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Lincoln Abraham

 Kennedy John Fitzgerald

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar.

Moore Marianne

 Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Morley Christopher

The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Plath Sylvia

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Plato

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Poe Edgar Allan 

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Sandburg Carl  

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Stevens Wallace

 In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

 Thomas Dylan

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

 Van Doren Mark

  The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Lord Byron    

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Byron Frederick

The world is composed of takers and givers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

 Yeats  William Butler

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

WhitmanWalt

 To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Jarell Randall

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Joubert Joseph

  You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

 To teach is to learn twice

Graves Robert

 There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

 Frost Robert

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.  

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.  

Burke Edmund

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Chapin Edwin Hubbert

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.

Dudan Mikhail

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.

Engle Paul     

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Holmes Oliver Wendell 

  When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

Bodenheim Maxwell   

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.  

Birney Earle  

 The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

Nin Anais

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

 Montaigne Michel

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making  gods by dozens.

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Roberts.Stephen

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Fried Frank

Folks, the grass is not greener on that side of the fence. And the grass is not greener on this side of the fence. The grass is greener where you water it.

 Chittenden Meg

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

 Van Doren Mark

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Adams Henry

They know enough who know how to learn.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Albers Josef

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

 Alcott Amos

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences...

Aristotle

Education is the best viaticum of old age.

Chapman John Jay

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

 Lord Bryce

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

 Nixon  Richard M. 

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Clarke J. F.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.

Anonymous Politician 

I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.

Truman Harry S

I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Warner Charles Dudley

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

de Gaulle   Charles   

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Be as you wish to seem.

Roosevelt Theodore  

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

Khrushchev Nikita     

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

Bierce Ambrose 

Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

von Bismarck Otto  

Politics is not an exact science.

 Politics is the art of the possible.

Anderson John B

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Eisenhower Dwight

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.  

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Stevenson Robert Louis

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

McCarthy Eugene 

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

Reagan Ronald

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Petit-Senn John 

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Emerson  Ralph Waldo

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

I confess I am a little cynical on some topics, and when a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. I have generally found the gravest and most useful citizens are not the easiest provoked to swell the noise, though they may be punctual at the polls.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Every artist was at first an amateur.

Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide

Milagro Alfonso

It's never too little when you give all you've got.

Swetchine Anne

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Camus Albert

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

 Washington George

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder

Douglas Lloyd C.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him a landlord to a ghost.

Firebaugh Doug

There is no reason to ever quit...unless of course you had no plans to ever succeed...that is called 'Delusional Success.

Leadership is only one thing...creation. Leaders are creationists that create things that were not there before, and create the reasons that everyone else accomplished it.

Lao-tzu

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Fuller Thomas

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

Hemingway Ernest

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. Both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons.

You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer. [After seeing David O. Selznick's remake of "A Farewell to Arms", 1957;

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.

 Edmonds Bernard

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

Metych Michele

If you aren't happy, you aren't really living. People say you should judge whether or not you're alive by whether or not you're breathing,  but I disagree with that. I think, in order to judge if you are truly  alive, you must look at the moments in your life that have taken your breath away.

 Adams Douglas

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

 Ellis Havelock

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on

Covey Stephen

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

Frank Anne

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Hale Edward Everett

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Pascal Blaise

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Davis Miles

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Descartes Rene

And in your new path, always remember this : If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Duganne Augustine J

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Saki

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Bohr Niels

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Bronowski Jacob

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverance to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Buddha

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

Carolus John

We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.

No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.

Campbell Joseph

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.

Cicero

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

de Coubertin Pierre

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Dewey John

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

Disraeli Benjamin

There is no education like adversity.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated in quotations.

Douglass Frederick

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depricate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground.

Eliot T.S.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest

 Rashid Elisha

Reinventing the wheel is a process.

To arrive at the simple is difficult.

 Eliot George

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

Euripides

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead to the future.

Ford Henry

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

France Anatole

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them.  Put there just a spark.

Freud Sigmund

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it.

Darrow Clarence

To think is to differ.

Galilei Galielo

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Gandhi Mohandes

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Goethe Johann W.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Gardner John W.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult.

 Highet Gilbert

People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

Hutchins Robert M.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

Jackson Andrew

Sometimes one man with courage is a majority.

James William

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

James William

These then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Henry Jr.

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.

Johnson Kenneth G.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Kempis Thomas A.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Kepes Gyorgy

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Kettering Charles F.

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Korzybski Alfred

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Laertius Diogenes

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!

Lenin Vladimir

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lichtenberg Georg

To do just the opposite is a form of imitation.

Lincoln Abraham

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

Locke John

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

Lindberg Ann Morrow

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

MacManus Seumas

The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

Mallarme Stephane

To define is to destroy, to suggest is to create.

Mann Horace

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does  better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.

Mann Thomas

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it inn terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Morgan Barbara

Let the potential artist in our children come to life that they may surmount industrial monotonies and pressures.

Neblette C.B.

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.

The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.

 Cardinal Newman

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

Oppenheimer Robert

Knowledge rests on knowledge; what is new is meaningful because it departs slightly from what was known before.

Ovid

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

 Pasteur Louis

In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

 Pliny the Younger

An object in possession seldom contains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Pope Alexander

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

 Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Rogers Carl

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Ruskin John

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.

Seneca

Men learn while they teach.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

St.Augustine

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

Santayana George

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Schopenhauer Arthur

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Sophocles

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.

 Unamuno Miguel

It is easy to spot an informed man -- his opinions are just like your own

Van Gogh Vincent

The best way to know life is to love many things.

Whitehead Alfred North

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Wells H.G.

 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Welles Orson

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Wittgenstein Ludwig

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

  Saint-Exupery Antoine

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Wolfe Thomas

I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son...

