Never let the sense of
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step., Oswald Chambers,
The spirit, the will t
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure., Vince Lombardi, US football coach (1913 1970)
The best thing about t
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Success seems to be la
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go, William Feather, (1908 1976)
The value of a man res
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
The future depends on
The future depends on what we do in the present., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
Kind words can be shor
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
Great things are done
Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together., Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853 1890)
The greatest motivatio
The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen., Roy Moody,
Quality is never an ac
Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives., Willa Foster,
Make failure your teac
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker., Zig Ziglar,
Challenges are what ma
Challenges are what makes life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful., Joshua J. Marine,
You must do the things
You must do the things you think you cannot do., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
I never saw a pessimis
I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
Experience is a hard t
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards., Vernon Law,
Wisdom is not a produc
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life long attempt to acquire it., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Never mistake knowledg
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life., Sandra Carey,
Life is like riding a
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Where you start is not
Where you start is not as important as where you finish., Zig Ziglar,
Courage is the power o
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Outside show is a poor
Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
Leadership is based on
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination on cooperation, not intimidation., William Arthur Wood,
The first wealth is he
The first wealth is health., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Start every day off wi
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with., W. C. Fields, US actor (1880 1946)
Failure is the opportu
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
The greatest mistake a
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one., Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 1915)
In order to succeed, w
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can., Michael Korda,
Happiness is in the jo
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort., Franklin Roosevelt,
What happens to a man
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him., Louis L. Mann,
Some succeed because t
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to., Henry Van Dyke,
Constant and determine
Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles., Claude M Bristol,
Continuous effort is t
Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential., Black Elk, Native American,
We do not remember day
We do not remember days, we remember moments., Cesare Pavese, Italian author, novelist, translator (1908 1950)
With stupidity the god
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain., Friedrich von Schiller, German dramatist poet (1759 1805)
The harder the conflic
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph., Thomas Paine, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)
Big jobs usually go to
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Every time you are not
Every time you are not practicing someone else is., Boris Becker,
My favorite part of th
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play., Mike Singletary,
The pessimist complain
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails., John Maxwell,
The greatest use of li
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it., William James, US Pragmatist philosopher psychologist (1842 1910)
There are no great lim
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder., Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 2004)
The secret of success
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
History is the record
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances., Donald Creighton,
To keep the body in go
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear., Buddha, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
With love and patience
With love and patience, nothing is impossible., Daisaku Ikeda,
If you are not big eno
If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win., Walter Reuther,
When one is in town on
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring., Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
If you want to get lai
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library., Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, songwriter (1940 1993)
You campaign in poetry
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose., Mario Cuomo,
Wisdom born of experie
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war., Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24 1967, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
I’ve seen too much h
I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory., Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24 1967, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
I want to do something
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that’s too bad., Kurt Cobain,
If you follow all the
If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun., Katherine Hepburn,
The most painful state
The most painful state of living is remembering the future., Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 1855)
It is good for a man t
It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass., E. S. Dallas,
I think that God in cr
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
The world is a tragedy
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think., Horace Walpole, lived 17171797, English author (1717 1797)
There is no eraser on
There is no eraser on the end of a scalpel., Douglas Leonard Martin, Douglas Leonard Martin in a letter to FDA in 1975.,
I liked New York when
I liked New York when it was an upanddown city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontalmonotonous., Jasper Johns (lithographer), Newsweek, Oct. 24 1977 page 42.,
Gratitude is a sickne
Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs., Joseph Stalin, Georgian Soviet politician (1879 1953)
Die, but do not retrea
Die, but do not retreat., Joseph Stalin, Georgian Soviet politician (1879 1953)
The only real power co
The only real power comes out of a long rifle., Joseph Stalin, Georgian Soviet politician (1879 1953)
I believe in one thing
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will., Joseph Stalin, Georgian Soviet politician (1879 1953)
The people who cast th
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do., Joseph Stalin, Georgian Soviet politician (1879 1953)
Never argue with a foo
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference., Anonymous,
A cigarette is the per
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?, Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Live simply, so that a
Live simply, so that all may simply live., St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (17741821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA, Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore,
God be between you and
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk., Ancient Egyptian Blessing,
I like it [The Bible]
I like it [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like The Cat In The Hat, Marilyn Manson,
Daylight, in my mind,
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded., Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, US novelist (1926 )
It is only the inferio
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism., H. P. Lovecraft, US horror supernatural author (1890 1937)
What do you mean? Do y
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not or that you feel good on this morning or that it is a morning to be good on?, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
I have no help to send
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself., J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
For though I do not as
For though I do not ask for aid, we need it., J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Boromir, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Few can foresee whithe
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
He should not vow to w
He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall., J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
The treacherous are ev
The treacherous are ever distrustful., J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Their Oath shall drive
Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue., J. R. R. Tolkien, Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Education is a progre
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance., Will Durant, US historian (1885 1981)
With hope or without h
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!, J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Some who have read the
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
I am in fact a Hobbit,
I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size., J. R .R. Tolkien,
It is impossible to sa
It is impossible to say just what I mean!, T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, line 105, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)
All art is quite usele
All art is quite useless., Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
I require myself not t
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Things are neither goo
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The wisest mind has so
The wisest mind has something yet to learn., George Santayana, Vol. 53 / No. 18 MMWR page 391, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
He is a fool that cann
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
The more things change
The more things change, the more they remain... insane., Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 050904,
The quality of an orga
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up., Harold R. McAlindon,
If you chase two rabbi
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape., Anonymous,
This Rock has become a
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant and the stone becomes famous it is treasured by a great nation its very dust is shared as a relic., Alexis DeTocqueville,
No matter how long we
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems., Anne Rice, Blood and Gold,
When a man comes to di
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world., John Steinbeck, East of Eden, US novelist (1902 1968)
Music, when soft voice
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken., Percy Bysshe Shelley,
The great use of life
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it., William James, US Pragmatist philosopher psychologist (1842 1910)
The difference between
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits, Anonymous,
I had that familiar co
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer., F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, US novelist (1896 1940)
We shape our buildings
We shape our buildings and they shape us., Winston Churchill,
I have always felt tha
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents., Winston Churchill,
Those who don’t buil
Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquence., Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, US science fiction author (1920 )
I must study politics
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain., John Adams, US diplomat politician (1735 1826)
If it can be dreamed,
If it can be dreamed, it can be done., Walt Disney, Inauguration day of Disney World, US cartoonist movie producer (1901 1966)
You cannot compile a w
You cannot compile a wit out of two halfwits., Joe Orton, (1933 1967)
If there’s one thing
If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke., Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 050104, Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). )
For the great mass of
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort., Joseph Conrad, English (PolishUkrainianborn) novelist (1857 1924)
If confusion is the fi
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius., Larry Leissner,
All men dream: but not
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible., T. E. Lawrence,
If I can stop one Hear
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain., Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)
you may not be respons
you may not be responsible for being down. but you are respinsible for getting up., Jesse Jackson, B.F.A. 1982,
All religions are foun
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. � , Marie Henri Beyle, (17831842), French biographer novelist (1783 1842)
Shallow understanding
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion., Tich Nhat Han, The sun my heart,
They will kill a great
They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first., Ho Chi Minh, When asked how Vietnam could possibly wage war against the West.,
Use soft words and har
Use soft words and hard arguments., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Memory is a giggling s
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past., Real Live Preacher, weblog, 042904, Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com )
But the life that no l
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer., Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003,
The universal brotherh
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
First it is necessary
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms., Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003,
God creates men, but t
God creates men, but they choose each other., Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
Never doubt that a sma
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has., Margaret Mead, US anthropologist popularizer of anthropology (1901 1978)
Sharing food with anot
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly., M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003,
Bear in mind that you
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
The art of dining well
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
Food is our common gro
Food is our common ground, a universal experience., James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003,
The world is full of w
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous., Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003,
What children take fro
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply., Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003,
There is…nothing to
There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people., H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003,
A mother is not a pers
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary., Dorothy C. Fisher, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003, US novelist (1879 1958)
The best inheritance a
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day., M. Grundler,
The art of mothering i
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children., Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003,
Some are kissing mothe
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same., Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003, US novelist in China (1892 1973)
With age come the inne
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003, US suffragist (1815 1902)
To keep the heart unwr
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003,
I am an old man, but i
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life., Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003, Spanish Catalan cellist, composer, conductor (1876 1973)
I have enjoyed greatly
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, English mystery author (1890 1976)
The heads of strong ol
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth., Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003,
To be 70 years young i
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old., Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
The man who removes a
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones., Anonymous,
I passionately hate th
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time., Orson Welles, US actor director (1915 1985)
You can only perceive
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older., Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003,
I grow more intense as
I grow more intense as I age., Florida ScottMaxwell, O Magazine, October 2003,
There is no old age. T
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you., Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003,
As we grow old…the b
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
What makes the engine
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire., Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003,
The worst sin perhaps
The worst sin perhaps the only sin passion can commit, is to be joyless., Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003, English mystery author (1893 1957)
I had learnt to seek i
I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life., Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003,
Nothing great in the w
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion., Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003,
Blaze with the fire th
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished., Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003,
Only passions, great p
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things., Denis Diderot, French author, encyclopedist, philosopher (1713 1784)
Confidence in nonsense
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Do the one thing you t
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Waste no more time tal
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
There was a disturbanc
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger., Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003, US (Canadianborn) author (1915 )
Strive for excellence,
Strive for excellence, not perfection., H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003,
The ancient Greek defi
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
To try to be better is
To try to be better is to be better., Charlotte Cushman, quoted in O Magazine, December 2003, US actress (1816 1876)
None of us will ever a
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Blessed is the person
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
When we do the best th
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
My one aim was to do a
My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible., Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003,
I am here and you will
I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me., Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003,
Then give to the world
Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you., Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003,
I believe the choice t
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
There is no mistaking
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love., Christopher Morley, US author journalist (1890 1957)
When I step into this
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it., Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003,
Lifetransforming ideas
Lifetransforming ideas have always come to me through books., Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003, American critic and writer )
Dedication is not what
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
The whole point of bei
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
The key to realizing a
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
To want to be what one
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life., Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002,
One must desire someth
One must desire something to be alive., Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002,
The things that one mo
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing., Winifred Holtby, O Magazine, September 2002,
Human beings have an i
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves., Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002,
Simply the thing that
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I do not want to die..
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown., Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002,
It has never been my o
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them., Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002,
The wisest men follow
The wisest men follow their own direction., Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC 406 BC)
The question should be
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done., Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002,
Breathe. Let go. And r
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Acquire inner peace an
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you., Catherine de Hueck Doherty, O Magazine, October 2002,
There is not any memor
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted., James Branch Cabell, US essayist novelist (1879 1958)
I take it that what al
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace., Joseph Conrad, English (PolishUkrainianborn) novelist (1857 1924)
If you can attain repo
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness., JulieJeanneEleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002,
To sit in the shade on
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment., Jane Austen, English novelist (1775 1817)
Nothing is permanent i
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world not even our troubles., Charlie Chaplin, O Magazine, October 2002, British actor, director, screenwriter (1889 1977)
We have to fight them
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies., Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002,
We spend most of our t
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper., James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002,
When we are unable to
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in O Magazine, October 2002, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Stress is an ignorant
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important., Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002,
It is easy to take lib
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you., M. Grundler,
Besides the noble art
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials., Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002,
If you neglect to rech
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Order is not pressure
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within., Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher politician (1883 1955)
Living is a form of no
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark., Agnes de Mille, US choreographer dancer (1909 1993)
We can be sure that th
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves., Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003,
So divinely is the wor
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
That which is static a
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art., John A. Locke,
What I dream of is an
What I dream of is an art of balance., Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003, French Impressionist Fauvist painter (1869 1954)
A book is a version of
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return., Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003, British (Indianborn) author (1947 )
Reading well is one of
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you., Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003, US author, critic, educator, scholar (1930 )
Read not to contradict
Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider., Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
If we take care of the
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves., Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004,
The whole life of man
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it., Plutarch, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
This time, like all ti
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
A single day is enough
A single day is enough to make us a little larger., Paul Klee, Swiss Abstractionist painter (1879 1940)
Regret for wasted time
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time., Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004,
Time does not change u
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us., Max Frisch,
"How long does getting
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously., A. A. Milne, English juvenile author (1882 1956)
All that really belong
All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that., Baltasar Gracian,
All my possessions for
All my possessions for a moment of time., Elizabeth I, English queen 15581603 (1533 1603)
Perhaps the feelings t
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be., Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist short story author (1860 1904)
All love that has not
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand., Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004,
To love and be loved i
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides., David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974,
What else is love but
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?, Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
Real love is a permane
Real love is a permanently selfenlarging experience., M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004,
Love is, above all els
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself., Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (1910 1987)
The first duty of love
The first duty of love is to listen., Paul Tillich, O Magazine, February 2004, US (Germanborn) Protestant theologian (1886 1965)
Love is that splendid
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else., Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher politician (1883 1955)
We can only learn to l
We can only learn to love by loving., Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004, British novelist (1919 1999)
Every man is the build
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body., Henry David Thoreau, O Magazine, May 2004, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
In a democracy dissent
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects., J. William Fulbright, US politician (1905 )
Things are more like t
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been., Gerald R. Ford, US Republican politician (1913 )
The worst prison would
The worst prison would be a closed heart., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
I never think of the f
I never think of the future it comes soon enough., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
An ounce of action is
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory., Friedrich Engels, German socialist economist (1820 1895)
I prefer to be true to
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence., Frederick Douglass, US abolitionist (1817 1895)
If there is no struggl
If there is no struggle, there is no progress., Frederick Douglass, US abolitionist (1817 1895)
People might not get a
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get., Frederick Douglass, US abolitionist (1817 1895)
Our constitution works
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men., Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9 1974, US Republican politician (1913 )
Some men look at const
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched., Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
A conservative is a ma
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward., Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26 1939, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
The true conservative
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29 1936, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
A conservative governm
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy., Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3 1845, British politician (1804 1881)
Men are conservatives
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner., Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
In all things that inv
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards., Gary Lee Phillips,
I once said, We will b
I once said, We will bury you, and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you., Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24 1963, Russian Soviet politician (1894 1971)
Whether you like it or
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you., Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18 1956, Russian Soviet politician (1894 1971)
From each according to
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs., Louis Blanc, The Organization of Work, 1840, French (Spanishborn) historian socialist politician (1811 1882)
The century which we a
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man., Henry Wallace, Speech in New York City, May 8 1942, US editor Democratic politician (1888 1965)
The state is nothing b
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by anotherno less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy., Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891, German socialist economist (1820 1895)
Where justice is denie
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe., Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886, US abolitionist (1817 1895)
The danger is not that
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern., Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881,
There is always more m
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher., Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
I believe and I say it
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer., William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1 1840, US general politician (1773 1841)
The best political com
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class., Aristotle, Politics, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
The citizen who critic
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute., J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28 1966, US politician (1905 )
The ignorance of one v
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all., John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18 1963, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
Everyone who receives
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit., John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
The perfect bureaucrat
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility., Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951, (1894 1984)
"Do what thou wilt sha
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.", Aleister Crowley, English occultist (1875 1947)
As an athlete, when yo
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty., John The Penguin Bingham, The courage to start,
Forgiveness is the fra
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
His ignorance is encyc
His ignorance is encyclopedic., Abba Eban, Israeli (S. Africanborn) diplomat politician (1915 2002)
It is not fair to ask
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
I believe that to meet
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind., His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994,
It still remains true
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous., C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
For every action there
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program., Bob Wells,
Every poem can be cons
Every poem can be considered in two waysas what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes., C. S. Lewis, A preface to Paradise Lost, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
Badness is only spoile
Badness is only spoiled goodness., C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
This year, or this mon
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people., C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
Ignore the awful times
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones., Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5, US novelist (1922 )
If a million people se
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies., Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction,
A man is but the produ
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
Life is made up of mar
Life is made up of marble and mud., Nathaniel Hawthorne, US author (1804 1864)
We make our fortunes a
We make our fortunes and call them fate., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
Those who become enamo
Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land., Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
Idiots...nothing can l
Idiots...nothing can live forever., Magus Dactylus, Chronotrigger,
Sex is a part of natur
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature., Marilyn Monroe, US actress (1926 1962)
A democracy is two wol
A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
There is no confusion
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind., F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7, US novelist (1896 1940)
The measure of a socie
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life., Jimmy Carter, US diplomat Democratic politician (1924 )
Violence is the last r
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent., Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in Foundation, US science fiction novelist scholar (1920 1992)
I believe that freedom
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul., George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13 2004, 43rd President of US (1946 )
You need only claim th
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality., Florida ScottMaxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004,
The older I get, the m
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful..., Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004,
We come and go just li
We come and go just like ripples in a stream., John V. Politis,
It is confidence in ou
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn which is what life is all about., Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
If any thing is sacred
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred., Walt Whitman, US poet (1819 1892)
The power of illustrat
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience., David P. Mikkelson, Snopes.com, 041004, Writer at snopes.com )
If you have an apple a
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Each time someone stan
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope., Robert F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1925 1968)
It is time, it is high
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?, Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra, German philosopher (1844 1900)
The time is always rig
The time is always right to do what is right., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Fear keeps pace with h
Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse., Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Maturity comes not wit
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!, Edwin Louis Cole,
And when the hourglass
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not., Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, Danish philosopher (1813 1855)
Those only are happy w
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way., John Stuart Mill, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
We can forgive you for
We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours., Golda Meir, to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks., Israeli (Russianborn) politician (1898 1978)
It may seem difficult
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first., Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings,
Stand firm in your ref
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, US writer and humorist (1950 )
There is no king who h
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Science may have found
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,
The poet ranks far bel
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things., Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
Let every nation know,
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
A man may die, nations
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
It is always incompreh
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage., Jane Austen, English novelist (1775 1817)
Kind words can be shor
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
Good people do not nee
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Knowledge is true opin
Knowledge is true opinion., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Mankind must put an en
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
It is true greatness t
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
While we are postponin
While we are postponing, life speeds by., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
All you umpires, back
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It’s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I’ve won or lost. At sunrise, I’m out again, giving it the old try., Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Coda, US science fiction author (1920 )
The strength of women
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored., Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Nothing in all the wor
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past., Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat,
When its a question of
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Think for yourselves a
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Indeed, history is not
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Do well and you will h
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Practice random beauty
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love., Anonymous,
The more corrupt the s
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws., Tacitus,
il faut laisser du tem
il faut laisser du temps au temps (you have to give time time approximate translation), Francois Mitterand,
Let us not forget that
Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper., Albert Einstein, Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his let, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Find out just what peo
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress., Frederick Douglass, US abolitionist (1817 1895)
Love is a perky elf da
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun., Matt Groening, US cartoonist satirist (1954 )
I dont want to be cro
I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced., Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,
Life appears to me too
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs., charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62, English novelist (1816 1855)
I hold a creed, which
I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all it makes eternity a rest a mighty home not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low I live in calm, looking to the end., Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62, English novelist (1816 1855)
It is by will alone th
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion., Mentat Prayer,
The unexamined life is
The unexamined life is not worth living., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
We should be taught no
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action., Frank Tibolt,
The wit makes fun of o
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with peoplethat is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature., James Thurber, US author, cartoonist, humorist, satirist (1894 1961)
The only rules comedy
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel., James Thurber, US author, cartoonist, humorist, satirist (1894 1961)
Beliefs are what divid
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
To refuse awards is an
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
The only reason I made
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
It is our responsibili
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
Children are the only
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
Comedy is simply a fun
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
The point of living an
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
Did you know that ever
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?, Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
I was irrevocably betr
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
The more you know, the
The more you know, the less you need to show., Anonymous,
Critics search for age
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
In America, through pr
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from., Peter Ustinov, English actor author (1921 2004)
Of all the preposterou
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the wellhoused, well warmed, and wellfed., Herman Melville, US novelist sailor (1819 1891)
How much easier it is
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct., Benjamin Disraeli, Speech at the House of Commons, January 24 1860, British politician (1804 1881)
I think there is a wor
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers., Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943,
The credit Union movem
The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty., Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U.S.,
A credit union is not
A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal., Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.,
There are more things
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
In times of universal
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act., George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
The hardest thing in l
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn., David Russell,
Ah, make the most of w
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the dust descend., Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
Where, after all, do u
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in the school or college he attends the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
Boldness in itself is
Boldness in itself is genius., L. Ron Hubbard,
The trouble with the w
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
No great leader in his
No great leader in history fought to prevent change., John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader,
Never allow others to
Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams., John C. Maxwell, The 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader,
When I despair, I reme
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
Marriage is the golden
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity., Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
The greatest enemy of
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge., Stephen Hawking, English cosmologist and physicist (1942 )
Go tell the Spartans,
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie., Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae, Greek poet (556 BC 468 BC)
As people do better, t
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing., Karl Rove, March 19 2001,
Politics doesn’t mak
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellowsmarriage does., Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 1977)
Technical skill is mas
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity., Christopher Zeeman,
If you think education
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!, Andy McIntyre,
As for everything else
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained., Arthur Cayley,
To state a theorem and
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards., E. Kim Nebeuts,
It is mathematics that
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
If a person commit a c
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people., Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154,
The most important pri
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts., Abdul Baha, April 19 1912 Earl Hall,
If a man has ten good
If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten., Abdul Baha, Bahai Writings,
Do not be content with
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path., Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15,
I never saw a wild thi
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself., D. H. Lawerence,
As long as humanity ha
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved., Dave Barry, US columnist humorist (1947 )
A little learning is a
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad., Bob Edwards,
This day before dawn I
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven., Walt Whitman, US poet (1819 1892)
To sin by silence when
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men., Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
It is your attitude at
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure., Corrine Dewlow,
In the vast reaches of
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
Ultimately nature and
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be., Jose Vasconcelos,
I exist as I am, that
I exist as I am, that is enough., Walt Whitman, US poet (1819 1892)
Your true value depend
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with., Bob Wells,
People drain me, even
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in., Margaret Cho, weblog, 103003,
I love drugs, but I ha
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time., Margaret Cho, weblog, 103003,
Try to love someone wh
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it., Margaret Cho, weblog, 031104,
Death smiles at us all
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back., Marcus Aurelius,
The function of scienc
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it., Frank Herbert, US science fiction novelist (1920 1986)
What you can do, or dr
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it boldness has genius, power and magic in it., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
As our own species is
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and selfdestroying., Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist science fiction author (1917 )
To gain that which is
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else., Bernadette Devlin,
I never believed in Sa
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark., Dick Gregory, US comedian (1932 )
Noble be man, Helpful
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832), from The Divine, 1783,
Human judges can show
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal., Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist science fiction author (1917 )
It may be that our rol
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship Godbut to create him., Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist science fiction author (1917 )
Science can destroy re
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor but they have few followers now., Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist science fiction author (1917 )
May your trails be cro
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds., Edward Abbey, US radical environmentalist (1927 1989)
Growth for the sake of
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell., Edward Abbey, US radical environmentalist (1927 1989)
Opinions alter, manner
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity., Lord Acton,
Natives who beat drums
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams., Mary Ellen Kelly,
Oh! love!... That is t
Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven., Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
Washington is like a s
Washington is like a selfsealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up., Dean Acheson (1893 1971),
The idea of wilderness
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders., Edward Abbey (1927 1989),
Do you know what frien
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand., Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
When the dignity of on
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied., Hubert Humphrey,
Human beings who blind
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human., William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript310_full.html,
The world is too dange
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love., William Sloane Coffin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin,
Hope arouses, as nothi
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible., William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/society/coffin.html,
Selfrespect permeates
Selfrespect permeates every aspect of your life., Joe Clark,
A leader is a dealer i
A leader is a dealer in hope., Napolean Bonaparte,
The dictionary is the
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work., Vince Lombardi, US football coach (1913 1970)
Of course we can keep
Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death., David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach,
The ingenuity of the d
The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness., Anonymous British civil servant, Take Her Deep by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.,
It is a truth universa
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife., Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, English novelist (1775 1817)
For what do we live, b
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, English novelist (1775 1817)
You have delighted us
You have delighted us long enough., Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, English novelist (1775 1817)
"Only a novel"... in s
"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language., Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, English novelist (1775 1817)
All animals except man
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it., Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
We all know him to be
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man but this would be nothing if you really liked him., Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, English novelist (1775 1817)
In all the important p
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
No sun no moon! No mo
No sun no moon! No morn no noon No dawn no dusk no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!, Thomas Hood (17991845), in the poem called No!,
O generations of men,
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!, Sophocles, Oedpius Rex, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC 406 BC)
The journey to the cro
The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary., Max Lucado, And the Angels were Silent the Final Week of Jesus,
When one door of happi
When one door of happiness closes another opens but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us., Helen Keller, Quote of the day book, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Go, lovely rose! Tell
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be., Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1,
It is not the stronges
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change., Charles Darwin, English biologist (1809 1882)
Remember, the greatest
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends., Cindy Lew,
When the power of love
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace., Jimi Hendrix,
The noblest of men des
The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women., Carey Bowman,
A man has to have a co
A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by., John Wayne, the book My Life With the Duke, US movie actor director (1907 1979)
When one door closes,
When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us., Alexander Graham Bell, US (Scottishborn) inventor (1847 1922)
Gratitude is the memor
Gratitude is the memory of the heart., Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier),
Eventually, there will
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes., Neal A. Maxwell,
The man who willeth to
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back., Joseph Smith Jr.,
At the age of eleven o
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies., P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money, British humorist novelist in US (1881 1975)
It is not the horse th
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats., Russian proverb,
Boyhood, like measles,
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious., P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money, British humorist novelist in US (1881 1975)
I can hire one half of
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half., Jay Gould, US financier railroad businessman (1836 1892)
There is a great deal
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, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
The Bible tells us to
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, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
It is not bigotry to b
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, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
If there were no God,
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
I say that a man must
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, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Fallacies do not cease
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
By a curious confusion
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
A room without books i
A room without books is like a body without a soul., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Maybe I wanted to hear
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart., Margaret Cho, weblog, 030304,
Turning and turning in
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..., W. B. Yeats, the second coming,
And in that line now w
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one., Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven,
The sciences do not tr
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work., Johann Von Neumann, US (Hungarianborn) computer scientist, mathematician (1903 1957)
Happiness is different
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing., George Sheehan,
There cannot be a cris
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full., Henry Kissinger, US (Germanborn) diplomat scholar (1923 )
Objective journalism i
