If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me! - "Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas

Casting all your cares upon Him, for He careth for you. - 1 Peter 5:7

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. - 10th Amendment, U.S. Constitution

The white people who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call assimilated, bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way. We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and to live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here. The white man says there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this.  - 1927 Grand Council of American Indians

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response

"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet. "Rabbit's clever." "And he has a Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has a Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."  - A. A. Milne

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. - A. Alvarez

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others. - A. Nielsen

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. - A.A. Milne

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. (Winnie the Pooh) - A.A. Milne

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. - A.E. Houseman

Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there. - A.W Tozer

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. - Abba Eban

His ignorance is encyclopedic. - Abba Eban

To teach is to create a space in which obedience to truth is practiced. - Abba Felix

Know you are where you are not by accident, but by the design of your Creator, for your own development or for the development of those around you. - Abdu'l-Baha

Great necessities call out great virtues. - Abigail Adams

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. - Abigail Van Buren

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations. (1914) - Abraham Flexner

Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.  - Abraham J Twerski

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. - Abraham Joshua Heschel, New York Journal-American,

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Abraham Lincoln

I never behold them (the heavens filled with stars) that I do not feel I am looking into the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. - Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.  - Abraham Lincoln

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? - Inaugural Address, 1861 - Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed. - Abraham Lincoln

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln

With high hopes for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. (1865 second inaugural address - regarding the progress of the Civil War) - Abraham Lincoln

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. - Abraham Lincoln

In a large sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. - Abraham Lincoln

With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. - Abraham Lincoln

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. - Abraham Lincoln

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. {1863 Presidential Proclamation} - Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go. - Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.  - Abraham Maslow

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. - Abraham Maslow

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (British Medical Journal 1995; vol 311, p. 485) - absenceDG Altman and MJ Bland

One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it -- incredibly. (Theravandan Meditation Master)  - Achaan Chah Subato

Art is too serious to be taken seriously. - Ad Reinhardt

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours. - Adam Clarke

I have lived to know that the great secret of happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of too many irons in the fire, conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many - poker, tongs and all - keep them all going. - Adam Clarke

Courage is... when you stare your worst fear or toughest obstacle in the face and beat it. - Adam McCord

Courage is when you do what you have to do though people don't think you can. Courage is when you think you can't do something, but you do it. - Adam McCord

Courage is when you take on the impossible or fight an unwinnable fight. That's what courage is. {teenager paralyzed in an automobile accident} - Adam McCord

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. - Adam Smith

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Has thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! (from Rosamond) - Addison

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. - Addison Walker

Is it possible to presume there is no God and have it all make sense? - Adi Da Samraj

Love, not reason should make your decisions. Decisions based on reason are karmic. The Heart is mad, and the Heart is the ground I call you to walk on. - Adi Da Samraj

What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. - Adlai E. Stevenson, speech, Libertyville, Illinois

He who slings mud generally loses ground. - Adlai Stevenson

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

We travel together as passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I'll say the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all. {American Statesman, 1952 Democratic Presidential Candidate} - Adlai Stevenson

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! - Admiral David G. Farragut

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. - Adolf Berle

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. - Adolf Hitler

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. - Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus

Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either side. - Aesop

It takes a village to raise a child. - African proverb

Wisdom outweighs strength.  - African Proverb

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.  - African Proverb

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. - Agatha Christie

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. - Al Bernstein

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone

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

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. (1907-1998 - U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Father of U.S. Vice President Al Gore)  - Al Gore

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. - Al Lopez

A team should be an extension of the coach's personality. My teams were arrogant and obnoxious. - Al McGuire

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.  - Alan Cohen

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers. - Alan Greenspan

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it. - Alan Kulwicki

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton

Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come. - Albert Barnes

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. - Albert Camus

Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. - Albert Camus

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. - Albert Einstein

I don't believe in mathematics. - Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result. - Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human society - shrunk into one community with a common fate - finds itself, but only a few act accordingly. Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragicomedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. (from his speech to the 2nd annual dinner of the Foreign Press Association to the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, New York; November 11, 1947) - Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. - Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.  - Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.  - Albert Einstein

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. ~ - Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists... this knowledge, this feeling, is the centre of true religiousness. - Albert Einstein

Once you stop learning, you start dying. - Albert Einstein

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. - Albert Einstein

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.  - Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.  - Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.  - Albert Einstein

The grand aim of science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - Albert Einstein

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.  - Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein

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

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. - Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (letter to Curt Seeling, March 1952) - Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies, 1931

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. - Albert Einstein, statement, England, September 15,

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.  - Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, 1934.

Morale is faith in the man at the top. - Albert S. Johnstone

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. - Albert Schweitzer

Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid. - Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

I have four things to learn in life: to think clearly without hurry or confusion; to love everybody sincerely; to act in everything with the highest motives; to trust in God unhesitatingly. - Albert Schweitzer

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.  - Aldo Leopold

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. (from 'Time Must Have a Stop')  - Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.  - Aldous Huxley

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability. {opening line from 'Brave New World'} - Aldous Huxley

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. - Alex Comfort

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. - Alex Haley

An honest man is the noblest work of God. - Alexander

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

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. - Alexander Pope

Most authors steal their works, or buy. - Alexander Pope

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. (from 'An Essay on Man, 1733) - Alexander Pope

To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope

When a man is happy, every effort to express his happiness mars its completeness. - Alexander Smith

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. - Alexander Von Humboldt

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. - Alexander Woollcott

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women. - Alexis De Tocqueville

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. - Alexis De Tocqueville

Reputation is what folks think you are. Personality is what you seem to be. Character is what you really are. - Alfred Armand Montapert

After you've done a thing for two years, you should look at it carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. After ten years, throw it away and start all over. - Alfred E. Perlman

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock

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

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. (from Manhood of Humanity (Institute of General Semantics)) - Alfred Korzybski

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. (1850)  - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.  - Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead

The mighty hopes that make us men. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of Being slow. (from "In Memoriam") - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things in life.  - Algernon Charles Swinburne

Know, oh beloved, that we were not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. (1058-1117 - Islamic Theologion, Philosopher, Mystic)  - Al-Ghazzali

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. - Alice Walker

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.  - Alice Walker

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. - Alice Walker

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. - Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. - Alice Walker, speech, Grace Cathedral, San Francis

Fear and love are the only two things that can manipulate the mind, to believing the unbelievable, in the dark. - Alison Cook

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. - Allan Bloom

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.  - Allan K. Chalmers

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. - Allen Ginsberg

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.  - Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Tofler

When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose. (from 'The Rose,' performed by Bette Midler)  - Amanda McBroom

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce

Good writing is essentially clear thinking made visible.  - Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.  - Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel. - Ambrose Bierce

Genealogy: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. - Ambrose Bierce

Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. - Ambrose Bierce

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. (1842-?1914 - American journalist and writer) - Ambrose Bierce

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.  - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. - Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. - Amelia Earhart Putnam

New year is the new way of inviting transformation, abundance and prosperity to every life. - Amit Ray

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth. - Amit Ray

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents. - Amos Parrish

Memory feeds imagination. - Amy Tan

Tell your people, that since we were promised we should never be moved, we have been moved five times.  - An Indian Chief, 1876

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.  - Anais Nin (from Henry and June)

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices. - Anatole France

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. - Anatoly Karpov

Walking down the road of time, we may stop at a milepost and turn around to look where we have been. (Texas artist, quotation appeared in appeared in the February 1995 issue of SOUTHWEST ART) - Ancel Nunn

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. - Ancient Proverb

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination.  - Ancient Proverb

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. - Andre Breton

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without conflicts. - Andre Maurois

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent. - Andre Maurois

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so. - Andrea Dworkin

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be- to be through her son, to live through her son. - Andrea Dworkin

The art of creation is older than the art of killing. - Andrei Voznesensky

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself the master of that line. - Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. - Andrew Carnegie

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. - Andrew Carnegie

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie

It should be our purpose in life to see that each of us makes such a contribution as will enable us to say that we, individually and collectively, are a part of the answer to the world problem and not part of the problem itself.  - Andrew Cordier

One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. - Andrew Jackson

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic... - Message to Congress, 1868 - Andrew Johnson

Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation. - Andrew Murray

We have a God who delights in impossibilities. - Andrew Murray

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents. - Andrew S. Grove

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it. - Andy Rooney

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. - Angela Carter

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art. - Angela Carter

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept. - Angela Davis

Throughout the years of your life you will face many challenges, remember that you can climb the highest mountain, drive through the roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or even sail across the roughest waters. It is only destined by your attitude where you will end up in life. The most important thing is don't let yourself get lost in the crowd. - Angela Duvall

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. - Angela Y. Davis

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends, but there's nothing like seeing your history in the faces of your friends.  - Ani DiFranco

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. - Anita Brookner

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." - Ann Landers

In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. - Ann Landers

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. - Ann Landers

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.  - Anna Garlin Spencer, Woman's Share in Social Cultu

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems. - Anna Garlin Spencer, Woman's Share in Social Cultu

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. (quoted by Carol Clurman in USA Weekend) - Anna Quindlen

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. - from 'A Short Guide to a Happy Life' (Random House) - Anna Quindlen

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!  - Anne Frank

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. - Anne Geddes

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.  - Annie Besant

To forgive is holy To forget takes restraint To forget what you forgave is the mark of a true saint.  - Anonoymous

What you become is more important than what you accomplish. - Anonymous

The best parachute folders are those who jump themselves.  - Anonymous

It is easy to laugh; it is so easy to hurt; it takes strength to be kind and gentle. - Anonymous

The real issue is not whether to grow, it is how to grow and for what purpose. - Anonymous

No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood. - Anonymous

Never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten...  - Anonymous

Ulcers aren't the result of what you eat. You get ulcers from what's eating you. - Anonymous

A traveler in ancient Greece, the story goes, met an old man walking along the road and asked him how to get to Mount Olympus. The old man, who turned out to be Socrates, replied: 'Just make sure that every step you take is in that direction.'  - Anonymous

Stop the world! I want to get off!!  - Anonymous

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.  - Anonymous 13-year-old

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so. - Anthony A. Cooper-Lord Shaftesbury

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions that when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. - Anthony Burgess

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. - Anthony Eden

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Successful people ask better questions and as a result they get better answers. - Anthony Robbins

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. - Anthony Robbins

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. - Antoine Bret

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. - Antoine de Saint Éxupéry

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Flight to Arras, 1942)  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. (1860-1904 - Russian author, playwright)  - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Mozart is sweet sunshine. - Antonin Dvorak

Peace is more precious than a piece of land. - Anwar al-Sadat

A friend is known when needed. - Arabian proverb

Fear not the man who fears God. - Arabian proverb

How tight can life be without the space of hope? - Arabian Proverb

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb

A book is a garden carried in the pocket. - Arabian proverb

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. - Arabian proverb

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. - Aretha Franklin

A dog that barks all the time gets little attention. - Argentinan proverb

A man who develops himself is born twice. - Argentinan proverb

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - Ariel and Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization. - Ariel and Will Durant

We praise a man who is angry on the right grounds, against the right persons, in the right manner, at the right moment, and for the right length of time. - Aristotle

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity. - Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle

One should know that living beings are moist and warm...however, old age is dry and cold. - Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. - Aristotle

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. (from the Metaphysics) - Aristotle

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

They [young people] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else. - Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. - Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. - Aristotle

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. - Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle

Anybody can become angry, that's easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that's not within everybody's power. That's not easy. - Aristotle

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. - Arnold Bennett

You will make more friends in a week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year by trying to get other people interested in you. - Arnold Bennett

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into 3 unequal parts: anticipation, recollection, and between them, actual performance.  - Arnold Gingrich

One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world. - Arnold Glasgow

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goal posts are. - Arnold Glasow

Keeping Christmas is good, but sharing it is better. - Arnold Glasow

I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald

The mold out of which good skiers are cast in usually plaster of Paris. - Art Buchwald

What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.  - Arthur Gordon

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person - not only changed, but for the better. - Arthur Gordon

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self. - Arthur Helps

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.  - Arthur James Balfour

Enthusiasm moves the world. - Arthur James Balfour

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Arthur Koestler

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. - Arthur Murphy

We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams- World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams; We are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, it seems. - Arthur O'Shaunghessy

The error of optimism dies in the crisis, but in dying it gives birth to an error of pessimism. The new error is born not an infant, but a giant. - Arthur Pigou

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

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. - Arthur Schopenhauer

A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader. - Arthur W. Newcomb

Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

You must act as if it is impossible to fail. - Ashanti Proverb

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. - Ashleigh Brilliant

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.  - Ashley Montagu

Your emperor may be a great prince; I do not doubt it, seeing that he has sent his subjects so far across the waters; and I am willing to treat him as a brother. As for your pope of whom you speak, he must be mad to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him. As for my faith, I will not change it. Your own God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children. {On hearing Pope Alexander VI had declared Peru to be a possession of Spain. - The word Inca means "Children of the Sun" - "Sukay" is a Quechua word meaning 'to open the earth and prepare it for planting'.}  - Atahualpa, Inca Chief

Use new drugs quickly, while they still work. - attributed to Trousseau

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. - Audrey Hepburn

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. - August Strindberg

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. - August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.] - Auguste Rodin

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

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all. - Augusten Burroughs

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see? - Augustine

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. - Austin O'Malley

Nobody cares how much you know til they know how much you care. - Author unknown

I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't. - Author Unknown

Faith has no questions; doubt has no answers.  - Author Unknown

Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored. - Author Unknown

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.  - Author Unknown

If you knew who walked beside you, you would never fear.  - Author Unknown

I complained i had no shoes till i saw a man that had no feet.  - Author Unknown

Let your mistakes be a comma, and not a period. - Author Unknown

Meekness is giving in to God; weakness is giving into self. - Author Unknown

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy! - Author Unknown

A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless.  - Author Unknown

In Italy, a woman can have a face like a train wreck if she's a blonde.  - Author Unknown

Don't worry - Be happy. - Avatar Meher Baba

Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty. - Ayn Rand

If physical force is to be barred from social relationships, men need an institution charged with the task of protecting their rights under an objective code of rules. This is the task of a government - of a proper government - its basic task, its only moral justification and the reason why men do need a government. A government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of physical force under objective control - i.e., under objectively defined laws. - Ayn Rand

It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary. - Ayn Rand

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. - Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand

A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. - Ayn Rand

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it. - Ayn Rand

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. - Ayn Rand

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism. {1946} - Ayn Rand

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin. - Ayn Rand

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand

All work is an act of philosophy. - Ayn Rand

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. - Ayn Rand

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it. - Ayn Rand

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. - Ayn Rand

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: "I." - Ayn Rand

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. {from "The Comprachicos"} - Ayn Rand

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. - Ayn Rand

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as a man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment - so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment not to escape the consequences. - Ayn Rand

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. - Ayn Rand

Howard Roark laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff... {opening line from 'The Fountainhead'} - Ayn Rand

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens' protection against the government. - Ayn Rand

In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind. - Ayn Rand

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of "equilibrium" that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. - Ayn Rand

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.  - Ayn Rand

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.  - Ayn Rand

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man. - Ayn Rand

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. - Ayn Rand

We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something -- and what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason, and a view of man as a rational being. - Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.  - Ayn Rand

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. - Ayn Rand

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices. - Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. - Ayn Rand

Just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others - and, therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. - Ayn Rand

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. - Ayn Rand

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. - Ayn Rand

I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones; and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived.  - B. D. Gulledge

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. - B.C. Forbes

Upon our children - how they are taught - rests the fate - or fortune - of tomorrow's world. - B.C. Forbes

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. - Ba Jin

Each new day presents us with the opportunity to live as though we never live before. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is promisory. Live today. That's all you've got. (written July 9, 2001) - Babatunde A Fajimi

It is not over, even in the grave. (written on July 1, 2001) - Babatunde Ayoola Fajimi (Lagos, Nigeria)

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. (from Festus) - Bailey

We live by information, not by sight. - Baltasar Gracian

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. (speech, Feb. 5, 2008) - Barack Obama

I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. (March 23, 2008) - Barack Obama

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics. (MSNBC interview, Sep. 25, 2006) - Barack Obama

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody's son. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted -- or at least, most of the time. (2004 Democratic convention) - Barack Obama

...because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are... - Barbara Coloroso

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves. - Barbara Corcoran

No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children. - Barbara Ehrenreich

Condoms should be marketed in three sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super-colossal - so men don't have to go in and ask for the small. - Barbara Seaman

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. - Barnaby Keeney

If the way which, as I have shown, lead hither seems very difficult, it can nevertheless be found. I must indeed be difficult, since it is so seldom discovered; for if salvation lay ready to hand and could be discovered. without great labor, how could it be possible that it should be neglected almost by everybody? But all noble things are as difficult as they are rare. - - Baruch Spinoza

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them. - Basil King

The loving are the daring. - Bayard Taylor

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours. - Beatrice Vincent

I shall tell you a tale of four rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter. - Beatrix Potter

By living fully, recognizing that all we do is by His power, we honor God; He in turn blesses us. - Becky Laird

It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.  - Belgian Proverb

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. - Bella Lewitzky

Though the stock market functions as a voting machine in the short run, it acts as a weighing machine in the long run. - Ben Graham

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. - Ben Hogan

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. - Ben Hogan

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. - Ben Lindsey

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. (16th century philosopher) - Benedict Spinoza

To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten

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

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

Life is too short to be little. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.  - Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is the trustee of prosperity. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. (1804-1881, British Prime Minister) - Benjamin Disraeli

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. {At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776} - Benjamin Franklin

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. - Benjamin Franklin

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. - Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting for the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. {Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775} - Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. - Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace. {Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773} - Benjamin Franklin

God helps them that help themselves. {Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757} - Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. - Benjamin Franklin

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. {Letter to M. Leroy, 1789} - Benjamin Franklin

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. - Benjamin Franklin

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. {Historical Review of Pennsylvania} - Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.  - Benjamin Franklin

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. - Benjamin Franklin

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. - Benjamin Franklin

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.  - Benjamin Franklin

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. - Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. - Benjamin Franklin

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. {Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772} - Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. - Benjamin Franklin

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals, courtesy, to inferiors, nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. - Benjamin Franklin

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin

Time is money. - Benjamin Franklin

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. - Benjamin Franklin

Keep you eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. - Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. - Benjamin Franklin

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Keep conscience clear, then never fear. - Benjamin Franklin

Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice. - Inaugural Address, 1889 - Benjamin Harrison

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done. - Benjamin Morrell

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner. - Benjamin Whichcote

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? - from "Inside the Actors Studio" (Bravo) - Bernadette Peters

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. - Bernard Bailey

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.  - Bernard Baruch

To Trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. - Bernard Edmonds

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. - Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

We didn't come over on the same ship, but were all in the same boat. - Bernard M. Baruch

To me - old age is 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination. - Bernard M. Baruch

It has become increasingly difficult to keep abreast of and to assimilate the investigative reports which accumulate day after day. My friend. . .was ill at ease because he felt unable to control even the area of his own discipline; one suffocates, he once told me, through exposure to the massive body of rapidly growing information. (German Surgeon 1872)  - Bernhard von Langenbeck

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. - Bertolt Brecht

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.  - Bertrand Russell

I may have thought the road to a world of free and happy human beings shorter than it is proving to be, but I was not wrong in thinking that it is worth while to live with a view to bringing it nearer. - Bertrand Russell

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? - Bertrand Russell

Change is one thing, progress another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell

Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living.  - Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. - Bertrand Russell

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

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.  - Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. - Bertrand Russell

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

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others. - Bertrand Russell, "Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. - Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.  - Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomis

If it's nothing more than a smile - give that away and keep on giving it. - Beth Brown

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?" - Bette Midler

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. - Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.  - Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963

Our thanksgiving today should include those things which we take for granted. - Betty Fuhrman

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. - Betty Rollin

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. - Beverly Nichols

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills

The family is the essential presence - the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it. (in the New Yorker) - Bill Buford

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time. - Bill Clinton

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither. - Bill Clinton

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. - Bill Cosby

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.  - Bill Cosby

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. - Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.  - Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. - Bill Gates

640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, in 1981

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.  - Bill Vaughn

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as good as they used to be. - Bill Vaughn

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

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. - Billy Graham

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. - Billy Joel

They say there's a heaven for those who await... some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints... the sinners are much more fun.  - Billy Joel

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. - Billy Joel

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there's no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal. - Binney

I am wishing for you this day a happy Christmas. I wish you all laughter; and pure joy, a merry heart and a clear conscience, and love. - Bishop Remington

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you. - Bishop Steere

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.  - Bishop W.C. Magee

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. - Blaise Pascal

What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.  - Blaise Pascal

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. - Blaise Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. - Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in this world. - Blaise Pascal

Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them, not contrary to them. - Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. - Blaise Pascal

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life. - Blaise Pascal

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. - Blaise Pascal

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.  - Blaise Pascal

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. - Bob Dylan

For the times they are a-changin'. - Bob Dylan

... You do what you must do, and you do it well. - Bob Dylan

That's getting a little too closer to home. (on hearing that a foul ball hit his mother) - Bob Feller

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage. - Bob Hope

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. - Bob Hope

Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge so as to meet successfully the emergencies of life. Men may acquire knowledge, but wisdom is a direct gift from God. - Bob Jones

I led the league in 'Go get 'em next time.' - Bob Uecker

The best work is done in defiance of management. - Bob Woodward

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one hand. - Bobby Jones

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. - Bobby Jones

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts. - Booker T. Washington

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. - Booker T. Washington

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.  - Booker T. Washington

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. - Booth Tarkington

Life is like an echo. We get from it what we put in to it and, just like an echo, it often gives us much more. - Boris Lauer-Leonardi

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing gold, happiness can be learned. - Boris Sokoloff

Our first and last love is - self-love. - Bovee

Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives and the best foundation for the success of a man. - Bradford Merrill

He who walks the path in search of enlightenment shall find it. He who walks the path in search of doubt will find it. Be sure you know what you are looking for before you try and find it. - Brandon Lum

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

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life.  - Brian Andreas

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow is you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.  - Brian Tracy

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. - Brian Tracy

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. - Brian Tracy

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.  - Brigham Young

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. - Broadway musical "Rent"

No other road, no other way, no day but today.  - Broadway musical "Rent"

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. - Brooke Foss Wescott

Act with God in the greatest simplicity. Speak to Him frankly and plainly. Implore His assistance in your affairs just as they are happening; He will never fail to grant it. - Brother Lawrence

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Brougham

Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.  - Bruce Barton

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things. - Bruce Barton

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.  - Bruce Springsteen

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent. - Bruno Jasienski

To him who in love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. (from Thanatopsis) - Bryant

