The Best Ten Thousand Quotes, part 1
Author: Eric Landa
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Description: This first book contains ten thousand quotes from both famous and ordinary people covering a wide variety of things. They’ll make your face frown, your mouth smile and probably make your fingers scratch your head every now and then.

“The Best Ten Thousand Quotes”

part 1

Copyright 2016 Eric Landa

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Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading this book “The BEST ten thousand quotes” part 1.

This first book contains ten thousand quotes from both famous and ordinary people covering a wide variety of things. They’ll make your face frown, your mouth smile and probably make your fingers scratch your head every now and then.

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

Eric Landa (www.ericlanda.com)

Table of Content

0001 - 1000 Quotes by: Thomas A. Edison, Joseph Stalin, Oprah Winfrey and many others

1001 - 2000 Quotes by: Mark Twain, Marcus Aurelius, John Tudor and many others

2001 - 3000 Quotes by: Sigmund Freud, Dwight D. Eisenhower and many others

3001 - 4000 Quotes by: Peter De Vries, Samuel Johnson, Andy Warhol and many others

4001 - 5000 Quotes by: Danny Kaye, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hippocrates and many others

5001 - 6000 Quotes by: Malcolm Forbes, Paul Gauguin, Jean Cocteau and many others

6001 - 7000 Quotes by: Homer Simpson, Johnny Carson, Confucius and many others

7001 - 8000 Quotes by: Don Marquis, Robert Byrne, Albert Einstein and many others

8001 - 9000 Quotes by: Leo Tolstoy, Henry Ford, Woody Allen and many others

9001 - 10000 Quotes by: Calvin & Hobbes, Voltaire, M. C. Escher and many others

#0001

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain

#0002

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." Oprah Winfrey

#0003

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. John Tudor

#0004

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." Marcus Aurelius

#0005

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. William James

#0006

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin

#0007

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison

#0008

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. William Lloyd Garrison

#0009

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley

#0010

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. Koran

#0011

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

#0012

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." W. H. Auden

#0013

"Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too." Lawrence Bixby

#0014

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? Katharine Graham

#0015

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. Mark Twain

#0016

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. Unknown

#0017

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker

#0018

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. "Norman Douglas, South Wind,

1917"

#0019

"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." "Bernard M. Baruch, 1940"

#0020

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. "George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791"

#0021

Hitch your wagon to a star. "Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""American Civilization"", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862"

#0022 Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857"

#0023

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake." Sigmund Freud

#0024

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. "Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)"

#0025

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. "Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711"

#0026

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. "Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854"

#0027

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." "Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887"

#0028

Every artist was first an amateur. "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876"

#0029

"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness." "Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711"

#0030

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." "Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820"

#0031

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." "Charles W. Eliot, The Happy Life, 1896"

#0032

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876"

#0033

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. "Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854"

#0034

"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." "Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623"

#0035

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days." "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870"

#0036

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." "Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890"

#0037

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." "Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950"

#0038

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. "Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653"

#0039

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. "Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825"

#0040

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . Unknown

#0041

We need men who can dream of things that never were. "John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963"

#0042

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. "Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732"

#0043

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." "Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849"

#0044

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." "James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880"

#0045

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. "Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953"

#0046

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. "Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854"

#0047

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."-"James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791"

#0048

A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire

#0049

"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." "Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774"

#0050 "Be not the first by whom the new are tried,<br> Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." "Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711"

#0051

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." "Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825"

#0052

"Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. "Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605"

#0053

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. "Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B.C."

#0054

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. "Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762"

#0055

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. "Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838"

#0056

Health is not valued till sickness comes "Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732"

#0057

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. Ronald Reagan

#0058

Health is worth more than learning. "Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790"

#0059

"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." "Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963"

#0060

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905"

#0061

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. E.M. Cioran

#0062

"For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex." Gore Vidal

#0063

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." G.K. Chesterton

#0064

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw

#0065

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire

#0066

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. William James

#0067

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. "Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D."

#0068

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. Will Rogers

#0069

"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States." H. L. Mencken

#0070

"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." Groucho Marx

#0071

"In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls." Lenny Bruce

#0072

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde

#0073

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. Arthur Schopenhauer

#0074

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. Rebecca West

#0075

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. Michael Korda

#0076

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. Samuel Butler

#0077

"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." Voltaire

#0078

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact." Honore de Balzac

#0079

"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance." Victor Borge

#0080

Even paranoids have real enemies .Delmore Schwartz

#0081

"My only aversion to vice, is the price." Victor Buono

#0082

"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it." Paul Fussell

#0083

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. Oscar Wilde

#0084

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. Mark Twain

#0085

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. "Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854"

#0086

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. Andre Gide

#0087

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. Nicholas Murray Butler

#0088

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. John Barrymore

#0089

The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win Badger Clark

#0090

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer

#0091

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. "Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859"

#0092

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. Don Marquis

#0093

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries

#0094

"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed." Christopher Morley

#0095

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

#0096

I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence. William F. Buckley Jr.

#0097

"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions." "Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test"

#0098

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp

#0099

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France

#0100

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.H. L. Mencken

#0101

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. James Reston

#0102

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. "Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712"

#0103

Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw

#0104

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H. L. Mencken

#0105

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. Oscar Wilde

#0106

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. Oscar Levant

#0107

Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain

#0108

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber

#0109

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde

#0110

"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves." "Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765"

#0111

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken

#0112

"It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet." Damon Runyon

#0113

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death. William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

#0114

Start every day with a smile and get it over with. William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

#0115

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same Oscar Wilde

#0116

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. Groucho Marx

#0117

No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Booth Luce

#0118

"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." Jerome K. Jerome

#0119

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

#0120

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit." "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876"

#0121

"The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is." Louis Ferdinand Celine

#0122

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker

#0123

"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." "Plato, _Phaedrus_"

#0124

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. Oscar Wilde

#0125

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. John Barrymore

#0126

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. Don Marquis

#0127

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#0128

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. Jonathan Swift

#0129

Dinner theater is anti-culture. John Simon

#0130

Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Mark Twain

#0131

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. John Barrymore

#0132

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man." Friedrich Nietzsche

#0133

"Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned." Richard Bach

#0134

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. John Ciardi

#0135

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. Heywood Broun

#0136

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. E.M. Cioran

#0137

"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can." "Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958"

#0138

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. H. L. Mencken

#0139

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

#0140

Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again. W.C. Fields

#0141

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. Noel Coward

#0142

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there. Edouard Manet

#0143

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde

#0144

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. Samuel Johnson

#0145

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. Oscar Levant

#0146

"If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies." Fran Lebowitz

#0147

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx

#0148

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. "Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882"

#0149

"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives." Calvin Trillin

#0150

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. Aldous Huxley

#0151

A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized. John Barrymore

#0152

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw

#0153

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. Harry Hershfield

#0154

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. Voltaire

#0155

My heart is pure as the driven slush. Tallulah Bankhead

#0156

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." "Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854"

#0157

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee." Benjamin Franklin

#0158

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. Fran Lebowitz

#0159

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. Jules Renard

#0160

"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." Lord Chesterfield

#0161

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain

#0162

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Martin Mull

#0163

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. Woody Allen

#0164

"A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype" Jean-Michel Jarre

#0165

"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones." Peter De Vries

#0166

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. George Bernard Shaw

#0167

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? Evelyn Waugh

#0168

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers. Charles Chincholles

#0169

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide. Mortimer Caplin

#0170

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. "Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843"

#0171

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. James Agate

#0172

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. Fred Allen

#0173

"One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them." Dwight Eisenhower

#0174

"God must hate common people, because he made them so common." Philip Wylie

#0175

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." W.C. Fields

#0176

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain

#0177

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde

#0178

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. Christopher Morley

#0179

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. "Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903"

#0180

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. Jean Rostand

#0181

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. Leonard Brandwein

#0182

"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." Turkish proverb

#0183

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Mark Twain

#0184

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

#0185

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. Karl Kraus

#0186

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. Anatole France

#0187

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it." "John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850"

#0188

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. I.F. Stone

#0189

Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce

#0190

"Destiny...is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved" William Jennings Bryan

#0191

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. Edmund Burke

#0192

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde

#0193

"The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." Richard Bach

#0194

Health food makes me sick. Calvin Trillin

#0195

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." H. L. Mencken

#0196

"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." "Voltaire, Candide, 1759"

#0197

"Grub first, then ethics." Bertolt Brecht

#0198

"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away." Nancy Mitford

#0199

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. Quentin Crisp

#0200

"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive." William F. Buckley Jr.

#0201

"We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning." "Judie Brown, President, American Life Lobby"

#0202

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest. Jimmy Swaggart

#0203

I think contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure. "Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro-Life Action League"

#0204

"Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again." H. L. Mencken

#0205

History is a set of lies agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

#0206

"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake." Mark Twain

#0207

"Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." Unknown

#0208

Knowledge is power. "Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597"

#0209

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer. Robert Frost

#0210

Obviously something slipped through here. "Reverend John Vaughan, Financial administrator for the Archdiocese of Miami (when asked why they held stock in companies that ma"

#0211

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx

#0212

"Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?" "Woody Allen, ""Without Feathers"""

#0213

The wicked at heart probably know something. "Woody Allen, ""Without Feathers"""

#0214

"Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird." "Woody Allen, ""Without Feathers"""

#0215

"My Lord, my Lord! What hast Thou done, lately?" "Woody Allen, ""Without Feathers"""

#0216

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. Fran Lebowitz

#0217

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

1845"

#0218

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler

#0219

Grief is a species of idleness. Samuel Johnson

#0220

"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones." Machiavelli

#0221

"Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead" James Thurber

#0222

Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses. H. L. Mencken

#0223

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad. R. D. Laing

#0224

War is like love; it always finds a way. Bertolt Brecht

#0225

"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30." Cleveland Amory

#0226

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom Sir Francis Bacon

#0227

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff

#0228

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. Calvin Trillin

#0229

Wife: a former sweetheart. H. L. Mencken

#0230

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. Don DeLillo

#0231 God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. Arthur Koestler

#0232

"Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#0233

It is not enough to succeed; others must fail. Gore Vidal

#0234

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. William Safire

#0235

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde

#0236

"What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us." "President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a ""cooperation of God-fearing free natio"

#0237

"Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril." "President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063"

#0238

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. "President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 pp548-549"

#0239

"It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes..." "Pat Robertson, when asked the question ""Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future"", ""700 Club"" D"

#0240

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land. "President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio"

#0241

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye

#0242

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. H. L. Mencken

#0243

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect." Steven Wright

#0244

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited. unknown

#0245

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." Elbert Hubbard

#0246

A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality. """Scratch"" Garrison"

#0247

"Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul." Joseph Addison

#0248

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem? "William Simpson, A.C.L.U."

#0249

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread." Anatole France

#0250

"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats." "The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985"

#0251

Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries

#0252

"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable." H. L. Mencken

#0253

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening. Unknown

#0254

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile." Hunter S. Thompson

#0255

There is no remedy for love but to love more. "Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839"

#0256

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain

#0257

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson

#0258

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. Heinrich Heine

#0259

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."-Harold S. Kushner

#0260

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan

#0261

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841"

#0262

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. VII Putnam

#0263

"The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk." Oscar Wilde

#0264

"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little." Gore Vidal

#0265

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. Peter De Vries

#0266

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." Bertrand Russell

#0267

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

#0268

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche

#0269

"You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on." Charles Manson

#0270

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith

#0271

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." Logan Pearsall Smith

#0272

"For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex." Gore Vidal

#0273

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

#0274

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. Sir Thomas Browne

#0275

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. Andy Warhol

#0276

Canada: A few acres of snow. Voltaire

#0277

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg. William Hamilton

#0278

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." "Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957"

#0279

"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue." Samuel Butler

#0280

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy Franz Kafka

#0281

"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

#0282

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle." Heinrich Heine

#0283

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. H. L. Mencken

#0284

"I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one." Voltaire

#0285

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy MIT Assasination Club slogan

#0286

"The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy." H. L. Mencken

#0287

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. Groucho Marx

#0288

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Georges Clemenceau

#0289

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. R. D. Laing

#0290

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." "Henry David Thoreau, ""Walden,"" the Conclusion"

#0291

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. "Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, ""Time Enough for Love"""

#0292

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time... "W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885"

#0293

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. Tom Stoppard

#0294

Television: chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright

#0295

Morality is the weakness of the mind. Arthur Rimbaud

#0296

New York: A third-rate Babylon. H. L. Mencken

#0297

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. Oscar Wilde

#0298

Advertising is legalized lying. H.G. Wells

#0299

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle." Rita Mae Brown

#0300

Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God. Jean Rostand

#0301 Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. Lenny Bruce

#0302

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. Peter De Vries

#0303

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. George Bernard Shaw

#0304

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession." George Bernard Shaw

#0305

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. Unknown

#0306

Red is grey and yellow white<br> We decide which is right<br> and which is an illusion. "Moody Blues, ""Tuesday Afternoon"""

#0307

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. Germaine Greer

#0308

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. J.G. Ballard

#0309

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. Jules Feiffer

#0310

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

#0311

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. Oscar Wilde

#0312

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. Sydney Smith

#0313

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. Audrey Giorgi

#0314

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. Sam Levenson

#0315

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. Benito Mussolini

#0316

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche

#0317

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen

#0318

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw

#0319

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends H. L. Mencken

#0320

"Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared." Isaac Newton

#0321

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." Wernher von Braun commenting on bureaucracy

#0322

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde

#0323

"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." "Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)"

#0324

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. Albert Camus

#0325

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. Andre Malraux

#0326

Man is more ape than many of the apes. Friedrich Nietzsche

#0327

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. Sigmund Freud

#0328

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein

#0329

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis

#0330

Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash

#0331

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly

#0332

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Rebecca West

#0333

"Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort." Stephen Leacock

#0334

How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese. Charles de Gaulle

#0335

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K. Chesterton

#0336

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. Fran Lebowitz

#0337

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

#0338

"God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place." J.D. McCoughey

#0339

Men have become fools with their tools. Thomas Elisha Stewart

#0340

Men have become the tools of their tools Henry David Thoreau

#0341

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost? Quentin Crisp

#0342

"For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook." Quentin Crisp

#0343

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp

#0344

"In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel." Mark Twain

#0345

France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams. Thomas Carlyle

#0346

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock

#0347

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde

#0348

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released." Jean Houston

#0349

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde

#0350

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death." "Miyamoto Musashi, 1645"

#0351

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham

#0352

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Benjamin Franklin

#0353

"Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein." Guindon cartoon caption

#0354

"If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there." Unknown

#0355

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. George Orwell

#0356

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. Saki

#0357

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote

#0358

"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going." J.B. Priestley

#0359

"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going." J.B. Priestley

#0360

I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

#0361

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. Arthur Schopenhauer

#0362

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

#0363

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. Don Marquis

#0364

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H.G. Wells

#0365

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. Alfred Hitchcock

#0366

"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it." Wilson Mizner

#0367

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. Jack Paar

#0368

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand." Woodrow Wilson

#0369

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw

#0370

"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero." "Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem"

#0371

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." "Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827"

#0372

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. "Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races - 1936"

#0373

"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills." Voltaire

#0374

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler

#0375

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do. Jerome K. Jerome

#0376

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)

#0377

A cult is a religion with no political power Tom Wolfe

#0378

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. Samuel Johnson

#0379

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims. Dana Hatch

#0380

"My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself." Emo Philips

#0381

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are. Victor Lownes

#0382

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. Saint Theresa of Jesus

#0383

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

#0384

Jesus was a crackpot. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - San Francisco Chronicle 12/17/85

#0385

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. Friedrich Nietzsche

#0386

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy

#0387

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry

#0388

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors." Simone Weil

#0389

"When I hear the word ""culture"" I reach for my gun." Hans Johst (c. 1939)

#0390

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman

#0391

"College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." H. L. Mencken

#0392

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. Rita Mae Brown

#0393

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. John Updike

#0394

Nothing fails like success. Gerald Nachman

#0395

Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams

#0396

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Oscar Wilde

#0397

"So little time, so little to do." Oscar Levant

#0398

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. Dick Gregory

#0399

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists. Don Marquis

#0400

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. George F. Will

#0401

It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain

#0402

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. Horace Smith

#0403

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married. George Bernard Shaw

#0404

"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." Philip Sheridan

#0405

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde

#0406

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. Woody Allen

#0407

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken

#0408

"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about." George Santayana

#0409

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." Wilson Mizner

#0410

"When in doubt, duck." Malcolm Forbes

#0411

Our best work is done when it needs to be. F. Phelps

#0412

There is no free lunch. Milton Friedman

#0413

"Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral." Unknown

#0414

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. Adela Rogers St. Johns

#0415

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill

#0416

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire

#0417

"If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books." Alan King

#0418

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery. George Jean Nathan

#0419

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way. Kit Carson

#0420

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Voltaire

#0421

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. H. L. Mencken

#0422

Sin is geographical. Bertrand Russell

#0423

"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves." J.B. Priestley

#0424

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. Oscar Wilde

#0425

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. Bertolt Brecht

#0426

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal. Rebecca West

#0427

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants. Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

#0428

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. Joseph Conrad

#0429

"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words." Fran Lebowitz

#0430

"My work is done, why wait?" "Kodak founder George Eastman, in his suicide note"

#0431

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. Unknown

#0432

Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult. Actor Edmund Gwenn

#0433

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. Unknown

#0434

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy. Karl Kraus

#0435

No statue has ever been put up to a critic. Jean Sibelius

#0436

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton

#0437

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

#0438

"My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked." "Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983"

#0439

Television is democracy at its ugliest. Paddy Chayefsky

#0440

"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms." Alan Corenk

#0441

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A.J. Liebling

#0442

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw

#0443

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw

#0444

"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public." George Bernard Shaw

#0445

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." George Bernard Shaw

#0446

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. Unknown

#0447

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed." Bertrand Russell

#0448

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell

#0449

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so. Bertrand Russell

#0450

All movements go too far. Bertrand Russell

#0451

Optimism is the content of small men in high places. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#0452

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#0453

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.S amuel Taylor Coleridge

#0454

How could I lose to such an idiot? A shout from chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzovich

#0455

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. Nancy Reagan

#0456

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright

#0457

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture. Mick Lloyd Kerman

#0458

I would have made a good Pope. Richard M. Nixon

#0459

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner

#0460

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. Roy Blount Jr.

#0461

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. Guy Davenport

#0462

Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others. Marcel Ophuls

#0463

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

#0464

"Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off." Lyndon Baines Johnson

#0465

"Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, ""Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.""" "Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy"

#0466

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job. Ronald Reagan in 1973

#0467

"Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence." David Steinberg

#0468

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." George Eliot

#0469

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. Dwight David Eisenhower

#0470

"Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." Logan Pearsall Smith

#0471

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Oscar Wilde

#0472

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. Gioacchino Rosini

#0473

"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." Socrates

#0474

"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable." Plato

#0475

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle

#0476

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. "St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)"

#0477

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." Ralph Waldo Emerson

#0478

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin. The Talmud

#0479

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead. Thomas B. Reed

#0480

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal

#0481

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock

#0482

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw

#0483

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste. Bertolt Brecht

#0484

"Bibo, ergo sum. - I drink, therefore I am" Fredirect Toyou

#0485

"Cogito ergo spud. - I think, therefore I yam" "Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980"

#0486

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw

#0487

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." "Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli"

#0488

"Most religions do not make men better, only warier." Elias Canetti

#0489

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken

#0490

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared. "Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802"

#0491

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." Napoleon Bonaparte

#0492

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Sir Winston Churchill

#0493

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed." Sir Winston Churchill

#0494

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. W.C. Fields

#0495

Vote early and vote often. Al Capone

#0496

"An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation." "Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933"

#0497

"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

#0498

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. "Henry David Thoreau, ""An Essay on Civil Disobedience,"" 1849."

#0499

#1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things. "California Civil Code, ""Object of a Contract"""

#0500

#3528. The law respects form less than substance. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0501

#3529. That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0502

#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0503

#3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0504

#3533. The law disregards trifles. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0505

#3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0506

#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0507

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. Unknown

#0508

#3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0509

#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature. "California Civil Code, ""Maxims of Jurisprudence"""

#0510

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato

#0511

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain

#0512

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. Fred Allen

#0513

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Fred Allen

#0514

Do we really deserve top billing? Fred Allen

#0515

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security." "Thomas Paine, in his ""The Rights of Man"" (1791)"

#0516

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. " Robert Heinlein

#0517

The less government we have the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#0518

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government..." Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

#0519

...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense. "John Adams, (Diary, 1786)"

#0520

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

#0521

A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. "Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787"

#0522

"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." "Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)"

#0523

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." Charles De Gaulle

#0524

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

#0525

"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend." Doug Larson

#0526

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Unknown

#0527

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." Marian Evans

#0528

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. Oscar Wilde

#0529

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh

#0530

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too." Anton Chekhov

#0531

"I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God." "Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850"

#0532

"Bad spellers of the world, untie!" Grafitto

#0533

Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart. Stephen Price

#0534

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Max Weinreich

#0535

"In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact." Marlene Dietrich

#0536

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz

#0537

"This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go." Unknown

#0538

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. John Updike

#0539

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)

#0540

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Quentin Crisp

#0541

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. Oscar Wilde

#0542

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

#0543

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails." Richard Rybolt

#0544

What a time! What a civilization! Cicero

#0545

"Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!" Catullus

#0546

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand. Ovid

#0547

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)

#0548

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys. Marcus Valerius Martialis

#0549

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. Menander

#0550

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Cicero

#0551

A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race. "Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934"

#0552

"(Of Jesus): ""A parish demogogue.""" Shelley (Queen Mab)

#0553

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool." Albert Camus

#0554

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. "Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)"

#0555

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James

#0556

"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties." George Bernard Shaw

#0557

"A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce." Don Quinn

#0558

"When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion." Voltaire

#0559

"On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime." Unknown

#0560

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. La Rochefoucauld

#0561

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines. (Anon.)

#0562

"Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself." Elie Wiesel

#0563

A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for. John A. Shedd

#0564

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. Wodehouse

#0565

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham

#0566

"We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby." W. Somerset Maugham

#0567

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped." Sam Levenson

#0568

"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

#0569

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. From The Last Goon Show of All

#0570

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell

#0571

"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards." "Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor"

#0572

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay

#0573

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." Paul Gauguin

#0574

"Men and women, women and men. It will never work." Erica Jong

#0575

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Gloria Steinem

#0576

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary

#0577

Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. Mark Twain

#0578

"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

#0579

"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say." Jean Cocteau

#0580

"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire."Voltaire

#0581 What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers. "The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)"

#0582

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Sir Winston Churchill

#0583

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Robert Byrne

#0584

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger

#0585

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw

#0586

"J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,"

It will fluctuate.

#0587

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." Oscar Wilde

#0588

"Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead." "The Residents ""Duck Stab"":Bach is Dead"

#0589

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

#0590

"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them." "Joseph Heller, ""Catch-22"""

#0591

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.H . L. Mencken

#0592

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Robert Byrne

#0593

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? Calvin Trillin

#0594

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. Oscar Wilde

#0595

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller

#0596

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize." George Bernard Shaw

#0597 To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley

#0598

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin

#0599

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle

#0600

The gods too are fond of a joke Aristotle

#0601

He was a wise man who invented God. Plato

#0602

Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle

#0603

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these Ovid

#0604

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain

#0605

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. Alfred Jarry

#0606

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. Abraham Lincoln

#0607

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. C. S. Lewis

#0608

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. Arnold H. Glasgow

#0609

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point"

#0610

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. Unknown

#0611

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. Howard Newton

#0612

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud

#0613

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller

#0614

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. Dave Barry

#0615

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

#0616

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Sir Winston Churchill

#0617

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? Irv Kupcinet

#0618

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. John Wayne

#0619

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." Stephen Crane

#0620

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson, cartoonist

#0621

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#0622

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud

#0623

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

#0624

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. General Robert E. Lee

#0625

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

#0626

We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion. Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory"

#0627

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Saint Jerome

#0628

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, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"

#0629

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell

#0630

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. Eric Berne

#0631

Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES! George Herbert Walker Bush, Nov. 1988

#0632

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. Mark Twain

#0633

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire

#0634

A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire

#0635

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary

#0636

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen

#0637

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S Truman

#0638

Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year. Victor Borges

#0639

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed. I.F. Stone 1907-1989

#0640

Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth. The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence

#0641

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

#0642

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Darrow

#0643

Come quickly, I am tasting stars! Dom Perignon, at the moment of his discovery of champagne

#0644

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. Benny Hill

#0645

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. Anton Chekhov

#0646

Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival. Jonathan Miller

#0647

Gifts are like hooks. Marcus Valerius Martialis

#0648

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Frank Zappa

#0649

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken

#0650

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard

#0651

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde

#0652

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist. Truman Capote

#0653

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. Oscar Wilde

#0654

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. Russell Baker

#0655

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. Peter De Vries

#0656

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones

#0657

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde

#0658

I knew her before she was a virgin. Oscar Levant

#0659

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. Alex Comfort

#0660

Celibacy is not hereditary. Guy Goden

#0661

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder. The Clown Prince of Darkness

#0662

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues.<br> ("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.") Plautus

#0663

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities. Tom Robbins

#0664

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. Karl Kraus

#0665

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself Sir Richard F. Burton

#0666

Justice is incedental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover

#0667

Reading musses up my mind. Henry Ford

#0668Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

#0669

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. LeGuin

#0670

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. Cato, Roman statesman and historian

#0671

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. Clarence Thomas

#0672

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. George Bernard Shaw

#0673

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. Voltaire

#0674

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift

#0675

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Peter Ustinov

#0676

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. Arnold Toynbee

#0677

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. Jim Samuels

#0678

When I get smitten, I stay smut. Charlie McCarthy

#0679

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. Quentin Crisp

#0680

War is the biggest ego trip of all time. Molly Wiest

#0681

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. Chuck Norris

#0682

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. Lord Byron

#0683

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all. Jean-Francois Rameau

#0684
all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other." H.P. Lovecraft

#0685

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde

#0686

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

#0687

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"

#0688

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. Karl Kraus

#0689

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#0690

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. Florynce Kennedy

#0691

Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. Admiral Hyman Rickover

#0692

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. Maurice Chevalier

#0693

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche

#0694

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. G. Gordon Liddy

#0695

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. Voltaire

#0696

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. Sir Winston Churchill

#0697

All children are essentially criminal. Denis Diderot

#0698

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#0699

Thank God kids never mean well Lily Tomlin

#0700

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber

#0701

Lactomangulation, Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side. Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

#0702

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. Groucho Marx

#0703

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov

#0704

Shut up he explained. Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrants, 1920

#0705

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend

#0706

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. Jay Leno

#0707

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. Oscar Wilde

#0708

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. Malcolm De Chazal

#0709

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham

#0710

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles de Gaulle

#0711

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath. Oscar Levant

#0712

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

#0713

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars." Johnny Carson

#0714

"Hello," he lied. Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent

#0715

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea. Tom K. Ryan

#0716

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis

#0717

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. Sir Winston Churchill

#0718

Alas, I am dying beyond my means. Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed

#0719

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. Thomas Carlyle

#0720

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Beckett

#0721

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. Oscar Levant

#0722

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings

#0723

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. Voltaire

#0724

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian. Mark Twain

#0725

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance. Henri De Regnier

#0726

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. Friedrich Nietzsche

#0727

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. George Bernard Shaw

#0728

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie. Mark Twain

#0729

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower

#0730

In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant. Will Durst

#0731

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles. Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979

#0732

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#0733

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde

#0734

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Arthur Ward

#0735

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. Mark Twain

#0736

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. e. e. cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923

#0737

Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from Mrs. L. Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#0738

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding. Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981

#0739

A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. Laurence J. Peter

#0740

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. Laurence J. Peter

#0741

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Cyril Connolly

#0742

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato

#0743

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Will Durant

#0744

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)

#0745

I think it would be a good idea. Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

#0746

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him. H. L. Mencken

#0747

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. Plato

#0748

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal The National, Paris, 1850

#0749

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion. The Tribune, Berlin, 1871

#0750

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. Eduard Hanslick

#0751

Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows. P.A. Fiorentino

#0752

"9W"Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner? Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show

#0753

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe

#0754Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Evelyn Waugh

#0755

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. H.H. Munro (Saki)

#0756

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

#0757

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France

#0758

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#0759

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. Henry Fielding

#0760

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. James Beard

#0761

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. Bertrand Russell

#0762

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln

#0763

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner

#0764

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw

#0765

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. Jean Anouilh

#0766 We learn from history that we do not learn from history. Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

#0767

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Herodotus

#0768

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation. George Bernard Shaw

#0769

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton

#0770

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. George Bernard Shaw

#0771

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. Samuel Johnson

#0772

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. Oscar Wilde

#0773

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. John F. Kennedy

#0774

Spring makes everything look filthy. Katherine Whitehorn

#0775

Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods. Jack Warner

#0776

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. Alexander Woollcott

#0777

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Lenny Bruce

#0778

The worshiper is the father of the gods. H. L. Mencken

#0779

Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. H. L. Mencken

#0780

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. H. L. Mencken

#0781

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. David McCullough

#0782

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

#0783

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. A.A. Milne

#0784

The people are to be taken in very small doses. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#0785

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Eric Hoffer

#0786

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar. Luis Bunuel

#0787

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. Oliver Herford

#0788

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.

#0789

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. Michael Winner, British film director

#0790

You have to have a talent for having talent. Ruth Gordon

#0791

Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love. John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956

#0792

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. Norman Mailer

#0793

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. Oscar Wilde

#0794

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. Woody Allen, Annie Hall

#0795

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart

#0796

How could I lose to such an idiot? Aaron Nimzovich, A shout from the chess grandmaster

#0797

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. Chateaubriand

#0798

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. Unknown

#0799

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. Herb Caen

#0800

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. Quentin Crisp

#0801

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other. Voltaire

#0802

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. Mark Twain

#0803

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

#0804

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. Cyril Connolly

#0805

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins. Heywood Broun

#0806

Memory feeds imagination. Amy Tan

#0807

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

#0808

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. Peter De Vries

#0809

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them. Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher

#0810

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy

#0811

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

#0812

We become what we think about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#0813

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare

#0814

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

#0815

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

#0816

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. Eykis

#0817

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

#0818

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein

#0819

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau

#0820

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (St. Luke 2:1)

#0821

Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals. Will Rogers

#0822

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. Erving Goffman

#0823

Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and s substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?Peg Bracken

#0824

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away. John S. Coleman

#0825

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes

#0826

An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt. Fred Allen

#0827

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further. Wernher Von Braun

#0828

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. Jean Baptiste Colbert

#0829

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. George Bernard Shaw

#0830

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana

#0831

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves. George Orwell

#0832

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin. George Wither

#0833

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

#0834

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Dame Edith Sitwell

#0835

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. Katharine Whitehorn

#0836

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements

#0837

Hurting people is my business. Sugar Ray Robinson

#0838

My toughest fight was with my first wife. Muhammad Ali

#0839

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

#0840

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. Unknown

#0841

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out. Unknown

#0842

A big book is a big bore. Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)

#0843

This book fills a much needed gap. Moses Hadas

#0844

I have read your book and much like it. Moses Hadas

#0845

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. Igor Stravinsky

#0846

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard

#0847

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow. Mouth organist Larry Adler

#0848

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Thomas Jefferson

#0849

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas. S.J. Perelman

#0850

Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.) Robert Byrne

#0851

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. Alexander Pope

#0852

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. Christopher Isherwood

#0853

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. Benjamin Disraeli

#0854

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. Karl Kraus

#0855

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw

#0856

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. J.B. Priestley

#0857

God is love, but get it in writing. Gypsy Rose Lee

#0858

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God. John D. Rockefeller

#0859

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

#0860

A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money. Senator Everett Dirksen

#0861

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. Gottfried Reinhardt

#0862

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. George Bernard Shaw

#0863

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. Helen Rowland

#0864

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. H. L. Mencken

#0865

Every law is an infraction of liberty. Jeremy Bentham

#0866

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

#0867

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. A.A. Milne

#0868

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world. Idi Amin

#0869

What luck for rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler

#0870

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad. Marcel Proust

#0871

The only paradise is paradise lost. Marcel Proust

#0872

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. George Orwell

#0873

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word. Ian Shoales

#0874

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin

#0875

It is most unwise for people in love to marry George Bernard Shaw

#0876

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Dr. Karl Bowman

#0877

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. Professor Irwin Corey

#0878

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Sir Winston Churchill

#0879

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw

#0880

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. Richard Burton

#0881

Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. Quentin Crisp

#0882

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. J.G. Ballard

#0883

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. Evan Davis

#0884

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. Lyman Beecher

#0885

I married beneath me - all women do. Nancy Astor

#0886

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. Unknown

#0887

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer

#0888

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. Fred Allen

#0889

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx

#0890

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. Chauncey Depew

#0891

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Voltaire

#0892

This poem will never reach its destination. Voltaire

#0893

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing

#0894

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. Voltaire

#0895

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. Groucho Marx

#0896

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. Groucho Marx

#0897

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Georges Clemenceau

#0898

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Georges Clemenceau

#0899

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. Blake Clark

#0900

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions. Maurice Chapelain

#0901

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. H. L. Mencken

#0902

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot

#0903

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. Karl Marx

#0904

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. Diogenes the Cynic (412 to 323 B.C.)

#0905

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? Ronnie Shakes

#0906

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger

#0907

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. George Bernard Shaw

#0908

When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. H. Allen Smith

#0909

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. H. L. Mencken

#0910

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead

#0911

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde

#0912

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin

#0913

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. Gustave Flaubert

#0914

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Herodotus

#0915

History is bunk. Henry Ford

#0916

Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze. Unknown

#0917

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football. Fran Lebowitz

#0918

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. Hasidic Saying

#0919

A married man with a family will do anything for money. Charles De Talleyrand

#0920

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw

#0921

Few great men could pass Personnel. Paul Goodman

#0922

Great men are not always idiots Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#0923

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. H. L. Mencken

#0924

There is more to life than increasing its speed Mahatma Gandhi

#0925

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval George Santayana

#0926

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Joseph P. Thompson

#0927

I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it. Steven Wright

#0928

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. Arthur Balfour

#0929

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. St. Jerome

#0930

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations. Saint Augustine

#0931

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. Malcolm Muggeridge

#0932

I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber

#0933

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. P. G. Wodehouse

#0934

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties. Oscar Wilde

#0935

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. G.K. Chesterton

#0936

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

#0937

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson

#0938

Truth is shorter than fiction. Irving Cohen

#0939

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin

#0940

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. Saul Bellow

#0941

Love will find a lay. Robert Byrne

#0942

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. Dorothy Parker

#0943

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Chinese Proverb

#0944

Favorite animal: steak. Fran Lebowitz

#0945

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. Jose Simon

#0946

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead. Woody Allen

#0947

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell

#0948

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love. Andre Maurois

#0949

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. H. L. Mencken

#0950

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#0951

In the long run we are all dead. John Maynard Keynes

#0952

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them Anatole France

#0953

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. Mort Sahl

#0954

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. Brigid Brophy

#0955

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery

#0956

Most of our future lies ahead. Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

#0957

The future is much like the present, only longer. Don Quisenberry

#0958

Do it big or stay in bed. Opera producer Larry Kelly

#0959

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. H. L. Mencken

#0960

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. Jawaharlal Nehru

#0961

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

#0962

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. Quentin Crisp

#0963

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy

#0964

In the mirror like relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own "true" nature might never be known. David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel

#0965

Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981

#0966

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution. H. L. Mencken

#0967

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. Jacopo Sannazaro

#0968

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. E.M. Cioran

#0969

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. Samuel Johnson

#0970

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject. Elija Lovejoy

#0971

Newspapers should have no friends. Joseph Pulitzer

#0972

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder. David Brower

#0973

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. Andre Malraux

#0974

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. D. H. Lawrence

#0975

Class is material consumed. John Trudell

#0976

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? Cyril Connolly

#0977

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. Aldous Huxley

#0978

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain

#0979

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash. John Berger

#0980

Not everybody has to sing the melody. Pete Seeger

#0981

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Robert Graves

#0982

Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless. Leo Tolstoy

#0983

I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. J.M. Barrie

#0984

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us. Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)

#0985

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now. Kenneth Patchen

#0986

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. Joseph Addison

#0987

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus

#0988

What once were vices are manners now. Seneca

#0989

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead

#0990

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold

#0991

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women. Richard Benner

#0992

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. Evelyn Waugh

#0993

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw

#0994

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings

#0995

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. Jimmy Cannon

#0996

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. Oscar Wilde

#0997

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. Wilson Mizner

#0998

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice. John Barrymore

#0999

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. Roger Moore

#1000

England produces the best fat actors. Jimmy Cannon

#1001

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. Josef von Sternberg

#1002

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing. Unknown

#1003

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero

#1004

California: The west coast of Iowa. Joan Didion

#1005

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. Mell Lazzarus

#1006

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse. Jules Renard

#1007

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. Voltaire

#1008

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. H. L. Mencken

#1009

Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery. Unknown

#1010

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T.S. Eliot

#1011

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T.S. Eliot

#1012

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T.S. Eliot

#1013

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation

#1014

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1015

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. H.H. Munro (Saki)

#1016

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them. Thomas C. Haliburton

#1017

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain

#1018

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain

#1019

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards Mark Twain

#1020

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Viscount Morley

#1021

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde

#1022

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Mahatma Gandhi

#1023

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. George Bernard Shaw

#1024

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. Truman Capote

#1025

When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns. Raymond Chandler

#1026

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. Oscar Wilde

#1027

Henry James chews more than he bites off. Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)

#1028

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. William Faulkner

#1029

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. H. L. Mencken

#1030

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together. Wilfred Sheed

#1031

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. Vernon Sanders Law

#1032

How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table. Unknown

#1033

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands. Sacha Guitry

#1034

Love: two minds without a single thought. Philip Barry

#1035

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. Kin Hubbard

#1036

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. Mark Twain

#1037

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry

#1038

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today. Abigail Van Buren

#1039

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. Joseph F. Newton

#1040

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. Granville Hicks

#1041

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)

#1042

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings

#1043 It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you. Mark Twain

#1044

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Mark Twain

#1045

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

#1046

Two people kissing always look like fish. Andy Warhol

#1047

Life is good, if you like that sort of thing. overheard in Palo Alto...

#1048

Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant. Kent "Sparky" Gregory

#1049

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce. Mark Twain

#1050

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. Fran Lebowitz

#1051

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. Samuel Johnson

#1052

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. J. Robert Oppenheimer

#1053

Be as radical as reality. Lenin

#1054
it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson

#1055

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today. Richard Nixon

#1056

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young

#1057

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend Ronnie Hawkins

#1058

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen

#1059

If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain

#1060

Genius is of no country. Charles Churchill

#1061

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw

#1062

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. Edith Wharton

#1063

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. H. L. Mencken

#1064

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. Oscar Wilde

#1065

No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate. H. L. Mencken

#1066

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. Mel Lazarus

#1067

Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly? Howard Zinn

#1068

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob. Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

#1069

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller

#1070

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. Fred Allen

#1071

Divorces are made in heaven. Oscar Wilde

#1072

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Babington Macaulay

#1073

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. Zsa Zsa Gabor

#1074

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

#1075

Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. Evelyn Waugh

#1076

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal Woody Allen

#1077

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. Samuel Johnson

#1078

The major sin is the sin of being born. Samuel Beckett

#1079

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem

#1080

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt

#1081

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde

#1082

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it. Mark Twain

#1083

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. Chesterton

#1084

The 100% American is 99% an idiot. George Bernard Shaw

#1085

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism. Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915

#1086

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. George Santayana

#1087

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne

#1088

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. Samuel Johnson

#1089

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. Calvin Trillin

#1090

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren

#1091

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

#1092

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. Jorge Luis Borges

#1093

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#1094

All general statements are false. Unknown, The Ultimate Law

#1095

Favorite color: I hate colors. Ian Shoales

#1096

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. Christopher Morley

#1097

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Wilson Mizner

#1098

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Laurence J. Peter

#1099

Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. H. L. Mencken

#1100

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. Homer

#1101

Nobody wants justice. Alan Dershowitz

#1102

Lawers, I suppose, were children once. Charles Lamb

#1103

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. George Bernard Shaw

#1104

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

#1105

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery

#1106

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. David T. Wolf

#1107

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman

#1108

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. H. L. Mencken

#1109

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. Corra Harris

#1110

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. Lily Tomlin

#1111

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. Samuel Johnson

#1112

...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable. James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

#1113

As if there were safety in stupidity alone. Henry David Thoreau

#1114

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet. Jeremy Rifkin

#1115

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen

#1116

I epitomize America. John Denver

#1117

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. Adela Rogers St.John

#1118

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer. Donna Summer

#1119

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions. Herbert Schiller

#1120

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile. Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

#1121

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Oscar Wilde

#1122

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. W. Somerset augham

#1123

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell

#1124

The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal. Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

#1125

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard

#1126

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. H. L. Mencken

#1127

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein

#1128

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes

#1129

For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class. Hans Konig

#1130

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Nicholas Chamfort

#1131

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. A. Sachs

#1132

The world is proof that God is a committee. Bob Stokes

#1133

How should they answer? Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?"