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long., Hunter S. Thompson, US journalist (1939 2005)
Bisexuality automatica
Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night., Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, director (1935 )
I am only one, but sti
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do., Edward Everett Hale, US author Unitarian clergyman (1822 1909)
It is not the critic w
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat., Theodore Roosevelt, Paris, Sorbonne 1910, 26th president of US (1858 1919)
When I say I believe i
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing., Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of US (1858 1919)
A pessimist sees the d
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty., Winston Churchill,
Things that were hard
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember., Lucius Annaeus Seneca,
If one has not given e
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing., Georges Guynemer,
Wisdom is not wisdom w
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone., Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Life is not easy for a
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves., Marie Curie, French (Polishborn) chemist physicist (1867 1934)
The test of courage co
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,
All over the place, fr
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume., Noam Chomsky, US activist linguist (1928 )
Civilization is the pr
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite., Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
The degree of civiliza
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons., Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (1821 1881)
No tyranny is so irkso
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets., Edward Abbey, US radical environmentalist (1927 1989)
There is no passion li
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function., Georges Clemenceau, French politician (1841 1929)
It is now quite lawful
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Most people are bother
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
[He was] a solemn, uns
[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
It is always easier to
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative., John Burroughs, US essayist naturalist (1837 1921)
Man is ready to die fo
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him., Paul Eldridge,
Irrationally held trut
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
Doubt is not a pleasan
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Everybody believes in
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence., Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, songwriter (1940 1993)
What we think, or what
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do., John Ruskin, English critic, essayist, reformer (1819 1900)
There is no abstract a
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality., Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 1973)
Liberty is the right t
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice., Anonymous,
I disapprove of what y
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it., Voltaire, (Attributed) originated in The Friends of Voltaire, 1906 by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall), French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Anarchism is founded o
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others., Edward Abbey, US radical environmentalist (1927 1989)
Every great advance in
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
Agnosticism simply mea
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
Old age is the most un
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man., Leon Trotsky, Russian Soviet politician Communist revolutionary (1879 1940)
If there is a sin agai
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
Our chief want in life
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
A celibate clergy is a
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism., Carl Sagan, Contact, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
Television has proved
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other., Ann Landers, US advice columnist (1918 2002)
I must not fear. Fear
I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the littledeath that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain., Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Dune, US science fiction novelist (1920 1986)
Beyond a critical poin
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive., Frank Herbert, Dune, US science fiction novelist (1920 1986)
A poet more than thirt
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
The most common of all
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Faith may be defined b
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Men are the only anima
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Platitude: an idea (a)
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Giving every man a vot
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Say what you will abou
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
All [zoos] actually of
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Man is never honestly
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
For it is mutual trust
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
The world always makes
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truththat the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
The whole aim of pract
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
A home is not a mere t
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Any man who afflicts t
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
We are not sent into t
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices., Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
The only thing that su
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Beware the fury of a p
Beware the fury of a patient man., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
Determined people work
Determined people working together can do anything., Jim Casey, Founder of UPS,
Winning is great, sure
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday., Wilma Rudolph, Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph,
It is a truth universa
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces., Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary,
I already gave my best
I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all., William Hung, 2004 American Idol Auditions,
Those who educate chil
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Wellbehaved women rare
Wellbehaved women rarely make history., Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
Life is a great big ca
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can., Danny Kaye, US actor singer (1913 1987)
Plans are worthless, b
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything., Dwight D. Eisenhower, A speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 14 1957, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
Just because you love
Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds., Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16 2004, Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). )
When I do good, I feel
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
To be what we are, and
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life., Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 1894)
He that is giddy think
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round., William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
My tongue will tell th
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break., William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
But no perfection is s
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute., William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
You are the most beaut
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you., Dylan Thomas (19141953),
Despair has been calle
Despair has been called the unforgivable sinnot presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven., Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973,
Lust is the craving fo
Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst., Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973,
Envy is the consuming
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are., Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973,
Of the Seven Deadly Si
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving backin many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you., Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973,
A man who works beyond
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth., Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful., Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
The road to true love
The road to true love never did run smooth., Shakespeare,
The world is a book, a
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page., Augustine, (AD 354430),
Trust in Allah, but ti
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel., Old Muslim Proverb,
... I said to myself t
... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down., Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved , pg. 336,
Their plans were impro
Their plans were improved with the best advice., J. R. R.Tolkien, The Hobbit,
Life is not what one l
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale., Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale),
I’m searching throug
I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known., Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13 2004, Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com )
A timid person is frig
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward., Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763 1825)
I would feel more opti
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority., E. B. White, US author humorist (1899 1985)
Examinations are formi
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
Genius without educati
Genius without education is like silver in the mine., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
People often say that
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times., Isaac Bashevis Singer, US (Polishborn) Jewish author (1904 1991)
Kindness and compassio
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves., Cesar Chavez, letter,
You wake me up early i
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong., Johann von Neumann, on being phoned at 10:00:00 AM, US (Hungarianborn) computer scientist, mathematician (1903 1957)
We are just an advance
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special., Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989, English cosmologist and physicist (1942 )
Every person takes the
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world., Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 1860)
Science may set limits
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
No matter how much the
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
All changes, even the
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
What the world needs i
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Science is facts just
Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science., Henri Poincare, French mathematician physicist (1854 1912)
I maintain there is mu
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true., Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
If you stay in Beverly
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes., Robert Redford, US movie actor director (1937 )
There is a healthful h
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble., Washington Irving, US essayist, historian, novelist (1783 1859)
When a person can no l
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him., Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin,
Good taste is always a
Good taste is always an asset., Rudy Bakalov,
Take the utmost troubl
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Acceptance without pro
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science., Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters,
There is nothing worse
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
The only thing that ma
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next., Ursula K. LeGuin,
Between the wish and t
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Before a war military
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology., Rebecca West, Irish critic, journalist, novelist (1892 1983)
The good life, as I co
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy I mean that if you are happy you will be good., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
In the part of this un
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
This is patently absur
This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Those who agree with u
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness., Cullen Hightower,
A healthy family is sa
A healthy family is sacred territory., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Politicians should rea
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories., Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist science fiction author (1917 )
We may not imagine how
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complexbut Congress can., Cullen Hightower,
The intelligent man is
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more., Ed Parker,
If history repeats its
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
And when it rains on y
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow., Jerry Chin,
What you do speaks so
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
We are what we pretend
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend., Kurt Vonnegut, US novelist (1922 )
I am patient with stup
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it., Edith Sitwell, English biographer, critic, novelist, poet (1887 1964)
So convenient a thing
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Ideas are like rabbits
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen., John Steinbeck, US novelist (1902 1968)
The right word may be
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Ability will never cat
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it., Malcolm Forbes, US art collector, author, publisher (1919 1990)
The glory of great men
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
The keenest sorrow is
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities., Sophocles, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC 406 BC)
Learning is not compul
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival., W. Edwards Deming, US business advisor author (1900 1993)
God is a verb., R. Buc
God is a verb., R. Buckminster Fuller, US architect engineer (1895 1983)
To have a right to do
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Sports serve society b
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence., George F. Will, US editor, commentator, columnist (1941 )
Europe was created by
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy., Margaret Thatcher, British politician (1925 )
Humankind cannot stand
Humankind cannot stand very much reality., T. S. Eliot, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)
The reason why worry k
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
About the time we thin
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends., Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer politician (1874 1964)
Genius might be descri
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds., Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
Iron rusts from disuse
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind., Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
Liberty means responsi
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Art, like morality, co
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
A strong conviction th
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures., Daniel Webster, US diplomat, lawyer, orator, politician (1782 1852)
If the lesser mind cou
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Most of the change we
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor., Robert Frost, The Black Cottage, US poet (1874 1963)
There is one rule for
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
We can have facts with
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts., John Dewey, US educator, Pragmatist philosopher, psychologist (1859 1952)
Everything you can ima
Everything you can imagine is real., Picasso,
On the whole human bei
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time., George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
When I was younger, I
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
The man who insists on
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
Laughter is the sun th
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
The most dangerous str
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
The only purpose for w
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant., John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
Science is nothing but
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
A great many people th
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices., Edward R. Murrow, US broadcast journalist newscaster (1908 1965)
Anything not worth doi
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it., Elias Schwartz,
The more you suffer ,
The more you suffer , the more you show you really care., The Offspring, Smash,
Until and unless you d
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and gunsor dollars. Take your choicethere is no other., Ayn Rand, US (Russianborn) novelist (1905 1982)
Parents can only advis
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters., Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, German Jewish diarist (1929 1945)
No man but a blockhead
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
There are many in the
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
We can do no great thi
We can do no great things only small things with great love., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
We don’t see the end
We don’t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don’t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter., John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
If I know what love is
If I know what love is, it is because of you., Herman Hesse,
To write it, it took t
To write it, it took three months to conceive it – three minutes to collect the data in it – all my life., F. Scott Fitzgerald, US novelist (1896 1940)
It helps to write down
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
Be not afraid of life.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact., William James, US Pragmatist philosopher psychologist (1842 1910)
Time you enjoy wasting
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted., John Lennon, English singer songwriter (1940 1980)
To love oneself is the
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Man, unlike the animal
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it., Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
Nothing happens to any
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear., Marcus Aurelius,
A life spent in making
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Imagination is more im
Imagination is more important than knowledge., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
It’s only when the t
It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked., Warren Buffett, US financier investment businessman (1930 )
If you have a harem of
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well., Warren Buffett, US financier investment businessman (1930 )
I violated the Noah ru
I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count building arks does., Warren Buffett, US financier investment businessman (1930 )
Our greatest foes, and
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within., Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish adventurer, author, poet (1547 1616)
Before you were concei
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life., Maureen Hawkins,
Freedom is nothing els
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
The world isn’t inte
The world isn’t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship., Raul Armesto,
Our lives are like the
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight., The London Times,
There is only one thin
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings., Fyodor Dostoevski,
it’s when the sun sh
it’s when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest., Robin Sharma, The Saint The Surfer and the CEO,
Speak the truth, but l
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after., Slovenian Proverb,
Too low they build, wh
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars., Edward Young, English poet (1683 1765)
The past is but the be
The past is but the beginning of a beginning., H. G. Wells, English author, historian, utopian (1866 1946)
Nurture your mind with
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
True life is lived whe
True life is lived when tiny changes occur., Leo Tolstoy, Russian mystic novelist (1828 1910)
Some people walk in th
Some people walk in the rain… others just get wet…, Roger Miller,
I have lost the half o
I have lost the half of myself – a soul for which mine was made., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
I believe that its mos
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely., Andrew Soloman, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond,
I’d like to be the p
I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was., George Bernard Shaw, when asked on his deathbed, “What would you do if you could live your life over again?, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Don’t think you are
Don’t think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have., Andrew Soloman, ”The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide,
Only those who will ri
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go., T. S. Eliot, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)
Unless commitment is m
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans., Peter Drucker,
I know not with what w
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, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Most people dread find
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
I want to stay as clos
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the centre., Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,
It is never too late t
It is never too late to be what you might have been., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)
If you want to make go
If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got., Lee Iacocca, US automobile businessman (1924 )
Like dear St. Francis
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success., Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances ForbesRobertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
It is a primitive form
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist., Sir Arthur Eddington, English astronomer (1882 1944)
It would be absurd if
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them., John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 13 Part II, US novelist (1902 1968)
When you live in Texas
When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it’s magical., Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003,
The reasonable man ada
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Having a holiday weeke
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm., Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003,
When something that ho
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate., Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003,
There is no one, no ma
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible., Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 1922)
I call architecture fr
I call architecture frozen music., Goethe,
Some people are that
Some people are that more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion., Margaret Cho, weblog, 050404,
One should either be a
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
What a time experience
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as goodthe atavism of a more ancient ideal., Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, German philosopher (1844 1900)
Knowing is half the ba
Knowing is half the battle., GI Joe,
If man could have half
If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles., Ben Franklin,
Lord, make me an instr
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy., Saint Francis of Assisi, Prayer of St Francis (attributed), Italian monk saint (1181 1226)
Certainly virtue is li
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Young cat, if you keep
Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!, Dr. Seuss, Seussisms, US author illustrator (1904 1991)
Genius without educati
Genius without education is like silver in the mine., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Honest differences of
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship., Chiam Potok, The Chosen,
The human heart, at wh
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return., Maria Edgeworth,
I have never seen the
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God., Thomas A. Edison, US inventor (1847 1931)
We are never late. We
We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to., J. R. R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring,
We immediately become
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us., Stephen Covey,
Talking with you is so
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience., Calvin Hobbes,
All men are in some de
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
If a man is offered a
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
To believe is to know
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe., JeanPaul Sartre, French author existentialist philosopher (1905 1980)
Do not fear to be ecce
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Read, every day, somet
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity., Christopher Morley, US author journalist (1890 1957)
There are two motives
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Art is science made cl
Art is science made clear., Jean Cocteau, French dramatist, director, poet (1889 1963)
If people never did si
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done., Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (1889 1951)
Live to learn... forge
Live to learn... forget... and learn again., Brian,
The greatest challenge
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
The one serious convic
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously., Nicholas Butler, (1862 1947)
The most savage contro
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Everything is vague to
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
The only way to make a
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him., Henry Stimson, US politician (1867 1950)
There are no whole tru
There are no whole truths all truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil., Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician philosopher (1861 1947)
Everything you do or s
Everything you do or say is public relations., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Just because a man lac
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision., Stevie Wonder,
To be blind is bad, bu
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see., Hellen Keller,
Heaven is full of answ
Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask., Billy Graham,
A pleasure is not full
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered., C. S. Lewis, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
The very essence of li
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance., Isaac Bashevis Singer, US (Polishborn) Jewish author (1904 1991)
You give but little wh
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give., Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
If I have seen further
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants., Isaac Newton, English mathematician physicist (1642 1727)
About foxhunting: The
About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Has not Nature proved,
Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?, Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcour,
Two roads diverged in
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
Music expresses that w
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
The only people for me
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing., Jack Kerouac, On the Road, US novelist (1922 1969)
The more anger towards
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present., Barbara de Angelis,
Ethics is not definabl
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling., Valdemar W. Setzer,
I could be whatever I
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME., Shirley MacLaine, US movie actress (1934 )
Think like a queen. A
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness., Oprah Winfrey, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
We have a hunger of th
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing., Maria Mitchell,
When people ask me why
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?, Pat Schroeder,
It would be ridiculous
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex..., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US suffragist (1815 1902)
Everything has its won
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
If God had wanted us t
If God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?, Claire Boothe Luce,
The personal, if it is
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic., Anais Nin, US (Frenchborn) author diarist (1903 1977)
How do they who think
How do they who think they are unhappy differ from they who actually are?, Countess Diane,
Sometimes you gotta cr
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of., Geri Weitzman,
If you do nothing unex
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens., Fay Weldon,
All that is really nec
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar., Grace Paley,
Wisdom is harder to DO
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know., Yula Moses,
I am the only truth I
I am the only truth I know., Jean Rhys,
The growth of understa
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line., Joanne Field,
Creativity comes from
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work., Rita Mae Brown, US author and social activist )
Once conform, once do
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul., Virginia Woolf, English novelist (1882 1941)
Selftrust, we know, is
Selftrust, we know, is the first secret of success., Lady Wilde,
War is one of the scou
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men., Cardinal Richelieu,
Goals are dreams with
Goals are dreams with deadlines., Diana Scharf Hunt,
Life without emotions
Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel., Mary Astor,
You can have anything
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world., Sheilah Graham,
People who keep journa
People who keep journals have life twice., Jessamyn West,
Nothing makes a woman
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful., Sophia Loren, US (Italianborn) movie actress (1934 )
No man is defeated wit
No man is defeated without until he is defeated within., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
The difficulty in life
The difficulty in life is the choice., George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV,
I know that there are
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!, Tom Lehrer, US humorist, singer, songwriter (1928 )
The two important thin
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision., Robyn Davidson,
Action indeed is the s
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics., Jane Addams, US social worker, sociologist, suffragist (1860 1935)
He who is sorrowful ca
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep., Selma Lagerloef,
Grab the broom of ange
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear., Zora Neale Hurston, US novelist of Harlem Renaissance (1901 1960)
We ust find our duties
We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)
You are the product of
You are the product of your own brainstorm., Rosemary Konner Steinbaum,
Increase your personal
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk., Caterina Rando,
I have no riches but m
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me., Sara Teasdale, US poet (1884 1933)
Every single one of us
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do., Barbara Sher,
I have always found th
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice., Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Stop worrying about th
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!, Barbara Hoffman,
Learning is not attain
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence., Abigail Adams, US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 1818)
My mother drew a disti
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success., Helen Hayes, US actress (1900 1993)
Feel the fear and do i
Feel the fear and do it anyway., Susan Jeffers,
The moment of victory
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else., Martina Navratilova, US (Czechoslovakianborn) tennis player (1956 )
Seeds of faith are alw
Seeds of faith are always within us sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth., Susan L. Taylor,
Keep your face to the
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Selfesteem is somethin
Selfesteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve selfesteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential., Bette Midler, US actress, comedienne, singer (1945 )
The excellent becomes
The excellent becomes the permanent., Jane Adams,
Women are the glue tha
Women are the glue that hold our daytoday world together., Anna Quindlen,
What we say and what w
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength., Gloria Anzaldua,
Accept that all of us
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk., Dr. Joyce Brothers, US psychologist television personality (1928 )
I believe that a worth
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation., Hillary Rodham Clinton,
We must believe in our
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed., Rosalind Sussman Yalow,
When we are chafed and
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts., Mara Mitchell,
Apparent failure may h
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity., Frances Watkins Harper,
Luck? Sure. But only a
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure., Babe Didrikson,
When nothing is sure,
When nothing is sure, everything is possible., Margaret Drabble,
The power of the mind
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated., Mia Hamm,
The reward for doing r
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: selfrespect, dignity, integrity, and self esteem., Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
If the belief [in Chri
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!, Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human page 87 #120., German philosopher (1844 1900)
If you are not afraid
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you., Natalie Goldberg,
Everyone is a prisoner
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices just recognize them., Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31 1955, US broadcast journalist newscaster (1908 1965)
Dreams come a size too
Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them., Josie Bisset,
Unless I am what I am
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can then I am nothing., Elizabeth Janeway,
Security is when every
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you security is the denial of life., Germaine Greer,
Limited expectations y
Limited expectations yield only limited results., Susan Laurson Willig,
Sow and act and you re
Sow and act and you reap a habit sow a habit and you reap a character sow a character and you reap destiny., Frances E. Willard,
As long as we focus on
As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled., Shakti Gawain,
Filling a bookcase is
Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle., May Lamberton Becker,
God loves the world th
God loves the world through us., Mother Theresa,
Learn to get in touch
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from., Elisabeth KueblerRoss,
Courage is fear that h
Courage is fear that has said its prayers., Dorothy Bernard,
Never underestimate th
Never underestimate the power of passion., Eve Sawyer,
Perseverance and audac
Perseverance and audacity generally win., Dorothee Deluzy,
I think that wherever
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience and laughter., Susan M. Watkins,
The fullness of life i
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life., Edith Hamilton,
If you surrender compl
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments., Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
I think all great inno
I think all great innovations are built on rejections., Louise Nevelson, US (Russianborn) sculptor (1900 1988)
Great champions have a
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are., Nancy Lopez,
Instead of thinking ab
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success., Diana Rankin,
Throw your dreams into
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country., Anais Nin, US (Frenchborn) author diarist (1903 1977)
Every small, positive
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future., Alice Walker, US novelist (1944 )
Whenever you take a st
Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground., Indira Ghandi,
One of the secrets of
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats., Iris Murdoch, British novelist (1919 1999)
Everything in your wor
Everything in your world is created by what you think., Oprah Winfrey, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
It is amazing that our
It is amazing that our souls our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world are contained within these temporal bodies., Marion Woodman,
Optimism is the faith
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Fill your mind with th
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart., Marianne Williamson,
It is easy to love the
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
If one asks for succe
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for., Florence Scovel Shinn,
We all use our imagina
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance., Marilyn King,
Women are always being
Women are always being tested...but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it., Hillary Rodham Clinton,
For no phase of life,
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life., Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I,
Fail, fail again, fail
Fail, fail again, fail better., Samuel Beckett, Irish author, dramatist, novelist in France (1906 1989)
It is only with the he
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye., Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince,
The stage is not merel
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
We are what we repeate
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Find out who you are a
Find out who you are and do it on purpose., Dolly Parton,
When women are depress
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country., Elayne Boosler,
The secret of a good s
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning anf a good ending and have the two as close together as possible., George Burns, US actor comedian (1896 1996)
He who cannot be a goo
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
This is the challenge
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out flat. You can’t fake your way through this., Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29 2004, Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com )
Politics has less to d
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is., Margaret Cho, weblog, 011804,
Thankfully, beauty is
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again., Margaret Cho, weblog, 012704,
Ugly. Is irrelevant. I
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion., Margaret Cho, weblog, 012704,
Love is the big boomin
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate., Margaret Cho, weblog, 011504,
The only way most peop
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them., Tom Morris,
Perpetual optimism is
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier., Colin Powell, US general (1937 )
Good ideas are not ado
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience., Hyman Rickover, US (Polishborn) admiral (1900 1986)
Stupid is forever, ign
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed., Don Wood,
Our opinions do not re
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else., Mark Twain, quoted in Mark Twain and I, Opie Read, 1940, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Sane and intelligent h
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption., Mark Twain, Mark Twain In Eruption, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
I am not one of those
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts., Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
We have so much time a
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it., Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, British juvenile author (1916 1990)
Within every adversity
Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity., Napoleon Hill,
What we think about, e
What we think about, expands., Marc Allen, Interview with Michael Toms,
It has just been twent
It has just been twentythree years since I began to wander. In the next twentythree years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift., Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929,
Propose to any english
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it., Charles Babbage,
One should guard again
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
A man who works beyond
A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth., Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
You cannot shake hands
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist., Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17 1982, Indian politician (1917 1984)
Men want the same thin
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom., Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian television actor (1954 )
Like the wind crying e
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment., Harlan Ellison, Paladin of the Lost Hour, US science fiction author screenwriter (1934 )
Society has traditiona
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am., Marilyn Manson,
Someone bent on suicid
Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humour left., Chuck Palahniuk, US writer (1962 )
People don’t want th
People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown., Chuck Palahniuk, US writer (1962 )
Poetry is an art, and
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection., E.C. Stedman,
The problem most peopl
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether., Steve Martini,
Each success only buys
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem., Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979, US (Germanborn) diplomat scholar (1923 )
So long as there are m
So long as there are men there will be wars., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
We live in a society o
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves., Marilyn Manson,
I was born modest. Not
I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Happines is like mercu
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again., Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoir,
If you want to endure
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death., Sigmund Freud, his essay on war death, Austrian psychologist (1856 1939)
Imitation is suicide.,
Imitation is suicide., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
To be great is to be m
To be great is to be misunderstood., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
What really keeps me g
What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow., Phil Donahue,
I want to go on living
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift… Of expressing all that is in me., Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank,
Every person, all the
Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you., Richard Bach,
If Love be rough with
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down., William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
It takes a lot of mone
It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as I do., Dolly Parton,
A peacock who rests on
A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey., Dolly Parton,
There is nothing remar
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself., J. S . Bach,
A man who is careful w
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs., Clifton Fadiman, US author, editor, radio host (1904 )
Our problems are manma
Our problems are manmade, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings., John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10 1963, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
There is more stupidit
There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life., Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, songwriter (1940 1993)
Actuated by the most g
Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity., Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington,
Too many people overva
Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not., Malcolm Forbes, US art collector, author, publisher (1919 1990)
We have enslaved the r
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form., William Ralph Inge, English author Anglican prelate (1860 1954)
The only excuse for cr
The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely., Oscar Wilde, Foreward, The Picture of Dorian gray, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Perfection is the enem
Perfection is the enemy of the good., Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821 1880)
The fool wonders, the
The fool wonders, the wise man asks., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
Where you tend a rose,
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow., Frances Hodgson Burnett,
I know three things wi
I know three things will never be believedthe true, the probable, and the logical., John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2, US novelist (1902 1968)
I knew I belonged to t
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else., Marilyn Monroe, US actress (1926 1962)
And the work of righte
And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever., Bible, Isaiah 32:17,
When you have to kill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite., Sir Winston Churchill, (18741965), British politician (1874 1965)
Better hold the hand f
Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all., Saadi, On the Excellence of Contentment, Persian poet (1184 1291)
He that has acquired l
He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed., Saadi, On the Duties of Society, Persian poet (1184 1291)
Tell no one the secret
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself., Saadi, On the Duties of Society, Persian poet (1184 1291)
Ya know, if you treat
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show., Buddy Hackett,
You are free, and that
You are free, and that is why you are lost., Franz Kafka, Austrian (Czechoslovakianborn) author (1883 1924)
Hobbies cost money but
Hobbies cost money but interests are free., George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased, US comedian and actor (1937 )
I believe in the forgi
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance., Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1 1963, US diplomat Democratic politician (1900 1965)
Yes, I have cherished
Yes, I have cherished my demagogue role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine., "Malcom X" ( 1964), The Atobiograghy of Malcom X,
I look upon the whole
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
The only reward of vir
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
To feel the right emot
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions., Geoffrey Parsons,
I have an idea that so
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deeprooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest., W. Somerset Maugham, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
Mother is the name for
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, English novelist (1811 1863)
Loneliness is the huma
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want., Janet Fitch, White Oleander,
Normal is getting dre
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it., Ellen Goodman, American journalist (1941 )
The hope of a secure a
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood., Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Nonviolence is the ans
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love., Martin Luther King Jr., December 11 1964, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
All men are caught in
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Democracy is not meant
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair., Mario Cuomo,
My vigor, vitality, an
My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from., Nancy Astor, British politician (1879 1964)
Beauty of whatever kin
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears., Edgar Allen Poe,
The most profound stat
The most profound statements are often said in silence., Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 011504, Canadian cartoonist (1947 )
I know you have come t
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man., Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.,
We are what we love, n
We are what we love, not what loves us., Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation,
Musicthe one incorpore
Musicthe one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
Crash programs fail be
Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month., Wernher Von Braun, US (Germanborn) rocket engineer (1912 1977)
Beauty is in the eye o
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye., Miss Piggy, US Muppet and Pig )
Arbeit macht frei. (Wo
Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free)., Major Rudolph Hoss, Auschwitz Gate,
What we obtain too che
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated., Thomas Paine, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)
In the career of glory
In the career of glory one gains many things the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair., Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire,
An envious heart makes
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear., Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, US novelist of Harlem Renaissance (1901 1960)
It often happens that
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style., oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Character can not be d
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
No pessimist ever disc
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
You can complain becau
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses., Ziggy Marley,
Although the constant
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment., Dean Koontz, Watchers,
Believe in life! Alway
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life., W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957, US black civil rights leader (1868 1963)
I am more and more con
I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves., Alexander Humboldt,
Man does not live by w
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them., Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978, US diplomat Democratic politician (1900 1965)
People feel comfortabl
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself., Clay Aiken, Teen People,
Working with children
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration., Clay Aiken,
A life is not importan
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives., Jackie Robinson, baseball player,
I don’t really do Ne
I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now., Clay Aiken,
Trees like to have kid
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993,
A person has three cho
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993,
Words calculated to ca
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one., Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21 1952, US diplomat Democratic politician (1900 1965)
Real meaningful endeav
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993,
Good food ends with go
Good food ends with good talk., Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993,
Sometimes love will pi
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you., Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993,
The law is not so much
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide., Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992,
I never did give anybo
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell., Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9 1975, 33rd president of US (1884 1972)
The mellow sweetness o
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget., Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992,
Living is having ups a
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends., Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999,
The only limit to our
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today., Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13 1945, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
Sometimes its good to
Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more., Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001, US cartoonist )
I have been truthful a
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks., Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4 2004, Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com )
I think people want th
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer., Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 5 2004, Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com )
We shall not fail or f
We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job., Sir Winston Churchill, BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9 1941, British politician (1874 1965)
Change, when it comes,
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open., Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004,
Disconnecting from cha
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future., Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004,
Let your light shine.
