Quotes

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 : 11325 : 2 Timothy 4:7


It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.
Alvar Aalto : 10822 : Aalto, Alvar


Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging.
Hank Aaron : 6821 : Aaron, Hank


It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. l did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron : 8994 : Aaron, Hank


The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron : 9320 : Aaron, Hank


There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not that tough.
Hank Aaron : 11320 : Aaron, Hank


Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey : 10287 : Abbey, Edward


Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey : 12833 : Abbey, Edward


The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens's vision are esthetically often a virtue.
Berenice Abbott : 10638 : Abbott, Berenice


Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; It has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott : 12524 : Abbott, Berenice


Photography doesn't teach you how to express your emotions; It teaches you how to see.
Bereniece Abbott : 12567 : Abbott, Bereniece


Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.
Charles F. Abbott : 2025 : Abbott, Charles F.


Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children - clean, indoors and no heavy lifting.
Diane Abbott : 12525 : Abbott, Diane


The Rite of Spring is an exciting piece of music, but I don't believe that it has any future as a Broadway musical.
George Abbott : 9375 : Abbott, George


We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
Shirley Abbott : 10637 : Abbott, Shirley


No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
Sheik Abd-al-Kadir : 4016 : Abd-al-Kadir, Sheik


I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell : 12356 : Abell, Sam


If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson : 6710 : Abelson, Hal


The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug : 8154 : Abzug, Bella


The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.
Goodman Ace : 750 : Ace, Goodman


Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
Goodman Ace : 7734 : Ace, Goodman


Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Marcel Achard : 10557 : Achard, Marcel


Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
Marcel Achard : 11177 : Achard, Marcel


The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe : 12527 : Achebe, Chinua


We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
Chinua Achebe : 13207 : Achebe, Chinua


I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
Dean Acheson : 2698 : Acheson, Dean


The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson : 9183 : Acheson, Dean


Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, but no one can agree on what it is.
Diane Ackerman : 2211 : Ackerman, Diane


I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman : 4245 : Ackerman, Diane


Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
Diane Ackerman : 7872 : Ackerman, Diane


I'd rather be a host than a guest. As Beerbohm observed, a happy host is a sad guest.
Harold Acton : 797 : Acton, Harold


If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
John Acton : 11580 : Acton, John


Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion, and it stands to the domestic feelings and to homesickness as faith to fanaticism and to superstition.
Lord Acton : 5102 : Acton, Lord


Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton : 8244 : Acton, Lord


No error is so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Lord Acton : 12031 : Acton, Lord


I will never consent to have our sex considered in an inferior point of light. Let each planet shine in their own orbit. God and nature designed it so - if man is Lord, women is Lordess - that is what I contend for.
Abigail Adams : 2665 : Adams, Abigail


Justice, humanity, and benevolence are the duties you owe to society in general. To your country the same duties are incumbent upon you with the additional obligation of sacrificing ease, pleasure, wealth, and life itself for its defense and security.
Abigail Adams : 3384 : Adams, Abigail


We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams : 4030 : Adams, Abigail


Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams, to John Adams : 10436 : Adams, Abigail


Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams : 10932 : Adams, Abigail


A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams : 11810 : Adams, Abigail


Yosemite valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams : 2724 : Adams, Ansel


A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Ansel Adams : 4202 : Adams, Ansel


Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams : 9177 : Adams, Ansel


In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams : 10616 : Adams, Ansel


When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams : 11244 : Adams, Ansel


A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams : 13526 : Adams, Ansel


Executive? A man who talks to visitors so the other employees can get their work done.
Cedric Adams : 9430 : Adams, Cedric


All right, so I spend money. Can you name one other extravagance I have?
Cindy Adams : 384 : Adams, Cindy


Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams : 3037 : Adams, Douglas


In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams : 3490 : Adams, Douglas


Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams : 6806 : Adams, Douglas


I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Douglas Adams : 8423 : Adams, Douglas


Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams, from "The Salmon of Doubt" : 8569 : Adams, Douglas


He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams : 8933 : Adams, Douglas


I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
Douglas Adams : 9443 : Adams, Douglas


The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams : 10242 : Adams, Douglas


I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams : 11438 : Adams, Douglas


It's nice to think that one could, even here and now, be whisked away just by hitchhiking.
Douglas Adams : 11756 : Adams, Douglas


Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Douglas Adams : 11956 : Adams, Douglas


The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
Douglas Adams : 12441 : Adams, Douglas


If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
Douglas Adams : 12452 : Adams, Douglas


To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams : 12717 : Adams, Douglas


I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams : 13468 : Adams, Douglas


Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
Franklin P. Adams : 627 : Adams, Franklin P.


In the order named, these are the hardest to control: wine, women, and song.
Franklin P. Adams : 628 : Adams, Franklin P.


Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams : 2155 : Adams, Franklin P.


The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams : 2530 : Adams, Franklin P.


Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams : 2730 : Adams, Franklin P.


I hate the pollyanna pest who says all is for the best.
Franklin P. Adams : 5250 : Adams, Franklin P.


I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams : 5967 : Adams, Franklin P.


There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams : 11602 : Adams, Franklin P.


The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant is alone enough to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams : 9405 : Adams, Henry


Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams : 10568 : Adams, Henry


We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams : 10779 : Adams, Henry


One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams : 12030 : Adams, Henry


Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams : 826 : Adams, Henry Brooks


No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Brooks Adams : 3489 : Adams, Henry Brooks


It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry B. Adams : 4940 : Adams, Henry Brooks


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams : 5305 : Adams, Henry Brooks


No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Brooks Adams : 6544 : Adams, Henry Brooks


A man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Adams : 914 : Adams, James


There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams : 9988 : Adams, James Truslow


The most popular labor saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams : 982 : Adams, Joey


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams : 4810 : Adams, Joey


Science is really going at a rapid pace. Now it's only a hundred years behind the comic strips.
Joey Adams : 8678 : Adams, Joey


Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Joey Adams : 9586 : Adams, Joey


If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
Joey Adams : 9687 : Adams, Joey


If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.
John Adams : 1990 : Adams, John


Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams : 3961 : Adams, John


The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams : 8292 : Adams, John


Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams : 9519 : Adams, John


Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.
John Adams : 13351 : Adams, John


I can scarcely recollect a single instance of success to anything that I ever undertook. Yet, with fervent gratitude to God, I confess that my life has been equally marked by great and signal success which I neither aimed at nor anticipated.
John Quincy Adams : 1014 : Adams, John Quincy


Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams : 3541 : Adams, John Quincy


If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams : 5295 : Adams, John Quincy


The great crises of life are not, I think, necessarily those which are in themselves the hardest to bear, but those for which we are least prepared.
Mary Adams : 7229 : Adams, Mary


Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams : 3747 : Adams, Patch


Who looks after the psychoanalyst's wife while the psychoanalyst is away being psychoanalyzed?
Scarritt Adams : 1630 : Adams, Scarritt


Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams : 1632 : Adams, Scott


If you hawe any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams : 10240 : Adams, Scott


There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Scott Adams : 10559 : Adams, Scott


Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
Sheryl Adams : 8102 : Adams, Sheryl


Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock : 10315 : Adcock, Joe


Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
George Addair : 13033 : Addair, George


Normal is an illusion. What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly.
Morticia Addams : 12776 : Addams, Morticia


I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.
Wednesday Addams : 13347 : Addams, Wednesday


What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison : 1035 : Addison, Joseph


Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.
Joseph Addison : 1036 : Addison, Joseph


It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
Joseph Addison : 1037 : Addison, Joseph


We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison : 1038 : Addison, Joseph


Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.
Joseph Addison : 1988 : Addison, Joseph


Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
Joseph Addison : 2030 : Addison, Joseph


A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison : 3083 : Addison, Joseph


Silence never shows itself to so great advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation.
Joseph Addison : 4563 : Addison, Joseph


A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison : 5430 : Addison, Joseph


A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Joseph Addison : 7690 : Addison, Joseph


There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor.
Joseph Addison : 7744 : Addison, Joseph


I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison : 8278 : Addison, Joseph


When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gout and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambush among the dishes.
Joseph Addison : 8524 : Addison, Joseph


Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison : 10839 : Addison, Joseph


What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Joseph Addison : 12265 : Addison, Joseph


A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison : 12480 : Addison, Joseph


Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade : 4902 : Ade, George


For parlor use, the vague generality is a lifesaver.
George Ade : 5462 : Ade, George


A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
George Ade : 6100 : Ade, George


There is everything in a name. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.
George Ade : 8600 : Ade, George


I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
Adele : 12267 : Adele


We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer : 10585 : Adenauer, Konrad


An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer : 11085 : Adenauer, Konrad


Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time and money to do it right.
Kurt H. Adler : 4499 : Adler Kurt H.


