin

#27838

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. Monica Baldwin

#27839

A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. Whitney Balliett

#27840

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship. vern Ball

#27841

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. Stanley Baldwin

#27842

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth. Stanley Baldwin

#27843

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard wo Lucille Ball

#27844

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. Lucille Ball

#27845

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of l Lucille Ball

#27846

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who Lucille Ball

#27847

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball

#27848

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball

#27849

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind. Endre Balogh

#27850

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of tr Edward C. Banfield

#27851

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Toni Cade Bambera

#27852

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambera

#27853

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. Sarah Ban Breathnach

#27854

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth. Sarah Ban Breathnach

#27855

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. Sarah Ban Breathnach

#27856

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. Sarah Ban Breathnach

#27857

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead

#27858

It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time. Tallulah Bankhead

#27859

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead

#27860

I'm as pure as the driven slush. Tallulah Bankhead

#27861

Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once. Tallulah Bankhead

#27862

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead

#27863

Let's play two Ernie Banks

#27864

This--this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beau Roger Bannister

#27865

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. Roger Bannister

#27866

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other Roger Bannister

#27867

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. Nancy Banks-Smith

#27868

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking Margaret Fairless Barber

#27869

Baseball is dull only to dull minds. Red Barber

#27870

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life w Lester Bangs

#27871

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. John Perry Barlow

#27872

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. John Perry Barlow

#27873

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. Maurice Baring

#27874

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain Mt. Rainier emotionally and psychica Bruce Barcott

#27875

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. Joel Barker

#27876

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent and I Jesse Barfield

#27877

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. Alben William Barkley

#27878

Life is too long not to be happy. Thom Barber

#27879

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. Charles Barkley

#27880

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. Alvin Barkley

#27881

solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive cou Amelia Barr

#27882

The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says. Maurice Barrs

#27883

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men Natalie Clifford Barney

#27884

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the pe Clive Barnes

#27885

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest hear Albert Coombs Barnes

#27886

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned P Barnum

#27887

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. P Barnum

#27888

There's a sucker born every minute. P Barnum

#27889

Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing. P Barnum

#27890

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away. Alicia Barnhart

#27891

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night. Dicky Barrett

#27892

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.

#27893

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun con Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.

#27894

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry

#27895

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. Lynda Barry

#27896

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice Bruce Barton

#27897

Conceit is God's gift to little men. Bruce Barton

#27898

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances Bruce Barton

#27899

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton

#27900

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little thing Bruce Barton

#27901

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. Bruce Barton

#27902

When you're through changing, you're through. Bruce Barton

#27903

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There Don Barthelme

#27904

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. Karl Barth

#27905

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. Karl Barth

#27906

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth

#27907

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with Bernard Mannes Baruch

#27908

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. Bernard Mannes Baruch

#27909

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. Bernard Mannes Baruch

#27910

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. Bernard Mannes Baruch

#27911

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with Bernard Mannes Baruch

#27912

If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. Bernard Mannes Baruch

#27913

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the s Jacques Martin Barzun

#27914

In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than Jacques Martin Barzun

#27915

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Martin Barzun

#27916

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Jacques Martin Barzun

#27917

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Jacques Martin Barzun

#27918

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings be Jacques Martin Barzun

#27919

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who pla Saint Basil

#27920

Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you w Saint Basil

#27921

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#27922

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#27923

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#27924

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#27925

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#27926

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too int Isaac Bashevis Singer

#27927

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#27928

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

#27929

Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. Baslo

#27930

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought. Baslo

#27931

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. William of Baskerville

#27932

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to l Georges Bataille

#27933

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood. Georges Bataille

#27934

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. Marston Bates

#27935

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. Mary Catherine Bateson

#27936

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. Mary Catherine Bateson

#27937

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she w Mary Catherine Bateson

#27938

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to Mary Catherine Bateson

#27939

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson

#27940

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies. Daisy Bates

#27941

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. Daisy Bates

#27942

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. Daisy Bates

#27943

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got. W. L. Bateman

#27944

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out. D. A. Battista

#27945

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. D. A. Battista

#27946

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. D. A. Battista

#27947

No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly. D. A. Battista

#27948

The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior. D. A. Battista

#27949

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable. D. A. Battista

#27950

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Orlando A. Battista

#27951

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. Orlando A. Battista

#27952

What's done to children, they will do to society. Orlando A. Battista

#27953

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness R. J. Baughan

#27954

Nature does not give to those who will not spend. R. J. Baughan

#27955

There is a need for heroism in American life today. Vicki Baum

#27956

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply. Vicki Baum

#27957

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings. Vicki Baum

#27958

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover L. Frank Baum

#27959

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in t Jean Baudrillard

#27960

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on Jean Baudrillard

#27961

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. Clifford Bax

#27962

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. Richard Baxter

#27963

He is not drowning His sheep when He washed them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showed that they a Richard Baxter

#27964

In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity. Richard Baxter

#27965

Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal

#27966

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. Glen Beaman

#27967

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. John Bay

#27968

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. John Bay

#27969

Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do. Vivian Baxter

#27970

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and Walter Beakel

#27971

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. Erastus Flavel Beadle

#27972

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. Erastus Flavel Beadle

#27973

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Thomas Haynes Bayly

#27974

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable Bill Beattie

#27975

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time ta Sun Bear

#27976

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. Simone de Beauvoir

#27977

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir

#27978

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. Simone de Beauvoir

#27979

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of Simone de Beauvoir

#27980

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in hu Simone de Beauvoir

#27981

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. Simone de Beauvoir

#27982

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. Simone de Beauvoir

#27983

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard he knew that lack of respect for growing, living Luther Bear

#27984

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. Paul Beatty

#27985

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. Carl Lotus Becker

#27986

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which Carl Lotus Becker

#27987

My own mind is my own church. Carl Lotus Becker

#27988

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is Romare Beardon

#27989

The limitations are limitless. Beck

#27990

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be con Alan Marshall Beck

#27991

Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers lo Alan Marshall Beck

#27992

What is a husband He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he Alan Marshall Beck

#27993

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out Alan Marshall Beck

#27994

A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funn Alan Marshall Beck

#27995

A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really Alan Marshall Beck

#27996

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angel shine about them, and though I Alan Marshall Beck

#27997

You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning Clay P. Bedford

#27998

We were so close to being one of the actual victims. It makes you feel humble. Robert Lee Bedker

#27999

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be ab Edward Bedore

#28000

The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct Edward Bedore

#28001

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. Samuel Beckett

#28002

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

#28003

We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett

#28004

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly. Samuel Beckett

#28005

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett

#28006

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing. Sir Thomas Beecham

#28007

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. Sir Thomas Beecham

#28008

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. Sir Thomas Beecham

#28009

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. John Beecher

#28010

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven

#28011

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. Ludwig van Beethoven

#28012

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven

#28013

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comp Ludwig van Beethoven

#28014

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. Ludwig van Beethoven

#28015

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold. Ludwig van Beethoven

#28016

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Jim Beggs

#28017

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it. Jim Beggs

#28018

When one door closes another door opens but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see Alexander Graham Bell

#28019

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of min Alexander Graham Bell

#28020

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully adva Alexander Graham Bell

#28021

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. Alexander Graham Bell

#28022

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. Brendan Francis Behan

#28023

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves Brendan Francis Behan

#28024

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 Francis Behan

#28025

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Brendan Francis Behan

#28026

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty t Clive

#28027

To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult. Clive

#28028

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. Heda Bejar

#28029

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order Bernard Iddings Bell

#28030

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something. Saul Bellow

#28031

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow

#28032

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. Saul Bellow

#28033

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. Saul Bellow

#28034

The part can never be well unless the whole is well. Saul Bellow

#28035

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book Saul Bellow

#28036

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 Saul Bellow

#28037

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledge Joachim du Bellay

#28038

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is. Brad Bell

#28039

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. Mark Beltaire

#28040

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. Robert Charles Benchley

#28041

I do most of my work sitting down that's where I shine. Robert Charles Benchley

#28042

A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. Robert Charles Benchley

#28043

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely eRobert Charles Benchley

#28044

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Charles Benchley

#28045

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to David Ben-Gurion

#28046

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. David Ben-Gurion

#28047

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. David Ben-Gurion

#28048

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. Ruth Fulton Benedict

#28049

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. Betty Bender

#28050

Life without a friend is death without a witness. Eugene Benge

#28051

Getters don't get--givers get. Eugene Benge

#28052

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind. Stephen Vincent Benet

#28053

Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet

#28054

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benet

#28055

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. Tony Bennet

#28056

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. Saint Benedict

#28057

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. W. G. Benham

#28058

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. Walter Benjamin

#28059

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Walter Benjamin

#28060

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of ha Thomas Arnold Bennett

#28061

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. Thomas Arnold Bennett

#28062

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe o Thomas Arnold Bennett

#28063

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of c Robert F. Bennett

#28064

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and Robert F. Bennett

#28065

We don't need more assault rifles on our streets right now. William J. Bennett

#28066

The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-wee William John Bennett

#28067

Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common la William John Bennett

#28068

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. William John Bennett

#28069

If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard how about giving me 50, William John Bennett

#28070

Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of pa William John Bennett

#28071

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. William John Bennett

#28072

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people. William John Bennett

#28073

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, Eric Bentley

#28074

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem. Edward M. Berckman

#28075

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson

#28076

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization. Jon Bentley

#28077

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Taylor Benson

#28078

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson

#28079

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson

#28080

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

#28081

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

#28082

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. P.L. Berger

#28083

You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut. Sally Berger

#28084

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to the John Berger

#28085

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of de John Berger

#28086

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to pu Elizabeth Berg

#28087

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always Jason Berg

#28088

Why do writers write Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger

#28089

There is no time like the pleasant. George Bergman

#28090

Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any Juliene Berk

#28091

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it. Irving

#28092

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business Irving

#28093

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of ou Rusty Berkus

#28094

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Henri Bergson

#28095

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson

#28096

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

#28097

All power in human hands is liable to be abused. Sarah Bernhardt

#28098

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. Al Bernstein

#28099

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, w Sir Isaiah Berlin

#28100

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz

#28101

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz

#28102

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer. Georges Bernanos

#28103

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on the Georges Bernanos

#28104

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. Georges Bernanos

#28105

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. Louis A. Berman

#28106

Never speak more clearly than you think. Jeremy Bernstein

#28107

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different. Dale Berra

#28108

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Leonard Bernstein

#28109

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make s Leonard Bernstein

#28110

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 Leonard Bernstein

#28111

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter Leonard Bernstein

#28112

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future Leonard Bernstein

#28113

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein

#28114

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply Leonard Bernstein

#28115

In baseball, you don't know nothing. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28116

