I see her not dispirit
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Some people never go c
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead., Charles Bukowski, From Betting on the Muse,
We cannot control the
We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them., Cato the Elder, Roman orator politician (234 BC 149 BC)
Everyone has a purpose
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television., David Letterman, US comedian television host (1947 )
Cowardice asks the que
Cowardice asks the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question is it politic? Vanity asks the question is it popular? But conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
No man has a good enou
No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar., Abrahm Lincoln,
Change does not change
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat., Prince Philip of England,
Fix it up, wear it out
Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without., Pioneer Motto,
You can never learn le
You can never learn less, you can only learn more., Keith Degreen,
The reward for a thing
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Time flies like an arr
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana., Lisa Grossman,
The greatest pleasure
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)
No act of kindness, no
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
Where religion is triv
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution., Charles Krauthammer,
No man who ever held t
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it., John Adams, US diplomat politician (1735 1826)
The great can protect
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law., Andrew Jackson, 1821,
I cannot expect to per
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success., Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837, 8th President of US (1782 1862)
Money does not change
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms., John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, US novelist (1902 1968)
Most people live ninet
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future., John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, US novelist (1902 1968)
Let us make one point,
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family., Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
The measuring rod of a
The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses. , Albert Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254),
Once we believe in our
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit., e.e. cummings,
No matter how smart yo
No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot., Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future, US cartoonist (1957 )
Talents are best nurtu
Talents are best nurtured in solitude but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world., Johan Wolfgang von Goethe,
I am not afraid of tom
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today., William Allen White,
To accomplish great th
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
Always laugh when you
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine., Lord Byron, English poet satirist (1788 1824)
It is better to die st
It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees, Emiliano Zapata,
The world is so empty
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden., Johan Wolfgang von Goethe,
I have made this lette
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter., Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657), French mathematician, physicist (1623 1662)
I wish to have no conn
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm’s way., John Paul Jones,
Thank God I have done
Thank God I have done my duty., Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words,
Hit hard, hit fast, hi
Hit hard, hit fast, hit often., William Bull Halsey, Admiral, USN,
Mystery is underrated,
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated., Larry McMurtry, Flim Flam Essays on Hollywood, US author (1936 )
We will not tire, we w
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail., George W. Bush, Speech after 9.11.2008 attacks, 43rd President of US (1946 )
We are all here for a
We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can., Will Rogers, US humorist showman (1879 1935)
And now, like the old
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye., Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on We Interrupt This Broadcast CDROM,
War is a continuation
War is a continuation of politics by other means., Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide,
We sleep safe in our b
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. , George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
Springtime is the land
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn., Lewis Grizzard,
The eye sees only what
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend., Henri Bergson, 18591938, French author, mystic, philosopher (1859 1941)
If we would build on a
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own., Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816 1855)
My business is not to
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made., Robert Browning, English poet (1812 1889)
To be really great in
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization., Harriet Beecher Stowe, US abolitionist novelist (1811 1896)
Laziness may appear at
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction., Anne Frank, German Jewish diarist (1929 1945)
Live among men as if G
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Look twice before you
Look twice before you leap., Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816 1855)
Friendship is one of t
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend., Charles Spurgeon,
Man is tormented by no
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the illfated creature is born., Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Russian novelist (1821 1881)
You can get everything
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want., Zig Ziglar, Secrets of Closing the Sale, 1984,
You miss 100 percent o
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take., Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player (1961 )
In the business world,
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield., Warren Buffett, US financier investment businessman (1930 )
The real hero is alway
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else., Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality, Italian novelist semiotician (1932 )
In the absences of a d
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras., Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal,
The person who makes a
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication., Cecil B. DeMille, US movie producer (1881 1959)
If a problem has no so
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact not to be solved, but to be coped with over time., Shimon Peres, Israeli (Polishborn) politician (1923 )
It is not because thin
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
No one has a finer com
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut., Sam Rayburn, US politician (1882 1961)
A sailor without a des
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind., Leon Tec, M.D.,
Brains, like hearts, g
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated., Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, US businessman (1916 )
The ability to focus a
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence., Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance,
How do you define God?
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension., Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God, 2000, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 )
The right things to do
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore., Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God, 2000, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 )
General principles sho
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases., Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God, 2000, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 )
Learning to ignore thi
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace., Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God, 2000, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 )
Honor does not have to
Honor does not have to be defended., Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God, 2000, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 )
Get not your friends b
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Not wanting to die was
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed., Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God, 2000, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 )
Envy can be a positive
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want., Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook,
The reward for conform
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself., Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy, US author and social activist )
When you build bridges
When you build bridges you can keep crossing them., Rick Pitino, Lead to Success,
Speak what you think t
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today., Ralph Waldo Emerson, SelfReliance, 1841, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Do not go where the pa
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
When you win, say noth
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less., Paul Brown, US football coach owner (1908 1991)
The best thing to give
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity., Francis Maitland Balfour,
When you relinquish th
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness., Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman,
Let no one ever come t
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)
May your walls know jo
May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility., Maryanne RadmacherHershey, 1995,
Humor is a rubber swor
Humor is a rubber sword it allows you to make a point without drawing blood., Mary Hirsch,
The moment of victory
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else., Martina Navratilova, US (Czechoslovakianborn) tennis player (1956 )
Purchase not friends b
Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love., Thomas Fuller, English clergyman historian (1608 1661)
His mother had often s
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it., Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory, 1996, US science fiction author )
I am who I choose to b
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased., Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory, 1996, US science fiction author )
How could you be a Gre
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?, Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory, 1996, US science fiction author )
He who receives a bene
He who receives a benefit should never forget it he who bestow should never remember it., Pierre Charron,
Crime does not pay ...
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics., Alfred E. Newman,
You try to give away w
You try to give away what you want yourself., Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory, 1996, US science fiction author )
Children might or migh
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation., Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar, 1991, US science fiction author )
But pain... seems to m
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?, Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar, 1991, US science fiction author )
Our children change us
Our children change us…whether they live or not., Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar, 1991, US science fiction author )
My home is not a place
My home is not a place, it is people., Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar, 1991, US science fiction author )
The great art of givin
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated., Baltasar Gracian,
An honor is not dimini
An honor is not diminished for being shared., Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor, 1986, US science fiction author )
Exile, for no other mo
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it., Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor, 1986, US science fiction author )
A weapon is a device f
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind., Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game, 1990, US science fiction author )
No great deed, private
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty., Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic,
A loving person lives
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror., Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness,
Civilization is the ar
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else., Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness,
When you have given no
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing., Albanian Proverb,
A good home must be ma
A good home must be made, not bought., Joyce Maynard, Domestic Affairs,
Life itself is a quota
Life itself is a quotation., Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine novelist poet (1899 1986)
America is a vast cons
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy., John Updike, Problems and Other Stories, US author (1932 )
Dig where the gold isâ
Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise., John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?,
I have always thought
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts., John Locke, English empiricist philosopher (1632 1704)
It is not giving child
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation., John Gray, Children Are From Heaven,
Competition is a painf
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results., Jerry Flint, in Forbes,
One kind word can warm
One kind word can warm three winter months., Japanese proverb,
Be charitable before w
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous., Sir Thomas Browne, (1605 1682)
Call it a clan, call i
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one., Jane Howard, Families,
You are today where yo
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you., James Lane Allen,
Cats regard people as
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture., Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean,
Wonder is what sets us
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves., Herbert W. Boyer, cofounder of Genentech, Inc., cofounder of Genentech, Inc. )
Assumptions are the te
Assumptions are the termites of relationships., Henry Winkler, US television actor (1945 )
The most important wor
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes., Harold B. Lee, US Mormon clergyman (1899 1973)
Life is full of obstac
Life is full of obstacle illusions., Grant Frazier,
To freely bloom that
To freely bloom that is my definition of success., Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time,
He who confers a favor
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach., Demosthenes, Greek orator politician in Athens (384 BC 322 BC)
Americans are overreac
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses., George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft, US editor, commentator, columnist (1941 )
Anonymity is the trues
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism., Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal,
It is very strange tha
It is very strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting., Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses, British movie actress (1932 )
Money was never a big
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game., Donald Trump, Trump: Art of the Deal, US real estate construction development businessman (1946 )
If you are not critici
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much., Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, US Secretary of Defense (1932 )
Let us hope that we ar
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story., Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory,
Wisdom is knowing what
Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it., David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, US biologist, educator, ichthyologist (1851 1931)
Do it now. It is not s
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world., Thomas Guthrie,
I hear and I forget. I
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