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Fuller

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.  - Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. - Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. - Buddha

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Buddha

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it... Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide. - Buddhist Aphorism

You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are, and you will not find that person anywhere.  - Buddhist Expression

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it. - Buddy Holly

Each of us, whether we have anything to do with children or not, are directly effected by how the are treated. - Bumper Sticker

It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you. - Bureau of Social Hygiene study, 1928.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hills

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. - Burton Rascoe

If you think of vision and mission as an organization's head and heart, the values it holds are its soul. (from 'Making Common Sense Common Practice') - Buzotta

I love not man the less, but nature more. - Byron

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale. - Byron Langfeld

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them. - C. Everett Koop

A strategy that cannot be evaluated in terms of whether of not it is being achieved is simply not a viable or even useful strategy. - C. H. Roush and B. C. Ball

I opine..."Judicious mothers will always keep in mind, that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every child's library."  - C. Lenox Redmond

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. - C. Malesherbes

I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun--not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - C. S. Lewis

Kittens are treated to houses well heated And pigs are protected by pens; But a camel comes in handy wherever its sandy... - C.E. Carryl

If peace be in the heart the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty. - C.F. Richardson

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: If you pursue happiness you'll never find it. - C.P. Snow

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity of honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. - C.S. Lewis

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. - C.S. Lewis

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.  - C.S. Lewis

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. - C.S. Lewis

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government... Economy is always a guarantee of peace. - Calvin Coolidge

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is business. - Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. - Calvin Coolidge

Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin

Rain does not fall on one roof alone. - Cameroonian Proverb

We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.  - Canassatego

They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.  - Captain James

There are no office hours for leaders. - Cardinal J. Gibbons

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. - Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. - Carl Jung

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

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. - Carl Jung

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl Jung

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

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.' - Carl Jung

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. - Carl Rogers

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. - Carl Sagan

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. - Carl Sandburg

Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands -- and goes to work. - Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. - Carl Sandburg

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.  - Carnegie, Dale

Bitterness is the poison we drink hoping to kill someone else. - Carol Gemmell

I never go to the podium alone. I always take a variety of people with me. One time it might be Golda Meir or Dorothy Parker. It is often Eleanor Roosevelt and sometimes it is my grandmother. - from the book, 'The Last Word' - Carol Warner

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. - Caroline Bird

A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. (from 'Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear' - Nelson) - Carolyn Coats

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. {from Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, 1973}  - Carolyn Heilbrun

Some love stories aren't epic novels — some are short stories, but that doesn't make them any less filled with love. - Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker)

They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style. - Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker)

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself. - Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker)

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. - Carrie Fisher

For 'Star Wars' they had me tape down my breasts, because there are no breasts in space. - Carrie Fisher

I think making love is the best form of exercise. - Cary Grant

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. - Casey Stengel

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. - Casey Stengel

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

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. - Catherine Drinker Bowen

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. - Cato the Elder

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Cato the Elder

Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all, and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time. - Cecelia Bartholomew

Remember you are a star. Never go across the alley even to dump garbage unless you are dressed to the teeth. - Cecil B. de Mille

Good actors are good because of the things they can tell us without talking. When they are talking, they are the servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. - Cedrick Hardwicke

The sunrise has never failed us yet. - Celia Baxter

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying. - Cervantes

We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese

The fourth dentist caved, and now they're all recommending Trident. - Chandler Bing from Friends

God has a purpose for everything we face in life. No matter how screwed up and terrible our situations may be; we can find rest and peace just knowing that some day down the road, a more mature person will look back with a smile and know why the trials were necessary.  - Charity Kauffman

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure. - Charles Allen

Teenage boy to father: "Here's my report card and an impressive list I've compiled of entrepreneurs who never finished high school." (from The Wall Street Journal) - Charles Almon

Our character is a reflection of the friends we keep. - Charles B. Goranson

It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.  - Charles Baudelaire

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. - Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. - Charles Caleb Colton

Making an issue of little things is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness. One's personal pride is felt to be vitally injured by surrender, but there is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. It shows small confidence in one's own nature to fear that compromise lessens self-control. To consider constantly the comfort and happiness of another is not a sign of weakness but of strength. - Charles Conrad

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin

If the misery of our poor is caused not by the laws of nature, but by our great institutions, great is our sin.  - Charles Darwin

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. - Charles de Gaulle

Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me… and I do not have to answer back. - Charles De Gaulle

One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. - Charles De Gaulle

Heaven knows we need never be afraid of our tears, for they are the rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (from 'Great Expectations') - Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. - Charles Dickens

Please, sir, I want some more. (from 'Oliver Twist') - Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life. (from 'David Copperfield') - Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape. (from 'Great Expectations') - Charles Dickens

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 going 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. {from A Tale of Two Cities} - Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world... who lightens the burden of it for any one else. (from 'Our Mutual Friend') - Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told. - Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens

They lied to you, sold you ideas of good and evil, gave you distrust of your body and shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization.  - Charles Donaldson

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles du Bois

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him. - Charles Dudley Warner

The Wright Brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Charles F. Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. - Charles F. Kettering

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.  - Charles F. Kettering

God is with us, and His power is around us. - Charles H. Spurgeon

We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer. - Charles H. Townes

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. - Charles Hole

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. - Charles Kingsleigh

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. (from A Farewell to Tobacco) - Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage. - Charles Luckman

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles M. Schulz

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles M. Schwab

Freedom is a system based on courage. - Charles Peguy

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree. - Charles R. Swindoll

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness. - Charles R. Swindoll

It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray. - Charles R. Swindoll

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily. - Charles R. Swindoll

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! - Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I. - Charles R. Swindoll

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments." - Charles R. Swindoll

Doubly rich is the man still boyish enough to play, laugh and sing as he carries and emanates sunshine along a friendly road. - Charles R. Wiers

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap character. Sow character and you reap destiny.  - Charles Reade

Charles Schulz leaves a wife, two sons, three daughters, and a little round-headed boy with an extraordinary pet dog. {Obituary for Charles Schulz} - Charles Schulz

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. - Charles Schulz

Begin to make the kind of investment of personal time which will assure that those who come after us will live as well. - Charles W. Bray III

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne. - Charles W. Eliot, Harvard President - 1877

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. - Charles Wesley

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. - Charles William Stubbs

To get the best results, you must talk to your vegetables. - Charles, Prince of Wales

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. - Charlie Brown

In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin

You are what you love, not what loves you. - Charlie Kaufman

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them. - Charlie Sheen

The greatest aid to adult education is children. - Charlie T. Jones and Bob Phillips

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.  - Charlotte Bronte

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. - Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Art, it's a bridge between heaven and earth. - Charmion von Wiegand (1886-1983)

Fitness: If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a good body. - Cher

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.  - Cher

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.  - Cherokee Expression

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

The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower on t

No higher or more assuring proof could exist of the strength and permanence of popular government than the fact that though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain... - Inaugural Address, 1881 - Chester Alan Arthur

I regard golf as an expensive way of play marbles. - Chesterton

Real wisdom comes from self-realisation. - Chew Nai Chee

The strange thing is everyone is born with no intention to serve but to be served. - Chew Nai Chee

The headmaster governs. The schoolteacher teaches. And let the pupils exercise creativity. - Chew Nai Chee

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. - Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. - Chief Justice John Marshall

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate. - Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. "We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank.  - Chief Maquinna, Nootka

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. - Chief Seattle

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark. - Chinese proverb

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their rightful names. - Chinese Proverb

Nobody's family can hang out the sign, "Nothing the matter here." - Chinese proverb

To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root. - Chinese Proverb

Happiness is something to do, something to love, something to hope for.  - Chinese proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.  - Chinese Proverb

Those who remove mountains begin by carrying away small stones. - Chinese proverb

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese proverb

It is the beautiful bird that gets caged. - Chinese proverb

Consider the past and you shall know the future. - Chinese Proverb

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. - Chinese proverb

One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.  - Chinese proverb

Behind an able man there are always other able men. - Chinese proverb

Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past. - Chinese proverb

Man must sit in chair with mouth open for very long time before roast duck fly in - Chinese Proverb

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. - Chinese proverb

Never answer a letter while you are angry. - Chinese proverb

Yeah, I can go to my right and my left. That's because I'm amphibious. (commenting on his ability to drive to the basket) - Chris Washburn

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. - Christian Dior

Who you are today is a product of what you did yesterday. Who you are tomorrow is a product of what you did today...make every second count! - Christie Jean-Baptiste

Better by far that you should forget and smile, than you should remember and be sad. - Christina Rossetti

Love Came Down at Christmas: Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign. Love shall be our token, Love be yours, and love be mine, Love to God and all men, Love for plea and gift and sign. - Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. - Christine Frankland

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. - Christine Frankland

There will always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.  - Christopher Fry

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. - Christopher Morley

Dancing is wonderful training for girls; it's the first place you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. - Christopher Morley

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires too much attention.  - Christopher Morley

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. - Christopher Morley

The plural of spouse is spice. - Christopher Morley

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.  - Christopher Morley

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley

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

You know my temperature's risin', The Jukebox's blowin' a fuse, My heart's beatin' rhythm, My soul keeps a singin' the blues - Roll over Beethoven  - Chuck Berry

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. - Cicero

A friend is a second self. - Cicero

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. - Cicero

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. - Cicero

Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. - Cicero

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. - Cicero

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right. - Cicero

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. - Cicero

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them. - Cicero

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of a man's life. - Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Cicero

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. - Cicero

No sane man will dance. - Cicero

A man full of courage is also full of faith. - Cicero

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.  - Cindy Garner

But if God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain? - Clare Boothe Luce

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.  - Clarence Darrow, lecture, University of Chicago, 1

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 that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925

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 that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee,

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. - Clarice Lispector

Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled, and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven... (from "Women Who Run With The Wolves")  - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. {from 'Gone with the Wind' - novel written by Margaret Mitchell} - Clark Gable

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable. - Claude Taylor

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. - Clementine Paddleford

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. - Cliff Fadiman

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. - Clyde Campbell

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)

So I want to warn you laddy, Though I think you're perfectly swell, That my heart belongs to daddy, And my daddy he treats it so well. - Cole Porter

In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, God knows anything goes. - Cole Porter

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. - Coleman Cox

Solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom. - Colette

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

The lovesick, the betrayed and the jealous all smell alike. - Colette

Either move or be moved. - Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. - Colin Powell

Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. - Colleen Hoover

He that strives not to stem his anger's tide, does a wild horse without a bridle ride. - Colley Cibber

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. - Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. - Confucius

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. - Confucius

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. - Confucius

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. - Confucius

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. - Confucius

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. - Conrad Aiken

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. ~ - Conrad Hilton

Expectations are the thief of God's blessings. - Constance K. Hardy

What is difficult to endure is sweet to recall.  - Continental Proverb

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people. - Cornel West

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. - Cornel West

We are not a post-war generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming. (1892-1983) - Corrie ten Boom

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. - Craig Raine

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.  - Craig Shaw Gardner

Every moment in planning saves 3 or 4 in execution. (Greenwalt is the former president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours) - Crawford Greenwalt

Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are. - Creole proverb

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there. - Cullen Hightower

Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos. - Cullen Hightower

Girls just wanna have fun. - Cyndi Lauper

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. - Cyril Connolly

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.  - Cyril Connolly

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.  - Cyrus Curtis

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but only the second half. He helps those who help themselves. - Cyrus H.K. Curtis

Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it, if he wants a safe seat in the audience - let him read someone else.  - D. H. Lawrence

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says "Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me." And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul. - D. H. Lawrence

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. (from 'The Ship of Death') - D. H. Lawrence

An honor system, properly conceived, is not the concrete representation of the wills of a collection of saints - our honest nature writ large. If it were, it would be nothing else than a bizarre superfluity. It is instead the proclamation and legislation of the intentions of a community of persons united in mutual agreement to oppose those inclinations and strategies that they otherwise might give in to and adopt to further their individual ends. The members of groups that create honor systems say: We are, all of us, liars, cheaters, theives, - but we want to live another way. We think we can, with others 'help.' (from Rethinking Honor. J. Thought. 17 (1982):3-6) - D. Heim

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment. - Dag Hammarskjold

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. - Dag Hammarskjold

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.  - Dalai Lama

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. - Dale Carnegie

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself - forget about the impression you are trying to make. - Dale Carnegie

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

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told. - Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. - Dale Carnegie

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. - Dale Carnegie

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. - Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.  - Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. - Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? - Dame Edith Evans

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. - Dame Mary Gilmore

An egotist is a person who plays too big a part in his own life. - Dan Bennett

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton. (on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King) - Dan Duva

A lot of guilt comes from the feeling that we have more influence than we really do. - Dan Gottlieb

Baseball would be a better game, if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drives. - Dan Jenkins

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. - Daniel Barenboim

...we have to shake off the ancient tyranny of two misconceptions about education that what is taught is learned; and what is not taught is not learned. - Daniel Federman

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. - Daniel H. Burnham

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

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.  - Daniel Kahneman

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Daniel L. Reardon

People go through two basic stages of life: Young trying to be older and older trying to be young. - Daniel Neal

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes. - Daniel R. Scroggin

Fish and guests smell at three days old. - Danish proverb

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

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. - Danny McGoorty

A race track is a place where WINDOWS clean people...  - Danny Thomas

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven. - Dante Alighieri

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.  - Dave Barry

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down tree with your face. - Dave Barry

How could I have been anyone other than me? - Dave Matthews

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.  - Dave Matthews Band

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. - Dave Weinbaum

Happiness is living by inner purpose. - David Augsburger

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding colour and suspense to all our lives. - David Boorstin

If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist. I think aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been. - David Bowie

Strive to be like a well-regulated watch, of pure gold, with open face, busy hands, and full of good works.  - David C. Newquist

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance. - David Deida

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. - David Grayson

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.  - David Hare

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. - David Hockney

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. - David Hume

Good physicians detect events; better physicians detect patterns of events; the best physicians detect the systems that produce the patterns of events. - David Leach, MD

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - David O. McKay

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. - David O. McKay

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. - David Seabury

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.  - David Starr Jordan

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. - David Starr Jordan

The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for one another's little lapses. - David Storey

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - De Lamartine

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them. - Dean Rusk

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. - Dean William R. Inge

Customer service doesn't come from a manual, it comes from the heart. When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is NO wrong way - if it comes from the heart. - Debbie ("Mrs.") Fields

The horse is a companion like a dog or cat and can go places a car cannot. - Debbie Britt-Hay

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.  - Deborah Norville

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

A treaty, in the minds of our people, is an eternal word. Events often make it seem expedient to depart from the pledged word, but we are conscious that the first departure creates a logic for the second departure, until there is nothing left of the word. {1961 - American Indian Chicago Conference}  - Declaration of Indian Purpose

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. - Dee Hock (from Visa)

If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, "Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.  - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile.  - Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Life unexamined, is not worth living. - Democritus

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Denis Diderot

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. - Desmond Morris

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. - Desmond Tutu

Be strong! Be courageous!...Don't be afraid, for the Lord will go before you and will be with you; he will not fail nor forsake you. - Deuteronomy 31:6,8

I can't enjoy the present for documenting the past and planning for the future. - Diane Lawrence

When I played pro-football, I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. - Dick Butkus

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things. - Dick Van Dyke

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Diderot

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race. - Dio Lewis

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. - Dionysius the Elder

Oh, dear. I wish I hadn't cried so much. (Alice, floating in an ocean of her tears; from Alice in Wonderland, 1951) - Disney

Oh, aren't you all darling (Princess Eilonwy, on first seeing the Fair Folk, from 'The Black Cauldron,' 1985) - Disney

If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all!! (The Beast, frustrated when Belle refuses his dinner invitation, from 'Beauty and the Beast,' 1991) - Disney

It's a bug-eat-bug world out there. Someone could get hurt. (Hopper, from 'A Bug's Life, 1998) - Disney

You're gonna make one swell bear. Why, you even sing like me. (Baloo, from 'The Jungle Book' 1967) - Disney

It's not much, but it's got a great view. (Aladdin, about his living quarters) - Disney - Aladdin, 1992

I love the way your foul little mind works. (Jafar, to Iago) - Disney - Aladdin, 1992

Oy! Ten thousand years can give you such a crick in the neck! (The Genie, upon being released from the lamp) - Disney - Aladdin, 1992

You didn't hop far enough. (Thumber speaking to Bambi) - Disney - Bambi, 1942

Why, it's the young price! Bambi! My, my, how you've changed. (Friend Owl, seeing Bambi for the first time after a long winter) - Disney - Bambi, 1942

I'll have Belle for my wife. Make no mistake about that! - Gaston, the bullheaded villain - Disney - Beauty and the Beast, 1991

It may be a trifle snug today. You know how it is, dancing all night. (Drizella, when trying on the glass slipper) - Disney - Cinderella, 1950

Aw, gee, 'Dumbo, I think your ears are beautiful. Sure! As a matter of fact, I think they're very decorative. (Timothy, cheering up his new friend) - Disney - Dumbo, 1941

What's crying get you, anyhow? Nothing but the hiccups. (Timothy) - Disney - Dumbo, 1941

He was a bright young lad, very anxious to learn the business. As a matter of fact, he was a little bit too bright, because he started practicing some of the boss's best magic tricks before learning how to control them. (Narrator Deems Taylor, of the Sorcerer's Apprentice) - Disney - Fantasia, 1940

"Phil, what do you call that thing." "Two words: Am-scary!" (Hercules and Phil, on first meeting the Hydra) - Disney - Hercules, 1997

Didn't know you had a famous father, did you? Surprise! (Zeus) - Disney - Hercules, 1997

Just follow me. Out the window, around the dumbbells, you lift up the back wall, and we're gone. (Meg, planning a break for Hercules from Phil's rigorous schedule) - Disney - Hercules, 1997

He's a magnificent horse, with the brain of a bird. (Zeus, of Pegasus) - Disney - Hercules, 1997

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy... to wit... the wag of a dog's tail. (quotation by Josh Billings) - Disney - Lady and the Tramp, 1955

Anything for you, Mary Poppins. You're our favorite person. (The penguin waiters) - Disney - Mary Poppins, 1964

Who spit in her bean curd? (Grandmother Fa, on seeing the bad-tempered Matchmaker) - Disney - Mulan, 1998

You are a lucky bug. (Mushu, after Cri-Kee survives another disaster) - Disney - Mulan, 1998

My ancestors sent a little lizard to help me? (Mulan, unimpressed by the diminutive dragon Mushu) - Disney - Mulan, 1998

I hope you won't find me rude, but do you happen to know out of whose bowl you're eating? (Georgette) - Disney - Oliver and Company, 1988

We never had a cat in the gang before. We can use all the help we can get. (Fagin) - Disney - Oliver and Company, 1988

Well, now, that's more like it! The most beautiful creature on four legs. (Pongo, on first seeing Perdita) - Disney - One Hundred and One Dalmations, 1961

My only true love, darling - I live for furs. I worship furs. After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn't? (The detestable Cruella De Vil) - Disney - One Hundred and One Dalmations, 1961

Hey Horace! They're fighting dirty! (Jasper Badun, who doesn't know any other way to fight) - Disney - One Hundred and One Dalmations, 1961

There it is, Wendy! Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning! (Peter Pan, showing Wendy the way to Never Land) - Disney - Peter Pan, 1953

She is basically a jealous woman, and that is what motivates all her action. (Animator Marc Davis, of Tinker Bell) - Disney - Peter Pan, 1963

No actor ever identified with the part he was playing more than I. (Walt Disney, on playing Pan as a child) - Disney - Peter Pan, 1963

My, my. Just as I thought. A slight touch of monetary complications with bucolic semi-lunar contraptions of the flying trapezes. (Foulfellow, "diagnosing" Pinocchio) - Disney - Pinocchio, 1940

Why, I can see your name in lights! Lights over six feet high. Uh, what is your name? (Honest John) - Disney - Pinocchio, 1940

You mean to tell me you take orders from a grasshopper? (Lampwick) - Disney - Pinocchio, 1940

Look at him, Figaro. He almost looks alive. Wouldn't it be nice if he was a real boy. (Geppetto) - Disney - Pinocchio, 1940

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. (John Smith, to Pocahontas) - Disney - Pocahnotas, 1995

Hypnotism can rid you of your psychosis-sis s-so easily. (Sir Hiss) - Disney - Robin Hood, 1973

I've been robbed. (Prince John, stating the obvious) - Disney - Robin Hood, 1973

You poor, simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me, the mistress of evil! (Maleficent) - Disney - Sleeping Beauty, 1959

Next thing ya know, she'll be tyin' your beards up in pink ribbons and smellin' ya up with stuff called 'perfoom'! - spoken by Grumpy - Disney - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937

What's a little swinger like you doing on our side of town? {Scat Cat} - Disney - The Aristocats (1970)

Why monsieur, your name seems to cover all of Europe. (Duchess, to Abraham DeLacy Guiseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley) - Disney - The Aristocats, 1970

Why should you be first? Because I'm a lady, that's why. (Toulouse and Marie) - Disney - The Aristocats, 1970

Adelaide! What's that music? Sounds like a gang of swinging hepcats! (Georges Hautecourt, on first hearing the Scat Cats play) - Disney - The Aristocrats, 1970

Well, how's this for a hunting dog? He's just a little runt now, but he'll grow. - Disney - The Fox and The Hound, 1981 - Amos

Oh, Felicia, my precious, my baby. Did daddy's little honey bun enjoy her tasty treat? (Ratigan) - Disney - The Great Mouse Detective, 1986

You're the most wonderful father in the whole world. (spoken by Olivia) - Disney - The Great Mouse Detective, 1986

Remember, Quasimodo,... this is your sanctuary. (Frollo) - Disney - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996

Many strange stories are told about the jungles of India, but none so strange as the story of a small boy named Mowgli. (Bagheera) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Come on, Baggy, get with the beat! (Baloo, to Bagheera) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you, please. Both eyes, if you please. (Kaa, hypnotizing Bagheera) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Man, that's what I call a swinging party. (Baloo, seeing King Louie's gathering) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

I love that kid. I love him like he was my own cub. (spoken by Baloo) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

You have spirit for one so small. And such spirit is deserving of a sporting chance. (Shere Khan) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

A dusty muzzle. Soldier, remember: In battle that trunk could save your life. Take care of it, my man. (Colonel Hathi, inspecting the troops) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Here kitty, kitty, kitty. (Banzai,to Simba) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. (Rafiki) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

These are rare delicacies. (Timon, of the bugs he serves up for Simba to eat) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom. (Mufasa) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