#1134

We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi. Woody Allen

#1135

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." Margaret "Stevie" Smith

#1136

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. Michel de Montaigne

#1137

A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were. Jean de La Bruyere

#1138

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery

#1139

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. George Bernard Shaw

#1140

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation. Peter S. Prescott

#1141

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. Millicent Fenwick

#1142

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. Jules Renard

#1143

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. P.D. James

#1144

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

#1145

In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us. Connie Chung to Johnny Carson

#1146

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. Joaquin Setanti

#1147

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#1148

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A. Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"

#1149

California, the department store state. Raymond Chandler

#1150

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. H. L. Mencken

#1151

The mistakes are all there waiting to be made. Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower

#1152

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower

#1153

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett

#1154

I only drink to make other people seem interesting. George Jean Nathan

#1155

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

#1156

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Bernard M. Baruch

#1157

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Oscar Wilde

#1158

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands. H. L. Mencken

#1159

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Dwight Morrow

#1160

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television. Walter Slezak

#1161

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. H. L. Mencken

#1162

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. R. H. Grant

#1163

"The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. Ashley Montague

#1164

Art is I; science is we. Claude Bernard

#1165

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. Juvenal

#1166

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. Sacha Guitry

#1167

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas

#1168

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets

#1169

Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch

#1170

A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. Helen Rowland

#1171

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw

#1172

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. Joseph Conrad

#1173

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde

#1174

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Margot Asquith

#1175

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert Orben

#1176

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. W.C. Fields

#1177

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. Budd Schulberg

#1178

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert Byrne

#1179

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. The laws of Manu

#1180

He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. Ogden Nash

#1181

(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids. Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove

#1182

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. C.G. Jung

#1183

Half of analysis is anal. Marty Indik

#1184

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? Vladimir Nabokov

#1185

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Jim Beggs

#1186

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate. Oscar Levant

#1187

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. Stephen Leacock

#1188

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. Mortimer Adler

#1189

Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. Charles V

#1190

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. General George Patton

#1191

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin

#1192

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. Charles V

#1193

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing. Voltaire

#1194

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. H. L. Mencken

#1195

Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

#1196

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. Evelyn Waugh

#1197

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

#1198

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines

#1199

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb. Benny Hill

#1200

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create. Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.

#1201

I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams. Ernest Coquelin

#1202

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Charles F. Kettering

#1203

Good taste is the enemy of creativity Pablo Picasso

#1204

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. George Bernard Shaw

#1205

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects. Stephen Leacock, 1912

#1206

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. Robert Byrne

#1207

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. Miguel Cervantes

#1208

I hate quotations. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1209

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andrew A. Rooney

#1210

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. Alexander Pope

#1211

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde

#1212

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. H.H. Munro (Saki)

#1213

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Proverbs 7:17-18

#1214

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence J. Peter

#1215

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. Frank Dane

#1216

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. George Burns

#1217

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Josh Billings

#1218

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries. H. L. Mencken

#1219

What if there had been room at the inn? Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity

#1220

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Jules Feiffer

#1221

Religions change; beer and wine remain. Hervey Allen

#1222

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

#1223

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either. Robert Graves

#1224

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. Poet Louise Bogan

#1225

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. The Book of Joshua 6:21

#1226

Reason should direct and appetite obey. Cicero

#1227

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was. Margo Kaufman

#1228

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. Israel Zangwill

#1229

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Franz Kafka

#1230

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. Karl Kraus

#1231

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus

#1232

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche

#1233

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. Marcel Proust

#1234

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi

#1235

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another. H. L. Mencken

#1236

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor

#1237

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together... Carl Zwanzig

#1238

Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil. H. L. Mencken

#1239

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Sir Winston Churchill

#1240

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

#1241

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. Alexander Haig

#1242

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. Mark Twain

#1243

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W. Somerset Maugham

#1244

The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing. Marcel Proust

#1245

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. John Lilly

#1246

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw

#1247

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

#1248

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. George Bernard Shaw

#1249

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier

#1250

But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"

#1251

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W.C. Fields

#1252

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain

#1253

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

#1254

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole

#1255

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. Bobby Knight

#1256

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson

#1257

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. John Ciardi

#1258

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Oscar Wilde

#1259

Now is the time for all good men to come to. Walt Kelly

#1260

I am not an Economist. I am an honest man! Paul McCracken

#1261

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. H. L. Mencken

#1262

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. Wilfrid Sheed

#1263

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. Finley Peter Dunne

#1264

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. Quentin Crisp

#1265

Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte

#1266

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Ben Hecht

#1267

Candy<br>Is dandy<br>But liquor<br>Is quicker. Ogden Nash, "Reflections on Ice-Breaking"

#1268

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig. Ogden Nash, "The Pig"

#1269

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club. Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association

#1270

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. Darin Weinberg

#1271

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Charles Caleb Colton

#1272

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

#1273

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. Paul Fussell

#1274

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Kissinger

#1275

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run. Mark Twain

#1276

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. Irwin Edman

#1277

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. Unknown

#1278

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. Karl Kraus

#1279

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions. Robert Ardrey

#1280

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1281

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. Alexandre Dumas, fils

#1282

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. Fran Lebowitz

#1283

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. Charles Ives

#1284

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. Mark Twain

#1285

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. John Kenneth Galbraith

#1286

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. Oscar Wilde

#1287

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton

#1288

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. Arnold Bennett

#1289

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. H. L. Mencken

#1290

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. James A. Garfield

#1291

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. H. L. Mencken

#1292

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Sir Winston Churchill

#1293

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour

#1294

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. Unknown

#1295

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. Unknown

#1296

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art. Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

#1297

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. G.K. Chesterton

#1298

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

#1299

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. Sir Robert Hutchison

#1300

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

#1301

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen

#1302

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". H. Allen Smith

#1303

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. H. L. Mencken

#1304

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. George Bernard Shaw

#1305

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. Dorothy Parker

#1306

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. Roy Blount Jr.

#1307

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Unknown

#1308

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. Abraham Lincoln

#1309

... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ... D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man"

#1310

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. Matthew Green (c. 1737)

#1311

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Albert Einstein

#1312

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. E.M. Cioran

#1313

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. H. L. Mencken

#1314

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. Oscar Wilde

#1315

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. Paul Fussell

#1316

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde

#1317

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

#1318

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller. Leo Rosten

#1319

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. Fred Allen

#1320

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes. Denis de Rougemont

#1321

Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down. Naomi Bliven

#1322

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander

#1323

He grounds the warship he walks on. John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983

#1324

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say. Benjamin Jowett

#1325

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them! Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson

#1326

Be careful in revising those immigration laws of yours. We got careless with ours. advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New Mexico

#1327

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler

#1328

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. Pierre Corneille

#1329Actions lie louder than words. Carolyn Wells

#1330

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking. Jerome Lettvin

#1331

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. Elinor Glyn

#1332

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler

#1333

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

#1334

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery

#1335

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman. Adela Rogers St. Johns

#1336

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa

#1337

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. Unknown

#1338

The police always wanting to play games. Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"

#1339

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw

#1340

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wilde

#1341

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. Don Marquis

#1342

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell. H. L. Mencken

#1343

Deeds, not words shall speak me. John Fletcher

#1344

Death: To stop sinning suddenly. Elbert Hubbard

#1345

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

#1346

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill

#1347

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson

#1348

If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment? Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991

#1349

Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. senators. Will Rogers

#1350

The classes that wash most are those that work least. G.K. Chesterton

#1351

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back. Robert Frost

#1352

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton

#1353

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler

#1354

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. H. L. Mencken

#1355

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln

#1356

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes. Robert Louis Stevenson

#1357

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. Finley Peter Dunne

#1358

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Mark Twain

#1359

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Thomas Babington Macaulay

#1360

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

#1361

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Dame Edith Sitwell

#1362

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. H. G. Wells

#1363

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. Thomas H. Huxley

#1364

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century. F.W. Lawvere

#1365

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. Oscar Wilde

#1366

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. Michael Wilding

#1367

Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment. Arthur Gingold

#1368

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. Quentin Crisp

#1369

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children. Clarence Darrow

#1370

Virtue is its own punishment. Aneurin Bevan

#1371

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb

#1372

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. Claud Cockburn

#1373

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein

#1374

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends. Lord Chesterfield

#1375

I am a deeply superficial person. Andy Warhol

#1376

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. William Feather

#1377

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. Tim Bedore

#1378

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. Max L. Forman

#1379

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. Nelson Rockefeller

#1380

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. Thorstein Veblen

#1381

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

#1382

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him. J.B. Priestley

#1383

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife. Elbert Hubbard

#1384

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#1385

Ignorance is the mother of admiration. George Chapman

#1386

Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. Bette-Jane Raphael

#1387

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. Lady Violet Bonham Carter

#1388

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty. Samuel Butler

#1389

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler

#1390

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler

#1391

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. Nancy Mitford

#1392

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another H. L. Mencken

#1393

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall. David Chambless

#1394

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. Thomas Jefferson

#1395

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. Henry David Thoreau

#1396

The love of money is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw

#1397

To some lawyers all facts are created equal. Felix Frankfurter

#1398

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. Alvin Dark, former baseball coach

#1399

I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill. Casey Stengel

#1400

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt

#1401

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen

#1402

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Dolores Ibarruri, September 3, 1936

#1403

Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of. Robert Benchley

#1404

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life. Gustave Flaubert

#1405

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. H. L. Mencken

#1406

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Don Marquis

#1407

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. Ed McMahon

#1408

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. Samuel Johnson

#1409

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. T.H. Buxley

#1410

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. W. R. Inge

#1411

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. George Santayana

#1412

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France

#1413

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. Albert Camus

#1414

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. Logan Pearsall Smith

#1415

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

#1416

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. Benjamin Franklin

#1417

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. Jim Grue

#1418

Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell

#1419

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. Fred Allen

#1420

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. Hermione Gingold

#1421

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. Mark Twain

#1422

Money is always there, but the pockets change. Gertrude Stein

#1423

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding

#1424

I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not. Jules Renard

#1425

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. Mark Twain

#1426

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion. Nicolas Boileau

#1427

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. George Bernard Shaw

#1428

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. Oscar Wilde

#1429

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. George Bernard Shaw

#1430

A dollar saved is a quarter earned. John Ciardi

#1431

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift

#1432

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. G.K. Chesterton

#1433

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. Biologist P. B. Medawar

#1434

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#1435

The Green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside. Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R-Fullerton

#1436

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry Adams

#1437

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. Oscar Levant

#1438

Promote yourself, but do not demote another. Israel Salanter

#1439

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late. H. L. Mencken

#1440

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. Oscar Wilde

#1441

Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center. Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

#1442

Etymology, n Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow." Mike Kellen

#1443

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Mark Twain

#1444

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.... Ian Shoales

#1445

Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter. G.K. Chesterton

#1446

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Will Rogers

#1447

The wages of sin are unreported. Unknown

#1448

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end. Helen Rowland

#1449

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. Sir Francis Bacon

#1450

Oh, what lies there are in kisses! Heinrich Heine

#1451

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. W. R. Inge

#1452

Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am Kayvan Sylvan

#1453

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost

#1454

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once. Quentin Crisp

#1455

I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

#1456

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. Thomas H. Huxley

#1457

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. Dag Hammarskjold

#1458

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

#1459

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails. H. L. Mencken

#1460

I am not young enough to know everything. J.M. Barrie

#1461

The impotence of God is infinite. Anatole France

#1462

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard

#1463

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. George Bernard Shaw

#1464

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. Isaac Stern

#1465

Only sick music makes money today. Friedrich Nietzsche

#1466

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust

#1467

Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana

#1468

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Richard Atlee, British prime minister (1945-1951)

#1469

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. Sir Henry Wotton

#1470

A communist is a person who publicly airs his dirty Lenin. Jack Pomeroy

#1471

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time. Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

#1472

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. H. L. Mencken

#1473

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. Josh Billings

#1474

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. Woodrow Wilson

#1475

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

#1476

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 David Eisenhower

#1477

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it. Peggy Joyce

#1478

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. Elsa Schiaparelli

#1479

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten. Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

#1480 No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson

#1481

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. Augustine Birrell

#1482

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

#1483

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them. Mark Twain

#1484

A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Kin Hubbard

#1485

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. George Bernard Shaw

#1486

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant. Garry Trudeau

#1487

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. Bertolt Brecht

#1488

I love America. You always hurt the one you love. David Frye impersonating Nixon

#1489

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Thomas Fuller

#1490

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, 1966

#1491

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W.H. Auden

#1492

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it. Samuel Butler

#1493

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. Robert Benchley

#1494

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#1495

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne

#1496

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla

#1497

Muscles come and go; flab lasts. Bill Vaughan

#1498

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal

#1499

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost

#1500

Only the winners decide what were war crimes. Garry Wills

#1501

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies. W.L. George

#1502

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people. Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King

#1503

When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic

#1504

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention. Kelvin Throop

#1505

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana

#1506

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst. Kin Hubbard

#1507

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. William James

#1508

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn

#1509

He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. Henry Fielding, "Jonathan Wild"

#1510

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast. W.S. Gilbert

#1511
he enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight. Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658

#1512

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best. Franklin P. Adams

#1513

Good habits result from resisting temptation Ancient Proverb

#1514

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel. Franklin P. Adams

#1515

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Franklin P. Adams

#1516

The only thing I like about rich people is their money. Lady Astor

#1517

The richer your friends, the more they will cost you. Elisabeth Marbury

#1518

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. Logan Pearsall Smith

#1519

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. Lewis Mumford

#1520

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1521

I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. J. Edgar Hoover

#1522

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain

#1523

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. George Bernard Shaw

#1524

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. Mark Twain

#1525

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Groucho Marx

#1526

If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question. Sen Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas

#1527

Charity sees the need not the cause. German Proverb

#1528

Making music should not be left to the professionals. Michelle Shocked

#1529

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home. James Thurber

#1530

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. George Bernard Shaw

#1531

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

#1532

Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right. President George Bush, quoted in Asiaweek magazine

#1533

Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. President George Bush, to New Hampshire legislators

#1534

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. Thomas H. Huxley

#1535

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard

#1536

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. Thomas Jefferson

#1537

The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault. Paul S. Winalski

#1538

What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway? David Merritt, a.k.a. THE RED SHARK

#1539

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

#1540

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. Clarence Darrow

#1541

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. Stanislaw J. Lec

#1542

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid. Samuel Johnson

#1543

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London

#1544

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. Fred Allen

#1545

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Heinrich Heine

#1546
provided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Edward Gibbon

#1547

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,<br> A medley of extemporanea;<br> And love is thing that can never go wrong;<br> And I am Marie of Romania. Dorothy Parker

#1548

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,<br> Were each of them once a kiddie.<br> A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.<br> Do I want one? God Forbiddie! Ogden Nash

#1549

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Beverly Nichols

#1550

One should never know too precisely whom one has married. Friedrich Nietzsche

#1551

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier. H. L. Mencken

#1552

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1553

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. Karl Kraus

#1554

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb

#1555

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. Pierre Trudeau

#1556

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Mark Twain

#1557

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Don Marquis

#1558

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. Mark Twain

#1559

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#1560

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have. Woody Allen

#1561

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. Tommy Manville

#1562

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. Arthur Baer

#1563

Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete. Maggie Roche

#1564

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. Nathaniel Branden

#1565

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman. H. L. Mencken

#1566

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

#1567

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957-1963)

#1568

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. Woody Allen

#1569

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. Daniel J. Boorstin

#1570

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. Marlo Thomas

#1571

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

#1572

Who begins too much accomplishes little. German Proverb

#1573

As an anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person. Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine

#1574

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen. Paul Valery

#1575

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies. William Shakespeare

#1576

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. Paul Valery

#1577

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Sir Francis Bacon

#1578

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul. Henry Van Dyke

#1579

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. William Shakespeare

#1580

All professions are conspiracies against the laity. George Bernard Shaw

#1581

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple. Charles Lamb

#1582

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. Horace Walpole

#1583

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. Kin Hubbard

#1584

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Logan Pearsall Smith

#1585

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi

#1586

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river. Nikita Khrushchev

#1587

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. Aldous Huxley

#1588

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long. Ogden Nash

#1589

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

#1590

The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed. Geoffrey Gorer

#1591

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. Florida Scott-Maxwell

#1592

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. Mark Twain

#1593

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. Pierre Auguste Renoir

#1594

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley

#1595

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Orson Welles

#1596

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. Ed Howe

#1597

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. John Barth

#1598

I think, therefore Descartes exists. Saul Steinberg

#1599

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln

#1600

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...." Sinclair Lewis

#1601

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. Finley Peter Dunne

#1602

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. George Bernard Shaw

#1603

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. Orson Welles

#1604

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Abraham Lincoln

#1605

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw

#1606

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Carl Zwanzig

#1607

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

#1608

#1609

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. Thomas H. Huxley

#1610

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

#1611

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney. James Burke

#1612

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. George Ade

#1613

National Health Insurance:<br> The compassion of the IRS<br> The efficiency of the Postal Service<br> All at Pentagon prices!!!! Seen on a bumper sticker

#1614

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

#1615

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. Oscar Wilde

#1616

Never lie when the truth is more profitable. Stanislaw J. Lec

#1617

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. John F. Kennedy

#1618

You should not live one way in private, another in public. Publilius Syrus

#1619

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful. Unknown

#1620

Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick. Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"

#1621

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals. Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"

#1622

Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff. US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.

#1623

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. Milton Friedman

#1624

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace. Edward Lear

#1625

When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system. Peter van der Linden

#1626

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill

#1627

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne

#1628

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. Bertrand Russell

#1629

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. W.C. Fields

#1630

Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... <br> Higher emotions, and table manners. Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation

#1631

Success is a great deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor

#1632

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

#1633

Everyone realized that Computer vision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up. Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal

#1634

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. Brian Aldiss

#1635

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. Frank Tyger

#1636

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken

#1637

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. John Ciardi

#1638

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. William Jennings Bryan

#1639

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. Unknown

#1640

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain

#1641

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. Noel Coward

#1642

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. English Proverb

#1643

Coincidences are spiritual puns. G.K. Chesterton

#1644

The perfect host requires the perfect parasite. Adopted from Lance Fusco.

#1645

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. George Bernard Shaw

#1646

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived. Bertrand Russell

#1647

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. Dan Quayle, 09/88

#1648

And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors. Jeff Zurschmeide

#1649

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory. Michael Levin

#1650

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Japanese Proverb

#1651

Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish. Mary Poppins

#1652

While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance. Elaine Richards

#1653

A woman will buy anything she thinks the store is losing money on. Kin Hubbard

#1654

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. George Bernard Shaw

#1655

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis

#1656

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. George Bernard Shaw

#1657

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly

#1658

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. Dan McKinnon

#1659

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman. Honore de Balzac

#1660

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value. John Waters

#1661

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. G.K. Chesterton

#1662

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. Logan Pearsall Smith

#1663

...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous Calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"

#1664

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde

#1665

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. Charles Luckman

#1666

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. William Shakespeare

#1667

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

#1668

I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so. Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969

#1669

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. Fidel Castro, Playboy Interview - January 1967

#1670

Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will. Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

#1671

Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke

#1672

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln

#1673

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963

#1674

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. R. Buckminster Fuller, Playboy Interview - February 1972

#1675

No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966

#1676

Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Playboy Interview - December 1963

#1677

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. Duke of Wellington

#1678

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis

#1679

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa

#1680

Make your bargain before beginning to plow. Arab Proverb

#1681

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. Andre Gide

#1682

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to? Bette Midler

#1683

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. George Bernard Shaw

#1684

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. E.B. White

#1685

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. Frank Moore Colby

#1686

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. John Simon

#1687

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. Oscar Wilde

#1688

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. Wystan Hugh Auden

#1689

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. George Eliot

#1690

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican want. Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)

#1691

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

#1692

A critic is a legless man who teaches running. Channing Pollock

#1693

It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Evelyn Waugh

#1694

George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate

#1695

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin

#1696

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans. Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

#1697

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory. Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984

#1698

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent. President Nixon, on the best wife for a president

#1699

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall Oliver Herford

#1700

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain. Helen Rowland

#1701

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. Zsa Zsa Gabor

#1702

Love is so much better when you are not married. Maria Callas

#1703

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. Henry David Thoreau

#1704

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. Hasidic Saying

#1705

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions

#1706

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one. Hannah Moore

#1707

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. E.M. Cioran

#1708

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson

#1709

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. Victor Borge

#1710

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive. Jerry Brown

#1711

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert

#1712

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. Tom Wicker

#1713

Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons. H. L. Mencken

#1714

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. Benjamin Franklin

#1715

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Jung

#1716

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Kin Hubbard

#1717

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

#1718

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. Elizabeth Bibesco

#1719

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Oscar Wilde

#1720

If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses? George Moore

#1721

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. ` Calvin Coolidge

#1722

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. John L. Motley

#1723

If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice. Paul Tsongas

#1724

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

#1725

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. Honore de Balzac

#1726

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned. U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson

#1727

Atheism has no room for human rights. U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin

#1728

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. Nicholas Chamfort

#1729

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. Robert Heilbroner

#1730

All American cars are basically Chevrolets. Herb Caen

#1731

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck

#1732

Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn

#1733

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock

#1734

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff. Cicero

#1735

I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. Richard Darman

#1736

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Laurence J. Peter

#1737

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

#1738

For visions come not to polluted eyes. Mary Howitt

#1739

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. Thomas Pickering

#1740

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American. 16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

#1741

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. H. L. Mencken

#1742

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler

#1743

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. Wilson Mizner

#1744

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. Eric Sevareid

#1745

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns

#1746

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. Gore Vidal

#1747

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect. Anonymous

#1748

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard

#1749

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding

#1750

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. Karl Kraus

#1751

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that. George Bernard Shaw

#1752

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

#1753

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about. La Rochefoucauld

#1754

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. La Rochefoucauld

#1755

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins

#1756

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances. Marc Maihueird

#1757

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Hamlet II:ii

#1758

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin

#1759

Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. Alan Mackay

#1760

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. Jack Benny

#1761

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause. Karl Kraus

#1762

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. Oscar Wilde

#1763

The world belongs to the energetic. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1764

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. George Bernard Shaw

#1765

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin

#1766

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#1767

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thomas A. Edison

#1768

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service. E.B. White

#1769

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. Elbert Hubbard

#1770

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. Ronald Firbank

#1771

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi

#1772

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. James Thurber

#1773

O why was I born with a different face?<br> Why was I not born like rest of my race? William Blake 1803

#1774

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. Fred Allen

#1775

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw

#1776

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join. Elbert Hubbard

#1777

Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory. Abraham Lincoln

#1778

A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Herbert Spencer

#1779

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. Horace

#1780

Vox populi, vox humbug. William Tecumseh Sherman

#1781

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jimmy Cannon

#1782

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

#1783

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. Henri de Montherlant

#1784

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night. Andy Warhol

#1785

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? Pliny the Elder

#1786

I am into parallel monogamy. Seen on a button

#1787

The only cure for grief is action. George Henry Lewes

#1788

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints. Unknown

#1789

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling

#1790 All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with. Adam Richardson

#1791

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last. Unknown

#1792

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Gloria Steinem

#1793

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), "Through the Looking Glass"

#1794

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. Mahatma Gandhi

#1795

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 a sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859

#1796

Hold a true friend with both hands. Nigerian Proverb

#1797

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA

#1798

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. Andrew Brown

#1799

Never judge a book by its movie. J.W. Eagan

#1800

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? Karl Kraus

#1801

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

#1802

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

#1803

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley

#1804

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. Andrew A. Rooney

#1805

My empty waterdish mocks me. Bob the Dog

#1806

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain

#1807

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p.13

#1808

Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. Bertrand Russell

#1809

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl. Fortune cookie

#1810

This is quite a three-pipe problem. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

#1811

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Ayn Rand

#1812

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#1813

There was a young man of Dundoo,<br> Whose limericks stopped at line 2. Anonymous

#1814

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. H. L. Mencken

#1815

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

#1816

The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. Raoul Vaneigem

#1817

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. Arthur Wing Pinero

#1818

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. Unknown

#1819

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. Lydia M. Child

#1820

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. Unknown

#1821

Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. Anonymous

#1822

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

#1823

All professions are conspiracies against the laity. George Bernard Shaw

#1824

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. George Bernard Shaw

#1825

He who can, does. He who cannot teaches. George Bernard Shaw

#1826

He who has never hoped can never despair. George Bernard Shaw

#1827

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

#1828

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. George Bernard Shaw

#1829

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H. L. Hunt

#1830

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. George Bernard Shaw

#1831

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts

#1832

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. Henry David Thoreau

#1833

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau

#1834

As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity. Matthew Ryan

#1835

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. Charlotte P Gilman

#1836

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. Michel de Montaigne

#1837

In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. Dorothea Dix

#1838

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

#1839

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang

#1840

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones

#1841

Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing." William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)

#1842

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"

#1843

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis

#1844

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. Plato, in Symposium

#1845for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. Robert Louis Stevenson

#1846

There is no "royal road" to geometry. Euclid, to king Ptolemy I

#1847

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf

#1848

Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions... Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"

#1849

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan

#1850

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there? Russ Zandbergen

#1851

The universe is made of stories, not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser

#1852

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams

#1853

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. Thomas Paine

#1854

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche

#1855

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France

#1856

[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207.

#1857

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532

#1858

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contradictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu

#1859

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength. Corrie ten Boom

#1860

Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature. Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_

#1861

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

#1862

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry

#1863

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

#1864

Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide? Judy Tenuta

#1865

Never date a woman you can hear ticking. Mark Patinkin

#1866

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. Dorothy Parker

#1867

Women are cursed, and men are the proof. Rosanne Barr

#1868

SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD:<br> Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary. Joe Bob Briggs

#1869

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself. Mae West

#1870

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. William Hutton

#1871

Warning signs that lover is bored:<br> 1. Passionless kisses<br> 2. Frequent sighing<br> 3. Moved, left no forwarding address. Matt Groening

#1872

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up. Barbara Bush

#1873

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. Ann Landers

#1874

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. George Sewell

#1875

A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries.... R. Buckminster Fuller

#1876

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_

#1877
in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. George Will - Newsweek, 2/22/93

#1878

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. John W. Gardner

#1879

...the fog is rising. Last words of Emily Dickinson

#1880

Now comes the mystery. Henry Ward Beecher, last words

#1881

Friends applaud, the comedy is over. Ludwig von Beethoven, last words

#1882

Drink to me. Pablo Picasso, last words

#1883

Why yes - a bulletproof vest. James Rodges, a murderer, on his final request before the firing squad

#1884

They can conquer who believe they can. Virgil

#1885

This is no time to make new enemies. Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.

#1886

Goodnight Lord Byron, last words

#1887

Jefferson still survives. John Adams, last words after a lifetime competing with Thomas Jefferson

#1888

Is it the Fourth? Thomas Jefferson

#1889

More light! Give me more light! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#1890

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. H. L. Mencken

#1891

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. Harriet Martineau

#1892

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. Georges Jacques Danton, to his executioner

#1893

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. George Washington, last words, 14 December 1799.

#1894

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776

#1895

Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy. Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.

#1896

This is the last of earth! I am content. John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.

#1897

Chief of the Army. Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821

#1898

I still live. Daniel Webster, last words, 24 October 1852.

#1899

I now have no time to be tired. Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.

#1900

Strike the tent. Robert E. Lee, last words, 12 October 1870.

#1901

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine

#1902

Now comes the mystery. Henry Ward Beecher, last words, 8 March 1887.

#1903

Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees. Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson, last words, 10 May 1863.

#1904

I have tried so hard to do the right. Grover Cleveland, last words, 1908.

#1905

So little done--so much to do. Cecil John Rhodes (Founder of the Rhodes Scholarships), last words, 1902.

#1906

Put out the light. Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919

#1907

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.

#1908

How is the Empire? George V, last words, 21 January 1936.

#1909

The secret of being boring is to say everything. Voltaire

#1910

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. Walt Kelly

#1911

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg

#1912

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through? C. S. Lewis

#1913 it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer. Sun System & Network Admin manual

#1914

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense. E.W. Dijkstra

#1915

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended. Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

#1916

Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat. Apple LaserWriter manual

#1917

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. Erich Segal

#1918

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. Dick Brandon

#1919

The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction. Dr. Henry Gibbons

#1920

I bet the human brain is a kludge. Marvin Minsky

#1921

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Tom Robbins

#1922

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson

#1923

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#1924

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! Othello

#1925

Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world. Scipione Alberti

#1926

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! Friedrich Nietzsche

#1927

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht

#1928

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. Mark Twain

#1929

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill

#1930

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost

#1931

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. James A. Froude

#1932

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein

#1933

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. George Bernard Shaw

#1934

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal

#1935

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no uses aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. Alfred North Whitehead

#1936

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. Agnes de Mille

#1937

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1938

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1939

Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash. Morrow Mayo

#1940

Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village. Morrow Mayo

#1941

You can rot here without feeling it. John Rechy

#1942

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people. Louis Adamic

#1943

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles. Bertolt Brecht

#1944

In the South of California has gathered the largest and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations. Farnsworth Crowder

#1945

LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune. Peter Plagens

#1946

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance. Graham Clarke

#1947

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. William Faulkner

#1948

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. Samuel Johnson

#1949

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Sir Francis Bacon

#1950

The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen Jean Baptiste Lacoraire

#1951

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record. John Blasik

#1952

Water generally flows downhill in this area. Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.

#1953

Everything that can be invented has been invented. Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed)

#1954

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. Frank Muir

#1955

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters. Honore de Balzac

#1956

The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. Alfred Kinsey

#1957

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. Friedrich Nietzsche

#1958

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb

#1959

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Dr. Seuss a.k.a. Theodore Giesel

#1960

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain, A Curious Dream (1872)

#1961

Whenever you fall, pick up something Oswald Theodore Avery

#1962

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. Niels Bohr

#1963

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.) William Occam

#1964

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

#1965

Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow. Bob Ekstrom, Pitt, MN

#1966

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey

#1967

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Thomas a Kempis

#1968

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester. Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie

#1969

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism. Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

#1970

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

#1971

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. Oscar Wilde

#1972

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. J.M. Barrie

#1973

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Lord Peter Wimsey, "Gaudy Night"

#1974

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham

#1975

Confound those who have said our remarks before us. Aelius Donatus

#1976

With just enough of learning to misquote. Lord Byron

#1977

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#1978

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. Robert Chapman

#1979

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1980

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. Louise Guiney

#1981

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. Thomas Higginson

#1982

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory. Leonardo da Vinci

#1983

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. Christopher Fry

#1984

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul. Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Playwright

#1985

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey

#1986

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. John Masefield

#1987

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. R.Z. Sheppard, book critic

#1988

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you. Virgil

#1989

The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H.P. Lovecraft

#1990

That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt. But although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience. Immanuel Kant

#1991

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. Henri Poincare

#1992

The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim. Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984

#1993

He who will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius

#1994

For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence." J.W.N. Sullivan

#1995

A reasonable probability is the only certainty. E.W. Howe

#1996

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Heisenberg

#1997

What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it. Werner Heisenberg

#1998

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose. J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"

#1999

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Alfred North Whitehead

#2000

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it. Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

#2001

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2002

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit. Battaille

#2003

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

#2004

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. G.K. Chesterton

#2005

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

#2006

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting. Abbie Hoffman

#2007

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist. Joe Keenan

#2008

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page. Neil Postman

#2009

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness. Paul Feyerabend

#2010

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbed them. John Locke

#2011

This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank. Dennis Miller (told to me by a CV employee)

#2012

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. Gene Spafford, 1992

#2013

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party. Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies

#2014

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part underground. Thomas Overbury

#2015

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as
superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. Eric Ambler

#2016

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. David Hume

#2017

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created." Julian the Apostate

#2018

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. Alan Holbrook

#2019

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

#2020

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Steven Wright

#2021

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca

#2022

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal Sir Compton MacKenzie

#2023

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! Theophile Gautier

#2024

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch

#2025

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

#2026

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?" Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"

#2027

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second. Jim Fiebig

#2028

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

#2029

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox

#2030

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. F. J. Raymond

#2031

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein

#2032

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H. L. Mencken

#2033

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#2034

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week. Eric Temple Bell

#2035

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 lovelier one of their own. H. L. Mencken

#2036

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead

#2037

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. Michel de Montaigne

#2038

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

#2039

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all. Neil Postman

#2040

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. Robert M. Hamilton

#2041

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancée. W.C. Fields

#2042

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King, Roland from "The Last Gunslinger"

#2043

Truth, springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume

#2044

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin

#2045

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller

#2046

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. Alexander Penney

#2047

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart. Robert Louis Stevenson

#2048

After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein. Mark Gooley

#2049

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

#2050

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Robert H. Goddard

#2051

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. Ken Olsen, CEO DEC 1977

#2052

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can
run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. Orville Wright

#2053

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. Julius Frontinus, 1st century A.D.

#2054

What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice
as fast as stagecoaches? The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825

#2055

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

#2056

Why think? Why not try the experiment? John Hunter

#2057

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. Claude Bernard

#2058

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield

#2059

Our view. is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored. Sir Ronald A. Fisher

#2060

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#2061

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

#2062

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.) Mark Twain

#2063

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge. J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"

#2064

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists. George Bernard Shaw

#2065 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953

#2066

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors. Dean Inge

#2067

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country. General George Patton

#2068

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

#2069

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. Ancient Chinese Warlord

#2070

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

#2071

[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

#2072

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. Eric Nicol

#2073

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. Voltaire

#2074

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, what is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. Sir Winston Churchill, 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.

#2075

After all, he thought he was God. FBI agent on why it was difficult to negotiate with David Koresh

#2076

God created sex. Priests created marriage. Voltaire

#2077

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler

#2078

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. "Aqualung" - Jethro Tull

#2079

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde

#2080
no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. H. L. Mencken

#2081

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle

#2082

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. Pierre Trudeau

#2083

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud

#2084

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell

#2085

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. Remy de Gourmont

#2086

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

#2087

Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls. Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities"

#2088

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams

#2089

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes

#2090

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

#2091a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. G.H. Hardy

#2092

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it was to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. Benoit Mandelbrot

#2093

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Sir Francis Bacon

#2094

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. John Von Neumann

#2095

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. Ivan Pavlov

#2096

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

#2097

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. Thomas Love Peacock

#2098

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke

#2099

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirect able, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. Zambendorf, _Code of the Life maker_ by James P. Hogan

#2100

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valery

#2101

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefanss

#2102

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. Mark Twain

#2103

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain

#2104

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound. Stephen Wolfram

#2105

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. Cyrus H. Curtis

#2106

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows"

#2107

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. Denis Diderot

#2108

Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it. Noel Coward

#2109

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara

#2110

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. Mark Twain

#2111

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche

#2112

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche

#2113

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

#2114

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. Tom Stoppard

#2115

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Sir Richard F. Burton

#2116

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. Jonathan Swift

#2117
to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line." Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.

#2118

If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix... Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine

#2119

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jeffery

#2120

If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them. Unknown

#2121

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change. Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

#2122

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an
aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music. Donald E. Knuth

#2123

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer. Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"

#2124

[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better. Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992

#2125

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Alexander Pope

#2126

Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars. Serbian proverb

#2127

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. Stephen Jay Gould

#2128

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg

#2129 Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940

#2130

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. Blaise Pascal, Pen sees(II,72)

#2131

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak? Jay Leno

#2132

Equal Rights were created for everyone. contestant in 1990 Mr. New Jersey Male pageant

#2133

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate

#2134

1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him 2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continues to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi. 5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually. from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers, 1936

#2135

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be. Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901)

#2136

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans. Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR

#2137

My fellow astronauts. Dan Quayle, beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration

#2138

Half this game is 90% mental. Danny Ozark, manager of the Phillies

#2139

I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads. Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration

#2140

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife. Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

#2141

I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first. George Rogers, Saints running back

#2142

If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it should be. Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington

#2143

[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. Sir Winston Churchill

#2144

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height Sir Winston Churchill

#2145

If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself. Sir Winston Churchill

#2146

There but for the grace of God goes God. Sir Winston Churchill

#2147

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty. Sir Winston Churchill

#2148

[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honorable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale. Sir Winston Churchill

#2149

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. Henry Miller

#2150

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Henry Miller

#2151

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. Henry Miller, "The Colossus of Maroussi" (1941)

#2152

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. Alfred Hitchcock

#2153

My teen angst has a body count. Veronica - "Heathers"

#2154

Philosophy is the highest music. Plato

#2155

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#2156

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time. Erin Cleary

#2157

Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche

#2158

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well-ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Sir Thomas Browne

#2159

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche

#2160

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. David Brinkley

#2161

Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell, 1946

#2162

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

#2163

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. Margaret Fairless Barber

#2164

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. Sir Winston Churchill

#2165

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Dalton Camp

#2166

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. James Madison, (attributed)

#2167

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. Alain van der Heide

#2168

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing." Sir Arnold Bax

#2169

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. Mark Twain

#2170

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Muriel Spark

#2171

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself. Franz Xavier Kroetz

#2172

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly. Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_

#2173exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fullness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity. Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12

#2174

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts... Robert Fulghum

#2175

For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me. Winnie the Pooh

#2176

"Where did you put it?" "Put what?"You know?"Where do you think? "Oh." Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human-computer interaction

#2177

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. Joel Hawes

#2178

I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Samuel Johnson

#2179

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

#2180

I think I am a verb. R. Buckminster Fuller

#2181

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2182

All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million. Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela

#2183

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Adam Smith

#2184

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990

#2185

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller

#2186

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. Samuel Gompers, said in 1908

#2187

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between! David Letterman

#2188

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior. Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

#2189

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone John Maynard Keynes

#2190

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. C. S. Lewis

#2191

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple

#2192

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later. Aristotle

#2193

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. Lewis Carroll

#2194

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. John Milton

#2195

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Leo Tolstoy

#2196

A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth. O.G. Sutton

#2197

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr

#2198

The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame. Chuq Von Rospach

#2199

It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file. unattributed truth from r.g.frp

#2200

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Jane Austen

#2201

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it. Mark Leeper

#2202
network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections from the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson

#2203

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1

#2204

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. M. C. Escher

#2205

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science. von Weizsacker

#2206

Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"

#2207

It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong. Brother Theodore

#2208

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. Richard Adams, _Watership Down_

#2209

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. The Talmud

#2210

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. Unknown Russian

#2211

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. Richard Feynman

#2212

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson

#2213

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. William H. Borah

#2214

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry

#2215

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death H.H. Munro (Saki)

#2216

The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley

#2217

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather

#2218

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged. Ovid, Metamorphoses

#2219

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. Mark Twain

#2220

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house. Josephine Hart, "Sin"

#2221

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations. Henry David Thoreau

#2222

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Cary Grant

#2223

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates

#2224

You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, and took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine. from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)

#2225

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. Maria Montessori

#2226

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. Ralph Abraham

#2227

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. Herbert Westren Turnbull

#2228

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. Anonymous

#2229

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. Albert Einstein

#2230

You cannot apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. Hermann Weyl

#2231

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. Voltaire

#2232

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain. David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

#2233

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad. Alfred North Whitehead

#2234

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton

#2235
it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art. John W.N. Sullivan

#2236

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. James Joseph Sylvester

#2237

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals. Clifford Truesdell

#2238

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. Gregory Benford - Tim escape

#2239

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it. Javan

#2240

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

#2241

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain

#2242

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. anonymous

#2243

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. anonymous

#2244

Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation to The Unconscience?"