The game's not over until it's over. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28117

You can observe a lot just by watching. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28118

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28119

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28120

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28121

It ain't the heat, it's the humility. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28122

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28123

If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop 'em Lawrence Peter Berra

#28124

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28125

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't Lawrence Peter Berra

#28126

Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28127

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.Lawrence Peter Berra

#28128

I never said most of the things I said. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28129

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28130

It's like deja vu all over again. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28131

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28132

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28133

So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28134

How can a guy hit and think at the same time Lawrence Peter Berra

#28135

It gets late early out there. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28136

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28137

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28138

We made too many wrong mistakes. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28139

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28140

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28141

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28142

Ninety-nine percent of this game is half mental. Lawrence Peter Berra

#28143

Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition. Ignas Bernstein

#28144

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. Mary Bertone

#28145

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. Mary Bertone

#28146

Past and to come seem best things present worst. Mary Bertone

#28147

Talkers are no good doersg. Mary Bertone

#28148

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. Mary Bertone

#28149

But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Mary Bertone

#28150

I wasn't put on this Earth to make you feel like a man. Mary Bertone

#28151

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

#28152

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure Annie Besant

#28153

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. Sir Walter Besant

#28154

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. Sir Walter Besant

#28155

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. Sir Walter Besant

#28156

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which y Sir Walter Besant

#28157

He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. Sir Walter Besant

#28158

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. Sir Walter Besant

#28159

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. Sir Walter Besant

#28160

If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example. Sir Walter Besant

#28161

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Sir Walter Besant

#28162

Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children. Sir Walter Besant

#28163

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth. Sir Walter Besant

#28164

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-establish Henry Bessemer

#28165

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your Walker Best

#28166

You never really know someone until you have been their friend. Walker Best

#28167

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great e Derek Bethune

#28168

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Derek Bethune

#28169

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 Hans Albrecht Bethe

#28170

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes sh Ugo Betti

#28171

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it. Ugo Betti

#28172

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith. Adel Bestavros

#28173

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. Mary McLeod Bethune

#28174

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance Mary McLeod Bethune

#28175

Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind. Richard Bethell

#28176

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate Oliver Bevan

#28177

I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the work Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

#28178

'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said. 'It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.' Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

#28179

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

#28180

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

#28181

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other de 1 Peter 47-8 Bible

#28182

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. 1 John 49 NIV Bible

#28183

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever. 1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible

#28184

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But w Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible

#28185

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it m Ecclesiates 1922 Bible

#28186

All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked. Ecclesiastes 92 Bible

#28187

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Timothy 611 Bible

#28188

A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible

#28189

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Ecclesiastes 911 Bible

#28190

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor for we are members one of another. Ephesians 425 Bible

#28191

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. James 210 Bible

#28192

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. Isaiah IX.22 Bible

#28193

Comfort ye, my people speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load Isaiah 401-8 Bible

#28194

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 132 Bible

#28195

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be wear Isaiah 4031 Bible

#28196

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of p Isaiah 5812 Bible

#28197

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way... Exodus 2320 Bible

#28198

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galations 69 Bible

#28199

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people Hebrews 111-2 Bible

#28200

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the sha Hebrews 122 Bible

#28201

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall Matthew 2311, 12 Bible

#28202

I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. John 174 Bible

#28203

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 1335 Bible

#28204

And Jesus said unto him, 'No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.' Luke 962 Bible

#28205

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom o Matthew 1924 Bible

#28206

Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.' Matthew 1820 Bible

#28207

I thank my God everytime I remember you. Philippians 13 NIV Bible

#28208

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Matthew 1514 Bible

#28209

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion Job 3831 Bible

#28210

Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest Joshua 19 Bible

#28211

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. Proverbs 1728 Bible

#28212

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. Proverbs 104 Bible

#28213

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat. Proverbs Bible

#28214

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 413 Bible

#28215

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Philippians 24 Bible

#28216

There is that market himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that market himself poor, yet hath great riches. Proverbs 137 Bible

#28217

He that is soon angry dealt foolishly... Proverbs 1417a Bible

#28218

A friend loved at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 1717 Bible

#28219

A soft answer turned away wrath. Proverbs 151 Bible

#28220

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding. Proverbs 1532 Bible

#28221

My son, give me thine heart... Proverbs 2326a Bible

#28222

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again... Proverbs 2416a Bible

#28223

Give me neither poverty nor riches. Proverbs 30.8 Bible

#28224

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 2918 Bible

#28225

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 2515 Bible

#28226

As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the Constance of his friend. Proverbs 2717 Bible

#28227

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. Proverbs 2719 Bible

#28228

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Proverbs 276 Bible

#28229

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make Proverbs 35 Bible

#28230

As a man thinketh, so is he Proverbs 237 Bible

#28231

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Psalm 1272 Bible

#28232

I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will mediate also of all thy work, and talk o Psalm 7711, 12 Bible

#28233

But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace. Psalm 3711 TLB Bible

#28234

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and Psalm 27 13-14 Bible

#28235

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither sh Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew

#28236

For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but Psalms 305 Bible

#28237

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED. Song of Songs 21 Bible

#28238

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

#28239

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ecclesiastes 79 Bible Hebrew

#28240

Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Thessalonians 516,18 Bible

#28241

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 426 Bible New Testament

#28242

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned So he that Proverbs 627-9 Bible Hebrew

#28243

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28244

Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28245

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28246

Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28247

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28248

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28249

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28250

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28251

Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28252

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28253

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28254

Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28255

There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28256

Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28257

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

#28258

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies. 1 Timothy 14 Bible New Testament

#28259

Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew

#28260

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect Jacob Bigelow

#28261

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself. Jacob Bigelow

#28262

Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools. John Billings

#28263

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a big Victoria Billings

#28264

Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only b Clarence Birdseye

#28265

A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you w B. A. Billingsly

#28266

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would rea B. A. Billingsly

#28267

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. B. A. Billingsly

#28268

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. Rose Elizabeth Bird

#28269

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just. Rose Elizabeth Bird

#28270

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. Rose Elizabeth Bird

#28271

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, H Lord Billingsley

#28272

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. Lord Billingsley

#28273

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid Lord Billingsley

#28274

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and tre Jim

#28275

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far Jim

#28276

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. Jim

#28277

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Jim

#28278

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. Jim

#28279

Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. Jim

#28280

Those who marry to escape something usually find something else. Claire Huchet Bishop

#28281

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. Claire Huchet Bishop

#28282

Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it. Claire Huchet Bishop

#28283

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. Billy

#28284

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. Billy

#28285

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength. Billy

#28286

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery. Prince Otto

#28287

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice Prince Otto

#28288

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Prince Otto

#28289

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth. Claude T Bissell

#28290

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. Claude T Bissell

#28291

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more Claude T Bissell

#28292

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. David Bissonette

#28293

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. David Bissonette

#28294

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend. David Bissonette

#28295

Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Giv Black Elk

#28296

He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes. Black Elk

#28297

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. Black Elk

#28298

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. Diana Black

#28299

If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do with people. Diana Black

#28300

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple

#28301

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. Lester R Bittel

#28302

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons. Lester R Bittel

#28303

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. Lester R Bittel

#28304

A grownup is a child with layers on. Paxton Blair

#28305

There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibility Paxton Blair

#28306

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict. Paxton Blair

#28307

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. Toledo Blade

#28308

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

#28309

It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents. Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

#28310

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his a Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

#28311

Don't set your wit against a child. Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

#28312

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. Black Hawk

#28313

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. Black Hawk

#28314

If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well. Black Hawk

#28315

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind \- listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. Eubie

#28316

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. Eubie

#28317

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation. Eubie

#28318

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. Rachel Blanchard

#28319

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong Rachel Blanchard

#28320

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body. Rachel Blanchard

#28321

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, a Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

#28322

Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it. Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

#28323

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

#28324

There is no religion higher than the truth. H Hahn Blavatsky

#28325

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to ch H Hahn Blavatsky

#28326

Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blam H Hahn Blavatsky

#28327

Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the eva H Hahn Blavatsky

#28328

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. H Hahn Blavatsky

#28329

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there this blot upon exist H Hahn Blavatsky

#28330

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought. H Hahn Blavatsky

#28331

Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two. H Hahn Blavatsky

#28332

When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One - the inner sound which kills the outer. H Hahn Blavatsky

#28333

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that H Hahn Blavatsky

#28334

He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven. H Hahn Blavatsky

#28335

After 3, a body has a mind of its own. H Hahn Blavatsky

#28336

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings Angel Blessing

#28337

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got. Angel Blessing

#28338

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority Angel Blessing

#28339

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Alan Bleasdale

#28340

Nature uses as little as possible of anything. Alan Bleasdale

#28341

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Alan Bleasdale

#28342

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, w Henry C. Blinn

#28343

If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is atta Henry C. Blinn

#28344

Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you Henry C. Blinn

#28345

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us. Henry C. Blinn

#28346

May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near Blessing Irish

#28347

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 Blessing Irish

#28348

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy. Blessing Irish

#28349

Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined. Blessing Irish

#28350

At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat. Blessing Irish

#28351

May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your w Blessing Irish

#28352

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of y Srully D. Blotnick

#28353

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found proof Srully D. Blotnick

#28354

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important. Milo Bloom

#28355

If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at John Blofeld

#28356

You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds. Barbara Bloom

#28357

When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when Barbara Bloom

#28358

Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on Robert Albert Bloch

#28359

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are Robert Albert Bloch

#28360

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. Robert Albert Bloch

#28361

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the tw Harold Bloom

#28362

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. Harold Bloom

#28363

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom

#28364

The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road. Karen Blixen

#28365

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hop Thomas Edward Bodett

#28366

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. George Dana Boardman

#28367

Sow an act...reap a habit Sow a habit...reap a character Sow a character...reap a destiny. George Dana Boardman

#28368

I prefer my oysters fried That way I know my oysters died. Roy G. Blount, Jr.