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
How we treasure (and a
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!, Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004,
Each decision we make,
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention., Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004,
We learn and grow and
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it., Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004,
We shall show mercy, b
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it., Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14 1940, British politician (1874 1965)
That consciousness is
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure., Madonna, O Magazine, January 2004, US actress rock singer (1958 )
You can take from ever
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Any transition serious
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a fullon metamorphosis., Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004,
Look for the ridiculou
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it., Jules Renard, (1864 1910)
When he stood up, it w
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever., Neil Gaiman, Good Omens,
When there are monster
When there are monsters there are miracles., Ogden Nash, US humorist poet (1902 1971)
When you get to the en
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on., Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5 1977, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
But the fruit of the S
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and selfcontrol. Against such things, there is no law., The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible Galations 5:2223 NIV,
Charm is deceptive and
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised., Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31:30,
Peace and blessings ma
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned., Erykah Badu, A line from the song On On,
Wise men have more to
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
We shall support whate
We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports., Mao TseTung, Chinese Communist politician (1893 1976)
It is better to looked
It is better to looked over than overlooked., Mae West, US movie actress (1892 1980)
Those who dance were t
Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music., Angela Monet,
Live your beliefs and
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Men are not prisoners
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15 1939, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
The truest expression
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie., Agnes De Mille, US choreographer dancer (1909 1993)
There was a star dance
There was a star danced, and under that was I born., William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Live as though Christ
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow., Theodore Epp,
We are the hero of our
We are the hero of our own story., Mary McCarthy,
Love is life. And if y
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life., Leo Buscaglia,
Religion is pickled Go
Religion is pickled God., H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society, English author, historian, utopian (1866 1946)
Not all treasure is si
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate., Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean,
Surround yourself with
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher., Oprah Winfrey, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Ya know, if you treate
Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show., Buddy Hackett,
Some of the best advic
Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible., Tom Hanks,
Death is not extinguis
Death is not extinguishing the light it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come., Rabindranath Tagore,
We hold in our hands,
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!, Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992,
There is nothing sadde
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992,
Repetition does not tr
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth., Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26 1939, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
Be open to your dreams
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon., David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992,
The idea of an electio
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment., Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992,
Repetition is the deat
Repetition is the death of art., Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992,
Rain usually makes me
Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet., Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992,
I always admired athei
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991,
Obsessions and fixatio
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out., Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991,
A man should not leave
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a preflight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to liftoff?, Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991,
They say dreams are th
They say dreams are the windows of the soultake a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts., Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991,
Truth is generally the
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander., Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18 1864, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Two men look out throu
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars., Frederick Langbridge, (1849 1923)
How much easier it is
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct., Benjamin Disraeli, speech, January 24 1860, British politician (1804 1881)
George Washington had
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?, Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994,
Women have more to off
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles., Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994,
Death is the enemy. I
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993,
By midNovember I alway
By midNovember I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993,
As a scientist, I am n
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994,
If our house be on fir
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it., Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9 1798, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
There can be no spirit
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993,
People are simply inca
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992,
Joel: Ed, are you hall
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now., Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992,
One person can have a
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world., Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992,
I started concentratin
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight., Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992,
If we do not ever take
If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?, Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded,
Choice is an illusion,
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without., Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded,
You can win a million
You can win a million battles but you can only lose one., R. A. Salvatore, Homeland,
It never ceases to ama
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own., Marcus Aurelius, Meditations,
Tell me where I can es
Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
If a nation is ruled b
If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish., Yeghishe,
Face your deficiencies
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Hope sees the invisibl
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Time is but the stream
Time is but the stream I go afishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is., Henry David Thoreau, Walden, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
When life hands us a b
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee., Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book),
There are two things i
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...) the other was the fact that the century would end., Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
To deny our own impuls
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human., Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999,
A little Madness in th
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King., Emily Dickinson, No. 1333, US poet (1830 1886)
If there comes a littl
If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankledeep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring., Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl,
In the bleak midwinter
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago., Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol, English poet (1830 1894)
Every mile is two in w
Every mile is two in winter., George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, English clergyman metaphysical poet (1593 1633)
Whose woods these are
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow., Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, US poet (1874 1963)
Winter lies too long i
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen., Willa Cather, My Antonia, US novelist (1873 1947)
The tendinous part of
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood., John Burroughs, The SnowWalkers, US essayist naturalist (1837 1921)
And for the season it
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms., William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, American Pilgrim leader (1590 1657)
I think that parents o
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids., Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997,
The world is a great b
The world is a great book he who never stirs from home reads only a page., Saint Augustine, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
Once you have traveled
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey., Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides, US novelist (1945 )
When a traveller retur
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him., Francis Bacon, 15971625,
The teaching of politi
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government., Ralph Waldo Emerson, …Journal, 1860,
You go back. You searc
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real., Audrey Hepburn,
Loving is misery for w
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face., Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd,
He saw that it was an
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision., Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8,
There I lay staring up
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
I realized that If I h
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes., Charles Lindbergh, Interview shortly before his death, 1974, US aviator (1902 1974)
You cannot fly like an
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren., William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909, English critic naturalist (1841 1922)
I hope you love birds
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven., Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)
Much talking is the ca
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about., Saskya Pandita,
When thou seest an eag
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head!, William Blake, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
The very idea of a bir
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holidaylives and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!, John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887, US essayist naturalist (1837 1921)
Do you want to know th
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it., Robert Englund,
Whether we bring our e
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done., George W. Bush, 43rd President of US (1946 )
We never learn to pray
We never learn to pray, really pray until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray., Victoria Damon,
No, it is remrable tha
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains., Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air,
I am one of those who
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves., Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
I have a hundred times
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission., Robert Burns, Scottish national poet (1759 1796)
Tyranny, like hell, is
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph., Thomas Paine, Common Sense, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)
How tranquil is a cora
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!, Jules Verne, 20 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19,
Scent is the soul of f
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!, Jules Verne, 20 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34,
He who cannot forgive
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself., George Herbert, English clergyman metaphysical poet (1593 1633)
O would some power the
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.), Robert Burns, Poem To a Louse verse 8, Scottish national poet (1759 1796)
I have the consolation
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty., Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
Come what come may, Ti
Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day., William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Now would I give a tho
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground., William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
What seest thou else I
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I would fain die a dry
I would fain die a dry death., William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I do begin to have blo
I do begin to have bloody thoughts., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Never lend books nobo
Never lend books nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
When books are burned
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too., Heinrich Heine, German critic poet (1797 1856)
Any man with a moderat
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime., Henry Holt,
I have always imagined
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library., Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine novelist poet (1899 1986)
When the destroyer com
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books., Thomas More,
There is a very fine l
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it., Maya Angelou, US author poet (1928 )
Being defeated is ofte
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent., Marilyn Vos Savant,
Only those who dare to
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly., Robert F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1925 1968)
To avoid criticism, do
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing., Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 1915)
Miracles: You do not h
Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 247, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..., Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6 2003, Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). )
All people want is som
All people want is someone to listen., Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8 2003, Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). )
To be great is to be m
To be great is to be misunderstood., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
For nonconformity the
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
It is pleasing to God
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart., Martin Luther, German religious reformer (1483 1546)
Tradeoffs have been wi
Tradeoffs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden., Thomas Sowell, Editorial on WalMart, 10Dec2003, (1930 )
I do not know everythi
I do not know everything still many things I understand., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
Behind every great for
Behind every great fortune there is a crime., Honore de Balzac, French realist novelist (1799 1850)
Leadership and learnin
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other., John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22 1963, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
First love is a kind o
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time., Honore de Balzac, French realist novelist (1799 1850)
Nothing so fortifies a
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other., Honore de Balzac, French realist novelist (1799 1850)
During the Second Worl
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history., Stephen Ambrose, DDay, page 577, American historian and author (1936 2002)
It is better to risk s
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one., Voltaire, Zadig, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Not that you lied to m
Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me., Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil,
Human beings cannot st
Human beings cannot stand too much reality., Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets,
I have never seen a wi
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself., D. H. Lawrence, English novelist (1885 1930)
The sane appear as str
The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane, Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II, (1933 1967)
If we value the pursui
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a tenfoot chain., Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8 1952, US diplomat Democratic politician (1900 1965)
Everybody dies. What m
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you., Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box, US science fiction author (1951 )
To live is the rarest
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all., George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
Why should I do anythi
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?, Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 1977)
In a minute there is t
In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse., T. S. Eliot, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)
Nobody picks on a stro
Nobody picks on a strong man., Charles Atlas,
It is impossible to me
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People., Horace Greeley,
I meant to write about
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual., Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922, English novelist (1882 1941)
The bird of paradise a
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp., John Berry, Flight of White Crows,
A bird does not sing b
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song., Chinese Proverb,
There is nothing in wh
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before., Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays, US sociologist (1892 1970)
God loved the birds an
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages., Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien,
God gives every bird i
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest., J. G. Holland,
The moment a little bo
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing., Eric Berne, US (Canadianborn) psychologist (1910 1970)
Those little nimble mu
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art., Izaak Walton, English biographer fishing author (1593 1683)
I once had a sparrow a
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Laws are sand, customs
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment., Mark Twain, The Gorky Incident, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
I cannot call to mind
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people., Mark Twain, Is Shakespeare Dead?, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
A human being has a na
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs., Mark Twain, Following the Equator, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Prosperity is only an
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped., Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11 1928, 30th president of US (1872 1933)
The universal brotherh
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it., Mark Twain, Following the Equator, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Live always in the bes
Live always in the best company when you read., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
I read part of it all
I read part of it all the way through., Samuel Goldwyn, US (Polishborn) movie producer (1882 1974)
You can cover a great
You can cover a great deal of country in books., Andrew Lang, Scottish author scholar (1844 1912)
Oh for a book and a sh
Oh for a book and a shady nook..., John Wilson, Scottish author (1785 1854)
One must be a wise rea
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well., Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator Transcendentalist (1799 1888)
Woe be to him that rea
Woe be to him that reads but one book., George Herbert, English clergyman metaphysical poet (1593 1633)
I am a galley slave to
I am a galley slave to pen and ink., Honore de Balzac, French realist novelist (1799 1850)
All men profess honest
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse., John Quincy Adams, US diplomat politician (1767 1848)
A casual stroll throug
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
War is the continuatio
War is the continuation of politics by other means., General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: On War,
The best holistic reme
The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap., Kathrine Palmer Peterson, 516 Sensational Cat Quotes,
The future belongs to
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
Blessedness is not the
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts., Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics, Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 1677)
The highest endeavor o
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition., Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics, Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 1677)
He who loves God canno
He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return., Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics, Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 1677)
The mind has greater p
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary., Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics, Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 1677)
A love of tradition ha
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward., Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29 1944, British politician (1874 1965)
I hate quotations. Tel
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
If men were born free,
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil., Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics, Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 1677)
Eternity is very long,
Eternity is very long, especially towards the end., Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71, US movie actor, comedian, director (1935 )
Men want sex. If men r
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fillup. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account., Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future, US cartoonist (1957 )
Far away there in the
Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead., Louisa May Alcot,
If you do not feel ash
If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like., Prophet Mohammad, AbuMasud: Bukhari,
Verily, a man teaching
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms., Prophet Muhammad, Muslim,
When two persons are t
When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear because it would hurt him., Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari Muslim,
Much silence and a goo
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these., Prophet Muhammad, Bukhari,
What dreadful weather
What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance., Jane Austen, English novelist (1775 1817)
Judgement of beauty ca
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Sex alleviates tension
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it., Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, director (1935 )
Too much sanity may be
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be., Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha,
At the center of each
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world., Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal,
The budget is like a m
The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out., Will Rodgers,
cold silence has a ten
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit., Maynard James Keenan, in the song Schism, by Tool,
People who count their
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately., Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
(i do not know what it
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opensonly something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands, e.e. cummings,
Let me beg for your me
Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect., Jason DeBruin, The poem Temporary Shame,
The radical of one cen
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them., Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
I had a dream last nig
I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!, Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode The Van Buren Boys broadcast on February 6 1997, US comedian television actor (1954 )
One good thing about m
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain., Bob Marley,
Free speech carries wi
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen., Bob Marley,
The troublesome ones i
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots., George Eliot, Middlemarch, English novelist (1819 1880)
What we call our despa
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope., George Eliot, Middlemarch, English novelist (1819 1880)
Our deeds are like chi
Our deeds are like children that are born to usthey live and act apart from our own will., George Eliot, Romola, English novelist (1819 1880)
Some people did what t
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them., George Eliot, Middlemarch, English novelist (1819 1880)
I am a Conservative to
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few., Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27 1832, British politician (1804 1881)
When I came back to Du
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence., Brendan Behan, Irish author dramatist (1923 1964)
America lives in the h
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses., Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
Just what is it that A
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of selfgoverning people., Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
Europe will never be l
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy., Margaret Thatcher, British politician (1925 )
There is a New America
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not., Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., US diplomat Democratic politician (1900 1965)
In the United States t
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is., Gertrude Stein, US author in France (1874 1946)
America is a young cou
America is a young country with an old mentality., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
I see America, not in
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision., Carl Sandburg, US biographer poet (1878 1967)
The strength of the Un
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people., Claiborne Pell, US Democratic politician (1918 )
If a free society cann
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich., John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20 1961, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
Intellectually, I know
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country., Sinclair Lewis, US novelist (1885 1951)
America is not merely
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations., Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of US (1908 1973)
America a great socia
America a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and farreaching in purpose., Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer politician (1874 1964)
There is nothing wrong
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
There is nothing wrong
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America., Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1946 )
Our American values ar
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings., Jimmy Carter, US diplomat Democratic politician (1924 )
America has believed t
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered., Louis D. Brandeis, US jurist (1856 1941)
I just want to say thi
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out., Tony Blair, British politician (1953 )
America is the country
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks., John Barrymore, US actor (1882 1942)
Unique among the natio
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus., John Ashcroft, US politician (1942 )
America does not go ab
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the wellwisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own., John Quincy Adams, US diplomat politician (1767 1848)
I always consider the
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth., John Adams, US diplomat politician (1735 1826)
I was born an American
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American., Daniel Webster, US diplomat, lawyer, orator, politician (1782 1852)
Like so many Americans
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops., Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five, US novelist (1922 )
The character inherent
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Americans never quit.,
Americans never quit., General Douglas Macarthur, US WWII general war hero (1880 1964)
The American, by natur
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
It is, I think, an ind
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to undervalue them., Henry James, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
The people of the Unit
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity., Robertson Davies,
It is in our idleness,
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top., Virginia Woolf, English novelist (1882 1941)
We know what we are, b
We know what we are, but know not what we may be., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Heaven endures and the
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves., Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching,
To conquer others is t
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way., Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching,
For a significant manw
For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
The poet is a liar who
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth., Jean Cocteau, French dramatist, director, poet (1889 1963)
No one should drive a
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist., Ludwig von Beethoven,
You never lose by lovi
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back., Barbara De Angelis,
First say to yourself
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
If God can work throug
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone., St. Francis of Assisi,
Never let the future d
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A.D., Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
The familythat dear oc
The familythat dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to., Dodie Smith,
Kindness in words crea
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love., Laotzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC 531 BC)
The greatest gift is a
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
To give pleasure to a
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer., Gandhi,
If you would be loved,
If you would be loved, love and be lovable., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Experience: that most
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn., C. S. Lewis, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
The journey in between
The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place., Barbara De Angelis,
Force, and fraud, are
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues., Thomas Hobbes, quoted from Oxygen3, Panda Software, English political philosopher (1588 1679)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9877, We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can., Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9878, Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist., Edgar Watson Howe, US journalist (1853 1937)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9879, Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth., Archimedes, 300 B.C., Greek inventor, mathematician, physicist (287 BC 212 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9880, I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong., Leo Rosten, US (Polishborn) author (1908 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9881, I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise., William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9882, Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven., John Milton, Paradise Lost, English poet (1608 1674)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9883, Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields., Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995), German philosopher (1844 1900)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9884, You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do., Eleanor Rosevelt, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9885, The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware., Henry Miller, US author (1891 1980)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9886, You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9887, Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing., Peter Gabriel, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9888, We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom., Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935, US poet short story author (1898 1943)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9889, It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters., Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines), English novelist (1775 1817)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9890, There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9891, A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love., Gray Davis, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9892, Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure., Reinhold Niebuhr, US Protestant theologian (1892 1971)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9893, Only when the last tree has been cut down Only when the last river has been poisoned Only when the last fish has been caught Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten., Cree Indian Prophecy, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9894, I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle., Alfred Hitchcock, British movie director (1899 1980)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9895, To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it., Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825, (1780 1832)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9896, Men are born ignorant, not stupid they are made stupid by education., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9897, Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9898, One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9899, Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9900, 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 and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience., John Cage, US composer of avantgarde music (1912 1992)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9901, The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain., Dolly Parton, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9902, To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9903, Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen), Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821), German critic poet (1797 1856)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9904, The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good., Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9905, The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9906, Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves from justifying" ourselves., Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil, German philosopher (1844 1900)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9907, There is no such thing as justicein or out of court., Clarence Darrow, US defense lawyer (1857 1938)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9908, The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window., Stephen King, US horror novelist screenwriter (1947 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9909, There is only one way to hurt someone who has lost everything give him back something broken., Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9910, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.", Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9911, The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9912, They
An nescis mi fili, qua
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?, Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648,
People who like quotat
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations., Graham Greene, A BurntOut Case,
The problem with the w
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind., Humphrey Bogart,
Many people consider t
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism., Chief Justice Earl Warren,
A penny saved is a pen
A penny saved is a penny earned., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
I have spent most of m
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
so convincing were tho
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again., Joseph Heller, Catch 22, US novelist (1923 )
As you cannot have a s
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity., James Allen, As A Man Thinketh,
I am not afraid of tom
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today., William Allen White,
Hope is the thing with
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all., Emily Dickenson,
Just living is not eno
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower., Hans Christian Anderson,
Toward the accomplishm
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort., Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, US novelist sailor (1819 1891)
One must be poor to kn
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!, Georges Eliot, Middlemarch,
An ounce of prevention
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure., Henry de Bracton, De Legibus in 1240,
Keep your face to the
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
A hair divides what is
A hair divides what is false and true., Omar Khayyam,
Success in life is mea
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy., Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996),
Some people surrender
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see., Jim Morrison,
A poet is an unhappy b
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul., Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 1855)
When you were born, yo
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice., Traditional Indian Saying,
The world is wide, and
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum., Frances Willard, US educator temperance activist (1839 1898)
He who has not first l
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
Love is the very essen
Love is the very essence of life., Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something,
The board is set, the
The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time., J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Expose yourself to you
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free., Jim Morrison,
I think of myself as a
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments., Jim Morrison,
I think the highest an
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything., Jim Morrison,
In the right light, at
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary., Aaron Rose,
I enjoy being a highly
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor., Roger Moore, English actor (1927 )
If there is no struggl
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground., Frederick Douglass 18171895,
Beware of sentimental
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices., Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck, German Prussian politician (1815 1898)
History, despite its w
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again., Maya Angelou, US author poet (1928 )
Men will fight long an
Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon., Napoleon Bonaparte, French general politician (1769 1821)
Science comits suicide
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
Avoid having your ego
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it., Colin Powell, US general (1937 )
There is no gravity. T
There is no gravity. The earth sucks., Graffito,
Bad spellers of the wo
Bad spellers of the world, untie!, Graffito,
It is our choices...th
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities., J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999, British fantasy author )
The best of us must so
The best of us must sometimes eat our words., J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999, British fantasy author )
She was conscious that
She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do., Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922,
[S]he refused to be bo
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring., Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922,
I want to believe in i
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe., James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15 2003, Columnist and Webmaster )
History never looks li
History never looks like history when you are living through it., John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers, US administrator (1912 )
Those who would deny f
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
The philosophers have
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways the point is to change it., Karl Marx, from The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach, German economist Communist political philosopher (1818 1883)
He that is good at mak
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
I am not a star. A sta
I am not a star. A star is nothing more than a ball of gas., Elijah Wood,
But I know somehow, th
But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Behold, how good and p
Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity., Bible, Psalms 133,
I do not like this wor
I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding., Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons,
Diplomacy is the art o
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say., Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News,
It is wonderful to be
It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago., Dan Quayle, US Republican politician (1947 )
A fact is a simple sta
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective., Edward Teller, US (Hungarianborn) physicist (1908 2003)
Religion is the opiate
Religion is the opiate of the masses., Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under Religion., German economist Communist political philosopher (1818 1883)
Most of our imports co
Most of our imports come from other countries., George W. Bush, Robin Williams, Live on Broadway, 43rd President of US (1946 )
And in the sweetness o
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed., Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
Patriots always talk o
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Calendars are for care
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones., Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8 2003, author of The World According to Chuck weblog )
Perhaps better we not
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few., David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8 2003, Writer at snopes.com )
There is an ecstasy th
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive., Jack London, The Call of the Wild, US adventurer, author, sailor (1876 1916)
It is a paradoxical bu
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 not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it., Arnold Toynbee, English historian historical philosopher (1889 1975)
The important work of
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)
When I took office, on
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page., Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996, 42nd president of the United States (1946 )
Genuine goodness is th
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum., Charles Spencer,
Murder is unique in th
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest., W. H. Auden, US (Englishborn) critic poet (1907 1973)
The very first law in
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague., Bill Cosby, US comedian television actor (1937 )
I sometimes think that
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion., Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
In every American ther
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning., A. E. Housman, English classical scholar, poet, satirist (1859 1936)
Few people can see gen
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them., Robertson Davies,
Many a promising caree
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness., Robertson Davies,
The love of truth lies
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor., Robertson Davies,
Holding on to anger, r
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life., Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine,
Happiness is always a
Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness., Robertson Davies,
A truly great book sho
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 morning light, at noon and by moonlight., Robertson Davies,
Death be not proud, th
Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me., John Donne, Death Be Not Proud, English clergyman poet (1572 1631)
There is no being of a
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Beauty is truth, truth
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know., John Keats, , English lyric poet (1795 1821)
The oldest and stronge
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown., H. P. Lovecraft, US horror supernatural author (1890 1937)
Until you can measure
Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding., Lord Kelvin,
The world is full of s
The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Language is the pictur
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought., Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations,
Language is the armory
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, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations, English critic poet (1772 1834)
In human relations a l
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate., Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations,
If I must choose betwe
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness., Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of US (1858 1919)
When one has nothing l
When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to., Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda,
I’m good enough, I�
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me., Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase,
When you encounter see
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both., Al Franken, Oh, the Things I Know, 2002,
Our bodies are our gar
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Our own physical body
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack., Henry Miller, US author (1891 1980)
We should conduct ours
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
But the body is deeper
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable., E. M. Forster, British novelist (1879 1970)
I stand in awe of my b
I stand in awe of my body., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Ask yourself: Have you
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world., Annie Lennox,
Beginning today, treat
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again., Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World,
I have witnessed the s
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile., Goldie Hawn, US actress comedienne (1945 )
The end result of kind
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you., Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003,
Winter is on my head,
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
You are built not to s
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Energy is eternal deli
Energy is eternal delight., William Blake, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
You have to learn that
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay., Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003,
Givers have to set lim
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do., Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003,
Everybody has difficul
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them., Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003,
Challenge is a dragon
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours., Noela Evans,
Life is an escalator:
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward you can not remain still., Patricia RussellMcCloud,
Only the mediocre are
Only the mediocre are always at their best., Jean Giraudoux, French diplomat, dramatist, novelist (1882 1944)
There are two ways of
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it., Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante, US novelist (1862 1937)
Treat your friends as
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light., Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mother of Winston Churchill (1854 1921)
True friends are those
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway., Edna Buchanan,
A true friend knows yo
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities., William Arthur Ward,
The opportunity for br
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being., Jane Wyman, US actress (1914 )
Nobody will believe in
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself., Liberace, US pianist (1919 1987)
If you want others to
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion., The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist religious leader (1935 )
One never knows what e
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it., Henry Moore, British sculptor (1898 1986)
For the most part, fea
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear., Marilyn C. Barrick,
Make the most of yours
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Never deprive someone
Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have., H. Jackson Brown Jr.,
Follow the grain in yo
Follow the grain in your own wood., Howard Thurman,
To send a letter is a
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart., Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine,
If I have learnt anyth
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?, Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (1919 1991)
You cannot live a perf
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you., John Wooden, US basketball coach (1910 )
While we have the gift
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness., Gilda Radner, US actress comedienne (1946 1989)
There is nothing like
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place., Virginia Kelley,
The bitterest tears sh
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone., Harriet Beecher Stowe, US abolitionist novelist (1811 1896)
Be life long or short,
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for., David Starr Jordan, US biologist, educator, ichthyologist (1851 1931)
Keeping score of old s
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and oneupping, always make you less than you are., Malcolm Forbes, US art collector, author, publisher (1919 1990)
Life is like an eversh
Life is like an evershifting kaleidoscope a slight change, and all patterns alter., Sharon Salzberg,
The truth is that ther
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self., Whitney Young, US civil rights leader (1921 1971)
Young people have an a
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful., Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times,
There can be no happin
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do., Freya Madeline Stark,
Personality can open d
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open., Elmer G. Letterman,
Worry is a misuse of i
Worry is a misuse of imagination., Dan Zadra,
We cannot direct the w
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails., Bertha Calloway,
People will accept you
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first., David H. Comins,
The thing that is real
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself., Anna Quindlen,
Nothing is easy to the
Nothing is easy to the unwilling., Nikki Giovanni,
Help others get ahead.
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders., Bob Moawad,
The game of life is th
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy., Florence Shinn,
I have found that if y
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back., Arthur Rubinstein, US (Polishborn) composer pianist (1886 1982)
The grass is not, in f
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be., Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, US author Unitarian clergyman (1937 )
I would not waste my l
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum., Frances Willard, US educator temperance activist (1839 1898)
Be kind, for everyone
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Some people make headl
Some people make headlines while others make history., Philip ElmerDeWitt, in Time Magazine,
Either you decide to s
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean., Christopher Reeve,
Life is a great big ca
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can., Danny Kaye, US actor singer (1913 1987)
Indifference and negle
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike., J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003, British fantasy author )
To acquire knowledge,
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe., Marilyn vos Savant,
Youth cannot know how
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young., J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003, British fantasy author )
A book burrows into yo
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive., Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003,
You can make those pro
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart., Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003,
All we actually have i
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power., Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…,
Good men must be affec
Good men must be affectionate men., Samuel Richardson, English epistolary novelist (1689 1761)
Without tenderness, a
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting., Marlene Dietrich, German movie actress (1901 1992)
How beautiful maleness
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression., D. H. Lawrence, English novelist (1885 1930)
Do not fall prey to th
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness., Kent Nerburn,
The greater man the gr
The greater man the greater courtesy., Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809 1892)
Live in the sunshine,
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…, Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Be more splendid, more
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Oh, what a dear ravish
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!, Aphra Behn,
Accustom yourself cont
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul., Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish ascetic, nun, saint (1515 1582)
If grass can grow thro
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life., Cher, US actress singer (1946 )
Love is the reason for
Love is the reason for it all., Dorothy Fields,
Love flies, runs, and
Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back., Thomas a Kempis, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
There is no wisdom wit
There is no wisdom without love., N. Sri Ram,
If you would win a man
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
I have learned not to
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart., Alice Walker, US novelist (1944 )
What a grand thing, to
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!, Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
The pleasure of love i
The pleasure of love is in loving., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
The power to bring me
The power to bring me out of solitude or to push me back into it had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine., Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003,
Every instance of hear
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want., Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003,
Laughter gives us dist
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on., Bob Newhart, US comedian television actor (1929 )
How little a thing can
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it., Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
If we are lucky, we ca
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being., Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003,
Every day brings a cha
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Politeness and conside
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back., Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate, (1930 )
Style is knowing who y
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn., Gore Vidal, US author dramatist (1925 )
Regret for the things
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable., Sidney J. Harris,
We shall find peace. W
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds., Anton Chekhov, 1897, Russian dramatist short story author (1860 1904)
Nothing can bring you
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
First keep the peace w
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others., Thomas a Kempis, 1420, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
This art of resting th
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men., Captain J. A. Hadfield,
What would you attempt
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?, Dr. Robert Schuller,
So much is a man worth
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself., Francois Rabelais, 1532, French comic novelist satirist (1494 1553)
She knows what is the
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, US literary critic (1900 1969)
Learn the art of patie
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success., Brian Adams,
And so faith is closin
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama., Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4 2003, Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com )
The universe seems won
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this., Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4 2003, Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com )
I’ll feel that horri
I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust., James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 4 2003, Columnist and Webmaster )
Lots of people want to
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down., Oprah Winfrey, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
The true skeptic will
The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it., Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary,
I did it partly becaus
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
We confide in our stre
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
Do not look back. And
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward your destinyare here and now., Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day, Swedish diplomat (1905 1961)
A successful lie is do
A successful lie is doubly a lie an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth., Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day, Swedish diplomat (1905 1961)
You can complain becau
You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses., Ziggy,
I think that their fli
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is selfdefeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddhawhich is to demean oneself., Robert M. Pursig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
We have two ears and o
We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
No one is ready for a
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it., Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich,
A dead thing goes with
A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Fallacies do not cease
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions., G. K. Chesteron,
The Christian ideal ha
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting it has been found difficult and left untried., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Colleges typically did
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate., Tom Clancy, The Teeth Of The Tiger page 180,
Forgiveness is the fra
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
But I, being poor, hav
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams., W. B. Yeats,
Patriotism is not a sh
Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime., Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., US diplomat Democratic politician (1900 1965)
I know half the money
I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half., John Wanamaker, US department store merchant (1838 1922)
Laughter is inner jogg
Laughter is inner jogging., Norman Cousins, US editor essayist (1912 1990)
If the world were mere
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day., E. B. White, US author humorist (1899 1985)
He appears to have bee
He appears to have been weened on a pickle., Alice Roosevelt Longfellow, about Calvin Coolidge,
Silence is a way of sa
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other we are okay as we are., Martha Grimes, from Hotel Paradise, a novel,
Life is not easy for a
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 that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained., Marie Curie, French (Polishborn) chemist physicist (1867 1934)
For I do not believe G
For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it outofplace to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the dim religious light of some solemn cathedral?, Lewis Carroll, English author recreational mathematician (1832 1898)
Surely your gladness n
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters when angelhands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!, Lewis Carroll, English author recreational mathematician (1832 1898)
The man that hath no m
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted., William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice,
No man should bring ch
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Of one thing I am cert
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure., George Melton,
I do not believe the U
I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other., Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Fear is a journey, a t
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving., Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country,
Give a man religion wi
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three piece suit. Max Lucado, Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven,
For he who sees a need
For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal., Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, XVII , 5960, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
"Human reason is by na
"Human reason is by nature architectonic.", Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON, German philosopher (1724 1804)
Criticism alone can se
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, freethinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public., Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON, German philosopher (1724 1804)
Human reason has this
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer., Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON, German philosopher (1724 1804)
To be beneficent when
To be beneficent when we can is a duty and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or selfinterest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination., Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS, German philosopher (1724 1804)
The universal and last
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason., Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right, German philosopher (1724 1804)
The inscrutable wisdom
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted., Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, German philosopher (1724 1804)
I am open to receive w
I am open to receive with every breath I breathe., Michael Sun,
Act as if the maxim of
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law, Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS, German philosopher (1724 1804)
...as to moral feeling
...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings..., Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS, German philosopher (1724 1804)
But already it is time
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God., Socrates, Apology, (Plato), Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
I decided that it was
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean., Socrates, In Apology, sct. 21 by Plato., Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Children today are tyr
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers., Socrates, In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed. Robert Byrne, 1988, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
A Native American gran
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed., Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9451, I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals., Emma Thompson, Vanity Fair, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9452, The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind., E. M. Forster, Howards End, British novelist (1879 1970)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9453, Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life., Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9454, 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, British novelist (1879 1970)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9455, I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other., Jane Austen, Emma, English novelist (1775 1817)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9456, At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them., Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, English novelist (1775 1817)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9457, Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table togetherand what do you get? The sum of their fears., Winston Churchill, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9458, Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way., Jane Austen, Emma, English novelist (1775 1817)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9459, In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love., John Steinbeck, US novelist (1902 1968)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9460, As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself., Adelle Davis, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9461, Regimen is superior to medicine., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9462, ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health., HenriFrédéric Amiel, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9463, By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof the sea the sun., Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand short story author (1888 1923)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9464, In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world., Wendell Berry, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9465, I row after health like a waterman..., Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9466, Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them., Shakti Gawain, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9467, Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9468, 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, 1642, (1605 1682)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9469, The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear., Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese dissident politician (1945 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9470, Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization., Charles Lindbergh, US aviator (1902 1974)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9471, I want freedom for the full expression on my personality., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9472, The freedom of all is essential to my freedom., Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist political philosopher (1814 1876)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9473, We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9474, Freedom is a possession of inestimable value., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9475, I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom., Bob Dylan, US singer songwriter (1941 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9476, The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves., Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rican politician (1941 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9477, The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom..., Bell Hooks, American critic and writer ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9478, Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9479, The way to final freedom is within thy self., The Book of the Golden Precepts, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9480, We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9481, Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US suffragist (1815 1902)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9482, Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing., Thomas Paine, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9483, You never find yourself until you face the truth., Pearl Bailey, US singer (1918 1990)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9484, Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise., Denise Levertov, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9485, Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures., Han Suyin, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9486, I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me., Simone de Beauvoir, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9487, If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people., Virginia Woolf, English novelist (1882 1941)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9488, Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing., Elizabeth Goudge, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9489, Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please., Edmund Spenser, 1590, English poet (1552 1599)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9490, I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please., Mother Jones, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9491, 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 said., Vaclav Havel, Czech dissident, dramatist, politician (1936 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9492, Truth is what stands the test of experience., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9493, What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?, Henry Miller, US author (1891 1980)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9494, Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9495, Truth has beauty, power and necessity., Sylvia AshtonWarner, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9496, Hope is only the love of life., HenriFrédéric Amiel, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9497, There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness., Pearl Buck, US novelist in China (1892 1973)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9498, As a wellspent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death., Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9499, Hope is necessary in every condition., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9500, Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich., Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (1844 1923)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9501, Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries., Corita Kent, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9502, The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses., Edith Sodergran, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9503, Become the change you want to see those are words I live by., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9504, I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9505, She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation., Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, US novelist (1873 1947)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9506, The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors., Mary Catherine Bateson, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9507, Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious., Gloria Steinem, US feminist (1934 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9508, Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family., J. S. Bryan, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9509, We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break., Marie de RabutinChantal, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9510, It is within the families themselves where peace can begin., Susan Partnow, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9511, The family is the country of the heart., Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian patriot politician (1805 1872)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9512, Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art., don Miguel Ruiz, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9513, Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen., Robert Bresson, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9514, Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life., Adele Brookman, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9515, Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better., John Updike, US author (1932 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9516, In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different., Coco Chanel, French fashion designer perfumer (1883 1971)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9517, If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play., John Cleese, English actor comedian (1939 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9518, The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..., Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 1973)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9519, Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts., Rita Mae Brown, US author and social activist ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9520, Can I ever know you Or you know me?, Sara Teasdale, US poet (1884 1933)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9521, Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence., George Washington, First president of US (1732 1799)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9522, It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us., Norman Maclean, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9523, The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible., Carolyn Heilbrun, US mystery novelist (1926 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9524, One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life., Alexander A. Bogomoletz, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9525, In love, one and one are one., JeanPaul Sartre, French author existentialist philosopher (1905 1980)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9526, Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still., Robert Sternberg, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9527, Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it., Maya Angelou, US author poet (1928 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9528, He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much., Bessie A. Stanley, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9529, The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary., Vidal Sassoon, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9530, Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things., T. S. Eliot, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9531, There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure., Colin Powell, US general (1937 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9532, To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die., Marquis de Vauvenargues, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9533, 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, US educator (1856 1915)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9534, Summer afternoon Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language., Henry James, British (US born) author (1843 1916)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9535, In summer, the song sings itself., William Carlos Williams, US poet (1883 1963)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9536, The summer night is like a perfection of thought., Wallace Stevens, US poet (1879 1955)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9537, My friends are my estate., Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9538, Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends., Jacques Delille, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9539, The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9540, A friend is a second self., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9541, My friend is one... who take me for what I am., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9542, There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough., Nancy Spain, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9543, She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order., Toni Morrison, US novelist (1931 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9544, Friendship with oneself is allimportant, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9545, Friends are born, not made., Henry Adams, US author, autobiographer, historian (1838 1918)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9546, The beginning is always today., Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English novelist (1797 1851)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9547, The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes., Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 1922)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9548, To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something., Walker Percy, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9549, To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive., Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 1894)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9550, I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9551, The longest journey is the journey inward., Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat (1905 1961)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9552, Little by little, one travels far., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9553, Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome., Arthur Ashe, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9554, Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey., Cynthia Ozick, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9555, Remember, no matter where you go, there you are., Earl Mac Rauch, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9556, Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys., Gail Pool, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9557, We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey., John Hope Franklin, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9558, When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object., Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Czechoslovakian novelist (1929 )) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9559, The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself., Garth Brooks, Country Music, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9560, You cannot be really firstrate at your work if your work is all you are., Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9561, Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred., Pico Iyer, Time, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9562, I have found power in the mysteries of thought., Euripides, 438 B.C., Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC 406 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9563, Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism the way you play it is free will., Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (1889 1964)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9564, The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction., Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (1889 1964)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9565, The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all., Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (1889 1964)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9566, Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people., Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (1889 1964)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9567, Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9568, His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof., J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, British fantasy author ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9569, Life is an adventure in forgiveness., Norman Cousins, US editor essayist (1912 1990)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9570, I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether., Socrates, In Phaedo," sct. 98 by Plato., Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9571, It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9572, What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story., F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon, US novelist (1896 1940)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9573, Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, US novelist (1896 1940)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9574, Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others., Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, English (PolishUkrainianborn) novelist (1857 1924)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9575, The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea., Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, English (PolishUkrainianborn) novelist (1857 1924)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9576, Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad., Salvador Dali, Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter (1904 1989)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (9577, Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it., Salvador Dali, Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter (1904
A fanatic is someone w
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim., Chuck Jones,
Wanting to be someone
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are., Kurt Cobain,
When Hitler came for t
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and there was nobody left to be concerned., Pastor Martin Niemoller, Congressional Record, October 14 1968 (Vol. 114 p. 31636),
Why comes temptation,
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?, Robert Browning, English poet (1812 1889)
...tests are a gift. A
...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune., Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor, US science fiction author )
True greatness comes n
True greatness comes not when things go always good for you but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain., Richard Nixon,
There are certain them
There are certain themes of which the interest is allabsorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction., Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial, US short story author, editor, poet (1809 1849)
All men dream: but not
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did., T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.,
In the depth of winter
In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
The mind is its own pl
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven, John Milton, Dr. Faustus, English poet (1608 1674)
With every experience,
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
Intimacy is being seen
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are., Amy Bloom,
Every one of us gets t
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
We are each responsibl
We are each responsible for our own life no other person is or even can be., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
I finally realized tha
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
The body says what wor
The body says what words cannot., Martha Graham, US choreographer dancer (1893 1991)
There is but one templ
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man., Novalis, German lyric poet (1772 1801)
Oh, darling, let your
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort., Anne Sexton, US poet (1928 1974)
I live in company with
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal., Eugene Delacroix, French Romantic painter (1798 1863)
Each body has its art.