Kid, what's eating you? Nothing. He's at the top of the food chain. (Pumbaa and Timon, talking to (and about) Simba) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules. (King Triton) - Disney - The Little Mermaid, 1989

Oh, I never fight. I never did. It doesn't agree with me. (The dragon) - Disney - The Reluctant Dragon, 1941

Has anyone considered trying 'Open Sesame'? (Jake, just before the door they're digging under opens) - Disney - The Rescuers Down Under, 1990

I'm lost! I'm a lost toy! (Woody, left behind at the gas station) - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

Do you people still use fossil fuels, or have you discovered crystallic fusion? Well, we have double A's. (Buzz and Woody, discussing power sources) - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

Now, let's all be polite and give whatever is up there a nice, big Andy's room welcome. (Woody, about the new toy on Andy's bed) - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

Blast! This will take weeks to repair. (Buzz, inspecting the damage to his "crashed spaceship") - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

It's awfully hard to be brave when you're such a small animal. - Disney - Winnie the Pooh (Blustery Day), 1968

Why did I ever invite that bear to lunch? Why, oh why, oh why. (Rabbit) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 1966

The first thing to be done is to get rid of that bear; he's gumming up the whole project. (Gopher, unaware that getting rid of Pooh is the whole project) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 1966

I like Rabbit because he uses short, easy words like "How about lunch?" and "Help yourself, Pooh." (Winnie the Pooh, looking for a free lunch) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 1966

Pooh, for a bear of little brain, you sure are a smart one. (Piglet) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, 1974

Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress." - Disraeli

You call it madness, but I call it love. - Don Byas

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down. - Don Delillo

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg

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

The person who has no enemies has no followers. - Don Piatt

If your dream is big enough, the facts don't count.  - Don Ward

The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at. - Donald Marquis

If you are not honest at all, everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred. - Donald Marquis

There are known knowns — there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns — that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know. - Donald Rumsfeld

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. - Donald Trump

You sigh, the song begins; you speak and I hear violins... it's magic! - Doris Day

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.  - Dorothy Day

The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. {from 'God's Garden'} - Dorothy Frances Gurney

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

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

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

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. - Dorothy Parker

The good thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people. - Dorothy S Harper

Inventors and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning - and very often at the end - of their careers. - Dostoevsky

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

No comment (on hearing that he had been voted the most quotable coach in the National Basketball Association) - Doug Moe

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 that states that this has already happened.  - Douglas Adams

What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeak toys? - Douglas Coupland

If quiters never win and winners never quit, who came up with quit while your ahead? - Douglas King Jr.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. - Dr. Benjamin Spock

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.  - Dr. Benjamin Spock

Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life. - Dr. David M. Burns

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. - Dr. James Dobson

God gives people every opportunity to make the right choice. - Dr. James Dobson

The motivation and strength to live a life of purity is a by-product of a spiritual commitment. - Dr. James Dobson

Our imagination always outpaces our technology. The gap between the two is the distance the creative spark must jump in order to ignite our forward momentum. {from his book: Taming the Beast - Choice and Control in the Electronic Jungle - http://www2.jun.alaska.edu/edtech/taming} - Dr. Jason Ohler

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. (1914-1995, Virologist, Discovered The First Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis) - Dr. Jonas Salk

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Trust your hunches. They are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.  - Dr. Laurence J. Peter

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it. (from 'The Secret of Childhood') - Dr. Maria Montessori

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. - Dr. Martin Luther King

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.  - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to be important - that's wonderful. If you want to be great - that's wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness - it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know the second law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love...  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.  - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. - Dr. Paul Dudley White

When you see God face to face... He will hold you accountable for what was entrusted to you. - Dr. Paul Meier

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.  - Dr. Samuel Johnson

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. - Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

Flowers are my music. {quoted by Arthur Stanley, 'Life of Dr. Arnold'} - Dr. Thomas Arnold

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.  - Dr. William Menninger

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. - Dryden

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. - Duke of Buckingham

Publish and be damned. - Duke of Wellington

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories… And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is what I found out about religion: it gives you the courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. - Geneva Conference Address, 1955 - Dwight David Eisenhower

An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. - Dwight Eisenhower

If all that Americans want is security they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. - Dwight Eisenhower

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion. - Dwight Macdonald

The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.  - Dwight Morrow

From my courtside seat, I'm out of control. I'm proud of my acting in many movies, but I think some of my best performances have been on behalf of the Lakers. I remember the Finals in 1985 against Boston. In one game, Larry Bird caught the ball and his foot was over the line. He was right by my seat. I saw it with my own eyes. The ref didn't call it so I went nuts. I started yelling at him, I said, "What an awful call! Didn't you see his foot? It was over the line! What a terrible call! Awful!" The ref looked at me and calmly said, "I've seen all your movies Dyan and they weren't all good ones." - Dyan Cannon

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E. B. White

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - E. E. Cummings

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. - E. L. Doctorow

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 particular path than we have yet got ourselves.  - E. M. Forster

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.  - e.e. cummings

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. - E.E. Cummings

It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl Nightingale

When you return to your boyhood town, you find it wasn't the town you longed for - it was your boyhood. - Earl Wilson

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes I ever knew that tried it. - Early "Red" Blaik

There are roughly three New Yorks... the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable... the New York of the commuter, the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night... the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. - EB White

The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still. - Eben Eugene Rexford

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. - Ecclesiastes 10:12

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. - Ecclesiastes 2:14

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner, destroyeth much good. - Ecclesiastes 9:17,18

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: you know what you are doing but nobody else does. - Ed Howe

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. - Eda J Leshan

It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas. - Eddie Arcaro

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. - Eden Ahbez

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing -- but we all do, and call it Hope. - Edgar Watson Howe

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer. - Edith Wharton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. - Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving. - Edmond Rostand

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backwards to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. - Edmund Burke

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. - Edmund Burke

Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. - Edmund Morrison

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsgar Dijkstra

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.  - Edward A. Navajo

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. - Edward B. Butler

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of lfie before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale

Writers are the main landmarks of the past. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon

I was never less alone than when by myself. - Edward Gibbon

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. - Edward Hennessy

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! - Edward Payson Powell

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. - Edward R. Murrow

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs. - Edward Varese

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. - Edward W. Ziegler

We are all born originals - why is it that so many of us die copies?  - Edward Young

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. - Edwin H. Chapin

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. - Edwin Markham

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of spring! - Edwin Way Teale

Failing to plan is a plan to fail. - Effie Jones

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. - Elaine Gill

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. - Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. - Elbert Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. - Elbert Hubbard

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. - Elbert Hubbard

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. - Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. - Elbert Hubbard

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. - Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. - Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book o

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

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..." (Italian Actress; 1859-1924)  - Eleonora Duse

I do not live in the past, but the past lives in me. (Concentration camp survivor) - Eli Weisel

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. - Elie Wiesel

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.  - Elie Wiesel

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. - Elie Wiesel

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel

Action that is clearly right needs no justification. - Elisabeth Elliot

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. - Eliza Farnham

Women know The way to rear up children (to be just), They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words.  - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Light tomorrow with today.  - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two human loves make one divine. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint. - Elizabeth Kenny

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. (in Elle) - Elizabeth McCracken

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. - Ellen Degeneres

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They say "Because it's such a beautiful animal." There you go! I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres

The life that will be preserved is the life that is freely given in service to God and man. - Ellen G. White

One good turn gets most of the blanket. - Ellenberg

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.  - Elliot Masie

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided. - Elliott Jaques

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.  - Elton John, The Lion King Soundtrack

I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

I am an artist… I am here to live out loud. - Emile Zola

Twilight has always seemed like God's indrawn breath, a pause in the progression of time. (from 'Rising Tides' - Mira Books) - Emilie Richards

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has not taste. - Emily Bronte

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. - Emily Dickinson

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas. - Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.  - Emily Dickinson

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

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson

A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.  - Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that Nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me. - Emily Dickinson

My business is to sing! What difference does it make if no one listens? Perhaps you laugh at me! Perhaps the whole United States are laughing at me too! I can't stop for that! Just to have been made alive is so chief a thing, all else inevitably adds. I find ectasy in living. The mere sense of living is joy enough. Take all away from me, but leave me ecstasy! (from a Dickinson letter in William Luce's script for The Belle of Amherst) - Emily Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves time for little else. - Emily Dickinson

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it. - Emily H. Sell

The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles; where he battles for knowledge and understanding, she contents herself with faith or superstition, or else she makes assumptions. - Emma Jung

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world... (Emmet Fox, 1886-1951, Irish-born Metaphysician) - Emmet Fox

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - English Proverb

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. - English proverb

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. - English Proverb

A joy that is shared is a joy made double. - English Proverb

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. - Enid Bagnold

No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epicetus

Men are not worried by things that happen, but by their thoughts about those things. - Epictetus

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them. - Epictetus

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. - Epictetus

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. - Epictetus

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. - Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. - Epictetus

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.  - Epictetus

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.  - Epictetus, Discourses

Haec ego non multis, sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. (I write this not to the many, but to you only, for you and I are surely enough of an audience for each other.) - Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inhabit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements. - Eric Hoffer

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. - Eric Hoffer

My nuts are like walnuts and if you could crack them for me I will smile and be happy for a while. - Eric P

My favorite place is the shower in the morning. - Eric Peele

Sometimes I feel like a nut... sometimes I don't. - Eric Peele

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.  - Erich Fromm

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm

Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you." - Erich Fromm

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. - Erma Bombeck

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck

People are always asking couples whose marriages have endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.  - Erma Bombeck

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. - Ernest Becker

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. - Ernest Hemingway

Never confuse motion with action. - Ernest Hemingway

Paradise: a beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. - Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. - Ernest Hemingway

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. - Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

There, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelieveably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro. (from The Snows of Kilimanjaro) - Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. - Ernest Hemingway

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. - Ernest Hemingway

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. - Ernest Hemingway

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. - Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. - Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. - Ernest Hemingway

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris when you are young, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. - Ernest Hemingway

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. {from 'The Old Man and The Sea'} - Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.  - Ernest Hemingway

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock." - Ernest Hemingway

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings. - Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. - Ernest Hemingway

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. - Ernest Newman

The simplest schoolboy is not familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed this life. - Ernest Renan

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford

Silence is argument carried out by other means. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. - Ernst Fischer

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. - Errol Flynn

There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity. - Erwin McManus

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks. - Esme Bianco

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars. - Esther Hicks

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'these things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say 'these things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us. - Ethel Merman

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.  - Etienne de Grellet

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. {on his 100th Birthday} - Eubie Blake

We work not to produce but to give value to time. - Eugene Delacroix

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix

If you want to develop your creativity, establish regular work habits. Allow time for the incubation of ideas, and adhere to your individual rhythm. Violations of this rhythm can retard your creative efficiency. - Eugene Raudsepp

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. - Euripedes

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. - Euripedes

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.  - Euripides

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. - Euripides

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. - Euripides

I envy the man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. - Euripides

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. (from Electra, 386) - Euripides (484-406 B.C.)

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity. - Eva Moskowitz

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world. (1875-1941 - English mystic) - Evelyn Underhill

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. - Evelyn Waugh

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. - F. Forrester Church

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement. - F. G. "Buck" Rogers (IBM Corporation)

An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. - F.H. Bradley

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. - Faith Whittlesey

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.  - Father James Keller

The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it. - Felix Adler

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. - Felix Adler

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.  - Felix Adler, "The Ethical Philosophy of Life"

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. - Ferdinand E. Marcos

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.  - Fitzgerald, F. Scott

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - - Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt. - Fletcher Knebel

I use the word "Nursing" for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. (from Notes on Nursing (1860)) - Florence Nightingale

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. (from 'The Measure of My Days') - Florida Scott-Maxwell

He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success. - Floyd V. Filson

If you can't sing good, sing loud. - Forest Gump

Good things come to those who wait But not for those who wait too late.  - Forest Sprague

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian. - Fran Lebowitz

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you. - Fran Leibowitz

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.  - Frances Bacon

To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns. - Frances M. Beal

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. - Francis Bacon

Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity that stirs within us. - Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. - Francis Bacon

To choose time is to save time. - Francis Bacon

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. - Francis Bacon

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. - Francis Bacon

God almighty first planted a garden. {from 'Of Gardens'} - Francis Bacon

All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. - Francis Bacon

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. - Francis Bowen

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. - Francis C. Kelley

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. - Francis De Sales

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. - Francis de Sales

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. - Francis Galton

I didn't really have the time To knock upon her door; To sit and listen whilst she Told me tales I'd heard before. I didn't think I had the time To step out of my way, But I'm so glad I MADE the time To cheer her lonely day. - Francis Gray

I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day. I had so much to accomplish that I didn't have time to pray. Problems tumbled about me; and heavier became each task, "Why doesn't God help me?" I wondered and He answered, "You didn't ask me."  - Francis Gray

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi

The most common criticism made at present by older practitioners is that young graduates have been taught a great deal about the mechanism of disease, but very little about the practice of medicine - or, to put it more bluntly, they are too "scientific" and do not know how to take care of patients. - Francis W. Peabody, MD

One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient. - Francis W. Peabody, MD

It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages. - Francis Wayland

People think of the Golden Rule as something mild and innocuous, like a baby lamb. But when they suffer an infringement of it, they think they've been mauled by a panther. - Francis Wren

God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. - Francois de Fenelon

No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Before desiring something passionately one should inquire into the happiness of the man who possesses it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Francois Mauriac

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out. - Frank A. Clark

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. - Frank Barron

The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move. - Frank Crane

The world is so filled with interesting things to do that the longest human life could not exhaust more than a small fraction of them.  - Frank Gaines

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' (Utah Jazz president, on a former player) - Frank Layden

Pro basketball has turned into Wrestlemania, which is why I like college basketball and high school basketball. Actually, it's why I like baseball. - Frank Layden

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. - Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.  - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a capitalist system; I only wish that someone would try it. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land. {U.S. Supreme Court Justice}  - Frank Murphy

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance. - Frank Swinnerton

Many people have known happiness, but didn't know it when they had it. - Frank Tyger

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth. - Frank Tyger

Happiness comes and goes and is short on staying power. - Frank Tyger

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. - Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER. - Frank Zappa

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

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live 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

Remember, remember always that all of us… are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace, like charity, begins at home. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.  - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. - Four Freedoms Address, 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The most difficult year of marriage is the one you're in. - Franklin P. Jones

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Jones

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions... - Inaugural Address, 1853 - Franklin Pierce

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.  - Franklin, Benjamin

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. {from the short story, 'The Metamorphosis'} - Franz Kafka

...you don't paint the way someone, by observing your life, thinks you have to paint, you paint the way you have to in order to give, that's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving. The question about knowing will naturally be wrong. When you've finished giving, the look surprises you as well as anyone else. (from O'Hara F. Franz Kline talking. Evergreen Review, 2, No. 6. In: Ashton, D, ed. Twentieth-Century Artists on Art. New York, NY: Pantheon Books; 1985.) - Franz Kline

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. - Fred Allen

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. - Fred Allen

I narrow-mindedly outlawed the word "unique." Practically every press release contains it. Practically nothing ever is. - Fred Hechinger

Life, liberty and property do not exist because men made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - Frederick Bastiat

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.  - Frederick Buechner

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. - Frederick Douglass

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.  - Frederick the Great

The time to win a fight is before it starts. - Frederick W. Lewis

Among all human constructions the only ones that avoid the dissolving hands of time are castles in the air. - Frederico de Roberto

A good meal ought to begin with hunger. - French proverb

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. - French Proverb

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind. - French Proverb

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. - French Proverb

Without grace, beauty is an unbaited hook. - French Proverb

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. - Fridtjof Nansen

What matters is not that you have lied to me. What matters is that now I can no longer believe anything you say.  - Friedrich Nietzche

What does not destroy me makes me stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs. - Friedrich Nietzsche

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible... - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Women was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Against boredom even the gods contend in vain. - Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was a bore. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The more state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. - Friedrich von Hayek

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The dog is the only being that loves you more than you love yourself. - Fritz von Unruh

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, That myth is more potent than history, That dreams are more powerful than facts, That hope always triumphs over experience, That laughter is the only cure for grief, And I believe that love is stronger than death.  - Fulghum, Robert

The way not to live a monotonous life is to live for others.  - Fulton J. Sheen

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. - Fulton Sheen

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is much more comforable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.  - G. H. Hardy

No man knows he is young while he is young. - G.K. Chesterton

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. - G.K. Chesterton

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. - G.K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. - G.K. Chesterton

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. - G.K. Chesterton

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - (from the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude') - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. - Gabriel García Márquez

In the shelter of each other, the people live.  - Gaelic Proverb

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper. (from 'Ella Enchanted') - Gail Carson Levine

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking. - Gail Sheehy

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die. (Strauss MB. Commentary. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. 1969;67(Part 2):80) - Galen

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.  - Gandhi

The only tools one needs in life are WD-40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stop.  - Gareth Mark

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. - - Garrison Keillor

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it. - Garrison Keillor

Too many times we stand aside And let the waters slip away 'Til what we put off 'til tomorrow Has now become today So don't you sit upon the shoreline And say you're satisfied Choose to chance the rapids And dare to dance the tides - Garth Brooks

You've got to be tough when consumed by desire, 'cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.  - Garth Brooks

[The Circle] will not be mended as long as the People war among themselves. It will not be mended as long as we try to mend the Sacred Circle with broken Circles. We all need to pray on this...  - Gary Armstrong

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.  - Gaston Bachelard

As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions. - Gay Hendricks

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. - Gelett Burgess

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. - General Douglas MacArthur

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brillance of metaphor to tell you all what they mean.... You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words - Duty - Honor - Country. This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of philosophers: 'Only the dead have seen the end of war.' The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes Duty - Honor - Country. Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. (speech, May 12, 1962, United States Military Academy at West Point) - General Douglas MacArthur

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - General Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. - General Douglas MacArthur

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. - General Douglas MacArthur

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. - General Douglas MacArthur

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton

Always do more than is required of you. - General George S. Patton

If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on. - General George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. - General George S. Patton

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. - General George S. Patton

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - General George S. Patton

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. - General George S. Patton

Retreat, Hell! We're just advancing in another direction. - General O.P. Smith

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. - General Omar Bradley

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - General Omar Bradley

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.  - General Omar Bradley

Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back. - Geoffrey Bocca

Music is the vernacular of the human soul. - Geoffrey Latham

There is no disease that you either have or don't have - except perhaps sudden death and rabies. All other diseases you either have a little or a lot of. - Geoffrey Rose (epidemiologist)

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

R-E-M-O-R-S-E! Those dry Martinis did the work for me: Last night I feel like thirty cents, My eyes are blurred, my coppers hot, I'll try to eat, but I cannot. It is no time for mirth and laughter, The cold, gray dawn of the morning after. - George Ade

I don’t want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance.  - George Balanchine

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. - George Bancroft

Hope is a risk that must be run. - George Bernanos

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. - George Bernard Shaw

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

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? - George Bernard Shaw

Baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket, lawn tennis, puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah. - George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.  - George Bernard Shaw

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.  - George Bernard Shaw

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

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. - George Bernard Shaw

The person I miss most is the one I could have been. - George Bernard Shaw

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

He is always breaking the law. He broke the law when he was born. His parents were not married. - George Bernard Shaw

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. - George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. - George Bernard Shaw

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw

The sound body is the product of the sound mind. - George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. - George Bernard Shaw

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. - George Bird Evans

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.  - George Burns

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men. - George Burns

Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65, I still had pimples. - George Burns

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word. - George C. Lichtenberg

Some people see things that are and ask, why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. - George Carlin

Love is nature's second son. - George Chapman

No physician, sleepless and worried about a patient, can return to the hospital in the midnight hours without feeling the importance of his faith. The dim corridor is silent; the doors are closed. At the end of the corridor in teh glow of the desk lamp, the nurse watches over those who sleep or lie lonely and wait behind closed doors. No physician entering the hospital in these quiet hours can help feeling that the medical institution of which he is part is in essence religious, that it is built on trust. No physician can fail to be proud that he is part of his patient's faith. (Cleveland Clinic surgeon; quotation from 1955) - George Crile, Jr.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. - George E. Woodberry

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt. - George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.  - George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. {from "Felix Holt, The Radical," ch. 48, 1866} - George Eliot

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. - George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. - George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. (journalist, political commentator) - George F. Will

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. - George Gershwin

A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer. - George Gribbon

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. - George Henry Lewes

There is great force hidden in a gentle command. - George Herbert

He that talks much of his happiness summons grief. - George Herbert

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert

All is well with him who is beloved by his neighbors. - George Herbert

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. - Inaugural Address, 1989 - George Herbert Walker Bush

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. - George Horace Lorimer

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women. - George Jean Nathan

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.  - George Jean Nathan

The history of a people is found in its songs. - George Jellinek

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald

We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength... waiting for the endless good which God is always giving as fast as He can get us to take it in. - George MacDonald

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy.  - George MacDonald

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) - George Mallory

To be trusted is always greater a compliment than to be loved. - George Marshall

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy. - George Matthew Adams

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.  - George Matthew Adams

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. - George McGovern

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. - George Moore

Be assured, if you walk with God and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. - George Mueller

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. {from 'Animal Farm'}  - George Orwell

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. - George Orwell

Big Brother is watching you. (from the novel, '1984') - George Orwell

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders. - George P. Burnham

Education: a debt due from present to future generations.  - George Peabody

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. (from A Game of Thrones) - George R.R. Martin

If I set myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? - George S. Clason

The sense of humor is the oil of life's engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes before a hearty laugh.  - George S. Merriam

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. - George S. Patton

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. - George Sand

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.  - George Santayana

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. - George Santayana

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good uses. - George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. - George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. - George Santayana, Scepticism and Animal Faith, 192

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (War as I Knew It, 1947) - George Smith Patton

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. - George Szell

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nations's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. (Inauguration Speech, January 20, 2001) - George W. Bush

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington

Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive. - George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. - George Washington

The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American Army, is growing into fashion. He hopes that the Officers by example as well as influence will endeavor to check it. That both they and the men will know that we can not hope to have the blessings of heaven on our arms if we continue to insult it with our impiety and folly. - George Washington

I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother. - George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. {Letter 3/2/1788 to James Madison}  - George Washington

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. - George Washington (1st inaugural address)

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver

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

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. - George Weinberg

Imagination is as good as many voyages - - and how much cheaper. - George William Curtis

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. - Gerald Ford

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. - Gerald Ford

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. - Gerald Ford

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.  - Gerald Jampolsky

Let this Christmas season be a renewing of the mind and a cleansing of our lives by God's pure presence. Let His joy come to our weary world through us. - Gerald Kennedy