Gardens and flowers ha
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes., Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill,
Anger makes you smalle
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were., Cherie CarterScott, If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules,
To know oneself is to
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person., Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, US martial arts expert movie actor (1940 1973)
Not a shred of evidenc
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious., Brendan Gill,
An unhurried sense of
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth., Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times,
Your most unhappy cust
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning., Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought, US computer software designer industrialist (1955 )
September tries its be
September tries its best to have us forget summer., Bern Williams,
Sooner or later we all
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers., Bern Williams,
You may delay, but tim
You may delay, but time will not., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Well done is better th
Well done is better than well said., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
The first step to gett
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want., Ben Stein,
Great ability develops
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment., Baltasar Gracian,
It is better to sleep
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward., Baltasar Gracian,
All truth passes throu
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being selfevident., Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 1860)
I believe in an open m
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out., Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
A mind troubled by dou
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory., Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha,
True luck consists not
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home., John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century, US author politician (1838 1905)
Concentration comes ou
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger., Arnold Palmer, US golfer (1929 )
Pleasure in the job pu
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
If your success is not
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all., Anna Quindlen,
They always say time c
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself., Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, US artist (1928 1987)
What makes something s
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose., Andre Agassi, on Charlie Rose, US tennis player (1970 )
I see my body as an in
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament., Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer/songwriter (1974 )
It is a mistake to try
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
The secret of happine
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it., Al Batt, in National Enquirer,
You cannot escape the
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
If they give you ruled
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way., Juan Ramon Jiminez,
The louder he talked o
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
The only obligation to
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting., Henry James, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
She had an unequalled
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. , Henry James, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
She was a woman who, b
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table., Henry James, British (US born) author (1843 1916)
Courage is contagious.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,the spines of others are often stiffened., Billy Graham,
You better live your b
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow., Harriet Martineau, English economist novelist (1802 1876)
When I was young, I us
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right., Gahan Wilson,
Live free or die death
Live free or die death is not the worst of evils., General John Stark,
Shame is that intrinsi
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass., LaDawnna Burnett, (1975), Letters on Ethics,
My sense of God is my
My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
The Stone Age came to
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil., Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC),
All art is quite usele
All art is quite useless., Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
It is the spectator, a
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors., Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
All art is at once sur
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril., Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
When we are happy we a
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy., Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 6, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Do not protect yoursel
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends., Czech Proverb,
Courage is resistance
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
The gods do not protec
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools., Larry Niven, Ringworld,
Shame is that intrinst
Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass., LaDawnna Burnett (1975 ), Letters on Ethics,
Grief and tragedy and
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end., George W. Bush, 43rd President of US (1946 )
Nothing in the world i
Nothing in the world is as certain as death., Jean Froissart, 1359,
Now, now my good man,
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. , Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Dogs feel very strongl
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear., Dave Barry, US columnist humorist (1947 )
Look for strengths in
Look for strengths in people, not weakness for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for., J. Wilbur Chapman,
A mind stretched by a
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions., Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.,
Chew before you swallo
Chew before you swallow., George W. Bush, On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel, 43rd President of US (1946 )
Go often to the house
Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path., Scandinavian Proverb,
I have learned that yo
I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them., Lauren Edwards,
"I am" is reportedly t
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence? , George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
If a pig loses its voi
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? , George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
When someone asks you,
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? , George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
Why is the man (or wom
Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?, George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
I thought about how mo
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?, George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 )
May the hinges of our
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty., Irish Proverb,
The only way to have a
The only way to have a friend is to be one., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Hatred does not cease
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule., Buddha, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
Courage is found in un
Courage is found in unlikely places. , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, British scholar fantasy novelist (1892 1973)
No man knows how bad h
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good., C. S. Lewis, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
Was it doubted that th
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, US poet (1819 1892)
Has anyone supposed it
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it., Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, US poet (1819 1892)
Justice: To seek it, o
Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public., Brian K. Blackden, 1996,
We will not have peace
We will not have peace by afterthought., Norman Cousins, US editor essayist (1912 1990)
I believe that individ
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world., The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech, Tibetan Buddhist religious leader (1935 )
This is an important a
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark., Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks For All The Fish, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
Tradition is laziness.
Tradition is laziness., Gustav Mahler,
To be great is to be m
To be great is to be misunderstood., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
The fact was I had the
The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method. , Jack Kerouac, US novelist (1922 1969)
There is so much time
There is so much time and so little to do strike that, reverse it., Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,
They say the sun never
They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded., Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 )
Three people can keep
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
I am loving before I a
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American., A. F. Shaw,
The truth may be out t
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head., Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel,
Never refuse any advan
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you., Madame de Tencin,
I believe this nation
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth., John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25 1961, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
She had wit, she had g
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty But above all, she had truth., Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Russian mystic novelist (1828 1910)
When I see an adult on
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. , H. G. Wells, English author, historian, utopian (1866 1946)
Far better is to dare
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. , Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena, 26th president of US (1858 1919)
Practical efficiency i
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare , Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 26th president of US (1858 1919)
I was not born to be f
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion., Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
I came into this world
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad., Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Experience: that most
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn., C.S. Lewis,
Doctors pour drugs of
Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing., Moliere, French actor comic dramatist (1622 1673)
Be more prompt to go t
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity., Chilo,
A teacher affects eter
A teacher affects eternity He can never tell where his influence stops., Henry Adams, US author, autobiographer, historian (1838 1918)
Sometimes we do a thin
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers., John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in A Perfect Spy, English suspense novelist (1931 )
There is no such thing
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation., Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death,
I have no mercy or com
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight., Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross,
I have no mercy or com
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight., Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, US black nationalist leader (1925 1965)
The last Christian die
The last Christian died on the cross. , Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,
The only time you ever
The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them., Patty Labelle,
If a man does not make
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Education is a progre
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance., Will Durant, US historian (1885 1981)
Men of genius are ofte
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (1807 1882)
Time engraves our face
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed., Natalie Clifford Barney,
Friendship is born at
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one., C. S. Lewis, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
Perhaps of all the cre
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing., Gyles Lytton Sitrachy,
The idea that Bill Gat
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling secondrate technology, who led them into it in the first place., Douglas Adams, The Guardian, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
To know oneself is to
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person., Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications, US martial arts expert movie actor (1940 1973)
The least of things wi
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. , Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
I feel sure that no gi
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all., Queen Victoria,
Be courteous to all, b
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation., George Washington, First president of US (1732 1799)
It is better to be unh
It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else., Marilyn Monroe, US actress (1926 1962)
A successful man is on
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man., Lana Turner,
I usually make up my m
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds and I very rarely change it., Margaret Thatcher, British politician (1925 )
To really know is scie
To really know is science to merely believe you know is ignorance., Hippocrates, Greek physician (460 BC 377 BC)
Blues is easy to play,
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel., Jimi Hendrix, Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray,Crosstown Traffic, ch. 6 (1989).,
A welltied tie is the
A welltied tie is the first serious step in life., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Ambition is a dream wi
Ambition is a dream with a 1.05.2008 engine., Elvis Presley, US rock singer (1935 1977)
The time to repair the
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining., John F. Kennedy, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
The true university of
The true university of these days is a collection of books., Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, historian (1795 1881)
When I have a kid, I w
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic., Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 )
Darkness cannot drive
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. , Dr. Martin Luther King,
Any tool is a weapon i
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right., Ani DiFranco,
True compassion is mor
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring., Martin Luther King,
Give me liberty, or gi
Give me liberty, or give me death., Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution, US orator, patriot, politician in American Revolution (1736 1799)
There are only two way
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Whoever it was who sea
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope., George Santayana, US (Spanishborn) philosopher (1863 1952)
We can forgive a man f
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
If history repeats its
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
There is nothing easie
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas., Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (1821 1881)
Necessity knows no law
Necessity knows no law., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Work and acquire, and
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
If you want to bake an
If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe. , Carl Sagan, US astronomer popularizer of astronomy (1934 1996)
We can forgive a child
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
It is only about thing
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. , Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Hope is not the convic
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out., Vaclev Havel,
I am an invisible man.