It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler : 3587 : Adler, Alfred


Man knows more than he understands.
Alfred Adler : 8105 : Adler, Alfred


The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Felix Adler : 4651 : Adler, Felix


Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!
Judi Adler : 8611 : Adler, Judi


There is no point in our ancestors speaking to us unless we know how to listen.
Mortimer Adler : 1324 : Adler, Mortimer


Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler : 4064 : Adler, Stella


The theater was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler : 7441 : Adler, Stella


Real giving had its joy in imagining the joy of the receiver. It means choosing, expending time, going out of one's way, thinking of the other as a subject: the opposite of distraction.
Thodor W. Adorno : 1763 : Adorno, Thodor W.


Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!"
Aeschylus : 4682 : Aeschylus


Make sure of the bear before you sell his skin.
Aesop's Fables : 21 : Aesop


Every truth has two sides; it is well to look at both sides before we commiit ourselves to either.
Aesop's Fables : 4953 : Aesop


A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop : 5141 : Aesop


The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our destruction.
Aesop : 6305 : Aesop


He who always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop : 6477 : Aesop


It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock : 6761 : Aesop


What a splendid head, yet no brain.
Aesop : 6816 : Aesop


It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop : 6994 : Aesop


The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop : 7089 : Aesop


Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop : 7397 : Aesop


Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop : 7727 : Aesop


Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop : 7748 : Aesop


It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop : 8103 : Aesop


While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Aesop, from "The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts" : 8579 : Aesop


To watch updates of your relationships on CNN is bizarre in a way I cannot explain. You think, "Isn't there something happening in Bosnia?"
Ben Affleck : 11537 : Affleck, Ben


The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar : 6417 : Agar, Herbert


You should never trifle with Nature.
Jean Louis Agassiz : 11377 : Agassiz, Jean Louis


A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.
James Agate : 2368 : Agate, James


I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.
James Agate : 4658 : Agate, James


I have views on most matters, and I am as willing as a politician to change most of them.
James Agate : 5245 : Agate, James


New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate : 6885 : Agate, James


Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
James Agate : 8389 : Agate, James


In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.
James Agee : 2302 : Agee, James


We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.
Jonis Agee : 8247 : Agee, Jonis


The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew : 11934 : Agnew, Spiro T.


A rumor will travel fastest to the place where it will cause the greatest harm.
Gustavo Agrait : 12503 : Agrait, Gustavo


How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.
June Ahern : 13203 : Ahern, June


It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo : 8328 : Aidoo, Ama Ata


If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken : 7404 : Aiken, Howard


At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
Howard Aiken : 7529 : Aiken, Howard


You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Leo Aikman : 9733 : Aikman, Leo


I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
Alvin Ailey : 13221 : Ailey, Alvin


If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird : 3806 : Aird, Catherine


Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
John Akers : 5084 : Akers, John


In human intimacy there is a secret boundary; neither the experience of being in love nor passion can cross it, though lips be joined together in awful silence, and the heart break asunder with love.
Anna Akhmatova : 2179 : Akhmatova, Anna


Life on the farm is a school of patience: you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
Henri Alain : 26 : Alain, Henri


Posy and pearls, amethyst and gold, forever you and I, our precious love to hold.
Astrid Alauda : 4835 : Alauda, Astrid


It's so much better to promote what you love than to bash what you hate.
Jessica Alba : 12996 : Alba, Jessica


Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
Anni Albers : 12971 : Albers, Anni


He slept beneath the moon, he basked in the sun; he lived a life of going-to-do, and died with nothing done.
James Albery : 4965 : Albery, James


The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom : 8171 : Albom, Mitch


A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright : 3856 : Albright, Herm


Summer vacation: When parents suddenly realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.
Herm Albright : 10783 : Albright, Herm


Only in America could a refugee girl from Europe become secretary of state.
Madeleine Albright : 2855 : Albright, Madeleine


That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
A. B. Alcott : 3 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 83 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 84 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Bronson Alcott : 3958 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 4524 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 10619 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 11953 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
Amy Strum Alcott : 5973 : Alcott, Amy Strum


My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
Louisa May Alcott : 3026 : Alcott, Louisa May


I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
Louisa May Alcott : 4532 : Alcott, Louisa May


I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott : 5122 : Alcott, Louisa May


I don't think secrets agree with me; I feel rumpled up in my mind since you told me that.
Louisa May Alcott : 7312 : Alcott, Louisa May


Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott : 12528 : Alcott, Louisa May


It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda : 2021 : Alda, Alan


Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda : 7453 : Alda, Alan


No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Alan Alda : 8177 : Alda, Alan


It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Alan Alda : 8506 : Alda, Alan


If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
Alan Alda : 11369 : Alda, Alan


The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
Alan Alda : 12526 : Alda, Alan


You keep going until you get it right, then you keep going until you can't get it wrong.
Monica Aldama : 13155 : Aldama, Monica


There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden : 3167 : Alden, Robert


Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Brian Aldiss : 285 : Aldiss, Brian


Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?
Brian Aldiss : 12529 : Aldiss, Brian


What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, stardust, or sea foam, flower or winged air.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich : 6030 : Aldrich, Thomas Bailey


Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
Buzz Aldrin : 13553 : Aldrin, Buzz


How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander the Great : 6108 : Alexander the Great


Harold (Robbins) could be the best conversationalist in the world - if he ever found anyone he thought worth talking to.
H. Alexander : 2491 : Alexander, H.


All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Scott Alexander : 7957 : Alexander, Scott


A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Shana Alexander : 6056 : Alexander, Shana


Letters are expectation packed in an envelope.
Shana Alexander : 6154 : Alexander, Shana


Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Shana Alexander : 10214 : Alexander, Shana


Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Vittorio Alfieri : 5506 : Alfieri, Vittorio


Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Alfonso, King of Castile, on studying the Ptolemaic system : 8216 : Alfonso, King of Castile


Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Henry Alford : 10241 : Alford, Henry


If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.
Hannes Alfven : 3458 : Alfven, Hannes


After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
William R. Alger : 10003 : Alger, William R.