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws and mot of men. Here, the people rule... - Inaugural Address, 1974 - Gerald Rudolph Ford

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. - Gerard de Nerval

The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to it. - Gerard Groote

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. - Germaine Greer

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.  - Germaine Greer

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind. - German Proverb

A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. - German proverb

If I knew how you did it to me then I'd do it to you. - Gerry and the Pacemakers

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it. - Gertrude Stein

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.  - Gertrude Stein

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. - Giacomo Leopardi

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. - Gilda Radner

I wanted a perfect ending... Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.  - Gilda Radner

If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Gill Atkinson

At the precise moment you take off your shoe in a shoestore, your big toe will pop out of your sock to see what is going on. - Ginsburg

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. - Gioacchino Rossini

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. - Gladys Taber

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.  - Gladys Taber, Stillmeadow Sampler

We've never done a story based on somebody who actually walked and lived on earth. (supervising animator of the character Pocahontas - Disney, Pocahontas, 1995) - Glen Keane

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. - Glenn Close

The more I know about men, the more I like dogs. - Gloria Allred

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.  - Gloria Gaither

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again. - Gloria Gaither

We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. - Gloria Gaither

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. - Gloria Leonard

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

Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Goethe

Nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action. {this quote is above the entrance to the Naval Academy}  - Goethe

Before you can do something you must first be something. - Goethe

Without haste, but without rest. - Goethe

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. - Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Goethe

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image. - Goethe

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.  - Goethe

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. - Goethe

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. - Goethe

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von - Goethe

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life. - Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now. - Goethe

Architecture is frozen music. - Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. - Goethe

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Goethe

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. - Goethe

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. - Goethe

Who ever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. - Goethe

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. - Goethe

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. - Goethe

The deed is everything, the glory is naught. - Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. - Goethe

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. - Golda Meir

Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.  - Gore Vidal

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. - Gore Vidal

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist. - Governor Jesse Ventura

Never place a period where God has placed a comma. (1902-1964, American Comedienne)  - Gracie Allen

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.  - Graham Greene

As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. - Graham Greene

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. - Grandma Moses

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation. - Grantland Rice

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. - Greek proverb

Act quickly, think slowly. - Greek proverb

Make the best of this test and don't ask why... it's not a question but a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right... I hope you have the time of your life.  - Green Day

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut. - Greenberg

Cal quarterback, Joe Knapp, used to call them audibles -- obscenities directed at the other team. I like that. - Greg Ennis (Stanford Quarterback)

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening--but this wasn't it. - Groucho

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.  - Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

A man is only as old as the woman he feels. - Groucho Marx

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. (from the movie, A Day At The Races) - Groucho Marx

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that, while the people should patriotically support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people. - Grover Cleveland

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. - Inaugual Address, 1885 - Grover Cleveland

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. - Gunther Grass

All God's Chillun got Rhythm. - Gus Kahn

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. - Gustave Le Bon

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

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. - Guy Debord

Be careful what you swallow. Chew! {Advice to graduates, Buena Vista University Graduation, 1995} - Gwendolyn Brooks

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.  - Gweneth Paltrow

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

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, "GO"; the leader says lets, "GO!" - H. Gordon Selfridge

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. - H. H. Munro (Saki)

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams

Be cautious in lending money to friends, you might lose both. - H. Jackson Browne, Jr.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.  - H. L . Mencken

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

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

The penalty of leadership is loneliness. - H. Wheeler Robinson

Never drop your gun to hug a bear. - H.E. Palmer

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. - H.F. Hedge

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. - H.F. Hedge

Use soft words in hard arguments. - H.G. Bohn

In order to speak short upon any subject, think long. - H.H. Brackenridge

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. - H.H. the Dalai Lama

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

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

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. - H.L. Mencken

Most people want security in this world, not liberty. - H.L. Mencken

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. - H.L. Mencken

All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we'd be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half. - H.L. Mencken

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H.L. Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. - H.L. Mencken

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

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. - H.L. Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not. - H.L. Mencken

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. - H.L. Mencken

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H.L. Mencken

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

Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian. - H.L. Mencken

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. - H.L. Mencken

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.  - H.S. Leigh

The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. - H.W. Arnold

Genius, the power which dazzles human eyes, is oft but perserverance in disguise. - H.W. Austin

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. - Hada Bejar

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. - Hafiz

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind. - Hal A. Lingerman

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  - Hal Borland

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. - Hal Borland

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it. - Hank Aaron

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. (American Minister and Reformer - 1832-1911) - Hannah Whitall Smith

Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers. - Hans Christian Anderson

One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world. - Hans Margolius

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. - Hans Selye

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. - Harlan F. Stone

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. - Harold Wilson

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. How that i was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills To Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow--anything Atticus hapend to be reading when i crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. {from 'To Kill A Mockingbird'}  - Harper Lee

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.  - Harper Lee

All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama. - Harper Lee

Courage... is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. - Harriet Martineau

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. - Harriet Martineau

It is cynicism and fear that freezes life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.  - Harry Emerson Fosdick

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. - Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Living of These Days, 1

Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness. - Harry F. Banks

Hunger is not debatable. - Harry Hopkins

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. - Harry J. Johnson

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. - Harry S. Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry S. Truman

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, "The country is safe. Jefferson still lives." And the last words of the other was, "John Adams will see that things go forward." - Harry S. Truman

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

Nature is a volume of which God is the author. - Harvey

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. - Harvey Cox, The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. - Hasidic saying

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of the wilderness.  - Havelock Ellis

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. - Heave

I'll moider da bum. - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he

How wonderful, O Lord, are the works of your hands, the sun and the stars, the valleys and the hills, the rivers and lakes all disclose your presence. The beasts of the field, the birds of the air bespeak your wondrous will. In your goodness you have made us able to hear the music of the world, a divine voice sings through all creations. - Hebrew prayer

Love or music- which power can uplift man to the sublimest heights? It is a large question; yet it seems to me one should answer it in this way: Love cannot give an idea of music; music can give an idea of love. But why seperate them? They are the two wings of the soul.  - Hector Berlioz

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.  - Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason, 1988

Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love. - Helen

College life was born in revolt. Not just the insubordination inherent in youth, but a wave of violent, collective uprisings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the combined authority of college professors and presidents. (from her book, 'Campus Life') - Helen Horowitz

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-make world, not a man-made world. - Helen Keller

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length. - Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. - Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. - Helen Keller

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (from 'The Story of My Life')  - Helen Keller

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

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world. - Helen Keller

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but is has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.  - Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. - Helen Rowland

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.  - Henny Youngman

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.  - Henny Youngman

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. - Henri B. Stendhal

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Henri Bergson

It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line. and adding to one's liberty. - Henri Frédéric Amiel

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. - Henri Matisse

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. - Henrik Ibsen

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry B. Adams

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. - Henry Beston

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. - Henry Brooks Adams

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.  - Henry Chester

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. - Henry Clay

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.  - Henry David Thoreau

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid. - Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.  - Henry David Thoreau

We were born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. - Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. - Henry David Thoreau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. {from "Reading" in Waldon (1854)} - Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. - Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.  - Henry David Thoreau

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. - Henry David Thoreau

Absolutely speaking, do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case. - Henry David Thoreau

You must not only aim aright, but draw the bow with all your might.  - Henry David Thoreau

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. - Henry David Thoreau

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. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of arts. - Henry David Thoreau

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess. - Henry David Thoreau

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. - Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. - Henry David Thoreau

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived. - Henry David Thoreau

To enhance the quality of the day... That is the highest of the arts. - Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. - Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau

In wildness is the preservation of the world. - Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.  - Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. - Henry David Thoreau

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Henry David Thoreau

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. - Henry David Thoreau

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. - Henry David Thoreau

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. - Henry David Thoreau

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. - Henry David Thoreau

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. - Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.  - Henry David Thoreau

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. - Henry David Thoreau

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another. - Henry David Thoreau

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. - Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. - Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. - Henry David Thoreau

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? - Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

The heart is forever inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. - Henry David Thoreau

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? - Henry David Thoreau

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God. - Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. - Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. - Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life. - Henry David Thoreau

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. - Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. - Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. - Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. - Henry David Thoreau

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. - Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

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

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change, we change. - Henry David Thoreau

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

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.  - Henry Drummond

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. - Henry Ford

If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view – as well as your own.  - Henry Ford

It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages. - Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them. - Henry Ford

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. - Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing: you're right.  - Henry Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that he imagines. - Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.  - Henry Ford

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. - Henry Ford

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence. - Henry Ford II

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. - Henry G. Strauss

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. - Henry Geldzahler

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. - Henry James

Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissenger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. - Henry Kissinger

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. - Henry Miller

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. - Henry Miller

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. - Henry Stack Sullivan

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. - Henry Steele Commager

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. - Henry Van Dyke

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange. - Henry Van Dyke

You never can begin to live until you dare to die. - Henry Van Dyke

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

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This memory brightens o'er the past; as when the sun, concealed; behind some cloud that near us hangs; shines on a distant field. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Three Kings came riding from far away: Melchior and Gaspar and Balthazar. Three Wise Men out of the East were they, And they travelled by night and they slept by day; For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Consult the dead upon things that were, but the living only on things that are. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers -- - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. - Henry Ward Beecher

When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideas of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet. - Henry Ward Beecher

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. - Henry Ward Beecher

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children. - Henry Ward Beecher

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. - Henry Ward Beecher

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave. - Henry Ward Beecher

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are. - Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. - Henry Ward Beecher

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. - Henry Ward Beecher

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. - Henry Ward Beecher

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents. - Henry Ward Beecher

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.  - Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. - Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. {from 'Life Thoughts'} - Henry Ward Beecher

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. - Henry Ward Beecher

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. - Henry Ward Beecher

Love, like a lamp, needs to be fed out of another's heart, or its flame burns low. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. - Henry Ward Beecher

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. - Henry Ward Beecher

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. - Henry Ward Beecher

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. - Henry Ward Beecher

Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.  - Henry Ward Beecher

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change. (observation made in 513 B.C.) - Heraclitus of Greece

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. - Herbert Butterfield

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system... - Rugged Individualism, 1928 - Herbert Clark Hoover

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. - Herbert Clark Hoover

Children are our most valuable natural resource. - Herbert Hoover

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor- poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. - Herbert N. Casson

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.  - Herbert Simon

To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth. - Herbert Spencer

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. - Herbert Spencer

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.  - Herbert V. Prochnow

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves. - Herbie Hancock

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.  - Hereditary Chief Edward Moody

The great seal of truth is simplicity.  - Herman Boerhaave

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. {opening lines of 'Moby Dick'} - Herman Melville

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. - Hermann Broch

There is no reality except the one contained within us. - Hermann Hesse

If you hate a person, you hate something in something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse, Demian

Great things are won by great dangers. - Herodotus

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. - Herodotus

To lose one's health renders science null, art inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. - Herophilus

Remember when a peacock struts his stuff, he shows his backside to half the world. - Herve Wiener

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. - Hilton Kramer

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him. - Hindu proverb

A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field. - Hindu proverb

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. - Hippocrates

The art has three factors: the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. - Hippocrates

Make love, not war. (1960's) - Hippy slogan

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. - Hobart Brow

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. - Hodding Carter

No man is ever old enough to know better.  - Holbrook Jackson

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. - Holbrook Jackson

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. - Holbrook Jackson

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. - Homer

There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord. (quotation in Tom Clancy's 'Rainbow Six') - Homer

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

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer. - Honore de Balzac

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow) - Horace

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. - Horace

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. - Horace

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. - Horace

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.  - Horace

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. - Horace

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Horace Mann

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.  - Horace Rumpole

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. - Howard Dietz

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. - Howard M. Jones

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. - Hubert H. Humphrey

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. - Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert Humphrey

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. - Hudson Taylor

Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Hugh Nibley

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. - Hugo Black

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. - Humphrey Bogart

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. - I Corinthians 13:11

True generosity requires more of us than kindly impulse. Above all it requires imagination - the capacity to see people in all their perplexities and needs, and to know how to expend ourselves effectively for them. - I.A.R. Wylie

The boundaries of science have expanded in recent decades in a rather interesting way. Emotion, consciousness, human nature itself, have become legitimate topics for the biological sciences. And these subjects of course are of central interest to the novelist. This invasion of our territory ought to be fruitful. - Ian McEwan

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. - Igor Stravinsky

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline. - II Timothy 1:7

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. - Immanuel Kant

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian proverb

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. - Indian proverb

Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. - Indian proverb

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. - Indian proverb

There I am in younger days, star gazing. Painting picture perfect maps of how my life and love would be. Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection, my compass faith in love's perfection... I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen.  - Indigo Girls

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction.... Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. (speech, 1874) - Ingalls

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

The cure for writers cramp is writer's block. - Inigo de Leon

We are new every day.  - Irene Claremont de Castillego

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. - Iris Murdoch

For each petal on the shamrock, this brings a wish your way: Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day. - Irish Blessing

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on Molly Malone. - Irish ditty

Dear Lord, be good to me, the sea is so wide and my boat is so small.  - Irish Fisherman's Prayer

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. - Irish proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Irish Proverb

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. - Irving Berlin

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. - Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knoweldge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. - Isaac Asimov

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.  - Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times, December 3,

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. - Isaac D'Israeli

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 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

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. - Isabel Allende

Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31

I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. - Isaiah 48:17

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.  - Isaiah Berlin

Take away number in all things and all things perish. Take calculation from the world and all is enveloped in dark ignorance, nor can he who does not know the way to reckon be distinguished from the rest of the animals. (from JAMA 2005;293:777 and referenced to: Crosby AW. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press; 1988) - Isidore of Seville

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. - Italian Proverb

Love rules without rules. (Amore regge senza legge.) - Italian proverb

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.  - Italian Proverb

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. - Ivan Panin

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience, for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of - a blessing that money cannot buy. - Izaak Walton

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.  - J. D. Salinger

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. - J. Lubbock

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them...they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.  - J. Marriott Jr.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing. - J. Paul Getty

True courage is like a kite; a big wind raises it higher.  - J. Petit-Senn

Part of a teacher's success depends on personality, and the common denominator in the personality of good teachers is their ability to stimulate students to work on problems when the teacher is not there. The teacher then checks the ability of the student to think rather than regurgitate facts. - J. Willis Hurst

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. - {from 'Catcher in the Rye.' Spoken by the character, Holden Caulfield} - J.D. Salinger

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. - J.E. Buckrose

He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions. - J.F. Clarke

God's gift of wisdom makes us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to His will, more resolute in the doing of it. - J.I. Packer

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. (Indian Philosopher (1895-1986)) - J.Krishnamurti

Not all those who wander are lost. (from The Fellowship of the Ring) - J.R.R. Tolkein

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. (Imparted from the wizard Gandalf to the young hobbit Frodo) - J.R.R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.  - J.R.R. Tolkien

Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall. - J.R.R. Tolkien {Lord of the Rings}

I don’t deserve this, but I have arthritis, and I don’t deserve that either.  - Jack Benny

A cannibal is a guy who goes into a restaurant and orders the waiter. - Jack Benny

Giving of yourself, learning to be tolerant, giving recognition and approval to others, remaining flexible enough to mature and learn - yields happiness, harmony, contentment and productivity. These are the qualities of a rich life, the bounteous harvest of getting along with people. - Jack C Yewell

The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal. - Jack Hayford

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. - Jack Kornfield

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one. - Jack Kornfield {Seeking the Heart of Wisdom}

One thought left home is better than 3 left on base. - Jack Liter

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. (from 'My Story' - Simon and Schuster) - Jack Nicklaus

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning. - Jack Welch

Your learn that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. - Jack Youngblood

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. - Jackie Mason

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed. - Jackie Onassis

The amount of death and disease would be less if all disease were left to itself. (the year 1835)  - Jacob Bigelow

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.  - Jacob M. Braude

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.  - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. - Jacques Attali

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - Jacques Barzun

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. - Jacques Cousteau

One learns that the opinions formulated by the pens of our great thinkers over the centuries are strange indeed. (from 'The Ethics of Psychoanalysis' - 1959)  - Jacques Lacan

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. - Jacquilinemae Rudd

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. {Swiss historian (1818-1897)} - Jakob Burckhardt

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. - James A. Froude

For love of country they accepted death... - James A. Garfield

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail. - James A. Michener

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. - James A. Michener

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - Letter accepting Presidential nomination, 1880 - James Abram Garfield

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. - James Agee

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. - James Allen

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - but, most of all, endurance. (quoted by Jordon Elgrably in Paris Review) - James Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. - James Baldwin

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.  - James Brown

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. - Message to Congress, 1860 - James Buchanan

Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a wheelbarrow. Trust in God is like getting into the wheelbarrow! To believe God can do something miraculous is one thing; to risk his willingness to do it in your life is another. - James C. Dobson

You don't have to invent the airplane or create an empire to pursue a big dream of your own. Audacity is an equal opportunity trait. - James Champy and Nitin Nohria

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. - James Clerk Maxwell

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.  - James Crook

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream. - Inaugural address, 1977 - James Earl Carter, Jr.

A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman, of the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke

Never hurry; take plenty of exercise; always be cheerful, and take all the sleep you need, and you may expect to be well. - James Freeman Clarke

Good family life is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it. - James H.S. Bossard

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. - James Harvey Robinson

The goal of my therapy is eccentricity. - James Hillman

I am working toward a psychology of the soul that is based on a psychology of image. {from We've Had A Hundred Years Of Psychotherapy And The World's Getting Worse} - James Hillman

I would rather define self as the interiorization of community. - James Hillman

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. {from The Soul's Code} - James Hillman

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the among of laughter. - James J. Walsh

A man's errors are his portals of discovery. - James Joyce

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. - James Joyce

Mr. Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. - (from the novel 'Ulysses') - James Joyce

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. - James Joyce

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." {opening lines from Finnegans Wake} - James Joyce

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. - James K. Feibleman

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. - Message to Congress, 1845 - James Knox Polk

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - James M Barrie

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. - James M. Barrie

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. - James M. Barrie

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. - James Madison

With respect to the words 'general welfare' I have always regreted them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character not contemplated by its creators. - James Madison

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison

In six pages I can't even say hello. - James Michener

In six pages I can't even say hello. - James Michener

The American continents... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. - Monroe Doctrine, 1823 - James Monroe

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. - James Russell Lowell

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end. - James Russell Lowell

Originality does not consist is saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. - James Stephens

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. - James Taylor

Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest clothes dressed. {from "On May"} - James Thomson

Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?  - James Thurber

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. - James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor, and halt all activity for an hour some day, to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living and what they really want. - James Truslow Adams

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. - James Weldon Johnson

Doing a voice for a Disney animated film makes you feel like you're a kid again. (on performing as Hades in Hercules, 1997) - James Woods

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. - Jameson Frank

The trickiest part of living is pretending that you don't know how the story ends... the cure for the fear of dying is living. - Jamie Weisman

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes. - Jan Ashford

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. - Jan De Hartog

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. {Twenty Years at Hull House} - Jane Addams

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. {Twenty Years at Hull House, 1910} - Jane Addams

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. - Jane Austen

On the way to what you planned to happen, something even better comes along. - Janice Endique

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese Proverb

There can be no offense where none is taken. - Japanese proverb

Let the past drift away with the water. - Japanese saying

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Maveri

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. - Jay Leno

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.  - Jean Arp

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. - Jean Church

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?  - Jean Cocteau

Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau

For man there are only three important events: birth, life and death; but he is unaware of being born, he suffers when he dies, and he forgets to live. - Jean De La Bruyere

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.  - Jean de la Bruyère

Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose. - Jean Fleming

We should take from the past its fires and not its ashes. - Jean Juares

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. - Jean Paul Richter

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. - Jean Paul Richter

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him. - Jean Paul Richter

The principal goal of education... should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things... men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers. - Jean Piaget

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. - Jean-Claude Van Damme

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. - Jean-Luc Godard

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program. {died laughing (we suppose) in 1997 at age 122} - Jeanne Calment

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.  - Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.  - Jean-Paul Sartre

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre

La vie humaine commence de l'autre côté du désespoir. {Human life begins on the other side of despair}. - Jean-Paul Sartre ["Les Mouches", III:2}

If men have a smell it's usually an accident. - Jeff Foxsworthy

You might be a redneck if you've been too drunk to fish. - Jeff Foxworthy

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez

Ultimate failure does not come in the loss of a great goal, but in the loss of will to strive for another. - Jeffrey David Lang

There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are dreams - and dreams allow us possibility. - Jeffrey David Lang

Ensure that those who live the values and ideals of the organization are the most rewarded and the most satisfied. (ISBN 0-387-40805-3) - Jeffrey S. Rose, MD

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. - Jeffrey Tate

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships. - Jeffry A. Timmons

If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse. - Jen Sincero

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. - Jeremiah 29:11

For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!  - Jeremiah 8:21-9.1

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. - Jeremy Collier

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

The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. - Jerome Nathanson

Be so good they can't ignore you.  - Jerry Dunn

The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning. (from 'SeinLanguage' - Bantam) - Jerry Seinfeld

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.  - Jessamyn West, The Quaker Reader, 1962

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children. - Jesse Torrey

The friends you make on the golf course are the friends you make for life. - Jessica Anderson Valentine

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. - Jewish proverb

Don't ask questions of fairy tales. - Jewish proverb

When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby. - Jewish proverb

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. - Jewish proverb

A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish Proverb

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Jewish Proverb

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.  - Jill McLemore

My favorite place in the morning is in the shower with Eric. - Jim Anderson

More business is lost every year through neglect, than through any other cause. - Jim Cathcart

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.  - Jim Rohn

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. - Jim Rohn

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. - Jim Rohn

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. - Jim Rohn

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.  - Jimmy Buffett

Where it all ends, I can't fathom, my friends.  - Jimmy Buffett

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. - Jimmy Carter

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. - Jimmy Hoffa

How's about that then, guys and gals. - Jimmy Savile

Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away. And you have their shoes. - JK Lambert

"Second to the right," said Peter, "and then straight on till morning." (from Peter Pan) - JM Barrie

Jesus'ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?  - Joan B. Campbell, Sojourners, August-September, 19

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.  - Joan Borysenko

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. - Joan Rivers

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh

No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives. - Joanna Krupa

Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord - Jobe 1:21

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis

Doubt your doubts.  - Joe Batten

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. - Joe Batten

A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. - Joe DiMaggio

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough. - Joe E. Lewis

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. {1960} - Joe Garagiola

Football is an honest game. It’s true to life. It’s a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. - Joe Namath

The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. - Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports

Never let a FOOL KISS YOU or a KISS FOOL YOU...  - Joey Adams

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know. - Johann Fichte

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Johann Friedrich von Schiller