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe nor am I one of your Hollywoodmovie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me., Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man,
Nothing, at last, is s
Nothing, at last, is sacred but the integrity of your own mind., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
When it is dark enough
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
From the age of six, I
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it., Bette Davis, US movie actress (1908 1989)
The quality will remai
The quality will remain when the price is forgotten., Henry Royce,
We are what we repeate
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit., Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
We should manage our f
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Conscience is the inne
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking., H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), US editor (1880 1956)
Common sense is the kn
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done., Josh Billings, US Humorist (1818 1885)
The most exhausting th
The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic. , Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
The first hope of a pa
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame., Gertrude Stein, US author in France (1874 1946)
We have art so that we
We have art so that we shall not die of reality., Nietzsche,
Human speech is a crac
Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars., Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, French realist novelist (1821 1880)
Who is rich? He who is
Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Paranoia is a finer sc
Paranoia is a finer scale of reality., Michael W. Moore,
For every prohibition
For every prohibition you create you also create an underground., Jello Biafra,
Service to others is t
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth., Muhammad Ali, US boxer (1942 )
As blushing will somet
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense., Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)
Depend not on fortune,
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Wit ought to be a glor
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade., Noel Coward, English actor, dramatist, songwriter (1899 1973)
Sharks are as tough as
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent., Dave Barry, US columnist humorist (1947 )
Almost nobody dances s
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane., H. P. Lovecraft, US horror supernatural author (1890 1937)
We are what we pretend
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be., Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,
If you are not critici
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much., Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, US Secretary of Defense (1932 )
If a problem has no so
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact not to be solved, but to be coped with over time., Shimon Peres, Israeli (Polishborn) politician (1923 )
The real hero is alway
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else., Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt), Italian novelist semiotician (1932 )
The only interesting a
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions., Susan Sontag, US author critic (1933 )
Great artists have no
Great artists have no country., Alfred du Masset,
What did my hands do b
What did my hands do before they held you?, Sylvia Plath, US novelist poet (1932 1963)
A slave begins by dema
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
I talk to God, but the
I talk to God, but the sky is empty., Sylvia Plath, US novelist poet (1932 1963)
What omniscience has m
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
When one door of happi
When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
How can a question be
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?, Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It,
The best argument agai
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter., Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 1965)
I have the simplest of
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Pause you who read thi
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day., Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, English novelist (1812 1870)
In politics, absurdity
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap., Napoleon Bonaparte, French general politician (1769 1821)
Always forgive your en
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
We can easily forgive
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
The man who views the
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. , Muhammad Ali, Playboy Nov. 1975, US boxer (1942 )
Tyranny cannot defeat
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Music is a moral law.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. , Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
All changes, even the
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
Ultimately, contentmen
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances., Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart,
The tragedy of life is
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. , Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Let no one think of me
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs., Euripedes, Medea,
Forgive many things in
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself., Ausonius,
No one will ever win t
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy., Henry Kissinger, US (Germanborn) diplomat scholar (1923 )
For I dipped into the
For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be., Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809 1892)
It is entirely possibl
It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle., Walter Wangerin, Jr., Book of the Dun Cow,
And the wild regrets,
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die., Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Making money is art an
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all., Andy Warhol, US artist (1928 1987)
Life without music wou
Life without music would be a mistake., Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, German philosopher (1844 1900)
One must still have ch
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. , Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, German philosopher (1844 1900)
It is nobler to declar
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right especially when one is right., Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, German philosopher (1844 1900)
In a friend one should
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him., Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, German philosopher (1844 1900)
Those that respect the
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Despise not any man, a
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place., Ben Azai, Mishna,
If liberty means anyth
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear., George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
If you never did, you
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!, Dr. Seuss, US author illustrator (1904 1991)
The job of the artist
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery., Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, philosopher (1561 1626)
Evil is always possibl
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty., Anne Rice,
I have the worlds larg
I have the worlds largest seashell collection. You may have seen it, I keep it spread out on beaches all over the world., Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 )
To be nobody but yours
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting., E. E. Cummings,
Never in the history o
Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few., Sir Winston Churchill, Reffering to the RAF, British politician (1874 1965)
Under conditions of ty
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think. , Hanna Arendt, 1906 1975,
The greatest giver of
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice., F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow,
People do not like to
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. , Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
I can accept anthing,
I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the halfway, the almost, the justabout, the inbetween., Ayn Rand, US (Russianborn) novelist (1905 1982)
Enjoy the little thing
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things., Robert Brault,
We are not necessarily
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be., C.S. Lewis,
The greatness of a nat
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated., Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 1948, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
The most important per
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. , Zig Ziglar,
It is a far better thi
It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known., Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, English novelist (1812 1870)
Give a man a fire and
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life., Anonymous,
Keep your fears to you
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others., Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 1894)
The stage lost a fine
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in A Scandal in Bohemia, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
Passion governs, and s
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely., Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Never apologize for sh
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth., Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 1881)
It is what you learn a
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts., John Wooden, US basketball coach (1910 )
Laughter is the shorte
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people., Victor Borge, US (Danishborn) comedian pianist (1909 2000)
I still find each day
I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see., John Burrough,
I know no method to se
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution., Ulysses S. Grant, US general politician (1822 1885)
No one ever understood
No one ever understood disaster until it came., Josephine Herbst,
The hottest places in
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. , Dante Alighieri,
The extreme limit of w
The extreme limit of wisdom that is what the public calls madness., Jean Cocteau, French dramatist, director, poet (1889 1963)
Trying to define yours
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth., Alan Watts,
As long as there are f
As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions., Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
When you come to a for
When you come to a fork in the road, take it., Yogi Berra, quoted in Sports Illustrated, US baseball player, coach, manager (1925 )
If you are a terror to
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many., Ausonius,
Ninety percent of all
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head., Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated, US baseball player, coach, manager (1925 )
We trained hard, but i
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation., Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.,
Victorious warriors wi
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win., Sun Tzu,
Nothing important can
Nothing important can be taught, only learned., Dale Dauten, from a 1997 column,
Life has taught us tha
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction., Antoine de SaintExupery, French writer (1900 1944)
Is there anything wors
Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
A woman is like a teab
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water., Mae West, US movie actress (1892 1980)
Education is the abili
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
You have to have confi
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through., Rosalynn Carter, Wife of jimmy Carter, 39th president, US wife of Jimmy Carter 1946 (1927 )
I know of no more enco
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Keep your fears to you
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others., Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 1894)
The mind can also be a
The mind can also be an erogenous zone., Raquel Welch,
The remarkable thing a
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations., Celia Green,
It is slavery to live
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body., Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
Talent is what you po
Talent is what you possess genius is what possesses you., Malcolm Cowley,
The secret of happine
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile., Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, philosopher (1872 1970)
A person reveals his c
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents., G. C. Lichtenberg,
Hanging is too good fo
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted., Fred Allen, US radio comedian (1894 1956)
We must always have ol
We must always have old memories and young hopes., Arsene Houssaye,
God gave us memory tha
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December., James M. Barrie, Scottish dramatist novelist (1860 1937)
One thing you will pro
One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and forget., Franklin P. Jones,
Let the fear of danger
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger., Francis Quarles, English poet (1592 1644)
Men seldom make passes
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses., Dorothy Parker, US author, humorist, poet, wit (1893 1967)
The thirdrate mind is
The thirdrate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The secondrate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The firstrate mind is only happy when it is thinking., A. A. Milne, English juvenile author (1882 1956)
Man is born free, but
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains., Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, French political philosopher (1712 1778)
Few people are capable
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
When all think alike,
When all think alike, no one thinks very much., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Kindness in words crea
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love., LaoTzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC 531 BC)
I have nothing to decl
I have nothing to declare but my genius., Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
The sad news is, nobod
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves., Andrew Grove, Cofounder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive,
Conservatives are not
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives., John Stuart Mill, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
The question is not wh
The question is not what you look at but what you see., Thoreau,
There is no substitute
There is no substitute for hard work., Thomas Edison,
Progress is impossible
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Try not to become a ma
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
We only do well the th
We only do well the things we like doing., Colette, French novelist (1873 1954)
The great enemy of cle
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity., George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
Unless I accept my fau
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues., Hugh Prather,
I recommend that you t
I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves., Lord Chesterfield, (1694 1773)
Use what talents you h
Use what talents you have the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best., Reverend Oliver G. Wilson,
Humility is the embarr
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are., Laurence Peter,
The stupid neither for
The stupid neither forgive or forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget., Thomas Szasz,
Even a stopped clock i
Even a stopped clock is right two times a day., Marie von EbnerEschenbach,
Children are likely to
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them., Lady Bird Johnson, US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 )
Think like a man of ac
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought., Henri Bergson, French author, mystic, philosopher (1859 1941)
If we had no winter, t
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant., Anne Bradstreet, American poet (1612 1672)
My girlfriend sleeps i
My girlfriend sleeps in a queensized bed and I sleep in a court jestersized bed., Steven Wright, I Have a Pony, US comedian and actor (1955 )
War connot be avoided
War connot be avoided it can only be postponed to the others advantage., Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
If an injury has to be
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared., Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
Ambition is so powerfu
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied., Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
If you treat an indivi
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
Ah, what shall I be at
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twentyfive?, Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
Think not those faithf
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
He admits there are tw
He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side., Channing Pollock,
Greatness is not in we
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. , Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author physician (1809 1894)
When you learn, teach.