The flower we do not pluck is the only which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
W. R. Alger : 1850 : Alger, William Rounseville


False eloquence is exaggeration: true eloquence is emphasis.
William Rounseville Alger : 9547 : Alger, William Rounseville


The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson Algren : 1338 : Algren, Nelson


I have said I am the greatest. Ain't nobody ever heard me say I was the smartest.
Muhammad Ali : 1313 : Ali, Muhammad


The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali : 1314 : Ali, Muhammad


To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali : 1329 : Ali, Muhammad


Advice to a young man: Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they sure can make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali : 2239 : Ali, Muhammad


I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali : 7118 : Ali, Muhammad


It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali : 7812 : Ali, Muhammad


Inside a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali : 8690 : Ali, Muhammad


If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali : 10901 : Ali, Muhammad


Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali : 10978 : Ali, Muhammad


Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali : 13500 : Ali, Muhammad


Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri : 4272 : Alighieri, Dante


The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri : 8700 : Alighieri, Dante


Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri : 11435 : Alighieri, Dante


The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Noelie Alito : 10825 : Alito, Noelie


You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan : 12890 : Allan, Gary


No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
Gary Allan : 13437 : Allan, Gary


If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen : 630 : Allen, Fred


I like long walks. Especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen : 631 : Allen, Fred


Was she old? When they lit the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome by the heat.
Fred Allen : 632 : Allen, Fred


The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
Fred Allen : 2309 : Allen, Fred


He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in the goose.
Fred Allen : 2549 : Allen, Fred


I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen : 3849 : Allen, Fred


A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide nothing can be done.
Fred Allen : 4422 : Allen, Fred


An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
Fred Allen : 4438 : Allen, Fred


The penguin flies backwards because he doesn't care to see where he's going, but wants to see where he's been.
Fred Allen : 4703 : Allen, Fred


Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen : 5396 : Allen, Fred


The head of our advertising agency suffered from claustrophobia so he had to stay out of Rhode Island.
Fred Allen : 5532 : Allen, Fred


I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
Fred Allen : 6043 : Allen, Fred


I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen : 6428 : Allen, Fred


Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
Fred Allen : 6528 : Allen, Fred


An advertising agency is eighty-five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission.
Fred Allen : 7174 : Allen, Fred


His hobby is collecting old echoes.
Fred Allen : 7735 : Allen, Fred


I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Fred Allen : 9854 : Allen, Fred


You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen : 10656 : Allen, Fred


Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; He should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen : 12584 : Allen, Fred


Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
George Allen, Sr. : 8831 : Allen, George, Sr.


Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
George Allen, Sr. : 9154 : Allen, George, Sr.


I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen : 12341 : Allen, Gracie


Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for the big one to come along.
Hugh Allen : 5436 : Allen, Hugh


If I can't blow up the world in the first ten seconds, then the show is a flop.
Irwin Allen : 6086 : Allen, Irwin


Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will bring about right results.
James L. Allen : 931 : Allen, James L.


You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen : 5276 : Allen, James L.


Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen : 7846 : Allen, James L.


Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen : 7947 : Allen, James L.


Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam - and I'll show you a house full of dirt.
Marty Allen : 10095 : Allen, Marty


A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
Marty Allen : 10897 : Allen, Marty


Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert Allen : 5145 : Allen, Robert


While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
Tom Allen : 11417 : Allen, Tom


They reside with my father - who polishes them. Well, I'm certainly not going to put Oscars in my house.
Woody Allen : 1943 : Allen, Woody


How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen : 1944 : Allen, Woody


There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen : 1945 : Allen, Woody


Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen : 2257 : Allen, Woody


If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen : 2689 : Allen, Woody


I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen : 3206 : Allen, Woody


Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen : 3213 : Allen, Woody


Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen : 5661 : Allen, Woody


Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen : 6692 : Allen, Woody


It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen : 6729 : Allen, Woody


I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen : 6931 : Allen, Woody


My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen : 6998 : Allen, Woody


I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen : 7087 : Allen, Woody


How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
Woody Allen : 7328 : Allen, Woody


Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen : 7379 : Allen, Woody


My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen : 7714 : Allen, Woody


I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen : 7970 : Allen, Woody


What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen : 7981 : Allen, Woody


I'd rather die than live in the country. I've always been at two with nature.
Woody Allen : 9069 : Allen, Woody


When I was born, my family was so poor my mother couldn't afford to use talcum powder on me. So she used to douse me with kitchen baking soda. About once every month I'd break out in a severe case of cookies.
Woody Allen : 9933 : Allen, Woody


I do not believe in an afterlife, but I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen : 10239 : Allen, Woody


It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen : 11252 : Allen, Woody


All people know the same truth; Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Woody Allen : 12194 : Allen, Woody


The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New Jersey.
Woody Allen : 12579 : Allen, Woody


We don't know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
Isabel Allende : 13085 : Allende, Isabel


Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
Isabelle Allende : 13470 : Allende, Isabelle


His mistaken belief in his own superiority cuts him off from reality as completely as if he were living in a colored glass jar.
Margery Allingham : 6590 : Allingham, Margery


Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
Margery Allingham : 9307 : Allingham, Margery


There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
Mose Allison : 7751 : Allison, Mose


There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
Gordon Allport : 4774 : Allport, Gordon


Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child's growth as vitamins.
Joyce Allston : 13054 : Allston, Joyce


There's a kind of blackmail that only the family can exercise over you and it is more powerful than anything the whole of society can do to you.
Pedro Almodovar : 1444 : Almodovar, Pedro


We begin by fooling others and end by fooling ourselves.
Eric Alterman : 2923 : Alterman, Eric


If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
Lisa Alther : 7240 : Alther, Lisa


That's the risk you take if you change; that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa Alther : 7897 : Alther, Lisa


I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Lisa Alther : 8907 : Alther, Lisa


I've about had it - the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy - it's an advertising medium.
Robert Altman : 6272 : Altman, Robert


I got fired for many years for doing a lot of the things that I'm now getting accolades for.
Robert Altman : 9024 : Altman, Robert


The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
Michael Altshuler : 12606 : Altshuler, Michael


Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
Amarillo Slim : 3182 : Amarillo Slim


No man can be a sound lawyer who is not well-read in the laws of Moses.
Fisher Ames : 602 : Ames, Fisher


Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Amiel : 82 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. As far as lies in its power, it tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own image.
Henri Amiel : 821 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 822 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri F. Amiel : 2103 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Henri Amiel : 2448 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 4722 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Amiel : 6073 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 6287 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Music is harmony; Harmony is perfection; Perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 6553 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Amiel : 6907 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to live, make haste to be kind!
Henri Frederic Amiel : 7517 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


To surrender what is most profound and mysterious in one's being and personality at any price less than that of absolute reciprocity is profanation.
Henri Amiel : 9315 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and wait, more information than a library.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 10060 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - that is to say, over fear. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
Henri Amiel : 11199 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.
Henri Amiel : 11711 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 12024 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis : 5367 : Amis, Kingsley


A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
Kingsley Amis : 6996 : Amis, Kingsley


The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.
John Amodeo : 10384 : Amodeo, John


You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory : 9701 : Amory, Cleveland


I think NASCAR would be much more exciting if, like in a skating rink, every fifteen minutes someone announced it was time to reverse direction.
Jeffrey Anbinder : 9991 : Anbinder, Jeffrey


Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen : 7153 : Andersen, Hans Christian


But the Emperor has nothing on at all! cried a little child.
Hans Christian Andersen : 8363 : Andersen, Hans Christian


I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Andersen : 4231 : Andersen, Sherwood


Speeches are like steer horns - a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Evelyn Anderson : 8502 : Anderson, Evelyn


Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson : 13076 : Anderson, Greg


Tattoo - what a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
Jon Anderson : 3906 : Anderson, Jon


Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" when they're already there?
Larry Anderson : 9414 : Anderson, Larry


My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
Margaret Anderson : 4941 : Anderson, Margaret


As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson : 9317 : Anderson, Marian


The interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest he finds in himself, the values he attributes to his own being?
Sherwood Anderson : 3002 : Anderson, Sherwood


The whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
Sherwood Anderson : 9705 : Anderson, Sherwood


The first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson : 9903 : Anderson, Walter


It's a mystery. All I did was wear this bikini in "Dr. No" - not even a small one - and whoosh! Overnight I've made it.
Ursula Andress : 5211 : Andress, Ursula


I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
Ursula Andress : 9187 : Andress, Ursula


If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti : 10814 : Andretti, Mario


O can't you see, brother - death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
C. D. Andrews : 7767 : Andrews, C. D.


