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Lincoln Abraham	The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.--









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?
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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	Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Broun Heywood	If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings--including this one.
Brower David	All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
Brown A. Whitney	I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Bruce Barton	When you're through changing, you're through. If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Bruce L	Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce
Bruce Lenny	Because I'm Jewish, a lot of people ask why I killed Christ. What can I say? It was one of those parties that got out of hand. I killed him because he wouldn't become a doctor.
Bryant Paul "Bear" [Coach]	Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Buckle Henry Thomas	Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Buddha	Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buffet W [American investor, 1930]	It is only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
Burgess A	Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Burke Edmund	By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Burke L J	People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Burnham D H	Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
Burns George	I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Butler Samuel	It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Byrne Robert	Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Getting caught is the mother of invention. Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Everything is in a state of flux, including the stat
Byron H. J.	Life's too short for chess.
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C. V. R. Thompson	Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
California Civil Code,	That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist. The law neither does nor requires idle acts. The law disregards trifles. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best. Superfluity does not vitiate. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.
Cameron S	An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron
Camus A	Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus
Camus Albert	Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Camus	Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Cantor Eddie	Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
Capone A	You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. Al Capone [American gangster, 18991947] Vote early and vote often
Capuzzi John	A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
Cardinal Newman	Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
Carlin G	Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? George Carlin
Carlin George	Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
Carlyle Thomas	To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Carlyle Thomas	The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Carnegie Dale	Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. Your happiness depends not on what you have, nor upon who you are connected to or where you are or what you are doing; it depends on how you think about all these.
Caron de Beaumarchais	It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them
Carson J	If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. Johnny Carson
Carson Johnny	I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Carter H	Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. Hodding Carter
Catherine	I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his. Catherine the Great
Cavett Dick	As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Cervantes	Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Chafee Zechariah	The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority, that does not want to listen.
Chapman Robert	A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC)	Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Ciardi J	You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Cicero Marcus Tullius	Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? A room without books is like a body without a soul. Reason should direct and appetite obey.
Clark G	There ain't no money in poetry; that's what sets the poet free. Guy Clark
Clarke Arthur C., "Technology and the Future"	The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Clemenceau G	War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Georges Clemenceau
Clydez J	How can Ron consume so many Secret Strawberry Martinis? last words, 1762
Cockburn Claud	Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
Colegate	It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. Isabel Colegate.
Collette	What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Collins Marva N.	If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Commoner B	Nothing ever goes away. Barry Commoner
Confucius	Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. Confucius
Connolly C	Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly
Conroy Pat	I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
Cooper Jilly	The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Cooper Tommy	Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
Copland A	The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' Aaron Copland
Coren A	Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Coronel William	Don't spend $2 to dry clean a shirt. Instead, donate it to the Salvation Army. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. The next morning buy it back for seventy- five cents.
Cummings J	A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Fr. Jerome Cummings
Cunningham Ed	Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Cuppy W	Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. Will Cuppy
Currie E	The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke. Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
Cuyler M	I think wholeness comes from living you life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night. Margery Cuyler
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da Silva Peter	Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Dalai Lama	Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Dali Salvador	There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Darrow Clarence	The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
Davis Adelle	We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
Davis Bette	To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. [The Lonely Life, 1962]
Davis Evan	Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. Evan Davis
de La Rochefoucauld Frants	Philosophy triumphs easily over past and over future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy.
De Voto Bernard	Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
De Vries Peter	It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Life is a zoo in a jungle.
DeBussyRabutin	Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Comte DeBussyRabutin
Deming W. Edwards	Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
Demosthenes	He who confers a favour should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. Demosthenes
Devlin B	To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
Dickinson E	They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson
Dickson Gordon R.	Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Dirac P	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 (1902 1984)
Diran Richard	I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Disney Walt	I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Disraeli B	Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Don Marquis	A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Douglas William Orville [Supreme Court Justice]	The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances.
Douglass Frederick [escaped slavery in 1838, US lecturer, author]	A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Dowd Maureen	The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. [New York Times]
Dowden Edward	Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success
Dryden John	A thing well said will be writ in all languages. There is a pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know.
Duhamel Georges	I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Durant Will [American writer,18851981]
Durant Will	Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Durant Will	Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Durante Jimmy	I hate music, especially when it's played.