#2245

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replaced either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same consonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replacing it with "i" and Year 4 might fix the "g<br>j" anomaly worse and for all. Generally, then, the improvement would continue year bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.<br> <br> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud<br> hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"

#2246

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. Hunter S. Thompson

#2247

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him. H. Mathews

#2248

If God dropped acid, would he see people? Steven Wright

#2249

Knowledge is expensive. Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago

#2250

Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle

#2251

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. Baron Henry Peter Brougham

#2252

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison.

#2253

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

#2254

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead. Sinclair Lewis

#2255

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. Arnold Edinborough

#2256

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler

#2257

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards

#2258

If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normal surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality. Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness by Mail

#2259

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H.G. Wells

#2260

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. H. L. Mencken

#2261

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing. Oscar Wilde

#2262

"A penny for your thoughts? "A dollar for your death." Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple

#2263

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes

#2264

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

#2265

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people. Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichler

#2266

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. Gloria Steinem

#2267

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain

#2268

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. Amelia Burr

#2269

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs! Sonjay Anand

#2270

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. Charles Anderson Dana

#2271

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson Davies

#2272

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

#2273

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report. Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

#2274

Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home. John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.

#2275

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

#2276

A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut). Frank Mankiewicz

#2277

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." Bernard Avishai

#2278

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report. Dave Barry

#2279

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. John Herschel

#2280

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld

#2281

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Professor Edsger Dijkstra

#2282

PL1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. Professor Edsger Dijkstra

#2283

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Professor Edsger Dijkstra

#2284

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies Bill Bulk

#2285

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

#2286

An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use. Robert L. Kruse, Data Structures and Program Design

#2287

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol

#2288

It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical? Alan Perlis

#2289

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. Kulawiec

#2290

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1<br>2 tons. Popular Mechanics, March 1949

#2291

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. G. Hopper

#2292

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented. Roger King

#2293

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. Oriental Proverb

#2294
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department. Jeff Meyer

#2295

If we had less statesmanship we could get along with fewer battleships. Mark Twain

#2296

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

#2297

War is just to those to whom war is necessary. Titus Livius

#2298

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. Dwight David Eisenhower, address at Guildhall, London, 7/12/45

#2299

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last. Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems

#2300

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. Stan Open Shaw - Doomsday

#2301

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Seneca

#2302

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

#2303

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Kurt Vonnegut

#2304

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide

#2305

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller

#2306

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. Plutarch

#2307

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2308

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Arnold Bennett

#2309

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas H. Huxley

#2310

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. Unknown

#2311

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi

#2312

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. African Proverb

#2313

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

#2314

It is not enough to aim; you must hit. Italian Proverb

#2315

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain

#2316

He who would leap high must take a long run. Danish Proverb

#2317

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. George Ade

#2318

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

#2319

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. Franklin P. Adams

#2320

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. Don Marquis

#2321

When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius

#2322

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

#2323

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

#2324

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. Johnny Carson

#2325

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

#2326

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. Robert Orben

#2327

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. Cathy Ladman

#2328

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Baltasar Gracian

#2329

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. John J. Plomp

#2330

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

#2331

Never have children, only grandchildren. Gore Vidal

#2332

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

#2333

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward

#2334

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. Herbert Rappaport

#2335

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

#2336

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler

#2337

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin

#2338

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer

#2339

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt

#2340

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#2341

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner

#2342

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead

#2343

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. Thornton Wilder

#2344

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James

#2345

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright

#2346

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Laurence J. Peter

#2347

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. Don Delillo

#2348

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. Michael Pritchard

#2349

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances. La Fontaine

#2350

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G. K. Chesterton

#2351

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. Cyra McFadden

#2352

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain

#2353

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. Herb Caen

#2354

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. Coleman Cox

#2355

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

#2356

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russell

#2357

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I

#2358

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal

#2359

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. Laurence J. Peter

#2360

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. William G. McAdoo

#2361

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2362

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter

#2363

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. Norman Ford

#2364

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. E. H. Chapin

#2365

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. H. Mumford Jones

#2366

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#2367

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche

#2368

Confusion is always the most honest response. Marty Indik

#2369

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger

#2370

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

#2371

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Laurence J. Peter

#2372

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. Joseph Farrell

#2373

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. Allan Goldfein

#2374

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. John Kenneth Galbraith

#2375

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." H. E. Martz

#2376

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller

#2377

The days of the digital watch are numbered. Tom Stoppard

#2378

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. Albert Einstein, (attributed)

#2379

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. Peter De Vries

#2380

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana

#2381

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt

#2382

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

#2383

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Andre Maurois

#2384

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla

#2385

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock, In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)

#2386

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. Alan Corenk

#2387

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. Fred Allen

#2388

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. Marvin Minsky

#2389

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn

#2390

Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Bible, New Testament, Matthew 7:7

#2391

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries

#2392

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. Hodding Carter

#2393

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. Louis Vermeil

#2394

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. Margaret Millar

#2395

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov

#2396

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. Robert Orben

#2397

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. Dave Barry

#2398

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill

#2399

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. Baltasar Gracian

#2400

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn

#2401

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. George Bernard Shaw

#2402

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. Mickey Friedman

#2403

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. Beryl Pfizer

#2404

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. Cicero

#2405

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

#2406

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. Martin Mull

#2407

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there. Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953

#2408

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. Oscar Levant

#2409

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright

#2410

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. Oscar Wilde

#2411

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Heinrich Heine

#2412

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott

#2413

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891

#2414

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. Thomas Sowell

#2415

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain, (attributed)

#2416

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields

#2417

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. Fran Lebowitz

#2418

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

#2419

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde

#2420

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. Lord Newborough, Motto

#2421

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken

#2422

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. Laurence J. Peter

#2423

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. Doug Larson

#2424

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. Groucho Marx

#2425

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen

#2426

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner

#2427

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. Doug Larson

#2428

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. Anonymous

#2429

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. H. L. Mencken

#2430

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. John Ciardi

#2431

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. W. C. Fields

#2432

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. Rainer Maria Rilke

#2433

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. Frank Dane

#2434

Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce

#2435

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

#2436

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#2437

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. Richard Lewis

#2438

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff

#2439

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. Laurence J. Peter

#2440

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. Chinese Proverb

#2441

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner

#2442

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

#2443

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker

#2444

No man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge

#2445

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. Andy Rooney

#2446

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. Clare Booth Luce

#2447

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. Samuel Johnson, (attributed)

#2448

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace

#2449

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop. Ralph Novak

#2450

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw

#2451

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

#2452

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot

#2453

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. Anonymous

#2454

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. Benjamin H. Brewster

#2455

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury, advice to writers

#2456

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso

#2457

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp

#2458

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H. L. Mencken

#2459

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken

#2460

Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light. C. V. R. Thompson

#2461

Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries

#2462

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan

#2463

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker

#2464

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629-1689

#2465

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George Santayana

#2466

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas

#2467

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. H. L. Mencken

#2468

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. John Stuart Mill

#2469

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. Jilly Cooper

#2470

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer

#2471

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. Mark B. Cohen

#2472

Women should be obscene and not heard. Groucho Marx

#2473

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

#2474

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. Wodehouse

#2475

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid. Basil King

#2476

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Quentin Crisp

#2477

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire

#2478

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. P. D. James

#2479

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. Eugene McCarthy

#2480

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus

#2481

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

#2482

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! H. L. Mencken

#2483

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. Arnold Toynbee

#2484

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. John Witherspoon

#2485

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne

#2486

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. Katharine Hepburn

#2487

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. Paxton Hood

#2488

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. Robert Chapman

#2489

You keep changing? the rules and I can’t play the game. I can’t take it much longer. I think I might go insane. Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, Scream

#2490

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change. Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirror

#2491

Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace. John Lennon, Imagine

#2492

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps

#2493

Don’t go chasing? waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to. TLC, Waterfalls

#2494

We can always take but never give. Jamiroquai, Virtual Insanity

#2495

It’s a wonder man can eat at all, when things are big that should be small. Jamiroquai, Virtual Insanity

#2496

Look who’s standing if you please, though you tried to bring me to my knees. Michael Jackson, 2Bad

#2497

Prejudice is ignorance. Michael Jackson

#2498

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller

#2499

Ain? t no mountain that I can’t climb, baby Michael Jackson, Leave Me Alone

#2500

Above all, try something. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#2501

If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

#2502

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine

#2503

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. Thomas Jefferson

#2504

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius

#2505

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. Ruth Ann Schabaker

#2506

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. Helen Hayes

#2507

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2508

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. Stone Temple Pilots

#2509

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton

#2510

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh

#2511

Success has made failures of many men. Cindy Adams

#2512

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser

#2513

Keep cool and you command everybody. Louis de Saint-Just

#2514

A critic is a legless man who teaches running. Channing Pollock

#2515

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

#2516

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

#2517

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson; they are voiceless? We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action? No action. Michael Jackson

#2518

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society. Janet Jackson

#2519
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else--is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight. e.e. cummings

#2520

I always knew I would look back on my tears and laugh but I never thought I would look back on the laughter and cry Unknown

#2521

For what are possessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow? Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit

#2522

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. Jacob Braude

#2523

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice. C. Lee Hopkin

#2524

He who limps still walks. Stanislaw Lec

#2525

The mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson

#2526

A good garden may have some weeds. Thomas Fuller

#2527

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob A. Riis

#2528

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work. Frederick E. Crane

#2529

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

#2530

No one knows what he can do until he tries. Publilius Syrus

#2531

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

#2532

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Benjamin Franklin

#2533

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. H.T. Leslie

#2534

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. Giacomo Leopardi

#2535

Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don’t be so shallow. En Vogue, Free Your Mind

#2536

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. Karen Horney

#2537

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#2538

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

#2539

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. Henry David Thoreau

#2540

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch

#2541

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I’ll live as I believe. Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love of All

#2542

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the world’s way of life and the way they think their lives should be. Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

#2543

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. Confucius

#2544

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James

#2545

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind. Coolio, The Winner

#2546

Life is a series of dogs. George Carlin

#2547

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

#2548

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

#2549

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. Frank Herbert

#2550

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body Miyamoto Musashi

#2551

If women understood and exercised their power, they could remake the world. Emily Taft Douglas

#2552

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2553

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Maya Angelou

#2554

We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy

#2555

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. Doris Lessing

#2556

I told you I was sick. Erma Bombeck, on her tombstone

#2557

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774

#2558

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. Henry Ward Beecher

#2559

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt

#2560

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. George Washington

#2561
in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. John Ruskin

#2562

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan

#2563

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so. Henry Sedgwick

#2564

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. E. H. Chapin

#2565

To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity. John Comenius

#2566

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz

#2567

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy? Martha Beck

#2568

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. Philip Gulley

#2569

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started. Marcus Garvey

#2570

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2571

What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something. Mother Teresa

#2572

Do what you can with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

#2573

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. Martha Graham

#2574

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

#2575

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer. Scott Ringenbach

#2576

The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)

#2577

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe

#2578

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

#2579

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

#2580

My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish. Jamie Ann Hunt

#2581

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

#2582 Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money. William Lyon Phelps

#2583

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. Benjamin Franklin,?

#2584

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past. Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

#2585

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life. Theodore Roosevelt

#2586

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

#2587

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously. Konrad Adenauer, 1876-1967

#2588

In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy. John C. Sawhill

#2589

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields. Henry Ford, 1934

#2590

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God?s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow. George Washington Carver

#2591

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave! Constantin Brancusi

#2592

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..." CIA Manual

#2593

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people. Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

#2594

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. Mahatma Gandhi

#2595

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James A. Froude

#2596

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. V?lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

#2597

States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

#2598

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Thomas De Quincey

#2599

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place. Marrion Zimmer Bradley

#2600

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias

#2601

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

#2602

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm. Carlos Santana, Television program--aired on VH1, september 2000

#2603

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. Francis Thompson

#2604

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

#2605

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. George Eliot

#2606

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb, The Graduates Book of Wisdom

#2607

Nothing we human beings do is without emotion. Pete Townshend

#2608

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#2609

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence. Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)

#2610

The truth is easiest to disprove - its defenses are down. Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)

#2611

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe

#2612

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Unknown

#2613

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Solon

#2614

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than. Oscar Homolka

#2615

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns. Anonymous

#2616

It is never too late to become what we might have been. George Eliot, 1819-1880

#2617

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931

#2618

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p.8

#2619

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#2620

When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. Liberace

#2621

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T.S. Eliot

#2622

I.have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. Rebecca West

#2623

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson

#2624

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. Pauline Kael

#2625

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Emiliano Zapata

#2626

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey

#2627

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

#2628

Never give a child a sword. Latin Proverb

#2629

If you have a fallback plan, you will fall back. Nedra Carroll

#2630

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. John Galsworthy

#2631

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker

#2632

Education is life itself. John Dewey

#2633

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul. Shneur Zalman

#2634

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. Bob Hope

#2635

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. Homer, The Iliad

#2636

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. Homer, The Iliad

#2637

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Clarence Darrow

#2638

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. Homer, The Iliad

#2639

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. Homer, The Iliad

#2640

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. Homer, The Iliad

#2641

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. Homer, The Iliad

#2642

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. Homer, The Iliad

#2643

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. Homer, The Iliad

#2644

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Homer, The Iliad

#2645

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. Homer, The Iliad

#2646

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. Mary MacCracken

#2647

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. Homer, The Iliad

#2648

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. Homer, The Iliad

#2649

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love. Homer, The Iliad

#2650

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. Homer, The Iliad

#2651

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. Homer, The Iliad

#2652

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. Homer, The Iliad

#2653

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. Homer, The Iliad

#2654

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. Homer, The Iliad

#2655

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. Homer, The Iliad

#2656

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Benjamin Disraeli

#2657

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. Homer, The Iliad

#2658

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. Homer, The Iliad

#2659

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. Homer, The Iliad

#2660

The fates have given mankind a patient soul. Homer, The Iliad

#2661

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. Homer, The Iliad

#2662

By their own follies they perished, the fools. Homer, The Odyssey

#2663

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. Homer, The Odyssey

#2664

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. Homer, The Odyssey

#2665

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. Homer, The Odyssey

#2666

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats

#2667

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. Homer, The Odyssey

#2668

All men have need of the gods. Homer, The Odyssey

#2669

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. Homer, The Odyssey

#2670

A small rock holds back a great wave. Homer, The Odyssey

#2671

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. Homer, The Odyssey

#2672

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. Homer, The Odyssey

#2673

We are quick to flare up, we race of men on the earth. Homer, The Odyssey

#2674

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. Homer, The Odyssey

#2675

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. Homer, The Odyssey

#2676

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. Homer, The Odyssey

#2677

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer, The Odyssey

#2678

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. Homer, The Odyssey

#2679

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. Homer, The Odyssey

#2680

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. Homer, The Odyssey

#2681

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. Homer, The Odyssey

#2682

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. Homer, The Odyssey

#2683

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. Homer, The Odyssey

#2684

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse. Francis Quarles

#2685

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to naught, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. Homer, The Odyssey

#2686

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. Hesiod

#2687

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. Hesiod

#2688

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. Hesiod

#2689

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. Hesiod

#2690

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. Hesiod

#2691

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. Hesiod

#2692

Know thyself. Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2693

Do not speak ill of the dead. The Seven Sages, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2694

Not even the gods fight against necessity. Simonides, from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras

#2695

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. Bible, Old Testament

#2696

Know the right moment. Pittacus, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2697

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2698

The best [man] is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2699

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2700

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2701

To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2702

To be worn out is to be renewed. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2703

He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2704

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2705

My Karma ran over your dogma. Unknown

#2706

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. Robert Benchley

#2707

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. Thomas Paine

#2708

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2709

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2710 He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2711

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2712

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2713

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2714

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, the second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2715

When armies are mobilized and issues are joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2716

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2717

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

#2718

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. Anonymous

#2719

Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2720

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail

#2721

I am sure the grapes are sour. Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes

#2722

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse

#2723

Slow and steady wins the race. Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

#2724

Familiarity breed contempt. Aesop, The Fox and the Lion

#2725

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

#2726

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock

#2727

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

#2728

Complain to one who can help you. Yugoslav Proverb

#2729

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. Aesop, The Dog in the Manger

#2730

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. Aesop, The Ant and the Grasshopper

#2731

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. Aesop, Juno and the Peacock

#2732

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb

#2733

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

#2734

I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. Aesop, The Man and the Satyr

#2735

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing. Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs

#2736

Put your shoulder to the wheel. Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner

#2737

The gods help them that help themselves. Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner

#2738

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop, The Old Man and Death

#2739

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. Andre Gide

#2740

Union gives strength. Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks

#2741

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2742

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2743

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2744

Have no friends not equal to yourself. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2745

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2746

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2747

[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2748

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, then ruined by too confident security. Edmund Burke

#2749

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2750

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2751

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2752

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2753

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2754

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2755

The cautious seldom err. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2756

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2757

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2758

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2759

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. Mary Hemingway

#2760

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2761

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2762

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2763

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2764

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?While you do not know life, how can you know about death? Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2765

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2766

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2767

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2768

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2769

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2770

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. Mark Twain

#2771

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2772

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2773

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2774

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2775

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2776

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2777

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2778

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2779

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2780

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#2781

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2782

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue.[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2783

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2784

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

#2785

All is flux, nothing stays still. Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2786

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2787

Nature is wont to hide herself. Heraclitus, On the Universe

#2788

Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus, On the Universe

#2789

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Heraclitus, On the Universe

#2790

The road up and the road down is one and the same. Heraclitus, On the Universe

#2791

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey

#2792

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. Heraclitus, On the Universe

#2793

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives

#2794

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives

#2795

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

#2796

Time as he grows old teaches all things. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

#2797

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus, Agamemnon

#2798

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Aeschylus, Agamemnon

#2799

Vigorous writing is concise. William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919

#2800

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus, Agamemnon

#2801

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

#2802

Words have a longer life than deeds. Pindar, Nemean Odes

#2803

The descent to Hades is the same from every place. Anaxagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2804

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

#2805

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

#2806

Men of ill judgment of ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Sophocles, Ajax

#2807

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. Sophocles, Ajax

#2808

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett

#2809

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2810

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

#2811

Time eases all things. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

#2812

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues. Sophocles, Antigone

#2813

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. Sophocles, Antigone

#2814

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. Sophocles, Antigone

#2815

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! Sophocles, Antigone

#2816

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. Sophocles, Antigone

#2817

Be neither too remote nor too familiar. Prince Charles, of Wales

#2818

The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. Sophocles, Antigone

#2819

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles, Antigone

#2820

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. Sophocles, Antigone

#2821

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it. Sophocles, Electra

#2822

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. Sophocles, Trachiniae

#2823

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. Sophocles, Trachiniae

#2824

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. Sophocles, Trachiniae

#2825

Stranger in a strange country. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

#2826

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin

#2827

The good befriend themselves. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

#2828

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

#2829

It made our hair stand up in panic fear. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

#2830

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles, Creusa

#2831

To him who is in fear everything rustles. Sophocles, Acrisius

#2832

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2833

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2834

A sweet thing, for whatever time,<br>to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2835

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2836

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2837

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore, Fate has cursed you. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2838

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasoning of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2839

Time cancels young pain. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

#2840

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.

#2841

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness. Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.

#2842

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.

#2843

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.

#2844

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.

#2845

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.

#2846

Leave no stone unturned. Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.

#2847

I care for riches, to make gifts to friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. Euripides, Electra, 413 B.C.

#2848

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.

#2849

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.

#2850

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.

#2851

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides, Aegeus

#2852

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. Rosalynn Carter

#2853

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Euripides, Aegeus

#2854

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Euripides, Aeolus

#2855

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides, Alexander

#2856

When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them. Euripides, Temenidae

#2857

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides, Phoenix

#2858

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides, Phrixus

#2859

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Euripides, Phrixus

#2860

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2861

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2862

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2863

It is better to be envied than pitied. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2864

Force has no place where there is need of skill. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2865

Haste in every business brings failures. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2866

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2867

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Herodotus, Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from Herodotus

#2868

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2869

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2870

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. George Washington

#2871

In soft regions are born soft men. Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

#2872

Man is the measure of all things. Protagoras, Fragment 1

#2873

There are two sides to every question. Protagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2874

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2875

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2876

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2877

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. Socrates, from Plutarch, how a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

#2878

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment

#2879

Word is a shadow of a deed. Democritus, Fragment 145

#2880

As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. Hippocrates, Epidemics

#2881

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates, Precepts

#2882

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates, Law

#2883

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. Hippocrates, Law

#2884

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. Hippocrates, Decorum

#2885

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. Hippocrates, Regimen in Health

#2886

Many admire, few know. Hippocrates, Regimen

#2887

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates, Regimen

#2888

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War

#2889

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.

#2890

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.

#2891

Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.

#2892

Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.

#2893

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, at which the audience never fail to laugh? Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B.C.

#2894

High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B.C.

#2895This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

#2896

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. Zeuxis

#2897

Friends have all things in common. Plato, Dialogues, Phaedrus

#2898

The unexamined life is not worth living for man. Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

#2899

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato, Dialogues, Apology

#2900

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. Pat Paulsen

#2901

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2902

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

#2903

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

#2904

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

#2905

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

#2906

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato, The Republic

#2907

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato, The Republic

#2908

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato, The Republic

#2909

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato, The Republic

#2910

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. Plato, The Republic

#2911

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. Plato, The Republic

#2912

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato, The Republic

#2913

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato, The Republic

#2914

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato, The Republic

#2915

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato, The Republic

#2916

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato, The Republic

#2917

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. Plato, The Republic

#2918

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. Plato, The Republic

#2919

You cannot conceive the many without the one. Plato, Dialogues, Parmenides

#2920

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

#2921

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

#2922

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? Phocion, from Plutarch, Apothegms

#2923

[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2924

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2925

Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2926

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2927

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2928

Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2929

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. Aristotle, Physics

#2930

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle, Parts of Animals

#2931

All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle, Metaphysics

#2932

The best armor is to keep out of range. Italian Proverb

#2933

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2934

One swallow does not make a summer. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2935

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2936

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2937

We must as second best...take the least of the evils. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2938

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2939

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2940

To enjoy the things, we ought and to hate the things we ought to have the greatest bearing on excellence of character. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2941

We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2942

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#2943

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. Andre Maurois

#2944

Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle, Politics

#2945

Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle, Politics

#2946

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, Politics

#2947

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. Aristotle, Politics

#2948

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. Aristotle, Politics

#2949

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. Aristotle, Politics

#2950

They should rule who are able to rule best. Aristotle, Politics

#2951

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Aristotle, Politics

#2952

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. Aristotle, Politics

#2953

Well begun is half done. Aristotle, Politics (quoting a proverb)

#2954

The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics

#2955

Law is order, and good law is good order. Aristotle, Politics

#2956

Evil draws men together. Aristotle, Rhetoric

#2957

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. Aristotle, Rhetoric

#2958

A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end. Aristotle, Rhetoric

#2959

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle, Rhetoric

#2960

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics

#2961

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. Demosthenes, First Olynthiac

#2962

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

#2963

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. Mencius, Works

#2964

Sincerity is the way of Heaven. Mencius, Works

#2965

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. Mencius, Works

#2966

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things

#2967

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Chuang-tzu, The Great Supreme

#2968

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without. Chuang-tzu, On Tolerance

#2969

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. Sun-tzu

#2970

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun-tzu

#2971

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. Sun-tzu

#2972

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#2973

Riches cover a multitude of woes. Menander, Lady of Andros

#2974

Whom the gods love dies young. Menander, The Double Deceiver

#2975

Deus ex machina [A god from the machine] Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity

#2976

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. Menander, Unidentified fragment

#2977

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. Menander, Unidentified fragment

#2978

The man who runs may fight again. Menander, Monostikoi (Single Lines)

#2979

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2980

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2981

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2982

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

#2983

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. Chinese Proverb

#2984

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. Bion

#2985

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives

#2986

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio

#2987

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus

#2988

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus

#2989

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi

#2990

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Titus Maccius Plautus, Rudens

#2991

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. Kurdish Proverb

#2992

No man is wise enough by himself. Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus

#2993

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. Titus Maccius Plautus, Epidicus

#2994

Practice yourself what you preach. Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria

#2995

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

#2996

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

#2997

Even though work stops, expenses run on. Cato the Elder, On Agriculture

#2998

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

#2999

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

#3000

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. Cato the Elder, from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae

#3001

He plants trees to benefit another generation. Caecilius Statius, Synephebi

#3002

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Marquis de Condorcet

#3003

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. Polybius, History

#3004

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. Polybius, History

#3005

Moderation in all things. Terence, Andria

#3006

Charity begins at home. Terence, Andria

#3007

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. Terence, Eunuchus

#3008

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. Terence, Eunuchus

#3009

Fortune helps the brave. Terence, Phormio

#3010

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. Terence, Adelphoe

#3011

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. Epicurus

#3012

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture

#3013

Law stands mute in the midst of arms. Cicero, Pro Milone

#3014

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

#3015

The freedom of poetic license. Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

#3016

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. Cicero, Orator

#3017

Let the punishment match the offense. Cicero, De Legibus

#3018

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. Cicero, De Amicitia

#3019

Be contented when you have got all you want. Holbrook Jackson

#3020

A friend is, as it were, a second self. Cicero, De Amicitia

#3021

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Cicero, Philippics

#3022

Men willingly believe what they wish. Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

#3023

Veni, vidi, vici [I came, I saw, I conquered] Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars

#3024

Et tu, Brute. [You also, Brutus.] Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars

#3025

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives

#3026

Such evil deeds could religion prompt. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

#3027

Nothing can be created from nothing. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

#3028

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

#3029

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. Sallust, The War with Catiline

#3030

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. Sallust, The War with Catiline

#3031

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. Sallust, The War with Catiline

#3032

A snake lurks in the grass. Virgil, Eclogues

#3033

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. Virgil, Eclogues

#3034

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. Virgil, Eclogues

#3035

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. Virgil, Aeneid

#3036

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. Virgil, Aeneid

#3037

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. Virgil, Aeneid

#3038

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. Jonathan Swift

#3039

Each of us bears his own Hell. Virgil, Aeneid

#3040

Fortune favors the brave. Virgil, Aeneid

#3041

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. Virgil, Aeneid

#3042

There is measure in all things. Horace, Satires

#3043

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. Horace, Satires

#3044

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace, Satires

#3045

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. Horace, Odes

#3046

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] Horace, Odes

#3047

In adversity remember to keep an even mind. Horace, Odes

#3048

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats. Malayan Proverb

#3049

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace, Odes

#3050

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. Horace, Odes

#3051

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. Horace, Odes

#3052

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. Horace, Odes

#3053

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. Horace, Odes

#3054

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace, Epistles

#3055

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. Horace, Epistles

#3056

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! Horace, Epistles

#3057

The covetous man is ever in want. Horace, Epistles

#3058

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will
come as a welcome surprise. Horace, Epistles

#3059

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace, Epistles

#3060

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. Horace, Epistles

#3061

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. Horace, Epistles

#3062

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. Horace, Epistles

#3063

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Caesar Augustus, from Suetonius, Augustus

#3064

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms

#3065

Better late than never. Titus Livius, History

#3066

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. Publilius Syrus

#3067

It is better to learn late than never. Publilius Syrus

#3068

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. Publilius Syrus

#3069

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

#3070

To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus

#3071

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. Publilius Syrus

#3072

A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publilius Syrus

#3073

Many receive advice, few profit by it. Publilius Syrus

#3074

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. Publilius Syrus

#3075

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. Publilius Syrus

#3076

What is left when honor is lost? Publilius Syrus

#3077

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. Publilius Syrus

#3078

There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus

#3079

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus

#3080

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. Noah Porter

#3081

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. Publilius Syrus

#3082

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. Publilius Syrus

#3083

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus

#3084

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. Publilius Syrus

#3085

A rolling stone gathers no moss. Publilius Syrus

#3086

Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus

#3087

No one should be judge in his own case. Publilius Syrus

#3088

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. Publilius Syrus

#3089

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. Publilius Syrus

#3090

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. Mahatma Gandhi

#3091

It is only the ignorant who despise education. Publilius Syrus

#3092

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. Publilius Syrus

#3093

It is not every question that deserves an answer. Publilius Syrus

#3094

No man is happy who does not think himself so. Publilius Syrus

#3095

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. Publilius Syrus

#3096

Money alone sets all the world in motion. Publilius Syrus

#3097

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. Publilius Syrus

#3098

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. Publilius Syrus

#3099

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. Publilius Syrus

#3100

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. Publilius Syrus

#3101

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. Emo Phillips

#3102

No one knows what he can do till he tries. Publilius Syrus

#3103

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. Publilius Syrus

#3104

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Publilius Syrus

#3105

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Publilius Syrus

#3106

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. Publilius Syrus

#3107

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Publilius Syrus

#3108

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius Syrus

#3109

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. Sextus Propertius, Elegies

#3110

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. Sextus Propertius, Elegies

#3111

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Sextus Propertius, Elegies

#3112

To be loved, be lovable. Ovid, Ars Amatoria

#3113

Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid, Ars Amatoria

#3114

We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid, Metamorphoses

#3115

Time the devourer of all things. Ovid, Metamorphoses

#3116

To add insult to injury. Phaedrus, Fables

#3117

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca, Epistles

#3118

The best ideas are common property. Seneca, Epistles

#3119

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. Solon

#3120

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. Seneca, Epistles

#3121

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. Seneca, Epistles

#3122

It is better, ofcours, to know useless things than to know nothing. Seneca, Epistles

#3123

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. Seneca, Epistles

#3124

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Seneca, Epistles

#3125

Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]. Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius

#3126

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. Pliny the Elder, Natural History

#3127

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? Pliny the Elder, Natural History

#3128

There is always something new out of Africa. Pliny the Elder, Natural History

#3129

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. Pierre Charron

#3130

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder, Natural History

#3131

One good turn deserves another. Gaius Petronius

#3132

A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

#3133

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

#3134

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. Flavius Josephus, Life

#3135

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

#3136

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

#3137

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure. Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

#3138

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch, Lives

#3139

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Sidney J. Harris

#3140

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. Plutarch, Morals

#3141

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. Plutarch, Morals

#3142

When the candles are out all women are fair. Plutarch, Morals

#3143

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. Plutarch, Morals

#3144

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

#3145

Only the educated are free. Epictetus, Discourses

#3146

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Epictetus, Discourses

#3147

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. Juvenal, Satires

#3148

Who will guard the guards themselves? (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) Juvenal, Satires

#3149

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. Juvenal, Satires

#3150

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop

#3151

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses! Juvenal, Satires

#3152

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Juvenal, Satires

#3153

It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. Cornelius Tacitus, Histories

#3154

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Pliny the Younger, Letters

#3155

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. Pliny the Younger, Letters

#3156

His only fault is that he has no fault. Pliny the Younger, Letters

#3157

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3158

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3159

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3160

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. Brendan Francis

#3161

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3162

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3163

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3164

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3165

Very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3166

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#3167

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos

#3168

Out of the frying pan into the fire. Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi

#3169

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. Saint Ambrose, Taylor

#3170

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. Spanish Proverb

#3171

The friendship that can cease has never been real. Saint Jerome, Letter

#3172

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. Saint Jerome, Letter

#3173

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. Saint Jerome, Letter

#3174

A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. Saint Jerome, Letter

#3175

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Saint Jerome, Letter

#3176

The scars of others should teach us caution. Saint Jerome, Letter

#3177

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. Saint Jerome, Letter

#3178

Never give advice unless asked. German Proverb

#3179

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Saint Jerome, On the Epistle to the Ephesians

#3180

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia

#3181

Let him who desires peace prepare for war. Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#3182

I was in love with loving. Saint Augustine, Confessions

#3183

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin

#3184

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, A Hundred Sayings

#3185

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Saint Bernard, Epistle

#3186

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. Alain de Lille

#3187

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.] Eike von Repkow

#3188

Ask advice only of your equals. Danish Proverb

#3189

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity

#3190

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

#3191

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

#319

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

#3193

He listens well who takes notes. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

#3194

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

#3195

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

#3196

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

#3197

A great flame follows a little spark. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

#3198

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. Petrarch, De Remedies

#3199

Manners maketh man. William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford

#3200

Who will bell the cat? William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman

#3201

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

#3202

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

#3203

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

#3204

I know all except myself. Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres

#3205

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press

#3206

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis Stevenson

#3207

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality. Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

#3208

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

#3209

Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

#3210

The world wants to be deceived. Sebastian Brant, The Ship of Fools

#3211

I say, thou mad March hare. John Skelton, Replication Against Certain Young Scholars

#3212

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#3213

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#3214

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#3215

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#3216

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo

#3217

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#3218

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

#3219

Nature made him, and then broke the mold. Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

#3220

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. Sir Thomas More, Utopia

#3221

A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. Sir Thomas More, Works

#3222

This hath not offended the king. Sir Thomas More, As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block, From Bacon

#3223

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. Cicero

#3224

Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb

#3225

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. Sir Walter Scott

#3226

If you bow at all, bow low. Chinese Proverb

#3227

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. David M. Ogilvy

#3228

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3229

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. Solon

#3230

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. Pythagoras

#3231

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. William Wirt

#3232

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. Vachel Lindsay

#3233

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit. The Talmud

#3234

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. Brendan Francis

#3235

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain

#3236

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day. French Proverb

#3237

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

#3238

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte

#3239

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor

#3240

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke

#3241

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson

#3242

Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande

#3243

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales

#3244Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein

#3245

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat. Socrates

#3246

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham

#3247

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. Marcus Terentius Varro

#3248

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. James Thurber

#3249

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin

#3250

Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides

#3251

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. Arthur Wellesley, (first Duke of Wellington)

#3252

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. Johann Georg von Zimmermann

#3253

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

#3254

I know why the caged bird sings. Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunbar

#3255

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Hannah Arendt

#3256

One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950

#3257

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. W. H. Auden

#3258

One cannot review a bad book without showing off. W. H. Auden

#3259

No moral system can rest solely on authority. A. J. A yer, Humanist Outlook

#3260

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. Stanley Baldwin

#3261

Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

#3262

We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

#3263

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. Brendan Behan, Hostage (1958)

#3264

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. John B. Bogart

#3265

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

#3266

I think we might be going a bridge too far. Sir Frederick Browning

#3267

Politics is the art of the possible. Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

#3268

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)

#3269

The postman always rings twice. James M. Cain, Book title

#3270

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. Albert Camus, La Chute (The Fall),1956

#3271

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976

#3272

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson

#3273

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)

#3274

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. Coco Chanel

#3275

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography (1964)

#3276

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)

#3277

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)

#3278

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)

#3279

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Noam Chomsky, in a television interview

#3280

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)

#3281

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941

#3282

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. Samuel Butler

#3283

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946

#3284

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942

#3285

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

#3286

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

#3287 Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

#3288

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939

#3289

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

#3290

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. John Lancaster Spalding

#3291 Whose life is it anyway? Brian Clark, Play title

#3292

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Jean Cocteau

#3293

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

#3294

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919

#3295

The chief business of the American people is business. Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

#3296

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914

#329

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. Charles De Gaulle

#3298

Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones. The Belzer Rabbi

#3299

You see, but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892

#3300

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892

#3301

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892

#3302

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890

#3303

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

#3304

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926

#3305

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

#3306

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

#3307

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

#3308

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

#3309

Anatomy is destiny. Sigmund Freud, Collected Writings, 1924

#3310

Either war is obsolete or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

#3311

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927

#3312

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932

#3313

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley, "Themes and Variations", 1950

#3314

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. Henrik Ibsen, "The Master builder", 1892, act 3

#3315

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962

#3316

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconsciousness", 1917

#3317

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961

#3318

...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962

#3319

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

#3320

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

#3321

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

#3322

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914

#3323

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

#3324

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

#3325

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

#3326

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

#3327

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964

#3328

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920

#3329

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. Stanley Kubrick, in Guardian, June 5, 1963

#3330

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels",1911

#3331

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France

#3332

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919

#3333

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962

#3334

The medium is the message. Marshall McLuhan, "Understanding Media", 1964

#3335

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonist. Norman Mailer, "Esquire", June 1960

#3336

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Tse-Tung

#3337

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. John Masefield, "Window in Bye Street", 1912

#3338

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. W. Somerset Maugham, "Our Betters", 1923

#3339

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915

#3340

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford

#3341

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, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920

#3342

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? Steven Wright

#3343

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. Kin Hubbard

#3344

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. Epictetus

#3345

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. Lady Duff-Gordon

#3346

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. Josiah Quincy

#3347

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. Epictetus

#3348

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant. Sefer Hasidim

#3349

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. Thomas Tusser, 1524

#3350

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Unknown

#3351

Learn as much by writing as by reading. Lord Acton

#3352

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato

#3353

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. Robert Henri

#3354

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

#3355

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

#3356

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

#3357

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3358

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#3359

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, made such a sinner of his memory, to credit his own lie. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3360

My library Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3361 From the still-vexed Bermoothes. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3362

I will be correspondent to command, and do my spiriting gently. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3363

Fill all thy bones with aches. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3364

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3365

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

#3366

A very ancient and fish-like smell. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2

#3367

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2

#3368

He that dies pays all debts. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2

#3369

A kind of excellent dumb discourse. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3

#3370

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1

#3371

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1

#3372

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3

#3373

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. Antisthenes

#3374

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1

#3375

How use doth breed a habit in a man! William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4

#3376

Come not within the measure of my wrath. William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4

#3377

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

#3378

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

#3379

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

#3380

Thou art the Mars of malcontents. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3

#3381

We burn daylight. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4

#3382

This is the short and the long of it. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 2

#3383

We have some salt of our youth in us. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3

#3384

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2

#3385

Your hearts are mighty; your skins are whole. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1

#3386

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

#3387

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4

#3388

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1

#3389

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 2

#3390

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 3 scene 1

#3391

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

#3392

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad. William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

#3393

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. William Shakespeare, "The Comedy of Errors", Act 3 scene 1

#3394

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1

#3395

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

#3396

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

#3397

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. Will iam Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1

#3398

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2

#3399

I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2

#3400

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3

#3401

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3

#3402

It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2

#3403

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. Seneca

#3404

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2

#3405

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2

#3406

True is it that we have seen better days. William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 7

#3407

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1

#3408

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus

#3409

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4

#3410

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4

#3411

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7

#3412

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, -- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1

#3413

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2

#3414

He hath eaten me out of house and home. William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1

#3415

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1

#3416

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Henry David Thoreau

#3417

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. William Shakespeare, "King Henry V", Act 5 scene 1

#3418

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part II", Act 4 scene 1

#3419

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1

#3420

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 4 scene 3

#3421

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 4

#3422

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5

#3423

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale

#3424

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

#3425

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

#3426

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

#3427

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1

#3428

We have seen better days. William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 4 scene 2

#3429

Beware the ides of March. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

#3430

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

#3431

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

#3432

Et tu, Brute! William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

#3433

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

#3434

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

#3435

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

#3436

For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

#3437

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

#3438

Our envy of others devours us most of all. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

#3439

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

#3440

The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2

#3441

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1

#3442

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, whoever knocks! William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1

#3443

Out, damned spot! out, I say! William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 1

#3444

A little more than kin, and less than kind. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2

#3445

Frailty, thy name is woman! William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2

#3446

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2

#3447

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain

#3448

Love truth, and pardon error. Voltaire

#3449

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3

#3450

But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4

#3451

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4

#3452

Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

#3453

Every man has business and desire, such as it is. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

#3454

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

#3455

Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

#3456

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

#3457

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse. Chilo

#3458

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

#3459

The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

#3460

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

#3461

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

#3462

O, woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see! William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

#3463

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 2

#3464

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3

#3465

I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 4

#3466

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

#3467

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 5

#3468

A hit, a very palpable hit. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

#3469

The rest is silence. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

#3470

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

#3471

Although the last, not least. William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1

#3472

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. Evelyn Underhill

#3473

Nothing will come of nothing. William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1

#3474

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 3 scene 4

#3475

The worst is not So long as we can say, "This is the worst." William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 1

#3476

Pray you now, forget and forgive. William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 7

#3477

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3

#3478

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1

#3479

I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 2 scene 1

#3480

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

#3481

Speak to me as to thy thinking’s, as thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words. William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

#3482

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. Indian Proverb

#3483

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

#3484

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words. William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2

#3485

My salad days, When I was green in judgment. William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5

#3486

Small to greater matters must give way. William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2

#3487

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2

#3488

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant

#3489

I have Immortal longings in me. William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2

#3490

The game is up. William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 3

#3491

I have not slept one wink. William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4

#3492

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing. William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii

#3493

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

#3494

Cursed be he that moves my bones. William Shakespeare, Epitaph on his gravestone

#3495

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. 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, "Walden", pp. 323- 324

#3496

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. Pierre Gallois

#3497

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. Henry David Thoreau

#3498

He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win We drew a circle that took him in. Edwin Markham

#3499

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero. George Moore

#3500

After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do. John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56

#3501

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucious

#3502

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. William A. Ward

#3503

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started-- and know the place for the first time. T. S Eliot

#3504

Paranoia means having all the facts. William S. Burroughs

#3505

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

#3506

It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take. Wayne Gretski

#3507

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life

#3508

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth. Buddha, The Dhammapada

#3509

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected. Benjamin Franklin

#3510

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really. Paula Pound stone, HBO stand-up routine

#3511

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London, Personal Credo

#3512

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke

#3513

I am a part of all I have seen. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#3514

To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him. Daniel Considine

#3515

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratcliffe

#3516

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984-88

#3517

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

#3518

I think we agree, the past is over. George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

#3519

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

#3520

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire

#3521

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

#3522

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism (from Christian Reflections; p. 108)

#3523

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

#3524

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

#3525

Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher

#3526

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both. Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech

#3527

Work is the curse of the drinking class. Oscar Wilde

#3528

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein, (attributed)

#3529

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#3530

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. James Baldwin

#3531

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Rabindranath Tagore,

Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.