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. , Maya Angelou, US author poet (1928 )
Luck is a tag given by
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius., Robert A. Heinlein,
The greatest productiv
The greatest productive force is human selfishness., Robert A. Heinlein,
A poet that reads his
A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits., Robert A. Heinlein,
In the end, we will re
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends., Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Obstacles are what you
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal., Vince Lombardi, US football coach (1913 1970)
The tree of liberty gr
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants., Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac,
Conceal a flaw, and th
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst., Marcus Valerius Martialis, (40 AD 103 AD)
The greatest pleasure
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do., Walter Bagehot, English economist journalist (1826 1877)
New Jersey needs a her
New Jersey needs a hero. Bon Jovi does not count., Kurt Angle, Gold Medal Olympic Wrestler,
If you sit by the rive
If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by., Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun,
Is the chemical aftert
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?, Neil Gaiman,
Well may we say God sa
Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the GovernorGeneral., Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia, in a speech in 1975.,
The future belongs to
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth., Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University, English mathematician philosopher (1861 1947)
The spirit, the will t
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur., Vince Lombardi, US football coach (1913 1970)
The game is afoot., Si
The game is afoot., Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes,
And once again Mr. She
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents., Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes,
Endeavor to be always
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?, Thomas a Kempis, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
It is the responsibili
It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message., Joseph Batten,
The state has no busin
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation., Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives, Canadian politician (1919 2000)
Of all sad words of to
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been., John Greenleaf Whittier,
We thought we were run
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups., Margaret Atwod,
Keep your eyes to the
Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
All our final decision
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. , Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 1922)
We shall not cease fro
We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time., T.S. Eliott,
It must be considered
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new., Machiavelli,
Friendship is unnecess
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival., C. S. Lewis, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
Be to her virtues very
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind., Matthew Prior, English diplomat poet (1664 1721)
Love goes out the door
Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo., Groucho Marx, Duck Soup 1934, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 1977)
I broke something toda
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is., Andy Warhol, US artist (1928 1987)
I walk ahead of myself
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles., Anais Nin, US (Frenchborn) author diarist (1903 1977)
A man cannot be said t
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
All this will not be f
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin., John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
My boy will learn by w
My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him., Norman Lewis Smith,
For none of us can eve
For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars., Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary, French realist novelist (1821 1880)
No matter how much you
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors., Tom Thompson,
If only it were all so
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Russian author dissident in US (1918 )
Everything in the worl
Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound., Oscar Fischinger,
A composer is a guy wh
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians., Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, songwriter (1940 1993)
If I only had an hour
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
The only people for me
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars., Jack Kerouac, On the Road, US novelist (1922 1969)
It is not easy to find
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere., Agnes Repplier, US essayist (1855 1950)
If you cannot get rid
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
If a man does not keep
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, how ever measured or far away., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
....it is better to su
....it is better to succeed with success than failure. , George W. Bush Jan. 21 2001 Inauguration speech,
The price of seeing is
The price of seeing is silence., Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water Intruding,
Love is the extremely
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. , Iris Murdoch, British novelist (1919 1999)
We are like sculptors,
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them., Anais Nin, US (Frenchborn) author diarist (1903 1977)
Lakes, rivers, streams
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion., Muhammed Ali, in a television interview,
Fear Not. What is not
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. , The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran,
Perfect as the wing of
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise., Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist (1849 1936)
A leader must be const
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words .... and his silences., Simon MacDonald,
Love is not blind it
Love is not blind it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less., Rabbi Julius Gordon,
We are what we repeate
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. , Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, zoologist (384 BC 322 BC)
Wrinkles should merely
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Any life, no matter ho
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is., Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine novelist poet (1899 1986)
I dwell in possiblitie
I dwell in possiblities., Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)
Failure is defined by
Failure is defined by our reaction to it., Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue, US actress television talk show host (1954 )
If you can actually co
If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man., J. Paul Getty, US oil industrialist (1892 1976)
God give me strength t
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me., Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 1895)
Computers are useless.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers., Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 1973)
Unlike those who prete
Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly., Carl Polloi,
Nobody ever died of la
Nobody ever died of laughter., Max Beerbohm, English author and satirist (1872 1956)
Approach each new prob
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation., Bernard M. Baruch, US businessman politician (1870 1965)
I should not talk so m
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well., Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy., US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
When one door of happi
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Everything was beautif
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt., Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, US novelist (1922 )
There is no man living
There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!, Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
The only freedom which
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest., John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
He who lets the world,
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the apelike one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and selfcontrol to hold to his deliberate decision. , John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
No one can be a great
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think., John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
The real voyage of dis
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes., Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 1922)
Never underestimate yo
Never underestimate your own ignorance., Albert Einstein, speech, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Raise your sail one fo
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind., Chinese Proverb,
Show me a thoroughly s
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure., Thomas Edison,
Washington DC is the o
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election., Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996,
Horses lend us the win
Horses lend us the wings we lack., Pam Brown, 1928,
Some of my best leadin
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses., Elizabeth Taylor, British movie actress (1932 )
By failing to prepare,
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
The man who moves a mo
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
Luck is what you have
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%., Langston Coleman,
Thus let me live, unse
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown thus unlamented let me die steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie., Alexander Pope, Ode to Solitude, English poet satirist (1688 1744)
He had a heart that co
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar., Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera,
I like this place, and
I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it., William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Everything beautiful h
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away. , Luis Cernada,
Brilliance is born of
Brilliance is born of desperation., Jayanth Komarneni,
When bad men combine,
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle., Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
Only those who will ri
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. , T.S. Elliot,
Vile deeds like poison
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. , Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
Lots of people are wil
Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person. , Jason Hurst,
Our generation has an
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won’t have anything to complain about., Tori Amos,
Idolatry is committed,
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice., Gilbert Chesterton,
If there is a sin agai
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus , Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
Prove all things hold
Prove all things hold fast that which is good., Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians,
Insignificant events c
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. , Grace Slick,
Men judge generally mo
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
O, I am slain!, Willia
O, I am slain!, William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain., Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The most eminent virtu
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do. , Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente,
Tomorrow is the most i
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. , Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown), Quotations by unknown authors )
Do not follow where th
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail., Muriel Strode,
The man who follows a
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd., R. S. Donnell,
The future belongs to
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
It is common sense to
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something., Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 1945)
The outofwork actor we
The outofwork actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being., Bette Davis, The Lonely Life(1962). Chapter Four., US movie actress (1908 1989)
The proof of a poet is
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it., Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855, US poet (1819 1892)
Obstacles are those fr
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal., Henry Ford, US automobile industrialist (1863 1947)
The pain passes. The b
The pain passes. The beauty remains., Auguste Renoir,
Not everything that co
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
To know the road ahead
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back., Chinese Proverb,
At points of clarity,
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine., Joel Patrick Warneke,
There is a schizophren
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice., Stephen Mansfield,
Experience: that most
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn., C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book),
She said she usually c
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short., Brian Andreas,
The comfort of having
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
A woman is like a tea
A woman is like a tea bag you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water., Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat reformer (1884 1962)
It makes no difference
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me I never retreat., Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City Mayor,
You cannot acquire exp
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it., Albert Camus, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
We live in a world whe
We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons, Alfred E. Neuman, The HalfWit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine),
Justice Marshall has m
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it., Andrew Jackson,
Everyone should free t
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living., Emad Hasan,
No machine can replace
No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding., Louis V. Gerstner Jr.,
Hope is the thing with
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all., Emily Dickinson, US poet (1830 1886)
People judge you not b
People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match., Space Ghost, Space Ghost Musical Barbcue,
Emancipate yourself fr
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but ourselves can free our minds., Bob Marley,
No pessimist ever disc
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
Do not follow where th
Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail., Robert Frost, US poet (1874 1963)
Any intelligent fool c
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Did you exchange a wal
Did you exchange a walkon part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?, Pink Floyd, song Wish You Were Here,
Praise will come to th
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt., Neil Finn, track #12 on his album Try Whistling This,
We are not separate fr
We are not separate from spirit, we are in it., Plontius,
Do not anticipate trou
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
So, throughout life, o
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise., Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, English novelist (1812 1870)
New knowledge is the m
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become., Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, US novelist (1922 )
The silent bear no wit
The silent bear no witness against themselves., Aldous Huxley, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
All that happens means
All that happens means something nothing you do is ever insignificant., Aldous Huxley, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Love is an endless mys
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it., Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.,
You think your pains a