Each body has its art..., Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (1917 )
Anyone can revolt. It
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts., Georges Rouault, French Expressionist painter (1871 1958)
I am convinced that li
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience., Shakti Gawain,
The body is an instrum
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
The biggest adventure
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
The best way to live i
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day..., Donald Barthelme,
Enthusiasm is the grea
Enthusiasm is the great hillclimber., Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 1915)
There is no end to the
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open., Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (1889 1964)
Life ought to be a str
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul., Rebecca West, Irish critic, journalist, novelist (1892 1983)
I have found adventure
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit., Jacqueline Cochran, US aviator (1910 1980)
I am not an adventurer
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate., Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853 1890)
I wanted change and ex
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket., Sylvia Plath, US novelist poet (1932 1963)
We strain to renew our
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again., Shana Alexander,
It is only in adventur
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves in finding themselves., Andre Gide, French critic, essayist, novelist (1869 1951)
Soar, eat ether, see w
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb., Edna St. Vincent Millay, US poet (1892 1950)
My wish is to ride the
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself..., Trieu Thi Trinh,
You must pray that the
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences., Constantine Peter Cavafy,
Everything that I unde
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love., Leo Tolstoy, Russian mystic novelist (1828 1910)
A successful marriage
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person., Mignon McLaughlin,
But be, as you have be
But be, as you have been, my happiness..., Randall Jarrell, US author poet (1914 1965)
To accomplish our dest
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us., Alexis Carrel, French biologist surgeon (1873 1944)
To be in love Is to to
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well., Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (1917 )
A successful marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day., Andre Maurois, French author (1885 1967)
Intimacy is what makes
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state., Kathleen Norris,
That is what marriage
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life., Paul Tournier,
I used to believe that
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more., Candice Bergen, US television actress (1946 )
I love you the more th
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else., John Keats, English lyric poet (1795 1821)
Stay centered by accep
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate., Chuangtzu, (369 BC 286 BC)
How helpless we are, l
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!, Belva Plain,
We are able to laugh w
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment., May Sarton,
The art of life lies i
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings., Okakura Kakuzo,
People have a hard tim
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar., Thich Nhat Hanh,
Without freedom from t
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent., Krishnamurti,
Everyone has talent. W
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads., Erica Jong,
I define joy as a sust
I define joy as a sustained sense of wellbeing and internal peace a connection to what matters., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
All I can say about li
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!, Bob Newhart, US comedian television actor (1929 )
Most folks are about a
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Happiness comes of the
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed., Storm Jameson,
Happiness is when what
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
Happiness depends upon
Happiness depends upon ourselves., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
The joy of a spirit is
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power., Ninon de Lenclos, French courtesan (1620 1705)
Happiness is not a sta
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling., Margaret Lee Runbeck,
It is not easy to find
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere., Agnes Repplier, US essayist (1855 1950)
Learning to live in th
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy., Sarah Ban Breathnach,
Joy is prayer Joy is
Joy is prayer Joy is strength Joy is love Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
Grief can take care of
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Real joy comes not fro
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile., Sir Wilfred Grenfell, English missionary physician (1865 1940)
Joy is not in things i
Joy is not in things it is in us., Richard Wagner,
Whatever you fear most
Whatever you fear most has no power it is your fear that has the power., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
The most important thi
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame., Rod Steiger,
Life is a risk., Diane
Life is a risk., Diane Von Furstenberg,
The need for change bu
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind., Maya Angelou, US author poet (1928 )
Courage is the power t
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar., Raymond Lindquist,
Take a chance! All lif
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,
Security is a kind of
Security is a kind of death., Tennessee Williams, US dramatist (1911 1983)
To play it safe is not
To play it safe is not to play., Robert Altman, US movie director, producer, screenwriter (1925 )
The only difference be
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions., Ellen Glasglow,
The highest courage is
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is., John Lancaster Spalding,
The guy who takes a ch
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed., Gordon Parks,
Dare to be yourself.,
Dare to be yourself., Andre Gide, French critic, essayist, novelist (1869 1951)
All growth is a leap i
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience., Henry Miller, US author (1891 1980)
Risk! Risk anything! C
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth., Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand short story author (1888 1923)
What you risk reveals
What you risk reveals what you value., Jeanette Winterson,
In every aspect of our
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
It is difficult to mak
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Love yourself first an
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world., Lucille Ball, US television actress (1911 1989)
The courage to be is t
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable., Paul Tillich, US (Germanborn) Protestant theologian (1886 1965)
The last temptation is
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason., T. S. Eliot, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)
If you must love your
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor., SebastienRoch Nicolas,
I have always regarded
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life., Meryl Streep, US actress (1949 )
Of all afflictions, th
Of all afflictions, the worst is selfcontempt., Berthold Auerbach, German novelist (1812 1882)
You have got to discov
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it., Barbra Streisand, US actress singer (1942 )
I was always looking o
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time., Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst psychologist (1895 1982)
I was brought up to be
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me., Anwar elSadat, Egyptian politician (1918 1981)
You can be pleased wit
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself., Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English letter author poet (1689 1762)
If I have lost confide
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
I care not so much wha
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
Everything that irrita
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
In the depth of winter
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
I am not afraid of sto
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship., Louisa May Alcott, US juvenile novelist (1832 1888)
The worst loneliness i
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Love much. Earth has e
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it., Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
The truth is the kinde
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end., Harriet Beecher Stowe, US abolitionist novelist (1811 1896)
With the gift of liste
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing., Catherine de Hueck,
It is the loving, not
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable., Jessamyn West,
I define comfort as se
I define comfort as selfacceptance. When we finally learn that selfcare begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others., Jennifer Louden,
Every great mistake ha
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied., Pearl Buck, US novelist in China (1892 1973)
No one is useless in t
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another., Charles Dickens, English novelist (1812 1870)
I cannot live without
I cannot live without books., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
We read frequently if
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own., Harold Bloom, US author, critic, educator, scholar (1930 )
Cheers to a new year a
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
I dwell in possibility
I dwell in possibility..., Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)
The important thing is
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become., Charles Du Bos,
The only joy in the wo
The only joy in the world is to begin., Cesare Pavese, Italian author, novelist, translator (1908 1950)
Mistakes are the porta
Mistakes are the portals of discovery., James Joyce, Irish author (1882 1941)
Three failures denote
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice., Minna Thomas Antrim,
I dream, therefore I b
I dream, therefore I become., Cheryl Renée Grossman,
Revolution is not a on
Revolution is not a onetime event., Audre Lorde,
If you have made mista
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down., Mary Pickford, US (Canadianborn) movie actress (1893 1979)
A finished person is a
A finished person is a boring person., Anna Quindlen,
What we truly and earn
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself., Anna Jameson,
Remember that fear alw
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person., Dr. David M. Burns,
All appears to change
All appears to change when we change., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
Only the hand that era
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing., Meister Eckhart,
Perfection is a road,
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education., Burk Hudson,
To grow mature is to s
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely., Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, Austrian dramatist poet (1874 1929)
Everything is connecte
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself., Paul Hawken,
The world is not yet e
The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
What I know for sure i
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
The most important thi
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in., Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie,
A gift, with a kind co
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present., Thomas Fuller, English clergyman historian (1608 1661)
Aim for success, not p
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life., Dr. David M. Burns,
If my hands are fully
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive., Dorothee Solle,
Blessed are those who
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting., Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco,
Generosity with string
Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal., Marya Mannes,
We are rich only throu
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse., AnneSophie Swetchine,
Anything that has real
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within., Franz Kafka, Austrian (Czechoslovakianborn) author (1883 1924)
Anything that is of va
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given., Deepak Chopra,
The habit of giving on
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give., Walt Whitman, US poet (1819 1892)
A problem is a chance
A problem is a chance for you to do your best., Duke Ellington, US jazz bandleader, musician, songwriter (1899 1974)
I do not feel obliged
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 their use., Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer physicist (1564 1642)
If you knew what I kno
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, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
Giving is a necessity
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having., Margaret Lee Runbeck,
The only gift is a por
The only gift is a portion of thyself., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
If the only prayer you
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice., Meister Eckhart,
For today and its ble
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude., Clarence E. Hodges,
I have come to believe
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving not giving and taking., Joyce Grenfell,
For what I have receiv
For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received., Storm Jameson,
One of the most sublim
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick., Rabbi Harold Kushner,
Gratitude is our most
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. , Terry Lynn Taylor,
Everyone is necessaril
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story., John Barth, US novelist short story author (1930 )
Abundance is, in large
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude., Sue Patton Thoele,
For all that has been,
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes., Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat (1905 1961)
Feeling grateful to or
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life., Christiane Northrup, M.D.,
I awoke this morning w
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Let us be grateful to
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom., Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 1922)
Every time we remember
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth., Sarah Ban Breathnach,
There shall be eternal
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart., Celia Thaxter,
One single grateful th
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer., G. E. Lessing, German critic dramatist (1729 1781)
Imagination is more im
Imagination is more important than knowledge..., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Just to be is a blessi
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy., Rabbi Abraham Heschel,
Our lives teach us who
Our lives teach us who we are., Salman Rushdie, British (Indianborn) author (1947 )
Trust thyself only, an
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee., Thomas Fuller, English clergyman historian (1608 1661)
Insist on yourself nev
Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
It is better to suffer
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
I looked always outsid
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there., Belle Livingstone,
The greatest thing in
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
It is only by followin
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin., Katharine Butler Hathaway,
If you have built cast
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 them., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
It is impossible to go
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself., Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear,
Trust yourself. Think
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide., Marva Collins,
Trust one who has gone
Trust one who has gone through it., Virgil, The Aeneid, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
If you want your life
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
If one speaks or acts
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, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source., the Dhammapada,
If you can solve your
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?, Shantideva,
Life is consciousness.
Life is consciousness., Emmet Fox,
Realize deeply that th
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have., Eckhart Tolle,
Work is not always req
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness., George MacDonald, Scottish novelist poet (1824 1905)
As we look deeply with
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless., Rodney Yee,
Accept what people off
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love., Wally Lamb,
Nothing is as far away
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago., Jim Bishop,
You only live once bu
You only live once but if you work it right, once is enough., Joe E. Lewis,
The real distinction i
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes., Henry Kissinger, US (Germanborn) diplomat scholar (1923 )
A tactical retreat is
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack., Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999, US science fiction author )
Guard your honor. Let
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards., Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999, US science fiction author )
Reputation is what oth
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself., Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999, US science fiction author )
When you give each oth
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all., Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999, US science fiction author )
You have to be careful
You have to be careful who you let define your good., Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999, US science fiction author )
Man is his own star an
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate., John Fletcher, 1647, English dramatist (1579 1625)
Adversity does teach w
Adversity does teach who your real friends are., Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999, US science fiction author )
I was astonished at th
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire., Charles A. Lindbergh,
Talent does what it ca
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must., Edward George BulwerLytton,
Always be a firstrate
Always be a firstrate version of yourself, instead of a secondrate version of someone else., Judy Garland, US actress singer (1922 1969)
I hold before you my h
I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson., George Washington Carver,
Heroes are often the m
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Becuase I could not st
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality, Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)
...and that this count
...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth., Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Trying is the first st
Trying is the first step towards failure., Homer Simpson, The Simpsons,
Not many can admit the
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to., Cyrus Corteise,
Death is not extinguis
Death is not extinguishing the light it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come., Rabindranath Tagore,
To be idle is a short
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, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
Too often we underesti
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around., Leo Buscaglia,
The reason why so few
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak., Francois La Rochefoucauld,
Creativity is a drug I
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without., Cecil B. DeMille, US movie producer (1881 1959)
In addition to my othe
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known no wonder, then, that I return the love., Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 1855)
Even at our birth, dea
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh., Robert Bolt,
What we have done for
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal., Albert Pike,
One half of the world
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other., Jane Austen, English novelist (1775 1817)
I fear all we have don
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve., Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral,
I believe that produci
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well., M.C. Escher,
Religion is what keeps
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich., Napoleon Bonaparte, French general politician (1769 1821)
If a man would follow,
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane., Robert Green Ingersoll,
This is my simple reli
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness., Dalai Llama,
The beauty of religiou
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window., Stephen King, US horror novelist screenwriter (1947 )
Where it is a duty to
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat., John Morley,
A casual stroll throug
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
The Christian resoluti
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
Hope in reality is the
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
The best mirror is an
The best mirror is an old friend., George Herbert, 1651, English clergyman metaphysical poet (1593 1633)
I could prove God stat
I could prove God statistically., George Gallup, US statistician pollster (1901 1984)
All credibility, all g
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
I cannot believe in a
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
Although the most acut
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
I contend that we are
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours., Stephen Roberts,
No man ever believes t
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Without cultural sanct
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance., John Schumaker,
When lip service to so
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out., Frank Sinatra, US actor singer (1915 1998)
The reason I dont play
The reason I dont play ballads? Because I love to play them., Miles Davis, Film: The Miles Davis Story, US jazz musician trumpeter (1926 1991)
If eyes were made for
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being., Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Rhodora, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
It is no use to blame
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry., Nikolai Gogol, 1836, Russian author humorist (1809 1852)
When the power of love
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace., Jimi Hendrix,
Petty fears and petty
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality., Henry David Thoreau, Walden, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
The sun illuminates on
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
What we obtain too che
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value., Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)
When once you have tas
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return., Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
Acts of injustice done
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one., W. H. Auden, US (Englishborn) critic poet (1907 1973)
To love another person
To love another person is to see the face of God., Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
When we see men of a c
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
Nature has a great sim
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty., Richard Feynman, US educator physicist (1918 1988)
The human mind is not
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
The IQ and the life ex
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions., George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty, US comedian and actor (1937 )
Ever notice that anyon
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?, George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
Learn from me, if not
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow., Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, English novelist (1797 1851)
One person with a beli
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests., John Stuart Mill, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
By the work one knows
By the work one knows the workmen., Jean De La Fontaine, French poet (1621 1695)
I bid him look into th
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
My candle burns at bot
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light., Edna St. Vincent Millay, US poet (1892 1950)
...For the unquiet hea
...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies., Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
Always laugh when you
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine., Lord Byron, English poet satirist (1788 1824)
A man, to be greatly g
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively he must put himself in the place of another and in many others the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own., Percy Bysshe Shelley,
But words are things a
But words are things and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think., Lord Byron, English poet satirist (1788 1824)
[Poetry] is the lava o
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake., Lord Byron, English poet satirist (1788 1824)
And dreams in their de
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being., Lord Byron, English poet satirist (1788 1824)
Nothing contributes so
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye., Mary Shelley,
I belong to an ancient
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller., Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen),
And yet, as angels in
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep., Henry Vaughn,
If the doors of percep
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite., William Blake, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
Dreams take us to leve
Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for., Bill Beham,
Men have conceived a t
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next., John Donne, English clergyman poet (1572 1631)
I believe it to be tru
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
What is a kiss? Why th
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love., Robert Herrick, English lyric poet (1591 1674)
Virtue can only flouri
Virtue can only flourish among equals., Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English novelist (1797 1851)
Dictionaries are like
Dictionaries are like watches the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Education is the abili
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your selfconfidence., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
Look before you leap.,
Look before you leap., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
To me dreams are part
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Sleep is often the onl
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience we forget what we knew in our dream., Erich Fromm, US (Germanborn) psychologist (1900 1980)
In dreams we see ourse
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Existence would be int
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
Dreams are but interlu
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
An aim of an argument
An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory., Gary L. Francione, (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert,
I am more afriad of an
I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep., Tallyrand,
What we have to do is
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions., Walter Pater, 1873, English critic essayist (1839 1894)
Its embarrassing, you
Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List., Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book Steal this Book, US radical activist (1936 1989)
The finest qualities o
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly., Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 01:00:00 Economy, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Ask not what you can d
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you., KMFDM, from Dogma,
The revolution is not
The revolution is not a tea party., Mao Tsetung, Chinese Communist politician (1893 1976)
It is forbidden to kil
It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
I am Cuban, Argentine,
I am Cuban, Argentine, Bolivian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, etc... You understand., Che Guevara, when asked his nationality,
Land and Freedom!, Emi
Land and Freedom!, Emiliano Zapata,
Let the coming hour ov
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
If you do not wish to
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, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
When the going gets we
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro., Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, US journalist (1939 2005)
Which way I fly is Hel
Which way I fly is Hell myself am Hell., John Milton, Paradise Lost, English poet (1608 1674)
...for advice is a dan
...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
To find yourself, thin
To find yourself, think for yourself., Socrates, The Apology, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
The downside to being
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious., Despair.com,
For the uncontrolled t
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?, Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita, Quotations by unknown authors )
Meet the sunrise with
Meet the sunrise with confidence., Alonzo Newton Benn,
After the greatest clo
After the greatest clouds, the sun., Alan of Lille,
Nowhere can a man find
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul., Marcus Aurelius,
It is the mind that ma
It is the mind that makes the man., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Commonsense appears to
Commonsense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers., W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
A man is like a fracti
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction., Leo Tolstoy, Russian mystic novelist (1828 1910)
Education is the abili
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
I fear not, I see not
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire., Thomas Paine, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)
Love is this divine in
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work., David B. Haight,
Our friends should be
Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best., Joseph B. Wirthlin,
Perhaps when we find o
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing., Sylvia Plath, US novelist poet (1932 1963)
Depend upon it, after
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path., Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14 1849)., US short story author, editor, poet (1809 1849)
We never regret having
We never regret having eaten too little., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
Between two evils, I a
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before., Mae West, Klondike Annie (1936 film), US movie actress (1892 1980)
I can think of nothing
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
When you look at yours
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about., Albert Einstein, The World as I See It., US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Time has no divisions
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols., Thomas Mann, German writer (1875 1955)
The work goes on, the
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die., Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980, US Democratic politician (1932 )
Violence, naked force,
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms., Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4,
I just bought a microw
I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes., Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine, US comedian and actor (1955 )
I went to a restaurant
I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance., Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine, US comedian and actor (1955 )
I installed a skylight
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!, Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine, US comedian and actor (1955 )
What the great ones do
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , Act I scene ii, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Women are like teabags
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
The only good is knowl
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
I have nothing but con
I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that., Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 1977)
I worked myself up fro
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty., Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 1977)
The foolish man lies a
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was., Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72,
Revolution is not some
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit., Abbie Hoffman, US radical activist (1936 1989)
There is no avoiding w
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others., Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
When you helped somebo
When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared., Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl,
The whole secret of li
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well., Horace Walpole, English author (1717 1797)
My mother had morning
My mother had morning sickness after I was born., Rodney Dangerfield, monologue, US actor comedian (1921 2004)
We do not first get al
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience., John Claypool,
It is the greatest art
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist., Charles Baudelaire, French poet (1821 1867)
One of the things that
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living., George Washington Carver,
Friendship is certainl
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love., Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, English novelist (1775 1817)
But when a young lady
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way., Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, English novelist (1775 1817)
It takes courage to gr
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are., e.e. cummings,
Duty without love is d
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine., Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba,
Listen or thy tongue w
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf., American Indian Proverb,
He is able who thinks
He is able who thinks he is able., Buddha, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
Everyone is kneaded ou
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven., Yiddish Proverb,
The fellow that agrees
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you., Kin Hubbard, (1868 1930)
You get the best out o
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself., Harry Firestone,
He who establishes his
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
There is no conversati
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
Love as Thought is Tru
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Nonviolence., Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba,
Sir, it is not God who
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket., Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128 paragraph 3,
The vision of a champi
The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching., Anson Dorrance, Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm,
The Price Of Freedom I
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
My religion consists o
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
A good many things go
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus., Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer politician (1874 1964)
Children are likely to
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them., Lady Bird Johnson, US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 )
Nobody made a greater
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little., Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
Example is not the mai
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing., Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher physician (1875 1965)
Good instincts usually
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out., Michael Burke,
He waited for the mask
He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it., F. Scott Fitzgerald, US novelist (1896 1940)
Art is a lie that make
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth., Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 1973)
Men go abroad to wonde
Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering., St. Augustine,
In the midst of winter
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
When you close your do
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 within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?, Epictetus, Discourses, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
The Sufis advise us to
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?, Eknath Easwaran,
Every gun that is made
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
God gives us memory so
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December., J. M. Barrie,
Never forget the days
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
The journey in between
The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place., Barbara De Angelis,
Everything has beauty,
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
The Pythagorean ... ha
The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number., Aristotle, quoted in http://wwwgap.dcs.stand.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Nobody can be exactly
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it., Tallulah Bankhead, US movie actress (1903 1968)
My soldiers ask of me,
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer., General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress, US WWII general war hero (1880 1964)
...obstacles do not ex
...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken., Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, German Nazi dictator, orator, politician (1889 1945)
Hope is definitely not
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out., Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986 tr. 1990)., Czech dissident, dramatist, politician (1936 )
Have you ever noticed
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time beautiful?, E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, British novelist (1879 1970)
Your purpose in relati
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances., Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self,
The function of govern
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work., Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980, US musician, singer, songwriter (1940 1993)
Seek not, my soul, the
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach., Pindar, 518438 B.C., Greek lyric poet (522 BC 443 BC)
Drop out of school bef
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system., Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, Freak Out, 1965, US musician, singer, songwriter (1940 1993)
It is foolish to wish
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior., Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey, English novelist (1820 1849)
The key to immortality
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering., Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits), US martial arts expert movie actor (1940 1973)
Happiness is not achie
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the byproduct of other activities., Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Free men cannot start
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars., John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down, US novelist (1902 1968)
The true test of a civ
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Conquering others take
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength., LaoTzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC 531 BC)
Although the world is
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Learning is not attain
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence., Abigail Adams, 1780, US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 1818)
Kindness in words crea
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love., LaoTzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC 531 BC)
We would never learn t
We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
The man who is swimmin
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it., Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
Es tan corto el amor,
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.), Pablo Neruda, Chilean dilpomat poet (1904 1973)
Hell is full of musica
Hell is full of musical amateurs., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
The way to write Ameri
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish., Virgil Thompson,
Love is the delightful
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock., John Barrymore, US actor (1882 1942)
A man can be happy wit
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Old age means realizin
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to., Joe Gores,
All truly great though
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
My wife Mary and I hav
My wife Mary and I have been married for fortyseven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce murder, yes, but divorce, never., Jack Benny, US comedian (1894 1974)
Scorching my seared he
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again., Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II, US short story author, editor, poet (1809 1849)
If you live long enoug
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had., I. F. Stone, US journalist newspaper publisher (1907 1989)
Thirtyfive is a very a
Thirtyfive is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirtyfive for years., Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
There is no such thing
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family., Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian television actor (1954 )
Setting a good example
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age., William Feather, (1908 1976)
The time not to become
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war., E. B. White, US author humorist (1899 1985)
I believe that people
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty., Nancy Reagan, US 2nd wife of Ronald Reagan 1952 (1921 )
What is youth except a
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?, Evelyn Waugh, English novelist satirist (1903 1966)
Like its politicians a
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves., J. B. Priestley, English critic, dramatist, novelist (1894 1984)
When you are eight yea
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business., Lenny Bruce, (1923 1966)
Books have the same en
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content., Paul Valery, French critic poet (1871 1945)
Reading made Don Quixo
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
The price of freedom o
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish., Robert Jackson,
Never go out to meet t
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, 30th president of US (1872 1933)
There is no reciprocit
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters., Alice Thomas Ellis,
Just turn left at Gree
Just turn left at Greenland..., John Lennon, When asked how the Beatles found America on their first U.S. visit, English singer songwriter (1940 1980)
The supreme happiness
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
We are not afraid to e
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
When one admits that n
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless., Bertrand Russell, Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?, 1947, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
When one admits that n
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, Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?, 1947, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Not to be absolutely c
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality., Bertrand Russell, Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?, 1947, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
A good plan violently
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week., George S. Patton, US general (1885 1945)
...simple fact that an
...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea., Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore,
Give us this day our d
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief., A. Huxley, Island,
Dick, frankly you do n
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy., Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after shock and awe started,
Only the curious will
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient., Eugene S. Wilson,
(Kenneth) Star...(has)
(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available., Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton,
I wish you music to he
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
I have never thought o
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out that is the reason why I compose., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
Music, verily, is the
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
Music is a higher reve
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
We mortals with immort
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
I believe in God, Moza
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven., Richard Wagner,
Wanting to be someone
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are., Kurt Cobain,
The men who create pow
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us., John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26 1963 Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass., US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
No leader sets out to
No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming., Warren Bennis, From an article in a meeting industry magazine.,
Let the beauty we love
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground., Jelaluddin Rumi,
The neurotic and the a
The neurotic and the artist since both live out the unconscious of the race reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on., Rollo May,
Whoever finds love ben
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises., Jelaluddin Rumi,
Cleverness is like a l
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wideangle lens., Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom,
The difficult child is
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself and in consequence, he is at war with the world., A. S. Neill, Summerhill,
Free children are not
Free children are not easily influenced the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child., A. S. Neill, Summerhill,
In obedience there is
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind., J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning,
Love and hate are not
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference., A. S. Neill, Summerhill,
When one loses the dee
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important., J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning,
If you lose money you
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
All great truths begin
All great truths begin as blasphemies., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Never does the human s
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury., E. H. Chapin,
Death is nothing, but
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily., Napoleon Bonaparte, French general politician (1769 1821)
Natives who beat drums
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams., Mary Ellen Kelly,
Be glad of life becaus
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars., Henry Van Dyke,
They are never alone t
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts., Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, politician, soldier (1554 1586)
I am certainly not one
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
Our lives begin to end
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter., Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Music is well said to
Music is well said to be the speech of angels., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
The Christian does not
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles., A. Mark Wells,
Middle age is when you
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle., Bob Hope, US (Englishborn) actor comedian (1903 2003)
Big shots are only lit
Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting., Dale Carnegie,
A child is not likely
A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father., Austin L. Sorensen,
He has the right to cr
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
The most wasted day of
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed., Sebastian R. N. Chamfort,
The road to hell is pa
The road to hell is paved with adverbs., Stephen King, US horror novelist screenwriter (1947 )
The jungle is dark but
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds..., Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, US dramatist (1915 2005)
Action may not always
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
Gather ye rosebuds whi
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying., Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, English lyric poet (1591 1674)
About the time we can
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends., Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer politician (1874 1964)
A person usually has t
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
Two men look out throu
Two men look out through the same bars one sees the mud and one the stars., Frederick Langbridge, (1849 1923)
Any society that needs
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers., Erik Pepke,
God gave you a gift of
God gave you a gift of 86,4 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?, William Arthur Ward,
As long as people will
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it., Dick Cavett, US comedian television host (1936 )
Those who will not rea
Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves., George Gordon Noel Byron,
It is sobering to cons
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year., Tom Lehrer, US humorist, singer, songwriter (1928 )
At sixteen I was stupi
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twentyfive I was wise, self confident, prepossessing and assertive. At fortyfive I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?, Jules Feiffer, US cartoonist satirist (1929 )
Nothing is illegal if
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it., Andrew Young,
Every generation imagi
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it., George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
I was born old and get
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young., Herbert Beerbohm Tree,
Nobody ever died of la
Nobody ever died of laughter., Max Beerbohm, English author and satirist (1872 1956)
All the beautiful sent
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action., James Russell Lowell,
In simplest terms, a l
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes., John Erksine, The Complete Life,
The supreme happiness
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
I have plentyof common
I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it., Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, US cartoonist (1958 )
The aggressive spirit,
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception., Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron"),
There are only two typ
There are only two types of aircraft – fighters and targets., Doyle ‘Wahoo’ Nicholson, USMC,
Only in the spirit of
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be., LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe,
Their element is to at
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter., LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe,
Times of general calam
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
Why, you may take the
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together what do you get? The sum of all fears., Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy,
All you touch and all
All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be., Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon,
Never in the course of
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few., Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II,
I am not young enough
I am not young enough to know everything., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Fear less, hope more W
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more Talk less, say more Hate less, love more And all good things are yours., "Swedish Proverb",
There are now two grea
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the AngloAmericans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world., Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835,
But if used for retrib
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate., Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold,
And yesterday he would
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward., Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears,
In that instant he lea
In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them., Melaine Rawn, Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince,
Consult your dragon be
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide., Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 01:00:00 Stronghold,
The mirror never sees
The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself., J. Gregory Keyes, Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps,
Evolution crawls to im
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction., J. Gregory Keyes, Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps,
Marriage: the state or
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two., Ambrose Bierce, US author satirist (1842 1914)
The darkest places in
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis., Dante Alighieri, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
In the land of the bli
In the land of the blind, the oneeyed man is king. [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.], Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96), Dutch author, philosopher, scholar (1466 1536)
We have all a better g
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
A nation that draws to
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools., Thucydides, Greek historian (471 BC 400 BC)
Men are so stupid and
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived., Machiavelli, The Prince,
Education is an admira
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Think of how stupid th
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that., George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
I am eternally gratefu
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on., Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997, US novelist (1922 )
I suggest that the onl
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves., E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951, British novelist (1879 1970)
Here is a great body o
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness and led enterprises with sprit sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens., Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
The pursuit of knowled
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it., Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934), US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Never be bored, and yo
Never be bored, and you will never be boring., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
Music gives a soul to
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
What other people thin
What other people think about me is not my business., Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man a memoir, US (Canadianborn) actor (1961 )
It is our choices, Har
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities., J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, British fantasy author )
The best audience is i
The best audience is intelligent, welleducated, and a little drunk., Alben W. Barkley, (vice president under Harry Truman),
Our own acts are isola
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another., William Butler Yeats, Autobiography, Irish dramatist poet (1865 1939)
We taste and feel and
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it., William Butler Yeats, Irish dramatist poet (1865 1939)
Let them have their wa
Let them have their ways, but let us never loose ours., Rossella Camerlingo,
Have not all races had
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?, William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction, Irish dramatist poet (1865 1939)
Life cannot find reaso
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it., Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: Coversations with Leto II, US science fiction novelist (1920 1986)
Thou shall not steal.
Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must., Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (194350),
Life is short. Forgive
Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly., Robert Doisneau,
A child only educated
A child only educated at school is an uneducated child., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
If you want to make an
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe., Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
Love is not a crime, d
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is., Alexander Senturia,
Beat a man with the st
Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm., Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
I believe in the possi
I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them., Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4 , final paragraph,
From birth to age eigh
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirtyfive, she needs good looks. From thirtyfive to fiftyfive, she needs a good personality. From fiftyfive on, she needs good cash., Sophie Tucker,
What is more mortifyin
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?, Logan Pearsall Smith, (1865 1946)
It is men who wait to
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service., Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 46, US general politician (1822 1885)
Regret for the things
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 J. Harris, Strictly Personal,
Curiosity killed the c
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect., Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 )
Nothing amuses me more
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
A large income is the
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
If any one faculty of
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 speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
Everywhere I go I find
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me., Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist (1856 1939)
Our lives begin to end
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
The skill of writing i
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think., Edwin Schlossberg,
Education begins a gen
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him., Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732, British physician (1654 1734)
Get the facts, or the
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong., Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732, British physician (1654 1734)
With foxes we must pla
With foxes we must play the fox., Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732, British physician (1654 1734)
Money is the sinew of
Money is the sinew of love as well as war., Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732, British physician (1654 1734)
He that plants trees l
He that plants trees loves others beside himself., Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732, British physician (1654 1734)
That which we fear to
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation., Don DeLillo, White Noise,
Be gentle with the you
Be gentle with the young., Juvenal, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
I am still determined
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances., Martha Washington, US wife of George Washington 1759 (1732 1802)
I was not looking for
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams., Susan Sontag, US author critic (1933 )
The West won the world
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, nonWesterners never do., Samuel P. Huntington,
If you are ever in dou
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
A society grows great
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit., Greek proverb,
Keep true to the dream
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth., Friedrich von Schiller, German dramatist poet (1759 1805)
I can take any amount
I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise., Noel Coward, English actor, dramatist, songwriter (1899 1973)
The shah always falls
The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the longterm price is almost always too high., Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage,
The way I see it, if y
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain., Dolly Parton,
When spider webs unite
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion., Ethiopian Proverb,
And I can fight only f
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know., Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, German Nazi dictator, orator, politician (1889 1945)
The world is divided i
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time., Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet November 2000,
Mankind must put an en
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind., John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
I am not sincere, even
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not., Jules Renard, (1864 1910)
Stupidity has a certai
Stupidity has a certain charm ignorance does not., Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, songwriter (1940 1993)
In England there are s
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce., Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol,
Religions change beer
Religions change beer and wine remain., Harvey Allen,
The man who stops maki
The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none., James Boswell, Scottish author biographer (1740 1795)
We are students of wor
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Begin doing what you w
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late., Marie Beyon Ray,
The future belongs to
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
We make war that we ma
We make war that we may live in peace., Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10 ch. 7 sct. 1177b, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
For there is no questi
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war., Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Where any one body of
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
Oh! do not attack me w
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, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
It will, I believe, be
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, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
Everybody likes to go
Everybody likes to go their own wayto choose their own time and manner of devotion., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
All is ephemeralfame a
All is ephemeralfame and the famous as well., Marcus Aurelius,
No amount of time can
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch., Leo Buscaglia,
The greatness of a nat
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
To err is human to for
To err is human to forgive, divine., Alexander Pope, English poet satirist (1688 1744)
Praise youth and it wi
Praise youth and it will prosper., Irish Proverb,
Horse, you are truly a
Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword., The Koran,
War is a way of shatte
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent., George Orwell, 1984, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
Now we are all sons of
Now we are all sons of bitches., Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001,
Somewhere between the
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
He mobilized the Engli
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended., Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954, US broadcast journalist newscaster (1908 1965)
The whole is more than
The whole is more than the sum of its parts., Aristotle, Metaphysica, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
To Thales the primary
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Wit is educated insole
Wit is educated insolence., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
The more laws, the le
The more laws, the less justice., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Write something to sui
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it., Jesse Stuart,
History is a vision of
History is a vision of God’s creation on the move., Arnold Toynbee, English historian historical philosopher (1889 1975)
Nothing exists except
Nothing exists except atoms and empty spaceeverything else is opinion., Democritus, Greek philosopher (460 BC 370 BC)
Meditation... disolves
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass., Tom Robbins, US novelist (1936 )
There exists a false a
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue., Tom Robbins, US novelist (1936 )
Maybe most people were
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate., Tom Robbins, US novelist (1936 )
I would rather discove
I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia., Democritus, Greek philosopher (460 BC 370 BC)
Rap music... sounds li
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper., Tom Robbins, US novelist (1936 )
Better to rely on one
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes., Jean de La Fontaine, French poet (1621 1695)
God can be addressed,
God can be addressed, but not expressed., Martin Buber,
I know not what course
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!, Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774, US orator, patriot, politician in American Revolution (1736 1799)
Ready comprehension is
Ready comprehension is often a kneejerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary., Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe, US science fiction novelist (1920 1986)
All governments suffer
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted., Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva, US science fiction novelist (1920 1986)
Love is substance Lust
Love is substance Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion., Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy,
Arrogant and right is
Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong., Geoff Arbuthnot,
The only thing that co
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams., Tupac Amaru Shakur,
Nothing is particularl
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
For all its flaws, I w
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country., Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03,
The only thing sadder
The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost., Robert Jordan,
Poor Mexico so far fr
Poor Mexico so far from God and so close to the United States., Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz,
He who is in love is w
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
There will be little r
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
I pay very little rega
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
Every man has his own
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him., Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, US author (1891 1980)
I have no money, no re
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive., Henry Miller, US author (1891 1980)
By heritage and by cho
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand., George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12 2002, 43rd President of US (1946 )
In this age, which bel
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest., Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, US author (1891 1980)
The more you sweat dur
The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war., Brian Wilson,
Love is a perky elf da
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun., Matt Groening, US cartoonist satirist (1954 )
Since the dawn of time
Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen., Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2,
The future is a hundre
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven., Orson Scott Card, Xenocide, US science fiction author (1951 )
Digressions, objection
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology., Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, German philosopher (1844 1900)
The happiest people se
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so., William Inge,
Cleave to no faith whe
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood., Arthur Miller, The Crucible, act II, US dramatist (1915 2005)
I smoke in moderation,
I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
We choose to go to the
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!, John F. Kennedy, Rice University speech on September 12 1962, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
Never make a defense o
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused., King Charles I, of England,
She is not perfect. Yo
She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other., Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting, US actor comedian (1951 )
Nothing happens to any
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear., Marcus Aureluis,
I saw the angel in the
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free., Michaelangelo,
A purpose of human lif
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved., Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan, US novelist (1922 )
We are what we pretend
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be., Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, US novelist (1922 )
Never let your inferio
Never let your inferiors do you a favor it will be extremely costly., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
To study the phenomeno
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all., Sir William Osler, British (Canadianborn) physician (1849 1919)
Babylon violated dimin
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form., Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
It is well enough that
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
Life is like a tenspee
Life is like a tenspeed bike most of us have gears we never use., Charles M. Schulz, US cartoonist (1922 2000)
If a rich man is proud
If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Truth will always be t
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance., W. Clement Stone,
Are you going out afte
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?, Richard D. Rosen,
People say they love t
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true., Robert J. Ringer,
The structure of langu
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself., Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196, US activist linguist (1928 )
Do pleasant things you
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others., Baltasar Gracian,
Experience becomes po
Experience becomes possible because of language., Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196, US activist linguist (1928 )
2. He who is greedy is
2. He who is greedy is disgraced he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort., Imam AliIbnAbiTalib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2,
1. During civil distur
1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you., Imam AliIbnAbiTalib, NahjulBalgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1,
There are many people
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves., Sřren Kierkegaard,
To know one life has b
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
When one door of happi
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
You can always chase a
You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it., Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X chap 4, US black nationalist leader (1925 1965)
Good sense is, of all
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess., Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, French mathematician philosopher (1596 1650)
Long experience has ta
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new., Galileo Galilei, The Assayer, Italian astronomer physicist (1564 1642)
Grasp the subject, the
Grasp the subject, the words will follow., Cato the Elder, Roman orator politician (234 BC 149 BC)
I am free of all preju
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally., W. C. Fields, US actor (1880 1946)
High fashion has the s
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad., Barbara Kingsolver, Life Without GoGo Boots (personal essay),
Peace is not a relatio
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people., Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (1889 1964)
It is essential to kno
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion., Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01,
Good people do not nee
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Whatever is begun in a
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Every time you get ang
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system., Alfred Montapert,
Do not accustom yourse
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Great anger is more de
Great anger is more destructive than the sword, Tamil Proverb,
Beware of the fury of
Beware of the fury of the patient man., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
Holding on to anger is
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, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
Anger dwells only in t
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Nothing is more destru
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
After a certain high l
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
There are two ways of
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
It is characteristic o
It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts in short, the psychological factors are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to human materiel., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
To my mind, to kill in
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
The conscientious obje
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Broadly speaking, the
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
The aim (of education)
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
He who cherishes the v
He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Heroism on command, se
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism how passionately I hate them!, Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Peace cannot be kept b
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Science is not only co
Science is not only compatible with spirituality it is a profound source of spirituality., Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
I never came upon any
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Going to war without F
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind., Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense,
Wise sayings often fal
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away., Sir Arthur Helps,
Say all you have to sa
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them., John Ruskin, English critic, essayist, reformer (1819 1900)
148. One who does not
148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)., Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha),
205. A greedy man will
205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility., Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha),
The sin which makes yo
The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant., Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha),
We dance in a circle a
We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
Expose yourself to you
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free., Jim Morrison,
In the long run, you h
In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Do not be afraid to gi
Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great., Kenny Rogers,
The way I see it, if y
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain., Dolly Parton,
If women are expected
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
We cannot direct the w
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails., Dolly Parton,
No physical quantity c
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever., Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International SolidState Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003,
In the begining there
In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded., Terry Pratchet, (on the big bang theory),
A man should never put
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth., Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (1828 1906)
Life is beautiful. Lif
Life is beautiful. Life is sad., Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita,
Mankind must put an en
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
It is a brave act of v
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live., Sir Thomas Brown,
Europe is spreading it
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: “Warmly welcome to our family”. Our new Europe is born., Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20,
Whenever you look at a
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference., Charles Franklin Kettering, (18761958),
Every living thing is
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
An elephant is a mouse
An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications., John Herro,
Nothing in this world
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood., Marie Curie, French (Polishborn) chemist physicist (1867 1934)
Black holes are where
Black holes are where God divided by zero., Stephen Wright,
Shoot for the moon. Ev
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars., Les Brown,
The greatest lesson in
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes., Winston Churchill,
It is a sad fact that
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!, Richard Jeni,
There is hardly anythi
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse cannot make a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey., John Ruskin (18191900), British poet, artist,,
In these days, a man w
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it., Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 1915)
This only is certain,
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man., Gaius Plinius Secundus, ("The Elder") (2379),
The beauty of religiou
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window., Stephen King, US horror novelist screenwriter (1947 )
Religion is what keeps
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich., Napoleon,
Gods are fragile thing
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense., Chapman Cohen, (18681954),
I cannot conceive othe
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Be humble for you are
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars., Serbian Proverb,
Four things come not b
Four things come not back the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity., Arabian Proverb,
He who fights monsters
He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you., Friedrich Neitzsche,
If a man cannot choose
If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man., Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, British composer novelist (1917 1993)
To surrender to ignora
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today., Isaac Asimov, US science fiction novelist scholar (1920 1992)
Better be wise by the
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
You cannot teach a man
You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him find it within himself., Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer physicist (1564 1642)
The joy of discovery i
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel., Claude Bernard (181378),
True greatness consist
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
If a man cannot forget
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much., Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 1855)
Success is to be measu
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 while trying to succeed., Booker T. Washington, US educator (1856 1915)
Do I not destroy my en
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?, Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Nudists have no fashio
Nudists have no fashion sense., Peter Kunkel,
The art of being wise
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook., William James, US Pragmatist philosopher psychologist (1842 1910)
Today my spirit is goi
Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed., Bill Watterson, Calvin, Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, US cartoonist (1958 )
There are people who m
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen., James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2303,
Our greatest natural r
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children., Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Center, US cartoonist movie producer (1901 1966)
Love goes toward love
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books but love from look, toward school with heavy looks., William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I am not afraid of sto
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Genius is entitled to
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind., Lord Essex,
Convinced myself, I se
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince., Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice, US short story author, editor, poet (1809 1849)
An eye for an eye make
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind., Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed), Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
Sometimes people carry
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem., W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
A woman can forgive a
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, The Moon and Sixpence, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
Do not be fooled into
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary., Julius Rosenwald, US merchant philanthropist (1862 1932)
I am a kind of paranoi
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy., J. D. Salinger, US novelist short story author (1919 )
I do not know what I m
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me., Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855), English mathematician physicist (1642 1727)
The world of the happ
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy., Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus (1922), Austrian philosopher (1889 1951)
The limits of my langu
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world., Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus (1922), Austrian philosopher (1889 1951)
The world must be made
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty., Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress, Apr. 2 1917, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
If you would thoroughl
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others., Tryon Edwards, (1809 1894)
There is such a thing
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right., Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10 1915, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
No nation is fit to si
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation., Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20 1915, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
The constitution does
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens., Wendell Willkie, An American Programme (1944), US businessman politician (1892 1944)
I have always depended
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers., Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), US dramatist (1911 1983)
The nice thing about q
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive., Kenneth Williams, Acid Drops (1980),
Civilization advances
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them., Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911), English mathematician philosopher (1861 1947)
Art is the imposing of
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern., Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954), English mathematician philosopher (1861 1947)
Contrary to general be
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first., Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977), English actor author (1921 2004)
The past is the only d
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet., Edward Thomas, Poems 1917 Early One Morning,
Be wise with speed . A
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed., Edward Young, English poet (1683 1765)
Do not go gentle into
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, Collected poems (1952), Welsh poet (1914 1953)
People who want to und
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway., Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944), (1879 1948)
My music is best under
My music is best understood by children and animals., Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961, Russian composer in US (1882 1971)
The history of the Vic
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art., Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918), English biographer (1880 1932)
I know thisa man got t
I know thisa man got to do what he got to do., John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), US novelist (1902 1968)
Man, unlike any other
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments., John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), US novelist (1902 1968)
Socialism is nothing b
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes., Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, 1933, German historian philosopher (1880 1936)
The test of a vocation
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Art and Letters, (1865 1946)
To suppose, as we all
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 all day and keep absolutely sober., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 In the World, (1865 1946)
The art of war is simp
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving., Ulysses S. Grant, US general politician (1822 1885)
When they come downsta
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Other People, (1865 1946)
All Reformers, however
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Other People, (1865 1946)
Most people sell their
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Other People, (1865 1946)
There are few sorrows,
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Life and Human Nature, (1865 1946)
How many of our daydre
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!, Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Life and Human Nature, (1865 1946)
There are two things t
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 achieve the second., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Life and Human Nature, (1865 1946)
Goodbye cruel world.,
Goodbye cruel world., Gloria Shayne, Title of song (1961),
"Do you know what a pe
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it., George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist 1887 ch. 5, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Assassination is the e
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship., George Bernard Shaw, ShewingUp of Blanco Posnet 1911 Limits to Toleration, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Beware lest in your an
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master., Demosthenes, Greek orator politician in Athens (384 BC 322 BC)
It is impossible for a
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him., George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion 1916 preface, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
There is only one reli
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it., George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Take care to get what
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Youth, which is forgiv
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Every man over forty i
Every man over forty is a scoundrel., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
An Englishman thinks h
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 act 3, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Hell is full of musica
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 act 3, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
There is no love since
There is no love sincerer than the love of food., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 act 1, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
He knows nothing and h
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career., George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara 1907 act 3, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Alcohol is a very nece
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning., George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara 1907 act 2, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
I am a Millionaire. Th
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion., George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara 1907 act 2, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Do you think that the
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true., George Bernard Shaw, Candida 1898 act 1, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
We have no more right
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it., George Bernard Shaw, Candida 1898 act 1, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
I never resist temptat
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me., George Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart (1930), Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Ah! the clock is alway
Ah! the clock is always slow It is later than you think., Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921), Canadian poet (1874 1958)
When I am asked, What
When I am asked, What do you think of our audience? I answer, I know two kinds of audiences onlyone coughing, and one not coughing., Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961), Austrian composer pianist (1882 1951)
The notes I handle no
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notesah, that is where the art resides!, Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958, Austrian composer pianist (1882 1951)
Hell is other people.,
Hell is other people., JeanPaul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944), French author existentialist philosopher (1905 1980)
Existence precedes and
Existence precedes and rules essence., JeanPaul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943), French author existentialist philosopher (1905 1980)
A writer must refuse t
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution., JeanPaul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22 1964, French author existentialist philosopher (1905 1980)
Every time I paint a p
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend., John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951), US (Italianborn) portrait painter (1856 1925)
Intolerance itself is
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it., George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine 1913 ch. 4, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
For an idea ever to be
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always oldfashioned., George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine 1913 ch. 2, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
The truth is cruel, bu
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it., George Santayana, Little Essays 1920 Ideal Immortality, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
When you strike at a k
When you strike at a king, you must kill him., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Nothing is really so p
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject., George Santayana, Life of Reason 1905 vol. 4 ch. 8, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
An artist is a dreamer
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world., George Santayana, Life of Reason 1905 vol. 4 ch. 3, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
Slang is a language th
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work., Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13 1959, US biographer poet (1878 1967)
I tell you the past is
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes., Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers 1918 Prairie, US biographer poet (1878 1967)
The fog comes on littl
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on., Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems 1916 Fog, US biographer poet (1878 1967)
I have lost friends, s
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street., Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931), English novelist (1882 1941)
Miss Brooke had that k
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress., George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, ch.1, English novelist (1819 1880)
In my many years I hav
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress., John Adams, US diplomat politician (1735 1826)
Take death for example
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we’d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it., Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence,
Of all forms of tyrann
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy., Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography, 26th president of US (1858 1919)
When an idea is wantin
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
Never be afraid to lau
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century., Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers, Australian Comedian (character of Barry Humphries) (1934 )
No one travelling on a
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive., Thorstein Veblen, US economist social philosopher (1857 1929)
Whatever women do they
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult., Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963,
In the future everyone
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes., Andy Warhol, US artist (1928 1987)
Conspicuous consumptio
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure., Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), US economist social philosopher (1857 1929)
Take a twomile walk ev
Take a twomile walk every morning before breakfast., Harry S Truman, 33rd president of US (1884 1972)
Human beings are perha
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right., Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958),
What a good thing Adam
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before., Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935), US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
It takes your enemy an
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you., Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897), US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Barring that natural e
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
All the President is,
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway., Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14 1947, 33rd president of US (1884 1972)
Old age is the most un
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man., Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile (1959), Russian Soviet politician Communist revolutionary (1879 1940)
I am extraordinarily p
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end., Margaret Thatcher, in Observer April 4 1989, British politician (1925 )
Walking is the best po
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
I am a deeply superfic
I am a deeply superficial person., Andy Warhol, US artist (1928 1987)
There are two things t
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink., Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914), US novelist (1869 1946)
The stupid neither for
The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget., Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin 1973 Personal Conduct,
I have learned through
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge., Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer in US (1882 1971)
Discretion is not the
Discretion is not the better part of biography., Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967), English biographer (1880 1932)
We do on stage things
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else., Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), British dramatist screenwriter (1937 )
A woman is like a tea
A woman is like a tea bag you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
Life was meant to be l
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
I could not at any age
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
People grow through ex
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built., Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
When one door of happi
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 has been opened for us., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Wheresoever you go, go
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
People do not like to
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Security is mostly a s
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing., Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957), US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
The best and most beau
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Character cannot be de
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
There is a homely old
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 softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far., Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903, 26th president of US (1858 1919)
Mathematics is the que
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences., Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, Gauss zum Gedachtniss [1856], German mathematician, physicist, prodigy (1777 1855)
A woman without a man
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle., Gloria Steinem, (attributed), US feminist (1934 )
In the United States t
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is., Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936), US author in France (1874 1946)
If you want to see the
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals., J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, British fantasy author )
A good book is the bes
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever., Martin Tupper, English writer 18101889,
Be not slow to visit t
Be not slow to visit the sick., Ecclesiastes,
If our greatest need h
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior., Max Lucado,
Indeed, I tremble for
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever., Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia denouncing the evils of slavery, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
People say that life i
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Myself, (1865 1946)
The fickleness of the
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me., George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer 1898 act 2, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Beware of the man whos
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
The golden rule is tha
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
He who has never hoped
He who has never hoped can never despair., George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra 1901 act 4, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Silence is the most pe
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn., George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah 1921 pt. 5, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Search others for thei
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
All great truths begin
All great truths begin as blasphemies., George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919), Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Music is essentially u
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions., George Santayana, Life of Reason 1905 vol. 4 ch. 4, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
Happiness is the only
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment., George Santayana, Life of Reason 1905 vol. 1 ch. 10, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
The most radical revol
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution., Hannah Arendt, US (Germanborn) historian social philosopher (1906 1975)
If life was fair, Elvi
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead., Johnny Carson, US comedian television host (1925 2005)
America guarantees equ
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome., Rush Limbaugh,
Recommend to your chil
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold., Ludwig van Beethoven, German Romantic composer (1770 1827)
When you have once see
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
There is a concept whi
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 the infinite., Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine novelist poet (1899 1986)
The eternal silence of
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)
I have never found, in
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance., Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13 1963, (1894 1986)
Man is a credulous ani
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones., Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
We have, in fact, two
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 seldom preach., Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Every man, wherever he
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, Sceptical Essays (1928), Dreams and Facts, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
It is undesirable to b
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true., Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), On the Value of Scepticism, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Mathematics may be def
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true., Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic 1917 ch. 4, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
To fear love is to fea
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead., Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals 1929 ch. 19, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
The fact that an opini
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible., Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals 1929 ch. 5, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Of all forms of cautio
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness., Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness 1930 ch. 12, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
One should as a rule r
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 that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways., Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness 1930 ch. 9, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Men who are unhappy, l
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact., Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness 1930 ch. 1, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Youth is a wonderful t
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Yesterday, December 7
Yesterday, December 7 1941 a date which will live on in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8 1941, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
First of all, let me a
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance., Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4 1933, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
Well, all I know is wh
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers., Will Rogers, New York Times, Sept 30 1923, US humorist showman (1879 1935)
There is only one thin
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education., Will Rogers, Autobiography 1949 chapter 6, US humorist showman (1879 1935)
We all take different
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere., Tim McGraw,
Loneliness and the fee
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
Assassins!, Arturo Tos
Assassins!, Arturo Toscanini (18671957), To his orchestra,
So many of our dreams
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable., Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996,
...it is a base thing
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
In the truest sense, f
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22 1936, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
To resist the frigidit
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love., Karl von Bonstetten,
The instinct of nearly
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 this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head., Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969), French dramatist, director, poet (1889 1963)
We are certainly getti
We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar., Sigmund Freud, Letter to Carl Jung, January 17 1909, Austrian psychologist (1856 1939)
There is no observatio
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it., Samuel Johnson, Rambler #18, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Such is the common pro
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty., Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
To live without killin
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in., Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), Reunion in Brooklyn, US author (1891 1980)
There are many ways of
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream whatever that dream might be., Pearl Buck, US novelist in China (1892 1973)
There is no slavery bu
There is no slavery but ignorance., Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), Fragments, US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, orator (1833 1899)
As I was walking among
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs., William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
Anyone who can handle
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there., E. H. Gombrich, (1909 )
Use harms and even des
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated., Miguel de Unamuno, (1864 1936)
It is necessary to wor
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself., Charles Baudelaire, French poet (1821 1867)
The greatest mistake i
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)
The more I want to get
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work., Richard Bach,
If we were to wake up
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon., George Aiken,
I once wanted to becom
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up they have no holidays., Henny Youngman, US (Englishborn) comedian (1906 1998)
I take my wife everywh
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back., Henny Youngman, US (Englishborn) comedian (1906 1998)
If you are out to desc
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Morality is the greate
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
One day the years of s
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful., Sigmond Freud,
Gold for friends, Lead
Gold for friends, Lead for foes., Anastasio Somoza García, Dictator of Nicaragua 19361956,
The best remedy for a
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth., Dorothy Sayers,
He had the entertainme
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion., Henry James, The Ambassadors, Book Eighth, Chapter 2, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
Conformity is the ruin
Conformity is the ruin of the mind., Jesse Shelley,
A book is a mirror if
A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out., George Christoph Lichtenberg,
What is important is t
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers., Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College,
How to Raise your I.Q.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children, Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983),
At the bottom every ma
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
She had fortunately al
She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault., Henry James, The Ambassadors, Book Ninth, Chapter 2, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
Never trust the artist
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale., D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature, English novelist (1885 1930)
"There are certainly m
"There are certainly moments," said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me., Henry James, The Ambassadors, Book Eleventh, Chapter 1, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
Splitting the atom is
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy., Ernest Rutheford,
It was the most incred
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you., Ernest Rutheford,
It is said that power
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power., David Brin, on power and corruption, US engineer and science fiction author (1950 )
Technology is the knac
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it., Max Frisch,
Science knows no count
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence., Louis Pasteur, French biologist bacteriologist (1822 1895)
Give me a place to sta
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth., Archimedes, (ca. 235 BC), Greek inventor, mathematician, physicist (287 BC 212 BC)
Because the women are
Because the women are watching., T. E. Lawrence, ...when asked, Why do men go to war?,
Darkness cannot drive
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
A little learning is a
A little learning is a dangerous thing drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again., Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism, English poet satirist (1688 1744)
It struck him really t
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed., Henry James, The Ambassadors, Book Seventh, Chapter 3, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
I feel how little she
I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman., Henry James, The Ambassadors, Book Seventh, Chapter 2, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
Our critics are our fr
Our critics are our friends they show us our faults., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Fight for your opinion
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth., Charles A. Dana, US newspaper editor (1819 1897)
Friendships that have
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best., Joseph Parry,
Wear a smile and have
Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)
It is the simple thing
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile sweet fundamental things such as love., Laura Ingalls Wilder,
His honour rooted in d
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true., Lord Alfred Tennyson,
Sin has many tools, bu
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all., Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfasttable,
You can judge the char
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them., Malcolm Forbes, US art collector, author, publisher (1919 1990)
Look at all the senten
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them., David Reisman,
The gods never let us
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
We shall defend our is
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
Whether you believe yo
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
It is one of the great
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others., Lewis Carroll, English author recreational mathematician (1832 1898)
The poor complain that
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Millions of men have l
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit., Ansel Adams, US nature photographer (1902 1984)
Education is a compani
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage., Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
Books are the legacies
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn., Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
The world is too much
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 have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!, William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us, English poet (1770 1850)
When in doubt, tell th
When in doubt, tell the truth., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Whenever a separation
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe., Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
To me the meanest flow
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears., William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, 1803, English poet (1770 1850)
No other job in the wo
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide., Sylvia AshtonWarner, Spinster,
Through me you pass in
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 founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
Avarice, envy, pride,
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
When I find myself in
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes., W. H. Auden, US (Englishborn) critic poet (1907 1973)
Somewhere, something i
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known., Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
A bookstore is one of
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking., Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian television actor (1954 )
The problem is not tha
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem., Theodore Rubin,
One should never direc
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the marketplace. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to., Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
I hope I never get so
I hope I never get so old I get religious., Ingmar Bergman,
Life is sobs, sniffles
Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating., O. Henry, Gift of the Magi, 1906, US short story author (1862 1910)
You may be deceived if
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough., Frank Crane,
A straw vote only show
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows., O. Henry, A Ruler of Men., US short story author (1862 1910)
We are wise when we le
We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others., Rabbi Mark David Finkel, Gov. Craig Benson Inaugural Speech, January 9 2003,
Be not simply good be
Be not simply good be good for something., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Gravity is a habit tha
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off., Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (1992),
Everyone dies. Not eve
Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives., William Wallace, Braveheart,
The beauty of religiou
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window., Stephen King, US horror novelist screenwriter (1947 )
Never let a stain from
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future., Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul,
It is better to be a l
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life., Elizabeth Henry,
The chief lesson I hav
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust., Henry L. Stimson, US politician (1867 1950)
I have always been imp
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Common sense and sense
Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing., Clive Jones,
Thanks to his constant
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught., Henry James, The Ambassadors, Book Fourth, Chapter 2, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
People can be in gener
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of coursewith the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do hereto keep an eye on the fleeting hour., Henry James, The Ambassadors, Book Fifth, Chapter 2, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
God is really only ano
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas., Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 1973)
The weak ones are ther
The weak ones are there to justify the strong., Marilyn Manson,
Old houses mended, Cos
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they ’re ended., Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue, English actor dramatist (1671 1757)
Money is a terrible ma
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant., P. T. Barnum,
Safeguard the health b
Safeguard the health both of body and soul., Cleobulus, {One of the 7 Greek Sages},
The basic test of free
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, (1902 1983)
People unfit for freed
People unfit for freedom who cannot do much with it are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
The opposite of the re
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
Passionate hatred can
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
The remarkable thing i
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
The uncompromising att
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
No one is truly litera
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
To most of us nothing
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats we know it not., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
People who bite the ha
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
The wise learn from th
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
Travel only with thy e
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone., The Dhammapada,
How can I believe in G
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?, Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, director (1935 )
There are two kinds of
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on., Robert Byrne,
As far as the laws of
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 reality., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Propaganda does not de
Propaganda does not deceive people it merely helps them to deceive themselves., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
All leaders strive to
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
The most gifted member
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
We have rudiments of r
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
The Greeks invented lo
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
A patriot must always
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government., Edward Abbey, US radical environmentalist (1927 1989)
We often use strong la
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
Good people do not nee
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Hierarchical instituti
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls., Edward Abbey, US radical environmentalist (1927 1989)
Better a cruel truth t
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion., Edward Abbey, US radical environmentalist (1927 1989)
When you travel, remem
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable., Clifton Fadiman, US author, editor, radio host (1904 )
Nothing in the affairs
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Science is nothing but
Science is nothing but perception., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Those who are too smar
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Both oligarch and tyra
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
The greatest and most
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Great talents are the
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Nobody, as long as he
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Knowledge rests not up
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
The word happiness wou
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Every form of addictio
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
He who would travel ha
He who would travel happily must travel light., Antoine de SaintExupery, French writer (1900 1944)
All men are by nature
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Courage is knowing wha
Courage is knowing what not to fear., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
When men speak ill of
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Honesty is for the mos
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Own only what you can
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag., Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author dissident in US (1918 )
Nature does nothing us
Nature does nothing uselessly., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
There was never a geni
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Youth is easily deceiv
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Wit is educated insole
Wit is educated insolence., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Dignity does not consi
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
The aim of art is to r
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Be civil to all sociab
Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
The strictest law some
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
The absent are never w
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Roam abroad in the wor
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good., Saadi, Persian poet (1184 1291)
He who is unable to li
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Distrust and caution a
Distrust and caution are the parents of security., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Three can keep a secre
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Write injuries in dust
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
It is easier to preven
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
To follow by faith alo
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Laws too gentle are se
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
He that has done you a
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Think of how many reli
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?, Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
We live in a time of t
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the timehonored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself., Jimmy Carter, in his farewell address, US diplomat Democratic politician (1924 )
Lost time is never fou
Lost time is never found again., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Personally, I would be
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out., Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
If we long to believe
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 disservice in deflating our conceits?, Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
The universe seems nei
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent., Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
Men seldom make passes
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses., Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), News Item, US author, humorist, poet, wit (1893 1967)
The desire to take med
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals., Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925), British (Canadianborn) physician (1849 1919)
Avoiding danger is no
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
To live is so startlin
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else., Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)
When we conquer withou
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory., Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637), French dramatist (1606 1684)
Be not so bigoted to a
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth., Johann Georg von Zimmermann,
As soon as there is li
As soon as there is life there is danger., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870), US essayist poet (1803 1882)
When you have told any
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once., Samuel Butler, In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir, English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
One does not learn how
One does not learn how to die by killing others., Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Memoirs (18261841), French author politician (1768 1848)
Death hath so many doo
Death hath so many doors to let out life., John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647), English dramatist (1579 1625)
Grieve not that I die
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?, Lady Flora Hastings, “Swan Song”,
Death … It’s the o
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing., Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936), English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Death is the only gram
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop…, Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990),
One dies only once, an
One dies only once, and then for such a long time!, Moličre, Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), French actor comic dramatist (1622 1673)
Be entirely tolerant o
Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess., Heinrich Heine, German critic poet (1797 1856)
And come he slow, or c
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last., Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Scottish author novelist (1771 1832)
Death is not the worst
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish., Sophocles, Electra, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC 406 BC)
I have never killed a
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure., Clarence Darrow, Medley, US defense lawyer (1857 1938)
It matters not how a m
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, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
I cannot forgive my fr
I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing., Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts 1931 Age and Death, (1865 1946)
Creditors have better
Creditors have better memories than debtors., Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac (1758), US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
There is a great deal
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self., Demosthenes, Olynthiac, Greek orator politician in Athens (384 BC 322 BC)
False face must hide w
False face must hide what the false heart doth know., William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I.vii, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Those who restrain des
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained., William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 17901793), English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
Give to every other hu
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself., Robert Ingersoll, US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, orator (1833 1899)
Desire makes everythin
Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade., Marcel Proust, Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896), French novelist (1871 1922)
He who despairs over a
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool., Albert Camus, The Rebel (1951), French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
Despair is the price o
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim., Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948),
I shall despair. There
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?, William Shakespeare, Richard III, V.iii, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Nothing happens to any
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
We have to believe in
We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice., Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Times (1982), US (Polishborn) Jewish author (1904 1991)
The bitterest tragic e
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893), US essayist poet (1803 1882)
An apology for the dev
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, The NoteBooks of Samuel Butler (1912), English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
But I’m not so think
But I’m not so think as you drunk I am., Sir J.C. Squire, Ballade of Soporific Absorption,
Nothing is so good as
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand., George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861), English novelist (1819 1880)
The greatest way to li
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
It is not enough to be
It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better., Alberta Lee Cox,
We still do not know o
We still do not know onethousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
A promise made is a de
A promise made is a debt unpaid., Robert W. Service,
Better keep yourself c
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Never grow a wishbone
Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be., Clementine Paddleford,
Charm is the quality i
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
History will be kind t
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
Tact is the knack of m
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy., Isaac Newton, English mathematician physicist (1642 1727)
How vain it is to sit
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
There is nothing more
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
At least half the myst
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable., Raymond Chandler, US detective novelist screenwriter (1888 1959)
Perpetual devotion to
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things., Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 1894)
Look wise, say nothing
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought., Sir William Osler, British (Canadianborn) physician (1849 1919)
Men of genius do not e
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel., William Hazlitt, English essayist (1778 1830)
My pessimism extends t
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists., Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931, (1894 1977)
The price one pays for
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side., James Baldwin, US author (1924 1987)
About the most origina
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment., Josh Billings, US Humorist (1818 1885)
Time is the coin of yo
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you., Carl Sandburg, US biographer poet (1878 1967)
When two men in busine
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary., William Wrigley Jr., US chewing gum industrialist (1861 1932)
Devotees of grammatica
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression., Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator Transcendentalist (1799 1888)
Most people have seen
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public., Edgar Watson Howe, US journalist (1853 1937)
Violence is the last r
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent., Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in Foundation, US science fiction novelist scholar (1920 1992)
Marriage is the only a
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Experience is a hard t
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards., Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff,
Always aim at complete
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
Curiosity is the key t
Curiosity is the key to creativity., Akio Morita, Made in Japan (1986), Japanese electronics industrialist (1921 )
We need never be asham
We need never be ashamed of our tears., Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, English novelist (1812 1870)
Cruelty is like hope:
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal., Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998),
Kill one man, and you
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god., Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939), (1894 1977)
Crime is naught but mi
Crime is naught but misdirected energy., Emma Goldman, Anarchism (1910), US (Lithuanianborn) anarchist (1869 1940)
Punishment is not for
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal., Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry,
Nurture your mind with
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
He that first cries ou
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure., William Congreve, Love for Love (1695), English dramatist (1670 1729)
Cowardly dogs bark lou
Cowardly dogs bark loudest., John Webster, The White Devil (1612), English dramatist (1580 1625)
Courage mounteth with
Courage mounteth with occasion., William Shakespeare, King John, II.i, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The important thing wh
The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it., Michael Howard, The Observer (1980),
I count him braver who
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies., Aristotle, In Stobaeus, Florilegium, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Speech is human, silen
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
Dive into the sea of t
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price., Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael,
Why is it drug addicts
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?, Clifford Stoll,
Compassion and love ar
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species., Dalai Lama, The Times (1999),
The best coffee in Eur
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty., Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Disinterested intellec
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization., G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942), British historian (1876 1962)
It is so stupid of mod
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it., Ronald Knox,
The more rapidly a civ
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place., Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, English sexual psychologist (1859 1939)
Civilization degrades
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few., Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877), US educator Transcendentalist (1799 1888)
Think like a man of ac
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought., Henri Bergson, French author, mystic, philosopher (1859 1941)
Civilization is a meth
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men., Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933), US social worker, sociologist, suffragist (1860 1935)
A wide screen just mak
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad., Samuel Goldwyn, US (Polishborn) movie producer (1882 1974)
Once there was The Peo
Once there was The People Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People it shall never be again!, Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917), British (Indianborn) author (1865 1936)
A positive attitude ma
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort., Herm Albright, (1876 1944)
Let no man imagine tha
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power., Henry George, US economist (1839 1897)
Every woman knows all
Every woman knows all about everything., Rudyard Kipling, The Eye of Allah (1926), British (Indianborn) author (1865 1936)
Funny how the new thin
Funny how the new things are the old things., Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909), British (Indianborn) author (1865 1936)
Curiosity was a form o
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind., John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18 1998,
Audacious ribald: your
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
If you would not be fo
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
The invariable mark of
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
It is the excitement o
It is the excitement of becoming always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again but always trying and always gaining..., Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Adress, January 20 1965, 36th president of US (1908 1973)
All great lovers are a
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction., Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman...on Love Relationships,
How terrible it is to
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it., Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC 406 BC)
We are all Greeks. Our
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece., Percy Bysshe Shelley,
What is a seer? A man
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there., Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955,
Of ten parts a man enj
Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart., Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3.6.7],
Real, constructive men
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going., Laurence J. Peter, US educator writer (1919 1988)
Faith, Hope, and Love
Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love., 1 Corinthians 13:00,00 1 Corinthians 13:13,
Life is simply the pur
Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for., David Van Boom,
The only thing worse t
The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won., Arthur Wellesley, Aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815., British general politician (1769 1852)
If you judge people, y
If you judge people, you have no time to love them., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
Ten thousand fools pro
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
He who neglects to dri
He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance., Ling Po, (Chinese, 701762),
To be an adult is to b
To be an adult is to be alone., Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a biologist (1939), (1894 1977)
You know, of course, t
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct., William Somerset Maugham, The BreadWinner,
Better shun the bait,
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
Being another characte
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself., Sir John Gielgud,
To ask advice is in ni
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery., John Churton Collins,
Adventure must be held
Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp., Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924),
I hate middle age. Too
I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy., Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series,
We rarely think people
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678), French author moralist (1613 1680)
Work while you have th
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
History teaches us tha
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives., Abba Eban, Israeli (S. Africanborn) diplomat politician (1915 2002)
The angry man always t
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can., Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolationis,
Animals are always loy
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are., Christina Foyle, The Times (1993),
Beware the fury of a p
Beware the fury of a patient man., John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
It is a good rule in l
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them., P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914), British humorist novelist in US (1881 1975)
Arguments out of a pre
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable., Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
The Lord prefers commo
The Lord prefers commonlooking people. That is why he makes so many of them., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
It takes in reality on
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion., William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919), English author Anglican prelate (1860 1954)
To the accountants, a
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall., Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993),
I say that good painte
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it., Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613), Spanish adventurer, author, poet (1547 1616)
Put yourself on view.