#3532 All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. Aldous Huxley

#3533

The silent bear no witness against themselves. Aldous Huxley

#3534

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

#3535

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meanness’s are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

#3536

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin

#3537

We are not separate from spirit; we are in it. Plontius

#3538

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt. Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This"

#3539

Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage? Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here"

#3540

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein

#3541

Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Robert Frost

#3542

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

#3543

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley

#3544

People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match. Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar-b-cue

#3545

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

#3546

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding. Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#3547

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living. Emad Hasan

#3548

Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it. Andrew Jackson

#3549

We live in a world where lemonade is made from artificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons Alfred E. Neuman, The Half-Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)

#3550

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus

#3551

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City Mayor

#3552

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt

#3553

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. Seneca

#3554

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short. Brian Andreas

#3555

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)

#3556

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice. Stephen Mansfield

#3557

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine. Joel Patrick Warneke

#3558

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese Proverb

#3559

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. Albert Einstein

#3560

The pain passes. The beauty remains. Auguste Renoir

#3561

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford

#3562

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855

#3563

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.

#3564

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3565

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

#3566

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. R. S. Donnell

#3567

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Muriel Strode

#3568

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

#3569

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do. Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente

#3570

O, I am slain! William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain.

#3571

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

#3572

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. Grace Slick

#3573

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians

#3574

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

#3575

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice. Gilbert Chesterton

#3576

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won?t have anything to complain about. Tori Amos

#3577

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person. Jason Hurst

#3578

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

#3579

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

#3580

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke

#3581

Brilliance is born of desperation. Jayanth Komarneni

#3582

Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away. Luis Cernada

#3583

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it. William Shakespeare, As You Like It

#3584

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

#3585

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tells where I lie. Alexander Pope, “Ode to Solitude"

#3586

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%. Langston Coleman

#3587

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Confucius

#3588

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin

#3589

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor

#3590

Horses lend us the wings we lack. Pam Brown, 1928

#3591

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election. Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

#3592

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. Thomas Edison

#3593

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. Chinese Proverb

#3594

Never underestimate your own ignorance. Albert Einstein, speech

#3595

The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

#3596

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

#3597

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

#3598

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

#3599

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can! Henry Ford

#3600

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

#3601 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 that has been opened to us. Helen Keller

#3602I
should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

#3603

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation. Bernard M. Baruch

#3604

Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm

#3605

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly. Carl Polloi

#3606

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

#3607

God give me strength to face a fact though it slays me. Thomas H. Huxley

#3608

If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man. J. Paul Getty

#3609

Failure is defined by our reaction to it. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue

#3610

I dwell in possibilities. Emily Dickinson

#3611

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges

#3612

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain

#3613

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

#3614

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon

#3615

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words .... and his silences. Simon MacDonald

#3616

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. Ivan Pavlov

#3617

Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran

#3618

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. Muhammed Ali, in a television interview

#3619

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. Anais Nin

#3620

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch

#3621

The price of seeing is silence. Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding"

#3622
it is better to succeed with success than failure. George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech

#3623

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

#3624

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw

#3625

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier

#3626

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

#3627

If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. Abraham Lincoln

#3628

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Frank Zappa

#3629

Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound. Oscar Fischinger

#3630

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

#3631

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. Tom Thompson

#3632

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary

#3633

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him. Norman Lewis Smith

#3634

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

#3635

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. Henry David Thoreau

#3636

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. Anais Nin

#3637

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is. Andy Warhol

#3638

Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo. Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup" 1934

#3639

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. Matthew Prior

#3640

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

#3641

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new. Machiavelli

#3642

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliott

#3643

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. Marcel Proust

#3644

Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. Helen Keller

#3645

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups. Margaret Atwod

#3646

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. John Greenleaf Whittier

#3647

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives

#3648

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message. Joseph Batten

#3649

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? Thomas a Kempis

#3650

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents. Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

#3651

The game is afoot. Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

#3652

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi

#3653

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. Alfred North Whitehead, From the view book of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

#3654

Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General. Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia, in a speech in 1975.

#3655

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? Neil Gaiman

#3656

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun

#3657

New Jersey needs a hero. Bon Jovi does not count. Kurt Angle, Gold Medal Olympic Wrestler

#3658

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

#3659

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. Marcus Valerius Martialis

#3660

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

#3661

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Vince Lombardi

#3662

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#3663

A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Robert A. Heinlein

#3664

The greatest productive force is human selfishness. Robert A. Heinlein

#3665

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. Robert A. Heinlein

#3666

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

#3667

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#3668

He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side. Channing Pollock

#3669

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates

#3670

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five? Alfred, Lord Tennyson

#3671

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#3672

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. Niccolo Machiavelli

#3673

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli

#3674 War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage. Niccolo Machiavelli

#3675

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed. Steven Wright, I Have a Pony

#3676

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet

#3677

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson

#3678

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. Lady Bird Johnson

#3679

Even a stopped clock is right two times a day. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#3680

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz

#3681

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. Laurence Peter

#3682

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best. Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

#3683

I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield

#3684

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. Hugh Prather

#3685

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. George Orwell

#3686

We only do well the things we like doing. Colette

#3687

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

#3688

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

#3689

There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Edison

#3690

The question is not what you look at but what you see. Thoreau

#3691

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill

#3692

The sad news is; nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves. Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

#3693

I have nothing to declare but my genius. Oscar Wilde, as he passed through customs

#3694

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

#3695

When all think alike, no one thinks very much. Albert Einstein

#3696

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein

#3697

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

#3698

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne

#3699

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

#3700

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Francis Quarles

#3701

One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and forget. Franklin P. Jones

#3702

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie

#3703

We must always have old memories and young hopes. Arsene Houssaye

#3704

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen

#3705

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. G. C. Lichtenberg

#3706

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile. Bertrand Russell

#3707

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. Malcolm Cowley

#3708

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body. Kahlil Gibran

#3709

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations. Celia Green

#3710

The mind can also be an erogenous zone. Raquel Welch

#3711

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson

#3712

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau

#3713

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. Rosalynn Carter, Wife of jimmy Carter, 39th president

#3714

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. Robert Frost

#3715

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Mae West

#3716

Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision. Helen Keller

#3717

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#3718

Nothing important can be taught, only learned. Dale Dauten, from a 1997 column

#3719

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.

Sun Tzu

#3720

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization. Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

#3721

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head. Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated

#3722
if you are a terror to many, then beware of many. Ausonius

#3723

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

#3724

As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions. Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767

#3725

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Alan Watts

#3726

The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness. Jean Cocteau

#3727

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. #NAME?

#3728

No one ever understood disaster until it came. Josephine Herbst

#3729

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution. Ulysses S. Grant

#3730

I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burrough

#3731

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge

#3732

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden

#3733

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

#3734

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely. Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists

#3735

The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"

#3736

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson

#3737

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life. Anonymous

#3738

It is a 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

#3739

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. Zig Ziglar

#3740

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

#3741

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. C.S. Lewis

#3742

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault

#3743

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. Ayn Rand

#3744

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Helen Keller

#3745

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow

#3746

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Hanna Arendt, 1906 - 1975

#3747

Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few. Sir Winston Churchill, Referring to the RAF

#3748

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings

#3749

I have the world’s largest seashell collection. You may have seen it; I keep it spread out on beaches all over the world. Steven Wright

#3750

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. Anne Rice

#3751

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. Sir Francis Bacon

#3752

If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good! Dr. Seuss

#3753

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

#3754

Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. Ben Azai, Mishna

#3755

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. Mark Twain

#3756

In a friend one should have one’s best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

#3757

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

#3758

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

#3759

Life without music would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

#3760

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all. Andy Warhol

#3761

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

#3762

It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle. Walter Wangerin, Jr., Book of the Dun Cow

#3763

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#3764

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy. Henry Kissinger

#3765

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. Ausonius

#3766

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs. Euripedes, Medea

#3767

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. Albert Einstein

#3768

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances. Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart"

#3769

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

#3770

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. Plato

#3771

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. Helen Keller

#3772

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. Muhammad Ali, Playboy; Nov. 1975

#3773

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

#3774

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

#3775

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte

#3776

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

#3777

I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde

#3778

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute talk with the average voter. Sir Winston Churchill

#3779

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions? Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

#3780

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

#3781

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3782

I talk to God, but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath

#3783

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. Albert Camus

#3784

What did my hands do before they held you? Sylvia Plath

#3785

Great artists have no country. Alfred du Masset

#3786

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. Susan Sontag

#3787

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

#3788

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact- not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. Shimon Peres

#3789

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense

#3790

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

#3791

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. Lovecraft

#379

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. Dave Barry

#3793

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade. Noel Coward

#3794

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. Publilius Syrus

#3795

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Jonathan Swift

#3796

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

#3797

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. Jello Biafra

#3798

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality. Michael W. Moore

#3799

Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin

#3800

Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars. Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary"

#3801

We have art so that we shall not die of reality. Nietzsche

#3802

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. Gertrude Stein

#3803

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3804

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done. Josh Billings

#3805

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

#3806

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#3807

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

#3808

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten. Henry Royce

#3809

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. Bette Davis

#3810

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3811

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3812

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man"

#3813

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclev Havel

#3814

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. Oscar Wilde

#3815

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

#3816

If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe. Carl Sagan

#3817

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3818

Necessity knows no law. Publilius Syrus

#3819

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. Fyodor Dostoevsky

#3820

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

#3821

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde

#3822

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. George Santayana

#3823

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. Albert Einstein

#3824

Give me liberty, or give me death. Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution

#3825

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. Martin Luther King

#3826

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. Ani DiFranco

#3827

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr. Martin Luther King

#3828

When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. Steven Wright

#3829

The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle

#3830

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy

#3831

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley

#3832

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. Oscar Wilde

#3833

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. Jimi Hendrix, Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray, Crosstown Traffic, Ch. 6 (1989).

#3834

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. Hippocrates

#3835

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it. Margaret Thatcher

#3836

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner

#3837

It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else. Marilyn Monroe

#3838

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

#3839

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. Queen Victoria

#3840

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul"

#3841

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications

#3842

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place. Douglas Adams, The Guardian

#3843

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing. Gyles Lytton Sitrachy

#3844

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. C. S. Lewis

#3845

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney

#3846

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

#3847

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant

#3848

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. Samuel Johnson

#3849

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them. Patty Labelle

#3850

The last Christian died on the cross. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#3851

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

#3852

I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight. Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross

#3853

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation. Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death"

#3854

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers. John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"

#3855

A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams

#3856

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. Chilo

#3857

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing. Moliere

#3858

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

#3859

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"

#3860

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"

#3861

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography

#3862

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, then to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

#3863

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H. G. Wells

#3864

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

#3865

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

#3866

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. Madame de Tencin

#3867

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

#3868

I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American. A. F. Shaw

#3869

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin

#3870

They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. Steven Wright

#3871

There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it. Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

#3872

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method. Jack Kerouac

#3873

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3874

Tradition is laziness. Gustav Mahler

#3875

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark. Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish"

#3876

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world. The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

#3877

We will not have peace by afterthought. Norman Cousins

#3878

Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public. Brian K. Blackden, 1996

#3879

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

#3880

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

#3881

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. C. S. Lewis

#3882

Courage is found in unlikely places. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

#3883

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha

#3884

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3885

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. Irish Proverb

#3886

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? George Carlin

#3887

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker? George Carlin

#3888

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? George Carlin

#3889

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? George Carlin

#3890

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? George Carlin

#3891

I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them. Lauren Edwards

#3892

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. Scandinavian Proverb

#3893

Chew before you swallow. George W. Bush, On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel

#3894

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

#3895

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. J. Wilbur Chapman

#3896

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. Dave Barry

#3897

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

#3898

Nothing in the world is as certain as death. Jean Froissart, 1359

#3899

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end. George W. Bush

#3900

Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass. LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

#3901

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. Larry Niven, Ring world

#3902

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain

#3903

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. Czech Proverb

#3904

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 6

#3905

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

#3906

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

#3907

All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

#3908

The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil. Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)

#3909

My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe. Albert Einstein

#3910

Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass. LaDawnna Burnett, (1975-), Letters on Ethics

#3911

Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils. General John Stark

#3912

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right. Gahan Wilson

#3913

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. Harriet Martineau

#3914

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Billy Graham

#3915

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. Henry James

#3916

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. Henry James

#3917

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. Henry James

#3918

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3919

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. Juan Ramon Jiminez

#3920

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln

#3921

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. Al Batt, in National Enquirer

#3922

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. Sir Winston Churchill

#3923

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. Alanis Morissette

#3924

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. Andre Agassi, on "Charlie Rose"

#3925

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

#3926

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Anna Quindlen

#3927

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle

#3928

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer

#3929

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century

#3930

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

#3931

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#3932

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

#3933

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. Baltasar Gracian

#3934

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian

#3935

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein

#3936

Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin

#3937

You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin

#3938

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. Bern Williams

#3939

September tries its best to have us forget summer. Bern Williams

#3940

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought

#3941

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

#3942

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill

#3943

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

#3944

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"

#3945

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes. Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill

#3946

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

#3947

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. Thomas Guthrie

#3948

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

#3949

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story. Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

#3950

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

#3951

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal"

#3952

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses"

#3953

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal

#3954

Americans are overreaches; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. George F. Will, Statecraft as Soul craft

#3955

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. Demosthenes

#3956

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. Gerry Spence, how to Argue and Win Every Time

#3957

Life is full of obstacle illusions. Grant Frazier

#3958

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes. Harold B. Lee

#3959

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler

#3960

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.

#3961

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture. Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

#3962

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Lane Allen

#3963

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. Jane Howard, "Families"

#3964

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. Sir Thomas Browne

#3965

One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese proverb

#3966

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. Jerry Flint, in Forbes

#3967

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. John Gray, "Children Are from Heaven"

#3968

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke

#3969

Dig where the gold is? Unless you just need some exercise. John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?

#3970

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike, Problems and Other Stories

#3971

Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges

#3972

A good home must be made, not bought. Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"

#3973

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. Albanian Proverb

#3974

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"

#3975

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness

#3976

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic

#3977

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990

#3978

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986

#3979

An honor is not diminished for being shared. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986

#3980

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. Baltasar Gracian

#3981

My home is not a place, it is people. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

#3982

Our children change us? Whether they live or not. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

#3983

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

#3984

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

#3985

You try to give away what you want yourself. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

#3986

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. Alfred E. Newman

#3987

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it. Pierre Charron

#3988

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

#3989

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose? Though not always what I pleased. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

#3990

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

#3991

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller

#3992

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

#3993

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. Mary Hirsch

#3994

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995

#3995

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Mother Teresa

#3996

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

#3997

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. Francis Maitland Balfour

#3998

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

#3999

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4000

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", 1841

#4001

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them. Rick Pitino, Lead to Success

#4002

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

#4003

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook

#4004

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

#4005

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. Socrates

#4006

Honor does not have to be defended. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

#4007

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

#4008

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

#4009

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

#4010

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension. Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

#4011

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance

#4012

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense

#4013

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. Leon Tec, M.D.

#4014

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn

#4015

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca

#4016

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. Shimon Peres

#4017

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. Cecil B. DeMille

#4018

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the sturdiest vehicle for visiting other eras. Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal

#4019

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper reality

#4020

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. Warren Buffett

#4021

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky

#4022

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

#4023

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

#4024

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Charles Spurgeon

#4025

Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte

#4026

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. Seneca, Epistles

#4027

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank

#4028

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4029

My business is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made. Robert Browning

#4030

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte

#4031

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Henri Bergson, 1859-1938

#4032

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. Lewis Grizzard

#4033

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. George Orwell

#4034

War is a continuation of politics by other means. Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene

Hackman in "Crimson Tide"

#4035

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM

#4036

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

#4037

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. George W. Bush, Speech after 9/11 attacks

#4038

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated. Larry McMurtry, "Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood"

#4039

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often. William "Bull" Halsey, Admiral, USN

#4040

Thank God I have done my duty. Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words

#4041

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm’s way. John Paul Jones

#4042

I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)

#4043

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

#4044

It is better to die standing on your feet, then live the rest of your life on your knees Emiliano Zapata

#4045

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron

#4046

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. Anatole France

#4047

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White

#4048

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

#4049

No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

#4050

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e.e. cummings

#4051

The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses. Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)

#4052

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

#4053

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future. John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

#4054

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

#4055

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success. Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837

#4056

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. Andrew Jackson, 1821

#4057

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. John Adams

#4058

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. Charles Krauthammer

#4059

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted. Aesop

#4060

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

#4061

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Lisa Grossman

#4062

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4063

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. Keith Degreen

#4064

Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Pioneer Motto

#4065

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Prince Philip of England

#4066

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln

#4067

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it righ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#4068

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. David Letterman

#4069

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. Cato the Elder

#4070

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse"

#4071

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4072

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language? Ernest Thompson Seton

#4073

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Calyle

#4074

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Leszezynski Stanislaus

#4075

The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? \ Pablo Casals

#4076

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope, (1712?)

#4077

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. Spanish Proverb

#4078

The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases. Josiah Stamp, Attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp (1849 - 1941) HM Collector of Inland Revenue.

#4079

I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe. Gene Roddenberry

#4080

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde

#4081

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

#4082

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993

#4083

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. Publilius Syrus

#4084

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer

#4085

Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears. Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi, the poem Joy at Sudden Disappointment

#4086

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein, (attributed)

#4087

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies", 1863

#4088

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

#4089

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945

#4090

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"

#4091

When you drink the water, remember the spring. Chinese Proverb

#4092

Praise the bridge that carried you over. George Colman, The Younger

#4093

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. Wilfred A. Peterson

#4094

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson

#4095

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb

#4096

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne

#4097

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Sir Francis Bacon

#4098

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. Lao-tzu

#4099

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. Christopher Morley

#4100

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. Seneca

#4101

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein

#4102

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde

#4103

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright

#4104

Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. Henry Fielding

#4105

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide

#4106

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin

#4107

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. Kate Reid

#4108

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton

#4109

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. Roy M. Goodman

#4110A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Alfred E. Wiggam

#4111

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. Robert Anton Wilson

#4112

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset Maugham

#4113

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse

#4114

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. John H. Patterson

#4115

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it. Immanuel Hermann Fichte

#4116

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Mark Twain

#4117

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. John Ciardi

#4118

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Laurence J. Peter

#4119

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant

#4120

Silence is the virtue of fools. Sir Francis Bacon

#4121

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

#4122

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson

#4123

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Niels Bohr

#4124

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. Elbert Hubbard

#4125

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

#4126

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns

#4127

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

#4128

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925

#4129

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4130

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey

#4131

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. Lee Simonson

#4132

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire

#4133

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen

#4134

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. Victor Borge

#4135

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. Peter McArthur

#4136

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams

#4137

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert

#4138

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx

#4139

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Sir Winston Churchill

#4140

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

#4141

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes

#4142

People find life entirely too time-consuming. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#4143

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. J. G. C. Brainard

#4144

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891

#4145

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden

#4146

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein

#4147

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possess not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell

#4148

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The lighter you shine on it, the more it will contract. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#4149

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw

#4150

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#4151

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson

#4152

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Sir Winston Churchill

#4153

My loathing’s are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov

#4154

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Laurence J. Peter

#4155

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#4156

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana

#4157

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde

#4158

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis

#4159

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. William H. Borah

#4160

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way. A. Lawrence Lowell

#4161

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

#4162

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith

#4163

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith

#4164

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Abbie Hoffman

#4165
belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers

#4166

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

#4167

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal

#4168

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson

#4169

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

#4170

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine

#4171

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Sir William Bragg

#4172

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Bragg

#4173

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. Vannevar Bush

#4174

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas H. Huxley

#4175

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Manuel Kant

#4176

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. Louis Pasteur

#4177

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)

#4178

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. Mahatma Gandhi

#4179

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valery, 1895

#4180

I know nothing about sex because I was always married. Zsa Zsa Gabor

#4181

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf

#4182

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. John Lithgow

#4183

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg

#4184

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Sir Winston Churchill

#4185

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton

#4186

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell

#4187

The mass of men leads lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

#4188

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. Welsh Proverb

#4189

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty"

#4190

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields. John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"

#4191

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. James Thurber, "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)

#4192

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. Lewis Thomas

#4193

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. Isaac Newton

#4194

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. Wernher
von Braun

#4195

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. J. Bartlett Brebner

#4196

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, and toss them on the wheels of Chance. Juvenal

#4197

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"

#4198

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. Homer

#4199

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? Richard Feynman

#4200

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

#4201

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing." Sir Arnold Bax, Farewell my Youth (1943)

#4202

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4203

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes

#4204

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. Rudyard Kipling

#4205

All things are difficult before they are easy. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

#4206

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Alan Turing

#4207

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)

#4208

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? Irv Kupcinet

#4209

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard

#4210

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. Robert Cecil Day Lewis

#4211

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially. Ashley Montagu

#4212

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

#4213

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. Thomas Troward

#4214

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. Joseph Addison

#4215

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. Jim Bishop

#4216

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie

#4217

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tyron Edwards

#4218

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. R. W. Griswold

#4219

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination. Immanuel Kant

#4220

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#4221

We are suffering from too much sarcasm. Marianne Moore

#4222

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss. Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism

#4223

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. Charles M. Schwab

#4224

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism. Simms

#4225

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. Henry Van Dyke

#4226

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him. Author Unknown

#4227

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism. Author Unknown

#4228

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. Author Unknown

#4229

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us. Author Unknown

#4230

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. John Locke

#4231

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. Yiddish Proverb

#4232

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death. Leonardo Da Vinci

#4233

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. Eric Hoffer

#4234

Nothing fails like success. Gerald Nachman

#4235

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Ogden Nash

#4236

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. Jackie Mason

#4237

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak

#4238

Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard

#4239

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. Errol Flynn

#4240

The wages of sin are unreported. Unknown

#4241

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Georges Clemenceau

#4242

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Fletcher Knebel

#4243

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard

#4244

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. Hermann Hesse

#4245

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

#4246

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

#4247

Ninety percent of everything is crap. Theodore Sturgeon

#4248

All phone calls are obscene. Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#4249

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. Tommy Cooper

#4250

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. Richard Diran

#4251

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

#4252

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. Evan Davis

#4253

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck. Graffito, in Los Angeles

#4254

Nothing ever goes away. Barry Commoner

#4255

God help those who do not help themselves. Wilson Mizner

#4256

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#4257

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

#4258

I think it would be a good idea. Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

#4259

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France

#4260

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey

#4261

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

#4262

Reality is something you rise above. Liza Minnelli

#4263

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

#4264

The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer

#4265

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote

#4266

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? Woody Allen

#4267

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. Sir Julian Huxley

#4268

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. Adrienne E. Gusoff

#4269

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. Adrienne E. Gusoff

#4270

My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. Rita Rudner

#4271

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henny Youngman

#4272

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. Oscar Levant

#4273

Children are all foreigners. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4274

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#4275

It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome

#4276

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. Rita Rudner

#4277

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#4278

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. From the 1985 movie "Bliss"

#4279

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. Henny Youngman

#4280

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. Plato

#4281

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James

#4282

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. Jerome

#4283

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry

#4284

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell

#4285

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller

#4286

Living in a vacuum suck. Adrienne E. Gusoff

#4287

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson

#4288

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. Dame Rose Macaulay

#4289

Blame someone else and get on with your life. Alan Woods

#4290

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Samuel Johnson

#4291

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. Herb Caen

#4292

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer

#4293

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. Unknown

#4294

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

#4295

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. Sir Thomas Beecham

#4296

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. From "Taxi"

#4297

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. Joe Theismann, Former quarterback

#4298

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Erma Bombeck

#4299

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler

#4300

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

#4301

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Jeff Marder

#4302

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall someday die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock

#4303

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn

#4304

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. Lester J. Pourciau

#4305

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field Niels Bohr

#4306

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer

#4307

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. Norman Brenner

#4308

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. H. L. Mencken

#4309

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. Jay Leno

#4310

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz

#4311

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. Art Spander

#4312

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neill

#4313

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Nick Diamos

#4314

War is not nice. Barbara Bush

#4315

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

#4316

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. Charles de Montesquieu

#4317

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams

#4318

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams

#4319

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

#4320

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain

#4321

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. Douglas Adams

#4322

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams

#4323

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott Adams

#4324

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. Brian Aldiss

#4325

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed. Buzz Aldrin

#4326

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

#4327

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

#4328

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz

#4329

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. Dame Rose Macaulay

#4330

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. Woody Allen

#4331

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. Woody Allen

#4332

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen

#4333

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought---particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. Woody Allen

#4334

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson

#4335

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe

#4336

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws. Isaac Asimov

#4337

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. Jane Wagner

#4338

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents. Australian Aboriginal Elder

#4339

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

#4340

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

#4341

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings

#4342

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. Niels Bohr

#4343

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr

#4344

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. Gloria Borger

#4345

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge

#4346

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. Ben Bova

#4347

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. Dick Brandon

#4348

War is like love; it always finds a way. Bertolt Brecht

#4349

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? Bertolt Brecht

#4350

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. David Brower

#4351

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." Lenny Bruce

#4352

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton

#4353

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron

#4354

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver

#4355

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated. Cenotaph in Hiroshima

#4356

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy

#4357

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney

#4358

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke

#4359

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." Frederick L Collins

#4360

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby

#4361

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby

#4362

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. Frank Crane

#4363

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. Katharine Whitehorn

#4364

Exterminate. The Daleks (Doctor Who)

#4365

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad Salvador Dali

#4366

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. Charles Anderson Dana

#4367

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow

#4368

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. Phillip K. Dick

#4369

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. R. A. Dickson

#4370

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

#4371

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan

#4372

Never judge a book by its movie. J.W. Eagan

#4373

Go ahead, make my day. Dean Riesner, Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in "Sudden Impact", 1983

#4374

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham

#4375

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban

#4376

He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun Steady Eddy

#4377

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4378

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. Havelock Ellis

#4379

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison

#4380

Never give a sucker an even break. W. C. Fields

#4381

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won’t either. Joseph Fischer

#4382

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#4383

Bond. James Bond. Ian Fleming

#4384

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. Malcom Forbes

#4385

History is more or less bunk. Henry Ford

#4386

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford

#4387

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. Harry Emerson Fosdick

#4388

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith

#4389

I could prove God statistically. George Gallup

#4390

The good man is the friend of all living things. Mahatma Gandhi

#4391

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. Jane Wagner

#4392

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi

#4393

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. Mahatma Gandhi

#4394

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi

#4395

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

#4396

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. Stanley Garn

#4397

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. Christian Furchtegott Gellert

#4398

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide

#4399

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg

#4400

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn

#4401

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. Horace Greeley

#4402

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. Hagar the Horrible

#4403

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Haida Indian saying

#4404

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine. J.B.S. Haldane

#4405

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. Stephen Hawking

#4406

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

#4407

Catch 22 Joseph Heller

#4408

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller

#4409

Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway

#4410

But did thee feel the earth move? Ernest Hemingway

#4411

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway

#4412

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert

#4413

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary

#4414

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like. Alfred Hitchcock

#4415

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored Aldous Huxley

#4416

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Groucho Marx

#4417

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. Joan Klempner

#4418

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley

#4419

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley

#4420

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. C. D. Jackson

#4421

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it! Peter de Jager

#4422

We were robbed! Joe Jacobs

#4423

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K Jerome

#4424

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. Wendell Johnson

#4425

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. Franklin P Jones

#4426

All marriages are mixed marriages. Chantal Saperstein

#4427

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

#4428

Religion is a defense against the experience of God. Carl Jung

#4429

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

#4430

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung

#4431

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. Edward Kennedy

#4432

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

#4433

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. John F Kennedy

#4434

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joseph P Kennedy

#4435

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

#4436

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles F. Kettering

#4437

In the long run, we are all dead. John Maynard Keynes

#4438

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King

#4439

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. Martin Luther King

#4440

Life is too short for traffic. Dan Bellack

#4441

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination. Tommy Lasorda

#4442

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

#4443

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen. Martin Mull

#4444

Turn on, tune in and drop out. Timothy Leary

#4445

There are three side effects of acid. Enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary

#4446

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987

#4447

All we are saying is give peace a chance. John Lennon

#4448

Life is what happens while you are making other plans. John Lennon

#4449

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. C. S. Lewis

#4450

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature. Phillip Lubin

#4451

Where facts are few, experts are many. Donald R. Gannon

#4452

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. E.V. Lucas

#4453

The medium is the message. Marshall McLuhan

#4454

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan

#4455

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Charlie McCarthy

#4456

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming. J.P. McEvoy

#4457

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else. Andre Malraux

#4458

In waking a tiger, use a long stick. Mao Tse-tung

#4459

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Tse-tung

#4460

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Tse-tung

#4461

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. Vicomte de Chateaubriand

#4462

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight. Bob Marley

#4463

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx

#4464

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham

#4465

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham

#4466

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. W. Somerset Maugham

#4467

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset Maugham

#4468

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Henry Louis Mencken

#4469

The only really happy folk are married women and single men. Henry Louis Mencken

#4470

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution. Henry Louis Mencken

#4471

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Henry Louis Mencken

#4472

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken

#4473

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. Henry Louis Mencken

#4474

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. Henry Louis Mencken

#4475

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. George Meredith

#4476

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. Henry Miller

#4477

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne

#4478

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montague

#4479

The city is not a concrete jungle; it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris

#4480

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

#4481

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away. Kenich Ohmae

#4482

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. Sir Laurence Olivier

#4483

Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell

#4484

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

#4485

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

#4486

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. George Osner

#4487

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Robert Oppenheimer

#4488

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton

#4489

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

#4490

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. Gifford Pinchot

#4491

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

#4492

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#4493

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#4494

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. Hesketh Pearson

#4495

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. Leo Rosten

#4496

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell

#4497

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#4498

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

#4499

Everything has been figured out except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre

#4500

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. Albert Schweitzer

#4501

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer

#4502

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this. Peter Sellers

#4503

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

#4504

It is most unwise for people in love to marry. George Bernard Shaw

#4505

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw

#4506

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. George Bernard Shaw

#4507

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. George Bernard Shaw

#4508

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. Phillip Stanhope

#4509

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#4510

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. Charles Steinmetz

#4511

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin

#4512

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas Szasz

#4513

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#4514

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. H.S. Thompson

#4515

Like having your own license to print money. Lord Thomson of Fleet

#4516

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. James Thurber

#4517

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

#4518

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. James Thurber

#4519

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. Tolkein

#4520

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman

#4521

Know the masculine, keep to the feminine. Lao Tzu

#4522

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut

#4523

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Robert Orben

#4524

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. Kurt Vonnegut

#4525

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol

#4526

A week is a long time in politics. Harold Wilson

#4527

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done Wittgenstein

#4528

Resistance is useless. Doctor Who

#4529

Good place to put things--cellars. Doctor Who

#4530

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. Doctor Who

#4531

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. Robert Bloch

#4532

First things first, but not necessarily in that order. Doctor Who

#4533

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. Doctor Who

#4534

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another. Doctor Who

#4535

It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. Doctor Who

#4536

According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly. Doctor Who

#4537

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. Doctor Who

#4538

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright

#4539

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? Steven Wright

#4540

If God dropped acid, would he see people? Steven Wright

#4541

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Steven Wright

#4542

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang

#454

If it is to be, it is up to me. Unknown

#4544

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. Unknown

#4545

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. Marston Bates

#4546

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Unknown

#4547

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. Unknown

#4548

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. Unknown

#4549

Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the scheme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me. Unknown

#4550

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

#4551

My mother buried three husbands ... and two of them were only napping. Rita Rudner

#4552

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals. Beatrice Lillie

#4553

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. Ayn Rand

#4554

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth. Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operator

#4555

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin

#4556

Instant gratification is not soon enough. Meryl Streep

#4557

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. Denise Klahn

#4558

Man forgives woman anything saves the wit to outwit him. Minna Antrim

#4559

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. Ashely Montagu

#4560

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him. Cher

#4561

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. Suzanne Necker

#4562

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses. Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

#4563

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior. Katherine Hepburn

#4564

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated. Cynthia Nelms

#4565

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. Erma Bombeck

#4566

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. Carole Burnett

#4567

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space. Judith Stone

#4568

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ``Get the hell off my property.' Joan Rivers

#4569

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. Phyllis Diller

#4570

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior. Rita Rudner

#4571

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid
of him of the entire weekend. Zenna Schaffer

#4572

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. Jenny Jerome Churchill

#4573

Her only flair is in her nostrils. Pauline Kael

#4574

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. Joan Klempner

#4575

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

#4576

Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig. Barbara Melser Lieberman

#4577

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker

#4578

A hundred years for now? All new people. Anne Lamott

#4579

When the sun comes up, I have morals again. Elayne Boosler

#4580

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. Dr. Joyce Brothers

#4581

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

#4582

I rely on my personality for birth control. Liz Winston

#4583

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it. Lesley Boone.

#4584

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. Adrienne Gusoff

#4585

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. Agatha Christie

#4586

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? Zsa Zsa Gabor

#4587

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. Rita Mae Brown

#4588

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. Jackie Onassis

#4589

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. Groucho Marx

#4590

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Ernestine Ulmer

#4591

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. Elizabeth Drew

#4592

The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster. Martha Gellman

#4593

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katherine Hepburn

#4594

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. Phyllis Diller

#4595

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. Maryon Pearson

#4596

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather

#4597

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up. Barbara Bush

#4598

The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons-in-law. Joan Kiser

#4599

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black. Kelly Robinson

#4600

Having something to say is overrated. Adair Lara

#4601

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. Robert M. Hamilton

#4602

His voice was an intimate as the rustle of sheets. Dorothy Parker

#4603

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. Elizabeth Bowen

#4604

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank. Wendy Ward

#4605

Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near. Helen Rowland

#4606

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones. Helena Rubenstein

#4607

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. Rebecca West

#4608

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas H. Huxley

#4609

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. Katharine Whitehorn

#4610

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. Mae West

#4611

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Dora Russell

#4612

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. Katharine Whitehorn

#4613

Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying. Mary Wilson Little

#4614

Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix? Elayne Boosler

#4615

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. Lillian Hellman

#4616

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line

#4617

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice Jones

#4618

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. Dorothy Parker

#4619

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be. Brigitte Bardot

#4620

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West

#4621

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. Edward Teller

#4622

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich

#4623

I thought I told you to wait in the car. Tallulah Bankhead, on seeing a former lover for the first time in years

#4624

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. Jean Kerr

#4625

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot

#4626

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf

#4627

Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die. Deborah Martin

#4628

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool. Jane Wagner

#4629

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite. Jean Kerr

#4630

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. Simone Weil

#4631

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. Virginia Woolf

#4632

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi

#4633

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. Fanny Burney

#4634

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. Kate Chopin

#4635

When mom found my diaphragm, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat. Liz Winston

#4636

Living in a vacuum suck. Adrienne Gusoff

#4637

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson

#4638

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart. Becky Rodenbeck

#4639

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music. Nikki Harris

#4640

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicities. Lauren Bacall

#4641

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch

#4642

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. Francois Sagan

#4643

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. Margot Asquith

#4644

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen

#4645

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. Edna Ferber

#4646

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. Helen Rowland

#4647

It should be a very happy marriage --- they are both so much in love with him. Irene Thomas

#4648

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. Maggie Kuhn

#4649

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead

#4650

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Jane Austen

#4651

A man is so in the way in the house. Elizabeth Gaskell

#4652

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. Germaine Greer

#4653

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. Woody Allen

#4654

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Agatha Christie

#4655

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn

#4656

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. Jane Austen

#4657

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. Jane Austen

#4658

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#4659

As I grow older and older, and totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom. Dorothy Sayers

#4660

This is on me. Dorothy Parker, suggested for her tombstone

#4661

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you. Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birth

#4662

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Sir Francis Bacon

#4663

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf

#4664

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. Mary Wilson Little

#4665

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once. Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw

#4666

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney

#4667

Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves. Laurie Jo Wojcik

#4668

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4669

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. Indira Gandhi

#4670

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. Margaret Mead

#4671

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. Eric Ambler

#4672

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups. Cathy Guisewite

#4673

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Harriet Braiker

#4674

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell

#4675

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. Celia Green

#4676

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving. Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame

#4677

My father was often angry when I was most like him. Lillian Hellman

#4678

Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine. Nora Ephron

#4679

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. Harriet Van Horne

#4680

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron

#4681

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. M. F. K. Fisher

#4682

No more tears now; I will think about revenge. Mary Queen of Scots

#4683

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen

#4684

The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch

#4685

I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. Nancy Mitford

#4686

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes. Marlene Dietrich

#4687

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France

#4688

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Margot Asquith

#4689

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. Rose Macauley

#4690

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. Queen Victoria

#4691

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. Hannah More, 1775

#4692

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. Bette Midler

#4693

I feel like a million tonight --- but one at a time. Mae West

#4694

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

#4695

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

#4696

My favorite animal is steak. Fran Lebowitz

#4697

God is love, but get it in writing. Gypsy Rose Lee

#4698

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Rebecca West

#4699

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.' Dorothy Parker

#4700

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron

#4701

Nothing succeeds like address. Fran Lebowitz

#4702

Oregano is the spice of life. Henry J. Tillman

#4703

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America. Ty-Grace Atkinson

#4704

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. Madame Curie

#4705

When women go wrong, men go right after them. Mae West

#4706

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. Katharine Hepburn

#4707

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. Margaret Turnbull

#4708

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken

#4709

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

#4710

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell

#4711

By whom? Dorothy Parker, when told she was outspoken

#4712

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. Mae West

#4713

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor

#4714

Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere. Helen Gurley Brown

#4715

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family. Ruby Manikan

#4716

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind. Stevie Smith

#4717

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#4718

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf

#4719

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. Virginia Woolf

#4720

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. Rosalind Russell

#4721

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more. Collen McCullough

#4722

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. Missy Dizick

#4723

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair. Jane Fonda

#4724

Actions lie louder than words. Carolyn Wells

#4725

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. Joan Rivers

#4726

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. Gloria Swanson

#4727

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. Betty Friedan

#4728

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. Josephine Tey

#4729

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. Barbara Stanwyck

#4730

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so. Phyllis Chesler

#4731

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. Alison Lurie

#4732

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed. Laurie Colwin

#4733

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. Rita Mae Brown

#4734

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat. Xaviera Hollander

#4735

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. Clare Booth Luce

#4736

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them. Joan Rivers

#4737

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally. Lillian Day

#4738

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived. Elizabeth Jenkins

#4739

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair. Judith Stern

#4740

Excessive literary production is a social offense. George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans

#4741

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. Nancy Mitford

#4742

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. Mark Twain, in Christian Science

#4743

In love there are things --- bodies and words. Joyce Carol Oates

#4744

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Mae West

#4745

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch

#4746

Never give up and never face the facts. Ruth Gordon

#4747

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. Mignon McLaughlin

#4748

No nice men are good at getting taxis. Katharine Whitehorn

#4749

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman. Nancy Astor

#4750

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them. Sally Poplin

#4751

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. Judy Garland

#4752

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. Mae West

#4753

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. Dame Edith Sitwell

#4754

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face. Clare Booth Luce

#4755

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Booth Luce

#4756

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband. Lady Bird Johnson

#4757

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

#4758

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. Muriel Spark

#4759

Power is the ability not to have to please. Elizabeth Janeway

#4760

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. Mark Twain

#4761

Sanity is a cozy lie. Susan Sontag

#4762

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn

#4763

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. George Eliot

#4764

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. Mignon McLaughlin

#4765

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. Joan Rivers

#4766

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail none of which is easy. Princess Anne

#4767

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. Charles Luckman

#4768

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance. Helen Lawrenson

#4769

To err is human, but is feels divine. Mae West

#4770

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life. Kathleen Norris

#4771

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Dr. Joyce Brothers

#4772

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. Madame de Sevigne

#4773

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. Dame Edith Sitwell

#4774

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. Fran Lebowitz

#4775

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. Margaret Miller

#4776

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa

#4777

It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. Dame Rose Macauley

#4778

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set. Harriet Van Horne.