#28369

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. Leon Blum

#28370

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. Ludwig Boerne

#28371

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical life's, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. Reginald Blyth

#28372

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone. Robert Elwood Bly

#28373

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. Jean Bodin

#28374

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things. Mary Manin Boggs

#28375

When we hold back on life, life holds us back. Mary Manin Boggs

#28376

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily William J. H. Boetcker

#28377

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head. Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28378

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28379

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28380

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28381

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28382

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28383

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28384

No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. Niels Henrik David Bohr

#28385

The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his lo Nicolas Boileau

#28386

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.) Nicolas Boileau

#28387

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure Nicolas Boileau

#28388

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. Nicolas Boileau

#28389

My performances have finally caught up with my ego. Ato Boldon

#28390

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Curtis Bok

#28391

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. Derek Curtis Bok

#28392

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous Bokonon

#28393

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. William Bolitho

#28394

An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand William Bolitho

#28395

Forget the past and live the present hour. Sarah Knowles Bolton

#28396

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Sarah Knowles Bolton

#28397

Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think Lee C. Bollinger

#28398

History is philosophy teaching by examples. Henry St. John Bolingbroke

#28399

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Robert Oxton Bolt

#28400

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether Robert Oxton Bolt

#28401

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul Robert Oxton Bolt

#28402

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind. Robert Oxton Bolt

#28403

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I Erma Bombeck

#28404

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put Erma Bombeck

#28405

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. Erma Bombeck

#28406

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actual Erma Bombeck

#28407

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with o Erma Bombeck

#28408

When humor goes, there goes civilization. Erma Bombeck

#28409

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. Erma Bombeck

#28410

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. Erma Bombeck

#28411

If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead. Erma Bombeck

#28412

We've got a generation now who were born with semi equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad Erma Bombeck

#28413

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. Erma Bombeck

#28414

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best. Erma Bombeck

#28415

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck

#28416

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck

#28417

... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights Erma Bombeck

#28418

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Erma Bombeck

#28419

We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28420

The word impossible is not in my dictionary. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28421

An army marches on its stomach. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28422

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me Napoleon Bonaparte

#28423

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28424

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28425

If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28426

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28427

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28428

What is history but a fable agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28429

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28430

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28431

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28432

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28433

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28434

Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28435

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28436

Men, in general, are but great children. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28437

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28438

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mank Napoleon Bonaparte

#28439

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28440

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28441

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28442

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte

#28443

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28444

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suf Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28445

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion abo Dietrich Bonhoeffer

28446

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about t Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28447

To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28448

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28449

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28450

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28451

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28452

For memory has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a frien Carrie Jacobs Bond

#28453

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick. Edward De Bono

#28454

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. Edward De Bono

#28455

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wron Edward De Bono

#28456

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course o Edward De Bono

#28457

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

#28458

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car I Edward De Bono

#28459

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. Edward De Bono

#28460

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

#28461

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. Margaret Bonnano

#28462

Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time. Margaret Bonnano

#28463

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone

#28464

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. Sonny Bono

#28465

When the sun comes up, I have morals again. Elayne Boosler

#28466

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers. Elayne Boosler

#28467

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. Edwin Booth

#28468

What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things David L Boren

#28469

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what ma David L Boren

#28470

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children th William H. Borah

#28471

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their govern William H. Borah

#28472

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges

#28473

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once an Jorge Luis Borges

#28474

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. Jorge Luis Borges

#28475

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

#28476

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges

#28477

Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges

#28478

Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges

#28479

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to t Jorge Luis Borges

#28480

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of t Robert H Bork

#28481

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find I Robert H Bork

#28482

For most folks, no news is good news for the press, good news is not news. Gloria Borger

#28483

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is Max Born

#28484

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Eve Max Born

#28485

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them. Max Born

#28486

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 Phyllis Bottome

#28487

There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Bottome

#28488

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. Leon Botstein

#28489

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions. Leon Botstein

#28490

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some othe James Boswell

#28491

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. James Boswell

#28492

I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding. James Boswell

#28493

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the f F. F. Bosworth

#28494

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. F. F. Bosworth

#28495

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake... Nelson Boswell

#28496

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. Nelson Boswell

#28497

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. Nelson Boswell

#28498

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit Nadia Boulanger

#28499

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is Nadia Boulanger

#28500

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history Nadia Boulanger

#28501

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character Elias Boudinot

#28502

Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or g Carol Botwin

#28503

Money is a good servant, but a poor master. Dominique Bouhours

#28504

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are li Dominique Bouhours

#28505

Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others. Bouilly

#28506

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#28507

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improve Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#28508

About the rhinoceros here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste. Randolph Silliman Bourne

#28509

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph Silliman Bourne

#28510

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alec Bourne

#28511

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith Alec Bourne

#28512

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. Ben Bova

#28513

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying Ben Bova

#28514

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife. Francis William Bourdillon

#28515

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon

#28516

Righteous people have no sense of humor. Bertolt Brecht

#28517

War is like love it always finds a way. Bertolt Brecht

#28518

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone Bertolt Brecht

#28519

First the grub, then the morals. Bertolt Brecht

#28520

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out from underneath him. Bertolt Brecht

#28521

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht

#28522

Why be a man when you can be a success Bertolt Brecht

#28523

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertolt Brecht

#28524

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and Elizabeth Bowen

#28525

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. Elizabeth Bowen

#28526

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend Elizabeth Bowen

#28527

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dream Elizabeth Bowen

#28528

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen

#28529

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. Elizabeth Bowen

#28530

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen

#28531

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in Catherine Drinker Bowen

#28532

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it. John Christian Bovee

#28533

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into t John Christian Bovee

#28534

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. John Christian Bovee

#28535

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. John Christian Bovee

#28536

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he John Christian Bovee

#28537

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking. Christian Nestell Bovee

#28538

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. Christian Nestell Bovee

#28539

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee

#28540

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he David Bowie

#28541

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. George Seaton Bowes

#28542

If you marries for money, you surely will earn it. Ezra Bowen

#28543

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. Henry Boye

#28544

I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination. Frank L. Boyden

#28545

Work 'em hard, play 'em hard, feed 'em up to the nines and send 'em to bed so tired that they are asleep before their heads are Frank L. Boyden

#28546

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any pray Malcolm Boyd

#28547

If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with you J. F. Boyse

#28548

You can't try to do things you simply must do them. Ray Douglas Bradbury

#28549

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Douglas Bradbury

#28550

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day. Ray Douglas Bradbury

#28551

That's the good part of dying when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. Ray Douglas Bradbury

#28552

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do Ray Douglas Bradbury

#28553

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. Ernest Leroy Boyer

#28554

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... Robert Whitney Boynton

#28555

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the Sandra

#28556

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not anymore. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern- Hal

#28557

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren Are you kidding By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or ch Hal

#28558

Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see h Hal

#28559

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so Anne Bradstreet

#28560

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. Anne Bradstreet

#28561

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. F. H. Bradley

#28562

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley

#28563

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living Amanda Bradley

#28564

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, n General Omar Nelson Bradley

#28565

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our General Omar Nelson Bradley

#28566

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the ta Dorthea Bragg

#28567

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. Sarah Brady

#28568

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from Sarah Brady

#28569

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. Othal Brand

#28570

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

#28571

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Sir William Bragg

#28572

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. Stewart Brand

#28573

Adults are just children who earn money. Kenneth Branaugh

#28574

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt

#28575

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, ho Anthony Brandt

#28576

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. Jacob Braude

#28577

If a thing goes without saying -- let it. Jacob Braude

#28578

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience. Jacob Braude

#28579

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to Marlon Brando

#28580

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening. Marlon Brando

#28581

All I want to be is normally insane. Marlon Brando

#28582

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. Marlon Brando

#28583

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. Georges Braque

#28584

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Joan Brannon

#28585

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. Bernd Brecher

#28586

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. Robert Brault

#28587

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar. Robert Brault

#28588

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. Robert Brault

#28589

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

#28590

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

#28591

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

#28592

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

#28593

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people Gerald

#28594

All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered. David Ashley Brewer

#28595

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously Stephen A. Brennan

#28596

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it. Sylvia Bremer

#28597

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28598

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28599

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28600

Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passion Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28601

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28602

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28603

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28604

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibit Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28605

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#28606

You may search my time-worn face, you'll find a merry eye that twinkles I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles. Edythe E. Bregnard

#28607

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget t Fanny Brice

#28608

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. Aristide Briand

#28609

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. Barnett Brickner

#28610

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, and man in his hasty days is honored for them. Robert Bridges

#28611

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than his discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#28612

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#28613

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#28614

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. Vera Brittaiin

#28615

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 Michael Bridge

#28616

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David McClure Brinkley

#28617

Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas. Seymour Britchky

#28618

Do your work not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake--that little more which is worth all the Dean Briggs

#28619

For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do Then give to the world the best you have, And the best wi Madeline Bridges

#28620

Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you. Madeline Bridges

#28621

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in Fawn M. Brodie

#28622

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination Fawn M. Brodie

#28623

It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma. William E. Brock

#28624

On her first meeting with the ex-husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien. Kelly Le Brock

#28625

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Hermann Broch

#28626

Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell. Peter Brock

#28627

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it Gr Alice May Brock

#28628

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to Peter Brodie

#28629

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, H Peter Brodie

#28630

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it. Peter Brodie

#28631

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. Joseph Brodsky

#28632

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himse Joseph Brodsky

#28633

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. Joseph Brodsky

#28634

For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their pol Joseph Brodsky

#28635

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the Herb Brody

#28636

The Holy Spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the Holy Spirit, that same Spirit draws hi R. Brokhoff