Music is the key to the female heart. - Johann G. Seume

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.  - Johann W. von Goethe

The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The right man is the one who seizes the moment. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on! - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this? - John 11:25

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16

Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." - John 8:12

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings. - John Adair

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided upon by men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states. - John Adams

Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart. - John Adams

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. - John B. Sheerin

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.  - John Berger

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - John Bunyan

My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought His battles who now will be my Rewarder. - John Bunyan

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without the hope of emancipation. - John C. Granville

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. - John Cheever

The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation, character. - John D. Rockefeller

Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. - John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. - John Dewey

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne

I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease. - John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so. - John Donne

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. - John Drummond

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own. - John Dryden

Love is love's reward. - John Dryden

Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much self-discipline. - John Erskine

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hand the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. - John F. Kennedy

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. - John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. - John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. - John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. - John F. Kennedy

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.  - John F. Kennedy

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. - John F. Kennedy

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. - John F. Kennedy

All of this will not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. - John F. Kennedy

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

Forgive your enemies but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. - John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost. - John F. Kennedy

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain. - John F. Kennedy

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.  - John F. Kennedy

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. - John F. Kennedy

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

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

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. - John F. Kennedy

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. - John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. - John F. Kennedy

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. - John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. - John F. Kennedy

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit. - John F. Kennedy

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.  - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite so

The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published. - John Farrar

A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life. - John Fischer

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. - Inaugural Address, 1961 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing. - John Fletcher

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. - John G. Pollard

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. - John Gunther

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome. - John Haggai

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life. - John Homer Miller

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in a awful hurry. - John Jensen

A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. - John K. Hutchens

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain... (from the poem: "When I Have Fears") - John Keats

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.  - John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. - John Kotter

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. - John L. Mcclenahan

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon

Lovely Rita, meter maid. - John Lennon and Paul McCartney

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love. (The Beatles) - John Lennon and Paul McCartney

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. - John Locke

A small boy looked at a star and began to weep. The star said, "Boy, why are you weeping?" And the boy said, "You are so far away I will never be able to touch you." And the star answered, "Boy, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me.  - John Magliola

The days that make us happy make us wise. - John Masefield

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey. - John Mason Brown

The only true happiness cones from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - John Mason Brown

Happiness consists in activity - it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. - John Mason Good

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want. (from 'Essays in Persuasion') - John Maynard Keynes

In the long run, we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes

We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand. (from 'The Great Slump of 1930') - John Maynard Keynes

At its core, the economy isn't the sum of an array of bewildering statistics. It's about where Americans work, how they live, how they pay their bills today and save for tomorrow. It's about small businesses opening their doors, hiring employees and growing. It's about giving workers the education and training to find a good job and prosper in it. It's about the aspirations of the American people to build a better life for their families; dreams that begin with a job. (speech, Jul. 7, 2008) - John McCain

We are not people who believe only in the survival of the fittest. Work in America is more than a paycheck; it a source of pride, self-reliance and identity. (speech, Jun. 3, 2008) - John McCain

There's never been a problem Americans couldn't solve. We are the world's leaders, and leaders don't fear change. (speech, Apr. 15, 2008) - John McCain

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun. - John Milton

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. - John Milton

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. - John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. - John Milton

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (from 'Paradise Lost') - John Milton

Our country is where ever we are well off. - John Milton

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. - John Milton

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. - John Milton

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!  - John Milton

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. - John Milton

Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine! (from Paradise Lost) - John Milton

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. - John Mortimer

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. - John Naisbitt

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. - John Naisbitt

You are only young once, but you can be immature forever. - John P. Grier

I have not yet begun to fight! - John Paul Jones

I have not yet begun to fight. - John Paul Jones

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. - John Philip Sousa

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA) - John Quincy Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. - John Ruskin

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but to enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. - John Ruskin

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

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. - John Ruskin

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. - John Ruskin

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. - John Ruskin

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... to see clearly it's poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. - John Ruskin

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. - John S. Bonnell, D.D.

Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend. - John Sargent

Do as I say not do as I do. - John Selden

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. - John Steinbeck

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. {from 'Of Mice and Men'} - John Steinbeck

Toil, feel, think hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. - John Sterling

There are many truths the full meaning of which cannot be recognised until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. - John Stuart Mill

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity. - John Templeton

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights. - Inaugural Address, 1841 - John Tyler

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

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. - John Vianney

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. - John von Neumann

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. - John von Neumann

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten. - John W. Turk

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.  - John Wayne

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick. - John Wayne

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. - John Weitz

Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote… - John Wesley

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. - John Wesley

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. - John Wilmot

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.  - John Wooden

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.  - John Wooden

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John, Lord Morley

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. - Johnny Carson

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end. (from 'Into Thin Air') - Jon Krakaur

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand. - Jonathan Carroll

Resolved - never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. - Jonathan Edwards

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol, On Being a Teacher, 1981

There's only us, there's only this, forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. - Jonathan Larson

May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.  - Jonathan Swift

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.  - Jonathon Swift

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. - Josef Stalin

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. - Joseph Addison

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. - Joseph Brodsky

Follow your bliss.  - Joseph Campbell

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. - Joseph Campbell

Being a woman is a difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad

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

Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having. - Joseph Cook

Every time we leave home and go to another place, we open up the possibility of having something wonderful happen to us. When we move out of the familiar here and now, we set in motion a series of events that, taken together, bring about changes at the very root of our being. (from The Way of the Traveler)  - Joseph Dispenza

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. - Joseph Drake

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. - Joseph Fort Newton

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness. - Joseph Fort Newton

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of virtues.  - Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

Children need models more than they need critics. - Joseph Joubert

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. - Joseph Joubert

Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. - Joseph Murphy

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too. - Joseph Storey

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. - Josh Billings

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. - Josh Billings

Those who forgive most, shall be most forgiven. - Josiah W. Bailey

Sometimes the best way to deal with everyday life, is to lay down on your mat and take a nap. - Joyce Bartels

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.  - Joyce Carol Oates

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is he knows everything. - Joyce Cary

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time - which means overreaching them. - Juan Ramon Jimenez

Don't let anything throw you off the goal you set for yourself. - Judge George N. Leighton

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. - (from the novel 'Around the World in 80 Days') - Jules Verne

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. - Julia Ward Howe

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them. - Julie Burchill

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered) - Julius Caesar

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. - Julius Caesar

A coward dies a thousand deaths; the valiant dies but once. - Julius Caesar

Never frown beacuse you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. - Justine Milton

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. - Kahlil Gibran

All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. - Kahlil Gibran

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

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.  - Kahlil Gibran

I love you my brother whoever you are, whether you worship in your church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosq ue. You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of one Supreme Being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all. - Kahlil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Lebanese Poet and Novelist, Author of "The Prophet" - 1883-1931)  - Kahlil Gibran

The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all blades of grass; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own living. - Kahlil Gibran

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give thay they may live, for to withhold is to perish. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.  - Kahlil Gibran

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. - Kahlil Gibran

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course. - Kahlil Gibran

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

It's not easy to decide what is best for you in the future. - Kaka

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn! - Kalidasa

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. - Karen Sunde

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. - Karl Friedrich Gauss

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. - Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it. - Karl Marx

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.  - Karl Menninger

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. - Karl Reiland

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character. - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Success is never wondering what if. - Karrie Huffman

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. - Kate Douglas Wiggin

They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it. - Kate Field

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. - Kate Millet

A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.  - Katherine Anne Porter

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. - Katherine Cebrian

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katherine Hepburn

There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life. - Katherine Logan

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is a learned behavior. - Katie Couric

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it. - Keiichi Morisata

Deception may eliminate. - Kelly J. Cannon (July 2003)

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.  - Ken Adelman

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.  - Ken Carey

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digi

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. - Kenneth Grahame

You need three things in theatre - the play, the actors, and the audience, and each must give something. - Kenneth Haigh

Time was present for learners and teachers alike. - Kenneth Ludmerer

More than any other reason, quality in clinical education had depended on the presence of sufficient time in medical practice to allow learners to learn and teachers to teach. - Kenneth Ludmerer

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can. - Kevin Garnett

There'll be two dates on your tombstone And all your friends will read 'em But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em...  - Kevin Welch

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is to eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. - Kimon Nicoliades

Knowing all about baseball is about as profitable as being a good whittler. - Kin Hubbard

Many a family tree needs trimming. - Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. - Kin Hubbard

The hardest thing about prize fighting is picking up your teeth with a boxing glove on. - Kin Hubbard

It's pretty hard to find what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. - Kin Hubbard

The highest of distinctions is service to others. - King George VI

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. - Knute Rockne

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. - Kofi Annan

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.  - Koran

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

Universalists are often asked where they stand. The only true answer to give to this question is that we do not stand at all, we move. - L.B. Fisher

If you want to kill time --- try working it to death. - L.J.Reardon

True courage is to do without witnesses everything that one is capable of doing before all the world. - La Rochefoucauld

The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse. - La Rochefoucauld

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. - La Rochefoucauld

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. - La Rochefoucauld

We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters. - Lady Jane Wilde

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

This is a good time to be a woman because your country, now more than at any time in its history, is utilizing your abilities and intelligence. - Ladybird Johnson

In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world.  - Lame Deer, Minnicoujou

You cannot expect to find strong wood from the tree that grows quickly. - Langenhoven

Satan does not try to tempt or deceive good people, he does not know where to find them!  - Langenhoven

Don't go to heaven in search of angels, seek to find heaven from angels!  - Langenhoven

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.  - Langenhoven

The only person whom you really have reason to fear, is yourself. - Langenhoven

We need to be grateful for many things that did not happen. - Langenhoven

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever. (Chinese Philosopher and author of 'Tao Te Ching')  - Lao Tsu

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves. - Lao-Tzu

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Lao-Tzu

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - last words of Pancho Villa

Natura genetrix. (Nature is our mother.) - Latin Proverb

He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy. - Latin proverb

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often. - Laura Palmer

I'm not a has-been. I'm a will be. - Lauren Bacall

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him. - Laurence Rockefeller

Hollywood -- a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.  - Laurence Stallings

Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all.  - Lavina Goodell, junior editor, Harper's Bazaar, 18

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. - Law & Order

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.  - Lawrence Durrell

There are worse occupations in the world than feeling a woman's pulse. - Lawrence Sterne

Confidence to which has been added competence is leadership. Confidence to which has been added the desire to get one's own way is arrogance. The true leader knows the difference. - Lee Hardy

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.  - Lee Iacocca

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? - Lee Iacocca

Only when we have something to value, will we have something to evaluate.. and we cannot value something that we cannot share, exchange and examine. - Lee Shulman

If you are caught on the golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightening, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. - Lee Trevino

There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. - Leigh Hunt

Always be smarter than the people who hire you. - Lena Horne

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. - Leo Buscaglia

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.  - Leo Buscaglia

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.  - Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.  - Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. - Leo Buscaglia

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. - Leo Durocher

Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.  - Leo F. Buscaglia

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. - Leo Rosten

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all.  - Leo Rosten

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. - Leo Rosten

Courage is capacity to confront what cannot be imagined. - Leo Rosten

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.  - Leo Tolstoy

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. - Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the force of life. - Leo Tolstoy

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. (from the novel 'Anna Karenina') - Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  - Leo Tolstoy

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together. - Léon Blum

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. - Léon Blum

Education, n. One of the few things a fellow is willing to pay for and not get. - Leonard L. Levinson

I find the question "WHY ARE WE HERE?" typically human. I'd suggest "ARE WE HERE?" would be the more logical choice. - Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock on Star Trek)

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. - Leonardo da Vinci

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. - Leonardo da Vinci

When you are alone you are all your own. - Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.  - Leonardo da Vinci

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. - Leonardo da Vinci

Oh Lord, you give us everything at the price of fatigue! - Leonardo da Vinci

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.  - Leonardo Da Vinci

El chiste es ir superando - superando uno a otro. (The point is to keep going beyond - to keep surpassing one another.) - Leonel Quezada (Casa Grandes, Mexico)

[D]on't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. - Leroy [Satchel] Paige, New York Post, October 4, 1

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

Not for the money, not for the money. But so our people can once again find out who they are. And that it's something to be proud of, and we will have our identity back; our children will know who they are.  - Les Decheneaux, CRST

And stop calling me Shirley. - Leslie Nielsen (from Airplane!)

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. - Lester Bangs

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll

She peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. - Lewis Carroll

Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back. - Lewis E. Pierson

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens. - Lewis L. Dunnington

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. - Liane Cordes

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

Eternity is just Time on an ego trip.  - Lily Tomlin

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them. - Lily Tomlin

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.  - Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to him who does his work well, followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day. - Lin Yutang

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - Lin Yü-tang

It is not a weakness, but a courageous thing to ask for help. A coward wallows in his own sorrow. - Linda Castor

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!  - Linda Staten

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. - Lindsay Anderson

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. - Lionel Trilling

To love her still... Only makes me love her more. - Lira Onida Dion

Memories are like pictures imprinted on the soul. - Lira Onida Dion

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. - Lisa Kirk

Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. - Lloyd John Ogilvie

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

What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say? {1865-1946} - Logan Pearsall Smith

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. - Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. - Lord Acton

Philosophy is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn’t there.  - Lord Bowen

Pleasure's a sin and sometimes sin is a pleasure. - Lord Byron

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. - Lord Byron

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness. - Lord Byron

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. - Lord Chesterfield

Music is the only language in which you can not say a mean or sarcastic thing.  - Lord Erskine

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy. - Lord Greville

The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right. - Lord Hailsham

If the British public falls for Labour's policies, I say it will be stark staring bonkers. (1964) - Lord Hailsham

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. - Lord Robert Baden-Powell

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it. - Lord Robert Baden-Powell

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude. - Lord Robert Baden-Powell

I am a part of all that I have met. - Lord Tennyson

I no longer care about survival - I merely loved. - Loren Eiseley

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota) - Lou Duva

Don’t let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times. - Lou Holtz

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!  - Lou Holtz

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. - Lou Holtz

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holtz

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. - Lou Holtz

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. - Lou Holtz

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. - Lou Holtz

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. - Lou Holtz

The great strength of a country lies in the true sense of loyalty it can arouse in the hearts of its people.  - Louis C. Gerstein

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied. - Louis Fischer

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. - Louis Ginsberg

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. - Louis Kossuth

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. - Louis Kronenberger

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind - friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance. - Louis Kronenberger

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. (from Ride the Dark Trail - Bantam) - Louis L'Amour

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. - Louis L'Amour

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. - Louis Nizer

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. - Louis Nizer

To the individual who devotes his or her life to science, nothing can give more happiness than when the results immediately find practical applications. There are not two sciences. There is science and the application of science and these two are linked as the fruit is to the tree (1871). - Louis Pasteur

Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

Science belongs to no one country. - Louis Pasteur

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

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.  - Lowell Thomas

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo

Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. - Lucretius

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.  - Lucretius

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.  - Lucretius

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. - Lucretius

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven. - Lucretius

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. - Lucy Ellman

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. (Lucy Larcom: 19th century poet and writer) - Lucy Larcom

The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly like pearls slipping off a string. - Lucy M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. - Ludwig von Mises

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind." - Luigi Pirandello

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. - Lydia M. Child

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! - Lydia M. Child

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Hell, by the time a man scratches his ass, clear his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes. - Lyndon B. Johnson

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored. - Inaugural Address, 1965 - Lyndon Baines Johnson

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.  - M. Scott Peck

The kiss: something made of nothing, tasting very sweet. - M.E. Bueli

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts. - Madame de Stael

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. - Madeleine L'Engle

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. (from An Acceptable Time - Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Madeleine L'Engle

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another. - Madonna

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac. - Madonna

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. - Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. - Mae West

I never loved another person the way I loved myself. - Mae West

He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the proper amount of time to marriage, I'll stay single. - Mae West

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. - Mae West

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. - Mae West

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. - Mae West

To err is human, but it feels divine. - Mae West

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. - Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street. - Mae West

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. - Mae West

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. - Mae West

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. - Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi

Let then our first act every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: I shall not fear anyone on earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth I shall put up with all suffering. - Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always. - Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.  - Mahatma Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. - Mahatma Gandhi

A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man. - Maimonides, Mishneh Torah

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons. - Malathy Drew

The goal of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. - Malcolm Forbes

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing. - Malcolm Forbes

Its so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. - Malcolm Forbes

The only unforgivable sin: being unforgiving. - Malcolm Forbes

People who can't see without glasses should wear them. - Malcolm Forbes

The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. - Maltbie D. Babcock

There is great disorder under the Heavens, the situation is excellent. - Mao Zedong

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. - Marc Chagall

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - Marcel Marceau

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. - Marcel Proust

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes... {1871-1922 - French Novelist}  - Marcel Proust

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart. - Marcel Proust

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -- and in the end doing them irreparable harm. - Marcia Muller

Nowhere does a man retire with more quiet or freedom than into his own soul. - Marcus Aurelius

We ought to do good to others as simply and naturally as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. - Marcus Aurelius

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted. - Marcus Aurelius

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.  - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The happiness of you life depends on the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notion unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius Antonnus

We need a leader to tell us: Who, precisely, do we serve? What is our core strength? Of the many things we can measure in our business, which one measure of success should we focus on? And, what specific actions can we take right now to improve our business? - Marcus Buckingham

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.  - Marden, Orison Swett

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. - Margaret Bottome

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young/Who loved thee so fondly as he/He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue/And joined in thy innocent glee. - Margaret Courtney

I accept the universe! - Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret Fuller

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

I must accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. - Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.  - Margaret Mead

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. - Margaret Mitchell

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.  - Margaret Sanger

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. - Margaret Thatcher

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. - Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions.  - Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. (from 'The Velveteen Rabbit,' 1927) - Margery Williams

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. - Marguerite Blessington

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. - Marguerite Duras

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.  - Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

Sometimes hurdles are actually openings you may need to crawl through.  - Maria Charbonneau

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him. - Maria Montessori

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence. - Marianne Moore

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. (from "A Return To Love")  - Marianne Williamson

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. (from "A Return To Love")  - Marianne Williamson

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living. - Marie Beynon Ray

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

Oh, Mister Porter, what shall I do? I wanted to go to Birmingham, but they've carried me on to Crewe. - Marie Lloyd

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. - Marie Stopes

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. - Marilyn French

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy. - Marilyn Monroe

And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving...  - Marilyn Thomsen

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn vos Savant

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

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. - Mario Cuomo

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. - Mario Fernandez

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed. - Mark Morrison-Reed

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the 15 others which we do possess. - Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

Behold, the fool saith 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention;' but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - watch that basket.'" - Mark Twain

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. - Mark Twain

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

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest. - Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. - Mark Twain

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.  - Mark Twain

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. - Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. - Mark Twain

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. - Mark Twain

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.  - Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go. - Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. - Mark Twain

Buy land. They've stopped making it. - Mark Twain

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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain

October is one of those dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, and December. - Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

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

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. - Mark Twain

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. - Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. - Mark Twain

Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon. - Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.  - Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. - Mark Twain

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.  - Mark Twain

No man or woman knows what perfect love is, until they have been married a quarter of a century. - Mark Twain

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

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. - Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces. (from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," 1894)  - Mark Twain

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

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

Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjectures out of such trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave. - Mark Twain

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. - Mark Twain

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959

A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title? - Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does. - Mark Van Doren

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. - Mark Van Doren

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. - Mark Victor Hansen

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. - Marlene Dietrich

To keep a fire burning there's one easy rule. Keep the logs together, near enough to keep warm and far enough apart for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule. - Marnie Reed

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen. - Marshall Mcluhan

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Faith always shows itself in the whole personality. - Martin Lloyd-Jones

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby. - Martin Luther

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King

If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools. - Martin Luther King

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.  - Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship.  - Martin Luther King Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verbs agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life’s most urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Detroit, Michigan

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. - Martin Niemoeller

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.  - Martin Niemoeller

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. - Martin Van Buren

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. - Mary Antin, 1912

Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind. - Mary Baker Eddy

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. - Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. - Mary Heaton Vorse

'Will you walk into my parlour?' said a spider to a fly. - Mary Howitt

God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. - Mary Howitt

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. - Mary Jean Iron

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.  - Mary Jean Iron

America's future walks through the doors of our schools every day. - Mary Jean LeTendre

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.  - Mary Kay Ash

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.  - Mary Kay Ash

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch. - Mary Kay Ash

The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return -- 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.  - Mary Kay Ash

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.  - Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash

People fail forward to success. - Mary Kay Ash

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. - Mary Kay Ash

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. - Mary Kay Ash

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. - Mary Kay Ash

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. - Mary Kay Ash

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

A child is fed with milk and praise. - Mary Lamb

Worry lives a long way from rational thought. (in 'Self') - Mary Roach

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore

At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough. - Mason Cooley

Most people exist rather than choosing to live. Most people are too busy with life to live. - Matt Bunning

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.  - Matt Groening

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. - Matthew 15:14

Judge not, that ye be not judged. - Matthew 7:1

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.  - Matthew Arnold

Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race. - Maude L. Frandsen

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

In reality, those who repudiate a theory that they had once proposed, or a theory that they had accepted enthusiastically and with which they had identified themselves, are very rare. The great majority of them shut their ears so as not to hear the crying facts, and shut their eyes so as not to see the glaring facts, in order to remain faithful to their theories in spite of all and everything. - Maurice Arthus

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. - Maurice Blanchot

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.  - Maurice Maeterlinck

There must be more to life than having everything. - Maurice Sendak

Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential. - Max DePree

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. - Max Eastman

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times... Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself. Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path... And though age and infirmity overtake me and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life and for time's oldest memories that are good and sweet, and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.  - Max Ehrmann

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. - Max Jacob

The amount of sleep required by the average person is about 5 minutes more. - Max Kauffmann

Succeed at what matters.  - Max Lucado

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't. - Max Lucado

Only mothers can think of the future, because they give birth to it in their children. - Maxim Gorky

When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything. - Maxim Gorky

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you… It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.  - Maxwell Anderson

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou

The honorary duty of a human being is to love. - Maya Angelou

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. - Maya Angelou

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. - Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. {from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings} - Maya Angelou

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. - Maya Angelou

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever. - Maya Angelou

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." - Maya Angelou

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. - Maya Angelou

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. - Maya Angelou

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. - Maya Angelou

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. - Maya Angelou

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou

Try to be a rainbow to someone else's cloud. - Maya Angelou

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. - Maya Angelou

She began the first of what we later called 'my lessons in living.' She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. {I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1970)}  - Maya Angelou