#4779

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach. Anita Loos

#4780

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office. Mae West

#4781

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. Mary Webb

#4782

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Hannah Arendt

#4783

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology. Dame Rebecca West

#4784

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. Katharine Hepburn

#4785

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes

#4786

Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down. Naomi Bliven

#4787

A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. Edna Ferber

#4788

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics. Emmeline Pankhurst

#4789

Elegance is refusal. Coco Chanel

#4790

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. Alexis Carrel

#4791

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. Adrian Mitchell

#4792

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Margot Asquith

#4793

Changing husbands is only changing troubles. Kathleen Norris

#4794

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too. Lillian Bell

#4795

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. Madame Swetchine

#4796

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them. Helen Rowland

#4797

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children. Mary McCarthy

#4798

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other. Elizabeth Adamson

#4799

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#4800

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

#4801

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#4802

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. Simone Weil

#4803

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

#4804

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. Agnes Repplier

#4805

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. Rita Rudner

#4806

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? Katharine Whitehorn

#4807

Eating without conversation is only stoking. Marcelene Cox

#4808

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield

#4809

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house. Katherine Tynan Hinkson

#4810

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

#4811

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. Marcelene Cox

#4812

All sins are attempts to fill voids. Simone Weil

#4813

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? Anne Frank

#4814

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. Lillian Hellman

#4815

It not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. Lillian Hellman

#4816

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong

#4817

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything. Katharine Butler Hathaway

#4818

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. Agnes Repplier

#4819

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. Edgar Watson Howe

#4820

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it. Pearl Buck

#4821

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Simone Weil

#4822

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? Kathleen Norris

#4823

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it. Marcelene Cox

#4824

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. May Sarton

#4825

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. Edna Ferber

#4826

Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash. Dr. Joyce Brothers

#4827

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. Marilyn Monroe

#4828

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#4829

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple Black

#4830

The eleventh commandment Thou shalt not be found out is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days. Berta Buxton

#4831

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw

#4832

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire

#4833

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre Beaumarchais

#4834

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. Harold Rosenberg

#4835

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner

#4836

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley

#4837

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson

#4838

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#4839

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. Frank Moore Colby

#4840

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Laurence J. Peter

#4841

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. Charles Peters

#4842

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979

#4843

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. Milton Friedman

#4844

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese

#4845

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. Alfred Hitchcock

#4846

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

#4847

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. Oscar Wilde

#4848

The big thieves hang the little ones. Czech Proverb

#4849

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. Russell Baker

#4850

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

#4851

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. William Feather

#4852

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. Colette

#4853

I am just going outside and may be some time. Captain Lawrence Oates, last words

#4854

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. Robert Orben

#4855

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. Russell Green

#4856

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. Edward Shepherd Mead

#4857

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

#4858

The computer is a moron. Peter Drucker

#4859

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen

#4860

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James Thurber

#4861

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

#4862

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

#4863

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin

#4864

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott

#4865

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#4866

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W. Somerset Maugham

#4867

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Atlee

#4868

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. H. L. Mencken

#4869

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant

#4870

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. Thomas Pickering

#4871

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

#4872

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

#4873

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. James Thurber

#4874

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. Alfred A. Knopf

#4875

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

#4876

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

#4877

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker

#4878

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. Laurence J. Peter

#4879

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain

#4880

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

#4881

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope, Letter too Gay, October 6, 1727

#4882

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. Benjamin Stolberg

#4883

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. Lord Salisbury

#4884

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Thomas Babington Macaulay

#4885 People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard

#4886

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer

#4887

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. Tom Stoppard

#4888

A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Kin Hubbard

#4889

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. Chester Bowles

#4890

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

#4891

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

#4892

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Evelyn Waugh

#4893

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William Ralph Inge

#4894

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner

#4895

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"

#4896

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Don Marquis

#4897

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. Mark Twain

#4898

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley

#4899

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. H. L. Mencken

#4900

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch

#4901

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein

#4902

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost

#4903

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

#4904

Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher

#4905

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry Adams

#4906

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi

#4907

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer. Evelle J. Younger

#4908

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Alvin Toffler

#4909

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. Anonymous

#4910

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman

#4911

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck

#4912

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4913

Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie

#4914

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein

#4915

The only limits are those of vision. James Broughton

#4916

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts. Randall Wallace

#4917

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often. Ian Gabirol

#4918

We are the total of our longings. Guy Gavriel Kay

#4919

In solitude especially do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think. Henry David Thoreau

#4920

Intelligence is nothing without delight. Paul Claudel

#4921

Hatred is the anger of the weak. Alphonse Daudet

#4922

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain

#4923

What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. Alain

#4924

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche

#4925

A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit. Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance

#4926

Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen

#4927

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

#4928

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.... Richard Bach

#4929

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. Zig Ziglar

#4930

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill

#4931

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man. George Bernard Shaw

#4932

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before. Alan Ashley-Pitt

#4933

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults. Confucius

#4934

Doubts are crueler than the worst of truths. Moliere

#4935

Never judge a book by its movie. J. W. Eagan

#4936

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. Oscar Wilde

#4937

There is no death. Only a change of worlds. Chief Seattle

#4938

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. John Wooden

#4939

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves. Abraham Lincoln

#4940

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

#4941

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success. Henry David Thoreau

#4942

"Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart." John Petit-Senn

#4943

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams

#4944

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear. C. S. Lewis

#4945

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. Clare Booth Luce

#4946

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself. Deepak Chopra

#4947

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live. Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

#4948

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures... Geronimo

#4949

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself. Shawnee Indian Chant

#4950

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

#4951

There are tones of voices that mean more than words. Robert Frost

#4952

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. Mark Twain

#4953

We need to make a decision, no matter what it is. Dr. Suzanne Botts

#4954

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. W.H. Auden

#4955

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. H. L. Mencken

#4956

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler

#4957

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. Alan Patrick Herbert

#4958

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984

#4959

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. Nick Faldo

#4960

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Don Marquis

#4961

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#4962

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne

#4963

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken

#4964

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire

#4965

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain

#4966

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan

#4967

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

#4968

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot

#4969

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. Jean Kerr

#4970

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

#4971

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard

#4972

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. William Ralph Inge

#4973

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. Eric Sevareid

#4974

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. Ben Hecht

#4975

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968

#4976

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding

#4977

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. Auden

#4978

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. Paul Fussell

#4979

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash

#4980

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#4981

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw

#4982

People will buy anything that is one to a customer. Sinclair Lewis

#4983

There are more fools in the world than there are people. Heinrich Heine

#4984

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

#4985

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. William James

#4986

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Oscar Wilde

#4987

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

#4988

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. Ernest Benn

#4989

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. Lester B. Pearson

#4990

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson

#4991

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? Harry Shearer

#4992

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. Gore Vidal

#4993

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain

#4994

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker

#4995

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#4996

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. Berton Averre

#4997

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

#4998

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell

#4999

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde

#5000

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"

#5001

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. Robert Benchley

#5002

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. Robert Benchley

#5003

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor

#5004

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes

#5005

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. Alice Kahn

#5006

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock

#5007

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley

#5008

Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn

#5009

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thomas A. Edison

#5010

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Abraham Lincoln

#5011

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen

#5012

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. Victor Borge

#5013

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. W. L. George

#5014

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers, New York Times, Apr. 29, 1930

#5015

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. John F. Kennedy

#5016

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

#5017

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

#5018

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Slovenian Proverb

#5019

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

#5020

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

#5021

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. Bob Wells

#5022

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Bob Wells

#5023

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant

#5024

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi

#5025

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau

#5026

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel

#5027

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes

#5028

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

#5029

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, then to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J. H. Boetcker

#5030

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

#5031

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill

#5032

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman

#5033

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S Truman

#5034

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. Hubert H. Humphrey

#5035

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

#5036

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

#5037

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943

#5038

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham

#5039

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

#5040

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

#5041

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

#5042

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln

#5043

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e e cummings

#5044

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus

#5045

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

#5046

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. Robert Anton Wilson

#5047

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug Larson

#5048

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. Steven Wright

#5049

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. Saki

#5050

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

#5051

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson

#5052

My work is a game, a very serious game. M. C. Escher

#5053

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence J. Peter

#5054

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement

#5055

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

#5056

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato

#5057

Solutions are not the answer. Richard Nixon

#5058

Make money, money, honestly if you can;<br>if not, by any means at all, make money. Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

#5059

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. Woodrow Wilson

#5060

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. James Madison, (attributed)

#5061

Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. James Madison

#5062

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. John Adams

#5063

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please Mark Twain

#5064

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Rush (the band), "Freewill"

#5065

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. Churchill

#5066

A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal. Churchill

#5067

The unexamined life is not worth living to a human. Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"

#5068

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. Mark A. Overbuy

#5069

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta

#5070

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand unknown

#5071

May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead unknown

#5072

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"

#5073

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder. Bible, James 2:19 (New International Version)

#5074

Rem tene, verba sequntur (Keep to the subject, and the words will follow) Cato the Censor (?)

#5075

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. Dave Letterman

#5076

But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

#5077

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis

#5078

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power"

#5079

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion Archbishop William Temple, 1955

#5080

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. William Ralph Inge, 1920

#5081

Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947

#5082

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan"

#5083

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate Occam

#5084

Life is like an ice-cream cone; you have to lick it one day at a time. Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

#5085

How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese? Charles De Gaulle

#5086

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. George Burns

#5087

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150? Abba Eban

#5088

"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison. “If you were my wife, madam, i would take it! Lady Astor and William Churchill

#5089

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise. Red Skelton

#5090

"Coolidge is dead"How could they tell? Dorothy Parker

#5091

I call that a scumhead. James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

#5092

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

#5093

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt

#5094

If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering. Daniel Webster

#5095

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. Woodrow Wilson

#5096

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti

#5097

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore, even in a palace a right life is possible. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.

#5098

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.

#5099

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 6.

#5100

To stand up -- or be setup? Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 6.

#5101

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.

#5102

To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire

#5103

A candour affected is a dagger concealed. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.

#5104

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly. Henry Spencer

#5105

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. Steve Martin

#5106

Politics is no exact science. Otto von Bismark

#5107

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche

#5108

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche

#5109

When in doubt, use brute force Ken Thompson

#5110

Maybe I should have screwed up. Ken Thompson

#5111

SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out. Ken Thompson

#5112

I know nothing. Ken Thompson

#5113

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughan

#5114

Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside. Ken Thompson

#5115

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. Ken Thompson

#5116

Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive. Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion"

#5117

In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. H. L. Mencken

#5118

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. Confucius

#5119

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. Cicero

#5120

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

#5121

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters. H. L. Mencken

#5122

Trapped, like a trap in a trap. Dorothy Parker

#5123

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Churchill

#5124

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#5125

The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups. Clark Coleman

#5126

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien

#5127

May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free Shriekback, "Cradle Song"

#5128

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

#5129

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain

#5130

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5131

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? Albert Einstein.

#5132

A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. William Wordsworth

#5133

Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication. "A Canticle for Leibowitz"

#5134

A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe

#5135

All Bibles are man-made. Thomas A. Edison

#5136

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 bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5137

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. Sir Winston Churchill

#5138

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage. Woody Allen, Without Feathers

#5139

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. Woody Allen, Without Feathers

#5140

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. Woody Allen, Without Feathers

#5141

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib. Woody Allen, Without Feathers

#5142

Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving? Woody Allen, Without Feathers

#5143

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters. Woody Allen, Without Feathers

#5144

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

#5145

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. Andrew Brown

#5146

The universe is made of stories, not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser

#5147
in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93

#5148

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. John W. Gardner

#5149

Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots. Miriam Defensor Santiago, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

#5150

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

#5151

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances. Greenville County (S.C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

#5152

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way. Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

#5153

It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

#5154

Would you please shut up and sit down! George Bush, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

#5155

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein

#5156

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

#5157

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape

#5158

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323

#5159

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. Henry David Thoreau

#5160

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. Sam Walter Foss, Back Country Poems, 1892

#5161

The Pope! How many divisions has _he_ got? Joseph Stalin, Winston Chuirchill, The Second World War, vol 1

#5162

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1775

#5163

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. Carl Jung

#5164

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

#5165

The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)

#5166

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne

#5167

Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous. Sam Malone, Cheers

#5168

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

#5169

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous history. It makes you proud to be a human being. Karl R. Popper

#5170

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. Somerset Maugham

#5171

When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away." Give pearls away and rubies, but keep your fancy free. But I was one-and-twenty, no use to talk to me. A.E. Houseman

#5172

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life. John Updike, Rabbit Redux

#5173

"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. Richard Dawkings, "The Selfish Gene"

#5174

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus

#5175

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene"

#5176

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. Tom Stoppard

#5177

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. Robert Byrne

#5178

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. Lord Brabazon

#5179

Better to write for yourself and have no public, then to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly

#5180

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht

#5181

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol

#5182

We must love one another or die. W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"

#5183

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him. E.M. Forster

#5184

We must love one another and die. W.H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939"

#5185

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Shelley, incomplete, poets

#5186

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison

#5187

Streets full of water; please advise. Robert Benchley

#5188

That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it presents itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749

#5189

Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

#5190

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.

#5191

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

#5192

Our love is God. Let’s go grab a slushie. J.D., "Heathers"

#5193

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world. G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown

#5194

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. Sir Francis Bacon

#5195

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. Samuel Butler

#5196

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. Will Rogers

#5197

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler

#5198

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

#5199

On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. Will Rogers

#5200

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible. Will Rogers

#5201

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Tom Robbins

#5202

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents. Kevin Rooney

#5203

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

#5204

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5205

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5206

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

#5207

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. Theodore Roosevelt

#5208

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

#5209

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt

#5210

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against. Damon Runyon

#5211

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. Bertrand Russell

#5212

In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. Bertrand Russell

#5213

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

#5214

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell

#5215

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

#5216

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. John Russell

#5217

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. Ernest Rutherford

#5218

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore, anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government. SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

#5219

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself. Marquis de Sade

#5220

A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others! Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade

#5221

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. William Safire

#5222

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. Carl Sagan

#5223

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. Carl Sagan

#5224

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. Carl Sagan

#5225

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan

#5226

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Carl Sagan

#5227

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan, Cosmos

#5228

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

#5229

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan

#5230

In an optimal world, I would not be necessary. James Price Salsman

#5231

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. Jim Samuels

#5232

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one. George Sanders

#5233

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. George Santayana

#5234

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams

#5235

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. George Santayana

#5236

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, when we first practice to deceive. Sir Walter Scott

#5237

If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance. Niccola Sebastiani

#5238

Immortality -- a fate worse than death. Edgar A. Shoaff

#5239

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. Arthur Schopenhauer

#5240

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. J.W. Schopf

#5241

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer

#5242

If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory. Erwin Schrodinger

#5243

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher

#5244

One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them send mail ruleset 3 comment from DEC.

#5245
adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)

#5246

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man William Shakespeare

#5247

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it. William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind"

#5248

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. Anonymous

#5249

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it G. B. Shaw

#5250

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it. George Bernard Shaw

#5251

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. George Bernard Shaw

#5252

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. George Bernard Shaw

#5253

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw

#5254

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. George Bernard Shaw

#5255

Success covers a multitude of blunders. George Bernard Shaw

#5256

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. GB Shaw

#5257

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery

#5258

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw

#5259

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. George Bernard Shaw

#5260

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky Solomon Short

#5261

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius

#5262

Life is too important to take seriously. Corky Siegel

#5263

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed. Ray Simard

#5264

Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. Ray Simard

#5265

In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax... John Simon

#5266

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken

#5267

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#5268

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten B.F. Skinner

#5269

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek

#5270

I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to. Yakov Smirnoff

#5271

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

#5272

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

#5273

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott Adams

#5274

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. Senator Soaper

#5275

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts. Eugene H. Spafford

#5276

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death. Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

#5277

A Multitasking Timex Sinclair Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X-Windows

#5278

Start slow and taper off. Walt Stack

#5279

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. Elvin Stackman

#5280

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster than the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly. Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

#5281

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. William Stekel

#5282

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

#5283

Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax. Zalman Stern, former ITC hacker diety

#5284

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed. Zalman Stern

#5285

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

#5286

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus

#5287

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. Niels Bohr

#5288

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Over sharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven. Tao Te Ching

#5289

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. Booth Tarkington

#5290

A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times. The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII

#5291

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly Nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him. Martin Terman

#5292

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. Hunter S. Thompson

#5293

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours. Hunter S. Thompson

#5294

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it. Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis Ritchie

#5295

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. Gloria Borger

#5296

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be. Mary R. Thompson

#5297

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"

#5298

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

#5299

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

#5300

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

#5301

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau

#5302

It’s better to know some of the questions, then all of the answers. James Thurber

#5303

Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience! Chris Thyberg

#5304

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron

#5305

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. Henrik Tikkanen

#5306

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence Time Bandits

#5307

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Leo Tolstoy

#5308

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. Leo Tolstoy

#5309

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

#5310

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military. Harry S. Truman

#5311

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. Mark Twain

#5312

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board Mark Twain

#5313

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Mark Twain

#5314

Sacred cows make the best hamburger. Mark Twain

#5315

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain

#5316

If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882

#5317

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord. Arthur C. Clarke, 2010

#5318

The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems. Doug Tygar

#5319

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. Robin Tyler

#5320

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby

#5321

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. Sun Tzu, The Art of War

#5322

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. Sun Tzu

#5323

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. William Van Horne

#5324

"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. Voltaire

#5325

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge Voltaire

#5326

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow

#5327

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Voltaire

#5328

The superfluous is very necessary. Voltaire

#5329

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. Voltaire

#5330

A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire

#5331

Anything too stupid to be said is sung. Voltaire

#5332

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

#5333

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"

#5334

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. Wernher von Braun

#5335

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison

#5336

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. Wernher von Braun

#5337

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong. John von Neumann, on being phoned at 10 a.m.

#5338

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. John von Neumann

#5339

[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...] Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution

#5340

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. Larry Wall

#5341

History is more or less bunk. Henry Ford

#5342

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-) Larry Wall in

#5343

Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the fourth largest in the world. Now, it’s the second largest army in Iraq. Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991

#5344

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thickness? Artemus Ward

#5345

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol

#5346

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. George Washington

#5347

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

#5348

Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense. Prof. Larry Wasserman

#5349

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide

#5350

Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs. Weekend Update

#5351

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles

#5352

The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal. S. Weinstein

#5353

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. Weisert

#5354

Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However, much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns. Joseph Weizenbaum

#5355

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom H. G. Wells

#5356

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. Walt West

#5357

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. Hagar the Horrible

#5358

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. James McNeill Whistler

#5359

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal. William Allen White

#5360

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead

#5361

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. Norbert Wiener

#5362

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Oscar Wilde

#5363

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Oscar Wilde

#5364

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. Oscar Wilde

#5365

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. Wendell Johnson

#5366

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde

#5367

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde

#5368

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Oscar Wilde

#5369

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. Oscar Wilde

#5370

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. Oscar Wilde

#5371

The basis for optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde

#5372

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde

#5373

Alas, I am dying beyond my means. Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed

#5374

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde

#5375

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream. Oscar Wilde

#5376

Only the shallow knows themselves. Oscar Wilde

#5377

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde

#5378

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. Anatole France

#5379

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

#5380

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism. George Will

#5381

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. George Will

#5382

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. E. V. Lucas

#5383

Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson

#5384

Only the madman is absolutely sure. Robert Anton Wilson

#5385

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson

#5386

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson

#5387

Nothing recedes like success. Walter Winchell

#5388

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. Gene Wolfe

#5389

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. Nero Wolfe

#5390

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montague

#5391

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself. Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae"

#5392

Student: "Can you do problem number twelve?" Wyler: Twelve? NO! That problem is on the test. Oswald Wyler

#5393

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood. The "Xlib Programming Manual"

#5394

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young

#5395

This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence The Young Ones

#5396

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. Lin Yutang

#5397

If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm... Jim Zelenka

#5398

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ... Carl Zwanzig

#5399

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. Oscar Wilde

#5400

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx

#5401

Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day. David Fiedler, in _Byte_

#5402

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary. Albert Einstein

#5403

"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

#5404

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

#5405

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

#5406

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

#5407

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Einstein

#5408

When you sling mud, you lose ground. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

#5409

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#5410

It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear. Henry David Thoreau

#5411

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Four

#5412

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, 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, Speech, 4. June, 1940

#5413

It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo. Sir John Collins Squire, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

#5414

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer

#5415

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence. Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

#5416

Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable. Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

#5417

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

#5418

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West

#5419

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. R. W. Emerson

#5420

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. Douglas Hostadter

#5421

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels. Stanislaw Lec

#5422

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery", 1964

#5423

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness? Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#5424

Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde

#5425

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. Willie Sutton

#5426

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash. Sigmund Freud

#5427

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine

#5428

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed. Proverbs 12:19, The Bible

#5429

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Proverbs 12:19, The King James Bible

#5430

Publish and be damned! Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his

#5431

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

#5432

First things first, but not necessarily in that order. Doctor Who

#5433

"If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato." Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128

#5434

Do not speak ill of the dead. The Seven Sages, (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,Solon, Thales) c. 650 - c. 550 BC, From Diogenes Laertius, Lives

#5435

"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. Sextus Propertius 54 BC-AD 2, Elegies, II, xix, 32

#5436

"Opposites are cures for opposites. Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I

#5437

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde

#5438

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde

#5439

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde

#5440

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world. Oscar Wilde

#5441

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. Albert Einstein

#5442

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner

#5443

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... G. K. Chesterton

#5444

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Lionel Trilling

#5445

You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and say "Why not? George Bernard Shaw, "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter

#5446

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear. William Gladstone

#5447

"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me. Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

#5448

I think it would be a good idea. Mahatma Ghandi

#5449

Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small. Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise"

#5450

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. Penn Jillette, in a CompuServe chat

#5451

"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details Albert Einstein

#5452

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"

#5453

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"

#5454

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. Luke Rhinehart

#5455

Geschichte ist [...] ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. [re-transl.:] History is [...] a dialogue between the present and the past. Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54

#5456

This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them. Q., Star Trek, the Next Generation, "Deja Q"

#5457

Guess again. The Running Man, movie

#5458

If it bleeds, you can kill it Predator

#5459

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France

#5460

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein, 1929

#5461

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

#5462

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Sir Winston Churchill

#5463

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Sir Winston Churchill

#5464

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Sir Winston Churchill

#5465

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. Sir Winston Churchill

#5466

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

#5467

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. Sir Winston Churchill

#5468

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Sir Winston Churchill

#5469

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Sir Winston Churchill

#5470

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Sir Winston Churchill

#5471

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect? Confucius

#5472

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. Confucius, Analects, XV.24

#5473

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. Confucius, Analects, XIV.12

#5474

It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men. Confucius, Analects, IV.3

#5475

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

#5476

In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man. Confucius, Analects, IV.7

#5477

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment. Confucius, nalects, IV.11

#5478

O, throw away the worse part of it, and live the purer with the other half. Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.

#5479

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith

#5480

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. Jean de La Bruyere

#5481

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin

#5482

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi

#5483

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. Francois de La Rochefoucald

#5484

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. Alexander Penney

#5485

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

#5486

"What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

#5487

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

#5488

I am the only guinea pig I have. R. Buckminster Fuller

#5489

True friendship is never serene. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

#5490

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. Walt Whitman

#5491

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin

#5492

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

#5493

Sweet is revenge - especially to women. Lord Byron

#5494

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"

#5495

My writing is like a ten-gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thousand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know. Su Shih

#5496

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. Plato, Symposium

#5497

There is no "royal road" to geometry. Euclid, Said to king Ptolemy I

#5498

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#5499

Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman

#5500

I bet the human brain is a kludge. Marvin Minsky

#5501

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

#5502

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other. Jonathan Swift

#5503

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contradictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching

#5504

"Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex. Buckaroo Banzai (the film)

#5505

"Home is where you wear your hat. Buckaroo Banzai (the film)

#5506

Nietsche is Pietsche." Ogden Nash

#5507

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. W.V.O. Quine

#5508

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

#5509

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. Mark Twain

#5510

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. Mark Twain

#5511

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. Mark Twain

#5512

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Mark Twain

#5513

What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? Abraham Lincoln

#5514

The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. #NAME?

#5515

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. #NAME?

#5516

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Robert Fripp

#5517

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital. Kelly Barton

#5518

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill

#5519

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shattered of Worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita",Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945

#5520

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Roland, "The Last Gunslinger"

#5521

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts

#5522

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau

#5523

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#5524

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. Charlotte P Gilman

#5525

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. Michel de Montaigne

#5526

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang

#5527

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips

#5528

Give me an incubator or give me death! Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H

#5529

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Alfred E. Wiggam

#5530

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. George Burns

#5531

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. William F. Buckley Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"

#5532

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. William Langland

#5533

Simplicity is the peak of civilization. Jessie Sampter

#5534

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham

#5535

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)

#5536

[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! Theodor Herzl

#5537

Food is the most primitive form of comfort. Sheila Graham

#5538

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell

#5539

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

#5540

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#5541

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1

#5542

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. Edna Ferber

#5543

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. Marilyn Ferguson

#5544

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

#5545

[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. Marge Piercy

#5546

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. John Locke

#5547

The body is a sacred garment. Martha Graham

#5548

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin

#5549

The crowd gives the leader new strength. Evenius

#5550

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron

#5551

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. Shirley MacLaine

#5552

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

#5553

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Ayn Rand

#5554

I am at two with nature. Woody Allen

#5555

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"

#5556

Anything you fully do is an alone journey. Natalie Goldberg

#5557

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Dutch Proverb

#5558

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. Samuel Butler

#5559

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. Francis Marion

#5560

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. Adelle Davis

#5561

A smiling face is half the meal. Latvian Proverb

#5562

Frugality without creativity is deprivation. Amy Dacyczyn

#5563

Gluttony is not a secret vice. Orson Welles

#5564

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)

#5565

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson

#5566

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Fraquhar Tupper

#5567

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran

#5568

Oppression can only survive through silence. Carmen de Monteflores

#5569

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson

#5570

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle

#5571

In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi

#5572

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Viscount Morley

#5573

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

#5574

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)

#5575

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Robert Fripp

#5576

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. Saadi

#5577

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. Cato the Elder

#5578

The unspoken word never does harm. Kossuth

#5579

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras

#5580

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell

#5581

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

#5582

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

#5583

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle

#5584

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"

#5585

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5586

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#5587

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Seneca

#5588

Variety is the soul of pleasure. Aphra Behn

#5589

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell. Marita Bonner

#5590

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. Thomas Hobbes

#5591

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. Heda Bejar

#5592

Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple. Christina Petrowsky

#5593

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"

#5594

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

#5595

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Scottish Proverb

#5596

I reached for sleep and drew it around me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. Mary Stewart

#5597

One picture is worth a thousand words. Fred R. Barnard

#5598

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. Martin Luther

#5599

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Earhart

#5600

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5601

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. Marcel Proust

#5602

He who laughs, lasts! Mary Pettibone Poole

#5603

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. Pearl Buck

#5604

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"

#5605

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller

#5606

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. Monica Baldwin

#5607

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman

#5608

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#5609

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James

#5610

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

#5611

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. Edward Gibbon

#5612

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. David Starr Jordan

#5613

Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. Paul Goodman

#5614

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. Martha Graham

#5615

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

#5616

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Rabbi Abraham Heschel

#5617

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. Harriet Lerner

#5618

At the worst, a house unkempt cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. Dame Rose Macaulay

#5619

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#5620

Health is not simply the absence of sickness. Hannah Green

#5621

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#5622

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

#5623

The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897

#5624

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. George Eliot

#5625

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold Toynbee

#5626

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams

#5627

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? Cicero

#5628

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau

#5629

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. Isabelle Eberhardt

#5630

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple

#5631

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

#5632

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. Hortense Calisher

#5633

It is better to wear out than to rust out. Bishop Richard Cumberland

#5634

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau

#5635

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. Arthur Rubinstein

#5636

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte

#5637

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. Ayn Rand

#5638

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. Jennie Jerome Churchill

#5639

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Napoleon Bonaparte

#5640

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

#5641

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action. Michael Hanson

#5642

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. Audre Lorde

#5643

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand

#5644

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. Epictetus

#5645

A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink. John Heywood

#5646

To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#5647

I am never afraid of what I know. Anna Sewell

#5648

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man. Henry David Thoreau

#5649

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. Christina Baldwin

#5650

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#5651

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. Louise Erdrich

#5652

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell

#5653

You always pass failure on the way to success. Mickey Rooney

#5654

A man can do all things if he but wills them. Leon Battista Alberti

#5655

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

#5656

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal

#5657

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. Leo Rosten

#5658

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

#5659

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. Michel de Montaigne

#5660

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night. Margery Cuyler

#5661

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. John Constable

#5662

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal

#5663

[Spring is] a true reconstructionist. Henry Timrod

#5664

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. Edith Nesbitt

#5665

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. Kurt Lewin

#5666

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. Charlotte Bronte

#5667

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. Rachel Carson

#5668

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Mark Twain

#5669

We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. Anne Wilson Schaef

#5670

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Ingrid Bengis

#5671

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. Cherrie Moraga

#5672

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. Billy Wilder

#5673

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. J. Arthur Thomson

#5674

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. Evelyn Underhill

#5675

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931

#5676

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. Christina Baldwin

#5677

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw

#5678

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. Elizabeth Bowen

#5679

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despising’s. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. William Hale White

#5680

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot

#5681

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. W. N. Taylor

#5682

An optimist is the human personification of spring. Susan J. Bissonette

#5683

People fail forward to success. Mary Kay Ash

#5684

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. Anais Nin

#5685

Walking is also an ambulation of mind. Gretel Ehrlich

#5686

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. George Santayana

#5687

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier

#5688

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. Lisa Alther

#5689

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. William Shakespeare

#5690

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. Ellis Peters

#5691

What worries you masters you? Haddon W. Robinson

#5692

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. Miriam Beard

#5693

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. Agnes Repplier

#5694

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#5695

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. Adelle Davis

#5696

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. Sir Winston Churchill

#5697

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. Mary Pettibone Poole

#5698

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought. Etty Hillesum

#5699

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. Sir Robert Hutchinson

#5700

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey

#5701

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. Anthony Starr

#5702

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. Annie Dillard

#5703

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. King Whitney Jr.

#5704

Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Ruth Stout

#5705

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain

#5706

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#5707

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. Phyllis Mcginley

#5708

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. Dorothy L. Sayers

#5709

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. Alice May Brock

#5710

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. Martha Graham

#5711

Even God cannot change the past. Agathon

#5712

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain

#5713

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. Senator Everett Dirksen

#5714

The best things carried to excess are wrong. Charles Churchill

#5715

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. Diane Ackerman

#5716

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. Kate Chopin

#5717

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them. Pearl Buck

#5718

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur

#5719

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. Peter McWilliams

#5720

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. Eudora Welty

#5721

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. Granville Hicks

#5722

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. Margaret Bonnano

#5723

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. Dr. Howard Murphy

#5724

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Marilyn Ferguson

#5725

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. W. S. Gilbert

#5726

Man is what he eats. Ludwig Feuerbach

#5727

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people. Fred Allen

#5728

Laughter is by definition healthy. Doris Lessing

#5729

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5730

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark Twain, Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900

#5731

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. Henry George

#5732

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. William Ernest Hocking

#5733

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser

#5734

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#5735

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. Evenius

#5736

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. Ludwig Erhard

#5737

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung

#5738

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable. Georg W. Hegel

#5739

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. James Rippe, M.D.

#5740

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. Patricia Moyes

#5741

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker

#5742

[Common sense] is the best sense I know of. Lord Chesterfield

#5743

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. Mary S. Calderone

#5744

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. Eleanor Hamilton

#5745

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

#5746

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl Buck

#5747

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all. Michael Masser and Linda Creed

#5748

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. Agatha Christie

#5749

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#5750

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. Jose Ortega y Gasset

#5751

Nothing ever goes away. Barry Commoner

#5752

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. Marcus Valerius Martialis

#5753

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. Rebecca West

#5754

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. Victor Hugo

#5755

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright

#5756

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959

#5757

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. Frank Lloyd Wright

#5758

An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright

#5759

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright

#5760

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

#5761

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

#5762

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978

#5763

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

#5764

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

#5765

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973

#5766

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner

#5767

It has all been very interesting. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762

#5768

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

#5769

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

#5770

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905

#5771

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

#5772

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966

#5773

Evil is obvious only in retrospect. Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983

#5774

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947

#5775

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978

#5776

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G. K. Chesterton

#5777

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964

#5778

We only do well the things we like doing. Colette, Prisons and Paradise, 1932

#5779

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

#5780

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

#5781

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818

#5782

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961

#5783

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932

#5784

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978

#5785

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952

#5786

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944

#5787

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

#5788

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it. Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984

#5789

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. Marie Curie, letter to her brother, 1894

#5790

No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Booth Luce, in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980

#5791

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774

#5792

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. Steven Wright

#5793

A Hospital is no place to be sick. Samuel Goldwyn

#5794

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

#5795

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952

#5796

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. H. L. Mencken

#5797

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

#5798

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

#5799

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

#5800

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

#5801

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone? 1989

#5802

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost, (attributed)

#5803

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee. Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

#5804

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

#5805

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within, 1954

#5806

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980

#5807

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976

#5808

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost

#5809

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

#5810

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

#5811

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969

#5812

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

#5813

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens too solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845

#5814

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966

#5815

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985

#5816

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

#5817

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934

#5818

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

#5819

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988

#5820

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

#5821

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. Unknown

#5822

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. Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927

#5823

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976

#5824

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946

#5825

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866

#5826

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989

#5827

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

#5828

It is only the first step that is difficult. Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763

#5829

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Saki, "The Square Egg", 1924

#5830

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969

#5831

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958

#5832

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931

#5833

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926

#5834

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

#5835

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. Marie De France, 12th Century

#5836

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

#5837

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

#5838

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784

#5839

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931

#5840

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965

#5841

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869

#5842

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

#5843

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

#5844

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]? While you do not know life, how can you know about death? Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11

#5845

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

#5846

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. Publilius Syrus

#5847

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. Publilius Syrus

#5848

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

#5849

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#5850

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde

#5851

Give all to love; obey thy heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5852

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal

#5853

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov

#5854

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles

#5855

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. Marguerite de Valois

#5856

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. Anne-Sophie Swetchine

#5857

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

#5858

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. W. Somerset Maugham

#5859

J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport Unknown, Suggested book title

#5860

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

#5861

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer

#5862

We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle

#5863

We go where our vision is. Joseph Murphy

#5864

Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen

#5865

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

#5866

Desire creates the power. Raymond Holliwell

#5867

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5868

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Saint Francis of Assisi

#5869

Men are born to succeed, not fail. Henry David Thoreau

#5870

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

#5871

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. Sally Kempton

#5872

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley

#5873

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

#5874

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer

#5875

A motion to adjourn is always in order. Robert Heinlein, Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love

#5876

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard

#5877

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands. The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.

#5878

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. Francois de Fenelon

#5879

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. Chesterton

#5880

He not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan

#5881

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller

#5882

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. Earl Warren

#5883

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. James Feibleman

#5884

The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5885

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

#5886

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. Madonna

#5887

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper

#5888

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Kenneth Hildebrand

#5889

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#5890

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz

#5891

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. Jules Renard

#5892

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton

#5893

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. Sir Winston Churchill

#5894

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

#5895

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke

#5896

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. Pablo Picasso

#5897

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. Bob Dylan

#5898

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. Dr. Smiley Blanton

#5899

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, then to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

#5900

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller

#5901

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. General Douglas MacArthur

#5902

Take what you can use and let the rest go by. Ken Kesey

#5903

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. Sheila Graham

#5904

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright

#5905

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams

#5906

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois

#5907

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. Norman Podhoretz

#5908

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. Isaac Bashevis Singer

#5909

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Reggie Leach

#5910

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

#5911

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn

#5912

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. Peter Minard

#5913

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

#5914

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Charles Dickens

#5915

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5916

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. Jewish Proverb

#5917

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. Emile Chartier

#5918

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Dalton Camp

#5919

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

#5920

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. Henri Poincare

#5921

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. Sir Frederick G. Banting

#5922

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. James Thurber

#5923

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov

#5924

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole

#5925

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. Frank Herbert

#5926

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster

#5927

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. Albert Einstein

#5928

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. Richard Feynman

#5929

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

#5930

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. David Russell

#5931

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi

#5932

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi

#5933

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrich von Schiller

#5934

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Richard Feynman

#5935

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record, we have ever known. George C. Marshall

#5936

There are too many people, and too few human beings. Robert Zend

#5937

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. Poul Anderson

#5938

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. Peter McArthur

#5939

Seek simplicity, and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead

#5940

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. G. K. Chesterton

#5941

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. John C. Dvorak

#5942

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. Andre Gide

#5943

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"

#5944

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

#5945

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"

#5946

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. Robertson Davies

#5947

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. Bertrand Russell

#5948

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon

#5949

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"

#5950

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr.