#28637

If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away from the church of his day. I R. Brokhoff

#28638

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility they must have action and they will make it if they can Charlotte Bronte

#28639

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to Charlotte Bronte

#28640

Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte

#28641

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte

#28642

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by Charlotte Bronte

#28643

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely will Charlotte Bronte

#28644

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte

#28645

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte

#28646

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for hum Charlotte Bronte

#28647

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte

#28648

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things Charlotte Bronte

#28649

Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks

#28650

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks

#28651

Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country. Mel Brooks

#28652

That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it. Mel Brooks

#28653

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. Mel Brooks

#28654

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't h Joseph Brooks

#28655

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. Anita Brookner

#28656

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. Anita Brookner

#28657

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep look Garth Brooks

#28658

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. Garth Brooks

#28659

Good judgment is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgment. Fred Brooks

#28660

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not. Albert Brooks

#28661

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. Van Wyck Brooks

#28662

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. Van Wyck Brooks

#28663

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. Van Wyck Brooks

#28664

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. Van Wyck Brooks

#28665

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible Van Wyck Brooks

#28666

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your task Phillips Brooks

#28667

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks

#28668

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be G Phillips Brooks

#28669

The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man. Phillips Brooks

#28670

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms Phillips Brooks

#28671

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and f Phillips Brooks

#28672

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the though Phillips Brooks

#28673

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. Phillips Brooks

#28674

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your t Phillips Brooks

#28675

Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must Brigid Antonia Brophy

#28676

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing Joyce

#28677

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, maki Joyce

#28678

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Joyce

#28679

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 Joyce

#28680

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top Joyce

#28681

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Joyce

#28682

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more Joyce

#28683

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. James Broughton

#28684

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Henry Peter Brougham

#28685

Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande

#28686

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. Heywood

#28687

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. Heywood

#28688

I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day. Heywood

#28689

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. Heywood

#28690

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great le Heywood

#28691

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. Olga Brouman

#28692

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do. Fredric Brown

#28693

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales. Anne Brown

#28694

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown

#28695

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. A. Whitney Brown

#28696

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. A. Whitney Brown

#28697

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. David Ross Brower

#28698

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown Charles Hendrickson Brower

#28699

Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. Gene Brown

#28700

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. Gene Brown

#28701

The only difference between a Good Day and a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE Dennis S. Brown

#28702

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. Haywood Hale Broun

#28703

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance. H. Jackson Browne

#28704

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur H. Jackson Browne

#28705

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. H. Jackson Browne

#28706

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. H. Jackson Browne

#28707

Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy H. Jackson Browne

#28708

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well-remembered door. Heywood Brown

#28709

Christmas the very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and ca Joan Winmill Brown

#28710

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. John Mason Brown

#28711

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. John Mason Brown

#28712

She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. John Mason Brown

#28713

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. Helen Gurley Brown

#28714

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream. Michael Brown

#28715

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your t Rita Mae Brown

#28716

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

#28717

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown

#28718

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown

#28719

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. Rita Mae Brown

#28720

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for the Rita Mae Brown

#28721

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Rita Mae Brown

#28722

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae Brown

#28723

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown

#28724

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. Rita Mae Brown

#28725

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. Rita Mae Brown

#28726

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. Rita Mae Brown

#28727

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make Rita Mae Brown

#28728

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears. Rob Brown

#28729

If you're going to have it - have it all. Rob Brown

#28730

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls. Rob Brown

#28731

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Sam Brown

#28732

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. Merry Browne

#28733

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. Merry Browne

#28734

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. Sir Thomas Browne

#28735

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Sir Thomas Browne

#28736

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. Sir Thomas Browne

#28737

I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this Sir Thomas Browne

#28738

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Sir Thomas Browne

#28739

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. Sir Thomas Browne

#28740

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appears unto others. Sir Thomas Browne

#28741

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. Charles Farrar Browne

#28742

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the major Giordano Bruno

#28743

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. Emil Brunner

#28744

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest Nancy Parker Brummett

#28745

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the Jerome Seymour Bruner

#28746

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our li Mary Ann Brussat

#28747

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role Eugene E. Brussell

#28748

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding. Jacob Brownowski

#28749

There are never enough 'I love you'. Lenny Bruce

#28750

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.' Lenny Bruce

#28751

Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce

#28752

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. Lenny Bruce

#28753

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor. Bill Bryson

#28754

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. Lyman Bryson

#28755

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect. James D. Bryden

#28756

When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day. Marty Bucella

#28757

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all Paul William Bear Bryant

#28758

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athlete William Cullen Bryant

#28759

Play is the exultation of the possible. Martin Buber

#28760

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28761

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28762

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28763

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28764

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28765

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was take Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28766

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28767

Hunger makes thief of any man. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28768

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generate Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28769

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

#28770

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. John Buchan

#28771

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. John Buchan

#28772

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. John Buchan

#28773

The best things in life aren't things. Art Buchwald

#28774

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women Art Buchwald

#28775

I worship the quicksand he walks in. Art Buchwald

#28776

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald

#28777

If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can Henry Thomas Buckle

#28778

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. A. G. Buckham

#28779

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. Mary Lorraine Buckley

#28780

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. William Frank Buckley, Jr.

#28781

Well, we've only had a certain number of executions in the last few years- whatever it was- and two of them were for the persona William Frank Buckley, Jr.

#28782

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of William Frank Buckley, Jr.

#28783

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. Frederick Buechner

#28784

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. Frederick Buechner

#28785

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. Frederick Buechner

#28786

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the exist Frederick Buechner

#28787

The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have Frederick Buechner

#28788

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there Frederick Buechner

#28789

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Eustace Budgell

#28790

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion Eustace Budgell

#28791

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius. George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

#28792

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

#28793

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

#28794

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fan Warren Buffett

#28795

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. Warren Buffett

#28796

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. Warren Buffett

#28797

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski

#28798

I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing. Charles Bukowski

#28799

Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. Bill Bulko

#28800

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. Ralph Bunche

#28801

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is Rudolf Karl Bultmann

#28802

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

#28803

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any to Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

#28804

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

#28805

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

#28806

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

#28807

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

#28808

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. E. R. Bulwer-Lytton

#28809

'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error the strong and virtuous admit no E. R. Bulwer-Lytton

#28810

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a Julie Burchill

#28811

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. John Bunyan

#28812

God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God. Archie Bunker

#28813

We must have a program to learn the way out of prison. Warren Earl Burger

#28814

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and app Robert Jones Burdette

#28815

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#28816

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that Michelangelo Buonarroti

#28817

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more be Michelangelo Buonarroti

#28818

Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#28819

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#28820

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo Buonarroti

#28821

When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want Mary Ingraham Bunting

#28822

You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it. Emma Bunton

#28823

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke

#28824

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a James Burgh

#28825

A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now the Karen Burka

#28826

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts. G. B. Burgin

#28827

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life Frank Gelett Burgess

#28828

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead. Frank Gelett Burgess

#28829

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away. Carol Burnett

#28830

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. Carol Burnett

#28831

Comedy is tragedy plus time. Carol Burnett

#28832

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Carol Burnett

#28833

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. Carol Burnett

#28834

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett

#28835

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go. Carol Burnett

#28836

Are we having fun yet Carol Burnett

#28837

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me Gale Brook Burket

#28838

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new thing Dr. David M. Burns

#28839

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. Dr. David M. Burns

#28840

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new thing Dr. David M. Burns

#28841

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, pa Dr. David M. Burns

#28842

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. Daniel H. Burnham

#28843

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they s Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

#28844

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. Aaron Burr

#28845

Don't miss out on life just to stay alive. Adam Burrell

#28846

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. Barbara Burrow

#28847

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the prod William Seward Burroughs

#28848

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like William Seward Burroughs

#28849

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality and William Seward Burroughs

#28850

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S. William Seward Burroughs

#28851

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Sir Richard Francis Burton

#28852

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind. Sir Richard Francis Burton

#28853

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self-expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his s Sir Richard Francis Burton

#28854

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as Sir Richard Francis Burton

#28855

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Dr.

#28856

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Dr.

#28857

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone an Dr.

#28858

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Dr.

#28859

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- its apathy. Dr.

#28860

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or ne Dr.

#28861

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. Dr.

#28862

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change. Dr.

#28863

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest ac Dr.

#28864

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes. Dan Burrus

#28865

One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. Barbara Bush

#28866

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or oppor Barbara Bush

#28867

Believe in something larger than yourself. Barbara Bush

#28868

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream. Barbara Bush

#28869

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do t Barbara Bush

#28870

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the Barbara Bush

#28871

War is not nice. Barbara Bush

#28872

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity. George Herbert Walker Bush

#28873

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come. George Herbert Walker Bush

#28874

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs George Herbert Walker Bush

#28875

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is t George Herbert Walker Bush

#28876

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. Everyone who George Herbert Walker Bush

#28877

The notion of political correctness. declares certain topics. certain expressions. even certain gestures off-limits. What began George Herbert Walker Bush

#28878

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I c George Herbert Walker Bush

#28879

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a an George Herbert Walker Bush

#28880

You till be glad to know the President is practicing safe snacks. In reference to her husband's fainting spell caused by a pretz Laura Bush

#28881

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. Nicholas Murray Butler

#28882

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas Murray Butler

#28883

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. Horace Bushnell

#28884

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which Horace Bushnell

#28885

Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five Montagu Butler

#28886

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. Vannevar Bush

#28887

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of Vannevar Bush

#28888

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks George Walker Bush

#28889

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terri George Walker Bush

#28890

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These act George Walker Bush

#28891

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness – each Herbert Butterfield