If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear; For, if you will persevere, You will conquer; never fear; Try, try again. - McGuffey's Second Reader

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole cover and die. - Mel Brooks

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. (from the movie, 'Braveheart')  - Mel Gibson

The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. - Melvin J. Evans

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. - Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius

Science has established two facts meaningful for human welfare: first, the foundation of the structure of human personality is laid down in early childhood; and second, the chief engineer in charge of this construction is the family. - Meyer Francis Nimkoff

If faith, for us, does mean following, the I believe it will one day carry us to a point when we begin to glimpse all that Christ means. - Michael Card

...we live in a culture of relentless, round-the-clock boosterism for science and technology. With each new discovery and invention, the virtues are always oversold, the drawbacks understated. Who can forget the freely mobile society of the automobile, the friendly atom, the paperless office, the impending crisis of too much leisure time, or the era of universal education ushered in by television? We now hear the same utopian claims about the Internet. But everyone knows science and technology are inevitably a mixed blessing. (from Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities SCIENCE 5 March 1999; 283 (5407): 1461) - Michael Crichton

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is. - Michael De Saintamo

Never hope to become great where stupid people congregate, Better to go alone, where wisdom's found and fairly known, then have those by your side whose emptiness provides - Nothing. © 2004 Michael Druck - Michael Druck

What's courage but having faith instead of fear?  - Michael J. Fox

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. - Michael Jordan

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life... And that is why I succeed.  - Michael Jordan

you can live each day in a world filled with "problems" or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions. The decision is yours... Both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create. - Michael McMillan

Be it furniture, clothes, healthcare...industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers. - Michael Mescon

he thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. - Michael Porter

Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming From tender stem hath sprung... It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter, when half spent was the night. Isaiah 'twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind; with Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind. To show God's love aright, she bore to us a Saviour, when half spent was the night. - Michael Praetorius (attributed to)

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. - Michel de Montaigne

I quote others in order to better express myself. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. - Michelangelo

I live and love in God's peculiar light. - Michelangelo

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. - Michelangelo

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo

You always pass failure on the way to success. - Mickey Rooney

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. - from 'The Neurotic's Notebook' - Mignon McLaughlin

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. - Miguel de Cervantes

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. - Mikhail Bakunin

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Mikhail Baryshnikov

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. - from 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being (HarperPerennial) - Milan Kundera

In a body like Congress where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate, and frequently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the discussion. - Millard Fillmore

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual. - Millicent Carey McIntosh

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. - Milton Berle

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. - Milton Friedman

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. - Milton Friedman

Inflation is taxation without legislation. - Milton Friedman

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. - Miriam Schiff

Never eat more than you can lift. - Miss Piggy

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. - Mister Rogers

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - Moliere

To live without loving is not really to live. - Moliere

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.  - Moliere

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.  - Moliere

One advantage is growing older is that you can stand for more and fall for less. (from Sunshine Magazine) - Monta Crane

I want death to find me planting my cabbages. - Montaigne

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.  - Montaigne

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Montesquieu

GALAHAD: Is there someone else up there we could talk to? FRENCH GUARD: No! Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time! - Monty Python

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. - Mordecai Richler

If you know his father and grandfather you may trust his son. - Moroccan proverb

This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. - Moses Maimonides (The Physician's Oath)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.  - Mother Teresa

The only thing that can remove poverty is sharing. Jesus came among the poorest, to teach people to love one another, which is to share-to use the gifts that God has given to people who have, so share with those who have not. - Mother Teresa

Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. - Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. - Mother Teresa

Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa

I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness. - Mother Teresa

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything. - Mother Teresa

We are pencils in God's hand. - Mother Teresa

We are all pencils in the hand of God.  - Mother Theresa

If I am asked "what is the use of climbing this highest mountain?" I reply: No use at all - no more use than kicking a football about, or dancing, or playing the piano, or writing a poem, or painting a picture (1913) - Mountaineer Francis Younghusband

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy. - Mozart

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mrs. Ernest Hemingway

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

Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. - Muhammad Ali

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

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. - Multiple attributions

Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time...  - Mzwakhe Mbuli

You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime. - N. Gregory Mankiw

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? - Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women. - Nancy Astor

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. - Nancy Banks Smith

Bloom where you are planted. - Nancy Reader Campion's Aunt Grace

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte

All religions have been made by men. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Why and How are words so important that they cannot be too often used. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.  - Napoleon Hill

Opportunity... often it come disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. - Napoleon Hill

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation. - Napoleon Hill

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house like a lot of other houses. A yard like a lot of other yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back...with wonder." - Narrator from 'The Wonder Years'

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. - Nathan Hale

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.  - Native American proverb

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.  - Native American Proverb

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before. - Naveen Jain

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. - Neal Cassady

That's one small step for a man, one great leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong, first words spoken on the moon

An expert is a man who had made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. - Neils Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. - Neils Bohr to Albert Einstein

The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open, natural, interested; the second rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship, after all, is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons. - Nels F.S. Ferre

Children can have no better inheritance than believing parents. Religion can become real in the midst of the family as in practically no other way. Many of us have inherited great riches from our parents - the bank account of their personal faith and family prayers. - Nels F.S. Ferre

The first and most important step toward...success is the feeling that we can succeed. - Nelson Boswell

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  - Nelson Henderson

As long as poverty, injustice and gross [inequity] exist in our world, none of us can truly rest. - Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended. - Nelson Mandela

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. (from 'The Prince') - Niccolo Machiavelli

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. (from 'The Prince') - Niccolo Machiavelli

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. - Nietzsche

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. - Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. - Nietzsche

One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear. (originator of statement was Yamamoto Tsunetomo, a samurai who retired to life as a Buddhist monk after the death of his feudal lord Nabeshima Naoshige). - Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Nietzsche

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. - Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently . - Nietzsche

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. - Nigel Dennis

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. - Nigerian proverb

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian proverb

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic. - Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it? - Nina Simone

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best. - Nina Simone

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things -- all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play. - Nina Simone

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. - Nina Simone

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was. - Nina Simone

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful. - Ninon De L'Enclos

For a long time I have been walking and seeing nothing. Now I find this song and it cheers me.  - Nitanat

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. - Noel Coward

You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday. - Noel Coward

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics)...I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it. - Noel Coward

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control. - Noel Coward

Never trust a man with short legs - his brain's too near his bottom. - Noel Coward

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce to her husband James

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby

If I ever needed a brain transplant, I'd choose a sportswriter because I'd want a brain that had never been used. - Norm Van Brocklin

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.  - Norman Allen

Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of a positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. - Norman Bradburn

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. - Norman Schwarzkopf

When placed in command -- take charge. - Norman Schwarzkopf

When placed in command -- take charge. - Norman Schwarzkopf

The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities. - Norman Vincent Peale

If God is with us, who can be against us? - (in The Power of Positive Thinking) - Norman Vincent Peale

Think positively about yourself, keep your thoughts and your actions clean, ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. - Norman Vincent Peele

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. - Northrop Frye

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. - Norwegian proverb

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. (written in 1555) - Nostradamus

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.  - Og Mandino

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.  - Og Mandino

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. - Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandion

No man is greater than his respect for sleep. - Ogden Nash

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. - Ogden Nash

Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

If you live on this land, and you have ancestors sleeping in this land, I believe that makes you a native to this land. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin. I was not raised to look at people racially. What I was taught is that we're flowers in the Great Spirit's garden. We share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth.  - Oh Shinnah

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. - Old Yiddish proverb

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. - Olin Miller

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. - Olive Schreiner

He who stops being better stops being good. - Oliver Cromwell

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves. - Oliver Goldsmith

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. - Oliver Herford

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man has his will - but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then, one of them puts his head out and embarasses us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nobody talks much who doesn't say unwise things - things he did not mean to say. Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for crops of thought. I can't answer for what will turn up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be. (from Oprah Magazine, July 2002) - Oprah Winfrey

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. ALWAYS. - Oprah Winfrey

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. (quoted by Susan Litwin in TV Guide) - Oprah Winfrey

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.  - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. - Origen

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison S. Marden

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. - Orison S. Marden

The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place."  - Orison Swett Marden

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. - Orson Welles

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul. - Orway Tead

Schizophrenia beats dining alone. - Oscar Lavant

Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember. - Oscar Levant

In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. - Oscar Wilde

Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. - Oscar Wilde

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

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

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde

Art is at once surface and symbol.  - Oscar Wilde

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read.  - Oscar Wilde

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. - Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything but temptation. - Oscar Wilde

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored. - Oscar Wilde

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. - Oscar Wilde

When I was young, I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is. - Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.  - Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.  - Oscar Wilde

The man who calls a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. - Oscar Wilde

A true friend always stabs you in the front.  - Oscar Wilde

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

Let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him. - Oswald Chambers

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. - Oswald Chambers

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't." - Oswald Chambers

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.  - Otto Von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto Von Bismarck

There is no excellency without difficulty. - Ovid

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. - Ovid

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne. - Ovid

Take rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. - Ovid

What a child does not receive, he can seldom later give. - P. D. James

Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. - P. J. O'Rourke

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. - P.J. O'Rourke

Hope can always cope. - P.K. Thomajan

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. - P.W. Litchfield

The truly important things in life -- love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked - Pablo Casals

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance. - Pablo Casals

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. - Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.  - Pamela Glenconner

Never ask a better player to hit with you... - Pancho Segura

I feel sorry for teachers who are required to spell out precise “learning objectives” long before a class begins so that they can measure their own “effectiveness.” I feel sorry for their students, too. Education dominated by preconceived images of what must be learned can hardly be educational. Authentic teaching and learning requires a live encounter with the unexpected. An element of suspense and surprise, an evocation of that which we did not know until it happened. If these elements are not present, we may be training or indoctrinating students, but we are not educating them. In any arena of action-rearing children, counseling people, repairing machines, writing books-right action depends on yielding our images of particular outcomes to the organic realities of ourselves, the other, and the adventure of action itself. (from 'The Active Life') - Parker Palmer

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. - Pascal

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play. (In 1992, Orlando Magic general manager, said this about his team's 7‑27 record) - Pat Williams

The work will wait while you show your child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.  - Patricia Clafford

Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging. - Patrick Dennis

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.  - Patrick Henry

The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. - Patrick Henry

When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. (quoted by Barbara J. Winter in her book)  - Patrick Overton

When you get to be a certain age, you come to realize that the real Santa Claus is not the guy who comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve. The real spirit of Santa becomes what you can give rather than what you get. The magic comes from you when Santa lives in your heart. - Patty Hansen

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. - Paul Beatty

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese

With an apple I will astonish Paris. - Paul Cezanne

When I feel athletic, I go to a sports bar. - Paul Clisura

It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. (from The Alchemist)  - Paul Coelho

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. - Paul De Man

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. - Paul Erdos

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action. - Paul J. Meyer

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. - Paul Klee

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. - Paul McCartney

Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. - Paul Simon

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. - Paul Tillich, Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1958

Faith is not a shelter against difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions. - Paul Tournier

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. - Paul Whiteman

Truth has to fall on fertile soil. (from Gift of the Red Bird (Crossroad)) - Paula D'Arcy

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred. {b.1939 - US American Indian {Pueblo/Sioux) poet, writer}  - Paula Gunn Allen

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget. - Paula Gunn Allen

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life. - Paula Gunn Allen

You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. - Pearl S. Buck

We have every reason to look forward into the future with hope and excitement. Fear nothing and no one. Work honestly. Be good, be happy. And remember that each of you is unique, your soul your own, irreplaceable, and individual in the miracle of your mortal frame. (Pearl S. Buck (Walsh): 1892-1973; Randolph-Macon Women's College graduate of 1914; Female Nobel Prize Laureate)  - Pearl S. Buck

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.  - Pearl S. Buck

Al things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so as of now. - Pearl S. Puck

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

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. - Percy H. Johnston

The greatest instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Shelley

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Shelley

Nothing in the world is single; All things by law divine In one spirit mix and mingle. Why not I with thine?  - Percy Shelley

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Perelman

Wait for the wisest of all counselors: time. - Pericles

We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.  - Persian proverb

The ability to manage the unexpected consequences of our choices and decisions is the real secret in investment success...On the basis of my experience, greater danger lurks in the temptation to chicken out when the going is rough and your precious wealth seems to be going down the tubes. (A forward from the book, Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel, McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, June 21, 2002) - Peter Bernstein

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained ... I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction ... I can get all that at home. - Peter Cook

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. - Peter De Vries

I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter De Vries

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.  - Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle.  - Peter DeVries

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. - Peter Drucker

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it. - Peter F. Drucker

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. - Peter Ginter

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity, shoots up through the earth, puts forth branches, leaves, and finally blossoms.  - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Peter Marshall

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for. - Peter Marshall

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit. - Peter O'Toole

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. (from 'The Fifth Discipline') - Peter Senge

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.  - Peter Singer

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. - Peter T. Mcintyre

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. - Peyton Conway March

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. - Phil Jackson

We are all crazy when we are angry. - Philemon

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration. - Philip Hamerton

You can't put off being young until you retire. - Philip Larkin

Scholarship is polite argument. - Philip Rieff

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.  - Philip W. Haberman, Jr.

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means. - Philippe Sollers

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. - Philippians 4:13-14

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. - Phillip Brooks

Do not wait for great strength before setting out, for immobility will weaken you further. Do not wait to see very clearly before starting: One has to walk toward the light. Have you strength enough to take this first step? Courage enough to accomplish this small act... The necessity of which is apparent to you? Take this step! Perform this act! You will be astonished to feel that the effort accomplished, Instead of having exhausted your strength, has doubled it. And that you already see more clearly what you have to do next.  - Phillipe Vernier (French Protestant Minister)

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more. - Phillips Brooks

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.  - Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks...  - Phillips Brooks

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven. - Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks

Courage is the knowledge of what ought to be endured. - Philo

Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. - Philo of Alexandria

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Phyllis Bottome

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. - Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. - from 'Time' - Pico Iyer

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] - Pierre Auguste Renoir

Faith is simultaneously long perseverance and unwavering confidence. - Pierre-Yves Emery

I keep my friends as misers do their treasures, because, of all things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. - Pietro Aretino

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

The high note is not the only thing. - Placido Domingo

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

He whom love touches not walks in darkness. - Plato

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder. - Plato

Courage is knowing what to fear. - Plato

The life that is unexamined is not worth living.  - Plato

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. - Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. - Plato

He who is of a 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

That's courage - to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. - Plautus

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. - Pliny

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

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. - Plutarch

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. - Plutarch

The state of life is most happy when superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. - Plutarch

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch

Too many cooks spoil the brothel. - Polly Adler

If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. - Pope John Paul II

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of others. - Pope John Paul II

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. - Pope John XXIII

Never tell all that you know, or do all that you can, or believe all that you hear. - Portuguese proverb

To sum up my political philosopy, I am a fiscal conservative with a social conscience.  - Powell, Colin L., My American Journey

I asked for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greather things; I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy; I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life; I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I had asked for, but everything that I had hoped for. Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered; I am, among all men, most richly blessed.  - Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier

The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. (September 20, 2001)  - President George W. Bush

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today.  - President Lyndon B. Johnson

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. - Professor Blackie

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

Let's give the historians something to write about.  - Propertius

Man is the measure of all things. - Protagoras

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. - Proverb 3:13

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. - Proverbs 28:1

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. - Proverbs 3: 5-6

Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. - Psalm 100:3

This is the day which the Lord has make; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. - Psalm 118:24

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. - Psalm 23:1

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. - Psalm 32:8

The steps of good men are directed by the Lord. He delights in each step they take. - Psalm 37:23

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. - Publilius Syrus

No man is happy unless he believes he is. - Publilius Syrus

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The bells... the bells... - Quasimodo

"!Ama Sua, Ama Kjella, Ama Lllulla! - Don't lie, don't cheat, don't be lazy."  - Quechua greeting during Inca times

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." - quoted in Victory of the Spirit (Warner) - Quincy Jones

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. - R. Buckminster Fuller

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. - R. Palmer

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. - R. S. Donnell

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. - R.J. Baughan

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. - Rabbi Ben Azai

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If now now, when? - Rabbi Hillel

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabbinic saying

Nature abhors a vacuum. (from Gargantua) - Rabelais

Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the peebles into perfection. - Rabindranath Tagore

The journey of discovery lies not in seeking new vistas but in having new eyes. - Rachel Naomi Remen

The human doesn't see things as they are, but as he is. - Racter

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you will not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. (from "Letters To A Young Poet")  - Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. - Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.  - Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. (from 'Letters To A Young Poet')  - Rainer Maria Rilke

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm. - Ralph Archbold

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. - Ralph Connor

When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited. - Ralph Half

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. - Ralph Marston

Life is what happens, after you make other plans. - Ralph Marston

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nadar

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.  - Ralph Nichols

That is good which doth good. - Ralph Venning

The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean. - Ralph W. Sockman

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.  - Ralph W. Sockman

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness - whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords or canals, or statues, or songs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach what the days never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great speakers were bad speakers first. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a happy talent to know how to play. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Free should be the scholar - free and brave. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skill to do comes of doing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no knowledge that is not power.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing. - Ram Dass

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.  - Randall Jarrell

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, "Be kind to one another." This is the Golden Rule of marriage, and the secret of making love last through the years. - Randolph Ray

We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share. - Rania Al-Abdullah

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. - Ray Bradbury

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. (founder, McDonalds Corporation) - Ray Kroc

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone. - Raymond B. Fosdick

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. - Rebecca West

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.  - Red Auerbach

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 on from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr

All you earnest young men out to save the world... please, have a laugh. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime. Therefore, we must be saved by hope. - Reinhold Niebuhr

It's the end of the world as we know it... and I feel fine. - REM

We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.  - Rene Descartes

I think therefore I am. (Cogito ergo sum) - Rene Descartes

Cogito, ergo sum (I think; therefore I am) - René Descartes

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. - René Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.  - Rene Descartes, "Discours de la Methode"

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. - Rene Dubos, Celebrations of Life, 1981

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so. (1876) - Rene J. Dubos

We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people...  - Reuel L. Howe

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. - Revelation 21:6

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it. - Richard Bach

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. - Richard Baker

Perhaps the greatest blessing in marriage is that it lasts so long. The years, like the varying interests of each year, combine to buttress and enrich each other. Out of many shared years, one life. In a series of temporary relationships, one misses the ripening, gathering, harvesting joys, the deep, hard-won truths of marriage. - Richard C. Cabot

We are enobled by what we admire; we are known by what we honor. {former JFK Speechwriter - quote from a 1999 MSNBC interview} - Richard Goodwin

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. - Richard Harding Davis

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure. - Richard Iannelli

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. - Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. - Richard J. Foster

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. - Richard J. Foster

Our assurance... is built upon a confident assurance in the faithfulness of God. - Richard J. Foster

We can go through all the activities of our days in joyful awareness of God's presence. - Richard J. Foster

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have - Richard L. Evans

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. - Richard M. Nixon

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard M. Nixon

Certainly the time when the young are to be seen and not heard is gone in American - and gone for good. - Richard M. Nixon

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

We can never make taxation popular, but we can make taxation fair. - Richard M. Nixon

The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny. - Inaugural Address, 1969 - Richard Milhous Nixon

Although he is a very poor fielder, he is also a very poor hitter. - Ring Lardner

They gave each other a smile with a future in it. - Ring Lardner

Love is narcissism shared by two. - Rita Mae Brown

To attract men, I wear a perfume called New Car Interior. - Rita Rudner

Music should never be harmless. - Robbie Robertson

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert A. Heinlein

We have come from somewhere and are going somewhere. The great architect of the universe never built a stairway that leads to nowhere. - Robert A. Millikan

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. - Robert Benchley

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. - Robert Benchley

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - Robert Benchley

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. - Robert Browning

Truth lies within ourselves. - Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. - Robert Browning

Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. (from Red, Red Rose) - Robert Burns

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. - Robert Burns

The best-laid schemes o mice and men Gang aft agley... - Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"

Let the burden never be so heavy; love makes it light. - Robert Burton

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore, to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy; it expels cares, alters their grieved minds, and easeth in an instant. (from the 1621 edition of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy') - Robert Burton

Nobody ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.  - Robert Byne

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins, you can't imagine the smell. - Robert Byrne

A man's best friends are his ten fingers. - Robert Collyer

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? (quoted by Priit J. Vesilind in National Geographic) - Robert D. Ballard

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. - Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more. - Robert Frost

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. - Robert Frost

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out. - Robert Frost

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That’s what we mean by thinking, and that’s about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil “Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let’s see you notice a few things too.” (from letter to Louis Untermeyer, from Ann Arbor, MI, dated May 17, 1926) - Robert Frost

All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.  - Robert Fulghum

The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own. - Robert Fulghum

The greatest courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing; I owe them to my relations with other people. - Robert Graves

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise. - Robert H. Jackson

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved. - Robert H. Lauer

Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle-he defeated the fear of trying. - Robert H. Schuller

Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens. - Robert Half

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. - Robert Half

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. - Robert Heinlein

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.  - Robert Ingersoll

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. - Robert J. Havighurst

I am become death, shatterer of worlds. - Robert J. Oppenheimer(citing from the Bhagavadgita

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert L. Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry.  - Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. (from 'Treasure Island') - Robert Louis Stevenson

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. - Robert Menzies

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. - Robert Motherwell

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities. - Robert Murray McCheyne

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. (b. 1916, American Writer-Author)  - Robert Newton Anthony

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. - Robert Orben

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. - Robert Schumann

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. - Robert Schumann

If words could say all that we feel, there would be no need for an embrace. But language has its limitations, and the heart has none. It expresses itself spontaneously in even the smallest things we do.  - Robert Sexton

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Robert Wilson

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth. - Roberto Clemente

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies

Much may be learned about any society by studying the behavior and accepted ideas of its children, for children - and sometimes adults - are shadows of their parents, and what they believe and what they do are often what their parents believe in their hearts and would do if society would put up with it. - Robertson Davies (from 'What's Bred in the Bone')

The first time I ate organic whole grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material. - Robin Williams

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.  - Rodney Dangerfield

Presenting a point of view is not necessarily biased. Eliminating a point of view is biased. - Roger Ailes

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. - Roger L'Estrange

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.  - Roger Lewin

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit. - Rogers Hornsby

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration. - Ron Garan, Astronaut

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. - Rona Barrett

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. - Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.  - Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. (quoted in Observer, March 29, 1981) - Ronald Reagan

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. - Ronald Reagan

True, lasting peace cannot be secured through the strength of arms alone. Among free peoples, the open exchange of ideas ultimately is our greatest security. - Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.  - Ronald Reagan