#5951

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

#5952

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960

#5953

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. Jean Toomer

#5954

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. Thucydides

#5955

In wilderness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau

#5956

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. William Shakespeare

#5957

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. Peter Farquharson

#5958

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. Henry Boye

#5959

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. Jefferson Davis

#5960

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal

#5961

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. Joseph Sobran

#5962

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race. Clarence Jordan

#5963

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

#5964

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. Jimmy Johnson

#5965

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. Mark Yost

#5966

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)

#5967

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver

#5968

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

#5969

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz

#5970

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

#5971

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Margaret Fuller

#5972

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#5973

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

#5974

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

#5975

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates

#5976

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho

#5977

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy

#5978

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. Mark Twain

#5979

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

#5980

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#5981

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde

#5982

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

#5983

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last. Jack Nicklaus

#5984

Focus on remedies, not faults. Jack Nicklaus

#5985

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. Susan Taylor

#5986

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

#5987

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. Susan Taylor

#5988

Genius is talent provided with ideals. William Somerset Maugham

#5989

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso

#5990

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5991

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. William S. Burroughs

#5992

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. William Makepeace Thackeray

#5993

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. William Osler

#5994

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. Martin Luther King Jr.

#5995

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"

#5996

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. Edwin Whipple

#5997

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Marvin Gaye

#5998

Within the problem lies the solution Milton Katselas

#5999

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. Cicero

#6000

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#6001

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute. John P. Grier

#6002

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. Myron Tribus

#6003

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. W. Edwards Deming

#6004

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. Robert Pirsig

#6005

He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man cannot be great. Herman Melville

#6006

Continual improvement is an unending journey. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

#6007

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. Gloria Swanson

#6008

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment. W. Edwards Deming

#6009

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

#6010

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. Russell L. Ackoff

#6011

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. Robert Reich

#6012

The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Ecclesiastes 9:11

#6013

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. Wilbur Wright

#6014

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2

#6015

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

#6016

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#6017

The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Johnson

#6018

Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

#6019

The more opinions you have, the less you see. Wim Wenders

#6020

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

#6021

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. Robert Reich

#6022

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin

#6023

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

#6024

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. Isaiah 58:12

#6025

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. Frederick Chiluba

#6026

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. Andre Gide

#6027

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media. Eduard Sagalaev

#6028

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition. Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#6029

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. Dominique de Menil

#6030

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison

#6031

Happy is he who can give himself up. Naguib Mahfouz

#6032

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6033

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6034

I gotta be me. Sammy Davis Jr.

#6035

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts. Eddie Myers

#6036

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 that I can do. Edmund Everett Hale

#6037

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself. Robert Solow

#6038

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. Siren Kierkegaard

#6039

To fly we have to have resistance. Maya Lin

#6040

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. Stephen W. Comiskey

#6041

Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows. Michael Landon

#6042

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. Michael Johnson

#6043

None of us is as smart as all of us. Phil Condit

#6044

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. William Hazlitt

#6045

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World

#6046

We can spend our whole lives underachieving. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6047

The great discoveries are usually obvious. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6048

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6049

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6050

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6051

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. Brenda Ueland

#6052

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#6053

Quality has to be caused, not controlled. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6054

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. W. Kelly Griffith

#6055

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. Samuel Johnson

#6056

Quality has to be caused, not controlled. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6057

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

#6058

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6059

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6060

All human power is a compound of time and patience. Honore de Balzac

#6061

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15

#6062

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. Peter Marshall

#6063

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. Sir Francis Bacon

#6064

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Unknown

#6065

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. Dorothy Law Nolte

#6066

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand Confucius

#6067

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw

#6068

The great omission in American life is solitude. that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. Marya Mannes

#6069

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. Charles William Dement

#6070

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#6071

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. Dee W. Hock, Fast Company

#6072

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. Elaine Agather

#6073

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

#6074

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman

#6075

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

#6076

There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. David W. Johnson

#6077

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. get on your way. Dr. Seuss

#6078

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time." Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

#6079

If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Robert South

#6080

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh

#6081

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#6082

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold

#6083

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

#6084

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance

#6085

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. Colton

#6086

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Samuel Johnson

#6087

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Aristotle

#6088

Great wits are sure to madness near allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide. Dryden

#6089

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. Seneca

#6090

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. Karl Kraus

#6091

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

#6092

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

#6093

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. William Bennett

#6094

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. Nathaniel Emmons

#6095

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. Richard Dawkins

#6096

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James

#6097

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain

#6098

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#6099

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#6100

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. Eleanor Roosevelt

#6101

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain

#6102

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. Nathaniel Emmons

#6103

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#6104

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman

#6105

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. Adolph Monod

#6106

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Hannah Moore

#6107

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things. Madame Swetchine

#6108

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore

#6109

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets. Fitzgerald

#6110

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes

#6111

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. Joseph Rickaby

#6112

I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one. Chinese proverb

#6113

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock

#6114

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

#6115

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

#6116

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. Clarence Darrow

#6117

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. Charles de Gaulle

#6118

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. Charles de Gaulle

#6119

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#6120

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. D. H. Lawrence

#6121

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#6122

You have to believe that the universe will provide. Steve Crosby

#6123

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. Robert Louis Stevenson

#6124

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. Maurice Baring

#6125

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

#6126

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

#6127

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher

#6128

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. F. P. Jones

#6129

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. Unknown

#6130

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Nick Diamos

#6131

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. Buddha, The Dharmapada

#6132

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. Friedrich Nietzsche

#6133

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

#6134

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. Theodore Roosevelt

#6135

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. Alexander Hamilton

#6136

A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire

#6137

In general, we are least aware of what our minds do best. Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

#6138

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall

#6139

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer

#6140

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends? Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6141

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher

#6142

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. Edgar Lee Masters

#6143

Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. E. R. Bulwer-Lytton, Last Words (1860)

#6144

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)

#6145

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#6146

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#6147

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#6148

Man has responsibility, not power. Tuscarora proverb

#6149

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. Hazlitt

#6150

Our aspirations are our possibilities. Samuel Johnson

#6151

Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

#6152

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. John Mitchell Mason

#6153

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin

#6154

You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough. Joe E. Lewis

#6155

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

#6156

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

#6157

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? Confucius, Analects

#6158

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia

#6159

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Jane Austen

#6160

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

#6161

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. Alexis de Tocqueville

#6162

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do. Phillips Brooks

#6163

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus

#6164

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself. Frank Crane

#6165

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

#6166

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did. Unknown

#6167

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

#6168

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

#6169

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

#6170

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Mahatma Gandhi

#6171

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand

#6172

Arms are instruments of ill omen. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites. Lao-Tzu

#6173

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. Byron J. Langenfeld

#6174

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud

#6175

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Robert Kennedy

#6176

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. Orison Swett Marden

#6177

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed. Srully Blotnick

#6178

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. Jean Paul Richter

#6179

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles Schwab

#6180

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best. Napoleon Hill

#6181

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. Jimmy Carter

#6182

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 Delano Roosevelt

#6183

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. James Harvey Robinson

#6184

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6185

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. Anonymous

#6186

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Anonymous

#6187

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

#6188

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Confucius

#6189

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. George Sarton, History of Science

#6190

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. James Taylor

#6191

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain

#6192

A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire

#6193

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. Mata Hari

#6194

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. Jacob Bigelow

#6195

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Martha Graham

#6196

Nothing is more useful than silence. Menander

#6197

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Abraham Lincoln

#6198

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

#6199

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! William Shakespeare

#6200

The impossible is often the untried. Jim Goodwin

#6201

Man is the cruelest animal. F. Nietzsche

#6202

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. Ann Douglas

#6203

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Michael Cibenko

#6204

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss. David Eddings, King of the Murgos

#6205

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller

#6206

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes

#6207

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world. Lao-Tzu

#6208

Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez

#6209

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams

#6210

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

#6211

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. Elizabeth Harrison

#6212

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do. Phillips Brooks

#6213

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

#6214

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton

#6215

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Miguel de Cervantes

#6216

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille

#6217

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

#6218

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru

#6219

In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. Sheldon Kopp

#6220

Fortune favors the bold. Virgil

#6221

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon

#6222

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

#6223

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. Thucydides

#6224

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel (1856)

#6225

Live dangerously and you live right. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)

#6226

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. George Bernard Shaw

#6227

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin

#6228

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood. Arthur Powell Davies

#6229

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett

#6230

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. Henry James

#6231

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln

#6232

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. Alexander Penney

#6233

Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down. Heraclitus of Ephesus

#6234

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6235

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6236

Successful people breed success. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6237

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Sun-Tzu

#6238

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one. Swahili proverb

#6239

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Henry Peter Brougham

#6240

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6241

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual; the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. Oscar Wilde

#6242

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James B. Conant

#6243

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. Seneca, Epistles

#6244

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

#6245

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. Abraham Lincoln

#6246

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. Nelson Boswell

#6247

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. Thomas J. Watson

#6248

We adore chaos because we love to produce order. M. C. Escher

#6249

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor

#6250

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing. Nancy Astor

#6251

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honore de Balzac

#6252

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. Alexander Pope

#6253

Courage is one step ahead of fear. Coleman Young

#6254

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. Mary Kay Ash

#6255

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William A. Ward

#6256

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. Plutarch

#6257

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski

#6258

What you cannot enforce, do not command. Sophocles

#6259

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering

#6260

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer

#6261

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

#6262

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it. Jess Lair

#6263

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. James Baldwin

#6264

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher

#6265

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Carl Sandburg

#6266

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. Yugoslav Proverb

#6267

To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess. Glenn Holm

#6268

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. Herman Wouk

#6269

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6270

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings. The Buddha

#6271

There is no substitute for victory. General Douglas MacArthur

#6272

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, 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

#6273

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. Latin Proverb

#6274

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison

#6275

An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright

#6276

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Anne Sullivan

#6277

Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose. J. S. Habgood

#6278

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Kahlil Gibron

#6279

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

#6280

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. Harold Nicolson

#6281

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

#6282

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. David H. Lawrence

#6283

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. John M. Keynes

#6284

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. William Rose Benet

#6285

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. Stanislaus J. Lec

#6286

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan

#6287

Are you to pay for all you have with all you are? Edwin A. Robinson

#6288

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. Publilius Syrus

#6289

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Dolores Ibarruri

#6290

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. William F. Claire

#6291

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there. Clare Boothe Luce

#6292

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

#6293

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

#6294

If a thing goes without saying -- let it. Jacob Braude, Treasury of Wit & Humor for All Occasions

#6295

There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

#6296

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure. Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

#6297

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. John Henry Cardinal Newman

#6298

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Meryl Streep

#6299

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

#6300

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

#6301

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

#6302

Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency. James Webb

#6303

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

#6304

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

#6305

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. Dogen

#6306

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6307

Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6308

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6309

Every man I meet is in some way my superior. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6310

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford

#6311

I am responsible only to God and history. Francisco Franco

#6312

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

#6313

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin

#6314

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm

#6315

Make your life a mission - not an intermission. Arnold Glasgow

#6316

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost

#6317

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. Athol Fugard

#6318

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6319

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6320

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6321

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

#6322

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

#6323

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"

#6324

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"

#6325

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

#6326

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry

#6327

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"

#6328

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

#6329

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon

#6330

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken

#6331

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch

#6332

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

#6333

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"

#6334

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. Fran Lebowitz

#6335

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Fran Lebowitz

#6336

My favorite animal is steak. Fran Lebowitz

#6337

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. Fran Lebowitz

#6338

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz

#6339

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. Arab Proverb

#6340

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

#6341

The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. Blaise Pascal

#6342

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Oscar Wilde

#6343
because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. Ernesto "Che" Guevara

#6344

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Daphne du Maurier

#6345

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. George Bernard Shaw

#6346

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

#6347

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. Robert Benchley

#6348

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway

#6349

Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks

#6350

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? Dick Clark

#6351

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Edward De Bono

#6352

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6353

Humor is also a way of saying something serious. T. S. Eliot

#6354

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

#6355

He was as fresh as is the month of May. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1390

#6356

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

#6357

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. John Gunther

#6358

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch

#6359

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

#6360

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)

#6361

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

#6362

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 ill-advised; 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)

#6363

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)

#6364

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk"

#6365

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quote of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)

#6366

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

#6367

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

#6368

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. Samuel Johnson

#6369

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Rudyard Kipling

#6370

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. Brendan Francis

#6371

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

#6372

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

#6373

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. Noel Coward

#6374

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. Noel Coward

#6375

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann

#6376

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. W. Somerset Maugham

#6377

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote

#6378

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

#6379

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham

#6380

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold

#6381

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

#6382

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"

#6383

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

#6384

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I

#6385

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. Alfred Hitchcock

#6386

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. Spanish Proverb

#6387

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

#6388

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. Stephen Jay Gould

#6389

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"

#6390

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

#6391

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

#6392

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)

#6393

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz

#6394

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Herbert Agar

#6395

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Bible, John 8:32

#6396

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Alan Watts

#6397

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

#6398

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

#6399

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

#6400

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

#6401

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

#6402

Faith is a cop-out. 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

#6403

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

#6404

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

#6405

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner

#6406

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

#6407

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

#6408

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. Aesop

#6409

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. Bernard Bailey

#6410

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. John Blake

#6411

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle

#6412

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

#6413

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

#6414

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it Soren Kierkegaard

#6415

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

#6416 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

#6417

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard. Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995

#6418

Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavor. Sir Ernest Shackleton

#6419

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected. Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

#6420

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me. Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), The Self-Tormentor (Heautontimoroumenos)

#6421

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

#6422

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings

#6423

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Walt Kelly, "Pogo" (comic strip)

#6424

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau

#6425

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein

#6426

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun

#6427

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. Bob Edwards

#6428

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards

#6429

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux

#6430

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles

#6431

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and with its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#6432

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Sir Richard Steele

#6433

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"

#6434

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. Andre Malraux

#6435

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. Andre Malraux

#6436

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Edwin P. Whipple

#6437

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. Norman Thomas

#6438

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

#6439

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. Seneca

#6440

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles

#6441

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead

#6442

What this country needs are more free speech worth listening to. Hansell B. Duckett

#6443

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. Martin Gardner, "The Mathematical Magic Show"

#6444

What a deformed thief this fashion is. William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii

#6445

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

#6446

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Euripides

#6447

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. Elbert Hubbard

#6448

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

#6449

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. Sir William Drummond

#6450

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945

#6451

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. Robin Williams

#6452

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

#6453

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch. Jack Nicholson

#6454

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings

#6455

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich

#6456

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton

#6457

Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

#6458

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

#6459

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

#6460

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little

#6461

Living hell is the best revenge. Adrienne E. Gusoff

#6462

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office. Adrienne E. Gusoff

#6463

The world is around; it has no point. Adrienne E. Gusoff

#6464

Girls just want to have funds. Adrienne E. Gusoff

#6465

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

#6466

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. Benjamin Franklin

#6467

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

#6468

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. Scott Adams

#6469

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

#6470

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792

#6471

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

#6472

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan

#6473

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. Unknown

#6474

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Charles Dickens

#6475

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893

#6476

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776 (attributed)

#6477

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. George Ade, "Fables in Slang", 1899

#6478

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." G. K. Chesterton

#6479

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. Sir Winston Churchill

#6480

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824

#6481

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. Italian Proverb

#6482

Respect a man, he will do the more. James Howell

#6483

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. Shelley Winters

#6484

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. James M. Barrie

#6485

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756

#6486

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

#6487

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller

#6488

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. Phyllis Diller

#6489

A waist is a terrible thing to mind. Jane Caminos

#6490

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887

#6491

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. C. P. Snow

#6492

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"

#6493

While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities. Bernard Weisberger, America Afire

#6494

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)

#6495

No man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

#6496

There is no substitute for victory. Douglas McArthur, Farwell Speech to Joint Session of US Congress, 1952

#6497

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. Mae West

#6498

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau

#6499

I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657

#6500

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice"

#6501

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876

#6502

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles de Gaulle

#6503

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. H. L. Mencken

#6504

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau

#6505

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6506

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley

#6507

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6508

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. Samuel Johnson

#6509

No human thing is of serious importance. Plato

#6510

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson

#6511

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke

#6512

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don?t do it in the streets and frighten the horses! Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#6513

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)

#6514

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy. Amy Vanderbilt

#6515

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein, (attributed)

#6516

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes

#6517

Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore, I am.) Rene Descartes

#6518

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.

#6519

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6520

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns

#6521

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6522

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table. Amy Vanderbilt

#6523

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte

#6524

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. Saki

#6525

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot

#6526

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco

#6527

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146

#6528

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks

#6529

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories"

#6530

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle

#6531

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Kissinger

#6532

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. Stanley Walker

#6533

I have read your book and much like it. Moses Hadas

#6534

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920)

#6535

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson, (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)

#6536

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#6537

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid

#6538

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan

#6539

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy

#6540

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. William Jennings Bryan

#6541

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin

#6542

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Sir Winston Churchill

#6543

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. H. L. Mencken

#6544

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery

#6545

The truth is more important than the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright

#6546

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872

#6547

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. Max Beerbohm

#6548

Never marry but for love; but see that thou love what is lovely. William Penn

#6549

He that loved a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. Dr. Isaac Barrow, quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom

#6550

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard

#6551

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6552

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard

#6553

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#6554

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw

#6555

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather

#6556

Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert

#6557

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. Dudley Moore

#6558

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. Groucho Marx

#6559 All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. Ann Landers

#6560

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

#6561

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Alfred North Whitehead

#6562

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Bertrand Russell

#6563

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#6564

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson, (attributed)

#6565

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

#6566

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard

#6567

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. Tom Stoppard

#6568

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. George Bernard Shaw

#6569

All that counts in life is intention. Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide

#6570

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. Paul Theroux, in The Washington Post

#6571

Passion makes the world go around. Love just makes it a safer place. Ice T, The Ice Opinion

#6572

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

#6573

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou blindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire death when it is attained, and the affection perishes when it is satisfied. Sir Walter Raleigh

#6574

Under promise; over deliver. Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune

#6575

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Bette Davis

#6576

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

#6577

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

#6578

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible. Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

#6579

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich

#6580

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

#6581

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian

#6582

God must become an activity in our consciousness. Joel S. Goldsmith

#6583

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline. Jane E. Brody

#6584

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. Mary Daly

#6585

What we play is life. Louis Armstrong

#6586

A mind too active is no mind at all. Theodore Roethke

#6587

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. M. C. Richards

#6588

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it. Robbie Gass

#6589

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. Simone de Beauvoir

#6590

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso

#6591

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. Fritz Kunkel

#6592

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. Donald Foster

#6593

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#6594

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader

#6595

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. Samuel McChord Crothers

#6596

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. Samuel McChord Crothers

#6597

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke

#6598

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash

#6599

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

#6600

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

#6601

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. Mohandas Ghandi

#6602

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful. Mohandas Ghandi

#6603

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. Mohandas Ghandi

#6604

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

#6605

The untrodden path is choked by the weeds of tradition. Be not afraid to cut through. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, The Rickover Effect

#6606

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale

#6607

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P. G. Wodehouse

#6608

I am not a role model. Mike Tyson

#6609

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. Jim Horning

#6610

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

#6611

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

#6612

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde, In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson

#6613

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6614

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6615

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6616

Worries go down better with soup than without. Jewish Proverb

#6617

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. Oscar Wilde

#6618

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6619

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. George Bernard Shaw

#6620

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde

#6621

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

#6622

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love. Mother Teresa

#6623

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides

#6624

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

#6625

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. Stephen Nachmanovitch

#6626

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. Jean Houston

#6627

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

#6628

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

#6629

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. Fritjof Capra, physicist

#6630

So you see, imagination needs noodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland

#6631

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde

#6632

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse

#6633

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. Seneca

#6634

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. Carl Jung

#6635
believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. Ben Shahn

#6636

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. Susan Jeffers

#6637

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza

#6638

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce

#6639

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. George Tooker

#6640

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! Louise Bogan

#6641

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change. Jerry Frankhauser

#6642

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung

#6643

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. Shakti Gawain

#6644

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. Ecclesiastes

#6645

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. Robin Norwood

#6646

Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens. Stella Terrill Mann

#6647

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. Claude M. Bristol

#6648

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. Doris Lessing

#6649

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson

#6650

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#6651

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly. Shakti Gawain

#6652

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. Tryon Edwards

#6653

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. Sophy Burnham

#6654

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. Brenda Ueland

#6655

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White

#6656

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller

#6657

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. Stephen Nachmanovitch

#6658

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. Jackson Pollock

#6659

I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin

#6660

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington

#6661

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. The Work of the Chariot

#6662

The palest ink is better than the best memory. Chinese Proverb

#6663

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. Shakti Gawain

#6664

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

#6665

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854

#6666

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid

#6667

Desire, ask, believe, receive. Stella Terrill Mann

#6668

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. William Bridges

#6669

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau

#6670

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. Brenda Ueland

#6671

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. Louise Nevelson

#6672

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. Michel de Montaigne

#6673

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan

#6674

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix

#6675

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong

#6676

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. Martha Graham

#6677

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. William Baziotes

#6678

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Piero Ferrucci

#6679

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. M. C. Richards

#6680

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.

#6681

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6682

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6683

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6684

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6685

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6686

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6687

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

#6688

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently. Eugene Delacroix

#6689

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

#6690

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

#6691

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

#6692

But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move. Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

#6693

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

#6694

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

#6695

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School

#6696

Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I

#6697

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. J. M. Power

#6698

It’s never too late ?? in fiction or in life ?? to revise. Nancy Thayer

#6699

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcom S. Forbes

#6700

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

#6701

He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. Joan Brannon

#6702

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand

#6703

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002

#6704

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. Baltasar Gracian

#6705

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. e cummings

#6706

You must be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

#6707

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

#6708

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on. Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

#6709

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.

#6710

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215

#6711

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think we’re pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

#6712

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom. Nicanor Parra

#6713

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly. G.K. Chesterton

#6714

Yo soy un anima infeliz, Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world. James A Michener, Iberia

#6715

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. Barry Lopez

#6716

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Sir Francis Bacon

#6717

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce

#6718

One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil. Nietzsche

#6719

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven. Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle

#6720

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. Leigh Hunt

#6721

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear. Henry van Dyke

#6722

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees. Alan Moore, Birth Caul

#6723

As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love. Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down

#6724

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

#6725

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth. Muhammad Ali

#6726

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley

#6727

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Publilius Syrus

#6728

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens

#6729

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado

#6730

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams

#6731

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

#6732

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

#6733

Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right. Woody Allen

#6734

This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra

#6735

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

#6736

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

#6737

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. George Santayana

#6738

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. Marion Howard

#6739

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity. R. E. Hellmund, 1929

#6740

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race. Henry G. Stott, 1907

#6741

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941

#6742

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind. S. E. Lindsay, 1920

#6743

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste. William A. Smith, 1908

#6744

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man. Ralph J. Smith

#6745

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality. Sir Eric Ashby

#6746

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

#6747

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 non-existent 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

#6748

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

#6749

Engineering is the art or science of making practical. Samuel C. Florman

#6750

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Alan Poe

#6751

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation. Oscar Wilde

#6752

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

#6753

Children have more need of models than of critics. Joseph Joubert

#6754

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, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on. Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament

#6755

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986

#6756

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. Louis Pasteur

#6757

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. Confucius

#6758

Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs. Alfred Hitchcock

#6759

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. Honore De Balzac

#6760

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

#6761

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth. Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)

#6762

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II (aka: Karol Wojtyla)

#6763

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

#6764

By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawning’s open little by little into the full light. Sir Issac Newton, on how he made discoveries

#6765

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Louis Pasteur

#6766

Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

#6767

Science is organized knowledge. Herbert Spencer

#6768

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead

#6769

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

#6770

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

#6771

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. Robert A. Baker

#6772

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. Albert Einstein

#6773

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei

#6774

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things. Virgil

#6775

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man. Pliny the Elder

#6776

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

#6777

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates

#6778

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. Robert K. Merton

#6779

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

#6780

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Immanuel Kant

#6781

Science is the record of dead religions. Oscar Wilde

#6782

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. Les Brown

#6783

Black holes are where God divided by zero. Stephen Wright

#6784

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

#6785

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. Cicero

#6786

You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning. P. E. Morris

#6787

Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery

#6788

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization. Jon Bentley

#6789

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead. Woody Allen

#6790

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. Mark Twain

#6791

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. Henry Ford

#6792

0 Sir Arthur Eddington, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977

#6793

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

#6794

Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson

#6795

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

#6796

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

#6797

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

#6798

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

#6799

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

#6800

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science

#6801

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

#6802

Sanity is a madness put to good use. George Santayana

#6803

Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6804

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend too pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. William Cobbett

#6805

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905

#6806

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

#6807

Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, Ch. 4

#6808

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana

#6809

We do what we must, and call it by the best names. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6810

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Groucho Marx

#6811

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: Chilton Company, 1960), p. 104.

#6812

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. John Wesley

#6813

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

#6814

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

#6815

"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

#6816

I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches. Gilda Radner

#6817

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

#6818

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein

#6819

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

#6820

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"

#6821

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. Sir Henry Taylor

#6822

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California

#6823

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton, 1887

#6824

The end excuses any evil. Sophocles, Electra (c.409 BC)

#6825

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before. Publilius Syrus

#6826

The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat) Ovid, Heorides (c. 10 BC)

#6827

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. Saint Jerome, Letter 48

#6828

The ends must justify the means. Matthew Prior, "Hans Carvel" (1701)

#6829

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. Georges Bernanos, "Why Freedom?" The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos, 1955

#6830

The world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson, April 2, 1917

#6831

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave

#6832

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Sir Winston Churchill

#6833

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. David Richerby

#6834

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. Terry Pratchet, The Last Continent

#6835

Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke

#6836

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty. Benjamin Franklin

#6837

Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny. Paul Walter

#6838

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

#6839

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. John Milton

#6840

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master. George Washington

#6841

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething. Mark Twain

#6842

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it. Mark Twain

#6843

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone

#6844

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus

#6845

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery. Mary B. Yates

#6846

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson

#6847

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. Lucille Ball

#6848

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#6849

Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due. Dean Inge

#6850

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. Mahatma Gandhi, _Gandhi, An Autobiography_, page 446

#6851

I banish fear with two words: you lead. Demetri Kolokotronis

#6852

Quality is never an accident. Willa A. Foster

#6853

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprised a judicious person, who had observed the tranquility with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

#6854

We are the people our parents warned us about. Jimmy Buffett

#6855

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#6856

Indecision may or may not be my problem. Jimmy Buffett

#6857

It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious. Sun Tzu, The Art of War

#6858

There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think. S. Leonard Rubenstein, Pennsylvania State University, Chairman of the English Department, classroom lecture 1980

#6859

To love someone is to identify with them. Aristotle

#6860

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

#6861

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. Sacha Guitry

#6862

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style

#6863

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

#6864

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

#6865

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Henry David Thoreau

#6866

Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible. Evan Edgar

#6867

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. Marcel Marceau

#6868

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun. Arthur Rimbaud

#6869

America, why are your libraries full of tears? Allen Ginsberg

#6870

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

#6871

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw

#6872

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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph

#6873

Why a duck? Chico Marx, "The Coconuts" "1929-Movie"

#6874

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

#6875

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. Ralph W. Sockman

#6876

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you’re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon. John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com

#6877

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return. Agatha Christie

#6878

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust 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 cause and who, 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 nor defeat. Teddy Roosevelt

#6879

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison

#6880

Life imitates art more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde

#6881

There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde

#6882

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

#6883

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers, New York Times Aug. 31 1924

#6884

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. Oscar Wilde

#6885

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde

#6886

Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor is provided to console him from what he is. Oscar Wilde

#6887

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go. Oscar Wilde

#6888

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

#6889

Being natural is simply a pose. Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

#6890

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

#6891

Sin is the only real color element left in modern life. Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

#6892

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Essay on Self-Reliance

#6893

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. John Lennon

#6894

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6895

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day. Frank Sinatra, Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald

#6896

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination. Nathan Campbell

#6897

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3

#6898

Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words) Antonio Salieri, title of an opera

#6899

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, then to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Mahatma Gandhi

#6900

I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Rene Descartes

#6901

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. Arnold Toynbee

#6902

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag. Huey Long

#6903

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you. Art Costa

#6904

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by you means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise. Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275

#6905

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind. Plato

#6906

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

#6907

If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it. Philip Henry Gosse, 1857

#6908

One should count each day a separate life. Seneca

#6909

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, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. Jack Kerouac

#6910

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. H. G. Wells, 1903

#6911

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin

#6912

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. Jacob Bronowski, 1976

#6913

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants Isaac Newton, Paraphrase of 12th century quote by Bernard of Chartres

#6914

Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things.... Helena Cronin, 1992

#6915

The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology. Mark Ridley, 1983

#6916

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Jacob Bronowski, 1976

#6917

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6918

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859

#6919

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871

#6920

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future. Thomas H. Huxley

#6921

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation. Lord Robert Baden-Powell

#6922

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine

#6923

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

#6924

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Sir Winston Churchill, End of war speeches - Debt to RAF

#6925

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#6926

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy

#6927

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

#6928

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth. Sir John A. MacDonald

#6929

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. Joubert

#6930

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. P.T. Barnum

#6931

May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends. Irish Blessing

#6932

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. James Russell Lowell

#6933

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

#6934

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. Samuel Adams

#6935

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)

#6936

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths. James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)

#6937

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution G. K. Chesterton

#6938

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

#6939

Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red. Eugene Bullard

#6940

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. Jean Jacques Rousseau

#6941

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad. Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margarita Ville

#6942

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved

#6943

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end. Woody Allen

#6944

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true. Alexander Pope, Essay on Man

#6945

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber

#6946

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

#6947

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. Bulgarian Proverb

#6948

Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. Mark Twain

#6949

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. E. B. White

#6950

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, volume I, no. 183

#6951

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin

#6952

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton

#6953 It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

#6954

The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo) Spanish Proverb

#6955

When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, you must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything. Mehmet Karagoz

#6956

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#6957

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it. Christian Longe

#6958

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it. Eric Hoffer

#6959

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles

#6960

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)

#6961

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Hellen Keller

#6962

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton

#6963

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham Lincoln

#6964

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. Arthur Miller

#6965

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. Spike Milligan, The Goons

#6966

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit for if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

#6967

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell

#6968

The only paradise is paradise lost. Marcel Proust

#6969

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre

#6970

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#6971

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

#6972

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

#6973

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu

#6974

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men. Plato, The Republic

#6975

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. William Penn

#6976

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures. Karl Popper

#6977

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself. Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

#6978

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

#6979

Though inclination be as sharp as will My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3

#6980

Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year. Victor Borge

#6981

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor

#6982

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.

#6983

"The "haves" and "have nots" can be traced back to the "dids" and "did nots." Anthony Klco

#6984

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. Garrison Keillor

#6985

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard

#6986

A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin

#6987

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

#6988

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

#6989

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. John Dryden

#6990

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#6991

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard

#6992

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#6993

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. Dennis Miller

#6994

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. Bertrand Russell

#6995

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. Neil Gaiman, Sandman

#6996

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

#6997

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)

#6998

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing 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)

#6999

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. Hesiod

#7000

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. Douglas Adams

#7001

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. Douglas Adams

#7002

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

#7003

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"

#7004

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France

#7005

Health food makes me sick. Calvin Trillin

#7006

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

#7007

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#7008

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving 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

#7009

A place for everything and everything in its place. Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861

#7010

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

#7011

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison

#7012

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

#7013

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde

#7014

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain

#7015

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. Floyd Dell

#7016

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

#7017

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. Norman Douglas

#7018

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

#7019

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. George Jessel

#7020

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George Santayana

#7021

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. Bret Harte

#7022

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. Gene Fowler

#7023

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. Kin Hubbard

#7024

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A. J. Liebling

#7025

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#7026

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

#7027

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

#7028

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

#7029

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy

#7030

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. Babe Ruth

#7031

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. Joan Baez

#7032

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. Edmund Wilson

#7033

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka

#7034

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertolt Brecht

#7035

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

#7036

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand Russell

#7037

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

#7038

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell

#7039

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7040

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

#7041

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. F. Scott Fitzgerald

#7042

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

#7043

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. Eric Hoffer

#7044

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber

#7045

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

#7046

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

#7047 A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo

#7048

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. Oscar Wilde

#7049

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

#7050

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. Barbara Tober

#7051

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. Edgard Varese

#7052

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)

#7053

Literature is news that stays news. Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8

#7054

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell

#7055

The least of learning is done in the classrooms. Thomas Merton

#7056

No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift

#7057

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. Lee Iacocca

#7058

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. William

Hazlitt

#7059

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

#7060

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. Rita Mae Brown

#7061

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine

#7062

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

#7063

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson

#7064

At least two-thirds 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 religious or political ideas. Aldous Huxley

#7065

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. Blaise Pascal

#7066

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. Sir William Osler

#7067

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

#7068

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

#7069

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

#7070

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler

#7071

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. John Ruskin

#7072

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Samuel Johnson

#7073

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. Jimmy Demaret

#7074

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. Franklin P. Jones

#7075

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. Marquis de la Grange

#7076

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. E. Joseph Crossman

#7077

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. Doug Larson

#7078

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot

#7079

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

#7080

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. E. Joseph Crossman

#7081

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. Willem de Kooning

#7082

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. Stephen Vizinczey

#7083

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson

#7084

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

#7085

He talked with more claret than clarity. Susan Ertz

#7086

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

#7087

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. Tom Masson

#7088

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. Charles Caleb Colton

#7089

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Shana Alexander

#7090

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

#7091

What happens when the future has come and gone? Robert Half

#7092

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

#7093

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else. James Thorpe

#7094

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt

#7095

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley

#7096

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde

#7097

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. Fran Lebowitz

#7098

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

#7099

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

#7100

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas

#7101

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw

#7102

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Sir Winston Churchill

#7103

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#7104

Free advice is worth the price. Robert Half

#7105

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. Cullen Hightower

#7106

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. William Feather

#7107

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather

#7108

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. H. L. Mencken

#7109

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

#7110

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw

#7111

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash

#7112

Nihilism is best done by professionals. Iggy Pop

#7113

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. Mae West

#7114

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead

#7115

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

#7116

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G. K. Chesterton

#7117

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

#7118

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. O. Henry

#7119

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. Confucius

#7120

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. George Steiner

#7121

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford

#7122

Boxing is just show business with blood. Frank Bruno

#7123

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse

#7124

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." William S. Burroughs

#7125

The best way out is always through. Robert Frost

#7126

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. John le Carre

#7127

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. Jimmy Breslin

#7128

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. Unknown

#7129

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

#7130

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

#7131

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard

#7132

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry

#7133

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler

#7134

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

#7135

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

#7136

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. Frantz Fanon

#7137

There exist only three being’s worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII

#7138

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

#7139

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

#7140

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

#7141

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A. J. Liebling

#7142

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith Sitwell

#7143

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell

#7144

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

#7145

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

#7146

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

#7147

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. Nicholas Chamfort

#7148

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. Nicholas Chamfort

#7149

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

#7150

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

#7151

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Friedrich Nietzsche

#7152

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Paul Valery

#7153

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal

#7154

None but a coward dare to boast that he has never known fear. Ferdinand Foch

#7155

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. Don Juan Manuel

#7156

They always talk who never think. Matthew Prior

#7157

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams

#7158

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Gian Vincenzo Gravina

#7159

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. Michel de Montaigne

#7160

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. Samuel Johnson

#7161

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin

#7162

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

#7163

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. Albert Guinon

#7164

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

#7165

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

#7166

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

#7167

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

#7168

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. J. R. R. Tolkien

#7169

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. Tolkien

#7170

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

#7171

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

#7172

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. Tolkien

#7173

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 soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

#7174

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

#7175

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

#7176

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense) King Edward the Third, Motto of the order of the Garter

#7177

Alas my love you do me wrong, to cast me of discourteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. Anonymous, Green sleeves

#7178

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

#7179

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

#7180

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen

#7181

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin

#7182

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle"

#7183

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. George Herbert

#7184

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. Brock Chisholm

#7185

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin

#7186

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

#7187

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 busiest 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

#7188

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine

#7189

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure. Sol Hurok

#7190

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

#7191

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Lord Chesterfield

#7192

Facts are stupid things. Ronald Reagan

#7193

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. Charles Buxton

#7194

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Robert Graves

#7195

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

#7196

When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. Claude Swanson

#7197

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Sir Winston Churchill

#7198

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

#7199

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

#7200

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

#7201

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley

#7202

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt

#7203

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Lady Bird Johnson

#7204

They can do all because they think they can. Virgil

#7205

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. Andre Malraux

#7206

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. Joseph Farrell

#7207

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. Henrik Ibsen

#7208

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

#7209

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

#7210

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

#7211

Fools rush in where fools have been before. Unknown

#7212

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self-expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. Sir Richard Francis Burton

#7213

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Leonardo da Vinci

#7214

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. Alexander Pope

#7215

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn

#7216

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

#7217

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. Francis Cardinal Spellman

#7218

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Indian Proverb

#7219

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

#7220

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. Sydney Smith

#7221

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920

#7222

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

#7223

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

#7224

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

#7225

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. Jean Paul Richter

#7226

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

#7227

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

#7228

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

#7229

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. Ed Macauley

#7230

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

#7231

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Thomas Jones

#7232

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant

#7233

Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus

#7234

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. Theodore Parker

#7235

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore, avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. Socrates

#7236

A full cup must be carried steadily. English Proverb

#7237

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. Spanish Proverb

#7238

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. Czech Proverb

#7239

Frisbee Arianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George Carlin

#7240

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. Democritus

#7241

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

#7242

Do not employ handsome servants. Chinese Proverb

#7243

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicate ways, improve yourself. John Ruskin