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light., Baltasar Gracian,
Outside every fat man
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in., Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963), English author humorist (1922 )
Beauty is handed out a
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward., John Mortimer, The Observer (1999),
The absence of flaw in
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw., Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914), English sexual psychologist (1859 1939)
Men generally believe
Men generally believe what they wish., Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico,
Unless you believe, yo
Unless you believe, you will not understand., Saint Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
The future depends on
The future depends on what we do in the present., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
Where would this count
Where would this country be without this great land of ours?, Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 2004)
The more the fruits of
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief., Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Austrian psychologist (1856 1939)
For that which is born
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable., Bhagavad Gita, (250 BC 250 AD)
I came upstairs into t
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar., William Congreve, Love for Love (1695), English dramatist (1670 1729)
I wanted to be bored t
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any., Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956),
There is no such thing
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person., G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905), English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
I prefer complexity to
I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts., Claude T. Bissell,
The only certainty is
The only certainty is that nothing is certain., Pliny the Elder, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
But in this world noth
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes., Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789), US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Change is inevitable.
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant., Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867), British politician (1804 1881)
They must often change
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom., Confucius, Analects, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
The issues are the sam
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly., Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987),
The more things change
The more things change the more they remain the same., Alphonse Karr, Les Guępes,
You cannot step twice
You cannot step twice into the same river., Heraclitus, In Plato, Cratylus, Greek philosopher (540 BC 480 BC)
There is nothing in th
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy., Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709), Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)
Things do not change w
Things do not change we change., Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970), US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Every man has three ch
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has., Alphonse Karr,
Whatever you are by na
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
The living need charit
The living need charity more than the dead., George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866),
In charity there is no
In charity there is no excess., Sir Francis Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625), English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
The man who leaves mon
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him., Voltaire, Letter (1769), French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
It was no wonder that
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children., Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963), English author humorist (1922 )
I love children espec
I love children especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away., Nancy Mitford,
Remember that as a tee
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, Social Studies (1981), US writer and humorist (1950 )
It is only rarely that
It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman., Alexandre Dumas, French dramatist novelist (1802 1870)
Toil to make yourself
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Children sweeten labou
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter., Francis Bacon, Essays (1625),
Cannibals prefer those
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines., Stanislaw Lem, Holiday, 1963, Polish science fiction author (1921 )
As a matter of princip
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything., George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
Some national parks ha
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong., George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
Do not speak of your h
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself., Plutarch, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
Adults are just obsole
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them., Dr. Seuss, US author illustrator (1904 1991)
Man is equally incapab
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)
Mediocrity knows nothi
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
It is a profitable thi
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish., Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC 456 BC)
There are people who t
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible., Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742 1799)
Idealism is what prece
Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows., David T. Wolf, (1943 )
With most men, unbelie
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another., Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742 1799)
It is not enough to do
It is not enough to do good one must do it the right way., John Viscount Morley, of Blackburn,
A wise man will make m
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
What the world needs i
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left., Oscar Levant, (1906 1972)
You must not think me
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
Procrastination is the
Procrastination is the thief of time., Edward Young, English poet (1683 1765)
The only really good p
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 of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes., Dave Barry, The Taming of the Screw, US columnist humorist (1947 )
Electricity is actuall
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking., Dave Barry, The Taming of the Screw, US columnist humorist (1947 )
You never know till yo
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, US abolitionist clergyman (1813 1887)
The great masses of th
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one., Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator, orator, politician (1889 1945)
Faith is, at one and t
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible., Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction author (1921 )
Advice to writers: Som
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin., Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, Polish writer (1909 1966)
There are grammatical
There are grammatical errors even in his silence., Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, Polish writer (1909 1966)
The first condition of
The first condition of immortality is death., Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, Polish writer (1909 1966)
All is in the hands of
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often., Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, Polish writer (1909 1966)
Channeling is just bad
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving., Penn Jillette, US magician showman (1955 )
America believes in ed
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week., Evan Esar, American Humorist (1899 1995)
Most new books are for
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them., Evan Esar, American Humorist (1899 1995)
Never tell a man you c
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas., Marchioness Townsend,
The saying Getting the
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines., Henry J. Tillman,
The little reed, bendi
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
My kids can do whateve
My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line., Steven Bernstein, Interview,
War is hell, and I mea
War is hell, and I mean to make it so., William Tecumseh Sherman,
In the end, our societ
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy., John C. Sawhill,
History is the version
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon., Napoleon Bonaparte, French general politician (1769 1821)
Courage is fear that h
Courage is fear that has said its prayers., Dorothy Bernard,
Reality continues to r
Reality continues to ruin my life., Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, US cartoonist (1958 )
Everyone has his day a
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others., Winston Churchill,
Too often the strong s
Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent., Winston Churchill,
Many go fishing withou
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after., Henry David Thoreau, ?, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
You will never be alon
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket., John Adams, Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography John Adams by David McCullough (p. 19), US diplomat politician (1735 1826)
All great lovers are a
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction., Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman...on Love Relationships,
A man of genius makes
A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery., James Joyce, Irish author (1882 1941)
One of the many major
One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people., Douglas Adams, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
Therefore search and s
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity., Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher physician (1875 1965)
Nothing great was ever
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
From what we get, we c
From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life., Arthur Ashe,
A man travels the worl
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it., George Moore,
No one can be right al
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time., Robert Half,
The trees that are slo
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit., Moliere, French actor comic dramatist (1622 1673)
Laughing is the sensat
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot., Josh Billings, US Humorist (1818 1885)
Small opportunities ar
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises., Demosthenes, Greek orator politician in Athens (384 BC 322 BC)
If you wish me to weep
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself., Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Management is nothing
Management is nothing more than motivating other people., Lee Iacocca, US automobile businessman (1924 )
The time to repair the
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
When I think of talkin
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?, Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
Acceptance is such an
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
The simple solution fo
The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
The more severe the pa
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
To use fear as the fri
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is herewith its gift of energy and heightened awarenessso we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
You desire to know the
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
If our early lessons o
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
Many people weigh the
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
Guilt is anger directe
Guilt is anger directed at ourselvesat what we did or did not do., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
Resentment is anger di
Resentment is anger directed at othersat what they did or did not do., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
To avoid situations in
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all., Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
Mistakes, obviously, s
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?, Peter McWilliams, Life 101,
Many would be cowards
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough., Thomas Fuller, English clergyman historian (1608 1661)
Fanaticism consists in
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim., George Santayana, Life of Reason 1905 vol. 1 Introduction, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
Some have been thought
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away., Thomas Fuller, English clergyman historian (1608 1661)
The truth that many pe
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt., Thomas Merton, US religious author, clergyman, Trappist monk (1915 1968)
Against criticism a ma
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
The ultimate result of
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools., Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (1820 1903)
Much of the social his
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area crime, education, housing, race relations the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them., Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993, (1930 )
Much of the social his
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good., Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993, (1930 )
Last year I went fishi
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish., Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 )
To know even one life
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Anyone who clings to t
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms., Robert Heinlein, US science fiction author (1907 1988)
Either define the mome
Either define the moment or the moment will define you., Walt Whitman, US poet (1819 1892)
Between two groups of
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men., Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
I can honestly say to
I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School., Frank Sinatra, US actor singer (1915 1998)
There is only one corn
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner., Aldous Huxley, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
My philosophy, in esse
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute., Ayn Rand, US (Russianborn) novelist (1905 1982)
Men have been taught t
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone., Ayn Rand, US (Russianborn) novelist (1905 1982)
I chose and my word wa
I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken — the choosing was not. Just keep moving on..., Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Act 2,
For the villainy of th
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him., Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3, German Communist dramatist (1898 1956)
The illegal we do imme
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer., Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28 1973, US (Germanborn) diplomat scholar (1923 )
Gratitude is born in h
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies., Charles E. Jefferson, (1860 1937)
A great secret of succ
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up., Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher physician (1875 1965)
The supreme irony of l
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive., Robert Heinlein, Job, 1984, US science fiction author (1907 1988)
Sometimes I lie awake
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night., Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in Peanuts, US cartoonist (1922 2000)
Life is lighter than a
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain., Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time,
Oh would some power th
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us, Robert Burns, To A Louse, Scottish national poet (1759 1796)
The glory of a good ta
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way., Steven King, The Stand,
How exquisite that gaz
How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony., Leopold von SacherMasoch, Venus in Furs,
When a man cannot choo
When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man., Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, British composer novelist (1917 1993)
Computers are incredib
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Two people do not have
Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime., Paul Williams, Das Energi,
When you learn how to
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live., Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie,
They know enough who k
They know enough who know how to learn., Hendry Adams,
There are three princi
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain., Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800,
The sum of all human w
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope., Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo,
Friendship is the hard
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 meaning of friendship, you haven’t really learned anything., Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald,
Pressure? This is just
Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure., Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football),
The trouble with leavi
The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off., Ringo Starr,
Television is the firs
Television is the first truly democratic culture the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want., Clive Barnes,
When a stupid man is d
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty., George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
First they came for th
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 Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me., Martin Niemoeller,
Two roads diverged in
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference., Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, US poet (1874 1963)
If you wish success in
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius., Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
Say nothing of my reli
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 has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
In heaven all the inte
In heaven all the interesting people are missing., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
The First Amendment is
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech., Justice Anthony Kennedy, US jurist (1936 )
Men fear thought as th
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Great spirits have alw
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly., Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13 1940, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
There are people who s
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
It is better to deserv
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
The fact that man know
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot., Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906), US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
I went to the woods be
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 learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived., Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
This world is given as
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come., Frederick William Robertson,
History is the short t
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom., Leonard Louis Levinson,
Humor is the great thi
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
It was enough to make
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race., Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
It was the best of tim
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only., Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, English novelist (1812 1870)
His house was perfect,
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or storytelling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all., J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
To err is human, to fo
To err is human, to forgive divine., Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, English poet satirist (1688 1744)
It is a far, far bette
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known., Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, English novelist (1812 1870)
Selfishness is not liv
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Try not to become a ma
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
If a dog jumps in your
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer., Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician philosopher (1861 1947)
To be nobodybutyoursel
To be nobodybutyourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting., e e cummings, US poet (1894 1962)
When a true genius app
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, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)
Do not do unto others
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
When I do good, I feel
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion., Abraham Lincoln, (attributed), 16th president of US (1809 1865)
True philosophy invent
True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is., Victor Cousin, French philosopher (1792 1867)
I am a man: I hold tha
I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
Truth often suffers mo
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers., William Penn, English religious leader and colonist (1644 1718)
If an injury has to be
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared., Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
Always bear in mind th
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
No one can make you fe
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
No amount of artificia
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals., Henry P. Fairchild,
God bless thee and put
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!, William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
And since you know you
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The trust I have is in
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Thou shalt be both the
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
If any man wish to wri
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
I hate ingratitude mor
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The peace of heaven is
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Be great in act, as yo
Be great in act, as you have been in thought., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I am not bound to plea
I am not bound to please thee with my answers., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
It was once said that
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped., Hubert H. Humphrey, US politician (1911 1978)
Public confidence in t
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for., Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., US diplomat Democratic politician (1900 1965)
Grief is the agony of
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
A wretched soul, bruis
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 much or more we should ourselves complain., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The surest way to corr
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently., Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, Sec. 297, German philosopher (1844 1900)
Conversation should be
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Say not, when I have l
Say not, when I have leisure I will study you may not have leisure., The Mishnah,
Civilization begins wi
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos., Will Durant, US historian (1885 1981)
The more minimal the a
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation., Hilton Kramer,
Natural abilities are
Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Think it the greatest
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living., Juvenal, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
Do not fight verbosity
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few., Moralia,
Without an adversary p
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Of writing well the so
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking., Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Ready tears are a sign
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
To someone seeking pow
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful., Sallust, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
Men decide far more pr
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
The name of peace is s
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
A man whose life has b
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death., Lucius Accius, (170 BC 86 BC)
To have respect for ou
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners., Lawrence Sterne, Irish novelist satirist (1713 1768)
Repentance may begin i
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years., Henry Ward Beecher, US abolitionist clergyman (1813 1887)
There is an art of whi
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?, William Hart Coleridge,
When we would prepare
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
I pray you bear me hen
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I conceive the essenti
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind. , Robert Millikan, US physicist (1868 1953)
Property left to a chi
Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtuea good name an unblemished reputationwill abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last., William Graham Sumner, US economist sociologist (1840 1910)
The principles now pla
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell., David Thomas,
What a mistake to supp
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life., Edward BulwerLytton, English dramatist, novelist, politician (1803 1873)
How sweet and soothing
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this., Lord Byron, English poet satirist (1788 1824)
Modern Man is the vict
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in selfunderstanding and selfdiscipline., Lewis Mumford, US architect sociologist (1895 1990)
It violates right orde
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wageearning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good., Pope Pius XI, Italian scholar pope 19221939 (1857 1939)
The good devout man fi
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself., Thomas a Kempis, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
Who overcomes by force
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe., John Milton, English poet (1608 1674)
But O the truth, the t
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see., George Meredith, English novelist poet (1828 1909)
Presumption means noth
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is., Sir William Draper,
The conscience of a pe
The conscience of a people is their power., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
An act against my will
An act against my will is not my act., Unknown, Legal Maxim, Quotations by unknown authors )
Nothing is more wretch
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
The wise are instructe
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
He is not deemed to gi
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake., Unknown, Latin Legal Phrase, Quotations by unknown authors )
Human nature constitut
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case., Elisha Potter,
Be mild with the mild,
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity., John Brown,
There was never anythi
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted., Book of Common Prayer,
One man may hit the ma
One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born., Antoine de SaintExupery, French writer (1900 1944)
I thought ten thousand
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone., Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
He who has injured the
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
To all, to each, a fai
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light., Sir Walter Scott, Scottish author novelist (1771 1832)
Conscience and reputat
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour., Saint Augustine, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
I submit that an indiv
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Men keep agreements wh
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them., Solon, Greek lawgiver politician in Athens (638 BC 559 BC)
Advice is judged by re
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
If you can react the s
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life., Chris Evert, US tennis player (1954 )
Forming characters! Wh
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence., Elihu Burritt,
Overlook our deeds, si
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Cease, every joy, to g
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leaveoh! leave the light of Hope behind., Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (1777 1844)
Glory built on selfish
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt., William Cowper, English poet translator (1731 1800)
Cowards are cruel, but
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save., John Gay, English dramatist, librettist, poet (1685 1732)
When we are born, we c
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
His life was gentle an
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, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
So may he rest, his fa
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!, William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Avoid the crowd. Do yo
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece., Ralph Charell,
So long as thou are ig
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies., Izaak Walton, English biographer fishing author (1593 1683)
Have the courage to be
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
Assume a virtue, if yo
Assume a virtue, if you have it not., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Tis the witching hour
Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they?, John Keats, English lyric poet (1795 1821)
She is not fair to out
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light., Hartley Coleridge,
Let us, then be up and
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (1807 1882)
The shortest and sures
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
There is a demand in t
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
I pray thee cease thy
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Art may make a suit of
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man. , David Hume, Scottish historian philosopher (1711 1776)
I have found you an ar
I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding., James Boswell, Scottish author biographer (1740 1795)
Remember thisthat ther
Remember thisthat there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
Thou art all the comfo
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I must be cruel only t
I must be cruel only to be kind Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
For they are yet earki
For they are yet earkissing arguments., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Let arms give place to
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
People vote their rese
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something., William Bennet Munro,
Talk not of wasted aff
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (1807 1882)
You must lose a fly to
You must lose a fly to catch a trout., George Herbert, English clergyman metaphysical poet (1593 1633)
Thy words, I grant are
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Nothing is so dangerou
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend A wise enemy is worth more., Jean De la Fontaine, French poet (1621 1695)
Knowledge is essential
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment., Anne Besant, English social reformer mystic in India (1847 1933)
Discourtesy does not s
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from severalfrom foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy., Jean de la Bruyere, French moralist (1645 1696)
Nay, tempt me not to l
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again., Sir Thomas More, English author, courtier, humanist, saint (1478 1535)
What though the radian
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flowerGrief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind., William Wordsworth, English poet (1770 1850)
It is not growing like
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be., Benjamin Johnson,
Sick I am of idle word
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel., George Du Maurier, British artist, cartoonist, novelist (1834 1896)
I find the great thing
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving., Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
Buy on the rumor sell
Buy on the rumor sell on the news., Wall Street Proverb,
Words without actions
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism., Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer politician (1874 1964)
Education is like a do
Education is like a doubleedged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled., Wu TingFang,
A politician thinks of
A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation., James Clarke, US politician (1854 1916)
Never leave that till
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
It is light grief that
It is light grief that
Few are agreeable in c
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
You add insult to inju
You add insult to injury. (Injuriae Addis Contumeliam), Anonymous,
There are no thanks fo
There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed., Anonymous,
Speak clearly, if you
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall., Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
They envy the distinct
They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it., Sallust, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
I am a man, and whatev
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
Nothing deters a good
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Let your desires be ru
Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat), Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
By courage I repel adv
By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello), Anonymous,
May no portent of evil
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say., Anonymous,
The man who has receiv
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, Greek orator politician in Athens (384 BC 322 BC)
The sufferings that fa
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage., Thucydides, Greek historian (471 BC 400 BC)
The mind ought sometim
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking., Phaedrus, Roman author of fables (15 BC 50 AD)
He who blinded by ambi
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss., Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
First learn the meanin
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
To harken to evil conv
To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam), Anonymous,
Rest assured that ther
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed., Moliere, French actor comic dramatist (1622 1673)
Not to know what has b
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 world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Unity in things necess
Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything., Anonymous,
It does not prove a th
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so., Friedrich von Schiller, German dramatist poet (1759 1805)
Dare to be wise. (Sape
Dare to be wise. (Sapere Aude), Anonymous,
Music like religion, u
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy., Jean Baptiste Montegut,
The character of a man
The character of a man is known from his conversations., Menander, Greek comic dramatist (342 BC 292 BC)
Readiness of speech is
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue., Jean Baptiste Rousseau,
You do not need to lea
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet., Franz Kafka, Austrian (Czechoslovakianborn) author (1883 1924)
Comments are free but
Comments are free but facts are sacred., Charles Prestwich Scott,
Taxation without repre
Taxation without representation is tyranny., James Otis, US politician in American Revolution (1725 1783)
History is a voice for
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity., James A. Forude,
Praising what is lost
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
If you are idle, be no
If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Merely corroborative d
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative., W. S. Gilbert, English librettist writer of comic operettas (1836 1911)
He is not only dull hi
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others., Samuel Foote, English actor dramatist (1720 1777)
My mind to me a kingdo
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss., Sir Edward Dyer,
We must beat the iron
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
But far more numerous
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
Property has its dutie
Property has its duties as well as its rights., Thomas Brummond,
With affection beaming
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other., Charles Dickens, English novelist (1812 1870)
Mine honour is my life
Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
History is philosophy
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology., James A. Garfield, US general politician (1831 1881)
For the sword outwears
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest., Lord Byron, English poet satirist (1788 1824)
The object of governme
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man., Lord William Beveridge, English economist (1879 1963)
No man is demolished b
No man is demolished but by himself., Richard Bently,
In what concerns you m
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
In necessary things, u
In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity., Richard Baxter, English author Puritan (1615 1691)
Hear the other side. (
Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram), Saint Augustine, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
Few men have virtue to
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder., George Washington, First president of US (1732 1799)
Do not speak of your h
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself., Plutarch, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
I am more and more con
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves., Wilhelm von Humboldt, German diplomat philologist (1767 1835)
Grow old along with me
Grow old along with me the best is yet to be., Robert Browning, English poet (1812 1889)
Lady you bereft me of
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I wish you well and so
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
So many men so many qu
So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae), Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
Happy the man, and hap
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 lived today., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
In early childhood you
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe., Lydia Sigourney,
No government can be l
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
We must, however, ackn
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin., Charles Darwin, English biologist (1809 1882)
I beseech you, in the
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken., Oliver Cromwell, English general politician (1599 1658)
He who allows himself
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be., Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (1606 1684)
All ambitions are lawf
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind., William Congreve, English dramatist (1670 1729)
Put duties aside at le
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax., Dianne Hales,
Hegel was right when h
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Everything has its bea
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
What the superior man
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others. , Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
The welfare of the peo
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex), Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Mistake not. Those ple
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life., Jeremy Taylor, English prelate (1613 1667)
How use doth breed a h
How use doth breed a habit in a man., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Hence it is clear how
Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. (Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet), Robert Burton, English author, clergyman, scholar (1577 1640)
Let us determine to di
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer., Barnard Elliot Bee,
One of the greatest pa
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)
So long as little chil
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world., Isodore Duncan,
Better to get up late
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day., Anonymous,
The habit of common an
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)
A man may learn wisdom
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe., Aristophanes, Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC 388 BC)
The voice of the peopl
The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox Populi, Vox Dei), Alcuin, AngloSaxon mathematician scholar (732 AD 804 AD)
Let them hate so long
Let them hate so long as they fear. (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, Fragment, (170 BC 86 BC)
The use of force alone
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered., Gelett Burgess, US humorist illustrator (1866 1951)
Boredom is a sign of s
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character., James Bridie,
A precedent embalms a
A precedent embalms a principle., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
The angry man always t
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can., Albertano of Brescia,
An orator is a man who
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says., William Jennings Bryan, US lawyer, orator, politician (1860 1925)
To see a world in a Gr
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, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
I show you doubt, to p
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists., Robert Browning, English poet (1812 1889)
No bird soars too high
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings., William Blake, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
The important thing is
The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience., Roderic Owen,
Better to remain silen
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Reading is sometimes a
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought., Sir Arthur Helps,
True glory consists in
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it., Pliny The Elder, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
The difference of race
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
A really great man is
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success., Otto von Bismarck, German Prussian politician (1815 1898)
The man who backbites
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
It is bad to be oppre
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 in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason., Lord Acton,
The great and invigora
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think., William O. Douglas, US jurist (1898 1980)
The proposition that t
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body., John Adams, US diplomat politician (1735 1826)
Leisure is the mother
Leisure is the mother of philosophy., Thomas Hobbes, English political philosopher (1588 1679)
Nearly all legislation
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values., Louis D. Brandeis, US jurist (1856 1941)
Enjoy present pleasure
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Peace is not an absenc
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice., Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 1677)
The deepest sin agains
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
A happy life consists
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Believe nothing agains
Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it., William Penn, English religious leader and colonist (1644 1718)
The way to combat noxi
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth., William O. Douglas, US jurist (1898 1980)
I am a firm believer i
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
All men have an equal
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods., Victor Cousin, French philosopher (1792 1867)
Consistency is the qua
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind., John Sloan, US painter (1871 1951)
There is a wide differ
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Toward no crime have m
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so coldbloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief., James R. Lowell, US diplomat, essayist, poet (1819 1891)
Ill deeds are doubled
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
It is forbidden to dec
It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour., Asoka, king of India 272BC?232BC? (200 BC 232 BC)
The ideals which have
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
A lost battle is a bat
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost., Ferdinand Foch, French general (1851 1929)
Have patience awhile s
Have patience awhile slanders are not longlived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee., Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724 1804)
If you wish to know wh
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority., Yugoslav Proverb,
The man who prefers hi
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority., Lord Acton,
The best effect of any
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to selfactivity., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
Reading is to the mind
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body., Sir Richard Steele,
Books are hindrances t
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity., Spanish Proverb,
A good book is the bes
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever., Martin Fraquhar Tupper,
You despise books you
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
True gentleness is fou
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle., Hugh Blair,
How many a man has dat
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Tis the good reader th
Tis the good reader that makes the good book., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Without words, without
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity., Hermann Hesse, Swiss (Germanborn) author (1877 1962)
The price good men pay
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
We cannot change anyth
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
If we say a little it
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success., Francis Saint De Sales, French saint bishop of Geneva (1567 1622)
No man has the right t
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit., Ansel Adams, US nature photographer (1902 1984)
A weak man has doubts
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards., Karl Kraus, Austrian author and journalist (1874 1936)
There are risks and co
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the longrange risks and costs of comfortable inaction., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
Whoever is open, loyal
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
It is not enough to he
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
It is an error to imag
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
In human life, art may
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth., Susanne Langer, US educator philosopher (1895 1985)
The reading of all goo
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts., Rene Descartes, French mathematician philosopher (1596 1650)
The history of the hum
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed., Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724 1804)
The soul of this man i
The soul of this man is in his clothes., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Fashion is the science
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
Perfection of moral vi
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them., Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian saint theologian (1225 1274)
Experience teaches onl
Experience teaches only the teachable., Aldous Huxley, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Justice is the end of
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, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful., Alexander Hamilton, US (Scottishborn) lawyer politician (1755 1804)
Give me the liberty to
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties., John Milton, English poet (1608 1674)
Mistrust the man who f
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything., Johann K. Lavater,
Liberty means responsi
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Falsehood often lurks
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by selfpraise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others., Arnold Bennett,
There are some duties
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Under a government whi
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Justice is a contract
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed., Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341 BC 270 BC)
Laws are partly formed
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, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
In the state of nature
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law., Charles de Montesquieu, French lawyer philosopher (1689 1755)
We are obliged to resp
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Let us have a care not
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us., Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (1584 1616)
Pity is the virtue of
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Only one absolute cert
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
The memory should be s
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten., Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 1860)
Neither can embellishm
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
There is no greater mi
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
When men exercise thei
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same., Alexander Hamilton, US (Scottishborn) lawyer politician (1755 1804)
Ignorance gives one a
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)
Ignorance is not innoc
Ignorance is not innocence but sin., Robert Browning, English poet (1812 1889)
Call no man foe, but n
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger., Stella Benson,
He who wonders discove
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder., M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (1898 1972)
You may deceive all th
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
There are many things
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
That there should one
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
He who tells a lie is
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 one., Alexander Pope, English poet satirist (1688 1744)
To give a satisfactory
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
There is no discipline
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction., John Dewey, US educator, Pragmatist philosopher, psychologist (1859 1952)
Knowledge, if it does
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us., Plotinus, Roman philosopher (205 AD 270 AD)
So it is with minds. U
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
The stream of thought
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures., William James, US Pragmatist philosopher psychologist (1842 1910)
Your face is a book, w
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Get away from the crow
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily., Arthur Brisbane,
Virtue and genuine gra
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
In so far as the mind
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
If one has no vanity i
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living., Leo Tolstoy, Russian mystic novelist (1828 1910)
To be feared is to fea
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
As soon as any man say
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost., Jean Jacques Rousseau, French political philosopher (1712 1778)
No beast is more savag
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage., Plutarch, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
Man...is a tame or civ
Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Where the speech is co
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is the spirit and n
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive., Earl Warren, US jurist politician (1891 1974)
When a thought is too
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it., Marquis de Vauvenargues,
Long ago we stated the
Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers., US Supreme Court,
Ignorance and inconsid
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind., John Tillotson, English prelate (1630 1694)
Who can protest and do
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act., The Talmud,
When men are brought f
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions., Walter Lippmann, US author journalist (1889 1974)
Opinion is ultimately
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect., Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (1820 1903)
Let me not be understo
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
How poor are they who
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
A person may cause evi
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury., John Stuart Mill, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
There are, in every ag
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Everything should be m
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler., Albert Einstein, (attributed), US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Opinions founded on pr
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence., Francis Jeffrey, Scottish critic jurist (1773 1850)
A good word is an easy
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing., John Tillotson, English prelate (1630 1694)
The foundation of ever
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth., Diogenes Laertius,
If our democracy is to
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent., Henry Commager, US historian (1902 )
All legislation, all g
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises., Henry Clay, US orator politician (1777 1852)
Irresponsible power is
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it., John Calhoun, US lawyer politician (1782 1850)
There can be no real i
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity., Chester Bowles, US diplomat economist (1901 1986)
Weary the path that do
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way., Hosea Ballou, US educator (1796 1861)
The whole history of c
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)
The law of liberty ten
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation., John Dalberg,
Eat before shopping. I
Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases., American Heart Association Cookbook,
Study the past if you
Study the past if you would define the future., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
Errors to be dangerous
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
A great many people th
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices., William James, US Pragmatist philosopher psychologist (1842 1910)
We should often be ash
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Take hope from the hea
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey., Quida,
Your ignorance, cramps
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation., Sir Anthony Hawkins, British dramatist novelist (1863 1933)
With most men, unbelie
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another., Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742 1799)
Let us consider the re
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason., Sir John Powell,
There is a measure in
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place., Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Man without religion i
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances., Augustus Hare,
He only employs his pa
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Read not to contradict
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
The worst solitude is
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Where there is much de
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making., John Milton, English poet (1608 1674)
They are never alone t
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts., Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, politician, soldier (1554 1586)
In silence man can mos
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity., Meister Eckhart,
Sow good services swee
Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow them., Madame de Stael, French author (1766 1817)
A thing is not proved
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone., Denis Diderot, French author, encyclopedist, philosopher (1713 1784)
The worst derangement
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are., Jacques Bossuet, French author bishop (1627 1704)
The same refinement wh
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains., Edward BulwerLytton, English dramatist, novelist, politician (1803 1873)
Clarity of mind means
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)
A cheerful mind is a v
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind., Jean De la Fontaine, French poet (1621 1695)
When you are obliged t
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable., Paul De Gondi,
Why has government bee
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint., Alexander Hamilton, US (Scottishborn) lawyer politician (1755 1804)
The recipe for perpetu
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge., Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 1915)
He that lives upon hop
He that lives upon hope will die fasting., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Underlying the whole s
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future., Bourke Cockran,
Dedicate some of your
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end., Dr. Thomas Dooley,
We do not keep the out
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Abundance of knowledge
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise., Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (540 BC 480 BC)
Teachers open the door
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself., Chinese Proverb,
Never to suffer would
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed., Edgar Allan Poe, US short story author, editor, poet (1809 1849)
If it were not for inj
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice., Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (540 BC 480 BC)
As a general rule the
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
Learn to limit yoursel
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
Nonsense and noise wil
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail., William Lloyd,
Individuals may form c
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
I repeat...that all po
I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
A man is not idle beca
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
Noise is the most impe
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought., Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 1860)
One can acquire everyt
One can acquire everything in solitude except character., Marie Henri Beyle, French biographer novelist (1783 1842)
When you have nothing
When you have nothing to say, say nothing., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
I expect to pass throu
I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again., Ettiene De Grellet,
Necessity is the plea
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves., William Pitt,
To judge the real impo
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce., Peter de Gaston Levis,
It is not true that eq
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence., Marquis de Vauvenargues,
Where all think alike,
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much., Walter Lippmann, US author journalist (1889 1974)
The reason we have two
The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less., Zeno, Greek philosopher (335 BC 264 BC)
If you consider what a
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation., Xenophon, Greek general historian (434 BC 355 BC)
Great is truth, and al
Great is truth, and all powerful., Vulgate,
Behold the man. (Ecce
Behold the man. (Ecce Homo), Vulgate,
In quarrels such as th
In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene., Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
He who hesitates is no
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
In a free state there
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought., Tiberius, Roman emperor 014037 general (42 BC 37 AD)
Now begins a torrent o
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense., Theocritus of Chios, Greek poet (310 BC 250 BC)
The past is certain, t
The past is certain, the future obscure., Thales, Greek philosopher scientist (640 AD 546 AD)
O wise man, wash your
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies., Saadi, Persian poet (1184 1291)
There is always more s
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
The populace is like t
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
Men are slower to reco
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
Men are only clever at
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
Many difficulties whic
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
As soon as you trust y
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
In difficult and despe
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
I approach these quest
I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
Greater is our terror
Greater is our terror of the unknown., Titus Livius, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
Nature does not procee
Nature does not proceed by leaps., Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (1707 1778)
There is no place in n
There is no place in nature for extinction., Licretius,
Necessity has no law.,
Necessity has no law., William Langland, English poet (1332 1400)
He conquers who endure
He conquers who endures., Persius, Roman satirist (34 AD 62 AD)
Say what men may, it i
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect., William Thayer Shedd,
O human race born to f
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall., Dante Alighieri, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
The fact speak for the
The fact speak for themselves., Demosthenes, Greek orator politician in Athens (384 BC 322 BC)
All speech is vain and
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action., Demosthenes, Greek orator politician in Athens (384 BC 322 BC)
The beauty of a statue
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct., Demophilus,
Tis hard to fight with
Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control., Democritus, Greek philosopher (460 BC 370 BC)
The pride of youth is
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion., Democritus, Greek philosopher (460 BC 370 BC)
Our sins are more easi
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds., Democritus, Greek philosopher (460 BC 370 BC)
Modesty is the citadel
Modesty is the citadel of beauty., Demades,
To err is human. (Erra
To err is human. (Errare Humanum Est), Melchior De Polignac,
Ignorance of certain s
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom., Hugo De Groot, Dutch jurist politician (1583 1645)
Dignity and love do no
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Use what talents you p
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best., Henry Van Dyke,
The love of democracy
The love of democracy is that of equality., Charles de Montesquieu, French lawyer philosopher (1689 1755)
The sword of justice h
The sword of justice has no scabbard., Antione De Riveral,
As soon as you trust y
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
Pleasure and love are
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds., Charles Fox, English orator politician (1749 1806)
A dinner lubricates bu
A dinner lubricates business., Lord William Stowell,
We two are to ourselve
We two are to ourselves a crowd., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
The cause is hidden. T
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Tears at times have al
Tears at times have all the weight of speech., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Never lose sight of th
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement., Johann Georg von Zimmermann,
All things may corrupt
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Practice, the master o
Practice, the master of all things., Augustus Octavius,
No man is happy withou
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities., Christian Nestell Bovee,
In anger we should ref
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action., Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, philosopher, scientist (582 BC 507 BC)
Do not talk a little o
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few., Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, philosopher, scientist (582 BC 507 BC)
Choose rather to be st
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body., Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, philosopher, scientist (582 BC 507 BC)
In a heated argument w
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Custom is the great gu
Custom is the great guide of human life., David Hume, Scottish historian philosopher (1711 1776)
Only as you do know yo
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see., Bernard M. Baruch, US businessman politician (1870 1965)
Beauty in things exist
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them., David Hume, Scottish historian philosopher (1711 1776)
When we cannot hope to
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield., Quintilian, Roman rhetorician )
Though ambition itself
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues., Quintilian, Roman rhetorician )
Nothing can be pleasin
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming., Quintilian, Roman rhetorician )
Nature herself has nev
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly., Quintilian, Roman rhetorician )
A stern discipline per
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind., Edmund Spenser, English poet (1552 1599)
Liberty, equality bad
Liberty, equality bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
Eloquence is in the a
Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker., William Pitt,
Doubt whom you will, b
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself., Christine Bovee,
Educate your children
Educate your children to selfcontrol, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Wherever there is auth
Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience., Thomas Haliburton,
Difficulties strengthe
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Adversity is the trial
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not., Henry Fielding, English dramatist novelist (1707 1754)
The brightest crowns t
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation., Edward Chapin,
All sects are differen
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
The soul is the captai
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals., Sallust, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
If you really do put a
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price., Anonymous,
The human brain is a m
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity., Stuart Seaton,
The secret of a good l
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values., Norman Thomas, US socialist politician (1884 1968)
There is nothing so ea
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
You will find it a ver
You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir., Martin Routh,
Practice and thought m
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art., Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Look with favour upon
Look with favour upon a bold beginning., Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Your descendants shall
Your descendants shall gather your fruits., Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Only actions give life
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm., Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763 1825)
If you want to be resp
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself., Spanish Proverb,
Admonish thy friends i
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Never lose hope., Unkn
Never lose hope., Unknown, Polish Slogan, Quotations by unknown authors )
However often you may
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal., Pliny the Younger, Roman author politician (62 AD 114 AD)
No mortal man, moreove
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments., Pliny the Elder, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
From the end spring ne
From the end spring new beginnings., Pliny the Elder, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
Things we not hope for
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
The evil that we know
The evil that we know is best., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
Not every age is fit f
Not every age is fit for childish sports., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
It well becomes a youn
It well becomes a young man to be modest., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
Above all things, reve
Above all things, reverence yourself., Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, philosopher, scientist (582 BC 507 BC)
I am always afraid of
I am always afraid of your something shall be done., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
A word to the wise is
A word to the wise is enough., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
A contented mind is th
A contented mind is the best source for trouble., Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (254 BC 184 BC)
A large part of virtue
A large part of virtue consists in good habits., William Paley,
Where duty is plain, d
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety., Tryon Edwards, (1809 1894)
Ignorance, the root an
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Death is not the worst
Death is not the worst than can happen to men., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Sweet is war to those
Sweet is war to those who know it not., Pindar, Greek lyric poet (522 BC 443 BC)
As thou hast sown, so
As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap., Pinarius,
The secret of all succ
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing., R. D. Hitchcock,
He who hesitates is a
He who hesitates is a damned fool., Mae West, US movie actress (1892 1980)
There is danger in bot
There is danger in both belief and unbelief., Phaedrus, Roman author of fables (15 BC 50 AD)
The humble suffer when
The humble suffer when the mighty disagree., Phaedrus, Roman author of fables (15 BC 50 AD)
Men in however high a
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble., Phaedrus, Roman author of fables (15 BC 50 AD)
It is destruction to t
It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful., Phaedrus, Roman author of fables (15 BC 50 AD)
Aggression unchallenge
Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed., Phaedrus, Roman author of fables (15 BC 50 AD)
What power has law whe
What power has law where only money rules., Gaius Petronius, (~66 AD)
Freedom is a clear con
Freedom is a clear conscience., Periander,
His intelligence seize
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it., Paterculus,
Man perfected by socie
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Their understanding Be
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Small minds are much d
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Since wars begin in th
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed., Unknown, UNESCO Constitution, Quotations by unknown authors )
It is by no means self
It is by no means selfevident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state., Thomas Elliot,
Only passions, great p
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things., Denis Diderot, French author, encyclopedist, philosopher (1713 1784)
It is the mind which c
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched., George Gissing, English novelist (1857 1903)
Too little liberty bri
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
The test of every reli
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
He who spares the wick
He who spares the wicked injures the good., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Desultory reading is d
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Dangerous is wrath con
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Be silent as to servic
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Be not too hasty eithe
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgementseat of the Gods., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
As was his language so
As was his language so was his life., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
An unpopular rule is n
An unpopular rule is never long maintained., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
All art is an imitatio
All art is an imitation of nature., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
The higher your statio
The higher your station, the less your liberty., Sallust, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
Small communities grow
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord., Sallust, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
Few men desire liberty
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master., Sallust, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
If you reveal your sec
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees., Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
Before you act conside
Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act., Sallust, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
Man is an animal which
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires., Alexander Graham Bell, US (Scottishborn) inventor (1847 1922)
To know a man, observe
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
It is honourable to be
It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused., Latin Proverb,
A word is not a crysta
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 according to the circumstances and time in which it is used., Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US jurist (1841 1935)
Make wisdom your provi
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions., Bias,
It is better to unders
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
The greatest friend of
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
Truth is the secret of
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
Never trust a man who
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody., John Collins, US politician (1919 )
To do anything in this
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
Remember that lost tim
Remember that lost time does not return., Thomas a Kempis, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
The true teacher defen
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence., Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator Transcendentalist (1799 1888)
Just definitions eithe
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute., Nathaniel Emmons,
What is defeat? Nothin
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better., Wendell Phillips, US abolitionist (1811 1884)
No man, for any consid
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true., Nathaniel Hawthorne, US author (1804 1864)
How unhappy is he who
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
If we are bound to for
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him., Thomas Fuller, English clergyman historian (1608 1661)
Learning makes a man f
Learning makes a man fit company for himself., Thomas Fuller, English clergyman historian (1608 1661)
Touch the earth, love
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places., Ernest Dimnet,
Take calculated risks.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash., George S. Patton, US general (1885 1945)
The only kind of digni
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others., Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat (1905 1961)
Let not a man guard hi
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
It is more tolerable t
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Life without the coura
Life without the courage for death is slavery., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is easy to be brave
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
Absence, with all its
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away., James Thomson,
Deceivers are the most
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations., George Crabbe, English poet (1754 1832)
It is a great thing to
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
No race can prosper ti
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, US educator (1856 1915)
Our government is the
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example., Louis D. Brandeis, US jurist (1856 1941)
First weigh the consid
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks., Helmuth von Moltke, Prussian marshal (1800 1891)
It is worse still to b
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance., Saint Jerome, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
Refrain from doing ill
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved., Juvenal, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
Peace visits not the g
Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix), Juvenal, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
One path alone leads t
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue., Juvenal, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
A healthy mind in a he
A healthy mind in a healthy body., Juvenal, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
Quiet and sincere symp
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction., Tryon Edwards, (1809 1894)
Through faith man expe
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning., Leo Braeck,
When in doubt, do with
When in doubt, do without., Hofni Samuel,
If you want to be free
If you want to be free, there is but one way it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other., Carl Schurz, US (Germanborn) general politician (1829 1906)
The less their ability
The less their ability, the more their conceit., Ahad HaAm,
We cannot always build
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future., Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
It is the province of
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen., Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
I believe there are mo
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations., James Madison, 4th president of US (1751 1836)
Indeed the dictum that
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes., John Stuart Mill, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
In order that all men
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Our test of truth is a
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view., Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US jurist (1841 1935)
Men can know more than
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions., Walter Lippmann, US author journalist (1889 1974)
Segregation is the adu
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Selfpity is our worst
Selfpity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
We should be eternally
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe., Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US jurist (1841 1935)
Who has a harder fight
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself., Thomas a Kempis, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
Of two evils we must a
Of two evils we must always choose the least., Thomas a Kempis, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
The sword the body wou
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind., Menander, Greek comic dramatist (342 BC 292 BC)
Let bravery be thy cho
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado., Menander, Greek comic dramatist (342 BC 292 BC)
Culture makes all men
Culture makes all men gentle., Menander, Greek comic dramatist (342 BC 292 BC)
The virtuous man is ne
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things., Marcus Valerius Martialis, (40 AD 103 AD)
When we are born we di
When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning., Manilius, Roman politician (~1 BC)
Even pleasure itself i
Even pleasure itself is a toil., Manilius, Roman politician (~1 BC)
Good laws have their o
Good laws have their origins in bad morals., Ambrosius Macrobius,
Physical deformity, ca
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance., Clarence Darrow, US defense lawyer (1857 1938)
Men are generally more
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children., William Penn, English religious leader and colonist (1644 1718)
May you live all the d
May you live all the days of your life., Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)
You (God) have not onl
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love., Saint Augustine, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
The idle mind knows no
The idle mind knows not what it wants., Ennius,
Your very silence show
Your very silence shows you agree., Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC 406 BC)
Short is the joy that
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings., Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC 406 BC)
Circumstances rule men
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances., Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC 406 BC)
The pleasures which we
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight., Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, philosopher, scholar (1466 1536)
When you are right you
When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative., Martin Luther King Jr., US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
He who can, does. He w
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
I was walking down the
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out., Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 )
Judgement, not passion
Judgement, not passion should prevail., Epicharmus,
It is right to be cont
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are., Sir James MacKintosh,
The true civilization
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself., Robert Ingersoll, US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, orator (1833 1899)
I make the most of all
I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes., Sara Teasdale, US poet (1884 1933)
Freedom is not worth h
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
The test of courage co
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,
To a quick question, g
To a quick question, give a slow answer., Italian Proverb,
The best way to realiz
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have., Edward Clarke,
A good scare is worth
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice., Anonymous,
Nothing emboldens sin
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Cowardice asks: Is it
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?, William Punshon,
Conscience is the perf
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life., Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (1886 1968)
If a man will begin wi
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 certainties., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Be rich to yourself an
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends., Juvenal, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
I have taken all knowl
I have taken all knowledge to by my province., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Do not speak quickly i
Do not speak quickly it is a sign of insanity., Bias,
Knowledge is power. (I
Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est), Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrć. De Hćresibus. (1597), English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
He of whom many are af
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
By far the best proof
By far the best proof is experience., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Love looks not with th
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Beware the man of one
Beware the man of one book., Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian saint theologian (1225 1274)
If you would be wealth
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Truth is the mother of
Truth is the mother of hatred., Ausonius,
Things that we hear pa
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read., Ausonius,
He who does not know h
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak., Ausonius,
To perceive is to suff
To perceive is to suffer., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Law is mind without re
Law is mind without reason., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
It is in justice that
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Where you find the law
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice., Arcesilaus,
He is the better equip
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry., Apuleius, Roman philosopher, rhetorician, satirist (124 AD 170 AD)
The drug that heals ou
The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness., Appianus,
Our country, right or
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right., Carl Schurz, US (Germanborn) general politician (1829 1906)
If a little knowledge
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
An error is the more d
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
Education has for its
Education has for its object the formation of character., Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (1820 1903)
Nature never makes any
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it., Archibald Alexander,
Man can learn nothing
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown., Claude Bernard, French physiologist (1813 1878)
With reasonable men I
With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost., William Lloyd Garrison, US abolitionist editor (1805 1879)
The harebrained chatte
The harebrained chatter of irresponsible frivolity., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
From the beginning of
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles., Charles Sumner, US abolitionist politician (1811 1874)
Live well. It is the g
Live well. It is the greatest revenge., The Talmud,
In the modern world th
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress., Charles W. Eliot, US educator (1834 1926)
War is delightful to t
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it., Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, philosopher, scholar (1466 1536)
One voice can enter te
One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear., Leone Levi,
Man has six organs to
Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot., Leone Levi,
The idea of legally es
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin., George Jellinek,
Unless a life is activ
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair., Richard Guggenheimer,
A law is something whi
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey., Chaim Weizmann, BritishIsraeli chemist Zionist leader (1874 1952)
To be intelligent is t
To be intelligent is to be openminded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental., Leopold Stein,
No important instituti
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence., Harold Laki,
That is the true seaso
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
It is folly to punish
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
To listen closely and
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Conversation is an art
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Do no dishonour to the
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man., Henry Beston,
We rarely confide in t
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
People seem not to see
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
No man can sit down an
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence., Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 1924)
In the arena of human
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
In taking revenge, a m
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
You cram these words i
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Ignorance never settle
Ignorance never settles a question., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
There are many fine id
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them., Peretz Smolenskin,
Only he is free who cu
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them., Berthold Auerbach, German novelist (1812 1882)
Equality...is the resu
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal., Hannah Arendt, US (Germanborn) historian social philosopher (1906 1975)
Man is free in his ima
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason., Israel Lipkin,
Civilization is built
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice., Max Nordau, German author, physician, Zionist (1849 1923)
Reprimand not a child
Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity., Moses Hasid,
The most beautiful as
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man., Erich Fromm, US (Germanborn) psychologist (1900 1980)
Next to knowing when t
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
Though force can prote
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
Ethical axioms are fou
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Laws alone can not sec
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
My thoughts are my com
My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them., Walter Landor, English author (1775 1864)
We must dare to think
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless., William Fullbright,
Poverty is the parent
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Enjoy things which are
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, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
The wise determine fro
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands., Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
Music is a discipline,
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable., Martin Luther, German religious reformer (1483 1546)
Modesty is a shining l
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth., Madam Guizot,
Law is the embodiment
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people., William Blackstone, English jurist (1723 1780)
Knowledge is a comfort
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old., Phillip Chesterfield, English politician (1694 1773)
Justice delayed, is ju
Justice delayed, is justice denied., William Gladstone, British politician (1809 1898)
It is impossible to ma
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not., Jeremy Taylor, English prelate (1613 1667)
The mind is its own pl
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven., John Milton, English poet (1608 1674)
Strong feelings do not
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him., William Carleton,
In time we hate that w
In time we hate that which we often fear., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
He is winding the watc
He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Faith must have adequa
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition., Alexander Hodge,
The only stable state
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Whatever we conceive w
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease., Nicolas Boileau, French critic satiric poet (1636 1711)
To believe with certai
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting., Stanislaus Lescynski,
Any doctrine that will
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man., Robert Ingersoll, US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, orator (1833 1899)
If men would consider
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling., Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
Familiarity breeds con
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration., Apuleius, Roman philosopher, rhetorician, satirist (124 AD 170 AD)
There are in nature ne
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences., Robert Ingersoll, US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, orator (1833 1899)
All human actions have
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
In men of the highest
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Let us be resolute in
Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing., Aquaviva,
The wise man is he who
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things., William Ralph Inge, English author Anglican prelate (1860 1954)
While thou livest keep
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
When dealing with peop
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity., Dale Carnegie,
Peace has to be create
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism., Dorothy Thompson, US journalist (1894 1961)
Learn to labour and to
Learn to labour and to wait., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (1807 1882)
It is with our passion
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
O tyrant love, to what
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men., Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
The magic of first lov
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
Use soft words and har
Use soft words and hard arguments., English Proverb,
Ignorance is the night
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
What an absurd thing i
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, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
We hold these truths t
We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness., US Declaration of Independence,
So many new ideas are
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. , John Haldane, British geneticist scientist (1892 1964)
If for a tranquil mind
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. , Anonymous,
If you want to be resp
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by selfrespect will you compel others to respect you., Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (1821 1881)
To him that you tell y
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. , Anonymous, Proverb,
He removes the greates
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
To read a book for the
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one., Selwyn Champion,
Prejudice is opinion w
Prejudice is opinion without judgement., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
The wise man carries h
The wise man carries his possessions within him., Bias,
Compassion is the basi
Compassion is the basis of all morality., Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 1860)
No man deserves punish
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts., Anonymous,
The character of every
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done., Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US jurist (1841 1935)
To no one will we sell
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice., Magna Carta,
Justice is the constan
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due., Domitus Ulpian, Roman jurist (100 AD 228 AD)
Opinion has a signific
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it., Benjamin Cardozo, US jurist (1870 1938)
The reason of a resolu
The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself., Sir John Holt,
Patience is the compan
Patience is the companion of wisdom., Saint Augustine, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
Law is order in libert
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos., Archbishop Ireland,
Justice requires that
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws., Pope Pius XI, Italian scholar pope 19221939 (1857 1939)
The most certain test
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities., Lord Acton,
The meanest, most cont
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, US abolitionist clergyman (1813 1887)
A multitude of words i
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind., Thales, Greek philosopher scientist (640 AD 546 AD)
What is done let us le
What is done let us leave alone., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
Too much liberty corru
Too much liberty corrupts us all., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
Their silence is suffi
Their silence is sufficient praise., Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC 159 BC)
I am my nearest neighb
I am my nearest neighbour., Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
There is one piece of
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle to do nothing at all., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
There can never be a c
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive., Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
That cannot be safe wh
That cannot be safe which is not honourable., Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
No hatred is so bitter
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. , Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
Keen at the start, but
Keen at the start, but careless at the end., Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
It is found by experie
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others., Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
In stirring up tumult
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue., Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
The greatest remedy fo
The greatest remedy for anger is delay., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Like as the waves make
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Employ thy time well,
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
It is knowledge that i
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
The sign of an intelli
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason., Marya Mannes,
Innocence dwells with
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance., William Blake, English engraver, illustrator, poet (1757 1827)
I detest that man who
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another., Homer, Greek epic poet (800 BC 700 BC)
What does reason deman
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thingto live in accord with his nature., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Whatever is produced i
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste., Saadi, Persian poet (1184 1291)
Where reason fails, ti
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Wealth is the slave of
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
We most often go astra
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
You have to allow a ce
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 think., Mortimer Adler,
Unjust dominion cannot
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
To be always fortunate
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, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
The path of precept is
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
The most onerous slave
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
The mind is slow to un
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
The first step towards
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
The arts are the serva
The arts are the servant wisdom its master., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Speech is the mirror o
Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est), Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
One hand washes the ot
One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavet), Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Sweet are the uses of
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. , William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Education is a kind of
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view., Robert Hutchins, US educator (1899 1977)
With silence favor me.
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis), Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
The appearance of righ
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong., Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Faults are soon copied
Faults are soon copied., Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
I will not add another
I will not add another word., Horace, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Take rest a field that
Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop., Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Has not peace honours
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?, Hermocrates of Syracuse,
In order to improve th
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate., Rene Descartes, French mathematician philosopher (1596 1650)
I feel within me a pea
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Faith in the ability o
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice., George Goethals, US engineer general (1858 1928)
We must conquer war, o
We must conquer war, or war will conquer us., Ely Gulbertson,
The test of our progre
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 those who have too little., Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
Government, is the las
Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government., MacKenzie King,
The law must be stable
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still., Roscoe Pound, US jurist (1870 1964)
Freedom of expression
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom., Benjamin Cardozo, US jurist (1870 1938)
In the name of God, st
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you., Leo Tolstoy, Russian mystic novelist (1828 1910)
Hard work never killed
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?, Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy), US comedian ventriloquist (1903 1978)
The young man who has
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool., George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo 1925 ch. 3, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
It is better in some r
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 any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. , Sir Arthur Helps,
I wasted time, and now
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The happiness of your
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
They think to little w
They think to little who talk to much., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
In all the affairs of
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart., Henry Clay, US orator politician (1777 1852)
See first that the des
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Work and struggle and
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change., Andre Gide, French critic, essayist, novelist (1869 1951)
When griping grief the
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
No sword bites so fier
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue., Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, politician, soldier (1554 1586)
In everything one must
In everything one must consider the end., Jean De la Fontaine, French poet (1621 1695)
Curiosity is one of th
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Of all the griefs that
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
That action is best wh
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness., Francis Hutcheson,
The knowledge of the w
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet., Phillip Earl Stanhope,
Respect yourself and o
Respect yourself and others will respect you., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
When defeat is inevita
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield., Quintilian, Roman rhetorician )
Safeguard the health b
Safeguard the health both of body and soul., Cleobulus,
Learn to bear bravely
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune., Cleobulus,
Virtue is indeed its o
Virtue is indeed its own reward., Claudianus,
An angry man is again
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Deliberate with cautio
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
Our repentance is not
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Jealousy feeds upon su
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
If we had no faults of
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Suspicion always haunt
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Glory is like a circle
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I do not distinguish b
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Ridicule is the first
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools., Charles Simmons,
It is the act of a mad
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
Poverty is the schoolm
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character., Antiphanes,
Whatever you undertake
Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences., Anonymous,
Tis the advisor who su
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice., Anonymous,
Bad mind, bad heart. (
Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus), Anacharsis Cloots, French revolutionary (1755 1794)
Courage is of no value
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage., Agesilaus the Second,
The wise man will love
The wise man will love all others will desire., Afranius,
What a splendid head,
What a splendid head, yet no brain., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
Persuasion is often mo
Persuasion is often more effectual than force., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
In critical moments ev
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
In war, truth is the f
In war, truth is the first casualty., Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC 456 BC)
Let us take things as
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them., John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (1801 1890)
Self discipline is tha
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another., Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
It is feeling and forc
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent., Marcus Valerius Martialis, (40 AD 103 AD)
A life of peace, purit
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
The strictest law ofte
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Our thoughts are free.