Dylan Bob	A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
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Earnhardt Dale	You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.
Eastwood C	The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices.
Edison Thomas A.	To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. We don't know onemillionth of one percent about anything.
Einstein Albert	Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. Imagination is more important than knowledge. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Eisenhower Dwight	You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Ekstrom Bob	Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow
Elliot T.S.	Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
Emerson Ralph Waldo	The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. The world belongs to the energetic.
Epictetu	All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. s
Epictetus	If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. Epictetus
Ertz S	Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz
Euripides	Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Fargis Paul	Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Feiffer J	Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Ferber E	Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. Edna Ferber
Feynman R	For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Fields Totie	I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Fields W. C.	I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
Fitzgerald Scott	Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
Flame Phoenix	A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Fletcher J	Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Forbes Malcolm	By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Ford Henry	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.
Forrestal James V.	Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
Forster EM	I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. [as a small child]
Fortin Louis-N.	An enemy who tells the truth contributes infinitely more to our improvement than a friend who deludes us.
Fowles John	The word is inherent in every artistic situation, if for no other reason than that we can analyse our feelings about the other arts only in words. This is because the word is man's most precise and inclusive tool; and poetry is the using of this most precise and inclusive tool memorably [The Aristos] Cherish the poet; there seemed a great many auks till the last one died.
France Anatole	The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Frank Anne	If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Frank Lloyd Wright	No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.
Franklin Benjamin	Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. [Poor Richard's Almanack] To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. Never confuse motion with action. Wish not so much to live long as to live well. [Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738] If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Freeman Tim	When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
Freud Sigmund	I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Friedan Betty	Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
Friedman Milton	Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Frisch Max	Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Fromm Erich	Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Frost Robert	You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Froude James A.	Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Fuller Margaret	If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
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Gabor Zsa Zsa	Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Gaither Gloria	Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.
Galbraith JK	If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
Gallagher	Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
Gallois Pierre	If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and noone dares criticize it.
Gandhi	The good man is the friend of all living things. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. It is my firm conviction that if the State supressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and will fail to develop non-violence at any time. The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. It is my firm conviction that if the State supressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and will fail to develop non-violence at any time. The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor.
Garfield J	A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Gaylin Willard	English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.
George Gurdjieff	They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. 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. A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
Gibb Andy	Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
Gibbon Edward	It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Gibran Kahlil	Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair A disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds. If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Gibson Wilfred Wilson	We who are left how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
Giesel Theodore	You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children] a.k.a. Dr. Seuss
Gifford Frank	Pro Football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Gill Brendan	Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Giraudoux Jean	The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Gissing George	Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
Glenconner Pamela	Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.
Glidden Germain G.	The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
Goering Herman	Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger. -- at the Nuremberg trials
Gogol N	Beware the past. It is an open wound.
Golding William	What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
Goldsmith James	If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Goldwyn Sam	Spare no expense to save money on this one. Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Goncourt	Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Gordimer Nadine	Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever
Gordon Karen Elizabeth	All phone calls are obscene. Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
Gorky Maxim	Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children. You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Gracián Baltasar	Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Graham Billy	We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
Graham Martha	We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
Graham Sheila	Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Gramsci Antonio	I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Graves Robert	The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Gray Thomas	The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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Gregory Dick	If only man could get a little older a little later, and a little wiser a little younger.
Grossman Lisa	Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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Hagar the Horrible	As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Haig Alexander	The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Harris Sydney	Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Hartigan Grace	I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.
Haskins Ernest	Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Hayes Helen [American actress]	Age is not important unless you are a cheese.
Hazlitt W	Prejudice is the child of ignorance. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
Heidegger Martin	Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Heine Heinrich	The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
Heinlein Robert	That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed The threelegged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards
Hepburn Katherine	We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?
Herold Don	There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Hert H	He who turns the other cheek too far gets it in the neck.
Heywood John	A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
Hildebrand Kenneth	Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Hilton James	Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value the ultimate value of what one does.
Hinds Josh S.	Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out, the more you receive in return.
Hitchcock Alfred	Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Hoffer E	When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr.	Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have co-tenants in this house we live in.
Holt Rita	There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.