#7244

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak. C. Kent Wright

#7245

Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7246

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. Aprocrypha

#7247

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. Miguel de Cervantes

#7248

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard

#7249

Examine what is said, not him who speaks. Arab Proverb

#7250

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. Dorothy Sarnoff

#7251

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

#7252

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

#7253

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

#7254

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Sir Francis Bacon

#7255

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

#7256

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

#7257

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain

#7258

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. Dr. Karl Menninger

#7259

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. Dan Rather

#7260

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift

#7261

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. Amy Vanderbilt

#7262

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. Japanese Proverb

#7263

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. Simonides

#7264

Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Socrates

#7265

Much speech is one thing; well-timed speech is another. Sophocles

#7266

The argument is at an end. Saint Augustine

#7267

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. Caecilius Statius

#7268

Wisdom of lurks beneath a tattered coat. Caecilius Statius

#7269

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. Publilius Syrus

#7270

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. Publilius Syrus

#7271

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. Publilius Syrus

#7272

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. Publilius Syrus

#7273

To-day is the pupil of yesterday. Publilius Syrus

#7274

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. Publilius Syrus

#7275

In a false quarrel there is no true velour. William Shakespeare

#7276

He will live ill who does not know how to die well. Seneca

#7277

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Seneca

#7278

If virtue precede us every step will be safe. Seneca

#7279

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. Seneca

#7280

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. Seneca

#7281

It is pleasant at times to play the madman. Seneca

#7282

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. Seneca

#7283

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. Seneca

#7284

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. Seneca

#7285

Many things have fallen only to rise higher. Seneca

#7286

No one can wear a mask for very long. Seneca

#7287

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire

#7288

The world loves to be deceived. Franck Sebastian

#7289

Truth is the daughter of time. Aulus Gellius

#7290

Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

#7291

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. Socrates

#7292

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. Socrates

#7293

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

#7294

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Phillip Earl Stanhope

#7295

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge. Lucan

#7296

A show of daring oft conceals great fear. Lucan

#7297

Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls. Lucan

#7298

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. Horatio Nelson

#7299

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. Cicero

#7300

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

#7301

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. Cicero

#7302

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. Cicero

#7303

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. Cicero

#7304

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. Cicero

#7305

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches. Cicero

#7306

To each his own. (Suum Cuique) Cicero

#7307

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. Cicero

#7308

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. Cicero

#7309

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. Cicero

#7310

He who desires is always poor. Claudianus

#7311

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

#7312

Pride sullies the noblest character. Claudianus

#7313

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne

#7314

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. Cicero

#7315

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. Cicero

#7316

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. Cicero

#7317

As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like." Cicero

#7318

By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis) Cicero

#7319

Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis) Cicero

#7320

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. Cicero

#7321

It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another". Cicero

#7322

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold. Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41:12)

#7323

Nature herself makes the wise man rich. Cicero

#7324

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. Cicero

#7325

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Cicero

#7326

Strain every nerve to gain your point. Cicero

#7327

Strong reasons make strong actions. William Shakespeare

#7328

Whom did it benefit. (Cui Bono Fuerit) Longinus Cassius

#7329

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. Cato the Elder

#7330

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs. Cato the Elder

#7331

Lighter is the wound foreseen. Cato the Elder

#7332

Patience is the greatest of all virtues. Cato the Elder

#7333

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Scottish Proverb

#7334

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. Cato the Elder

#7335

There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities. Publius Celsus

#7336

Thought is the fountain of speech. Chrysippus

#7337

It is a great thing to know our vices. Cicero

#7338

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Cicero

#7339

Our thoughts are free. Cicero

#7340

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. Cicero

#7341

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. Cicero

#7342

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent. Marcus Valerius Martialis

#7343

Self-discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Joseph Addison

#7344

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

#7345

In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus

#7346

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. Aesop

#7347

Persuasion is often more effectual than force. Aesop

#7348

What a splendid head, yet no brain. Aesop

#7349

The wise man will love; all others will desire. Afranius

#7350

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

#7351

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus) Anacharsis Cloots

#7352

Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice. Anonymous

#7353

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences. Anonymous

#7354

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. Antiphanes

#7355

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#7356

Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. Charles Simmons

#7357

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge. Seneca

#7358

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare

#7359

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. William Shakespeare

#7360

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#7361

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

#7362

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

#7363

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. Charles Caleb Colton

#7364

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. Publilius Syrus

#7365

Virtue is indeed its own reward. Claudianus

#7366

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune. Cleobulus

#7367

Safeguard the health both of body and soul. Cleobulus

#7368

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. Quintilian

#7369

Respect yourself and others will respect you. Confucius

#7370

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet. Phillip Earl Stanhope

#7371

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. Francis Hutcheson

#7372

Of all the griefs that harass the distress, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Samuel Johnson

#7373

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson

#7374

In everything one must consider the end. Jean De la Fontaine

#7375

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. Sir Philip Sidney

#7376

When griping grief, the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind oppresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. William Shakespeare

#7377

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. Andre Gide

#7378

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

#7379

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

#7380

They think to little who talk to much. John Dryden

#7381

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

#7382

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare

#7383

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, then 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

#7384

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

#7385

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)

#7386

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy

#7387

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. Benjamin Cardozo

#7388

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. Roscoe Pound

#7389

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

#7390

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

#7391

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us. Ely Gulbertson

#7392

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. George Goethals

#7393

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. William Shakespeare

#7394

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. Rene Descartes

#7395

Has not peace honors and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war? Hermocrates of Syracuse

#7396

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. Ovid

#7397

I will not add another word. Horace

#7398

Faults are soon copied. Horace

#7399

The appearance of right of leads us wrong. Horace

#7400

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis) Horace

#7401

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view. Robert Hutchins

#7402

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. William Shakespeare

#7403

One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavet) Seneca

#7404

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est) Seneca

#7405

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master. Seneca

#7406

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. Seneca

#7407

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early. Seneca

#7408

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. Seneca

#7409

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. Seneca

#7410

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

#7411

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. Seneca

#7412

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

#7413

We most often go astray on a well-trodden and much frequented road. Seneca

#7414

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. Seneca

#7415

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. Seneca

#7416

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste. Saadi

#7417

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature. Seneca

#7418

I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another. Homer

#7419

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

#7420

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. Marya Mannes

#7421

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

#7422

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. Benjamin Franklin

#7423

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. William Shakespeare

#7424

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Seneca

#7425

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. Cornelius Tacitus

#7426

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. Cornelius Tacitus

#7427

Keen at the start, but careless at the end. Cornelius Tacitus

#7428

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. Cornelius Tacitus

#7429

That cannot be safe which is not honorable. Cornelius Tacitus

#7430

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. Cornelius Tacitus

#7431

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

#7432

I am my nearest neighbor. Cornelius Tacitus

#7433

Their silence is sufficient praise. Terence

#7434

Too much liberty corrupts us all. Terence

#7435

What is done let us leave alone. Terence

#7436

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. Thales

#7437

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

#7438

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. Lord Acton

#7439

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

#7440

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. Archbishop Ireland

#7441

Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine

#7442

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself. Sir John Holt

#7443

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it. Benjamin Cardozo

#7444

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. Domitus Ulpian

#7445

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice. Magna Carta

#7446

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#7447

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts. Anonymous

#7448

Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer

#7449

The wise man carries his possessions within him. Bias

#7450

Prejudice is opinion without judgement. Voltaire

#7451

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

#7452

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect. Cicero

#7453

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. Anonymous, Proverb

#7454

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Fyodor Dostoevsky

#7455

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

#7456

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

#7457

We hold these truths to be self-evident 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

#7458

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

#7459

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. Confucius

#7460

Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb

#7461

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Benjamin Disraeli

#7462

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. Virgil

#7463

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. Aesop

#7464

Learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#7465

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

#7466

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

#7467

While thou live keep a good tongue in thy head. William Shakespeare

#7468

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph Inge

#7469

Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing. Aquaviva

#7470

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory. Cicero

#7471

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle

#7472

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. Robert Ingersoll

#7473

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. Apuleius

#7474

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of charitableness and angry feeling. Joseph Addison

#7475

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Robert Ingersoll

#7476

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. Stanislaus Lescynski

#7477

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. Nicolas Boileau

#7478

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. Aristotle

#7479

Faith must have adequate evidence; else it is mere superstition. Alexander Hodge

#7480

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1

#7481

In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare

#7482

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

#7483

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. John Milton

#7484

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

#7485

Justice delayed, is justice denied. William Gladstone

#7486

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

#7487

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. William Blackstone

#7488

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. Madam Guizot

#7489

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

#7490

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

#7491

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

#7492

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. Aristotle

#7493

We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless. William Fullbright

#7494

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. Walter Landor

#7495

Laws alone cannot 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

#7496

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. Albert Einstein

#7497

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7498

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

#7499

The most beautiful as well as the ugliest inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. Erich Fromm

#7500

Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity. Moses Hasid

#7501

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

#7502

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason. Israel Lipkin

#7503

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Hannah Arendt

#7504

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them. Berthold Auerbach

#7505

There are many fine ideals which are not realizable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them. Peretz Smolenskin

#7506

Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli

#7507

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. William Shakespeare

#7508

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. Sir Francis Bacon

#7509

In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities. Aristotle

#7510

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. Woodrow Wilson

#7511

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7512

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. Albert Camus

#7513

Does no dishonor to the earth least you dishonor the spirit of man? Henry Beston

#7514

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7515

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#7516

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. Publilius Syrus

#7517

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

#7518

No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behavior, which are not less formidable in their influence. Harold Laki

#7519

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memories, and persistently experimental. Leopold Stein

#7520

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

#7521

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair. Richard Guggenheimer

#7522

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. George Jellinek

#7523

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

#7524

One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear. Leone Levi

#7525

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. Desiderius Erasmus

#7526

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. Charles W. Eliot

#7527

Live well. It is the greatest revenge. The Talmud

#7528

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

#7529

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. Benjamin Disraeli

#7530

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

#7531

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

#7532

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. Archibald Alexander

#7533

Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer

#7534

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#7535

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. Thomas H. Huxley

#7536

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz

#7537

The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness. Appianus

#7538

He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry. Apuleius

#7539

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. Arcesilaus

#7540

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. Aristotle

#7541

Law is mind without reason. Aristotle

#7542

To perceive is to suffer. Aristotle

#7543

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. Ausonius

#7544

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read. Ausonius

#7545

Truth is the mother of hatred. Ausonius

#7546

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. Benjamin Franklin

#7547

Beware the man of one book. Saint Thomas Aquinas

#7548

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. William Shakespeare

#7549

By far the best proof is experience. Sir Francis Bacon

#7550

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. Sir Francis Bacon

#7551

Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)

#7552

Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity. Bias

#7553

I have taken all knowledge to by my province. Sir Francis Bacon

#7554

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. Juvenal

#7555

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

#7556

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth

#7557

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? William Punshon

#7558

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. William Shakespeare

#7559

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. Anonymous

#7560

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

#7561

To a quick question, give a slow answer. Italian Proverb

#7562

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

#7563

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

#7564

I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes. Sara Teasdale

#7565

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. Robert Ingersoll

#7566

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. Sir James MacKintosh

#7567

Judgement, not passion should prevail. Epicharmus

#7568

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. Steven Wright

#7569

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

#7570

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King Jr.

#7571

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight. Desiderius Erasmus

#7572

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. Euripides

#7573

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. Euripides

#7574

Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides

#7575

The idle mind knows not what it wants. Ennius

#7576

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

#7577

May you live all the days of your life? Jonathan Swift

#7578

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn

#7579

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. Clarence Darrow

#7580

Good laws have their origins in bad morals. Ambrosius Macrobius

#7581

Even pleasure itself is a toil. Manilius

#7582

When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning. Manilius

#7583

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things. Marcus Valerius Martialis

#7584

Culture makes all men gentle. Menander

#7585

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. Menander

#7586

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind. Menander

#7587

Of two evils we must always choose the least. Thomas a Kempis

#7588

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. Thomas a Kempis

#7589

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#7590

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. Helen Keller

#7591

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. Martin Luther King Jr.

#7592

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

#7593

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#7594

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Samuel Johnson

#7595

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

#7596

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

#7597

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#7598

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7599

The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm

#7600

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

#7601

When in doubt, do without. Hofni Samuel

#7602

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning. Leo Braeck

#7603

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

#7604

A healthy mind in a healthy body. Juvenal

#7605

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue. Juvenal

#7606

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix) Juvenal

#7607

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

#7608

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. Saint Jerome

#7609

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. Helmuth von Moltke

#7610

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Louis D. Brandeis

#7611

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

#7612

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

#7613

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

#7614

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away. James Thomson

#7615

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Aesop

#7616

Life without the courage for death is slavery. Seneca

#7617

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. Publilius Syrus

#7618

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7619

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. Dag Hammarskjold

#7620

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton

#7621

Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. Ernest Dimnet

#7622

Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Thomas Fuller

#7623

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller

#7624

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself? Publilius Syrus

#7625

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

#7626

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips

#7627

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute. Nathaniel Emmons

#7628

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott

#7629

Remember that lost time does not return. Thomas a Kempis

#7630

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

#7631

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. John Collins

#7632

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#7633

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. Charles Caleb Colton

#7634

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. Anatole France

#7635

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. Bias

#7636

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.

#7637

It is honorable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused. Latin Proverb

#7638

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

#7639

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. Alexander Graham Bell

#7640

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act. Sallust

#7641

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

#7642

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master. Sallust

#7643

Small communities grow great through harmony; great ones fall to pieces through discord. Sallust

#7644

The higher your station, the less your liberty. Sallust

#7645

All art is an imitation of nature. Seneca

#7646

An unpopular rule is never long maintained. Seneca

#7647

As was his language so was his life. Seneca

#7648

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. Seneca

#7649

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favor’s you have received. Seneca

#7650

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. Seneca

#7651

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. Seneca

#7652

He who spares the wicked injures the good. Seneca

#7653

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#7654

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. Bertrand Russell

#7655

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

#7656

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

#7657

It is by no means self-evident 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

#7658

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defense of peace must be constructed. Unknown, UNESCO Constitution

#7659

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#7660

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy. William Shakespeare

#7661

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

#7662

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it. Paterculus

#7663

Freedom is a clear conscience. Periander

#7664

What power has law where only money rules. Gaius Petronius

#7665

Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed. Phaedrus

#7666

It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful. Phaedrus

#7667

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble. Phaedrus

#7668

The humble suffer when the mighty disagree. Phaedrus

#7669

There is danger in both belief and unbelief. Phaedrus

#7670

He who hesitates is a damned fool. Mae West

#7671

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

#7672

As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap. Pinarius

#7673

Sweet is war to those who know it not. Pindar

#7674

Death is not the worse than can happen to men. Plato

#7675

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Plato

#7676

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety. Tryon Edwards

#7677

A large part of virtue consists in good habits. William Paley

#7678

A contented mind is the best source for trouble. Titus Maccius Plautus

#7679

A word to the wise is enough. Titus Maccius Plautus

#7680

I am always afraid of your "something shall be done." Titus Maccius Plautus

#7681

Above all things, reverence yourself. Pythagoras

#7682

It well becomes a young man to be modest. Titus Maccius Plautus

#7683

Not every age is fit for childish sports. Titus Maccius Plautus

#7684

The evil that we know is best. Titus Maccius Plautus

#7685

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish. Titus Maccius Plautus

#7686

From the end spring new beginnings. Pliny the Elder

#7687

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. Pliny the Elder

#7688

However often you may have done them a favor, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. Pliny the Younger

#7689

Never lose hope. Unknown, Polish Slogan

#7690

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. Publilius Syrus

#7691

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. Spanish Proverb

#7692

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. Jean Paul Richter

#7693

Your descendants shall gather your fruits. Virgil

#7694

Look with favor upon a bold beginning. Virgil

#7695

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. Virgil

#7696

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir. Martin Routh

#7697

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Terence

#7698

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. Norman Thomas

#7699

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. Stuart Seaton

#7700

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Anonymous

#7701

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals. Sallust

#7702

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. Voltaire

#7703

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. Edward Chapin

#7704

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding

#7705

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor the body. Seneca

#7706

Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Thomas Haliburton

#7707

Educate your children to self-control, 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

#7708

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. Christine Bovee

#7709

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker. William Pitt

#7710

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#7711

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. Edmund Spenser

#7712

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. Quintilian

#7713

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. Quintilian

#7714

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. Quintilian

#7715

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. Quintilian

#7716

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume

#7717

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

#7718

Custom is the great guide of human life. David Hume

#7719

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. Publilius Syrus

#7720

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body. Pythagoras

#7721

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. Pythagoras

#7722

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. Pythagoras

#7723

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee

#7724

Practice, the master of all things. Augustus Octavius

#7725

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. Ovid

#7726

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

#7727

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. Ovid

#7728

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. Ovid

#7729

We two are to ourselves a crowd. Ovid

#7730

A dinner lubricates business. Lord William Stowell

#7731

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. Charles Fox

#7732

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#7733

The sword of justice has no scabbard. Antione De Riveral

#7734

The love of democracy is that of equality. Charles de Montesquieu

#7735

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

#7736

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. Ovid

#7737

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. Hugo De Groot

#7738

To err is human. (Errare Humanum Est) Melchior De Polignac

#7739

Modesty is the citadel of beauty. Demades

#7740

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds. Democritus

#7741

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty; the pride of old age is in discretion. Democritus

#7742

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. Democritus

#7743

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct. Demophilus

#7744

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes

#7745

The fact speaks for themselves. Demosthenes

#7746

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

#7747

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

#7748

He conquers who endures. Persius

#7749

Necessity has no law. William Langland

#7750

There is no place in nature for extinction. Licretius

#7751

Nature does not proceed by leaps. Linnaeus

#7752

Greater is our terror of the unknown. Titus Livius

#7753

I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them. Titus Livius

#7754

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. Titus Livius

#7755

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

#7756

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. Titus Livius

#7757

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. Titus Livius

#7758

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. Titus Livius

#7759

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. Titus Livius

#7760

There is always more spirit in attack than in defense. Titus Livius

#7761

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. Saadi

#7762

The past is certain, the future obscure. Thales

#7763

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense. Theocritus of Chios

#7764

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. Tiberius

#7765

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. Unknown

#7766

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene. Virgil

#7767

Behold the man. (Ecce Homo) Vulgate

#7768

Great is truth, and all powerful. Vulgate

#7769

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. Xenophon

#7770

The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less. Zeno

#7771

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

#7772

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. Marquis de Vauvenargues

#7773

To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce. Peter de Gaston Levis

#7774

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt

#7775

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

#7776

When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton

#7777

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. Marie Henri Beyle

#7778

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

#7779

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labor. Victor Hugo

#7780

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

#7781

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

Benjamin Disraeli

#7782

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honor and affection fail. William Lloyd

#7783

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. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#7784

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

#7785

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice. Heraclitus

#7786

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

#7787

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb

#7788

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. Heraclitus

#7789

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind. William Shakespeare

#7790

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

#7791

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

#7792

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin

#7793

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard

#7794

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

#7795

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

#7796

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind. Jean De la Fontaine

#7797

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

#7798

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#7799

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

#7800

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 skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. Denis Diderot

#7801

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them. Madame de Stael

#7802

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. Meister Eckhart

#7803

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney

#7804

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

#7805

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Sir Francis Bacon

#7806

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

#7807

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cicero

#7808

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. Augustus Hare

#7809

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place. Horace

#7810

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. Sir John Powell

#7811

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#7812

Your ignorance, cramps my conversation. Sir Anthony Hawkins

#7813

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. Quida

#7814

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#7815

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. William James

#7816

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

#7817

Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius

#7818

Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases. American Heart Association Cookbook

#7819

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

#7820

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

#7821

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way. Hosea Ballou

#7822

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity. Chester Bowles

#7823

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. John Calhoun

#7824

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

#7825

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent. Henry Commager

#7826

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes Laertius

#7827

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing. John Tillotson

#7828

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. Francis Jeffrey

#7829

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. Albert Einstein, (attributed)

#7830

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. Samuel Johnson

#7831

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

#7832

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. William Shakespeare

#7833

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

#7834

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. Herbert Spencer

#7835

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

#7836

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act. The Talmud

#7837

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. John Tillotson

#7838

Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give laborers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers. US Supreme Court

#7839

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it. Marquis de Vauvenargues

#7840

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. Earl Warren

#7841

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. Seneca

#7842

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

#7843

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. Plutarch

#7844

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

#7845

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

#7846

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living. Leo Tolstoy

#7847

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

#7848

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. William Shakespeare

#7849

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. Arthur Brisbane

#7850

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. William Shakespeare

#7851

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

#7852

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

#7853

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us. Plotinus

#7854

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

#7855

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute. Aristotle

#7856

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

#7857

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. Thomas Carlyle

#7858

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7859

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

#7860

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. M. C. Escher

#7861

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson

#7862

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning

#7863

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot

#7864

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

#7865

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. Thomas H. Huxley

#7866

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

#7867

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

#7868

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. Thomas H. Huxley

#7869

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. William Shakespeare

#7870

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. Francis Beaumont

#7871

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

#7872

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

#7873

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

#7874

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. Epicurus

#7875

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. Henry David Thoreau

#7876

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. Cicero

#7877

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. Arnold Bennett

#7878

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

#7879

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

#7880

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton

#7881

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

#7882

Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley

#7883

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. Saint Thomas Aquinas

#7884

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Michel de Montaigne

#7885

The soul of this man is in his clothes. William Shakespeare

#7886

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

#7887

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

#7888

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

#7889

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling 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

#7890

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. William Shakespeare

#7891 Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanor; honorable 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

#7892

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy

#7893

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards. Karl Kraus

#7894

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

#7895

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

#7896

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

#7897

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato

#7898

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse

#7899

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7900

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Henry David Thoreau

#7901

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

#7902

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

#7903

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Fraquhar Tupper

#7904

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity. Spanish Proverb

#7905

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Sir Richard Steele

#7906

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. Thomas Carlyle

#7907

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

#7908

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. Yugoslav Proverb

#7909

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall
appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant

#7910

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Ferdinand Foch

#7911

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

#7912

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy of honor. Asoka

#7913

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare

#7914

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. James R. Lowell

#7915

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. Voltaire

#7916

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. John Sloan

#7917

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

#7918

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

#7919

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. William O. Douglas

#7920

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

#7921

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. Cicero

#7922

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. Thomas H. Huxley

#7923

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza

#7924

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. Seneca

#7925

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. Louis D. Brandeis

#7926

Leisure is the mother of philosophy. Thomas Hobbes

#7927

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

#7928

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

#7929

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

#7930

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

#7931

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. Otto von Bismarck

#7932

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

#7933

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

#7934

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

#7935

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln

#7936

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

#7937

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

#7938

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. Robert Browning

#7939

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

#7940

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. William Jennings Bryan

#7941

The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can. Albertano of Brescia

#7942

A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli

#7943

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. James Bridie

#7944

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

#7945

Let them hate so long as they fear. (Oderint Dum Metuant) Lucius Accius, Fragment

#7946

The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox Populi, Vox Dei) Alcuin

#7947

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. Aristophanes

#7948

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

#7949

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. Anonymous

#7950

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. Isodore Duncan

#7951

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

#7952

Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Barnard Elliot Bee

#7953

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. (Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet) Robert Burton

#7954

How use doth breed a habit in a man. William Shakespeare

#7955

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquility of thy life. Jeremy Taylor

#7956

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) Cicero

#7957

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. Confucius

#7958

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. Confucius

#7959

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw

#7960

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. Dianne Hales

#7961

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. William Congreve

#7962

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. Pierre Corneille

#7963

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell

#7964

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

#7965

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

#7966 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

#7967

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden

#7968

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae) Terence

#7969

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again. William Shakespeare

#7970

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

#7971

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be. Robert Browning

#7972

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

#7973

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch

#7974

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington

#7975

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram) Saint Augustine

#7976

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. Richard Baxter

#7977

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. Henry David Thoreau

#7978

No man is demolished but by himself. Richard Bently

#7979

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

#7980

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

#7981

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. James A. Garfield

#7982

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done. William Shakespeare

#7983

With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens

#7984

Property has its duties as well as its rights. Thomas Brummond

#7985

But far more numerous was the herd of such, who think too little and who talk too much. John Dryden

#7986

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. John Dryden

#7987

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss. Sir Edward Dyer

#7988

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others. Samuel Foote

#7989

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. W. S. Gilbert

#7990

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. Samuel Johnson

#7991

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. William Shakespeare

#7992

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

#7993

Taxation without representation is tyranny. James Otis

#7994

Comments are free but facts are sacred. Charles Prestwich Scott

#7995

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

#7996

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. Jean Baptiste Rousseau

#7997

The character of a man is known from his conversations. Menander

#7998

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

#7999

Dare to be wise. (Sapere Aude) Anonymous

#8000 It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. Friedrich von Schiller

#8001

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything. Anonymous

#8002

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

#8003

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. Moliere

#8004

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam) Anonymous

#8005

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus

#8006

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Niccolo Machiavelli

#8007

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. Phaedrus

#8008

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. Thucydides

#8009

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

#8010

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. Anonymous

#8011

By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello) Anonymous

#8012

Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat) Cicero

#8013

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable. Seneca

#8014

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me. Terence

#8015

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. Sallust

#8016

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#8017

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed. Anonymous

#8018

You add insult to injury. (Injuriae Addis Contumeliam) Anonymous

#8019

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

#8020

It is light grief that can take counsel. Anonymous

#8021

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin

#8022

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. James Clarke

#8023

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled. Wu Ting-Fang

#8024

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover

#8025

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news. Wall Street Proverb

#8026

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

#8027

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

#8028

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, to fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it falls 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

#8029

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; Grief 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 philippic mind. William Wordsworth

#8030

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

#8031

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from 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

#8032

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

#8033

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more. Jean De la Fontaine

#8034

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. William Shakespeare

#8035

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. George Herbert

#8036

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

#8037

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. William Bennet Munro

#8038

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. Cicero

#8039

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. William Shakespeare

#8040

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William Shakespeare

#8041

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with. William Shakespeare

#8042

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

#8043

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. James Boswell

#8044

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man. David Hume

#8045

I pray thee cease thy counsel, which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. William Shakespeare

#8046

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right. Terence

#8047

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

#8048

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

#8049

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

#8050

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

#8051

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. William Shakespeare

#8052

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

#8053

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the cheapest of all follies. Izaak Walton

#8054

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently? Be the chess player, not the chess piece. Ralph Charell

#8055

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him! William Shakespeare

#8056

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

#8057

When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare

#8058

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. John Gay

#8059

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. William Cowper

#8060

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, but leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind. Thomas Campbell

#8061

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. Ovid

#8062

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. Elihu Burritt

#8063

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

#8064

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. Cicero

#8065

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them. Solon

#8066

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.

#8067

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbor. Saint Augustine

#8068

To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Sir Walter Scott

#8069

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. William Shakespeare

#8070

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

#8071

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 Saint-Exupery

#8072

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

#8073

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

#8074

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case. Elisha Potter

#8075

He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake. Unknown, Latin Legal Phrase

#8076

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. Cicero

#8077

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. Titus Maccius Plautus

#8078

An act against my will is not my act. Unknown, Legal Maxim

#8079

The conscience of a people is their power. John Dryden

#8080

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

#8081

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see. George Meredith

#8082

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton

#8083

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

#8084

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning 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

#8085

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 self-understanding and self-discipline. Lewis Mumford

#8086

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou have 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

#8087

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 mature life. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#8088

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

#8089

Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will 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

#8090

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". Robert Millikan

#8091

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumor of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. William Shakespeare

#8092

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

#8093

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

#8094

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

#8095

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. Lawrence Sterne

#8096

A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. Lucius Accius

#8097

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 tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. Cicero

#8098

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

#8099

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful. Sallust

#8100

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. Publilius Syrus

#8101

Of writing well, the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. Horace

#8102

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

#8103

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few. Moralia

#8104

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. Juvenal

#8105

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Sir Francis Bacon

#8106

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. Hilton Kramer

#8107

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. Will Durant

#8108

Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. The Mishnah

#8109

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare

#8110

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

#8111

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, we bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But where we burdened with like weight of pain, as much or more we should ourselves complain. William Shakespeare

#8112

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

#8113

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.

#8114

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

#8115

I am not bound to please thee with my answers. William Shakespeare

#8116

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. William Shakespeare

#8117

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. William Shakespeare

#8118

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

#8119

If any man wishes 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

#8120

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause. William Shakespeare

#8121

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute. William Shakespeare

#8122

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

#8123

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty! William Shakespeare

#8124

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. Henry P. Fairchild

#8125

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

#8126

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln

#8127

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli

#8128

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposes. William Penn

#8129

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me. Terence

#8130

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. Victor Cousin

#8131

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

#8132

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

#8133

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

#8134

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. e cummings

#8135

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

#8136

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

#8137

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde

#8138

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

#8139

To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

#8140

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

#8141

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

#8142

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

#8143

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

#8144

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. Leonard Louis Levinson

#8145

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

#8146

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)

#8147

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)

#8148

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Mark Twain

#8149

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

#8150

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

#8151

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

#8152

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. Justice Anthony Kennedy

#8153

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche

#8154

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

#8155

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

#8156

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

#8157

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

#8158

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)

#8159

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

#8160

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off. Ringo Starr

#8161

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)

#8162

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

#8163

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

#8164

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

#8165

They know enough who know how to learn. Hendry Adams

#8166

When you learn how to die, you learn how to live. Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie"

#8167

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

#8168

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. Albert Einstein

#8169

When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

#8170

How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

#8171

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

#8172

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us Robert Burns, To A Louse

#8173

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time

#8174

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"

#8175

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

#8176

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer

#8177

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. Charles E. Jefferson

#8178

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

#8179

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out from underneath him. Bertolt Brecht, The Three Penny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3

#8180

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

#8181

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

#8182

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

#8183

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

#8184

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

#8185

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

#8186

Either define the moment or the moment will define you. Walt Whitman

#8187

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 their freedoms. Robert Heinlein

#8188

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8189

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. Steven Wright

#8190

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

#8191

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

#8192

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer

#8193

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

#8194

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

#8195

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Thomas Fuller

#8196

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction

#8197

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. Thomas Fuller

#8198

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8199

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8200

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do. Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8201

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do. Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8202

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8203

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

#8204

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#8205

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 here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8206

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

#8207

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8208

Acceptance is such an important commodity; some have called it "the first law of personal growth." Peter McWilliams, Life 101

#8209

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

#8210

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy

#8211

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca

#8212

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. Horace

#8213

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes

#8214

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. Josh Billings

#8215

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere

#8216

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. Robert Half

#8217

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore

#8218

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe

#8219

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8220

Therefore, search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. Albert Schweitzer

#8221

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

#8222

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

#8223

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman...on Love & Relationships

#8224

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)

#8225

Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau, ?

#8226

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

#8227

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Winston Churchill

#8228

Reality continues to ruin my life. Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

#8229

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Dorothy Bernard

#8230

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

#8231

In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy. John C. Sawhill

#8232

War is hell, and I mean to make it so. William Tecumseh Sherman

#8233

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

#8234

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. Aesop

#8235

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. Henry J. Tillman

#8236

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas. Marchioness Townsend

#8237

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. Evan Esar

#8238

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. Evan Esar

#8239

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving. Penn Jillette

#8240

All is in the hands of man. Therefore, wash them often. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#8241

The first condition of immortality is death. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#8242

There are grammatical errors even in his silence. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#8243

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

#8244

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. Stanislaw

Lem

#8245

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler

#8246

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

#8247 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"

#8248

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"

#8249

Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young

#8250

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. Sydney Smith

#8251

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. Oscar Levant

#8252

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Sir Francis Bacon

#8253

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. John Viscount Morley, of Blackburn

#8254

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#8255

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. David T. Wolf

#8256

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#8257

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus

#8258

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

#8259

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal

#8260

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Dr. Seuss

#8261

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch

#8262

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

#8263

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. George Carlin

#8264

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Stanislaw Lem, "Holiday", 1963

#8265

Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter. Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)

#8266

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. Seneca

#8267

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

#8268

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)

#8269

I love children - especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. Nancy Mitford

#8270

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

#8271

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. Voltaire, Letter (1769)

#8272

In charity there is no excess. Sir Francis Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)

#8273

The living need charity more than the dead. George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866)

#8274

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

#8275

Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr

#8276

Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)

#8277

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistency. Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709)

#8278

You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus, In Plato, Cratylus

#8279

The more things change the more they remain the same. Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes

#8280

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)

#8281

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius, Analects

#8282

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)

#8283

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

#8284

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny the Elder

#8285

I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts. Claude T. Bissell

#8286

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)

#8287

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

#8288

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. William Congreve, Love for Love (1695)

#8289

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

#8290

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)

#8291

Where would this country be without this great land of ours? Ronald Reagan

#8292

The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi

#8293

Unless you believe, you will not understand. Saint Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio

#8294

Men generally believe what they wish. Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

#8295

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)

#8296

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)

#8297

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

#8298

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. Baltasar Gracian

#8299

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)

#8300

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall. Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)

#8301

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)

#8302

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln

#8303

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty

#8304

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)

#8305

Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

#8306

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are. Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

#8307

The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can. Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolations

#8308

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban

#8309

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri-Fr? d? ric Amiel

#8310

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)

#8311

I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy. Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series

#8312

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)

#8313

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. John Churton Collins

#8314

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself. Sir John Gielgud

#8315

Better shun the bait, then struggle in the snare. John Dryden

#8316

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. William Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner

#8317

To be an adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a biologist (1939)

#8318

He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. Ling Po, (Chinese, 701-762)

#8319

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. Martin Luther King Jr.

#8320

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

#8321

The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won. Arthur Wellesley, Aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

#8322

Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for. David Van Boom

#8323

Faith, Hope, and Love remained. And the greatest of these is Love. 1 Corinthians 13:13, 1 Corinthians 13:13

#8324

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour 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

#8325

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]

#8326

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

#8327

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8328

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it. Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315

#8329

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman...on Love & Relationships

#8330

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 Address, January 20, 1965

#8331

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8332

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

#8333

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

#8334

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

#8335

Funny how the new things are the old things. Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)

#8336

Every woman knows all about everything. Rudyard Kipling, The Eye of Allah (1926)

#8337

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

#8338

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

#8339

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)

#8340

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. Samuel Goldwyn

#8341

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)

#8342

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson

#8343

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)

#8344

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life

#8345

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

#8346

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

#8347

The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty. Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated

#8348

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)

#8349

Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? Clifford Stoll

#8350

Dive into the sea of thought, and find their pearls beyond price. Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael

#8351

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore, we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle

#8352

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. Aristotle, In Stobaeus, Florilegium

#8353

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)

#8354

Courage mounted with occasion. William Shakespeare, King John, II.i

#8355

Cowardly dogs bark loudest. John Webster, The White Devil (1612)

#8356

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. William Congreve, Love for Love (1695)

#8357

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

#8358

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry

#8359

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. Emma Goldman, Anarchism (1910)

#8360

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)

#8361

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal. Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)

#8362

We need never be ashamed of our tears. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

#8363

Curiosity is the key to creativity. Akio Morita, Made in Japan (1986)

#8364

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Mahatma Gandhi

#8365

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards. Vernon Saunders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

#8366

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire

#8367

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"

#8368

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. Edgar Watson Howe

#8369

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. Amos Bronson Alcott

#8370

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr.

#8371

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

#8372

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings

#8373

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin

#8374

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. Jean

Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931

#8375

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt

#8376

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. Sir William Osler

#8377

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson

#8378

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Raymond Chandler

#8379

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#8380

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau

#8381

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton

#8382

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Sir Winston Churchill

#8383

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

#8384

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford

#8385

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw

#8386

A promise made is a debt unpaid. Robert W. Service

#8387

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein

#8388

It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. Alberta Lee Cox

#8389

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates

#8390

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)

#8391

But I’m not so think as you drunk I am. Sir J.C. Squire, Ballade of Soporific Absorption

#8392

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 Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

#8393

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)

#8394

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Times (1982)

#8395

Nothing happens to anything which that thing is not made by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

#8396

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

#8397

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. Graham Greene, Heart of the

Matter (1948)

#8398

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)

#8399

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. Marcel Proust, Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896)

#8400

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert Ingersoll

#8401

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790-1793)

#8402

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I.vii

#8403

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

#8404

Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard? s Almanac (1758)

#8405

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"

#8406

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)

#8407

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. Clarence Darrow, Medley

#8408

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. Sophocles, Electra

#8409

And come he slow, or come he fast, it is but death who comes at last. Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)

#8410

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

#8411

One dies only once, and then for such a long time! Moli? re, Le D? pit Amoureux (1656)

#8412

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop? Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)

#8413

Death? It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

#8414

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness? Lady Flora Hastings, Swan Song?

#8415

Death hath so many doors to let out life. John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)

#8416

One does not learn how to die by killing others. Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Memoirs (1826-1841)

#8417

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

#8418

As soon as there is life there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)

#8419

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. Johann Georg von Zimmermann

#8420

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory. Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)

#8421

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson

#8422

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller

#8423

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)

#8424

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"

#8425

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan

#8426

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

#8427

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

#8428

Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin

#8429

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 time-honored 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

#8430

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

#8431

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. Benjamin Franklin

#8432

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Benjamin Franklin

#8433

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Benjamin Franklin

#8434

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Benjamin Franklin

#8435

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. Benjamin Franklin

#8436

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin

#8437

Distrust and caution are the parents of security. Benjamin Franklin

#8438

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

#8439

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

#8440

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin

#8441

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. Benjamin Franklin

#8442

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin

#8443

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle

#8444

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Aristotle

#8445

Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle

#8446

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle

#8447

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Aristotle

#8448

Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle

#8449

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

#8450

Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty. Plato

#8451

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato

#8452

Courage is knowing what not to fear. Plato

#8453

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

#8454

He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#8455

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung

#8456

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung

#8457

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung

#8458

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Jung

#8459

Great talents are the loveliest and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the slenderest twigs that are easily snapped off. Carl Jung

#8460

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Jung

#8461

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. Aristotle

#8462

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato

#8463

Science is nothing but perception. Plato

#8464

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Plato

#8465

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

#8466

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey

#8467

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. Edward Abbey

#8468

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato

#8469

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. Eric Hoffer

#8470

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey

#8471

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. Eric Hoffer

#8472

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. Eric Hoffer

#8473

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

#8474

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. Eric Hoffer

#8475

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. Eric Hoffer

#8476

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

#8477

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. Robert Byrne

#8478

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? Woody Allen

#8479

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. The Dhammapada

#8480

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

#8481

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. Eric Hoffer

#8482

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

#8483

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. Eric Hoffer

#8484

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

#8485

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

#8486

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

#8487

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

#8488

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

#8489

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

#8490

Safeguard the health both of body and soul. Cleobulus, {One of the 7 Greek Sages}

#8491

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. P. T. Barnum

#8492

Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they? re ended. Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue

#8493

The weak ones are there to justify the strong. Marilyn Manson

#8494

God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. Pablo Picasso

#8495

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2

#8496

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

#8497

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

#8498

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

#8499

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

#8500

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life. Elizabeth Henry

#8501

Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future. Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul

#8502

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

#8503

Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives. William Wallace, Braveheart

#8504

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" (1992)

#8505

Be not simply good - be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

#8506

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

#8507

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. O. Henry, "A Ruler of Men."

#8508

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. Frank Crane

#8509

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi," 1906

#8510

I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman

#8511

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. 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

#8512

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

#8513

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. Jerry Seinfeld

#8514

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

#8515

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

#8516

Avarice, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

#8517

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, Supremes 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

#8518

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 Ashton-Warner, Spinster

#8519

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

#8520

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Edmund Burke

#8521

When in doubt, tell the truth. Mark Twain

#8522

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

#8523

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

#8524

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

#8525

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

#8526The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. G. K. Chesterton

#8527

It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others. Lewis Carroll

#8528

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Henry Ford

#8529

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

#8530

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time. Publilius Syrus

#8531

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them. David Reisman

#8532

You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them. Malcolm Forbes

#8533

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast-table

#8534

His honour rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Lord Alfred Tennyson

#8535

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love. Laura Ingalls Wilder

#8536

Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles. George Eliot

#8537

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. Joseph Parry

#8538

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. Charles A. Dana

#8539

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults. Benjamin Franklin

#8540

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

#8541

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

#8542

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

#8543

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr.

#8544

Because the women are watching. T. E. Lawrence, ...when asked, why do men go to war?