#28892

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward. Herbert Butterfield

#28893

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling Herbert Butterfield

#28894

You call it madness, but I call it love. Don Byas

#28895

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

#28896

He's a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon. Red Buttons

#28897

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strength Eric Butterworth

#28898

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. Eric Butterworth

#28899

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just Eric Butterworth

#28900

Don't go through life, GROW through life. Eric Butterworth

#28901

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Roberts Buxton

#28902

In life, as in chess, forethought wins. Charles Roberts Buxton

#28903

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes

#28904

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. James F. Byrnes

#28905

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes

#28906

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength Richard Evelyn Byrd

#28907

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere w Robert C. Byrd

#28908

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you Robert C. Byrd

#28909

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Robert

#28910

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. Robert

#28911

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert

#28912

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge that myth is more potent than history that dreams are more powerful than f Robert

#28913

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. Robert

#28914

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 b Robert

#28915

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work ever Robert

#28916

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell

#28917

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell

#28918

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine

#28919

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. John Cage

#28920

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical John Cage

#28921

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why I think it's not beautiful. And very short John Cage

#28922

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. Herb Caen

#28923

There are more of them than us. Herb Caen

#28924

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. Herb Caen

#28925

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. Herb Caen

#28926

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. Herb Caen

#28927

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine

#28928

Expect you're every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, and expect to grow spiritually Eileen Caddy

#28929

Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts) Gaius Julius Caesar

#28930

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Gaius Julius Caesar

#28931

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) Gaius Julius Caesar

#28932

Men willingly believe what they wish. Gaius Julius Caesar

#28933

The die is cast. Gaius Julius Caesar

#28934

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which John Calhoun

#28935

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. John Calhoun

#28936

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. Steven Patrick Callahan

#28937

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. Jean Caldwell

#28938

. . . I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. John Calvin

#28939

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so no John Calvin

#28940

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only John Calvin

#28941

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteous John Calvin

#28942

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. John Calvin

#28943

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every pri John Calvin

#28944

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with John Calvin

#28945

Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our Mary Steichen Calderone

#28946

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke. W. J. Cameron

#28947

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been expect Joseph Campbell

#28948

Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience Joseph Campbell

#28949

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbell

#28950

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell

#28951

When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors and where there wouldn't be Joseph Campbell

#28952

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell

#28953

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where Joseph Campbell

#28954

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our word Julia Margaret Cameron

#28955

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell

#28956

Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping refer Colin Campbell

#28957

Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice Joan B. Campbell

#28958

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron

#28959

We presuppose two things that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it. John Wood Campbell, Jr.

#28960

Truth or tact you have to choose. Most times they are not compatible. Eddie Cantor

#28961

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going Eddie Cantor

#28962

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor

#28963

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. Eddie Cantor

#28964

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. Frank Caplan

#28965

It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is lib Andrea Canaan

#28966

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure Elias Canetti

#28967

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, Elias Canetti

#28968

I don't even know what street Canada is on. Al Capone

#28969

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand. Al Capone

#28970

I have built my organization upon fear. Al Capone

#28971

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. Al Capone

#28972

This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one o Al Capone

#28973

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. Al Capone

#28974

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. Al Capone

#28975

Once in the racket you're always in it. Al Capone

#28976

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. Al Capone

#28977

Vote early and vote often. Al Capone

#28978

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. Truman Capote

#28979

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. Truman Capote

#28980

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. Truman Capote

#28981

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, Truman Capote

#28982

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered con Truman Capote

#28983

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote

#28984

Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools. Truman Capote

#28985

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote

#28986

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote

#28987

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps. John Capozzi

#28988

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. Al Capp

#28989

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp

#28990

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken. Orson Scott Card

#28991

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love h Orson Scott Card

#28992

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Orson Scott Card

#28993

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can Orson Scott Card

#28994

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. Orson Scott Card

#28995

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra

#28996

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself. Frank Capra

#28997

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. Frank Capra

#28998

In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much Fritjof Capra

#28999

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can product Fritjof Capra

#29000

Some people see things that are and ask, why some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not some people have to go George

#29001

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George

#29002

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. George

#29003

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward 'I'm such George

#29004

There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it George

#29005

Wouldn't it be weird if the only way people could die was that their heads suddenly exploded without warning If there was simply George

#29006

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. George

#29007

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey

#29008

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore. Alex Carey

#29009

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, Jane Welsh Carlyle

#29010

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Carmichael

#29011

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. John le Carre

#29012

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. John le Carre

#29013

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll

#29014

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. Lewis Carroll

#29015

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. Lewis Carroll

#29016

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Lewis Carroll

#29017

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice Lewis Carroll

#29018

'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations' Lewis Carroll

#29019

'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you com Lewis Carroll

#29020

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll

#29021

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. Lewis Carroll

#29022

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you Jonathan Carroll

#29023

Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight. Swedish Carol

#29024

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above. Julia A. Fletcher Carney

#29025

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be. Ainsley Carry

#29026

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

#29027

Only lie about the future. Johnny Carson

#29028

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. Johnny Carson

#29029

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. An Johnny Carson

#29030

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. Johnny Carson

#29031

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. Johnny Carson

#29032

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair. Johnny Carson

#29033

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson

#29034

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. Johnny Carson

#29035

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. Johnny Carson

#29036

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be Rosalynn Carter

#29037

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. Rosalynn Carter

#29038

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tri Rosalynn Carter

#29039

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin. Lillian

#29040

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. Rachel Carson

#29041

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson

#29042

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. Rachel Carson

#29043

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, redis Rachel Carson

#29044

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. Rachel Carson

#29045

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings. Hodding Carter

#29046

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in dark Hodding Carter

#29047

Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, place Wanda Carter

#29048

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Carter

#29049

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29050

You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political d James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29051

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resource James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29052

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29053

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29054

An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29055

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29056

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29057

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29058

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29059

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations . . . is that in political, military, more James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29060

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29061

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29062

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

#29063

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the l George Washington Carver

#29064

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver

#29065

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving an George Washington Carver

#29066

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Lo Carlos Castaneda

#29067

All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart. Carlos Castaneda

#29068

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary Carlos Castaneda

#29069

It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deed Carlos Castaneda

#29070

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. Phoebe Cary

#29071

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. Karen Casey

#29072

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey

#29073

It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents. Lester Case

#29074

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman. Willa Sibert Cather

#29075

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Sibert Cather

#29076

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Sibert Cather

#29077

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable a Willa Sibert Cather

#29078

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from Willa Sibert Cather

#29079

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Sibert Cather

#29080

One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil I John L. Casteel

#29081

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dress Marcius Porcius Cato

#29082

Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.) Marcius Porcius Cato

#29083

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. Marcius Porcius Cato

#29084

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. Henry VII Cate

#29085

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you w Catullus

#29086

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony. Catullus

#29087

I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense. Dick Cavett

#29088

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett

#29089

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. Dick Cavett

#29090

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. Dick Cavett

#29091

We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from o Max Cavalera

#29092

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety. Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil

#29093

A great NOW will be a great WAS A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE Sid Ceaser

#29094

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. Carrie Chapman Catt

#29095

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. Louis Celine

#29096

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. Bennett Alfred Cerf

#29097

Censor a self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people's business. Bennett Alfred Cerf

#29098

On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting-- George W. Cecil

#29099

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others Miguel Cerbantes

#29100

It takes all sorts to make a world. Miguel Cerbantes

#29101

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel Cerbantes

#29102

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm I Charles A. Cerami

#29103

Whereas gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their Simondes of Ceos

#29104

The city is the teacher of the man. Simondes of Ceos

#29105

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health. Simondes of Ceos

#29106

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

#29107

I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another l Madam Chaiang Kai-shek

#29108

We live in a rainbow of Chaos. Paul Cezanne

#29109

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest Alan Chadwick

#29110

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear Oswald Chambers

#29111

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always Whittaker Chambers

#29112

Learn and think imperially. Joseph Chamberlain

#29113

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in Neville Chamberlain

#29114

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

#29115

Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before. Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

#29116

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed. Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

#29117

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

#29118

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. Nicholas Chamfort

#29119

Success produces success, just as money produces money. Nicholas Chamfort

#29120

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are. Nicholas Chamfort

#29121

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures Nicholas Chamfort

#29122

It is better to wear out than to rust out. Bishop Richard Cumberland

#29123

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel

#29124

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel

#29125

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel

#29126

Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it. Coco Chanel

#29127

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. Kyle Chandler

#29128

There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic the Steve Chandler

#29129

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head. Suzanne Chapin

#29130

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#29131

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#29132

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion. Maurice Chapelain

#29133

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

#29134

The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it. Navajo Chant

#29135

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin

#29136

In the end, everything is a gag. Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin

#29137

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. Alexander Chase

#29138

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. Ralph Charell

#29139

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. Ralph Charell

#29140

There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them. Emile Chartier

#29141

Full ways is he that can himself know (Very wise is he that can know himself.) Geoffrey Chaucer

#29142

He was as fresh as is the month of May. Geoffrey Chaucer

#29143

There's never a new fashion but it's old. Geoffrey Chaucer

#29144

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 a Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko

#29145

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease that means it cannot be cured. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#29146

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#29147

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#29148

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#29149

If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#29150

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. John Cheever

#29151

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever

#29152

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an ab George Barrell Cheever

#29153

Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. George Barrell Cheever

#29154

There's time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt

#29155

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. Charles W. Chesnutt

#29156

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29157

Ridicule is the best test of truth. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29158

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29159

The more one works, the more willing one is to work. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29160

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29161

Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired b Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29162

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29163

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29164

Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29165

Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29166

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29167

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will o Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29168

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

#29169

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29170

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29171

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29172

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29173

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29174

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29175

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29176

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29177

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29178

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29179

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29180

There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29181

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29182

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29183

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29184

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29185

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29186

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29187

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is t Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29188

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29189

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29190

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh because it is a gravely re Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29191

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29192

The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not m Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29193

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29194

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They ex Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29195

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29196

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbor. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29197

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

#29198

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29199

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29200

Materialists and madmen never have doubts. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29201

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29202

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29203

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29204

Coincidences are spiritual puns. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29205