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

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. - Ronald Reagan

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. - Ronald Reagan

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. - Ronald Reagan

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden. - Rose Fyleman

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald

Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey. - Roy Bennett

You've got to be a man to play baseball for a living, but you've got to have a lot of little boy in you, too. - Roy Campanella

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.  - Roy L Smith (American Clergyman)

The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God. - Roy Lessin

There is always time in a day to do God's will. - Roy Lessin

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome. - Roy Lessin

Obedience to God today is the best preparation for tomorrow. - Roy Lessin

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. - Roy R. Gilson

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. - Rudyard Kipling

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling

I had six honest serving men - they taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What and When - and Why and How and Who.  - Rudyard Kipling

Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children and their children's children's children's children...  - Rufina M. Laws

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group. - Russell H. Ewing

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it's probably deserved. - Russell Lynes

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. - Russell Lynes

Success and rest don't sleep together. - Russian proverb

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. - Russian proverb

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. - Ruth Benedict

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. - Ruth McKenney

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. - Ruth Reichl

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. {German-born Author, Psychiatrist}  - Ruth Westheimer

He serves his party best who serves his country best. - Inaugural Address, 1877 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes

We are drowning in information, but starving for knowledge.  - Rutherford D. Rogers

Assessment is arguably the most important stimulus for learning. - Ruth-Marie Fincher, MD

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. - S.I. Hayakawa

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.  - Sagan, Carl

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. {in H Eves, An introduction to the history of mathematics, Philadelphia 1983} - said about the chemist Lavoisier

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.  - Saint Francis De Sales

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

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. - Salman Rushdie

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it. - Salman Rushdie

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.  - Salvador Dali

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.  - Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. - Salvidor Dali

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. - Sam Ervin

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. - Sam Goldwyn

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. - Sam Keen

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.  - Sam Lefkowitz

The only thing I truly know for a sure is that I don't know everything.  - Sam Lefkowitz

Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle. - Sam Levenson

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. - Sam Levenson

It's better not to gain anything than to lose something. - Sam Liang

Leadership must be established from the top down. - Sam Nunn

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song. - Sam Walter Foss

There is only one boss - the Customer. And he can fire anybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. - Sam Walton

I had no vision of the scope of what I would start. But I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us. - Sam Walton

If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. - Sam Walton

Estragon(E): Why don't we hang ourselves? Vladimir(V): With what? E: You haven't got a bit of rope? V: No. E: Then we can't. V: Let's go. {from the play, 'Waiting for Godot.'} - Samuel Beckett

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. - Samuel Butler

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. - Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.  - Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Going to call him William? What kind of name is that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry's called William. Why don't they call him Bill? - Samuel Goldwyn

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. - Samuel Goldwyn

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Johnson

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. - Samuel Johnson

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. - Samuel Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. - Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. - Samuel Johnson

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. - Samuel Johnson

Whatever enlarges hope will also exhalt courage. - Samuel Johnson

Christmas is the family time, the good time of the year. - Samuel Johnson

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. - Samuel Johnson

When speculation has done its worse, two and two still make four. - Samuel Johnson

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected. - Samuel Johnson

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies. (1600-1661 - Scottish Author and Minister) - Samuel Rutherford

Poetry: the best words in the best order. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them. - Sandra Bullock

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something. - Sandra Day O'Connor

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally. - Santha Rama Rau

Grey matter abounds in countries with grey skies. (1920) - Santiago Ramon y Cajal

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.  - Sappho

Love-bittersweet, irrepressible-loosen my limbs and I tremble... - Sappho

Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin... - Sappho

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.  - Sappho

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. - Sappho

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. - Sara Teasdale

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.  - Sarah Ban Breathnach

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. - Sarah Bolton

I would place all the Indians of Nevada on ships in our harbor, take them to New York and land them there as immigrants, that they might be received with open arms... and thus placed beyond the necessity of reservation help... - Sarah Winnemucca

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly. {c.1842-1891 - Indian scout, activist}  - Sarah Winnemucca

Don't look back; something might be gaining on you. - Satchel Paige

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. (from Mr. Sammler's Planet - Viking Penguin) - Saul Bellow

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. - Saul Bellow

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. - Schola Salern

This life is yours: Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.  - Schutz, Susan Polis

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. - Scooby-Doo

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. - Scott Caan

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life. - Scott Murray

George Steinbrenner is the salt of the earth, and the Yankee players are open wounds. - Scott Osler

You can delegate authority, but you can't delegate responsibility! - Scott Wojciechowski

When the heart is full the tongue will speak. - Scottish proverb

Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. - Scottish proverb

Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. - Scottish proverb

If you don't see the bottom, don't wade. - Scottish proverb

Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich. - Scottish proverb

The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice. - Senator Russell Long

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things. - Senator Theodore Francis Green

While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca

The best cure for anger is delay. - Seneca

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.  - Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.  - Seneca

Time heals what reason cannot. - Seneca

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach. - Seneca

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. - Seneca

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.  - Sequichie Comingdeer

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. - Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit. - Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty. - Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me... {from Macbeth} - Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.  - Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. - Shakespeare

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break. {The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV, iii) - Shakespeare

There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we might. {Hamlet} - Shakespeare

The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream. - Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - Shakespeare

My age is as a lusty winter Frosty, but kindly. - Shakespeare

The better part of valor is discretion. - Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - Shakespeare

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. - Shakespeare

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. - Shakespeare

There was never yet the philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. {from Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Scene 1} - Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.  - Shakespeare

But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. - Shakespeare

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - Shakespeare

I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. (on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece) - Shaquille O'Neal

All of the significant battles are waged within the self. - Sheldon Kopp

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples. - Sheri S. Tepper

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.  - Sherwood Anderson

I stopped believing in Santa Clause when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.  - Sidney Lovett

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.  - Sidney Madwed

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. - Sigfried Hulzer

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud

Anatomy is destiny. - Sigmund Freud

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear. - Simeon Ben Eleazar

The words of the prophets are written/On the subway walls. - Simon and Garfunkel

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. - Simon Rattle

A lot of writers complain that they are exhausted after writing a book. I don't understand this; you can sit down while doing it, can't you? - Simon Vestdijk

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one. - Simone de Beauvoir

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. - Simone De Beauvoir

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.  - Simone Signoret

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?" - Simone Weil

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. - Simone Weil

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man. - Sinclair Lewis

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. - Sioux Indian prayer

If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. - Sioux proverb

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament. (Uncommon Law, p. 33) - Sir A. P. Herbert

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. - Sir Arthur Keith

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted. - Sir Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious, and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. - Sir Francis Bacon

Whilom ther was dwellynge at oxenford, A riche gnof, that gestes heeld to bord, And of his craft he was a carpenter. - (from 'The Canterbury Tales' - The Miller's Tale) - Sir Geoffrey Chaucer

If I have seen a little farther it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. (paraphrasing of Bernard of Chartres) - Sir Isaac Newton

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - Sir James Barrie

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. - Sir James M. Barrie

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. (Statesman/Naturalist) - Sir John Lubbock

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. - Sir Philip Sidney

Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge. - Sir Philip Sidney

It’s the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing. - Sir Thomas Beecham

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.  - Sir Thomas Beecham

It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. - Sir Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. - Sir Thomas Browne

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!  - Sir Walter Scott

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. - Sir Walter Scott

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination. - Sir Walter Scott

The wretch, concentered all in self / living show forth but fair renown / and doubly dying shall go down / to the vile dust from whence he sprung / unwept, unhonoured, unsung. - Sir Walter Scott

Life without companionship is a life without purpose. (from Arabian Sands) - Sir Wilfred Thesiger

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. (on Blake's gravestone) - Sir William Blake

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. - Sir William Osler

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. - Sir William Osler

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. - Sir William Osler

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. - Sir William Osler

Look wise, say nothing and grunt; speech was given to conceal thought. - Sir William Osler

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers. - Sir William Osler

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community. - Sir William Osler

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. - Sir William Osler

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. - Sir William Osler

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise... - Sir William Osler

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. - Sir William Osler

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses....Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first. {a recollection of Osler's advice: Belkin BM, Neelon FA. The art of observation: William Osler and the method of Zadig. Ann Int Med 1992;116:863-6.} - Sir William Osler

Gentlemen, - Farewell, and take with you into the struggle the watchword of the good old Roman - Aequanimitas. - Sir William Osler

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old." - Sir William Osler

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. - Sir William Osler

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice. - Sir William Osler

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. - Sir William Osler

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character... - Sir William Osler

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work. - Sir William Osler

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases. - Sir William Osler

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... - Sir William Osler

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. - Sir William Osler

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism. - Sir William Osler

I have three personal ideals. One to do the day's work well and not bother about tomorrow. It has been urged that this is not a satisfactory ideal. It is; and there is not one which the student can carry with him into practice with greater effect. To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. - Sir William Osler

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential... - Sir William Osler

Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith. - Sir William Osler

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill

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

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all? (from But for the Grace of God)  - Sister Miriam Godwinson

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. - Slavenka Drakulic

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. - Slovenian proverb

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. - Socrates

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ironizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. - Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. - Socrates

Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward be at one. - Socrates

The shortest and best way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.  - Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates - 420 B.C.

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience. - Sonia Croquette

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. - Sophia Loren

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done. - Sophia Lyon Fahs

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.  - Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words. - Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

If i were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disaoppoints, possibility never. (from EITHER/OR Volume 1, Chapter titled Diapsalmata) - Soren Kierkegaard

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. - Soren Kierkegaard

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward. - Soren Kierkegaard

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him. - Soren Kierkegaard

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination... - Souza

So many centuries after the Creation, it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value. (rejection of Christopher Columbus' proposal to sail west) - Spanish Royal Commission

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. - Spinoza

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what he is. - St Augustine

Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.  - St. Augustine

Hear the other side. - St. Augustine

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of faith is to see what we believe. - St. Augustine

Why don't I have a hundred arms to aid these poor ones calling for help? (16th century) - St. Camillus de Lellis

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art. - St. Francis De Sales

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. - St. Francis Of Assisi

Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible. And suddenly, you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. - St. Francis Xavier

And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was 'suffering'... And then I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was 'love.' (1542-1591 - Spanish Mystic, Theologian) - St. John Of The Cross

Christ shield me this day: Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every person who thinks of me, Christ in the eye that sees me, Christ in the ear that hears me” (from “The Breastplate of St. Patrick”) - St. Patrick

When you have lived longer in this world and have outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increased tenfold; your admiration and attachment to any particular party or opinion fall away altogether. - Stanley Baldwin

He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings. - Stanley Goldstein

Nothing levels a playing field like a better idea. (in The Freeman) - Stanley I. Mason Jr.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. - Stella Adler

Something nasty in the woodshed. (from the novel, 'Cold Comfort Farm') - Stella Gibbons

To describe happiness is to diminish it. - Stendhal

If you don't succeed at first, don't despair. Remember, it takes time to learn to play golf; most players spend their entire lifetime finding out about the game before they give up. - Stephen Baker

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn’t will find an excuse. - Stephen Dolley Jr.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (1773-1855 - French-born Quaker Minister) - Stephen Grellet

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.  - Stephen King

He didn't have to worry about jagged bottle-necks after all, or the microbes which might have been in the cheeseburgers from the Burger Ranch, for that matter. One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred-pound Coke machine, one need worry about nothing else. {The Tommyknockers} - Stephen King

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Stephen Leacock

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better and the other could count better. - Stephen Leacock

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself. - Stephen Lundin

The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself.  - Stephen R. Covey

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.  - Stephen R. Covey

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.  - Stephen Wright

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. - Steve Harvey

Don't let the noise of other peoples opinions drown out your inner voice. - Steve Jobs

Stay hungry, stay foolish. - Steve Jobs

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (In 1991, the Florida football coach said this after telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books) - Steve Spurrier

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. - Steven Covey

The more I know, the more I realize how little I know. - Steven Devoe Harris

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? - Steven Wright

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the OTHERS here for? - Steven Wright

If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? - Steven Wright

So what's the speed of dark? - Steven Wright

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation? - Steven Wright

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag? - Steven Wright

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague. - Steven Wright

How come abbreviated is such a long word? - Steven Wright

Clones are people two. - Steven Wright

How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there? - Steven Wright

Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans. - Steven Wright

I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do . . . write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?  - Steven Wright

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? - Steven Wright

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it? - Steven Wright

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. (from 'Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir' - Philadelphia: JB Lippincott; 1973) - Stewart Alsop

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. - Stone Temple Pilots

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. - Stonewall Jackson

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, 'Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?'... God said, 'I did do something. I made you.' - Sufi Teaching

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred.  - Sun Bear

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu

It is later than you think. - Sundial inscription

Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. - Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain. - Susan B. Anthony

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

Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers

Art is the objectification of feeling. - Suzanne K. Langer

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. - Swedish Proverb

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the net. - Swedish proverb

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. - Swedish Proverb

What naggers never understand is finely expressed in an old Yiddish proverb: "Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong." - Sydney J. Harris

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? - Sydney J. Harris

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

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt. - Sylvia Plath

You are the music while the music lasts. - T. S. Eliot

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T. S. Eliot

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. - T.S. Eliot

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. - T.S. Eliot

Time past and time future, what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. - T.S. Eliot

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. - T.S. Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. - T.S. Eliot

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. - T.S. Eliot

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. - T.S. Eliot

For I have known them all already, know them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I have measured out my life with coffee spoons... {from the poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"}  - T.S. Eliot

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. - T.S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T.S. Eliot

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. - T.S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper. {from the poem "The Hollow Men"} - T.S. Eliot

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (written by Eliot appearing in a book of poems by Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus, Black Sun Press, Paris: 1931)  - T.S. Eliot

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. - T.S. Eliot

Any religion...is for ever in danger of putrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.  - T.S. Eliot

In valor there is hope. - Tacitus

Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.  - Tagore

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. - Tallulah Bankhead

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.  - Tao Te Ching

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. {Shawnee}  - Tecumseh

He made you so you could share in His creation, could love and laugh and know Him. - Ted Griffen

Each of us has the same quantity of the most precious commodity in the world -- time. - Ted Janusz

If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away. - Ted Trueblood

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made. (from speech delivered 14 April 1906) - Teddy Roosevelt

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Teilhard de Chardin

I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. (from "The Brook") - Tennyson

It is love alone that gives worth to all things. - Teresa of Avila

God aids the valiant.... Both to you and to me He will give the help needed. - Teresa of Avila

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the difference between romantic love and an arranged marriage. - Terrence Rafferty

We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice. (from City Limits) - Terry Teachout

If you want to destroy your enemy, give him an elephant. - Thai proverb

In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer. - The Beatles

All you need is love, Love is all you need. - The Beatles

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable; it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about in justice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always faithful, and endures through every circumstance. - The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. - The Bible, 1 John 3:18 NRSV

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear. - The Bible, 1 John 4:18 NIV

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. - The Bible, 1 Peter 3:15-16

In every thing give thanks. - The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded. - The Bible, 2 Chronicles 15:7 NRSV

This battle is not for you to fight; take your position, stand still, and see the victory of the Lord on your behalf. - The Bible, 2 Chronicles 20:17 NRSV

It is by faith you stand firm. - The Bible, 2 Corinthians 1:24 NIV

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. - The Bible, 2 Corinthians 9:7

Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. - The Bible, Acts 10:4

I have showed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. - The Bible, Acts 20:35

Take courage! For I believe God! It will be just as he said! - The Bible, Acts 27:25

Act with courage, and may the Lord be with those who do well. - The Bible, Chronicles 19:11

David said further to his son Solomon, "Be strong and of good courage, and act. Do not be afraid or dismayed; for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you." - The Bible, Chronicles 28:20 NRSV

May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from [God's] glorious power; and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience. - The Bible, Colossians 1:11 NRSV

Don't be weary in prayer; keep at it; watch for God's answers and remember to be thankful when they come. - The Bible, Colossians 4:2 TLB

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. - The Bible, Colossians 4:6

Be steadfast, immovable, always excelling. - The Bible, Corinthians 15:58 NRSV

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - The Bible, Corinthians 16:13 NIV

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. - The Bible, Deuteronomy 6:5

The Lord you God is the faithful God who for a thousand generations keeps his promises and constantly loves those who love him and who obey his commands. - The Bible, Deuteronomy 7:9 TLB

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth.  - The Bible, Deuteronomy 8:18

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. - The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1

Better is a handful of quietness than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind. - The Bible, Ecclesiastes 4:6

Be kind to one another; tenderhearted, forgiving one another; even as in Christ God forgave you. - The Bible, Ephesians 4:32

Be very careful, then, how you live - not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity. - The Bible, Ephesians 5:15,16 NIV

Make the most of every opportunity you have for doing good. Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to. - The Bible, Ephesians 5:16,17 TLB

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. - The Bible, Ephesians 6:10 NRSV

Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. - The Bible, Exodus 14:13

As is the mother, so is her daughter. - The Bible, Ezekiel 16:44

Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me, I took courage. - The Bible, Ezra 7:28 NIV

The entire law is summed up in a single command, "Love your neighbor as yourself."  - The Bible, Galatians 5:14 (NIV)

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people. - The Bible, Galatians 6:10 NIV

Is anything too hard for the Lord? - The Bible, Genesis 18:14

A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh. - The Bible, Genesis 2:24 NEB

Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen. - The Bible, Hebrews 11:1 NKJV

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - The Bible, Hebrews 13:2

He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we may boldly say: "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"  - The Bible, Hebrews 13:5-6

This certain hope of being saved is a strong and trust-worthy anchor for our souls, connecting us with God. - The Bible, Hebrews 6:19 TLB

Do not fear; for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. - The Bible, Isaiah 41:10 NRSV

I will see that right prevails... My salvation lasts forever; my righteous rule will never die. - The Bible, Isaiah 51:4,6 TLB

The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail. - The Bible, Isaiah 58:11 NRSV

Don't fear anything except the Lord of the armies of heaven! If you fear him, you need fear nothing else. - The Bible, Isaiah 8:13 TLB

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given... his name will be called Wonderful Counselor; Mighty God, Everlasting Father; Prince of Peace. - The Bible, Isaiah 9:6 NIV

Brothers, don't forget that it is best to listen much, speak little, and not become angry. - The Bible, James 1:19

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."  - The Bible, James 4:13-15

We consider blessed those who have persevered... The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. - The Bible, James 5:11 NIV

Yes, be patient. And take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near. - the Bible, James 5:8 TLB

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to the fruit of their doings. - The Bible, Jeremiah 17:10 NRSV

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. - The Bible, Jeremiah 17:7,8 NIV

You will have courage because you will have hope. You will take your time, and rest in safety. - The Bible, Job 11:18 TLB

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. - The Bible, Job 12:8

The ear test words as the tongue tastes food. - The Bible, Job 34:3 NIV

Happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. - The Bible, Job 5:17

Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. - The Bible, John 14:1-3

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life." - The Bible, John 14:6 NIV

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. - The Bible, John 15:12,13

Jesus answered... "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." - The Bible, John 16:33 NIV

The truth shall make you free.  - The Bible, John 8:32

Yes, be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. - The Bible, Joshua 1:9 TLB

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. - The Bible, Joshua 24:15

May they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. - The Bible, Judges 5:31

Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. - The Bible, Lamentations 3:22,23

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. - The Bible, Lamentations 3:27

Come, for all things are now ready. - The Bible, Luke 14:17

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger. - The Bible, Luke 2:7

Make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. - The Bible, Luke 21:14,15

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed. - The Bible, Luke 4:18

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. - The Bible, Luke 5:32

Give, and it shall be given unto you good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. - The Bible, Luke 6:38

You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight. - The Bible, Malachi 2:15

[Jesus said,] "'You are the light of the world. Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.'" - The Bible, Mathew 5:14-16

And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. - The Bible, Matthew 1:21 NKJV

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. - The Bible, Matthew 11:28

Jesus immediately said to them, "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." - The Bible, Matthew 14:27 NIV

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move.  - The Bible, Matthew 17:20

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.  - The Bible, Matthew 25:40

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth... But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - The Bible, Matthew 6:19-21 NIV

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. - The Bible, Matthew 6:28,29

He has showed you... what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. - The Bible, Micah 6:8 NIV

Wise warriors are mightier than strong ones, and those who have knowledge than those who have strength. - The Bible, NRSV, Proverbs 24:5

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. - The Bible, Philippians 1:20 NIV

Whatsoever things are true,... honest, ... just, ... pure, ... of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. - The Bible, Philippians 4:8

Reverence for God gives a man deep strength; his children have a place of refuge and security. - The Bible, Proverbs 14:26

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. - The Bible, Proverbs 17:28

The Lord is a strong fortress. The godly run to him and are safe. - The Bible, Proverbs 18:10 TLB

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.  - The Bible, Proverbs 18:16

Find a wife and you find a good thing; so you will earn the favour of the Lord. - The Bible, Proverbs 18:22 NEB

Reverence for God gives life, happiness, and protection from harm. - The Bible, Proverbs 19:23 TLB

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. - The Bible, Proverbs 21:3

Make no friendships with an angry man. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:24

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:6

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:9

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path. - The Bible, Proverbs 23:19 NIV

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. - The Bible, Proverbs 24:10

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.  - The Bible, Proverbs 28:27

A fool uttereth all his mind. - The Bible, Proverbs 29:11

Fear of man is a dangerous trap, but to trust in God means safety. - the Bible, Proverbs 29:25 TLB

Earn a reputation for living well in God's eyes and the eyes of the people. - The Bible, Proverbs 3:1 MSG

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.  - The Bible, Proverbs 3:27

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. - The Bible, Proverbs 4:23 NIV

Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right. - The Bible, Psalm 106:3

Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from Him. - The Bible, Psalm 127:3 NIV

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. - The Bible, Psalm 139:9,10 NIV

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. - The Bible, Psalm 19:7-8

The Lord is my light and salvation; he protects me from danger - whom shall I fear? - The Bible, Psalm 27:1

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. - The Bible, Psalm 27:14 NIV

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident. - The Bible, Psalm 27:3 NRSV

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. - The Bible, Psalm 31:24 NIV

I will praise the Lord no matter what happens... Let all who are discouraged take heart... For I cried to him and he answered me! He freed me from all my fears. - The Bible, Psalm 34:1-4 TLB

All who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace. - The Bible, Psalm 37:11 TLB

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. - The Bible, Psalm 37:5,6 NIV

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. - The Bible, Psalm 41:1

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. - The Bible, Psalm 42:1,2 NIV

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear. - The Bible, Psalm 46:1,2 NRSV