All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews : 8189 : Andrews, Julie


Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews : 10489 : Andrews, Julie


All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
Julie Andrews : 12465 : Andrews, Julie


Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou : 1290 : Angelou, Maya


The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou : 1291 : Angelou, Maya


You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
Maya Angelou : 1292 : Angelou, Maya


I always knew that fury was my natural enemy. It clotted my blood and clogged my pores. It literally blinded me so that I lost my peripheral vision.
Maya Angelou : 2292 : Angelou, Maya


There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou : 3936 : Angelou, Maya


Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou : 5172 : Angelou, Maya


Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou : 6057 : Angelou, Maya


If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou : 7785 : Angelou, Maya


In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou : 8673 : Angelou, Maya


If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.
Maya Angelou : 8895 : Angelou, Maya


If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou : 9224 : Angelou, Maya


History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou : 9875 : Angelou, Maya


I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou : 9890 : Angelou, Maya


I don't believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya Angelou : 10629 : Angelou, Maya


There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou : 10942 : Angelou, Maya


You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou : 11043 : Angelou, Maya


There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou : 11346 : Angelou, Maya


I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou : 11387 : Angelou, Maya


Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou : 11626 : Angelou, Maya


The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
Maya Angelou : 11742 : Angelou, Maya


Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou : 11835 : Angelou, Maya


Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou : 11930 : Angelou, Maya


If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou : 12028 : Angelou, Maya


How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou : 12091 : Angelou, Maya


No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Maya Angelou : 12185 : Angelou, Maya


We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou : 12218 : Angelou, Maya


As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
Maya Angelou : 12238 : Angelou, Maya


I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.
Maya Angelou : 12263 : Angelou, Maya


For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter.
Maya Angelou : 12291 : Angelou, Maya


Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou : 12487 : Angelou, Maya


I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; You need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou : 12555 : Angelou, Maya


Pick up the battle and make it a better world just where you are. It can be better and it must be better, but it's up to us.
Maya Angelou : 12689 : Angelou, Maya


If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou : 12701 : Angelou, Maya


Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou : 12872 : Angelou, Maya


Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya Angelou : 12941 : Angelou, Maya


The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Maya Angelou : 13005 : Angelou, Maya


Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya Angelou : 13454 : Angelou, Maya


You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - It's all there.
Maya Angelou : 13455 : Angelou, Maya


When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou : 13487 : Angelou, Maya


The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston : 7415 : Aniston, Jennifer


Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston : 12330 : Aniston, Jennifer


Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.
Kofi Annan : 13018 : Annan, Kofi


Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan : 13179 : Annan, Kofi


Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day but it has one archenemy, and that is life.
Jean Anouilh : 1971 : Anouilh, Jean


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh : 3340 : Anouilh, Jean


Real miracles are created by men when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh : 11303 : Anouilh, Jean


The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job. Anything will set it going.
Jean Anouilh : 11493 : Anouilh, Jean


Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings. affairs of state - everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
Jean Anouith : 7222 : Anouith, Jean


What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
John Anster : 13099 : Anster, John


Some people are willing to work only if they can start at the top and work up.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 475 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Others can stop you temporarily. Only you can do it permanently.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 476 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Your enemy might become your friend, if you allow him to become who he is.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 477 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Your interpretation of what you see and hear is just that - your interpretation.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 5297 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


If you are honest because honesty is the best policy, then your honesty is corrupt.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 5487 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


If you are honest because honesty is the best policy, then your honesty is corrupt.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 5488 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony : 11441 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony : 7557 : Anthony, Susan B.


When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Susan B. Anthony : 9389 : Anthony, Susan B.


The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony : 11290 : Anthony, Susan B.


The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation.
Susan B. Anthony : 12094 : Anthony, Susan B.


Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
Susan B. Anthony : 12395 : Anthony, Susan B.


There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette : 8082 : Antoinette, Marie


When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.
Susan Anton : 10312 : Anton, Susan


Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense.
Marcus Antonius : 1216 : Antonius, Marcus


Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Antonius : 9343 : Antonius, Marcus


Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim : 12040 : Antrim, Minna


A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim : 12308 : Antrim, Minna


Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.
Gloria Anzaldua : 12690 : Anzaldua, Gloria


Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire : 12793 : Apollinaire, Guillaume


I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sir Edward Appleton : 2781 : Appleton, Sir Edward


If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. There would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.
Saint Thomas Aquinas : 11875 : Aquinas, Saint Thomas


He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
Thomas Aquinas : 1765 : Aquinas, Thomas


To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas : 11048 : Aquinas, Thomas


A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus : 13215 : Arbus, Diane


I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
Jeffery Archer : 10458 : Archer, Jeffery


Pull off a coup and you're a national hero, fail and you're an evil criminal; in business it's the same difference between bankruptcy and making a fortune.
Jeffrey Archer : 8218 : Archer, Jeffrey


Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
Elizabeth Arden, To Her Husband : 537 : Arden, Elizabeth


Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt : 795 : Arendt, Hannah


Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt : 2041 : Arendt, Hannah


It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt : 2718 : Arendt, Hannah


Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt : 5968 : Arendt, Hannah


It is far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
Hannah Arendt : 8057 : Arendt, Hannah


Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful; not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
Hannah Arendt : 9625 : Arendt, Hannah


As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself.
Hannah Arendt : 9982 : Arendt, Hannah


Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt : 10543 : Arendt, Hannah


No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Hannah Arendt : 11288 : Arendt, Hannah


Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
Hannah Arendt : 12672 : Arendt, Hannah


Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
Pietro Aretino : 13151 : Aretino, Pietro


Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes : 9213 : Aristophanes


He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle : 164 : Aristotle


So poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
Aristotle : 165 : Aristotle


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle : 166 : Aristotle


Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle : 2060 : Aristotle


The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but the inward significance.
Aristotle : 2484 : Aristotle


Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle : 2843 : Aristotle


Young people have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things.
Aristotle : 2973 : Aristotle


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle : 3176 : Aristotle


He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle : 3511 : Aristotle


Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle : 3568 : Aristotle


Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle : 3642 : Aristotle


The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle : 4032 : Aristotle


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle : 6138 : Aristotle


Most people would rather get than give affection.
Aristotle : 6509 : Aristotle


Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle : 6667 : Aristotle


It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle : 6717 : Aristotle


The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle : 6746 : Aristotle


We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle : 7097 : Aristotle


Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle : 7371 : Aristotle


Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle : 8096 : Aristotle


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle : 8248 : Aristotle


All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle : 8603 : Aristotle


Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle : 9084 : Aristotle


The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle : 9692 : Aristotle


Comedy aims at representing men as worse, and tragedy as better, than in real life.
Aristotle : 9786 : Aristotle


That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
Aristotle : 10443 : Aristotle


What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle : 10620 : Aristotle


When they are asleep you cannot tell a good man from a bad one, whence the saying that for half their lives there is no difference between the happy and the miserable.
Aristotle : 11185 : Aristotle


All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle : 11691 : Aristotle


My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle : 11723 : Aristotle


Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle : 11814 : Aristotle


Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle : 12469 : Aristotle


It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.
Michael Arlen : 1300 : Arlen, Michael


Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Dick Armey : 7098 : Armey, Dick


Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
Dick Armey : 7116 : Armey, Dick


Hard labor: a redundancy, like "working mother."
Joyce Armor : 1064 : Armor, Joyce


There may be luck in getting a job, but there's no luck in keeping it.
Ogden Armour : 1371 : Armour, Ogden


When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
Richard Armour : 1518 : Armour, Richard


Here is where people, 0ne frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds.
Richard Armour, "Library" : 4321 : Armour, Richard


The conscience is a built-in feature / That haunts the sinner, helps the preacher. / Some sins it makes us turn and run from, / But most it simply takes the fun from.
Richard Armour : 7206 : Armour, Richard


I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong : 4172 : Armstrong, Edith


Toil and be strong. By toil the flaccid nerves grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone.
J. Armstrong : 898 : Armstrong, J.