Our thoughts are free., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Liberty is rendered ev
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
It is a great thing to
It is a great thing to know our vices., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Thought is the fountai
Thought is the fountain of speech., Chrysippus, Greek Stoic philosopher (280 BC 207 BC)
There is no legal obli
There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities., Publius Celsus,
Tis sometimes the heig
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity., Cato the Elder, Roman orator politician (234 BC 149 BC)
Better be ill spoken o
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one., Scottish Proverb,
Patience is the greate
Patience is the greatest of all virtues., Cato the Elder, Roman orator politician (234 BC 149 BC)
Lighter is the wound f
Lighter is the wound foreseen., Cato the Elder, Roman orator politician (234 BC 149 BC)
From lightest words so
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs., Cato the Elder, Roman orator politician (234 BC 149 BC)
Anger so clouds the mi
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth., Cato the Elder, Roman orator politician (234 BC 149 BC)
Whom did it benefit. (
Whom did it benefit. (Cui Bono Fuerit), Longinus Cassius, Roman conspirator general (? 42 BC)
Strong reasons make st
Strong reasons make strong actions., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Strain every nerve to
Strain every nerve to gain your point., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Our span of life is br
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
No one can speak well,
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Nature herself makes t
Nature herself makes the wise man rich., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Have regard for your n
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold., Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41:12),
It is a true saying th
It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
I will go further, and
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Force overcome by forc
Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis), Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
By force of arms. (Vi
By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis), Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
As the old proverb say
As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Art is born of the obs
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
All action is of the m
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
A mind without instruc
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
The most profound joy
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
Pride sullies the nobl
Pride sullies the noblest character., Claudianus,
There are two modes of
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
He who desires is alwa
He who desires is always poor., Claudianus,
What we call pleasure,
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
We must not say every
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
We do not destroy reli
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
To each his own. (Suum
To each his own. (Suum Cuique), Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
To be content with wha
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
There is no duty more
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
The first duty of a ma
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
The evil implanted in
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrongdoing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
The absolute good is n
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Regard your good name
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Such praise coming fro
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Desperate affairs requ
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies., Horatio Nelson, British admiral naval hero (1758 1805)
Deepseated are the wou
Deepseated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls., Lucan, Roman epic poet (39 AD 65 AD)
A show of daring oft c
A show of daring oft conceals great fear., Lucan, Roman epic poet (39 AD 65 AD)
A crime which is the c
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge., Lucan, Roman epic poet (39 AD 65 AD)
Whatever is worth doin
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well., Phillip Earl Stanhope,
A man should never be
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, English poet satirist (1688 1744)
Remember what is unbec
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Do not do to others wh
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Whatever you are, be a
Whatever you are, be a good one., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
Truth is the daughter
Truth is the daughter of time., Aulus Gellius,
The world loves to be
The world loves to be deceived., Franck Sebastian,
Judge of a man by his
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
No one can wear a mask
No one can wear a mask for very long., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Many things have falle
Many things have fallen only to rise higher., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It should be our care
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is the sign of a we
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is rash to condemn
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is pleasant at time
It is pleasant at times to play the madman., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is a great thing to
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is a denial of just
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
If virtue precede us e
If virtue precede us every step will be safe., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
If a man does not know
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
He will live ill who d
He will live ill who does not know how to die well., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
In a false quarrel the
In a false quarrel there is no true valour., William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
We must give lengthy d
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Today is the pupil of
Today is the pupil of yesterday., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Tis foolish to fear wh
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Look to be treated by
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
If you refuse where yo
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
A suspicious mind alwa
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Wisdom oft lurks benea
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat., Caecilius Statius, (220 BC 168 BC)
Grant us a brief delay
Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant., Caecilius Statius, (220 BC 168 BC)
The argument is at an
The argument is at an end., Saint Augustine, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
Much speech is one thi
Much speech is one thing, welltimed speech is another., Sophocles, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC 406 BC)
Envy is the ulcer of t
Envy is the ulcer of the soul., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Painting is silent poe
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech., Simonides, Greek poet (556 BC 468 BC)
Never rely on the glor
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your motherinlaw., Japanese Proverb,
The modern rule is tha
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon., Amy Vanderbilt, US authority on etiquette (1908 1974)
It is useless to attem
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into., Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)
A tough lesson in life
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well., Dan Rather, US television newscaster (1931 )
Set up as an ideal the
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible., Dr. Karl Menninger, US psychiatrist (1893 1990)
Get your facts first,
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Reading, after a certa
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Resolve to edge in a l
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year., Horace Mann, US educator (1796 1859)
Reading maketh a full
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Some books are to be t
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 only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Quarrel not at all. No
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention., Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26 1863, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
This is our purpose: t
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on., Oswald Spengler, German historian philosopher (1880 1936)
Make sure you have fin
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening., Dorothy Sarnoff,
Examine what is said,
Examine what is said, not him who speaks., Arab Proverb,
Genius may have its li
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped., Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 1915)
Be brief, for no disco
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long., Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish adventurer, author, poet (1547 1616)
Let thy speech be shor
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words., Aprocrypha,
Be sincere be brief be
Be sincere be brief be seated., Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
To sway an audience, y
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak., C. Kent Wright,
You will find that the
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself., John Ruskin, English critic, essayist, reformer (1819 1900)
Do not employ handsome
Do not employ handsome servants., Chinese Proverb,
Reveal not every secre
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend., Saadi, Persian poet (1184 1291)
Do not trust all men,
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence., Democritus, Greek philosopher (460 BC 370 BC)
Frisbeetarianism is th
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck., George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
When you go to buy, us
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears., Czech Proverb,
Drink nothing without
Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it., Spanish Proverb,
A full cup must be car
A full cup must be carried steadily., English Proverb,
Remember that there is
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Magnificent promises a
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected., Theodore Parker, US Unitarian clergyman (1810 1860)
Never promise more tha
Never promise more than you can perform., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Behold the turtle. He
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out., James Bryant Conant, US chemist, diplomat, educator (1893 1978)
Friends may come and g
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate., Thomas Jones, (1892 1969)
Remember! Things in li
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend., Endicott Peabody, US educator (1857 1944)
When you are not pract
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win., Ed Macauley,
Be fit for more than t
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it., James A. Garfield, US general politician (1831 1881)
Never do today what yo
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, US conspirator politician (1756 1836)
Know the true value of
Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today., Lord Chesterfield, (1694 1773)
Flowers never emit so
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweetsmelling flower., Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763 1825)
The physician can bury
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings., Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4 1953, US architect (1869 1959)
The superior man, when
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
Shake off all the fear
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
There is always a well
There is always a wellknown solution to every human problemneat, plausible, and wrong., H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920, US editor (1880 1956)
Never try to reason th
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out., Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771 1845)
The time to pray is no
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it., Josh Billings, US Humorist (1818 1885)
Call on God, but row a
Call on God, but row away from the rocks., Indian Proverb,
Pray as if everything
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man., Francis Cardinal Spellman, US cardinal 1946 (1889 1967)
Do not pray for easy l
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 tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle., Phillips Brooks, US Episcopal bishop (1835 1893)
When someone does some
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy., Samuel Goldwyn, US (Polishborn) movie producer (1882 1974)
Be thou the first true
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend., Alexander Pope, English poet satirist (1688 1744)
You do ill if you prai
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand., Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
Do what thy manhood bi
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his selfmade laws., Sir Richard Francis Burton, British explorer orientalist (1821 1890)
Fools rush in where fo
Fools rush in where fools have been before., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Whenever you commend,
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools., Sir Richard Steele,
Far better to think hi
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well., A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University, US educator baseball administrator (1938 1989)
Let not thy will roar,
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper., Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732, British physician (1654 1734)
The great secret of po
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish., Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (1828 1906)
The secret of all powe
The secret of all power is save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste., Joseph Farrell,
The most important thi
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten., Andre Malraux, French author resistance leader (1901 1976)
They can do all becaus
They can do all because they think they can., Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
The way you overcome s
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid., Lady Bird Johnson, US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 )
If you think you can w
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory., William Hazlitt, English essayist (1778 1830)
Drawing on my fine com
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing., Robert Benchley, US actor, author, humorist (1889 1945)
Do not be awe struck b
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, US clergyman (1898 1993)
Formulate and stamp in
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination., Norman Vincent Peale, US clergyman (1898 1993)
Believe in yourself! H
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy, Norman Vincent Peale, US clergyman (1898 1993)
Never hold discussions
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
When the water reaches
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats., Claude Swanson, US politician (1862 1939)
Poetry should please b
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance., John Keats, English lyric poet (1795 1821)
Every English poet sho
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them., Robert Graves, British author classical scholar (1895 1985)
To make pleasures plea
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them., Charles Buxton,
Facts are stupid thing
Facts are stupid things., Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 2004)
Choose your pleasures
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you., Lord Chesterfield, (1694 1773)
We may lay in a stock
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
Get pleasure out of li
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure., Sol Hurok,
When we are planning f
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary., Thomas Paine, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)
He who every morning p
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
Sin bravely...We will
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future., Russell R. McIntyre,
Beware of the young do
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
You can only cure reta
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale., Brock Chisholm,
Go not for every grief
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot., George Herbert, English clergyman metaphysical poet (1593 1633)
Everyone rises to thei
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence., Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle, US educator writer (1919 1988)
If you would persuade,
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
If you look at life on
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm., Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist short story author (1899 1973)
Do not measure your lo
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 will find that some comfort is to be derived from them., Saint Basil, Greek saint church father (329 AD 379 AD)
The best and safest th
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, and live that way, you are really a wise man., Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC 406 BC)
Alas my love you do me
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company., Anonymous, Greensleeves,
Evil to him who evil t
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense), King Edward the Third, Motto of the order of the Garter, English king 13271377 (1312 1377)
There is so much good
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us., Edward Wallis Hoch, Marion (Kansas) Record, (1849 1925)
Many that live deserve
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 the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends., J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Nearly all marriages,
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to., J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Faithless is he that s
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
I cordially dislike al
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
The Hobbits are just r
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, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
If more of us valued f
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
Do not meddle in the a
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger., J. R. R. Tolkien, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
All that is gold does
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost., J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
One Ring to rule them
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, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954 chapter 2, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
The time to stop talki
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing., Henry S. Haskins,
There are people who,
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves., Albert Guinon, (1863 1923)
When everyone is again
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong or absolutely right., Albert Guinon, (1863 1923)
When you are in any co
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were to the very last minute a chance to lose it., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
Three may keep a secre
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Silence propagates its
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
No man is exempt from
No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately., Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 1592)
A bore is a man who de
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company., Gian Vincenzo Gravina, (1664 1718)
No one means all he sa
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous., Henry Adams, US author, autobiographer, historian (1838 1918)
They always talk who n
They always talk who never think., Matthew Prior, English diplomat poet (1664 1721)
He who praises you for
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have., Don Juan Manuel, Spanish author nobleman (1282 1349)
None but a coward dare
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear., Ferdinand Foch, French general (1851 1929)
We are generally the b
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)
That which has always
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false., Paul Valery, French critic poet (1871 1945)
The visionary lies to
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others., Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 1900)
All truth passes throu
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being selfevident., Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 1860)
All charming people ha
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others., Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938), (1903 1974)
In great affairs men s
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are., Nicholas Chamfort, (1741 1794)
An economist is a surg
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a roughedged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living., Nicholas Chamfort, (1741 1794)
A large income is the
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of., Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, English novelist (1775 1817)
Keep on going and the
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down., Charles F. Kettering, US electrical engineer inventor (1876 1958)
Happy families are all
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way., Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1 first line, Russian mystic novelist (1828 1910)
There is not any memor
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted., James Branch Cabell, US essayist novelist (1879 1958)
Good taste is the wors
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented., Edith Sitwell, English biographer, critic, novelist, poet (1887 1964)
Freedom of the press i
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one., A. J. Liebling, (1904 1963)
The whole art of teach
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards., Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, French novelist (1844 1924)
People who have no wea
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them., Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, French novelist (1844 1924)
Man is so made that he
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another., Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, French novelist (1844 1924)
There exist only three
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create., Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII, French poet (1821 1867)
Fervor is the weapon o
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent., Frantz Fanon,
Insane people are alwa
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,
What we become depends
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
The man who lets himse
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore., Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
You can only be young
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature., Dave Barry, US columnist humorist (1947 )
Far from idleness bein
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good., Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 1855)
I have long been of th
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves., Bruce Grocott, British politician (1940 )
To read a newspaper is
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter., Aleister Crowley, English occultist (1875 1947)
Everyone is entitled t
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Rage is the only quali
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers., Jimmy Breslin,
A desk is a dangerous
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world., John le Carre, English suspense novelist (1931 )
The best way out is al
The best way out is always through., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
After one look at this
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager., William S. Burroughs, US author (1914 )
People with courage an
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest., Hermann Hesse, Swiss (Germanborn) author (1877 1962)
Boxing is just show bu
Boxing is just show business with blood., Frank Bruno,
An idealist is a perso
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
A chess genius is a hu
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, littleunderstood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise., George Steiner,
To see what is right,
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
It was beautiful and s
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are., O. Henry, US short story author (1862 1910)
Eccentricity is not, a
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd., Edith Sitwell, English biographer, critic, novelist, poet (1887 1964)
The thing I hate about
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion., G. K. Chesterton, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
We are more ready to t
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
They used to photograp
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum., Tallulah Bankhead, US movie actress (1903 1968)
His mother should have
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork., Mae West, US movie actress (1892 1980)
Nihilism is best done
Nihilism is best done by professionals., Iggy Pop,
A door is what a dog i
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of., Ogden Nash, US humorist poet (1902 1971)
Everything happens to
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
There are a terrible l
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, British politician (1874 1965)
In the United States,
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
The dead might as well
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young., Willa Cather, US novelist (1873 1947)
The petty economies of
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor., William Feather, (1908 1976)
Saying what we think g
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know., Cullen Hightower,
Free advice is worth t
Free advice is worth the price., Robert Half,
When we are unable to
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
I have always felt tha
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
Martyrdom is the only
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Rogues are preferable
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest., Alexandre Dumas, French dramatist novelist (1802 1870)
We are alone, absolute
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us., Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian dramatist, essayist, poet (1862 1949)
Patience serves as a p
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind., Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
If you are a dog and y
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail., Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 )
America had often been
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
An intellectual is a p
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex., Aldous Huxley, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Without the aid of pre
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room., William Hazlitt, English essayist (1778 1830)
Household tasks are ea
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else., James Thorpe, US football player track athlete (1888 1953)
The radical of one cen
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them., Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
What happens when the
What happens when the future has come and gone?, Robert Half,
There are several good
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice., Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897), US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
The sad truth is that
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous., Shana Alexander,
We hate some persons b
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
Think of what would ha
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record., Tom Masson,
Man is the only animal
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be., William Hazlitt, English essayist (1778 1830)
He talked with more cl
He talked with more claret than clarity., Susan Ertz,
Have patience with all
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew., Saint Francis de Sales,
Instead of giving a po
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks., Doug Larson,
Strange as it seems, n
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it., Stephen Vizinczey,
The trouble with being
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time., Willem de Kooning, US (Dutchborn) painter (1904 )
Middle age is when you
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places., E. Joseph Crossman,
You can live to be a h
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred., Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, director (1935 )
Before I got married I
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories., John Wilmot,
Few things are more sa
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own., Doug Larson,
Drivein banks were est
Drivein banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners., E. Joseph Crossman,
When we ask for advice
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice., Marquis de la Grange, (1639 1692)
One thing you will pro
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget., Franklin P. Jones,
Golf and sex are about
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at., Jimmy Demaret,
Wine makes a man more
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Every increased posse
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness., John Ruskin, English critic, essayist, reformer (1819 1900)
The best liar is he wh
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way., Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
Regret for the things
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable., Sidney J. Harris,
A true friend is the g
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
To be able to fill lei
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level., Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness 1930 ch. 14, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Shut out all of your p
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows., Sir William Osler, British (Canadianborn) physician (1849 1919)
Men never do evil so c
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)
At least twothirds of
At least twothirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas., Aldous Huxley, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
In matters of style, s
In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
Everything that irrita
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves., Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Music is the only lang
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing., John Erskine, US author educator (1879 1951)
I finally figured out
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it., Rita Mae Brown, US author and social activist )
A cynic is not merely
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future., Sidney J. Harris,
When a thing ceases to
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest., William Hazlitt, English essayist (1778 1830)
People want economy an
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it., Lee Iacocca, US automobile businessman (1924 )
No wise man ever wishe
No wise man ever wished to be younger., Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)
The least of learning
The least of learning is done in the classrooms., Thomas Merton, US religious author, clergyman, Trappist monk (1915 1968)
The time you enjoy was
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
Literature is news tha
Literature is news that stays news., Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading 1934 chapter 8, US poet (1885 1972)
Finish each day and be
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense., Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed), US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Everyone is born with
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes., Edgard Varese, US (Frenchborn) composer (1883 1965)
Traditions are group e
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening., Barbara Tober,
My idea of an agreeabl
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
One should always play
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
A man is not idle beca
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
What others think of u
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, French critic poet (1871 1945)
The main things which
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
All human beings shoul
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why., James Thurber, US author, cartoonist, humorist, satirist (1894 1961)
Absolute faith corrupt
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
First there is a time
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again and, moreover, give reasons why we believe., Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742 1799)
At 18 our convictions
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide., F. Scott Fitzgerald, US novelist (1896 1940)
I feel about airplanes
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on., Jean Kerr,
Knowledge comes, but w
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers., Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809 1892)
Life is nothing but a
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
If you would be known,
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city., Charles Caleb Colton, (1780 1832)
Our great democracies
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
It is easier to exclud
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Because things are the
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are., Bertolt Brecht, German Communist dramatist (1898 1956)
There art two cardinal
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness., Franz Kafka, Austrian (Czechoslovakianborn) author (1883 1924)
There is nothing more
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income., Edmund Wilson, US critic (1895 1972)
The easiest kind of re
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one., Joan Baez, US folksinger (1941 )
I have only one supers
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run., Babe Ruth, US baseball player (1895 1948)
Liberty without learni
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
Never part without lov
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life., Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763 1825)
A sense of duty is use
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation., Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness 1930 ch. 10, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
When the politicians c
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained., Edward R. Murrow, US broadcast journalist newscaster (1908 1965)
A man can stand anythi
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
People everywhere conf
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news., A. J. Liebling, (1904 1963)
The only way to entert
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them., Kin Hubbard, (1868 1930)
Men are not against yo
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves., Gene Fowler,
The only sure thing ab
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change., Bret Harte, US author (1836 1902)
Those who speak most o
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
The human brain starts
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public., George Jessel,
There are two ways to
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking., Alfred Korzybski, US (Polishborn) author, logician, scientist (1879 1950)
If you want to see wha
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things., Norman Douglas,
Education is the abili
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your selfconfidence., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
Idleness is not doing
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything., Floyd Dell,
Facts are stubborn thi
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Morality, like art, me
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
All successful newspap
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
If men were angels, no
If men were angels, no government would be necessary., James Madison, 4th president of US (1751 1836)
Where all think alike,
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much., Walter Lippmann, US author journalist (1889 1974)
A place for everything
A place for everything and everything in its place., Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861,
Every day you may make
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an everlengthening, everascending, everimproving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
Everyone is a genius a
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together., Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742 1799)
Integrity without know
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Health food makes me s
Health food makes me sick., Calvin Trillin, US columnist (1935 )
If fifty million peopl
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
Happiness is an imagin
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults., Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin 1973 Emotions,
If there are no stupid
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?, Scott Adams, US cartoonist (1957 )
It is a mistake to thi
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes., Douglas Adams, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
Humans are not proud o
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner., Douglas Adams, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
It is best to do thing
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy., Hesiod, Greek didactic poet (~800 BC)
By keenly confronting
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists., M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991), Dutch artist (1898 1972)
What I give form to in
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness., M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993), Dutch artist (1898 1972)
Not only is the univer
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine., Sir Arthur Eddington, English astronomer (1882 1944)
It has always been the
It has always been the prerogative of children and halfwits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the halfwit remains a halfwit, and the emperor remains an emperor., Neil Gaiman, Sandman,
This is one of those v
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
We need anything polit
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head., Dennis Miller,
The height of cleverne
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Failure is not the onl
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others., Jules Renard, (1864 1910)
We all have strength e
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Set all things in thei
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
The mediocre teacher t
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires., William Arthur Ward,
Few men are willing to
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change., Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech, US Democratic politician (1925 1968)
A penny saved is a pen
A penny saved is a penny earned., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Democracy must be some
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner., James Bovard,
To choose Norm Coleman
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich., Garrison Keillor, US humorist radio broadcaster (1942 )
"Just as I shall selec
"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. , Seneca, Epistulae Morales, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6815, I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches., Gilda Radner, US actress comedienne (1946 1989)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6816, Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education., John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6817, Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6818, If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends., Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61, English novelist (1816 1855)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6819, The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives., Lois McMaster Bujold, Brothers in Arms", US science fiction author ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6820, The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means., Sir Henry Taylor, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6821, After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood., Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California, US Senator, 19942002, actor ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6822, Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely., Lord Acton, 1887, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6823, The end excuses any evil., Sophocles, Electra (c.409 BC), Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC 406 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6824, The end always passes judgement on what has gone before., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6825, The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat), Ovid, Heorides (c. 10 BC), Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6826, The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end., Saint Jerome, Letter 48, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6827, The ends must justify the means., Matthew Prior, Hans Carvel (1701), English diplomat poet (1664 1721)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES
Successful innovators
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different., Reed Markham, Author, Effective Speechwriting,
Government is the grea
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else., Frederick Bastiat, Government published in 1848,
Make all you can, save
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can., John Wesley, English religious leader (1703 1791)
Modern war has decimat
Modern war has decimated many a country but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant., Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.,
Age is not a particula
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough., Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 1977)
We do what we must, an
We do what we must, and call it by the best names., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Advertising is the mod
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
Music is essentially u
Music is essentially useless, as life is., George Santayana, Life of Reason 1905 vol. 4 ch. 4, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
Progress, far from con
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. , George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1 1905, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
Those who cannot remem
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it., George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1 1905, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
Be you in what line of
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 [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself., William Cobbett, English political author (1763 1835)
Every hero becomes a b
Every hero becomes a bore at last., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Sanity is a madness pu
Sanity is a madness put to good use., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
For the truth of the c
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure., Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science, English astronomer (1882 1944)
The mathematics is not
The mathematics is not there till we put it there., Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science, English astronomer (1882 1944)
I ask you to look both
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 has been reached through the stars., Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1, English astronomer (1882 1944)
It is impossible to tr
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset., Sir Arthur Eddington, In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956, English astronomer (1882 1944)
We have found a strang
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own., Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920, English astronomer (1882 1944)
Proof is the idol befo
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself., Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, English astronomer (1882 1944)
We are bits of stellar
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong., Sir Arthur Eddington, English astronomer (1882 1944)
Never spend your money
Never spend your money before you have it., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
Science is one thing,
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, Attributed in Robert L. Weber More Random Walks in Science, 1982, English astronomer (1882 1944)
0, Sir Arthur Eddingto
0, Sir Arthur Eddington, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977, English astronomer (1882 1944)
A business that makes
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
The best cure for Chri
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
I will not eat oysters
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead., Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, director (1935 )
Brilliance is typicall
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization., Jon Bentley,
Love is being stupid t
Love is being stupid together., Paul Valery, French critic poet (1871 1945)
You are 87,00% water t
You are 87,00% water the other 13,00% keeps you from drowning., P. E. Morris,
Never go to excess, bu
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
What happens if a big
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad., Dave Barry, US columnist humorist (1947 )
Black holes are where
Black holes are where God divided by zero., Stephen Wright,
Shoot for the moon. Ev
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars., Les Brown,
Science is the record
Science is the record of dead religions., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Metaphysics is a dark
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck., Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724 1804)
Philosophy consists ve
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Most institutions dema
Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue., Robert K. Merton,
There are in fact two
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance., Hippocrates, Greek physician (460 BC 377 BC)
The beginning of wisdo
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth., Pierre Abelard,
This only is certain,
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man., Pliny the Elder, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
Happy is he who gets t
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things., Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
You cannot teach a man
You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him find it within himself., Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer physicist (1564 1642)
I have deep faith that
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
More than ever, the cr
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality., Robert A. Baker,
We know very little, a
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
In essence, science is
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in., Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil,
It requires a very unu
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious., Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician philosopher (1861 1947)
Science is organized k
Science is organized knowledge., Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (1820 1903)
Chance favors the prep
Chance favors the prepared mind., Louis Pasteur, French biologist bacteriologist (1822 1895)
Science knows no count
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world., Louis Pasteur, French biologist bacteriologist (1822 1895)
By always thinking unt
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light., Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries,
The difficulty lies, n
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds., John Maynard Keynes, English economist (1883 1946)
Science can purify rel
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes., Pope John Paul II (aka: Karol Wojtyla),
Give me a place to sta
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth., Archimedes (ca. 235 bc),
If you are not a liber
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain., Winston Churchhill,
Imagination helps brin
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work., Honore De Balzac, French realist novelist (1799 1850)
Television has brought
Television has brought murder back into the home where it belongs., Alfred Hitchcock, British movie director (1899 1980)
Be not ashamed of mist
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
Without theory, practi
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions., Louis Pasteur, French biologist bacteriologist (1822 1895)
There are always survi
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else., Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986, US science fiction author )
Virtuous motives, tram
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, wellmeaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on., Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936 demanding British rearmament, British politician (1874 1965)
Children have more nee
Children have more need of models than of critics., Joseph Joubert,
I am only one but stil
I am only one but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something., Hellen Keller,
Sometimes it takes cou
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
All that we see or see
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream., Edgar Alan Poe,
Engineering is the art
Engineering is the art or science of making practical., Samuel C. Florman,
The ideal engineer is
The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems., N. W. Dougherty, 1955,
Engineering is not mer
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to nonexistent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..., Dean Gordon Brown,
Engineers participate
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically., L. M. K. Boelter, 1957,
The headline reads, Do
The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.", Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6416, Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard. , Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6417, Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour., Sir Ernest Shackleton, ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6418, Do not run away let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected., Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, US martial arts expert movie actor (1940 1973)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6419, I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me., Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), The SelfTormentor (Heautontimoroumenos), ) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6420, The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6421, Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute., Josh Billings, US Humorist (1818 1885)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6422, We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities., Walt Kelly, Pogo (comic strip), US animator cartoonist (1913 1973)) INSERT INTO `quotes` VALUES (6423, Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)) INSERT INTO `quotes`
When a dog acts viciou
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?, Nicolas Martin,
Most men pursue pleasu
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. , Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 1855)
May your service of lo
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is., Hadewijch of Antwerp,
The wit makes fun of o
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself., James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview, US author, cartoonist, humorist, satirist (1894 1961)
The greatest of faults
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
The world tolerates co
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else., John Blake,
When they discover the
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it., Bernard Bailey,
The smaller the mind t
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
An ostentatious man wi
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person., Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, politician (1672 1719)
Let grace and goodness
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue., John Dryden, English dramatist poet (1631 1700)
I wonder if other dogs
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult., Rita Rudner, US comedian )
If you would be a real
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 things., Rene Descartes, French mathematician philosopher (1596 1650)
Those who can make you
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Faith is a copout. If
Faith is a copout. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits., Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith, 1992,
With or without religi
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion., Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20 1999, US physicist (1933 )
There is danger from a
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 public liberty., John Adams, Journal, 1772, US diplomat politician (1735 1826)
The government consist
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
There are no wise few.
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, Heretics, 1905, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
There will always be a
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good., Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Never pretend to a lov
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command., Alan Watts,
Ye shall know the trut
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free., Bible, John 8:32,
The truth that makes m
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear., Herbert Agar,
Every composer knows t
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down., Hector Berlioz, French composer (1803 1869)
I know that you believ
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant., Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed),
Getting ahead in a dif
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent., Sophia Loren, US (Italianborn) movie actress (1934 )
Nothing changes your o
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success yours or his., Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29 1953,
A good friend can tell
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling., Arthur Brisbane, The Book of Today,
The most erroneous sto
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best and therefore never scrutinize or question., Stephen Jay Gould, US author, naturalist, paleontologist, popularizer of science (1941 2002)
The most important sci
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos., Stephen Jay Gould, US author, naturalist, paleontologist, popularizer of science (1941 2002)
Take hold lightly let
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love., Spanish Proverb,
Drama is life with the
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out., Alfred Hitchcock, British movie director (1899 1980)
The more things a man
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), act I, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
A lifetime of happine
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), act I, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
My method is to take t
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity., George Bernard Shaw, Answers to Nine Questions, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Inspiration is wonderf
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long., Leonard Bernstein, US composer conductor (1918 1990)
Pray that your lonelin
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for., Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat (1905 1961)
There are three rules
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are., W. Somerset Maugham, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
I was working on the p
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, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
I believe more in the
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil., Truman Capote, US author (1924 1984)
We do not write becaus
We do not write because we want to we write because we have to., W. Somerset Maugham, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
A writer is a person f
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people., Thomas Mann, German writer (1875 1955)
Television is for appe
Television is for appearing on not for looking at., Noel Coward, English actor, dramatist, songwriter (1899 1973)
The higher the buildin
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals., Noel Coward, English actor, dramatist, songwriter (1899 1973)
There is only one way
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, US (Canadianborn) author (1915 )
After all, all he did
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, wellknown quotations., H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare, US editor (1880 1956)
A quotation in a speec
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority., Brendan Francis,
He wrapped himself in
He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors., Rudyard Kipling, British (Indianborn) author (1865 1936)
Every quotation contri
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
I love quotations beca
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself., Marlene Dietrich, German movie actress (1901 1992)
There is not less wit
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought., Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique, French critic philosopher (1647 1706)
Next to the originator
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality), US essayist poet (1803 1882)
One must be a wise rea
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well., Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk, US educator Transcendentalist (1799 1888)
Some for renown, on sc
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote., Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89), English poet (1683 1765)
Quotation ... A writer
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably illadvised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium., Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), English lexicographer (1858 1933)
Misquotation is, in fa
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely., Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction,
Immortality. I notice
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849), US essayist poet (1803 1882)
A foolish consistency
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines., Ralph Waldo Emerson, SelfReliance, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Know how to listen, an
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly., Plutarch, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
Count Hermann Keyserli
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts., John Gunther, US author journalist (1901 1970)
I have suffered a grea
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether., Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician philosopher (1861 1947)
He was as fresh as is
He was as fresh as is the month of May., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1390, English poet (1342 1400)
Where humor is concern
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, US (Canadianborn) administrator economist (1908 )
Humor is also a way of
Humor is also a way of saying something serious., T. S. Eliot, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)
A sense of humor is pa
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
Humor is by far the mo
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain., Edward De Bono,
Humor is always based
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a fatherinlaw?, Dick Clark,
Humor is just another
Humor is just another defense against the universe., Mel Brooks, US actor, comedian, movie director (1926 )
When people talk, list
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen., Ernest Hemingway, US author journalist (1899 1961)
Defining and analyzing
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people., Robert Benchley, US actor, author, humorist (1889 1945)
Humor is the only test
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
When a thing is funny,
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Writers should be read
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard., Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (1907 1989)
...because it is the v
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts., Ernesto Che Guevara,
The mystery of love is
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
The Knowledge of God i
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him., Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)
Those who are able to
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Dwell not upon thy wea
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire., Arab Proverb,
In real life, I assure
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra., Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 )
Great people talk abou
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine., Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 )
My favorite animal is
My favorite animal is steak., Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 )
No animal should ever
No animal should ever jump up on the diningroom furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation., Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 )
Specialinterest public
Specialinterest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special., Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 )
Love is a snowmobile r
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come., Matt Groening, Life in Hell, US cartoonist satirist (1954 )
You can make more frie
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 people interested in you., Dale Carnegie,
Love is the difficult
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real., Iris Murdoch, British novelist (1919 1999)
Love is the triumph of
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
Love is not blind it
Love is not blind it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less., Rabbi Julius Gordon,
Love is an irresistibl
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
There is always some m
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness., Friedrich Nietzsche, On Reading and Writing, German philosopher (1844 1900)
Love is an exploding c
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke., Lynda Barry,
Live in such a way tha
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip., Will Rogers, US humorist showman (1879 1935)
Human beings, who are
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so., Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
The last time anybody
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79., Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
He had discovered a gr
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain., Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 2, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
In a true zerodefects
In a true zerodefects approach, there are no unimportant items., Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality,
Change should be a fri
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident., Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality,
Slowness to change usu
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new., Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality,
You have to lead peopl
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right., Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality,
We compound our suffer
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other., Athol Fugard,
A jury consists of twe
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
Make your life a missi
Make your life a mission not an intermission., Arnold Glasgow,
The successful revolut
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal., Erich Fromm, US (Germanborn) psychologist (1900 1980)
Experience is a dear t
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
A bank is a place wher
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, US poet (1874 1963)
I am responsible only
I am responsible only to God and history., Francisco Franco,
Nothing is particularl
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
Every man I meet is in
Every man I meet is in some way my superior., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Beauty without grace i
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Always do what you are
Always do what you are afraid to do., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
A people that values i
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both., Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general Republican politician (1890 1969)
When we discover that
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves., Dogen,
To be what we are, and
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life., Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 1894)
The greater the loyalt
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals., Rensis Likert,
Where principle is inv
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency., James Webb,
The process of learnin
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again., John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus,
Some luck lies in not
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known., Garrison Keillor, US humorist radio broadcaster (1942 )
Affection is responsib
Affection is responsible for ninetenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives., C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
The great gift of huma
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy., Meryl Streep, US actress (1949 )
Fear not that thy life
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning., John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (1801 1890)
Successful people are
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure., Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point,
There is always an eas
There is always an easy solution to every human problem neat, plausible, and wrong., H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, US editor (1880 1956)
If a thing goes withou
If a thing goes without saying let it., Jacob Braude, Treasury of Wit Humor For All Occasions,
When a nation goes dow
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along., Carl Sandburg, US biographer poet (1878 1967)
Ours is a world of nuc
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner., Omar Bradley, US general (1893 1981)
Censorship, like chari
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there., Clare Boothe Luce,
I dream of wayward gul
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone., William F. Claire,
It is better to die on
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees., Dolores Ibarruri, Spanish Communist agitator politician (1895 1989)
It is no profit to hav
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Are you to pay for all
Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?, Edwin A. Robinson,
Great art is as irrati
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness., George Jean Nathan, US drama critic editor (1882 1958)
In a war of ideas, it
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed., Stanislaus J. Lec,
And now there is merel
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know., William Rose Benet,
Words ought to be a li
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking., John M. Keynes,
For man, as for flower
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive., David H. Lawrence,
Genuine poetry can com
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood., T. S. Eliot, British (USborn) critic, dramatist poet (1888 1965)
We are all inclined to
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals others by their acts., Harold Nicolson,
Never seem more learne
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 out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked., Lord Chesterfield, (1694 1773)