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive., James Baldwin, US author (1924 1987)
Before we set our hear
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
Common sense is the co
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen., Albert Einstein, (attributed), US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Work is the curse of t
Work is the curse of the drinking class., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)
You can change an outf
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both., Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech,
Instant gratification
Instant gratification takes too long., Carrie Fisher, US author movie actress (1956 )
Keep your face to the
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow., Helen Kelller,
Only those who risk go
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go., T.S. Eliot,
The very idea of freed
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike., C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism (from Christian Reflections p. 108), English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)
The men who really bel
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums., G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy p. 14, English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Use, do not abuse neit
Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
To the person in the b
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream., Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, US novelist poet (1932 1963)
I think we agree, the
I think we agree, the past is over., George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10 2000, 43rd President of US (1946 )
Gravitation cannot be
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
The battle for the min
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain., Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 198488, US speechwriter for George Bush (1950 )
A computer lets you ma
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila., Mitch Ratcliffe,
To get the best out of
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him., Daniel Considine,
I am a part of all I h
I am a part of all I have seen., Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809 1892)
No one could make a gr
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little., Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
I would rather be ashe
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time., Jack London, Personal Credo, US adventurer, author, sailor (1876 1916)
They say that the wage
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really., Paula Poundstone, HBO standup routine,
I believe I shall,in s
I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
Hatred does not cease
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating this is an eternal truth., Buddha, The Dhammapada, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
Inhabitants of underde
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans., Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life,
It has been proven bey
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100,00% of the shots you do not take., Wayne Gretski,
Always do right. This
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Paranoia means having
Paranoia means having all the facts., William S. Burroughs, US author (1914 )
We shall not cease fro
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time., T. S Eliot,
Flatter me, and I may
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you., William A. Ward,
Choose a job you love,
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life., Confucious,
After the bare requisi
After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do., John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56, US novelist (1902 1968)
Nothing is more depre
Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero., George Moore,
He drew a circle that
He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in., Edwin Markham,
If you would convince
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
If you put tomfoolery
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., Pierre Gallois,
I learned this, at lea
I learned this, at least, by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them., Henry David Thoreau, Walden, pp. 323 324, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Cursed be he that move
Cursed be he that moves my bones., William Shakespeare, Epitaph on his gravestone, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Let me not to the marr
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds., William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Farewell! thou art too
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing., William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I have not slept one w
I have not slept one wink., William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The game is up., Willi
The game is up., William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I have Immortal longin
I have Immortal longings in me., William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
So act that your princ
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world., Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724 1804)
Age cannot wither her,
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety., William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Small to greater matte
Small to greater matters must give way., William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
My salad days,When I w
My salad days,When I was green in judgment., William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I understand a fury in
I understand a fury in your words,But not the words., William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 4 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
O, beware, my lord, of
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the greeneyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on., William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Keep five yards from a
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured., Indian Proverb,
Speak to me as to thy
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words., William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Excellent wretch! Perd
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again., William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I am not merry but I d
I am not merry but I do beguileThe thing I am, by seeming otherwise., William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I will wear my heart u
I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at., William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The gods are just, and
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us., William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Pray you now, forget a
Pray you now, forget and forgive., William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4 scene 7, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The worst is notSo lon
The worst is notSo long as we can say, This is the worst., William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Oh, that way madness l
Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that., William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Nothing will come of n
Nothing will come of nothing., William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Every minute you are t
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again., Evelyn Underhill,
Although the last, not
Although the last, not least., William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Now cracks a noble hea
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The rest is silence.,
The rest is silence., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
A hit, a very palpable
A hit, a very palpable hit., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
We know what we are, b
We know what we are, but know not what we may be., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
So full of artless jea
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4 scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I must be cruel, only
I must be cruel, only to be kind:Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
My words fly up, my th
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:Words without thoughts never to heaven go., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The lady doth protest
The lady doth protest too much, methinks., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
O, woe is me,To have s
O, woe is me,To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I have heard of your p
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Be thou as chaste as i
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The devil hath power T
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
What a piece of work i
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Prefer loss to the wea
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse., Chilo,
There is nothing eithe
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Brevity is the soul of
Brevity is the soul of wit., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
There are more things
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Every man has business
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Leave her to heaven An
Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Something is rotten in
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
But to my mind, though
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Neither a borrower nor
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Love truth, and pardon
Love truth, and pardon error., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Clothes make the man.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
He was a man, take him
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Frailty, thy name is w
Frailty, thy name is woman!, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
A little more than kin
A little more than kin, and less than kind., William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Out, damned spot! out,
Out, damned spot! out, I say!, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
By the pricking of my
By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Double, double toil an
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble., William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The attempt and not th
The attempt and not the deed Confounds us., William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Is this a dagger which
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heatoppressed brain?, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Our envy of others dev
Our envy of others devours us most of all., Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author dissident in US (1918 )
There is a tide in the
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries., William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 4 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
For Brutus is an honou
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men., William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Friends, Romans, count
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones., William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Cry Havoc, and let sli
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war., William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
How many ages hence Sh
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Et tu, Brute!, William
Et tu, Brute!, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Cowards die many times
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come., William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
But, for my own part,
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me., William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Beware the ides of Mar
Beware the ides of March., William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
We have seen better da
We have seen better days., William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 4 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Every man has his faul
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his., William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Good night, good night
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow., William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
O Romeo, Romeo! wheref
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
But, soft! what light
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun., William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Throw your heart over
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow., Norman Vincent Peale, US clergyman (1898 1993)
The end crowns all, An
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it., William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 4 scene 5, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
A horse! a horse! my k
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!, William Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act 5 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
An honest tale speeds
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told., William Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act 4 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
And many strokes, thou
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardesttimbered oak., William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part III, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The gaudy, blabbing, a
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea., William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part II, Act 4 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
There is occasions and
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things., William Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act 5 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
What people say you ca
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
Uneasy lies the head t
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown., William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part II, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
He hath eaten me out o
He hath eaten me out of house and home., William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part II, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
If all the year were p
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work., William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
This royal throne of k
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demiparadise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England., William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
This England never did
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror., William Shakespeare, King John, Act 5 scene 7, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Life is as tedious as
Life is as tedious as a twicetold tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man., William Shakespeare, King John, Act 3 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
If this were played up
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction., William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Make the best use of w
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
The fool doth think he
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool., William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 5 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
True is it that we hav
True is it that we have seen better days., William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 scene 7, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Hereafter, in a better
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you., William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The little foolery tha
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show., William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Enjoy present pleasure
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one., Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is a wise father th
It is a wise father that knows his own child., William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The devil can cite Scr
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose., William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
My meaning in saying h
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient., William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I dote on his very abs