When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong : 12514 : Armstrong, Kristin


The main thing is to live for that audience. What you're there for is to please people the best you can. Those few moments belong to them.
Louis Armstrong : 9662 : Armstrong, Louis


A lotta cats copy the "Mona Lisa," but people still line up to see the original.
Louis Armstrong : 10094 : Armstrong, Louis


Man, if you gotta ask, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong : 11687 : Armstrong, Louis


Houston, tranquility base here. The "Eagle" has landed.
Neil A. Armstrong : 2918 : Armstrong, Neil A.


I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Neil A. Armstrong : 11081 : Armstrong, Neil A.


This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong : 12171 : Armstrong, Neil A.


A cat refuses to be the object of sentimentality - If she doesn't want to be cuddled. that's it.
Samantha Armstrong : 7151 : Armstrong, Samantha


Comedy needs heart and warmth, even a tear or two, not just a lot of slapstick laughs.
Desi Arnaz : 12011 : Arnaz, Desi


I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.
Mary Arnim : 5023 : Arnim, Mary


The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
H. W. Arnold : 784 : Arnold, H. W.


France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Mathew Arnold : 3331 : Arnold, Mathew


The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold : 1284 : Arnold, Matthew


The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold : 3082 : Arnold, Matthew


Culture is "to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
Matthew Arnold : 5315 : Arnold, Matthew


We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought, that chance will bring us through.
Matthew Arnold : 6928 : Arnold, Matthew


One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent.
Matthew Arnold : 7963 : Arnold, Matthew


Now the great winds shorewards blow; Now the salt tides seawards flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Matthew Arnold : 8925 : Arnold, Matthew


Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold : 9366 : Arnold, Matthew


Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold : 9510 : Arnold, Matthew


Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
Matthew Arnold : 10892 : Arnold, Matthew


The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Matthew Arnold : 11364 : Arnold, Matthew


My love for any place, or person, or institution, is exactly the measure of my desire to reform them.
Thomas Arnold : 11283 : Arnold, Thomas


I never had a huge need to be a big movie star or a billionaire.
Patricia Arquette : 6107 : Arquette, Patricia


The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Gloria M. Arroyo : 12322 : Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal


All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful, and five feet two inches tall.
Beatrice Arthur : 9425 : Arthur, Beatrice


The best way you can surprise a woman with an anniversary gift is to give her just what she wanted.
Arbuth Arundale : 6956 : Arundale, Arbuth


Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch : 4276 : Asch, Sholem


There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham : 7304 : Ascham, Roger


Through politics men can learn to use ballots instead of bullets, symbols instead of weapons.
M. Ascoli : 1199 : Ascoli, M.


If you think you can, you're right. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash : 5091 : Ash, Mary Kay


Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash : 5415 : Ash, Mary Kay


There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery : 9334 : Ashbery, John


True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to server others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe : 2273 : Ashe, Arthur


I learned to play tennis because the tennis courts were the closest athletic facility to my house.
Arthur Ashe : 7643 : Ashe, Arthur


There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.
Arthur Ashe : 9329 : Ashe, Arthur


You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe : 12420 : Ashe, Arthur


I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
Evelyn Ashford : 9521 : Ashford, Evelyn


In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley : 6069 : Ashley, Elizabeth


People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.
Elizabeth Ashley : 7506 : Ashley, Elizabeth


We must find methods of maintaining a healthy ecological balance on earth. If there is any spare effort left over from these absolute necessities, we can put them into other projects - otherwise not.
Isaac Asimov : 891 : Asimov, Isaac


I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov : 6157 : Asimov, Isaac


The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
Isaac Asimov : 8961 : Asimov, Isaac


Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov : 9476 : Asimov, Isaac


Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov : 10900 : Asimov, Isaac


It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov : 12673 : Asimov, Isaac


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Herbert Henry Asquith : 860 : Asquith, Herbert Henry


He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith : 1233 : Asquith, Margot


She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith : 1234 : Asquith, Margot


I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have been gauged by the value of my intellect.
Margot Asquith : 7920 : Asquith, Margot


Klee's pictures seem to me to resemble, not pictures, but a sample book of patterns for linoleum.
Sir Cyril Asquith : 10483 : Asquith, Sir Cyril


Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Fred Astaire : 5060 : Astaire, Fred


Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
Mary Astell : 7308 : Astell, Mary


In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.
Thea Astley : 6952 : Astley, Thea


It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man.
Lady Nancy Astor : 1130 : Astor, Lady Nancy


We women do talk too much, but even then we don't tell half of what we know.
Nancy Astor : 2046 : Astor, Lady Nancy


From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
Lady Astor : 2473 : Astor, Lady Nancy


I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Lady Astor : 6063 : Astor, Lady Nancy


The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
Nancy Astor : 8335 : Astor, Lady Nancy


In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson : 2668 : Atkinson, Brooks


It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson : 3155 : Atkinson, Brooks


This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid
Brooks Atkinson : 4683 : Atkinson, Brooks


The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
Brooks Atkinson : 9696 : Atkinson, Brooks


Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to Utopia.
Brooks Atkinson : 11156 : Atkinson, Brooks


You've got friends, then you've got your best friend. Big difference. To me, a friend is a guy who will help you move. A best friend is a guy who will help you move a body.
Dave Attell : 11864 : Attell, Dave


Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Attlee : 390 : Attlee, Clement


I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Clement Attlee : 10683 : Attlee, Clement


Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood : 8826 : Atwood, Margaret


Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion; so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely.
Margaret Atwood : 10357 : Atwood, Margaret


In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood : 10971 : Atwood, Margaret


Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood : 11955 : Atwood, Margaret


The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood : 13025 : Atwood, Margaret


Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
Margaret Atwood : 13031 : Atwood, Margaret


All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people.
Margaret Atwood : 13171 : Atwood, Margaret


When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden : 1845 : Auden, W. H.


Your cameraman might enjoy himself, because my face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
W. H. Auden : 1846 : Auden, W. H.


And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching the apple falling towards England, became aware between himself and her of an eternal tie.
W. H. Auden : 1847 : Auden, W. H.


Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden : 1848 : Auden, W. H.


No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.
W. H. Auden : 1849 : Auden, W. H.


LSD? Nothing much happened, but I did get the distinct impression that some birds were trying to communicate with me.
W. H. Auden : 2732 : Auden, W. H.


Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
W. H. Auden : 4377 : Auden, W. H.


The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel, and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden : 4645 : Auden, W. H.


It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden : 6298 : Auden, W. H.


Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden : 6311 : Auden, W. H.


A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden : 7218 : Auden, W. H.


The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
W. H. Auden : 7713 : Auden, W. H.


To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
W. H. Auden : 8358 : Auden, W. H.


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden : 9007 : Auden, W. H.


Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
W. H. Auden : 9382 : Auden, W. H.


Because of impatience, we were driven out of paradise; Because of impatience, we cannot return.
W. H. Auden : 9559 : Auden, W. H.


The quality common to all the great operatic roles, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.
W. H. Auden : 9605 : Auden, W. H.


If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden : 11983 : Auden, W. H.


Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for young men.
W. H. Auden : 13008 : Auden, W. H.


A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
J. J. Audubon : 11745 : Audubon, John James


The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Fred Auerbach : 11332 : Auerbach, Fred


God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
John Aughey : 4069 : Aughey, John


Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
David Augsburger : 7821 : Augsburger, David


He who is good is free, even if he is a slave. He who is evil is a slave, even if he is a king.
Augustine of Hippo : 3714 : Augustine of Hippo


Bulls do not win bullfights. People do. People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman R. Augustine : 2567 : Augustine, Norman R.


Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman R. Augustine : 13073 : Augustine, Norman R.