Hoover H	We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Horning J	Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Horning Jim	Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Howe Ed	Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Howells William Dean	I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
Howitt Mary	For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Hubbard Elbert	Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually to be fearing you will make one. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Hubbard Kin	There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Hubbard Kin	Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Hudler Rex	Be a fountain, not a drain. [quoted in Sports Illustrated]
Hume David (1711 1776)	Truth, springs from argument amongst friends.
Huxley Aldous H	Maybe this world is another planet's hell. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Huxley Thomas	The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
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Iacocca Lee	The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Ibarruri Dolores	It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. [September 3, 1936]
Ibsen Henrik	The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Ikeda Daisaku	With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Jackson Janet	Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
Jagger Mick	It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
James Clive	Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
James Henry	It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -
James P. D	It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. .
Janeway Elizabeth	Power is the ability not to have to please.
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.
Jefferson Thomas	I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Jerome K. Jerome	It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerrold Douglas	Love's like the measles all the worse when it comes late in life.
Jiminez Juan Ramon	If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Johnson Lady Bird	It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you
Johnson Philander	Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784	Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson
Jones Franklin P.	Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones T	Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Jones H. Mumford	Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Jong E	If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Judy Garland	I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
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Kafka Franz	A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.
Kapuscinski Ryszard	Words that open our eyes to the world are always the easiest to remember.
Kaye Danny	Life is a great big canvass and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Keillor Garrison	I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Keller Helen	Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Kennedy Florynce	Don't agonize. Organize.
Kennedy John F	If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Kepler Johannes	Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Kettering Charles F.	It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.
Keyes Ken	No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life you win some and you lose some.
Khrushchev Nikita	Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
King Martin Luther	Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Kissinger H	Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Kleiman M	Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.
Knopf A	An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
Kropotkin	Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
Kupcinet I	What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Lamb Charles	I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Lange Dorthea	The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.
Lardner Ring	I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
Larson Doug	The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Laurence J. Peter	Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. --
Le Carre J	Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
Leach Rosemary	Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Leary Timothy	Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Lebowitz Fran	Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Lehrer Tom	I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Lenin	A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lennon John	We're more popular than Jesus now; I dont know which will go first; rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Leno Jay	The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Leno Jay	The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Leslie H.T.	The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Letterman David	Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
Levant Oscar	I am no more humble than my talents require. Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Levenson Sam	Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Lewis C. S.	Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
Lichtenberg	A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Lin Yutang Chinese writer	Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow	Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. [from Gift From the Sea]
Lippman Walter	Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Little Mary Wilson	Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Locke John	The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth	Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
Lorimer George Horace	You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
Loukes Harold	An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Lowell James Russell	Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Lucas E. V.	One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
Luce Clare Booth	Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it sould end there There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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MacArthur Douglas	No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Macaulay Dame Rose	It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
Macdonald Ross	There’s nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Mandela Nelson	As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Marcus Aurelius	Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. , Meditations, 200 A.D. A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
Marquis Don	Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Martin Judith (Miss Manners)	We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Marx Chico	Mustard's no good without roast beef.
Marx Groucho	Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Mason Jackie	It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Maugham W. Somerset	Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Maurois Andre	In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Maye Sheldon S.	I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, If you do it right today.
McAdoo William G.	It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
McCabe Charles	McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.
McClary Michael	Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
Meir Golda	I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Don't be so humble, you're not that great. Golda Meir
Midler Bette	I never know how much of what I say is true.
Mignon	No one really listens to anyone else. Try it for a while, and you'll see why."
Mill John Stuart	If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one if he had the power would be justified insilencing mankind.
Miller Colin	We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Miller Margaret	Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
Milne A. A.	Brains first and then Hard Work. Eeyore [Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne] Well, I sort of made it up,' said Pooh . . .`it comes to me sometimes.' `Ah!' said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them. ''
Minksy Marvin	Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
Mizner Wilson	Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Mizner Wilson	A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Mohammad	The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Moliere	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. [from The Wouldbe Gentleman]
Monroe Marilyn	It's not true I had nothing on I had the radio on. I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
Montagu Lady Mary Wortley,	It has all been very interesting. [last words, 1762]
Montaigne Michel (de)	Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Montesquieu	Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Moore Hannah	Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
Morley Christopher	Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness.