I dote on his very absence., William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
When he is best, he is
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast., William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I thank God I am as ho
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I., William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Silence is the perfect
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much., William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Friendship is constant
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent., William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
He wears his faith but
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat., William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Small cheer and great
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast., William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
They say, best men are
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad., William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 5 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Truth is truth To the
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning., William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 5 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The hand that hath mad
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good., William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The law hath not been
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept., William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Some rise by sin, and
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall., William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Our doubts are traitor
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt., William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 1 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
This is the third time
This is the third time I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Your hearts are mighty
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 4 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I cannot tell what the
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
We have some salt of o
We have some salt of our youth in us., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
This is the short and
This is the short and the long of it., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
We burn daylight., Wil
We burn daylight., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Thou art the Mars of m
Thou art the Mars of malcontents., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
If there be no great l
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
It is a familiar beast
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I will make a Starcham
I will make a Starchamber matter of it., William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Come not within the me
Come not within the measure of my wrath., William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 5 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
How use doth breed a h
How use doth breed a habit in a man!, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 5 scene 4, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
That man that hath a t
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,If with his tongue he cannot win a woman., William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 3 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Observe your enemies,
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults., Antisthenes, Greek philosopher at Athens (445 BC 365 BC)
O, how this spring of
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Homekeeping youth have
Homekeeping youth have ever homely wits., William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Merrily, merrily shall
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 5 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
A kind Of excellent du
A kind Of excellent dumb discourse., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 3 scene 3, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
He that dies pays all
He that dies pays all debts., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 3 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Misery acquaints a man
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
A very ancient and fis
A very ancient and fishlike smell., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 2 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
The fringed curtains o
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Full fathom five thy f
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a seachange Into something rich and strange., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Fill all thy bones wit
Fill all thy bones with aches., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I will be corresponden
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
From the stillvexed Be
From the stillvexed Bermoothes., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
My library Was dukedom
My library Was dukedom large enough., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Like one Who having in
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Enjoy when you can, an
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
I, thus neglecting wor
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
What seest thou elseIn
What seest thou elseIn the dark backward and abysm of time?, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Now would I give a tho
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
I would fain die a dry
I would fain die a dry death., William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 scene 1, Greatest English dramatist poet (1564 1616)
Cherish your own emoti
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them., Robert Henri, US painter (1865 1929)
Never discourage anyon
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow., Plato, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
Learn as much by writi
Learn as much by writing as by reading., Lord Acton,
Cats are intended to t
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function., Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors )
Make hunger thy sauce,
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health., Thomas Tusser, 1524,
If hunger makes you ir
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant., Sefer Hasidim,
Preach not to others w
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
When you have a number
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first., Josiah Quincy,
Put even the plainest
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it., Lady DuffGordon, English dressmaker (1863 1935)
Know, first, who you a
Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly., Epictetus, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
Boys will be boys, and
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middleaged men., Kin Hubbard, (1868 1930)
If you shoot at mimes,
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?, Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 )
My candle burns at bot
My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the nightBut ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light., Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles, 1920, US poet (1892 1950)
Never grow a wishbone,
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be., Clementine Paddleford,
People ask for critici
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise., W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
It was such a lovely d
It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up., W. Somerset Maugham, Our Betters, 1923, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
In this life he laughs
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last., John Masefield, Window in Bye Street, 1912, English author (1878 1967)
Politics is war withou
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed., Mao TseTung, Chinese Communist politician (1893 1976)
Once a newspaper touch
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists., Norman Mailer, Esquire, June 1960, US journalist novelist (1923 )
The medium is the mess
The medium is the message., Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964, Canadian author, educator, philosopher (1911 1980)
The new electronic int
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village., Marshall McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 1962, Canadian author, educator, philosopher (1911 1980)
While the State exists
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State., Lenin, State and Revolution, 1919, Russian Communist politician revolutionary (1870 1924)
To accomplish great th
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act., Anatole France, French novelist (1844 1924)
Lord Ronald said nothi
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions., Stephen Leacock, Nonsense Novels,1911, Canadian economist humorist (1869 1944)
The great nations have
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes., Stanley Kubrick, in Guardian, June 5 1963, British (USborn) movie director (1928 )
Art does not reproduce
Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible., Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920, Swiss Abstractionist painter (1879 1940)
We must learn to live
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools., Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at St. Louis, March 22 1964, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Injustice anywhere is
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere., Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16 1963, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
The ultimate measure o
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy., Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
Nothing in all the wor
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity., Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
I believe that unarmed
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant., Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10 1964, US black civil rights leader clergyman (1929 1968)
I think that I shall n
I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree., Joyce Kilmer, Trees (poem), 1914, US poet (1886 1918)
Those who make peacefu
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable., John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
And so, my fellow amer
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man., John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20 1961, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
If a free society cann
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich., John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20 1961, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
...probably the greate
...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone., John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
Mankind must put an en
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind., John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25 1961, US Democratic politician (1917 1963)
Where love rules, ther
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other., Carl Jung, On the Psychology of the Unconciousness, 1917, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
As far as we can disce
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being., Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962, Swiss psychologist (1875 1961)
Castles in the air th
Castles in the air they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too., Henrik Ibsen, The Master builder, 1892 act 3, Norwegian dramatist (1828 1906)
Most human beings have
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted., Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Experience is not what
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him., Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Facts do not cease to
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored., Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies, 1927, English critic novelist (1894 1963)
Either war is obsolete
Either war is obsolete or men are., R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8 1966, US architect engineer (1895 1983)
Anatomy is destiny., S
Anatomy is destiny., Sigmund Freud, Collected Writings, 1924, Austrian psychologist (1856 1939)
If you would be a real
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things., Rene Descartes, French mathematician philosopher (1596 1650)
Science without religi
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind., Albert Einstein, Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium, 1941, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
If A is success in lif
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut., Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15 1950, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
The unleashed power of
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe., Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
At any rate, I am conv
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice., Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
Mediocrity knows nothi
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
How often have I said
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
The case has, in some
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
It has long been an ax
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
You see, but you do no
You see, but you do not observe., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892, British mystery author physician (1859 1930)
Let a good man do good
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones., The Belzer Rabbi,
Since a politician nev
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word., Charles De Gaulle, French general politician (1890 1970)
In science the credit
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs., Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914, (1848 1925)
The chief business of
The chief business of the American people is business., Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17 1925, 30th president of US (1872 1933)
There is no right to s
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time., Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919, 30th president of US (1872 1933)
Literature is the art
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once., Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938), (1903 1974)
The worst tragedy for
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood., Jean Cocteau, French dramatist, director, poet (1889 1963)
Whose life is it anywa
Whose life is it anyway?, Brian Clark, Play title, (1932 )
Do definite good first
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons., John Lancaster Spalding,
The empires of the fut
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind., Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6 1943, British politician (1874 1965)
I cannot forecast to y
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest., Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939, British politician (1874 1965)
Many forms of Governme
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or allwise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time., Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11 1947, British politician (1874 1965)
The British nation is
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst., Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10 1941, British politician (1874 1965)
So they [the Governmen
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, allpowerful to be impotent., Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12 1936, British politician (1874 1965)
Now this is not the en
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning., Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942, British politician (1874 1965)
From Stettin in the Ba
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent., Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946, British politician (1874 1965)
If we attend continual
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do., Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
Here is the answer whi
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the longdrawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job., Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941, British politician (1874 1965)
One is left with the h
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one., Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977), English mystery author (1890 1976)