I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
Augustus : 12057 : Augustus


A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission
Marcus Aurelius : 2066 : Aurelius, Marcus


Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius : 3147 : Aurelius, Marcus


Nothing is so conducive to greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and honestly everything that meets us in life.
Marcus Aurelius : 3442 : Aurelius, Marcus


The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius : 5147 : Aurelius, Marcus


Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus Aurelius : 6873 : Aurelius, Marcus


Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. be one.
Marcus Aurelius : 6879 : Aurelius, Marcus


A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another.
Marcus Aurelius : 7694 : Aurelius, Marcus


Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius : 8590 : Aurelius, Marcus


Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no
Marcus Aurelius : 9215 : Aurelius, Marcus


Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius : 9582 : Aurelius, Marcus


Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Marcus Aurelius : 10013 : Aurelius, Marcus


We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius : 11867 : Aurelius, Marcus


Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog, or man. There is no difference there between a cat and a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo : 9597 : Aurobindo, Sri


Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
Ausonius : 6545 : Ausonius


He and I should not in the least agree of course, in our ideas of nobels and heroines; pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.
Jane Austen : 944 : Austen, Jane


One man's way may be as good as another, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen : 945 : Austen, Jane


We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane Austen : 1956 : Austen, Jane


Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
Jane Austen : 2099 : Austen, Jane


A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.
Jane Austen : 2319 : Austen, Jane


There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry... It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Jane Austen : 2955 : Austen, Jane


Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
Jane Austen : 3899 : Austen, Jane


The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
Jane Austen : 4108 : Austen, Jane


One cannot always be laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen : 5045 : Austen, Jane


Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen : 6047 : Austen, Jane


I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen : 6724 : Austen, Jane


Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park" : 6904 : Austen, Jane


Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Jane Austen, "Emma" : 6975 : Austen, Jane


One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen, "Emma" : 7037 : Austen, Jane


She was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas.
Jane Austen : 7610 : Austen, Jane


For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen : 8020 : Austen, Jane


Solemn history, I cannot be interested in: the quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences on every page, and hardly any women at all.
Jane Austen : 8582 : Austen, Jane


Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen : 9005 : Austen, Jane


What is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent move? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
Jane Austen : 9671 : Austen, Jane


The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen : 9910 : Austen, Jane


It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
Jane Austen : 10391 : Austen, Jane


I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen : 10944 : Austen, Jane


Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen : 11437 : Austen, Jane


A woman especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen : 11592 : Austen, Jane


Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen : 12075 : Austen, Jane


Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen : 12353 : Austen, Jane


To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen : 12687 : Austen, Jane


If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Jane Austen : 13166 : Austen, Jane


One of the conditions of being human is that, even if we're surrounded by others, we essentially live our lives alone: Real life takes place inside us.
Paul Auster : 7554 : Auster, Paul


There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin : 3915 : Austin, Alfred


To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin : 12279 : Austin, Alfred


The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature.
Alfred Austin : 12295 : Austin, Alfred


This is when we say "words fail" and mean this literally. We should need new words. The old ones just would not fit. They aren't meant to cover this kind of case.
John Austin, on Kafka's "Metamorphosis" : 6575 : Austin, John


People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Mary Austin : 6238 : Austin, Mary


I should like my epitaph to say, "He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh."
Rev. W. Awdry : 2369 : Awdry, Rev. W.


I honestly don't think you possibly share a small tent for any length of time with someone who's ebullient.
Alan Ayckbourn : 3829 : Ayckbourn, Alan


If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
Alan Ayckbourn : 9993 : Ayckbourn, Alan


If I had been someone not very clever, I would have done an easier job like publishing. That's the easiest job I can think of.
A. J. Ayer : 8966 : Ayer, A. J.


Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.
M. D. Babcock : 1200 : Babcock, Maltbie D.


Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock : 4773 : Babcock, Maltbie D.


Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson : 7455 : Babson, Roger


Your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall : 4837 : Bacall, Lauren


I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall : 5107 : Bacall, Lauren


What I learned from Mr. Bogart - I learned from a master, and that, God knows, has stood me in very good stead.
Lauren Bacall : 6034 : Bacall, Lauren


There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Bach : 213 : Bach


To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
John Bach : 8786 : Bach, John


The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach : 2233 : Bach, Richard


The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
Richard Bach : 3889 : Bach, Richard


Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach : 7793 : Bach, Richard


A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach : 9159 : Bach, Richard


In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach : 10754 : Bach, Richard


The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach : 10973 : Bach, Richard


The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach : 12377 : Bach, Richard


A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach : 9439 : Bacharach, Burt


A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Gaston Bachelard : 8224 : Bachelard, Gaston


Take only pictures and leave only footprints.
The Backpacker's Code : 7472 : Backpacker's Code, The


Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus : 3405 : Backus, Jim


Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Francis Bacon : 10437 : Bacon, Francis


Some books are to be tasted, others to be swllowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon : 11136 : Bacon, Francis


The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Francis Bacon : 11496 : Bacon, Francis


The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
Francis Bacon : 11754 : Bacon, Francis


Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!
Josephine Bacon : 9138 : Bacon, Josephine


I've been a film star so long that I don't know what it would feel like not to be one.
Kevin Bacon : 6074 : Bacon, Kevin


Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt.
Roger Bacon : 2312 : Bacon, Roger


In taking revenge a man is equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
Bacon : 214 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon : 612 : Bacon, Sir Francis


The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
Francis Bacon : 613 : Bacon, Sir Francis


It is in life as it is in ways. The shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon : 614 : Bacon, Sir Francis


I knew one that when he wrote a letter he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a bymatter.
Francis Bacon : 615 : Bacon, Sir Francis


The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon : 2133 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon : 2436 : Bacon, Sir Francis


A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal.
Francis Bacon : 2852 : Bacon, Sir Francis


He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon : 3073 : Bacon, Sir Francis


The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon : 4125 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon : 4559 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Sir Francis Bacon : 6650 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Sir Francis Bacon : 6673 : Bacon, Sir Francis


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon : 6785 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon : 7078 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Love can find an entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.
Francis Bacon : 7268 : Bacon, Sir Francis


He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon : 7380 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Without friends, the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon : 7384 : Bacon, Sir Francis


As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all innovations, which are the birth of time.
Francis Bacon : 7611 : Bacon, Sir Francis


If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon : 7798 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Francis Bacon : 7931 : Bacon, Sir Francis


If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon : 8941 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Sir Francis Bacon : 9901 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon : 9915 : Bacon, Sir Francis


But no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth.
Francis Bacon : 12440 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Arthur Baer : 5166 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


You can take a boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
Arthur "Bugs" Baer : 6218 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence but doesn't climb over it.
Arthur "Bugs" Baer : 6229 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Arthur "Bugs" Baer : 6552 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


What's good economics is bad politics; what's bad economics is good politics.
Eugene W. Baer : 8037 : Baer, Eugene W.


The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez : 976 : Baez, Joan


It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez : 8544 : Baez, Joan


Screaming at people may not be the most efficient way. I'm going to stay back a little from now on. I'm learning how to listen to people instead of preaching at them so much.
Joan Baez : 9607 : Baez, Joan


The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot : 1860 : Bagehot, Walter


An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot : 1861 : Bagehot, Walter


The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot : 2609 : Bagehot, Walter


Public opinion requires us to think other men's thought, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot : 3130 : Bagehot, Walter


Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot : 5202 : Bagehot, Walter


Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot : 7998 : Bagehot, Walter


The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot : 11234 : Bagehot, Walter


Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: "We got through another night."
Enid Bagnold : 2457 : Bagnold, Enid


The fear is worse than the pain.
Shannon Bahr : 5620 : Bahr, Shannon


When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Bernard Bailey : 7950 : Bailey, Bernard


Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
F. Lee Bailey : 10033 : Bailey, F. Lee


The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
H. C. Bailey : 769 : Bailey, H. C.


Any young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
J. Bailey : 899 : Bailey, J.


Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.
Liberty Hyde Bailey : 12967 : Bailey, Liberty Hyde


What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey : 3626 : Bailey, Pearl


There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey : 7519 : Bailey, Pearl


One is tempted to say that old myths never die; they just become embedded in the textbooks.
Thomas A. Bailey : 2611 : Bailey, Thomas A.