Be still and know that I am God! - The Bible, Psalm 46:10 NRSV

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. - The Bible, Psalm 55:22 NIV

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne... Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. - The Bible, Psalm 89:14,15 NIV

Who is as mighty as you, O Lord? Your faithfulness surrounds you... Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. - the Bible, Psalm 89:8,9,13,14 NRSV

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. - The Bible, Romans 1:16

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. - The Bible, Romans 12:2 NKJV

By the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. - The Bible, Romans 12:3

Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. - The Bible, Romans 12:4-5

We are more than conquerors through him who loved us... I am convinced that neither death nor life... will be able to separate us from the love of God. - The Bible, Romans 8:37-39

How beautiful you are, my dearest, O how beautiful, your eyes are like doves. - The Bible, Song of Songs 1:15

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for his love is more delightful then wine. - The Bible, Song of Songs 1:2

The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come.... Arise, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me. - The Bible, Song of Songs 2:11-13 NIV

Brothers and sisters, do not weary in doing what is right. - The Bible, Thessalonians 3:13

May the Lord bring you into an even deeper understanding of the love of God and the patience that comes from Christ. - The Bible, Thessalonians 3:5

Courage! We must really act like men today if we are going to save our people. - The Bible, TLB, 2 Samuel 10:12

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. - The Bill Balance Hip Handbook

Those who fear what they should not, and who do not fear what they should…go the downward path. (from The Path of Perfection) - The DHAMMAPADA

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the sec

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal. - The Hippocratic Oath

I don't feel good. - The last words of Luther Burbank

A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home. - The Talmud

He who commands the sea has command of everything. (Athenian Politician and Naval Strategist - c 500 BC) - Themistocles

The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Hesburgh

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. - Theodore Mungers

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. - Theodore N. Vail

Government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. - Theodore Parker

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am."  - Theodore Parker

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.  - Theodore Roethke

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910) - Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918) - Theodore Roosevelt

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. - Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us. (New York State Fair, Syracuse, September 7, 1903) - Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, The best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is well indeed for our land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. - Builders of the State - Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have. (Speech to veterans, Springfield, IL, July 4, 1903) - Theodore Roosevelt

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. - Theodore Roosevelt

The whole subject of trusts is of vital concern to us, because it presents one, and perhaps the most conspicuous, of the many problems forced upon our attention by the tremendous industrial development which has taken place during the last century, a development which is occurring in all civilized countries, notably in our own. (from speech at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1902) - Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.  - Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. (Letter to Sir Edward Gray, November 15, 1913) - Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take 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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Theodore Rubin

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

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to become somebody. - Theodore T. Munger

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.  - Thich Nhat Hanh

I can't make people like me, but if I wasn't me, I would like me. - Third-grader

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.  - Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Thomas Alva Edison

Art is simply a right method of doing things. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.  - Thomas Aquinas

What is art but a way of seeing? - Thomas Berger

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. - Thomas Carlyle

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.  - Thomas Carlyle

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. - Thomas Carlyle

When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze. - Thomas Carlyle

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! - Thomas Carlyle

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. - Thomas Carlyle

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.  - Thomas Carlyle

The king is the man who can. - Thomas Carlyle

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. - Thomas Crum

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. - Thomas De Quincey

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. - Thomas Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  - Thomas Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas Edison

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait. - Thomas Edison

There is time for everything. - Thomas Edison

Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. - Thomas Fuller

Bacchus (Greek god of wine) hath drowned more men than Neptune. - Thomas Fuller

Seeing's believing, but the feeling's the truth.  - Thomas Fuller

He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller

He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. - Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. - Thomas Fuller

The suspicious parent makes an artful child. - Thomas G. Halliburton

A mother can take care of 100 children but 100 children cannot take care of one mother. - Thomas Guarino

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. - Thomas H. Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  - Thomas H. Huxley

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.  - Thomas H. Huxley

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. - Thomas Hardy

The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. - Thomas Huxley

It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. - Thomas Huxley

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Huxley

The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call laws of nature. - Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value. - Thomas Huxley

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. - Thomas Huxley

Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. - Thomas J. Watson

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. - Thomas Jefferson

...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.  - Thomas Jefferson

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. - Thomas Jefferson

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the natural rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. - Thomas Jefferson

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. - Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of men in every government that has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating of all cares and powers into one body. - Thomas Jefferson

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread. - Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.  - Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

But though I am an old man, I am but a young gardener. {letter to Charles Willson Peale, Aug. 20, 1811} - Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government... shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned... - Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. - Thomas Jefferson

No person will have the occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. - Thomas Jefferson

Man is a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. - Thomas Jefferson

I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friendship. - Thomas Jefferson

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe! (letter to John Adams, August 1, 1816) - Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Thomas Jefferson

If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.  - Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.  - Thomas Jefferson

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Connecticut Baptists

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones

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 Kempis

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy! - Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas Macaulay

A tall young girl in a green sweater, with untidy hair and foolish, half-opened eyes, brushed past Hans Castorp, nearly touching him with her arm. And as she did so, she whistled - oh, impossible! Yes, she did though; not with her mouth, indeed, for she did not pucker the lips, but held them firmly closed. She whistled from somewhere inside, and looked at him with her silly, half-shut eyes - it was an extraordinarily unpleasant whistle, harsh and penetrating, yet hollow-sounding; a long-drawn-out note, falling at the end, like the sound made by those rubber pigs one buys at fairs, that give out the air in a wailing key as they collapse. The sound issued, inexplicably from her breast - and then, with her troop, she had passed on. (from 'The Magic Mountain') - Thomas Mann

It was coughing, obviously a man coughing; but coughing like to no other Hans Castorp had ever heard, and compared with which any other had been a magnificent and healthy manifestation of life: a coughing that had no conviction and gave no relief, that did not even come out in paroxysms, but was just a feeble, dreadful welling up of the juices of organic dissolution. (from 'The Magic Mountain', Chapter 1) - Thomas Mann

I emphasize this because it is to my mind just a passing virtue. Medicine and writing go well together, they shed light on each other and both do better by going hand in hand. A doctor possessed of the writer's art will be the better consoler to anyone rolling in agony; conversely, a writer who understands the life of the body, its powers and its pains, its fluids and functions, its blessings and banes, has a great advantage over him who knows nothing of such things. (from Joseph the Provider; New York; Alfred Knopf, 1944) - Thomas Mann

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. - Thomas More

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. - Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.  - Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least. - Thomas Paine

He whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.  - Thomas Paine

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder. - Thomas R. Kelly

No man is happy but by comparison. - Thomas Shadwell

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile on an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world. - (from the novel, 'Look Homeward, Angel') - Thomas Wolfe

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. - Thomas Wolfe

Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Thompson

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.  - Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942.

Unlike with Reagan and Bush, who seemed groomed for this kind of thing, you get the feeling with Clinton that every now and then, he closes the shades of the Oval Office, locks the door, and screams, 'Whoa! This is really cool!'  - Tilford, Mike

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.  - Tim McGraw

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. - Tim Robbins

What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power. So be true to yourself and achieve the goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you have accomplished. - Tim Tweedie

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music. - Tipper Gore

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. {99-55 B.C} - Titus Lucretius Carus

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. (from 'In Pharaoh's Army' - Knopf) - Tobias Wolff

It takes a lot of character and mental toughness to go out there and play everyday no matter how you feel. - Todd Benzinger of the Cincinnati Reds on Cal Ripke

It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw

If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!" "We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.  - Tom Brown, Jr., The Tracker

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

Because I seen something that had to be done and I did it. (Tom Lee became a local hero in 1925 after saving 32 people from drowning, using his small fishing boat, during a Mississippi River disaster south of Memphis TN: Mr. Lee could not swim.)  - Tom Lee

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

Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!! - Tom Wilson

In other games you get another chance. In baseball you get three cracks at it; in tennis you lose only one point. But in golf the loss of one shot has been responsible for the loss of heart. - Tommy Armour

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away. - Tommy Lasorda (American baseball manager)

Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun] - Tommy Lee Jones

The Promised Land belongs to the person who takes the risks, whose face is marred by dust and sweat, who strives valiantly while daring everything. - Tony Campolo

There are many things to be shared with the Four Colors of humanity in our common destiny as one with our Mother the Earth. It is this sharing that must be considered with great care by the Elders and the medicine people who carry the Sacred Trusts, so that no harm may come to people through ignorance and misuse of these powerful forces. {Resolution of the Fifth Annual Meetings of the Traditional Elders Circle, 1980}  - Traditional Elders Circle

Beside every good man, there is an extra-ordinarily virtuous women. - Treasured Blessings

May the sun never set on American baseball. (1951) - Truman, Harry S.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ~ ~  - Tryon Edwards

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. ~ ~ - Tuckerman

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. - Turkish proverb

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone, and more fragile than a rose. - Turkish proverb

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. - Tyron Edwards

Pain is weakness leaving the body.  - U. S. Marine Corps slogan

I believe every person has a heart, and if you can reach it, you can make a difference. - Uli Derickson

I am part of all that I have met. (from Homer's 'Odyssey') - Ulysses

Everyone has superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the things intended was accomplished. - Ulysses Grant

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court

The prettiest smiles hide the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears and the kindest hearts have felt the most pain. - Unknown

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. (Senior college basketball player) - Unknown

Mistakes are proof that you are trying. - Unknown

If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you're above them. - Unknown

I’m not clumsy. It’s just the floor hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies, and the wall gets in the way - Unknown Author

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find. - Unknown Author

Persevering in one's existence is the particular quality of the organism; it is not progress towards achievement, followed by stasis, which is the machine's mode, but an interactive, rhythmic, and unstable process, which constitutes an end in itself. - Ursula K. Le Guin

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. - Ursula K. Le Guin

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. - Ursula K. LeGuin

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

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. - Ursula Le Guin

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. - V. S. Naipaul

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. - Vaclav Havel

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. - Van Wyck Brooks

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

He, therefore, who desires peace should prepare for war. He who aspires to victory should spare no pains to form his soldiers. And he who hopes for success should fight on principle, not chance. (from De rei Militari)  - Vegetius

If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it. - Verda Ross

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.  - Vernon Cooper

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. - Vernon Howard

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

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.  - Vic Harville

Love decreases when it ceases to increase. - Vicomte De Chateaubriand

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. - Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. - Victor Hugo

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.  - Victor Hugo

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

The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever. (from Les Miserables) - Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean went out of the city as if he were escaping. He made all haste to get into the open country, taking the first lanes and bypaths that offered, without noticing that he was every moment retracing his steps. He wandered thus all the morning. (from the novel, 'Les Miserables') - Victor Hugo

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. - Victor Hugo

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

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. - Victoria, Queen of England

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. - Viggo Mortensen

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.  - Viki King

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. - Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.  - Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. - Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. - Vince Lombardi

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.  - Vince Lombardi

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent Van Gogh

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. - Vincent van Gogh

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. - Vincent Van Gogh

I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent van Gogh

I am always in hope of making a discovery by a wedding of two complementary colors, their mingling and opposition, the mysterious vibration of kindred spirits. - Vincent van Gogh

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is! - Vincent van Gogh

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. - Vincent van Gogh

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days. - Vincent van Gogh

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise. - Vincent van Gogh

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours." - Vine Deloria, Jr.

Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on. - Virgil

Recall you courage, and lay aside sad fear. - Virgil

Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. {Aeneid}  - Virgil

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.  - Virgil

Art is made in hindsight. - Virgil Abloh

Just focus on doing what you love to do and play your best game. Get your qualities out of the pitch, enjoy your game and don't think about the other things. - Virgil van Dijk

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. - Virginia Burden

If lawyers are debarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted; musicians denoted; cowboys deranged; models deposed; and dry cleaners depressed. - Virginia Ostman

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. - Virginia Woolf

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. - Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet . . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.  - Virginia Woolf

Odder still how possessed I am with the feeling that now, aged 50, I’m just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are… These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. - Virginia Woolf

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. - Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolfe

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. - Virginia Woolfe

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.  - Voltaire

I don't agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.  - Voltaire

If God made us in his image, we have more than repaid the compliment. - Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education. (from Life of Moliere) - Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. - Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, the amphitheatres, for wild beasts to fight in. - Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. - Voltaire

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz

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

Every system is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets. - W. Edwards Deming

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know. - W. H. Auden

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. - W. H. Auden

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. {from The Ethics of Belief} - W. K. Clifford

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. - W. Somerset Maugham

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. - W.H. Auden

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. (from 'The Dyer's Hand - Random House) - W.H. Auden

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound. - W.S. Gilbert

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude. - W.W. Ziege

It is a reduction of our Humanity to hide from pain, our own or others'... Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones. - Wallace Stegner

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do. - Walt Disney

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt Disney

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. - Walt Disney

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time. - Walt Disney

Many hands, heart and minds generally contribute to notable achievement. - Walt Disney

I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. - Walt Disney

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. - Walt Disney

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish. - Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. - Walt Disney

Mickey was the first cartoon to stress personality. I thought of him from the first as a distinct individual, not just a cartoon-type symbol going through comedy routines. - Walt Disney

Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. - Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

Courage is the main quality of leadership, in our opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk—especially in new undertakings. Courage is to initiate something and to keep it going—to have a pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways in our land of opportunity. - Walt Disney

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral. - Walt Disney

Answer that you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. - Walt Whitman

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it is any more than he.  - Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.  - Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills... {from the poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"} - Walt Whitman

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?  - Walt Whitman

It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. - Walter Anderson

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

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowin' the 60-40 end of a proposition, money management, and knowin' yourself. - Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Dwight

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. - Walter H. Judd

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconceivable, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. - Walter Lippmann

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. - Walter R. Rutherford

What is reading but silent conversation? - Walter Savage Landor

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it. - Walter Savage Landor

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. - Warren Bennis

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. - Warren Bennis

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.  - Warren Buffett

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for. - Warren Buffett

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. - Warren Buffett

Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. - Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. - Warren Buffett

When you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. - Warren Buffett

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. (written in a report to company shareholders) - Warren Buffett

We mean to have less of Government in business and more business in Government. - Address to Congress, 1921 - Warren Gamaliel Harding

I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. - Washington Irving

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.  - Wayne Dyer

People treat us the way we teach them to treat us. - Wayne Dyer

You'll always miss 100 percent of the shots you do not take. - Wayne Gretzky

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. - Wayne Lukas

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's life may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. - Wendell Berry

Education is the mother of leadership. - Wendell L. Willkie

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. - Wernher Von Braun

We give up believing that we design the world into existence, and instead take up roles in support of its flourishing. We work with what is available and encourage forms to come forth. We foster tinkering and discovery. We help create connections. We nourish with information. We stay clear about what we want to accomplish. We remember that people self-organize and trust them to do so. (from 'A Simpler Way' - 1996) - Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith, the warmth of Christmas, which is love; the radiance of Christmas, which is purity. - Wilda English

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed. - Wilferd A. Peterson

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man 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

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - Will Durant

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. - Will Durant

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump. - Will Durst

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master. - Will Henry

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. - Will Kommen

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. - Will Rogers

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself. - Will Rogers

I'm just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have geen eating pretty regular and the reason I have is because I have stayed an old country boy. - Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf will. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you can get so sore at yourself that you forget to hate your enemies. - Will Rogers

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me. - Will Rogers

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

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood. - Will Rogers

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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!  - Will Rogers

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. - Will Rogers

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers

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

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.  - Will Rogers

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. - Will Rogers

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

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

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. - Will Rogers

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. - Will Rogers

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. - Will Rogers

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. - Will Rogers

You can't say civilization won't advance ... for in every war they kill you a new way. - Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. - Will Rogers

Go out on a limb... That's where the fruit is. - Will Rogers

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt. - Will Rogers

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

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. - Willa Cather

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. - Willa Cather

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Cather

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. - Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain. - William Adams Brown

All dressed up and nowhere to go. (1916) - William Allen White

No matter how important new discoveries and methods, they cannot be considered to have reached fulfillment until generally applied to the sick. (1939, Harvard Medical School) - William B. Castle

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. - William Barclay

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

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

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

What is now proven was once only imagined. - William Blake

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. - William Butler Yeats

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. ("The Red Wheelbarrow")  - William Carlos Williams

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.  - William Carlos Williams

The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. - William Carlos Williams

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.  - William Cobbett

Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there. {Mamiwinini, Canada, 1991}  - William Commanda

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. - William Congreve

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve

Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. - William Cowper

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - William Cowper

God made the country and man made the town. - William Cowper

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. - William Dean Howells

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. - William Dean Howells

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. - William Dean Howells

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. - William Dean Howells

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. - William DeMille

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.  - William Ellery Channing

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. - William Ellery Channing

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.  - William Ernest Henley

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. - William Faulkner

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. - William Faulkner

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. {from the novel, 'The Sound and the Fury'}  - William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. - William Faulkner

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. - William Faulkner

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. - William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. - William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

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

Unless a man is kicked around a little, you can't really depend on him to amount to anything. - William Feather

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. - William Golding

I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade, too, next year. - William Goumas - first-grade pupil

The most sensible people to be met within society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be. - William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that. - William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. - William Hazlitt

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. - William Hazlitt

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. - William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. - William Hazlitt

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.  - William Henry Channing

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. - Inaugural Address, 1841 - William Henry Harrison

A government is for the benefit of all the people... - Veto of Arizona Enabling Act, 1911 - William Howard Taft

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world. - William J.H. Boetcker

You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities. - William J.H. Boetcker

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. - William J.H. Boetcker

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James

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

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James

...{A} rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule. {from The Will to Believe} - William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.  - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experien

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. - Inaugural Address, 1997 - William Jefferson Clinton

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

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. - William Jennings Bryan

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder. {World War II field marshal}  - William Joseph Slim

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. - William L Shirer

The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we're sliding down. - William L. Brownell

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? - William Law

Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love. - William Law

To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. - William Londen

To insure good health: Eatl Lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. - William Louden

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. - William Lyon Phelps

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. - William Lyon Phelps

Hell is paved with good samaritans. - William M. Holden

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

We want no war of conquest... War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. - Inaugural Address, 1897 - William McKinley

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. - William Morris

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. - William O. Douglas, opinion, United States v. Ball

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills. - William Osler

To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. - William Osler

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has. - William Osler

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. - William Osler

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. - William Penn

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. - William Penn

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. - William Penn

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. - William Ralph Inge

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so. - William Ralph Inge

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. - William Ralph Inge

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. - William S. Burroughs

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise. - William Saroyan

And then the whining schoolboy..., creeping like snail unwillingly to school... {As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII} - William Shakespeare

It is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest. - William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? - William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (from The Merchant of Venice) - William Shakespeare

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - William Shakespeare

The miserable have no other medicine; but only hope. (Claudio, in Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 1)  - William Shakespeare

And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. {Romeo and Juliet}  - William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (from Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3) - William Shakespeare

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. (from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2) - William Shakespeare

Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare

I am not a slut, though I thank the Gods I am foul. - William Shakespeare

In converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork. - William Shakespeare

Ay, sir; to be honest - as this world goes - is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - William Shakespeare

A power I have, but of what strength and nature I am not yet instructed. (from Measure for Measure, act 1, sc. 1) - William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.  - William Shakespeare

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

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. {The Merchant of Venice} - William Shakespeare

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. - William Shakespeare

It is a wise father who knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

Let never the night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. - William Shakespeare

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. - William Shakespeare {Julius Caesar, III:2}

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! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare, "MacBeth"

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke. - William T. Tilden II

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William Thackeray

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. - William Thackeray

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. (from "Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey") - William Wordsworth

Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? - William Wordsworth

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.  - William Yeats

Writing is thinking on paper. - William Zinsser

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. - Wilson Mizner

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. - Wilson Mizner

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

Isn't it funny, How a bear makes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does. - Winnie-the-Pooh

A nation that tries to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give! - Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill

Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing - after all other possibilities have been exhausted. - Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself, the means of inspiration and survival. - Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill

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

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work. - Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.  - Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous shock. - Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loosing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

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. - Winston Churchill

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. - Winston Churchill

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. - Winston Churchill

Those whose work and pleasures are one are fortune's favorite children.  - Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. - Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion. - Winston Churchill

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. - Winston Churchill

When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. ... the White people pay no attention. ...How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? ... everywhere the White man has touched it, it is sore.  - Wintu Woman, 19th Century

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line... and that its direction changes constantly. - Wittgenstein

This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young physicist's p

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.  - Woodrow Wilson

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. - Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson

Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total distinction. - Woody Allen

I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. - Woody Allen

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. - Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. - Woody Allen

Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love. (from 'Annie Hall'} - Woody Allen

We who lie here now pass on to you the torch of freedom. - World War II cemetery in Magraten, Netherlands

As there are persons who mend torn garments, so there are physicians who heal the sick; but your duty is far nobler and one befitting a just person - namely to keep people in health. (from Cryopaedia, 400 B.C.) - Xenophon

There is something to be learned from a rain storm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet, and run quickly along the road. By doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. If one is resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, but will still receive the same soaking. This understanding extends to all. - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The path of life has many crossroads, and at each one it's difficult to say goodbye and go our own separate ways, choosing the direction that is right for each of us. But the memory of being together will always remain, and there is always the chance that our paths will cross again.  - Yee, Donna

Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the Dark Side. - Yoda

Smarter than the average bear. - Yogi

Toots Shor's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore. - Yogi Berra

This is like deja vu all over again. - Yogi Berra

Little League Baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. - Yogi Berra

He (Mickey Mantle) hits from both sides of the plate. He's naturally amphibious. - Yogi Berra

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra

Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is. - Yogi Berra

We have deep depth. - Yogi Berra

We made too many wrong mistakes. - Yogi Berra

If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them. - Yogi Berra

Half this game is ninety percent mental. - Yogi Berra

You can see a lot by just looking. - Yogi Berra

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. - Yogi Berra

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!  - Yoko Ono

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. - Yu Cao

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution. - Message to Congress, 1849 - Zachary Taylor

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted.  - Zen Poem

If you want a certain thing, you must first be a certain person. Once you are that certain person, obtaining that certain thing will no longer be a concern of yours. - Zen proverb

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. - Zen proverb

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, we did it ourselves. - Zen saying

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.  - Zig Ziglar

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.  - Ziggy

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. - Zimbabwe Proverb

A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.  - Zitkala-Sa

Have a dream. Make a plan. Go for it. You'll get there, I promise. (A woman with multiple sclerosis who required 24 hours on crutches but finished the 1993 New York City Marathon - 26.2 miles) - Zoe Koplowitz

You got to go there to know there. - Zora Neale Hurston

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.  - Zora Neale Hurston

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.  - Zora Neale Hurston

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he is finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Husbands are like fires: They go out when unattended. - Zsa Zsa Gabor