Moser Claus	Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael	Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
Mozart	Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Muhammad Ali	Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali
Musashi Miyamoto	I must say, to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.
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Napoleon Bonaparte	History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. If you start something, finish it.
Nash Ogden	Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Nasser Gamel Abdel	The genius of you Americans is that you never make clearcut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
National Lampoon	Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. [Deteriorata]
Necker Suzanne	Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Nesen Ron	Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Newman Alfred E.	Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Nicklaus Jack	Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
Niemöller Pastor Martin	When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned.
Nightingale Earl	People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be whether they will admit that or not.
Nixon Richard	Solutions are not the answer.
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O'Hara John	America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization
Olsen Ken [Digital Equipment Corp., 1977]	The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Oppenheimer J. Robert	Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. [speaking of Albert Einstein]
O'Rourke P. J.	Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Orwell George	Saints should be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Osler Sir William	One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Overbury Thomas	The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato the best part under ground.
Ovid	Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Paddison Sara	Vision enables you to glimpse into the future, to sense its hope and power, because you yourself are the means for that future's creation.
Paine James C. US District Judge	Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does. Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was. ( addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991)
Parker Dorothy	Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong, And I am Marie of Roumania. I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasantand let the air out of the tires. If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Pascal Blaise (1623 - 1662)	Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
Peguy Charles	He who does not follow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. [French poet /philosopher]
Peter Laurence J.	If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Peters Ellis	Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
Peterson Wilfred A.	The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Phelps Austin	Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Picasso Pablo	There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Everything you can imagine is real.
Plato	The life which is unexamined is not worth living. As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.
Plutarch	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.
Poe Edgar Allan	Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Porterfield Joe Martin	The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
Pound Ezra	The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
Poundstone Paula	I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
Powell Adam Clayton Jr	Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power'
Price George	Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
Pritchard Michael	You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Putt's Law	Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Pythagoras	Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreable.
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Quentin Crisp	Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quinn Professor Brian	Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also optional.
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Rand Ayn	Thinking men cannot be ruled. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the ‘competition’ between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of ‘exploitation’ for which you have damned the strong. Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation--and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering. The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave. It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there is service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be master. I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics
Ratcliffe Mitch	A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila
Raymond Aron	Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Reiner Carl	A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Rhea Caroline	Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
Ringgold Faith	‘I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, 'I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here.’
Robertson Frederick William	This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Rochefoucauld Francois de La	Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Rogers Will	Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Rogers Will	There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer
Roosevelt Franklin Delano	The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Roosevelt Eleanor	No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Root Elihu	I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it. Senator Elihu Root of NY, 1913
Rossilyo Detlev	Bring a breath of fresh air to your office. Be cheerful. And above all, be grateful that you are not as judgmental as all those self-righteous morons around you. When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off immediately! A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots. Don't be irreplaceable; if you cannot be replaced, you cannot be promoted. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. If you do it today and you enjoy it, you can do it again tomorrow. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human heart. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Rostand Edmond	My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Rowland Helen	Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Rudner Rita	I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rudner Rita	When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
Ruskin John	He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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Safire William	Never assume the obvious is true
Sagan Francoise	A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Saki (H. H. Munro	Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. )
Salinger J.D.	I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him. Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
Sandburg Carl	I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door,leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
Sand George	Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Santayana George	The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
Sartre JeanPaul	Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Schlegel Friedrich Von	In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Schoeck Helmut [German sociologist]	The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
Schopenhauer Arthur	If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Schuller Dr. Robert	You are what you think about all day long.
Schulz Charles M	Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. -- Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
Schumacher E. F.	Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Schwab Charles M	Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. .
Schweitzer Albert	Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Sedgwick John	They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance [immediately prior to being killed by enemy fire at the battle of Spotsylvania in the American Civil War]
Seneca	All cruelty springs from weakness Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Sevareid Eric	Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks
Shadwell Thomas 1642-1692	Words may be false and full of art, Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Shakespeare William	Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness. "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 4 scene 14
Shakes Ronnie	I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
Sitwell Edith	I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
Skinner B. F.	The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Skinner B. F.	Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
Smiles Samuel	He who never make a mistake never made a discovery.