Look, daddy, teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
Zuzu Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life : 10912 : Bailey, Zuzu


Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Beryl Bainbridge : 8144 : Bainbridge, Beryl


October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
Nova S. Bair : 12845 : Bair, Nova S.


Son, you have to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.
Howard Baker's Father : 879 : Baker, Howard's Father


Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
Karle Wilson Baker : 13467 : Baker, Karle Wilson


Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Kenneth Baker : 8563 : Baker, Kenneth


The magic of children is their ability to cloud our memories so that when we look back we recall only the golden moments, the sweet laughter and the sentimental tears, and none of the awful trials.
Russell Baker : 2240 : Baker, Russell


While edging toward a coma during the endless years of baseball this weekend, I suddenly realized I didn't know what a slider was.
Russell Baker : 2710 : Baker, Russell


Lobbies exist to behave swinishly on behalf of people too delicate to behave swinishly for themselves.
Russell Baker : 2769 : Baker, Russell


Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.
Russell Baker : 3065 : Baker, Russell


Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Russell Baker : 4316 : Baker, Russell


When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword-swallower gag.
Russell Baker : 4448 : Baker, Russell


In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Russell Baker : 8079 : Baker, Russell


The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Russell Baker : 9423 : Baker, Russell


When we moved to New York we had to get rid of the children. Landlords didn't like them and, in any case, rents were so high. Who could afford an apartment big enough to contain children?
Russell Baker : 10361 : Baker, Russell


Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker : 11776 : Baker, Russell


First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty - if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
George Balanchine : 11970 : Balanchine, George


A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.
Letitia Baldrige : 10044 : Baldrige, Letitia


Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.
Billy Baldwin : 12595 : Baldwin, Billy


One thing I know about march - whether it storms or shines, it is the key to spring.
Faith Baldwin : 592 : Baldwin, Faith


Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin : 5108 : Baldwin, Faith


It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin : 13425 : Baldwin, James


The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James Baldwin : 13444 : Baldwin, James


We live in an age when silence is not only criminal but suicidal. If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.
James Baldwin : 915 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin : 916 : Baldwin, James Arthur


The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin : 917 : Baldwin, James Arthur


When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James Baldwin : 2009 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin : 4355 : Baldwin, James Arthur


I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin : 4684 : Baldwin, James Arthur


The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin : 6407 : Baldwin, James Arthur


The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
James Baldwin : 6686 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin : 7412 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Arthur Baldwin : 7465 : Baldwin, James Arthur


It's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James Baldwin : 9604 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.
James A. Baldwin : 12896 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin : 12925 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressure from below.
Roger Baldwin : 11967 : Baldwin, Roger


I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur James Balfour : 6401 : Balfour, Arthur James


Civilization is the upward struggle of mankind, in which millions are trampled to death that thousands may mount on their bodies.
Charles Balfour : 338 : Balfour, Charles


He who fishes for compliments can expect to be handed a line.
Ivern Ball : 5286 : Ball, Ivern


Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?
Ivern Ball : 7689 : Ball, Ivern


In life, all things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball : 1195 : Ball, Lucille


I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball : 6911 : Ball, Lucille


Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball : 8184 : Ball, Lucille


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball : 9245 : Ball, Lucille


Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Lucille Ball : 9918 : Ball, Lucille


Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball : 11796 : Ball, Lucille


I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball : 11813 : Ball, Lucille


In my ballets, woman is first, men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men; they are better.
George Ballanchine : 5939 : Ballanchine, George


Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.
Sheila Ballantyne : 7299 : Ballantyne, Sheila


A single bad habit will mar an otherwise flawless character as a single ink drop soils the pure white page.
Hosea Ballou : 6534 : Ballou, Hosea


Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou : 10272 : Ballou, Hosea


Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou : 12505 : Ballou, Hosea


He stood spellbound, like a child to whom his nurse is telling him some wonderful story.
Honere De Balzac : 5312 : Balzac, Honere De


Society, like the Roman youth at the circus, never shows mercy to the fallen gladiator.
Balzac : 216 : Balzac, Honore De


In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore De Balzac : 874 : Balzac, Honore De


Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Honore Balzac : 2010 : Balzac, Honore De


It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac : 2280 : Balzac, Honore De


She walked with a proud, defiant step, like a martyr to the coliseum.
Honore De Balzac : 3692 : Balzac, Honore De


Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac : 3959 : Balzac, Honore De


Talent, like gout, sometimes skips two generations.
Honore De Balzac : 5463 : Balzac, Honore De


An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honore De Balzac : 8434 : Balzac, Honore De


The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore De Balzac : 9328 : Balzac, Honore De


Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore De Balzac : 9883 : Balzac, Honore De


Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Stefan Banach : 12724 : Banach, Stefan


The voices of women need to be heard, the volume needs to be turned up.
Anne Bancroft : 13154 : Bancroft, Anne


The measure of the progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
George Bancroft : 677 : Bancroft, George


By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft : 3954 : Bancroft, George


It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work, the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead : 1753 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I was a hedonist long before I knew what a hedonist was.
Tallulah Bankhead : 2096 : Bankhead, Tallulah


The less I behave like Whistler's Mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead : 3237 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead : 6506 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead : 7302 : Bankhead, Tallulah


Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.
Tallulah Bankhead : 7922 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I'm miserable if I'm not in love and, of course, I'm miserable if I am.
Tallulah Bankhead : 8727 : Bankhead, Tallulah


If I had to live my life again, I'd make all the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead : 9214 : Bankhead, Tallulah


Since we court public display we're the foes of privacy. The glass house is our favorite residence.
Tallulah Bankhead : 10738 : Bankhead, Tallulah


It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead : 11330 : Bankhead, Tallulah


Facts do not make history; facts do not even make events. A fact is an isolated particle of experience, is reflected light without a source, planet with no sun, star without constellation, constellation beyond galaxy, galaxy outside the universe - fact is
Russell Banks : 5898 : Banks, Russell


The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in beekeeping.
J. M. Bannerman : 9352 : Bannerman, J. M.


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
Margaret Culkin Banning : 1218 : Banning, Margaret Culkin


The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister : 1567 : Bannister, Roger


Athletics is a luxury.
Roger Bannister : 4144 : Bannister, Roger


The reason that good women flock to see my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
Theta Bara : 4892 : Bara, Theta


God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air-conditioning.
Imamu Amiri Baraka : 2787 : Baraka, Imamu Amiri


I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot : 3555 : Bardot, Brigitte


The cinema means nothing to me, I cannot remember it.
Brigitte Bardot : 6129 : Bardot, Brigitte


The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
Ronnie Barker : 9029 : Barker, Ronnie


They say they climb mountains because they are there. I wonder if it would astound them to know that the very same reason is why the rest of us go around them.
S. Omar Barker : 2581 : Barker, S. Omar


The best audience is intelligent, well educated and a little drunk.
Alben W. Barkley : 4507 : Barkley, Alben W.


If I weren't earning three million dollars a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley : 7562 : Barkley, Charles


I am not a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
Charles Barkley : 8541 : Barkley, Charles


If "ifs" were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
Charles Barkley : 11677 : Barkley, Charles


We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes : 4833 : Barnes, Djuna


Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney : 12228 : Barney, Natalie Clifford


There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. Barnum : 2651 : Barnum, P. T.


Money is, in some respects, like fire; it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum : 3675 : Barnum, P. T.


More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
P. T. Barnum : 6547 : Barnum, P. T.


It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; In joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr : 9588 : Barr, Amelia


Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
Amelia Barr : 12655 : Barr, Amelia


Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Roseanne : 1578 : Barr, Roseanne


There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne : 8266 : Barr, Roseanne


If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.
Mary Barra : 12296 : Barra, Mary


A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan : 9251 : Barragan, Luis


It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds.
Gina Barreca : 12790 : Barreca, Gina


When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett : 7322 : Barrett, Colleen C.