A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29206

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29207

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29208

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29209

Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

#29210

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past. Madame Chiang

#29211

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate di Madame Chiang

#29212

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, Maurice Chevalier

#29213

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. Maurice Chevalier

#29214

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your Bill Chickering

#29215

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who want Child Age 15

#29216

I've learned that although it's hard to admit it, I'm secretly glad my parents are strict. Child Age 15

#29217

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck Child Age 15

#29218

The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants. Child Age 15

#29219

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels. A Chinese Child

#29220

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. Child Age 13

#29221

I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up. Child Age 13

#29222

What I've learned. . . . I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up. Child Age 13

#29223

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past. May-lin Soong Chiang

#29224

We become what we do. May-lin Soong Chiang

#29225

As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a Child Age 7

#29226

I've learned that you can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk Child Age 7

#29227

I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night. Child Age 7

#29228

Home is where the house is. Child Age 6

#29229

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past . . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. Frederick Chiluba

#29230

I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back. Child Age 9

#29231

The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. Chilo

#29232

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse. Chilo

#29233

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. Chilo

#29234

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Lawton Chiles

#29235

Will your child learn to multiply before she learns to subtract Children's Defense Fund

#29236

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. I Ching

#29237

No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do n I Ching

#29238

Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course with I Ching

#29239

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything as long as the I Ching

#29240

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. I Ching

#29241

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are I Ching

#29242

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gain I Ching

#29243

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreed I Ching

#29244

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting I Ching

#29245

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by t I Ching

#29246

He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clam I Ching

#29247

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community I Ching

#29248

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. I Ching

#29249

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

#29250

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements. I Ching

#29251

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

#29252

The more you know, the less you understand. Tao Le Ching

#29253

It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar. Tao Le Ching

#29254

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't t Tao Le Ching

#29255

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. Tao Le Ching

#29256

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which m Deepak Chopra

#29257

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and uni Deepak Chopra

#29258

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bri Deepak Chopra

#29259

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. Deepak Chopra

#29260

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls Meg Chittenden

#29261

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has Noam Chomsky

#29262

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the Noam Chomsky

#29263

Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. No Noam Chomsky

#29264

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Noam Chomsky

#29265

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by myst Noam Chomsky

#29266

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they Noam Chomsky

#29267

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the Mary Cholmondeley

#29268

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way Chuang-tzu

#29269

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without. Chuang-tzu

#29270

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Chuang-tzu

#29271

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. Chuang-tzu

#29272

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. Chuang-tzu

#29273

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. Chuang-tzu

#29274

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate Chuang-tzu

#29275

Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Chuang-tzu

#29276

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chuang-tzu

#29277

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Chuang-tzu

#29278

Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Chuang-tzu

#29279

'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it Agatha Christie

#29280

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to b Agatha Christie

#29281

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie

#29282

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. Agatha Christie

#29283

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from Agatha Christie

#29284

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie

#29285

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. Agatha Christie

#29286

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and sud Agatha Christie

#29287

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. Agatha Christie

#29288

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

#29289

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next t Agatha Christie

#29290

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense. Charles Churchill

#29291

The surest road to health, say what they will, is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, F Charles Churchill

#29292

Genius is of no country. Charles Churchill

#29293

The best things carried to excess are wrong. Charles Churchill

#29294

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. F. Forrester Church

#29295

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill

#29296

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. Jennie Jerome Churchill

#29297

Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29298

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except t Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29299

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29300

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29301

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29302

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29303

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29304

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real si Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29305

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29306

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we sh Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29307

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29308

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.' Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29309

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29310

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29311

I gather, young man that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statist Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29312

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29313

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29314

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toil Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29315

It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29316

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29317

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29318

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29319

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29320

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29321

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29322

It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29323

We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29324

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brain Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29325

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 Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29326

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29327

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29328

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29329

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29330

The price of greatness is responsibility. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29331

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29332

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29333

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29334

Success is never final. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29335

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29336

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29337

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29338

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to st Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29339

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miss Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29340

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

#29341

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29342

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29343

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29344

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

#29345

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it John Anthony Ciardi

#29346

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. John Anthony Ciardi

#29347

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed to John Anthony Ciardi

#29348

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. John Anthony Ciardi

#29349

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy genera John Anthony Ciardi

#29350

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Michael Cibenko

#29351

Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches. Colley Cibber

#29352

Possession is eleven points in the law. Colley Cibber

#29353

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended. Colley Cibber

#29354

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. Colley Cibber

#29355

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted Sandra Cisneros

#29356

For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. Craig Claiborne

#29357

Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods. Esther M. Clark

#29358

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law Ramsey Clark

#29359

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King. Ramsey Clark

#29360

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

#29361

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism. Frank A. Clark

#29362

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. Frank A. Clark

#29363

We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't. Frank A. Clark

#29364

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out. Frank A. Clark

#29365

Why not upset the apple cart If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. Frank A. Clark

#29366

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. Frank A. Clark

#29367

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Frank A. Clark

#29368

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. Charles Joseph Joe Clark

#29369

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed. Tom Clancy

#29370

The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy

#29371

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. William F Claire

#29372

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Karen Kaiser Clark

#29373

Those who stand strong will stand forever. Joshua D. Clark

#29374

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to the law of diminishing returns. John Maurice Clark

#29375

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it Muriel Clark

#29376
Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together-or be cast Howard Hewlett Clark

#29377

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Appius Claudius

#29378

Where the determination is, the way can be found. George S. Clason

#29379

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. Karl von Clausewitz

#29380

How amazing it is to be alive anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, what possible reason could he have Paul Claudel

#29381

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that' John Cleese

#29382

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese

#29383

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. John Cleese

#29384

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intent Georges Clemenceau

#29385

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself. Georges Clemenceau

#29386

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Georges Clemenceau

#29387

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

#29388

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. Georges Clemenceau

#29389

The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so they who do survive. Sarah N. Cleghorn

#29390

I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane. Eldridge Cleaver

#29391

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem. Eldridge Cleaver

#29392

I had rather be right than be President. Henry Clay

#29393

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike d Henry Clay

#29394

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. Henry Clay

#29395

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy up Henry Clay

#29396

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with p Albert E. Cliffe

#29397

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they c Mark A. Clement

#29398

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the William Jefferson Clinton

#29399

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. William Jefferson Clinton

#29400

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in t William Jefferson Clinton

#29401

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in William Jefferson Clinton

#29402

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during la William Jefferson Clinton

#29403

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and Hillary Rodham Clinton

#29404

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, Clement of Rome

#29405

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice Grover Cleveland

#29406

Children have more need of models than of critics. Carolyn Coats

#29407

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Peter Cochrane

#29408

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. William Cobbett

#29409

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary more William Cobbett

#29410

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir Barnett Cocks

#29411

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. Glenda Cloud

#29412

There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you. Maredith Close

#29413

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

#29414

Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. Morris Raphael Cohen

#29415

Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us. Flora Colao

#29416

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. Herb Cohen

#29417

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before Leonard

#29418

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. Terry Cohen

#29419

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would b Benjamin Cohen

#29420

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. Felix Cohen

#29421

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over. Jerry Coleman

#29422

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on. Jerry Coleman

#29423

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base. Jerry Coleman

#29424

Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before. And he's done it more times than anyone else. Jerry Coleman

#29425

There's a high pop-up behind second. Richardson has got it and he's under it. Jerry Coleman

#29426

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement. Jerry Coleman

#29427

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Radar. Jerry Coleman

#29428

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts. Jerry Coleman

#29429

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' pa Jerry Coleman

#29430

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play. Jerry Coleman

#29431

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe. Jerry Coleman

#29432

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb. Jerry Coleman

#29433

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus. Jerry Coleman

#29434

Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple. Jerry Coleman

#29435

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye. Jerry Coleman

#29436

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything. Jerry Coleman

#29437

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number. Jerry Coleman

#29438

Johnny Grubb slides into second with a standup double. Jerry Coleman

#29439

Turner pulls into second with a sun-blown double. Jerry Coleman

#29440

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball. Jerry Coleman

#29441

All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air. Jerry Coleman

#29442

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory. Jerry Coleman

#29443

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul. Jerry Coleman

#29444

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five. Jerry Coleman

#29445

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield. Jerry Coleman

#29446

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple. Jerry Coleman

#29447

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening. Jerry Coleman

#29448

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1. Jerry Coleman

#29449

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2. Jerry Coleman

#29450

Last night's homer was Willie Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500. Jerry Coleman

#29451

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. Its ball one. Low and outside. Jerry Coleman

#29452

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures. Jerry Coleman

#29453

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues. Jerry Coleman

#29454

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split. Jerry Coleman

#29455

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3. Jerry Coleman

#29456

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philae Jerry Coleman

#29457

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight. Jerry Coleman

#29458

McCovey swings and misses, and its fouled back Jerry Coleman

#29459

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston. Jerry Coleman

#29460

Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen. Jerry Coleman

#29461

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series. Jerry Coleman

#29462

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game. Jerry Coleman

#29463

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. Jerry Coleman

#29464

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion. Jerry Coleman

#29465

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. Jerry Coleman

#29466

There's two heads to every coin. Jerry Coleman

#29467

Billy Almon has all of his in law and outlaws here this afternoon. Jerry Coleman

#29468

If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did. Jerry Coleman

#29469

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play. Jerry Coleman

#29470

He can be lethal death. Jerry Coleman

#29471

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel. Jerry Coleman

#29472

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it. Jerry Coleman

#29473

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere. Jerry Coleman

#29474

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it. Jerry Coleman

#29475

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was gonna that fast. Jerry Coleman

#29476

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit Jerry Coleman

#29477

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat. Jerry Coleman

#29478

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria. Jerry Coleman

#29479

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting. Jerry Coleman

#29480

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him. Jerry Coleman

#29481

Our job is not to straighten each other out, But to help each other up. Neva Cole

#29482

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. Isabel Colegate

#29483

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29484

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29485

Writing only leads to more writing. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29486

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29487

We only do well the things we like doing. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29488

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29489

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29490

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29491

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still other Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#29492

Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware. Mel Colgrove

#29493

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting. G. Norman Collie

#29494

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get. Robert J. Collier

#29495

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it'd Robert J. Collier

#29496

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... Robert J. Collier

#29497

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. Churton Collins

#29498

In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends. Churton Collins

#29499

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. Jackie Collins

#29500

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple ho J. Lawton Collins

#29501

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it. Marva Collins

#29502

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. Marva Collins

#29503

A man's as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. Mortimer Collins

#29504

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem--its reality. Barbara Colorose

#29505

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. Barbara Colorose

#29506

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. Barbara Colorose

#29507

If kids come to us educators teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to Barbara Colorose

#29508

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there by Frederick L Collins

#29509

A man's best friends are his ten fingers. Robert Collyer

#29510

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon Laurie E. Colwin

#29511

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant

#29512

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. Henry Steele Commager

#29513

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. Barber B. Conable, Jr

#29514

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. Barber B. Conable, Jr

#29515

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our d Barber B. Conable, Jr

#29516

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human. John Cogley Commonweal

#29517

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation. Robert Conklin

#29518

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from a Edwin Conklin

#29519

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever Tom J. Connelly

#2952

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dis Lesley Conger

#29521

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. James Scott Jimmy Connors

#29522

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. Barbara Cook

#29523

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

#29524

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. Alistair Cooke

#29525

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it. Alistair Cooke

#29526

Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having. J. Carl Cook

#29527

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. James R. Cook

#29528

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment. Michael Corleone

#29529

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. Wendy Cope

#29530

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. Alen Coren

#29531

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to b L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

#29532

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. James Corbett

#29533

These days' people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. Vernon Cooper

#29534

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. Jilly Cooper

#29535

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille

#29536

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead Pierre Corneille

#29537

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all Pierre Corneille

#29538

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory. Pierre Corneille

#29539

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. Pierre Corneille

#29540

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. Pierre Corneille

#29541

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease. John Corry

#29542

The surest way to get rid of a bore is to lend money to him. Paul Louis Courier

#29543

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something Douglas Couplan

#29544

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched. Jo Coudert

#29545

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Emile Coue

#29546

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any excess Emile Coue

#29547

The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrate Bryce Courtenay

#29548

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. E. Joseph Crossman

#29549

The greatest power is often simple patience. E. Joseph Crossman

#29550

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. E. Joseph Crossman

#29551

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. E. Joseph Crossman

#29552

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. Park Cousins

#29553

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed I M. Shawn Covey

#29554

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and Jacques Cousteau

#29555

He has no hope who never had a fear. William Cowper

#29556

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. William Cowper

#29557

O Winter ruler of the inverted year . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And William Cowper

#29558

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper

#29559

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end. Harvey Cox

#29560

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has do Harvey Cox

#29561

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. Noel Coward

#29562

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the h Noel Coward

#29563

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. Noel Coward

#29564

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward

#29565

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. Noel Coward

#29566

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. Coleman Cox

#29567

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. Coleman Cox

#29568

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, w Courteney Cox

#29569

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. Malcolm Cowley

#29570

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt. Thomas Cowan

#29571

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth. George Crabbe

#29572

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sa George Crabbe

#29573

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. Dinah Mulock Craik

#29574

There never was night that had no morn. Dinah Mulock Craik

#29575

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether. Frank H. Crane

#29576

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or Frank H. Crane

#29577

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. Frank H. Crane

#29578

Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experience Clarence Cramer

#29579

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which Tench Coxe

#29580

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

#29581

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous. James Gould Cozzens

#29582

When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down. Venita Cravens

#29583

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Bishop Creighton

#29584

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. Joan Crawford

#29585

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. Donald Creighton

#29586

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. George Crane

#29587

A man said to the universe 'Sir, I exist' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation Stephen Crane

#29588

Each of us should do something every day that we do not want to do But we know we should do, to strengthen our backbone and put Henry Hitt Crane

#29589

Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Michael Crichton

#29590

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet \-- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. Michael Crichton

#29591

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. Mandell Creighton

#29592

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system. Quentin

#29593

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Quentin Crisp

#29594

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all Quentin Crisp

#29595

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways I Quentin Crisp

#29596

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Quentin Crisp

#29597

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yield Quentin Crisp

#29598

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those Quentin Crisp

#29599

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the Quentin Crisp

#29600

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. Quentin Crisp

#29601

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp

#29602

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp

#29603

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp

#29604

Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year Mort Crim

#29605

It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can Mort Crim

#29606

You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. Paul Crickmore

#29607

He who stops being better stops being good. Oliver Cromwell

#29608

Make the iron hot by striking it. Oliver Cromwell

#29609

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell

#29610

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right--then go ahead. Davy Crockett

#29611

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. Philip

#29612

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. Philip

#29613

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. Philip

#29614

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. Philip

#29615

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. Philip

#29616

I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one. David A. Cronin

#29617

I love you Not only for what you are but for what I am When I am with you. Roy Croft

#29618

And that's the way it is. Walter Cronkite

#29619

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. Walter Cronkite

#29620

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture I Dan Cruickshank

#29621

Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not Aleister Crowley

#29622

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refund Aleister Crowley

#29623

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfold Thomas Crum

#29624

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in v Abraham Crowley

#29625

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. Crowfoot

#2962

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow Crowfoot

#29627

To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far Marnie Reed Crowell

#29628

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always Amanda Cross

#29629

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. Amanda Cross

#29630

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the e e cummings

#29631

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. e e cummings

#29632

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. e e cummings

#29633

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea e e Cummings

#29634

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. e e cummings

#29635

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. e e cummings

#29636

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. e e cummings

#29637

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. e e cummings

#29638

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e e cummings

#29639

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us. Ely Culbertson

#29640

A good book has no ending. R. D. Cumming

#29641

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham

#29642

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. Father Jerome Cummings

#29643

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Father Jerome Cummings

#29644

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return. Samuel Cunningham

#29645

There are no atheists in foxholes. William T. Cummings

#29646

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. Mario M Cuomo

#29647

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Mario M Cuomo

#29648

I have no plans, and no plans to plan. Mario M Cuomo

#29649

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me. Mario M Cuomo

#29650

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bott Mario M Cuomo

#29651

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Mario M Cuomo

#29652

I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. Mario M Cuomo

#29653

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. Eve Denise Curie

#29654

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are. Joan L. Curcio

#29655

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie

#29656

One never notices what has been done one can only see what remains to be done. Marie Curie

#29657

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own Marie Curie

#29658

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie

#29659

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. Marie Curie

#29660

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that we must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe Marie Curie

#29661

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie

#29662

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. Will Cuppy

#29663

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the Will Cuppy

#29664

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have live Dan Custer

#29665

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. Donald Curtis

#29666

The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. John Philpot Curran

#29667

May you always live in interesting times. Chinese Curse

#29668

It is not observed in history that families improve with time. George William Curtis

#29669

I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be the waves that plunged along the shore Said only Dreamer, George William Curtis

#29670

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else Cyrus H. Curtis

#29671

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

#29672

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

#29673

There is no salvation outside the church. Saint Cyprian

#2967

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world. Curtis Dahl

#29675

Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave. Ed Daley

#29676

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad. Salvidor Dali

#29677

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. Edward Dahlberg

#29678

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order Idi Amin Dada

#29679

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. Arbie M. Dale

#29680

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. Roald Dahl

#29681

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after Roald Dahl

#29682

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

#29683

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. Roald Dahl

#29684

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. Roald Dahl

#29685

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. The 14th. Dalai Lama

#29686

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana

#29687

We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds. Bruce B. Dan

#29688

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. Victor Daniels

#29689

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone. Rodney Dangerfield

#29690

Life is just a bowl of pits. Rodney Dangerfield

#29691

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. Rodney Dangerfield

#29692

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Alighieri Dante

#29693

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here) Alighieri Dante

#29694

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. Alighieri Dante

#29695

Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man. Alighieri Dante

#29696

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act Alighieri Dante

#29697

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again. Alighieri Dante

#29698

Golf is like a love affair if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. Arnold Daly

#29699

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. Mary Beth Danielson

#29700

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. Charles A. Dana

#29701

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. Charles A. Dana

#29702

I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory. Georges Jacques Danton

#29703

Audacity, more audacity and always audacity. Georges Jacques Danton

#29704

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world Joe

#29705

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change. Charles Robert Darwin

#29706

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection Charles Robert Darwin

#29707

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no Charles Robert Darwin

#29708

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Charles Robert Darwin

#29709

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Robert Darwin

#29710

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument Charles Robert Darwin

#29711

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Robert Darwin

#29712

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some eve Charles Robert Darwin

#29713

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men. Ron Dart

#29714

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. Guy

#29715

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you Robyn Davidson

#29716

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 dif Robyn Davidson

#29717

Its counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe. Ian J. Davenport

#29718

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. Baba Ram Dass

#29719

The quieter you become the more you can hear. Baba Ram Dass

#29720

We need not think alike to love alike. Francis David

#29721

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly Tom Daschle

#29722

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's Peter J. Davies

#29723

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood. Arthur Powell Davies

#29724

As A general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age Robertson Davies

#29725

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. Robertson Davies

#29726

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still Robertson Davies

#29727

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is Robertson Davies

#29728

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by more Robertson Davies

#29729

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies

#29730

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. Robertson Davies

#29731

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworn Robertson Davies

#29732

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between C Robertson Davies

#29733

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Robertson Davies

#29734

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of common Robertson Davies

#29735

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson Davies

#29736

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog fewer when pursued by a mad woman only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad no Robertson Davies

#29737

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies

#29738

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies

#29739

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do b Robertson Davies

#29740

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feel Bronwyn Davies

#29741

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon Thomas Davidson

#29742

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis

#29743

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis

#29744

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be a Elmer Davis

#29745

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you. Elmer Davis

#29746

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. Bette Davis

#29747

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. Bette Davis

#29748

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis

#29749

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple Bette Davis

#29750

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yield Bette Davis

#29751

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or his Bette Davis

#29752

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work t Bette Davis

#29753

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. Bette Davis

#29754

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as pure Bette Davis

#29755

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis

#29756

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the Bette Davis

#29757

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life Bette Davis

#29758

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. Bette Davis

#29759

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. W. H. Davies

#29760

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. Miles Davis

#29761

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis

#29762

That was my gift -- having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting Miles Davis