#8545

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth. Archimedes, (ca. 235 BC)

#8546

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

#8547

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. Max Frisch

#8548

It is said that power corrupts, but actually its more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. David Brin, on power and corruption

#8549

It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. Ernest Rutheford

#8550

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

#8551

"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

#8552

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

#8553

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

#8554

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

#8555

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)

#8556

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

#8557

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to peer out. George Christoph Lichtenberg

#8558

Conformity is the ruin of the mind. Jesse Shelley

#8559

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

#8560

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

#8561

Gold for friends, Lead for foes. Anastasio Somoza Garcia, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936-1956

#8562

One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmond Freud

#8563

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose. Friedrich Nietzsche

#8564

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein

#8565

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. Henny Youngman

#8566

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. Henny Youngman

#8567

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

#8568

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach

#8569

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

#8570

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire

#8571

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. Miguel de Unamuno

#8572

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. E. H. Gombrich

#8573

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

#8574

There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments"

#8575

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

#8576

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"

#8577

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 concluding 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

#8578

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

#8579

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

#8580

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)

#8581

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

#8582

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936

#8583
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

#8584

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

#8585

Assassins! Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), To his orchestra

#8586

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all. Mother Teresa

#8587

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere. Tim McGraw

#8588

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education. Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6

#8589

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. Will Rogers, New York Times, Sept 30 1923

#8590

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

#8591

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

#8592

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw

#8593

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) Ch. 1

#8594

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

#8595

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) Ch. 12

#8596

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

#8597

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

#8598 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

#8599

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. Bertrand Russell, Skeptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Skepticism"

#8600

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, Skeptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"

#8601

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"

#8602

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"

#8603

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

#8604

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Blaise Pascal

#8605

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

#8606

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

#8607

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. Ludwig van Beethoven

#8608

America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome. Rush Limbaugh

#8609

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson

#8610

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt

#8611

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

#8612

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

#8613

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919)

#8614

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. Benjamin Franklin

#8615

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

#8616

He who has never hoped can never despair. George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

#8617

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

#8618

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

#8619

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer (1898) act 2

#8620

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

#8621

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

#8622

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

#8623

Be not slow to visit the sick. Ecclesiastes

#8624

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Tupper, English writer 1810-1889

#8625

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

#8626

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)

#8627

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem, (attributed)

#8628

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]

#8629

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

#8630

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

#8631

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. Helen Keller

#8632

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)

#8633

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Helen Keller

#8634

Whosesoever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius

#8635

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

#8636

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

#8637

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Eleanor Roosevelt

#8638

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

#8639

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt

#8640

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)

#8641

Discretion is not the better part of biography. Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)

#8642

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

#8643

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"

#8644

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)

#8645

I am a deeply superficial person. Andy Warhol

#8646

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. Thomas Jefferson

#8647

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher, in Observer April 4, 1989

#8648

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile (1959)

#8649

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

#8650

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain

#8651

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)

#8652

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

#8653

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)

#8654

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

#8655

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

#8656

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol

#8657

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

#8658

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. Thorstein Veblen

#8659

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. Dame Edna Average, In a television interview with Joan Rivers

#8660

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#8661

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

#8662

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

#8663

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

#8664

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1

#8665

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)

#8666

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"

#8667

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"

#8668

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

#8669

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, Ch. 3

#8670

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

#8671

When you strike at a king, you must kill him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8672

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"

#8673

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) Ch. 2

#8674

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) Ch. 4

#8675

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

#8676

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. Jean-Paul Sartre, upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964

#8677

Existence precedes and rules essence. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943)

#8678

Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)

#8679

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides! Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958

#8680

When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing." Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961)

#8681

Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think. Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)

#8682

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)

#8683

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

#8684

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

#8685

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

#8686

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

#8687

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 3

#8688

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1

#8689

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3

#8690

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3

#8691

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

#8692

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"

#8693

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"

#8694

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

#8695

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

#8696

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Demosthenes

#8697

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw, Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"

#8698

"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

#8699

Goodbye cruel world. Gloria Shayne, Title of song (1961)

#8700

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"

#8701

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"

#8702

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

#8703

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

#8704

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"

#8705

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"

#8706

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

#8707

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"

#8708

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

#8709

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, 1933

#8710

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)

#8711

I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

#8712

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)

#8713

My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

#8714

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)

#8715

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)

#8716

Be wise with speed. A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Edward Young

#8717

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning"

#8718

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)

#8719

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

#8720

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)

#8721

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)

#8722

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

#8723

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. Wendell Willkie, An American Programme (1944)

#8724

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915

#8725

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

#8726

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards

#8727

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

#8728

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

#8729

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

#8730

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)

#8731

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger

#8732

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

#8733

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

#8734

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

#8735

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)

#8736

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

#8737

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. Lord Essex

#8738

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. Helen Keller

#8739

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

#8740

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Center

#8741

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 2-3-03

#8742

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

#8743

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James

#8744

Nudists have no fashion sense. Peter Kunkel

#8745

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln

#8746

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

#8747

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. Soren Kierkegaard

#8748

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. Voltaire

#8749

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. Claude Bernard (1813-78)

#8750

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei

#8751

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop

#8752

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Isaac Asimov

#8753

If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

#8754

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

#8755

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. Arabian Proverb

#8756

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. Serbian Proverb

#8757

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

#8758

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. Chapman Cohen, (1868-1954)

#8759

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon

#8760

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

#8761

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man. Gaius Plinius Secundus, ("The Elder") (23-79)

#8762

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

#8763

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 (1819-1900), British poet, artist,

#8764

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

#8765

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Winston Churchill

#8766

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. Les Brown

#8767

Black holes are where God divided by zero. Stephen Wright

#8768

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood. Marie Curie

#8769

An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications. John Herro

#8770

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. Bertrand Russell

#8771

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, (1876-1958)

#8772

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

#8773

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

#8774

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy

#8775

Life is beautiful. Life is sad. Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

#8776

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen

#8777

In the beginning there was nothing, and it exploded. Terry Pratchet, (on the big bang theory)

#8778

No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever. Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003

#8779

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Dolly Parton

#8780

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. Plato

#8781

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

#8782

Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. Kenny Rogers

#8783

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore, aim high. Henry David Thoreau

#8784

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

#8785

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost

#8786

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)

#8787

205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility. Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)

#8788

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)

#8789

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

#8790

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

#8791

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

#8792

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. Albert Einstein

#8793

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. Carl Sagan

#8794

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein

#8795

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein

#8796

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist. Albert Einstein

#8797

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

#8798

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Sir Winston Churchill

#8799

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

#8800

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. Albert Einstein

#8801

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

#8802

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternative 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

#8803

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. Albert Einstein

#8804

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 country is closely related with this. Albert Einstein

#8805

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Albert Einstein

#8806

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

#8807

Beware of the fury of the patient man. John Dryden

#8808

Great anger is more destructive than the sword Tamil Proverb

#8809

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. Samuel Johnson

#8810

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. Alfred Montapert

#8811

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin

#8812

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato

#8813

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

#8814

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

#8815

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)

#8816

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. W. C. Fields

#8817

Grasp the subject, the words will follow. Cato the Elder

#8818

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

#8819

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for everyone 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

#8820

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it. Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X chap 4

#8821

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

#8822

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8823

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. S? ren Kierkegaard

#8824

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 Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1

#8825

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 Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2

#8826

Experience becomes possible because of language. Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

#8827

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Baltasar Gracian

#8828

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

#8829

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. Robert J. Ringer

#8830

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe? Richard D. Rosen

#8831

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. W. Clement Stone

#8832

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates

#8833

Life is like a ten-speed bike; most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz

#8834

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

#8835

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

#8836

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

#8837

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. H. L. Mencken

#8838

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

#8839

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

#8840

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free. Michaelangelo

#8841

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

#8842

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

#8843

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. King Charles I, of England

#8844

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

#8845

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Mark Twain

#8846

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. Arthur Miller, The Crucible, act II

#8847

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so. William Inge

#8848

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

#8849

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

#8850

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

#8851

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Matt Groening

#8852

The more you sweat during peace, the less you bleed during war. Brian Wilson

#8853

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

#8854

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

#8855

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller

#8856

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

#8857

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

#8858

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

#8859

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

#8860

Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States. Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz

#8861

The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost. Robert Jordan

#8862

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

#8863

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford

#8864

The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams. Tupac Amaru Shakur

#8865

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong. Geoff Arbuthnot

#8866

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

#8867

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

#8868

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judge mental 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

#8869

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

#8870

God can be addressed, but not expressed. Martin Buber

#8871

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. Jean de La Fontaine

#8872

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. Tom Robbins

#8873

I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia. Democritus

#8874

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate. Tom Robbins

#8875

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

#8876

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. Tom Robbins

#8877

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Democritus

#8878

History is a vision of God’s creation on the move. Arnold Toynbee

#8879

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

#8880

The more laws, the less justice. Cicero

#8881

Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle

#8882

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. Aristotle

#8883

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Aristotle, Metaphysica

#8884

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

#8885

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity. Mark Twain

#8886

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

#8887

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

#8888

Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword. The Koran

#8889

Praise youth and it will prosper. Irish Proverb

#8890

To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope

#8891

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi

#8892

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

#8893

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well. Marcus Aurelius

#8894

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

#8895

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

#8896

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

#8897

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

#8898

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

#8899

We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10, Ch. 7, sct. 1177b

#8900

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

#8901

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

#8902

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, 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

#8903

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none. James Boswell

#8904

Religions change; beer and wine remain. Harvey Allen

#8905

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol

#8906

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not. Frank Zappa

#8907

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. Jules Renard

#8908

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. #NAME?

#8909

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

#8910

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

#8911

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. Ethiopian Proverb

#8912

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

#8913

The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage

#8914

I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise. Noel Coward

#8915

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. Friedrich von Schiller

#8916

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Greek proverb

#8917

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

#8918

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, non-Westerners never do. Samuel P. Huntington

#8919

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. Susan Sontag

#8920

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

#8921

Be gentle with the young. Juvenal

#8922

That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation. Don DeLillo, White Noise

#8923

He that plants trees loves others beside himself. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

#8924

Money is the sinew of love as well as war. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

#8925

With foxes we must play the fox. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

#8926

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

#8927

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

#8928

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. Edwin Schlossberg

#8929

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr.

#8930

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud

#8931

If anyone faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speaking 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

#8932

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

#8933

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

#8934

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. Steven Wright

#8935

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

#8936

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

#8937

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Logan Pearsall Smith

#8938

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. Sophie Tucker

#8939

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

#8940

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#8941

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

#8942

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan

#8943

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana

#8944

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Robert Doisneau

#8945

Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must. Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)

#8946

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: "Conversations with Leto II"

#8947

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

#8948

Let them have their ways, but let us never loose ours. Rossella Camerlingo

#8949

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it. William Butler Yeats

#8950

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another. William Butler Yeats, Autobiography

#8951

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. Alben W. Barkley, (vice president under Harry Truman)

#8952

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

#8953

What other people think about me is not my business? Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - a memoir

#8954

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, dazzling, passionate, and eternal form. Plato

#8955

Never be bored, and you will never be boring. Eleanor Roosevelt

#8956

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)

#8957

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

#8958

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

#8959

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

#8960

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. George Carlin

#8961

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

#8962

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived. Machiavelli, The Prince

#8963

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

#8964

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

#8965

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)

#8966

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

#8967

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce

#8968

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction. J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"

#8969

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself. J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark

Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"

#8970

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide. Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold

#8971

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"

#8972

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"

#8973

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"

#8974

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 Anglo-Americans...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

#8975

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. "Swedish Proverb"

#8976

I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

#8977

Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few. Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II

#8978

All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be. Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon

#8979

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

#8980

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

#8981

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 possess: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter. LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

#8982

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

#8983

There are only two types of aircraft? fighters and targets. Doyle? Wahoo? Nicholson, USMC

#8984

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")

#8985

I have plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it. Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

#8986

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo

#8987

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

#8988

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell

#8989

Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm

#8990

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young. Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#8991

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

#8992

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young

#8993

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? Jules Feiffer

#8994

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. Tom Lehrer

#8995

Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. George Gordon Noel Byron

#8996

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett

#8997

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? William Arthur Ward

#8998

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. Erik Pepke

#8999

Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. Frederick Langbridge

#9000

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. Thomas Carlyle

#9001

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

#9002

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

#9003

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

#9004

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds... Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

#9005

The road to hell is paved with adverbs. Stephen King

#9006

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

#9007

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln

#9008

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. Austin L. Sorensen

#9009

Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting. Dale Carnegie

#9010

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle. Bob Hope

#9011

The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles. A. Mark Wells

#9012

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle

#9013

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#9014

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Sir Winston Churchill

#9015

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney

#9016

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

#9017

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

#9018

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte

#9019

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. E. H. Chapin

#9020

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

#9021

If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. Eleanor Roosevelt

#9022

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

#9023

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference. A. S. Neill, Summerhill

#9024

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind. J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

#9025

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

#9026

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

#9027

Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens. Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom

#9028

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. Jelaluddin Rumi

#9029

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

#9030

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Jelaluddin Rumi

#9031

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.

#9032

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations 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.

#9033

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain

#9034

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. Richard Wagner

#9035

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

#9036

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven

#9037

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

#9038

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

#9039

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others. Ludwig van Beethoven

#9040

(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

#9041

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

#9042

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy. Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started

#9043

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief. A. Huxley, Island

#9044
simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore

#9045

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton

#9046

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

#9047

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

#9048

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

#9049

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

#9050

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

#9051

Just turn left at Greenland... John Lennon, When asked how the Beatles found America on their first U.S. visit

#9052

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. Alice Thomas Ellis

#9053

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

#9054

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

#9055

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw

#9056

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery

#9057

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. Lenny Bruce

#9058

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. J. B. Priestley

#9059

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? Evelyn Waugh

#9060

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. Nancy Reagan

#9061

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. E. B. White

#9062

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. William Feather

#9063

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." Jerry Seinfeld

#9064

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

#9065

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

#9066

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again. Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

#9067

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. Jack Benny

#9068

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9069

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. Joe Gores

#9070

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde

#9071

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

#9072

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

#9073

Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw

#9074

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.) Pablo Neruda

#9075

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson

#9076

We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller

#9077

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

#9078

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams, 1780

#9079

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

#9080

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength. Lao-Tzu

#9081

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

#9082

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

#9083

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945

#9084

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)

#9085

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

#9086

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out," 1965

#9087

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. Pindar, 518-438 B.C.

#9088

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

#9089

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

#9090

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"

#9091

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. V?clav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, Ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).

#9092
obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

#9093

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

#9094

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead

#9095

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://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html

#9096

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

#9097

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

#9098

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. Ludwig van Beethoven

#9099

God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December. J. M. Barrie

#9100

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

#9101

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

#9102

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

#9103

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

#9104

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

#9105

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso

#9106

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

#9107

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Michael Burke

#9108

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer

#9109

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke

#9110

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. Lady Bird Johnson

#9111

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. Herbert Hoover

#9112

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

#9113

The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance. Thomas Jefferson

#9114

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

#9115

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

#9116

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#9117

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Michel de Montaigne

#9118

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Michel de Montaigne

#9119

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. Harry Firestone

#9120

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. Kin Hubbard

#9121

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish Proverb

#9122

He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha

#9123

Listen or thy tongue will keep the deaf. American Indian Proverb

#9124

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#9125

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. e.e. cummings

#9126

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

#9127

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

#9128

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

#9129

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist. Charles Baudelaire

#9130

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

#9131

My mother had morning sickness after I was born. Rodney Dangerfield, monologue

#9132

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole

#9133

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

#9134

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli

#9135

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

#9136

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

#9137

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. Groucho Marx

#9138

I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that. Groucho Marx

#9139

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. Socrates

#9140

Women are like teabags. You don’t know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt

#9141

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I scene ii

#9142

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious! Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

#9143

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

#9144

I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes. Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

#9145

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wish full 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

#9146

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

#9147

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm 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

#9148

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.

#9149

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

#9150

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West, Klondike Annie (1936 film)

#9151

We never regret having eaten too little. Thomas Jefferson

#9152

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).

#9153

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Sylvia Plath

#9154

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9155

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

#9156

I fear not, I see no 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

#9157

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. Robert Frost

#9158

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

#9159

Common-sense 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

#9160

It is the mind that makes the man. Ovid

#9161

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius

#9162

After the greatest clouds, the sun. Alan of Lille

#9163

Meet the sunrise with confidence. Alonzo Newton Benn

#9164

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

#9165

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious. Despair.com

#9166

To find yourself, think for yourself. Socrates, The Apology

#9167
for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. J. R. R. Tolkien

#9168

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. John Milton, Paradise Lost

#9169

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

#9170

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

#9171

Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim. William Shakespeare

#9172

Land and Freedom! Emiliano Zapata

#9173

I am Cuban, Argentine, Bolivian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, etc... You understand. Che Guevara, when asked his nationality

#9174

It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire

#9175

The revolution is not a tea party. Mao Tse-tung

#9176

Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you. KMFDM, from "Dogma"

#9177

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 1: Economy

#9178

It’s 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

#9179

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. Walter Pater, 1873

#9180

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep. Tallyrand

#9181

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

#9182

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. John Dryden

#9183

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. Anatole France

#9184

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. Henry David Thoreau

#9185

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. Erich Fromm

#9186

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can. Carl Jung

#9187

Look before you leap. Aesop

#9188

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

#9189

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson

#9190

Virtue can only flourish among equals. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#9191

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. Robert Herrick

#9192

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

#9193

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

#9194

Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for. Bill Beham

#9195

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

#9196

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

#9197

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen)

#9198

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

#9199

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

#9200

[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. Lord Byron

#9201

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

#9202

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine 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

#9203

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron

#9204

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

#9205

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

#9206

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. Terence

#9207

By the work one knows the workmen. Jean De La Fontaine

#9208

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. John Stuart Mill

#9209

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

#9210

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac? George Carlin

#9211

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions. George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty

#9212

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

#9213

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. Richard Feynman

#9214

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. Confucius

#9215

To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

#9216

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. W. H. Auden

#9217

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

#9218

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis"

#9219

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"

#9220

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

#9221

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

#9222

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. Nikolai Gogol, 1836

#9223

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora"

#9224

The reason I don’t play ballads? Because I love to play them. Miles Davis, Film: The Miles Davis Story

#9225

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. Frank Sinatra

#9226

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. John Schumaker

#9227

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw

#9228

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

#9229

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9230

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9231

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9232

I could prove God statistically. George Gallup

#9233

The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert, 1651

#9234

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9235

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9236

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9237

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

#9238

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

#9239

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

#9240

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

#9241

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte

#9242

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

#9243

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

#9244

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen

#9245

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

#9246

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

#9247

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

#9248

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille

#9249

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

#9250

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

#9251

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

#9252

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

#9253

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

#9254

Trying is the first step towards failure. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

#9255
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

#9256

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me<br> The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality Emily Dickinson

#9257

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. Henry David Thoreau

#9258

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

#9259

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. Judy Garland

#9260

Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

#9261

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

#9262

Adversity does teach who your real friends are. Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

#9263

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

#9264

You have to be careful who you let define your good. Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

#9265

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

#9266

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

#9267

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

#9268

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

#9269

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

#9270

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. Joe E. Lewis

#9271

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Bishop

#9272

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. Wally Lamb

#9273

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

#9274

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. George MacDonald

#9275

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Eckhart Tolle

#9276

Life is consciousness. Emmet Fox

#9277

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

#9278

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

#9279

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9280

Trust one who has gone through it. Virgil, The Aeneid

#9281

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. Marva Collins

#9282

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

#9283

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

#9284

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

#9285

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne

#9286

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

#9287

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson

#9288

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9289

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. Thomas Fuller

#9290

Our lives teach us who we are. Salman Rushdie

#9291

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Rabbi Abraham Heschel

#9292

Imagination is more important than knowledge... Albert Einstein

#9293

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. G. E. Lessing

#9294

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. Celia Thaxter

#9295

Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth. Sarah Ban Breathnach

#9296

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

#9297

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9298

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.

#9299

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. Dag Hammarskjold

#9300

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude. Sue Patton Thoele

#9301

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. John Barth

#9302

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

#9303

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. Rabbi Harold Kushner

#9304

For what I have received, the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. Storm Jameson

#9305

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking. Joyce Grenfell

#9306

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. Clarence E. Hodges

#9307

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. Meister Eckhart

#9308

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

#9309

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having. Margaret Lee Runbeck

#9310

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

#9311

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

#9312

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington

#9313

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. Walt Whitman

#9314

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. Deepak Chopra

#9315

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. Franz Kafka

#9316

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. Anne-Sophie Swetchine

#9317

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. Marya Mannes

#9318

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

#9319

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. Dorothee Solle

#9320

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

#9321

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas Fuller

#9322

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

#9323

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9324

The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. Samuel Johnson

#9325

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself. Paul Hawken

#9326

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#9327

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. Burk Hudson

#9328

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. Meister Eckhart

#9329

Everything appears to change when we change. Henri-Fr? d? ric Amiel

#9330

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

#9331

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

#9332

A finished person is a boring person. Anna Quindlen

#9333

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

#9334

Revolution is not a onetime event. Audre Lorde

#9335

I dream, therefore I become. Cheryl Ren?e Grossman

#9336

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. Minna Thomas Antrim

#9337

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

#9338

The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese

#9339

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles Du Bos

#9340

I dwell in possibility... Emily Dickinson

#9341

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9342

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. Harold Bloom

#9343

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

#9344

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

#9345

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Pearl Buck

#9346

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others. Jennifer Louden

#9347

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable. Jessamyn West

#9348

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. Catherine de Hueck

#9349

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. Harriet Beecher Stowe

#9350

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#9351

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Mark Twain

#9352

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott

#9353

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

#9354

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

#9355

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. Michel de Montaigne

#9356

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9357

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

#9358

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. Anwar el-Sadat

#9359

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud

#9360

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. Barbra Streisand

#9361

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. Berthold Auerbach

#9362

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. Meryl Streep

#9363

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

#9364

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot

#9365

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich

#9366

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball

#9367

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

#9368

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

#9369

What you risk reveals what you value. Jeanette Winterson

#9370

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

#9371

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. Henry Miller

#9372

Dare to be yourself. Andre Gide

#9373

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. Gordon Parks

#9374

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. John Lancaster Spalding

#9375

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. Ellen Glasglow

#9376

To play it safe is not to play. Robert Altman

#9377

Security is a kind of death. Tennessee Williams

#9378

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

#9379

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

#9380

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou

#9381

Life is a risk. Diane Von Furstenberg

#9382

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. Rod Steiger

#9383

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9384

Joy is not in things; it is in us. Richard Wagner

#9385

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Sir Wilfred Grenfell

#9386

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

#9387

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

#9388

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. Sarah Ban Breathnach

#9389

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier

#9390

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck

#9391

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. Ninon de Lenclos

#9392

Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

#9393

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

#9394

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson

#9395

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

#9396

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it! Bob Newhart

#9397

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9398

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong

#9399

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. Krishnamurti

#9400

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

#9401

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Okakura Kakuzo

#9402

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. May Sarton

#9403

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! Belva Plain

#9404

Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Chuang-tzu

#9405

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats

#9406

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

#9407

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

#9408

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

#9409

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois

#9410

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. Gwendolyn Brooks

#9411

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

#9412

But be, as you have been, my happiness... Randall Jarrell

#9413

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

#9414

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

#9415

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. Constantine Peter Cavafy

#9416

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... Trieu Thi Trinh

#9417

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb. Edna St. Vincent Millay

#9418

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide

#9419

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. Shana Alexander

#9420

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

#9421

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. Vincent van Gogh

#9422

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

#9423

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West

#9424

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru

#9425

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. Elbert Hubbard

#9426

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day... Donald Barthelme

#9427

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9428

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana

#9429

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience. Shakti Gawain

#9430

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

#9431

Each body has its art... Gwendolyn Brooks

#9432

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. Eugene Delacroix

#9433

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. Anne Sexton

#9434

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. Novalis

#9435

The body says what words cannot. Martha Graham

#9436

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9437

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9438

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

#9439

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. Amy Bloom

#9440

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9441

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven John Milton, Dr. Faustus

#9442

In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

#9443

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.

#9444

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

#9445

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

#9446
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

#9447

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? Robert Browning

#9448

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)

#9449

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain

#9450

A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim. Chuck Jones

#9451

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

#9452

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

#9453

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. E. M. Forster, Howards End

#9454

Blessed is the man that endured temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12

#9455

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

#9456

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. Jane Austen, Emma

#9457

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

#9458

Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears. Winston Churchill

#9459

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Jane Austen, Emma

#9460

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

#9461

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. Adelle Davis

#9462

Regimen is superior to medicine. Voltaire

#9463
happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. Henri-Fr? d? ric Amiel

#9464

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

#9465

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

#9466

I row after health like a waterman... Jonathan Swift

#9467

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. Shakti Gawain

#9468

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9469

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

#9470

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Aung San Suu Kyi

#9471

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh

#9472

I want freedom for the full expression on my personality. Mahatma Gandhi

#9473

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. Mikhail Bakunin

#9474

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. John F. Kennedy

#9475

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. Cicero

#9476

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan

#9477

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. Oscar Arias Sanchez

#9478

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom... Bell Hooks

#9479

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Sir Francis Bacon

#9480

The way to final freedom is within thy self. The Book of the Golden Precepts

#9481

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal

#9482

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#9483

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. Thomas Paine

#9484

You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey

#9485

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Denise Levertov

#9486

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. Han Suyin

#9487

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir

#9488

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf

#9489

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. Elizabeth Goudge

#9490

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Edmund Spenser, 1590

#9491

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mother Jones

#9492

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

#9493

Truth is what stands the test of experience. Albert Einstein

#9494

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? Henry Miller

#9495

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau

#9496

Truth has beauty, power and necessity. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#9497

Hope is only the love of life. Henri-Fr? d? ric Amiel

#9498

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

#9499

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci

#9500

Hope is necessary in every condition. Samuel Johnson

#9501

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

#9502

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Corita Kent

#9503

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. Edith Sodergran

#9504

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9505

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

#9506

She used to drag her mattress beside 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

#9507

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson

#9508

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. Gloria Steinem

#9509

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. J. S. Bryan

#9510

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

#9511

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin. Susan Partnow

#9512

The family is the country of the heart. Giuseppe Mazzini

#9513

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. don Miguel Ruiz

#9514

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Robert Bresson

#9515

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. Adele Brookman

#9516

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. John Updike

#9517

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel

#9518

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. John Cleese

#9519

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

#9520

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. Rita Mae Brown

#9521

Can I ever know you or you know me? Sara Teasdale

#9522

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington

#9523

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. Norman Maclean

#9524

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

#9525

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. Alexander A. Bogomoletz

#9526

In love, one and one are one. Jean-Paul Sartre

#9527

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Robert Sternberg

#9528

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou

#9529

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. Bessie A. Stanley

#9530

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. Vidal Sassoon

#9531

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot

#9532

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell

#9533

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die. Marquis de Vauvenargues

#9534

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

#9535

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

#9536

In summer, the song sings itself. William Carlos Williams

#9537

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Wallace Stevens

#9538

My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson

#9539

Fate chooses your relations; you choose your friends. Jacques Delille

#9540

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

#9541

A friend is a second self. Aristotle

#9542

My friend is one... who take me for what I am. Henry David Thoreau

#9543

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

#9544

She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gathers them and give them back to me in all the right order. Toni Morrison

#9545

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

#9546

Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams

#9547

The beginning is always today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#9548

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

#9549

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Walker Percy

#9550

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson

#9551

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

#9552

The longest journey is the journey inward. Dag Hammarskjold

#9553

Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R. Tolkien

#9554

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe

#9555

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Cynthia Ozick

#9556

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Earl Mac Rauch

#9557

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. Gail Pool

#9558

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey. John Hope Franklin

#9559

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

#9560

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. Garth Brooks, Country Music

#9561

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

#9562

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. Pico Iyer, Time

#9563

I have found power in the mysteries of thought. Euripides, 438 B.C.

#9564

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

#9565

The only alternative to coexistence is destruction. Jawaharlal Nehru

#9566

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru

#9567

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

#9568

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle

#9569

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

#9570

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins

#9571

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.

#9572

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius

#9573

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

#9574

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

#9575

Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

#9576

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 presence but an idea. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

#9577

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali

#9578

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it. Salvador Dali

#9579

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. Salvador Dali

#9580

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1, The Bible (King James Version)

#9581

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr

#9582

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. Jerry Seinfeld

#9583

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. Janet Reno, February 2, 1998

#9584

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

#9585

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. Fred Astaire

#9586

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God. Euripides

#9587

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michaelangelo

#9588

I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character. Charles Barkley, “they said it" in Sports Illustrated

#9589

Their lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. 96, ll. 11-12.

#9590

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them. Edgar Allan Poe

#9591

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. Joseph Conrad

#9592

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, Of Adversity

#9593

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland) Wilfred Owen, Poem: Dulce et Decorum est.

#9594

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9595

There is no sin greater than ignorance. Rudyard Kipling

#9596

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

#9597

To love at all is to be vulnerable. C. S. Lewis

#9598

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

#9599

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

#9600

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)

#9601

The price of greatness is responsibility. Sir Winston Churchill

#9602

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds. Ernest Hemingway

#9603

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#9604

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

#9605

I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 2, 2003

#9606

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003

#9607

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002

#9608

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002

#9609

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002

#9610

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God? s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002

#9611

God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002

#9612

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003

#9613

I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003

#9614

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 27, 2003

#9615

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003

#9616

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003

#9617

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. Ann Landers

#9618

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link

#9619

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Aldous Huxley, unknown

#9620

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#9621

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#9622

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#9623

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#9624

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#9625

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is
born out of admiration of another’s values. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#9626

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

#9627

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

#9628

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. Rue McClanahan

#9629

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Jacques Deval

#9630

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith

#9631

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. Alfred Tennyson

#9632

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003

#9633

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller

#9634

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. Gen. Peyton C. March

#9635

If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity. Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters

#9636

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#9637

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

#9638

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting; I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence. Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

#9639

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic. Kilgore Trout, Time quake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.

#9640

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

#9641

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Tennyson

#9642

A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson

#9643

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire. Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.

#9644

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

#9645

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. Socrates, Crito," (Plato)

#9646

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

#9647

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.

#9648

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)

#9649
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

#9650

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

#9651

I am open to receive with every breath I breathe. Michael Sun

#9652

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

#9653

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

#9654

To be beneficent when we can be a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, 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

#9655

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

#9656

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, 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

#9657

"Human reason is by nature architectonic." Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

#9658

For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal. Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, XVII , 59-60

#9659

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

#9660

Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving. Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country

#9661

I do not believe the Union will dissolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other. Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided

#9662

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. George Melton

#9663

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. Plato

#9664

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

#9665

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 angel-hands shall undrawn 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

#9666

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 out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. 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 among 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

#9667

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

#9668

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

#9669

He appears to have been weaned on a pickle. Alice Roosevelt Longfellow, about Calvin Coolidge

#9670

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

#9671

Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins

#9672

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half. John Wanamaker

#9673

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

#9674

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

#9675

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain

#9676

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

#9677

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. G. K. Chesterton

#9678

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

#9679

A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it. G. K. Chesterton

#9680

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

#9681

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less. Epictetus

#9682

I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. 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 Buddha--which is to demean oneself. Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

#9683

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

#9684

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

#9685

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 destiny-are here and now. Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day

#9686

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. Thomas Jefferson

#9687

I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again. Mark Twain

#9688

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

#9689

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

#9690

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

#9691

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

#9692

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

#9693

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

#9694

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

#9695

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. Francois Rabelais, 1532

#9696

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Dr. Robert Schuller

#9697

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

#9698

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas a Kempis, 1420

#9699

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9700

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels; we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov, 1897

#9701

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

#9702

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal

#9703

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate

#9704

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

#9705

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

#9706

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

#9707

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. Bob Newhart

#9708

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want. Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

#9709

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

#9710

The pleasure of love is in loving. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#9711

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! Victor Hugo

#9712

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker

#9713

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Abraham Lincoln

#9714

There is no wisdom without love. N. Sri Ram

#9715

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back. Thomas a Kempis

#9716

Love is the reason for it all. Dorothy Fields

#9717

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. Cher

#9718

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila

#9719

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! Aphra Behn

#9720

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

#9721

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air? Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9722

The greater man the greater courtesy. Alfred Lord Tennyson

#9723

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. Kent Nerburn

#9724

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. Lawrence

#9725

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich

#9726

Good men must be affectionate men. Samuel Richardson

#9727

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power. Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

#9728

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

#9729

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003

#9730

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

#9731

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant

#9732

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

#9733

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

#9734

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. Christopher Reeve

#9735

Some people make headlines while others make history. Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine

#9736

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

#9737

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances Willard

#9738

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

#9739

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein

#9740

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

#9741

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. Bob Moawad

#9742

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Nikki Giovanni

#9743

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen

#9744

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. David H. Comins

#9745

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Bertha Calloway

#9746

Worry is a misuse of imagination. Dan Zadra

#9747

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. Elmer G. Letterman

#9748

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Madeline Stark

#9749

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful. Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times

#9750

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

#9751

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. Sharon Salzberg

#9752

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. Malcolm Forbes

#9753

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. David Starr Jordan

#9754

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe

#9755

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

#9756

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

#9757

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden

#9758

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

#9759

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine

#9760

Follow the grain in your own wood. Howard Thurman

#9761

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#9762

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9763

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear. Marilyn C. Barrick

#9764

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. Henry Moore

#9765

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. The Dalai Lama

#9766

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. Liberace

#9767

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. Jane Wyman

#9768

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

#9769

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. Edna Buchanan

#9770

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill

#9771

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

#9772

Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux

#9773

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you cannot remain still. Patricia Russell-McCloud

#9774

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth? Tame the dragon and the gift is yours. Noela Evans

#9775

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

#9776

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003

#9777

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay. Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

#9778

Energy is eternal delight. William Blake

#9779

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

#9780

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. Victor Hugo

#9781

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003

#9782

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. Goldie Hawn

#9783

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

#9784

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. Annie Lennox

#9785

I stand in awe of my body. Henry David Thoreau

#9786

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. E. M. Forster

#9787

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Seneca

#9788

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. Henry Miller

#9789

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. William Shakespeare

#9790

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002

#9791

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me. Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase

#9792

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

#9793

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness. Theodore Roosevelt

#9794

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

#9795

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

#9796

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

#9797

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it. Helen Keller

#9798

Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the beginning of understanding. Lord Kelvin

#9799

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

#9800

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know. John Keats, -

#9801

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. Cicero

#9802

Death be not proud, though some have called the Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne, Death Be Not Proud

#9803

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

#9804

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is 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

#9805

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

#9806

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Robertson Davies

#9807

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

#9808

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson Davies

#9809

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman

#9810

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

#9811

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. Bill Cosby

#9812

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

#9813

Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. Charles Spencer

#9814

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

#9815

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot

#9816

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

#9817

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

#9818

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

#9819

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

#9820

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell

#9821

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

#9822

Most of our imports come from other countries. George W. Bush, Robin Williams, Live on Broadway

#9823

Religion is the opiate of the masses. Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion."

#9824

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

#9825

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. Dan Quayle

#9826

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say. Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News

#9827

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

#9828

Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Bible, Psalms 133

#9829

But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.

#9830

I am not a star. A star is nothing more than a ball of gas. Elijah Wood

#9831

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. Benjamin Franklin

#9832

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach"

#9833

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln

#9834

History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers

#9835

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

#9836

[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922

#9837

She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922

#9838

The best of us must sometimes eat our words. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

#9839

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

#9840

Bad spellers of the world, untie! Graffito

#9841

There is no gravity. The earth sucks. Graffito

#9842

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell

#9843

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas H. Huxley

#9844

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte

#9845

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou

#9846

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

#9847

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 1817-1895

#9848

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. Roger Moore

#9849

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose

#9850

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

#9851

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

#9852

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

#9853

The board is set; the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...<br> The great battle of our time. J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

#9854

Love is the very essence of life. Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

#9855

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

#9856

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances Willard

#9857

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

#9858

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

#9859

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

#9860

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)

#9861

A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam

#9862

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. Helen Keller

#9863

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Henry de Bracton, De Legibus in 1240

#9864

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! Georges Eliot, Middlemarch

#9865

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

#9866

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Anderson

#9867

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

#9868

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White

#9869

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"

#9870
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

#9871

I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened. Mark Twain

#9872

A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin

#9873

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

#9874

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. Humphrey Bogart

#9875

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations. Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

#9876

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

#9877

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software

#9878

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

#9879

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. Edgar Watson Howe

#9880

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. Archimedes, 300 B.C.

#9881

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten

#9882

I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell

#9883

Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost

#9884

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)

#9885

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

#9886

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller

#9887

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. Samuel Johnson

#9888

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. Peter Gabriel

#9889

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

#9890

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 neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of this surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)

#9891

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

#9892

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love. Gray Davis

#9893

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. Reinhold Niebuhr

#9894

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

#9895

I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle. Alfred Hitchcock

#9896

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

#9897

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell

#9898

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

#9899

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

#9900

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain

#9901

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

#9902

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

#9903

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

#9904

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man B?cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen) Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)

#9905

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

#9906

The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly. Friedrich Nietzsche

#9907

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

#9908

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court. Clarence Darrow

#9909

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

#9910

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

#9911

"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.

#9912

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

#9913

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price. Kahlil Gibran

#9914

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Mark Twain

#9915

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

#9916

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

#9917

Generous people are rarely mentally ill. Dr. Karl Menninger

#9918

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors. Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003

#9919

Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, February 25, 2000

#9920

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003

#9921

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003

#9922

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich

#9923

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813

#9924

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

#9925

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

#9926

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death. Martin Heidegger

#9927

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9928

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

#9929

Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Frederick Douglas

#9930

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglas

#9931

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. William H. Mauldin

#9932

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglas

#9933

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglas

#9934

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 Douglas

#9935

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. Charles Lindberg

#9936

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure? - that is all agnosticism means. Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925

#9937

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain? I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain. Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

#9938

You are only as old as the woman you feel. Groucho Marx

#9939

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors

#9940

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. George Eliot, The Mill On the Floss, Ch. 9

#9941

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

#9942

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8

#9943

Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton

#9944

What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down. Harlen Ellison, interview with Charlie Rose

#9945

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals. Ben Franklin

#9946

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#9947

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion. Publilius Syrus

#9948

It is better to think too much, then to think too little Eric Kopras, myself (I thought it up)

#9949

I can live two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain

#9950

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Chapter 1

#9951

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#9952

In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)

#9953

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#9954

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. Mother Teresa, -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

#9955

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart. Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow"

#9956

[Of the parallels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination. Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997)

#9957

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

#9958

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. John Lennon, "Strawberry Fields"

#9959

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back. Albert Camus, The Stranger

#9960

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason? James Joseph Sylvester

#9961

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week. Will Rogers

#9962

Black holes are where God divided by zero. Steven Wright

#9963

Fettucine Alfredo is just Macaroni and cheese for adults Mitch Hedburg

#9964

There but for the grace of God go [I]. John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

#9965

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Salvador Dali, from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14

#9966

Under the influence of art, the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan

#9967

The talent is in the choices. Robert De Niro

#9968

I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record. Dylan Thomas

#9969

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. George Best

#9970

Only the gentle is ever really strong. James Dean

#9971

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony. Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan

#9972

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965

#9973

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. Dave Barry

#9974

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vincent Lombardi

#9975

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Ghandi

#9976

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression. Malcolm X

#9977

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver

#9978

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise. J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

#9979

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839

#9980

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, willfulness and patience. Courage strengthens, willfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. Hermann Hesse

#9981

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride. Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"

#9982

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war. Herbert Hoover

#9983

"Think as I think" said the man, "or you are abominable. You are a toad." And after I had thought on it, I said "I will then, be a toad." Stephen Crane

#9984

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

#9985

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful. Prophet Mohammed, ibn abbas

#9986

Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind. Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari

#9987

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith. Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

#9988

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849

#9989

The best richness is the richness of the soul. Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

#9990

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words. Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

#9991

A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation. Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

#9992

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured. Prophet Mohammad

#9993

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less. Prophet Mohammed

#9994

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. Prophet Mohammed

#9995

There shall be no compulsion in religion. Quran 2:263, Quran 2:263

#9996

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness. Prophet Mohammed

#9997

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain, Reflections on America, 1958

#9998

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. Woody Allen

#9999

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returns, was not spoken of the soul.? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10000

Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5

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