Wordsworth William

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

 Brilliant Ashleigh

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Glasgow Arnold

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

 Christie Agatha

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Moore Mary Tyler

I'm an experienced woman: I've been around...well, alright, I might not've been around but I've been...nearby.

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

 Moore Thomas [Irish Poet]

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams.

 Colby Frank Moore [US Encyclopedia Editor]

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Moore Brian (1921-1999) Irish Novelist

In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Nightingale Earl

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.  

Tracy Brian

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less

Beneteau Rick

You might be poor, and unhappy; but become suddenly rich, and you will still be unhappy.

Allen James

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others. And they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength and feel that they can learn from him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater his success, his influence, and his power for good. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.

Rohn Jim

‘No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

Be a student, not a follower. Don't just go do what someone says. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it and consider it from all angles.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, 'Liars shouldn't lie.' What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

Hansen  Mark Victor

Remember: You're either a dream maker or a dream breaker.

 Franklin Benjamin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine

Hymowitz Carol

Honesty in the workplace can't be regulated. It has to be encouraged by leaders who themselves are honest and willing to admit their failures.

Moody Dwight Lyman

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining -- they just shine.

 Hadfield Captain J. A.

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

 Balzac Honoré

 In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

 Billings Josh

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Runes Dagobert D.    

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor  

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

 Marquis Don

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

 Johnson Samuel

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau  

 We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

Adams Anse

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Whistler James McNeill 

 If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

Arbus Diane

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Bowen Elizabeth  

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Carlin George

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.

Kingsley Ben

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

Serling Rod

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

 O'Toole Peter

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.

 Holt John

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Emerson Ralph Waldo

Character is higher than intellect.

Ovid

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Leclerc Georges Louis

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

Garner Ed

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings

Frost Robert

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.  

Chanel Coco

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Adams Jane

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Santayana George

Waking life is a dream controlled.

Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Zappa Frank

The more BORING a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being GOOD PARENTS -- because they have a TAME CHILD-CREATURE in their house.  

Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

A. A. Milne

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

 Casals Pabalo --- Spanish cellist

 Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Coward  Noël

 It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Epictus

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoice in what he has.

Carrott Jasper - English comedian

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

  Kepler Johannes

 Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

  Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this -- Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Abbey Edward

Grown men do not need leaders.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

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

 Adams Charles Francis

 In this country men seem to live for action as long as they  can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams Henry Brooks

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

 Adams John

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. , 'Argument in Defense of  the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

Adams Douglas

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

Life's too short for chess. H. J. Byron

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

You should send that into Reader's Digest, they've got a page for people like you.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.     

Aeschylus

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope

Aesop

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

 Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aikman L

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. Leo  Aikman

Aikman Leo

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

 Alito Noelie

 The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Allen Fred

California is a fine place to live -- if you happen to be an orange.

Allen Fred

California is a fine place to liveif you happen to be an orange.  

Allen James

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

 Allen Louis A

 The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the  point where action takes place.

Allende  Salvador

Pour un journaliste de gauche, le devoir suprême est de servir non pas la vérité, mais la révolution    

Amis  Kingsley

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

 Ancis Joe

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Angelou Maya

 A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Arendt Hanna

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.

Aristotle (384 BC  322 BC)

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than love others.

Anyone can become angry. That is 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 is not easy.

Aristotle  

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Armstrong Louis

I never want to be anything more than I am.

Armey  Dick

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. Dick Armey US Congressman from Texas

Arnold Matthew

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. [God and the Bible,' 1875]

Asimov Isaac

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Aster  Clyde B.

When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.

Astor Nancy

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.  

Augsburger David

The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you

Austen Jane

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?   

B

Babitz Eve

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Bacon Francis

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

 Bagehot

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

Bagshot Walter

 Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Bailey

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself

Bankhead Tallulah

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Baraka Amiri

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

 Bardot Brigitte

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

 Barnum P

Every crowd has a silver lining. Phineas Taylor Barnum

  Barrie Sir  James M.

Life is a long lesson in humility.  

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

 Barry D

But we must not allow ourselves to become cynical. We must remember that for every instance of the government's demonstrating the intelligence of a yam, there is also an instance of the government's rising to the level of a far more complex vegetable, such as the turnip. Dave Barry [American writer, 1947 ]

 Barton B

When you're through changing, you're through.

Bashar

Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror waiting for your reflection to smile first.

Batten  Joseph

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.  

 Bayne S

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life embrace it. Jim Beggs

 Bayne Stephen

I am like a mosquito in a nudist camp. I know what I ought to do, but I don't know where to begin.

Beecher Henry Ward

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

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

 Bellack Dan

Life is too short for traffic.

 Benchley R

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Benchley Robert  

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. [Benchley's Law of Distinction]

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

 Berlioz- Hector

 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Bernard A. R.

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

 Berry John

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.  

Bey Hakim

Only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be.  

 Bierce Ambrose

Admiration, n: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves , The Devil's Dictionary

 Bierce Ambrose

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

 Bierce Ambrose

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. The Devil's Dictionary

 Billings J

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
'Aphorisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,'

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.  

Birrell Augustine

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

 Bismarck

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

Blake W

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

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

 Blount R Jr.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

Bohr Niel

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.   

 Bonnano Margaret

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daytoday basis.

 Bonner Marita

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

Boone Louis E.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

 Borger Gloria

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

Borges Jorge Luis

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Bourne  Alec

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

 Bowen E

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Bowles Chester

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

 Boy C

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind.

 Brandt Willy

If I'm selling to you, I speak your language. If I'm buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen [then you must speak German].

 Brilliant Ashleigh [American author]

The rewards for breaking the rules . . . can sometimes be greater than the penalties.

Brilliant Ashleigh

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

 Brin David

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Brooks Bellamy

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

Brothers Joyce