#29763

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. Miles Davis

#29764

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating the Miles Davis

#29765

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself. Miles Davis

#29766

All we ask is to be let alone. Jefferson Davis

#29767

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern Jefferson Davis

#29768

The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a Jefferson Davis

#29769

Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty. Jefferson Davis

#29770

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap Jim Davis

#29771

It's amazing what one can do when one doesn't know what one can't do. Jim Davis

#29772

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. Jim Davis

#29773

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes. William Davis

#29774

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply d Richard Dawkins

#29775

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that thing Richard Dawkins

#29776

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. Charles Gates Dawes

#29777

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. Humphrey Davy

#29778

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and Humphrey Davy

#29779

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those f Clarence Day

#29780

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano De Crescenzo

#29781

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Dorothy Day

#29782

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and Dorothy Day

#29783

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Dbjanski

#29784

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown. Charles De Gaulle

#29785

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese. Charles De Gaulle

#29786

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. Charles De Gaulle

#29787

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. Charles De Gaulle

#29788

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles De Gaulle

#29789

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted I Charles De Gaulle

#29790

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) Charles De Gaulle

#29791

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles De Gaulle

#29792

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. Charles De Gaulle

#29793

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed. Charles De Gaulle

#29794

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. Charles De Gaulle

#29795

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. Charles De Gaulle

#29796

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses Charles De Gaulle

#29797

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. Charles De Gaulle

#29798

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese Charles De Gaulle

#29799

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. Charles De Gaulle

#29800

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant. Charles De Gaulle

#29801

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. Charles De Gaulle

#29802

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. Charles De Gaulle

#29803

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles De Gaulle

#29804

What do you take me for, an idiot Charles De Gaulle

#29805

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. Charles De Gaulle

#29806

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one. Charles De Gaulle

#29807

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomiting's. I cannot prevent the French from be Charles De Gaulle

#29808

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation. Charles De Gaulle

#29809

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new c Charles De Gaulle

#29810

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. Charles De Gaulle

#29811

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Charles De Gaulle

#29812

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. Charles De Gaulle

#29813

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. Charles De Gaulle

#29814

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. Charles De Gaulle

#29815

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. Charles De Gaulle

#29816

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. Charles De Gaulle

#29817

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Charles De Gaulle

#29818

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese Charles De Gaulle

#29819

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. Charles De Gaulle

#29820

When the silent majority opens its mouth it is usually to yawn. Gerd de Ley

#29821

What is life an illusion, a shadow, a story, and the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#29822

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music. Agnes de Mille

#29823

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist Agnes de Mille

#29824

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 da Agnes de Mille

#29825

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. Agnes de Mille

#29826

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent. Yvonne De Gaulle

#29827

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. Anthony de Mello

#29828

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. Anthony de Mello

#29829

We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. Marquis de Sade

#29830

I am about to put forward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some Marquis de Sade

#29831

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheist Marquis de Sade

#29832

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act that everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of Marquis de Sade

#29833

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apart Marquis de Sade

#29834

If the objects who serve us feel ecstasy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment Marquis de Sade

#29835

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared. Marquis de Sade

#29836

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. Marquis de Sade

#29837

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, t Marquis de Sade

#29838

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to b Marquis de Sade

#29839

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep Marquis de Sade

#29840

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that ex Marquis de Sade

#29841

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. Marquis de Sade

#29842

One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. Marquis de Sade

#29843

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving al Marquis de Sade

#29844

All universal moral principles are idle fantasies. Marquis de Sade

#29845

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. Marquis de Sade

#29846

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a Marquis de Sade

#29847

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. Marquis de Sade

#29848

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed eve Marquis de Sade

#29849

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men c Thomas De Quincey

#29850

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. Marguerite de Valois

#29851

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. Marguerite de Valois

#29852

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God. Marguerite de Valois

#29853

Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men Marguerite de Valois

#29854

One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful joy softens more hearts than tears d Mme. de Sartory

#29855

It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out I Alvaro de Solva

#29856

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. Germaine De Stael

#29857

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million. Eugene V. Debs

#29858

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. Eugene V. Debs

#29859

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right Eugene V. Debs

#29860

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living Eugene V. Debs

#29861

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Midge Dector

#29862

Life's two Great Questions Why me and what do I do now William L. DeAndrea

#29863

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I whole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink Dorothy DeBolt

#29864

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes Vine Deloria

#29865

How much money did you make last year Mail it in. suggestion for a simplified tax form Stanton Delaplane

#29866

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. Richard Dehmel

#29867

The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult. Marquise du Deffand

#29868

O, what a heaven is love, O, what a hell Thomas Dekker

#29869

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker

#29870

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. Vine Deloria, Jr.

#29871

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. Fred Dehner

#29872

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been as Eugene Delacroix

#29873

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. Eugene Delacroix

#29874

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix

#29875

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. Daniel Defoe

#29876

The best of men cannot suspend their fate the good die early, and the bad die late. Daniel Defoe

#29877

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad Dorothe Deluzy

#29878

More men have become great through practice than by nature. Democritus

#29879

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. Democritus

#29880

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. Democritus

#29881

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. Democritus

#29882

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds. Democritus

#29883

Word is a shadow of a deed. Democritus

#29884

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. Francois Delsarte

#29885

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement

#29886

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. Chauncey Depew

#29887

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have be John Denver

#29888

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Demosthenes

#29889

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Demosthenes

#29890

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies again Demosthenes

#29891

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes

#29892

The fact speak for themselves. Demosthenes

#29893

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true. Demosthenes

#29894

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self. Demosthenes

#29895

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes

#29896

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Demosthenes

#29897

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. Demosthenes

#29898

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness Demosthenes

#29899

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. Demosthenes

#29900

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be Demosthenes

#29901

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

#29902

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurse. That the best things corrupted are the worst. Sir John Denham

#29903

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and Grard Depardieu

#29904

Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out. James Dent

#29905

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. Taisen Deshimaru

#29906

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. Taisen Deshimaru

#29907

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. Eustache Descamps

#29908

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. J. Deville

#29909

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull how do you hang on to someone who won't stay and how do you get rid of someone Danny DeVito

#29910

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette

#29911

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever Richard M. Devos

#29912

Economics is war pursued by other means. Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.

#29913

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, and if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. The Dhammapada

#29914

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man The Dhammapada

#29915

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule. The Dhammapada

#29916

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the great The Dhammapada

#29917

One's own self conquered is better than all other people. The Dhammapada

#29918

Do not speak harshly to anyone those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blow The Dhammapada

#29919

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind The Dhammapada

#29920

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone. The Dhammapada

#29921

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what the Leonardo DiCaprio

#29922

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic. Leonardo DiCaprio

#29923

Fun has a sacred dimension. Adriana Diaz

#29924

There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are Philip K. Dick

#29925

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick

#29926

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. Philip K. Dick

#29927

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Nick Diamos

#29928

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. Nick Diamos

#29929

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate. John Sloan Dickey

#29930

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increase John Sloan Dickey

#29931

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

#29932

Faith--is the Peerless Bridge Supporting what we see Unto the Scene that We do not. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29933

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29934

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in o Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29935

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29936

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29937

If I can stop one heart from breaking, if I can ease one pain, then my life will not have been in vain. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29938

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29939

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29940

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29941

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29942

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29943

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29944

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29945

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29946

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29947

A Shade upon the mind there passes as when on Noon a Cloud the mighty Sun encloses Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29948

I dwell in possibility. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

#29949

It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in t Ray Dickinson

#29950

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson

#29951

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion

#29952

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything... Joan Didion

#29953

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. Joan Didion

#29954

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth. Denis Diderot

#29955

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means Denis Diderot

#29956

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm. Denis Diderot

#29957

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up Denis Diderot

#29958

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge . . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation Denis Diderot

#29959

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism. Denis Diderot

#29960

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot

#29961

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

#29962

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been proper Denis Diderot

#29963

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order putting things in order always means getting other people under Denis Diderot

#29964

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot

#29965

The lover says how beautiful you are, now that you love me. Marlene Dietrich

#29966

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see Marlene Dietrich

#29967

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone record Marlene Dietrich

#29968

It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich

#29969

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. Marlene Dietrich

#29970

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich

#29971

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same John George Diefenbaker

#29972

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the rig Dan Dierdorf

#29973

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. Annie Dillard

#29974

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard

#29975

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we Annie Dillard

#29976

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. Annie Dillard

#29977

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. E. W. Dijkstra

#29978

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. E. W. Dijkstra

#29979

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream disappears Jim Dietz

#29980

I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from 'Thank God it's Friday' to 'Thank God it's Monday.' If any working mother Ann Diehl

#29981

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Abbe Dimnet

#29982

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, John Dingell

#29983

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every Isak Dinesen

#29984

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life Isak Dinesen

#29985

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Isak Dinesen

#29986

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Phyllis

#29987

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit Phyllis

#29988

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, that when they speak truth they are not believed. Laertius Diogenes

#29989

The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, the dream of a waking man. Laertius Diogenes

#29990

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. Laertius Diogenes

#29991

Nothing can be produced out of nothing. Laertius Diogenes

#29992

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. Laertius Diogenes

#29993

I am a citizen of the world. Laertius Diogenes

#29994

All things are in common among friends. Laertius Diogenes

#29995

'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'because in a little while everything will be turned Laertius Diogenes

#29996

Time is the image of eternity. Laertius Diogenes

#29997

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance. Laertius Diogenes

#29998

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. Laertius Diogenes

#29999

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead. Laertius Diogenes

#30000

Democritus says, but we know nothing really for truth lies deep down. Laertius Diogenes