As soon as questions o
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss., Noam Chomsky, in a television interview, US activist linguist (1928 )
The rich are the scum
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country., G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914), English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
All slang is a metapho
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry., G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901), English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
Literature is a luxury
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity., G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901), English author mystery novelist (1874 1936)
All I need to make a c
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl., Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography (1964), British actor, director, screenwriter (1889 1977)
Youth is something ver
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it., Coco Chanel, French fashion designer perfumer (1883 1971)
I like trees because t
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do., Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913), US novelist (1873 1947)
Determine never to be
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing., Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 1826)
We should live our liv
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon., Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976, US diplomat Democratic politician (1924 )
You know what charm is
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question., Albert Camus, La Chute (The Fall),1956, French existentialist author philosopher (1913 1960)
The postman always rin
The postman always rings twice., James M. Cain, Book title, US crime novelist screenwriter (1892 1977)
It has been said that
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly., Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872), English composer, novelist, satiric author (1835 1902)
Politics is the art of
Politics is the art of the possible., Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11 1867, German Prussian politician (1815 1898)
I think we might be go
I think we might be going a bridge too far., Sir Frederick Browning, (1896 1965)
The way to win an atom
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts., Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948, US general (1893 1981)
When a dog bites a man
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news., John B. Bogart, (1848 1921)
He was born an English
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years., Brendan Behan, Hostage (1958), Irish author dramatist (1923 1964)
We are all born mad. S
We are all born mad. Some remain so., Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955), Irish author, dramatist, novelist in France (1906 1989)
Vladimir: That passed
Vladimir: That passed the time.Estragon: It would have passed in any case.Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly., Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955), Irish author, dramatist, novelist in France (1906 1989)
A platitude is simply
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it., Stanley Baldwin, English politician (1867 1947)
No moral system can re
No moral system can rest solely on authority., A. J. Ayer, Humanist Outlook, (1910 1989)
One cannot review a ba
One cannot review a bad book without showing off., W. H. Auden, US (Englishborn) critic poet (1907 1973)
Some books are undeser
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered., W. H. Auden, US (Englishborn) critic poet (1907 1973)
One, a robot may not i
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harmTwo, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws., Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950, US science fiction novelist scholar (1920 1992)
Under conditions of ty
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think., Hannah Arendt, US (Germanborn) historian social philosopher (1906 1975)
I know why the caged b
I know why the caged bird sings., Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunbar, US author poet (1928 )
Float like a butterfly
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee., Muhammad Ali, Catch phrase, US boxer (1942 )
Open your mouth and pu
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great., Johann Georg von Zimmermann,
Be discreet in all thi
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any., Arthur Wellesley, (first Duke of Wellington), British general politician (1769 1852)
Do not consider painfu
Do not consider painful what is good for you., Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC 406 BC)
Remember not only to s
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment., Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
You might as well fall
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward., James Thurber, US author, cartoonist, humorist, satirist (1894 1961)
The number of guests a
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine., Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar (116 BC 27 BC)
At a dinner party one
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely., W. Somerset Maugham, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
Thou shouldst eat to l
Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat., Socrates, Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC 399 BC)
Before God we are all
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish., Albert Einstein, US (Germanborn) physicist (1879 1955)
When you encounter dif
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time., Saint Francis de Sales,
Act as if it were impo
Act as if it were impossible to fail., Dorothea Brande,
Few things are impossi
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
Never despair but if y
Never despair but if you do, work on in despair., Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, politician (1729 1797)
The roots of true achi
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become., Harold Taylor,
Take time to deliberat
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in., Napoleon Bonaparte, French general politician (1769 1821)
Do not fear death so m
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life., Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932, German Communist dramatist (1898 1956)
Wait until it is night
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day., French Proverb,
Be careful about readi
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
If you greatly desire
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it., Brendan Francis,
Never expose yourself
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit., The Talmud,
Never be a cynic, even
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil., Vachel Lindsay, US poet (1879 1931)
Seize the moment of ex
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance., William Wirt, US politician (1772 1834)
Rest satisfied with do
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please., Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, philosopher, scientist (582 BC 507 BC)
Reprove thy friend pri
Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly., Solon, Greek lawgiver politician in Athens (638 BC 559 BC)
There is no den in the
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
In the modern world of
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman., David M. Ogilvy,
If you bow at all, bow
If you bow at all, bow low., Chinese Proverb,
He that climbs the tal
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit., Sir Walter Scott, Scottish author novelist (1771 1832)
Fall seven times, stan
Fall seven times, stand up eight., Japanese Proverb,
Live as brave men and
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts., Cicero, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
This hath not offended
This hath not offended the king., Sir Thomas More, As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block, From Bacon, English author, courtier, humanist, saint (1478 1535)
A little wonton money,
A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse., Sir Thomas More, Works, English author, courtier, humanist, saint (1478 1535)
They wonder much to he
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is., Sir Thomas More, Utopia, English author, courtier, humanist, saint (1478 1535)
Nature made him, and t
Nature made him, and then broke the mold., Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, Italian epic poet (1474 1533)
Whoever desires to fou
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it., Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
There is no other way
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
Have courage for the g
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake., Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, poet (1802 1885)
There are three classe
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
When neither their pro
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
A prince should theref
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
Since love and fear ca
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved., Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Italian dramatist, historian, philosopher (1469 1527)
I say, thou mad March
I say, thou mad March hare., John Skelton, Replication Against Certain Young Scholars, English humorist poet (1460 1529)
The world wants to be
The world wants to be deceived., Sebastian Brant, The Ship of Fools, German humanist poet (1457 1521)
Iron rusts from disue
Iron rusts from disue stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind., Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
As a wellspent day bri
As a wellspent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death., Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
Intellectual passion d
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality., Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks, Italian engineer, painter, sculptor (1452 1519)
You cannot run away fr
You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 1894)
Talk of nothing but bu
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly., Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press, Italian printer (1449 1515)
I know all except myse
I know all except myself., Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres, French poet (1431 1463)
First keep the peace w
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others., Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
And when he is out of
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind., Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
Be not angry that you
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be., Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, German mystic religious author (1380 1471)
Who will bell the cat?
Who will bell the cat?, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, English poet (1332 1400)
Manners maketh man., W
Manners maketh man., William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford, (1324 1404)
Rarely do great beauty
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together., Petrarch, De Remedies, Italian humanist, lyric poet, scholar (1304 1374)
A great flame follows
A great flame follows a little spark., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
If the present world g
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
Consider your origin y
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
A fair request should
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
He listens well who ta
He listens well who takes notes., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
There is no greater so
There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
All hope abandon, ye w
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!, Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
In the middle of the j
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
Three things are nece
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do., Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity, Italian saint theologian (1225 1274)
Ask advice only of you
Ask advice only of your equals., Danish Proverb,
He who comes first, ea
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.], Eike von Repkow, (~1220)
Do not hold as gold al
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold., Alain de Lille, (~1202)
You will find somethin
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters., Saint Bernard, Epistle, French abbot saint (1090 1153)
He who has a thousand
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere., Ali ibnAbiTalib, A Hundred Sayings, (602 AD 661 AD)
Whoever destroys a sin
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world., The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin,
I was in love with lov
I was in love with loving., Saint Augustine, Confessions, Carthaginian author, saint, church father (354 AD 430 AD)
Let him who desires pe
Let him who desires peace prepare for war., Flavius Vegetius Renatus, (~375 AD)
No one can harm the ma
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong., Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia, saint, church father, patriarch (347 AD 407 AD)
Never look a gift hors
Never look a gift horse in the mouth., Saint Jerome, On the Epistle to the Ephesians, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
Never give advice unle
Never give advice unless asked., German Proverb,
When the stomach is fu
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
The scars of others sh
The scars of others should teach us caution., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
The face is the mirror
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
A fat paunch never bre
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
No athlete is crowned
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
An unstable pilot stee
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
The friendship that ca
The friendship that can cease has never been real., Saint Jerome, Letter, church father saint (374 AD 419 AD)
Never advise anyone to
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry., Spanish Proverb,
When you are at Rome l
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere., Saint Ambrose, Taylor, Italian saint church father (339 AD 397 AD)
Out of the frying pan
Out of the frying pan into the fire., Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi, Carthaginian church father (160 AD 230 AD)
Truth persuades by tea
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading., Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos, Carthaginian church father (160 AD 230 AD)
Think not disdainfully
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
Very little is needed
Very little is needed to make a happy life., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
Nothing happens to any
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
Whatever is in any way
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
How much time he gains
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
The universe is change
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
People who ask our adv
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly., Brendan Francis,
By a tranquil mind I m
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
Never esteem anything
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your selfrespect., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
You will find rest fro
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last., Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161180 (121 AD 180 AD)
His only fault is that
His only fault is that he has no fault., Pliny the Younger, Letters, Roman author politician (62 AD 114 AD)
That indolent but agre
That indolent but agre
An object in possessio
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit., Pliny the Younger, Letters, Roman author politician (62 AD 114 AD)
It is the rare fortuen
It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks., Cornelius Tacitus, Histories, Roman historian politician (55 AD 117 AD)
You should pray for a
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body., Juvenal, Satires, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
The people that once b
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things bread and circuses!, Juvenal, Satires, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
Never trust the advice
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties., Aesop, Greek slave fable author (620 BC 560 BC)
Count it the greatest