Smith Logan Pearsall	Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Smith Roy L.	We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Smith Sydney	He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. [referring to Macaulay]
Socrates	Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Spencer Herbert	Heroworship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
St. Thomas Aquinas	Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
Stanton Elizabeth Cady 1890	Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls
Stanwyck Barbara	Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Starr Anthony	Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
Stein Gertrude	Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. [Everybody's Autobiography, 1937]
Stern Zalman, former ITC hacker diety	Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax.
Stevenson Robert Louis	The world was made before the English lanuage and seemingly upon a different design.
Stinnett Caskie	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.
Stoppard Tom	Age is a high price to pay for maturity. It is better to be quotable than to be honest. It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Stowe Harriet Beecher	Women are the real architects of society.
Strachey Lytton	If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.
Sullivan Annie	Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences....Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent.
Sun System & Network Admin manual	... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.
Swetchine Madame	To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Szent Gyorgyi Albert	Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Tacitus	Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tagore.R	Art is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the real.
Taylor Bert Leston	A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.	Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
Theisman Joe [Former quarterback]	Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
Theroux Phyllis	Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Thomas Fuller	Health is not valued till sickness comes. [Gnomologia, 1732]
Thompson Hunter S.	If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.. [Generation of Swine]
Thorndike Edward	Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Thurber James	It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? 'You are all a lost generation,' Gertrude Stein said. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home.
Tillman Henry J.	Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Tom Rapp	I don't want to escape from reality I want reality to escape from me.
Tomlin Lily	Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Toynbee Arnold	America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Tracy Brian	If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Trudeau Gary	I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
Trump Donald	A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Tyger Frank	Being able to do something well is one of life's great joys.
Tynan Kenneth	A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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United Church Observer	Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
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Van Buren Abigail	The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Vauvenargues Marquis de	When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.
Velimirovic Nicholai	Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Venturi Ken	Never tell everything at once.[Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life]
Vermeil Louis	The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
Vidal Gore	A good deed never goes unpunished.
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Wagner Jane	The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Ward Artemus	I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Ward William Arthur	Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness and laryngitis.
Washington George	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. It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. 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.
Waters Roger [exPink Floyd]	By the grace of God Almighty and the pressures of the marketplace, the human race has civilized itself.
Watterson Bill Calvin and Hobbes	The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Weil Simone	Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Weiler A. H.	Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Weinreich Max	A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
Weller Tom	The Greek philosophers began by asking fundamental questions about the nature of life, the universe, and thought itself. They soon discovered that the answers to these questions were not forthcoming, nor likely to be. (Culture Made Stupid, 1987)
Welles Orson	I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Wells Bob	For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
West mae	It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
Whitehead Alfred North	We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Whitehorn Katharine	No nice men are good at getting taxis. The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Willard Frances	The world is wide, and I will not wast my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Williams H. H.	Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
Williams Tenessee	A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Wilson Earl	Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Wilson Gahan	When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
Wilson Woodrow	A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Wilson Robert Anton	Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Wittgenstein Ludwig	The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Wodehouse P. G.	The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Wolfe Tom	Don't confuse the water with the pump. Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. A cult is a religion with no political power.
Wordsworth William	A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
Wright Frank Lloyd	A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him. Television: chewing gum for the eyes. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Wright Steven	What's another word for Thesaurus? I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
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Yeats W.B.	For how can you compete, Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes? From "To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing," Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. Cast a cold Eye On Life on Death Horsemen pass by on his gravestone. Once every people in the world believed that trees were divine, and could take a human or grotesque shape and dance among the shadows; and that deer, and ravens and foxes, and wolves and bears, and clouds and pools, almost all things under the sun and moon, and the sun and moon, were not less divine and changeable. They saw in the rainbow the still bent bow of a god thrown down in his negligence; they heard in the thunder the sound of his beaten water jar, or the tumult of his chariot wheels; and when a sudden flight of wild ducks, or of crows, passed over their heads, they thought they were gazing at the dead hastening to their rest.... Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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Zangwill Israel	Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan spoiled.
Zappa Frank	Remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Ziggy (Tom Wilson)	You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Ziglar Zig	You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!
Zweig Dani	My favorite version is on bagpipe, but you shouldn't be led by other people's perversions.