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having., Juvenal, Satires, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
Who will guard the gua
Who will guard the guards themselves?(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?), Juvenal, Satires, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
It is not easy for men
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty., Juvenal, Satires, Roman poet satirist (55 AD 127 AD)
What is the first busi
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of selfconceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows., Epictetus, Discourses, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
Only the educated are
Only the educated are free., Epictetus, Discourses, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
When you close your do
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?, Epictetus, Discourses, Roman (Greekborn) slave Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
For to err in opinion,
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human., Plutarch, Morals, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
When the candles are o
When the candles are out all women are fair., Plutarch, Morals, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
An old doting fool, wi
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave., Plutarch, Morals, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
The very spring and ro
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education., Plutarch, Morals, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
Never take the advice
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble., Sidney J. Harris,
Perseverance is more p
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little., Plutarch, Lives, Greek biographer moralist (46 AD 120 AD)
Virtue extends our day
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure., Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams, (40 AD 103 AD)
A man who lives everyw
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere., Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams, (40 AD 103 AD)
Conceal a flaw, and th
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst., Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams, (40 AD 103 AD)
Everyone ought to wors
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force., Flavius Josephus, Life, JewishRoman historian turncoat (37 AD 100 AD)
Those who wish to appe
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish., Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria, Roman rhetorician )
A liar should have a g
A liar should have a good memory., Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria, Roman rhetorician )
One good turn deserves
One good turn deserves another., Gaius Petronius, (~66 AD)
The best plan is to pr
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others., Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
The advice of friends
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong., Pierre Charron,
There is always someth
There is always something new out of Africa., Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
Indeed, what is there
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?, Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
In comparing various a
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment., Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Roman scholar scientist (23 AD 79 AD)
Would that the Roman p
Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]., Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius, Roman emperor 037041 (12 AD 41 AD)
There is no great geni
There is no great genius without some touch of madness., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
Fire is the test of go
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is better, of cours
It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
You can tell the chara
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is quality rather t
It is quality rather than quantity that matters., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
In giving advice, seek
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend., Solon, Greek lawgiver politician in Athens (638 BC 559 BC)
The best ideas are com
The best ideas are common property., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
It is not the man who
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor., Seneca, Epistles, Roman dramatist, philosopher, politician (5 BC 65 AD)
To add insult to injur
To add insult to injury., Phaedrus, Fables, Roman author of fables (15 BC 50 AD)
Time the devourer of a
Time the devourer of all things., Ovid, Metamorphoses, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
We can learn even from
We can learn even from our enemies., Ovid, Metamorphoses, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Nothing is stronger th
Nothing is stronger than habit., Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
To be loved, be lovabl
To be loved, be lovable., Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Roman poet (43 BC 17 AD)
Absence makes the hear
Absence makes the heart grow fonder., Sextus Propertius, Elegies, Roman poet (? 15 BC)
Let no one be willing
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent., Sextus Propertius, Elegies, Roman poet (? 15 BC)
Let each man pass his
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest., Sextus Propertius, Elegies, Roman poet (? 15 BC)
Speech is a mirror of
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
I have often regretted
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
It is a consolation to
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Let a fool hold his to
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Prosperity makes frien
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Better be ignorant of
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
No one knows what he c
No one knows what he can do till he tries., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
At my lemonade stand I
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote., Emo Phillips, US comedian )
It takes a long time t
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Pardon one offense, an
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
It is a very hard unde
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
You should go to a pea
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Money alone sets all t
Money alone sets all the world in motion., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Every day should be pa
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
No man is happy who do
No man is happy who does not think himself so., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
It is not every questi
It is not every question that deserves an answer., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Do not turn back when
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
It is only the ignoran
It is only the ignorant who despise education., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
One needs to be slow t
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds., Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ascetic nationalist leader (1869 1948)
We desire nothing so m
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Nothing can be done at
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
No one should be judge
No one should be judge in his own case., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Never promise more tha
Never promise more than you can perform., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
A rolling stone gather
A rolling stone gathers no moss., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
The fear of death is m
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
It is a bad plan that
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
The judge is condemned
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Treat your friend as i
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Remember that what you
Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are., Noah Porter, US clergyman, educator, philosopher (1811 1892)
Anyone can hold the he
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
There are some remedie
There are some remedies worse than the disease., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
A fair exterior is a s
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
What is left when hono
What is left when honor is lost?, Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
For a good cause, wron
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
While we stop to think
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Many receive advice, f
Many receive advice, few profit by it., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
A good reputation is m
A good reputation is more valuable than money., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
The loss which is unkn
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
To do two things at on
To do two things at once is to do neither., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
The time to stop talki
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing., Henry S. Haskins,
He doubly benefits the
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
It is better to learn
It is better to learn late than never., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
As men, we are all equ
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death., Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Better late than never
Better late than never., Titus Livius, History, Roman author historian (59 BC 17 AD)
Young men, hear an old
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young., Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms, Roman politician (63 BC 14 AD)
I found Rome a city of
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble., Caesar Augustus, from Suetonius, Augustus, Roman politician (63 BC 14 AD)
He wins every hand who
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
It is when I struggle
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
The years as they pass
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Once a word has been a
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Think to yourself that
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
The covetous man is ev
The covetous man is ever in want., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
He who has begun has h
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin!, Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Make money, money by f
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
To flee vice is the be
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom., Horace, Epistles, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
It is not the rich man
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland., Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Many brave men lived b
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet., Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
With you I should love
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die., Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Force without wisdom f
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight., Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Whoever cultivates the
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace., Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Trumpet in a herd of e
Trumpet in a herd of elephants crow in the company of cocks bleat in a flock of goats., Malayan Proverb,
In adversity remember
In adversity remember to keep an even mind., Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Seize the day, put no
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow![Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.], Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Cease to ask what the
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants., Horace, Odes, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Life grants nothing to
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work., Horace, Satires, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
We rarely find anyone
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest., Horace, Satires, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
There is measure in al
There is measure in all things., Horace, Satires, Roman lyric poet satirist (65 BC 8 BC)
Believe one who has pr
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert., Virgil, Aeneid, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Fortune favors the bra
Fortune favors the brave., Virgil, Aeneid, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Each of us bears his o
Each of us bears his own Hell., Virgil, Aeneid, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
One of the best rules
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid., Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, novelist, satirist (1667 1745)
Yield not to evils, bu
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly., Virgil, Aeneid, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Whatever it is, I fear
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts., Virgil, Aeneid, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
I have known sorrow an
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched., Virgil, Aeneid, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Love conquers all thin
Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love., Virgil, Eclogues, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
Let us go singing as f
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious., Virgil, Eclogues, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
A snake lurks in the g
A snake lurks in the grass., Virgil, Eclogues, Roman epic poet (70 BC 19 BC)
To like and dislike th
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship., Sallust, The War with Catiline, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
Ambition drove many me
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue., Sallust, The War with Catiline, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
The renown which riche
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession., Sallust, The War with Catiline, Roman historian politician (86 BC 34 BC)
What is food to one, i
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison., Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Roman Epicurean poet, philosopher, scientist (96 BC 55 BC)
Nothing can be created
Nothing can be created from nothing., Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Roman Epicurean poet, philosopher, scientist (96 BC 55 BC)
Such evil deeds could
Such evil deeds could religion prompt., Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Roman Epicurean poet, philosopher, scientist (96 BC 55 BC)
It is not these wellfe
It is not these wellfed longhaired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungrylooking., Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives, Roman author, general, politician (100 BC 44 BC)
Et tu, Brute.[You also
Et tu, Brute.[You also, Brutus.], Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Roman author, general, politician (100 BC 44 BC)
Veni, vidi, vici.[I ca
Veni, vidi, vici.[I came, I saw, I conquered], Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Roman author, general, politician (100 BC 44 BC)
Men willingly believe
Men willingly believe what they wish., Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Roman author, general, politician (100 BC 44 BC)
Endless money forms th
Endless money forms the sinews of war., Cicero, Philippics, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
A friend is, as it wer
A friend is, as it were, a second self., Cicero, De Amicitia, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Be contented when you
Be contented when you have got all you want., Holbrook Jackson,
The shifts of Fortune
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends., Cicero, De Amicitia, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Let the punishment mat
Let the punishment match the offense., Cicero, De Legibus, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
If a man aspires to th
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third., Cicero, Orator, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
The freedom of poetic
The freedom of poetic license., Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
History is the witness
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity., Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio, Roman author, orator, politician (106 BC 43 BC)
Law stands mute in the
Law stands mute in the midst of arms., Cicero, Pro Milone,