An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
Lawrence Barrett : 10167 : Barrett, Lawrence


Nothing can be accomplished by denying that man is an essentially troubled being, except to make more trouble.
William Barrett : 3133 : Barrett, William


The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
James M. Barrie : 2333 : Barrie, James Matthew


You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
J. M. Barrie : 4280 : Barrie, James Matthew


The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J. M. Barrie : 4360 : Barrie, James Matthew


When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.
J. M. Barrie : 5927 : Barrie, James Matthew


The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
James M. Barrie : 8698 : Barrie, James Matthew


Charm is a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have.
James M. Barrie : 9304 : Barrie, James Matthew


Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
J. M. Barrie : 9979 : Barrie, James Matthew


If we unlock the rooms of the far past we can peer in and see ourselves, busily occupied in beginning to become you and me.
James M. Barrie : 10439 : Barrie, James Matthew


Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J. M. Barrie : 11781 : Barrie, James Matthew


Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
J. M. Barrie : 13477 : Barrie, James Matthew


The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron : 9302 : Barron, Frank


Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow.
T. A. Barron : 10920 : Barron, T. A.


Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow : 9000 : Barrow, Isaac


I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry : 425 : Barry, Dave


Both of your socks should always be the same color, or they should at least both be fairly dark.
Dave Barry : 426 : Barry, Dave


The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry : 2512 : Barry, Dave


If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
Dave Barry : 3226 : Barry, Dave


Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
Dave Barry : 3933 : Barry, Dave


No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
Dave Barry : 4104 : Barry, Dave


I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called, "A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark."
Dave Barry : 5190 : Barry, Dave


Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry : 6766 : Barry, Dave


The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Dave Barry : 6858 : Barry, Dave


A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person.
Dave Barry : 9147 : Barry, Dave


If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry : 9592 : Barry, Dave


The groom's party should wear pastel senior prom style outfits rented at the shopping mall. The bride's party should wear expensive dresses so unattractive that they can never be used again, even as tourniquets.
Dave Barry : 10342 : Barry, Dave


Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry : 6165 : Barry, Lynda


If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda Barry : 10250 : Barry, Lynda


Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore : 12372 : Barrymore, Drew


The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert.
Ethel Barrymore, on Hollywood : 2185 : Barrymore, Ethel


The trouble with this life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore : 987 : Barrymore, John


Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore : 2157 : Barrymore, John


If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company. I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore : 4691 : Barrymore, John


It (rain) sounds like all the little beggars of the world, tapping their canes and crutches on the roof as they go out to ask for bread.
John Barrymore : 4752 : Barrymore, John


Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore : 5358 : Barrymore, John


The good die young - because they see no point in living if you have to be good.
John Barrymore : 6078 : Barrymore, John


Audiences? No, the plural is impossible. Whether it be in Butte, Montana, or Broadway, it's an audience. The same great hulking monster with four thousand eyes and forty thousand teeth.
John Barrymore : 9948 : Barrymore, John


I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore : 11579 : Barrymore, John


I like to be introduced as America's foremost actor. It saves the necessity of further effort.
John Barrymore : 11980 : Barrymore, John


If tolerance of diversity involves an admitted element of risk to national unity, intolerance involves a certainty that unity will be destroyed.
Alan Barth : 7239 : Barth, Alan


All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideo
Roland Barthes : 1568 : Barthes, Roland


To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes : 2680 : Barthes, Roland


Cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals, the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists.
Roland Barthes : 7552 : Barthes, Roland


What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes : 8742 : Barthes, Roland


The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Albert A. Bartlett : 5459 : Bartlett, Albert A.


I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Bela Bartok : 9483 : Bartok, Bela


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton : 11548 : Barton, Bruce


No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Bernard Baruch : 210 : Baruch, Bernard M.


I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch : 240 : Baruch, Bernard M.


If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
Bernard M. Baruch : 2382 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done - except by liars.
Bernard Baruch : 2455 : Baruch, Bernard M.


An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and to keep quiet about it.
Bernard M. Baruch : 2797 : Baruch, Bernard M.


The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch : 4025 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Bernard M. Baruch : 4192 : Baruch, Bernard M.


I am a speculator. The word comes from the latin "speculari," which means "observe." I observe.
Bernard Baruch : 4909 : Baruch, Bernard M.


We can't cross a bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Bernard Baruch : 5869 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch : 6475 : Baruch, Bernard M.


I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant, only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Bernard Baruch : 9593 : Baruch, Bernard M.


None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.
Bernard Baruch : 9690 : Baruch, Bernard M.


A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Bernard Baruch : 9964 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun : 10251 : Barzun, Jacques


All through history the rogues are the ones who live forever in people's minds and imaginations. Eventually they'll do a musical on Imelda Marcos, the way they did on Evita.
Lina Basquette : 9956 : Basquette, Lina


Everyone looks better and more alive in a pink shirt.
Michael Bastian : 12897 : Bastian, Michael


I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
Georges Bataille : 9114 : Bataille, Georges


O beautiful for heroes proved, in liberating strife, who more than self, their country loved, and mercy more than life.
Katharine Lee Bates : 12787 : Bates, Katharine Lee


What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
Mary Catherine Bateson : 5974 : Bateson, Mary Catherine


The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Mary Catherine Bateson : 7854 : Bateson, Mary Catherine


Of any stopping place in life. it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson : 8236 : Bateson, Mary Catherine


A Jaywalker is a bird of the Schmo Family who can be found in traffic jams and morgues.
Phyllis Battelle : 3251 : Battelle, Phyllis


If you haven't at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
Phyllis Battelle : 6395 : Battelle, Phyllis


A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. if he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!
Phyllis Battelle : 9591 : Battelle, Phyllis


A smart wife is one who knows how to retie the Christmas package her husband has hidden from her.
O. A. Battista : 1354 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The trait most people enjoy inheriting from their ancestors is trust in the form of an estate
O. A. Battista : 1355 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The man in the greatest danger always is the one who has climbed to the top of the ladder.
O. A. Battista : 1356 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


A sick boy is one who comes down with a bug on Saturday morning.
O. A. Battista : 1357 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Marriage will fast disappear unless it is limited strictly to only one to a customer.
O. A. Battista : 1358 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


An easy chair is one that is hard to get in and even harder to get out of.
O. A. Battista : 1359 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


A great speaker is one who rises to the occasion, and promptly sits down.
O. A. Battista : 1360 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.
O. A. Battista : 1361 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


When it comes to visitors, the most hospitable ones are those who like to listen.
O. A. Battista : 1362 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


There is no flower in the world that breathes a sweeter fragrance than a freshly bathed baby.
O. A. Battista : 1363 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The trouble with some mothers who raise their children by the books is they use the comic books.
O. A. Battista : 1364 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


There is no better medicine for ailing grandparents than baby grandchildren.
O. A. Battista : 1365 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Frequently the fellow who doesn't let grass grow under his feet is too lazy to plant some.
O. A. Battista : 1366 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


One time you can be sure you have twenty-twenty vision is when you go looking for trouble.
O. A. Battista : 1367 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Each time the November elections are over, it's easy to understand why Thanksgiving Day always follows them.
O. A. Battista : 3833 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Tolerance consists in seeing things with your heart instead of with your eyes.
O. A. Battista : 4517 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The only fair way to talk about somebody is to imagine he is listening to every word you say.
O. A. Battista : 4521 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Neighbor: A person who can get to your house in less than a minute and take two hours to go back home.
O. A. Battista : 10478 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
O. A. Battista : 11300 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando Aloysius Battista : 12430 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Many times I am asked, "How can you be from a small town in the Midwest and sing Mozart?" Mozart was a human being with emotions and a sense of humor. We all share these qualities as human beings.
Kathleen Battle : 7829 : Battle, Kathleen


[Victor] Hugo, like a priest, always has his head bowed - bowed so low that he can see nothing except his own navel.
Charles Baudelaire : 339 : Baudelaire, Charles


Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holy and divine. God is the only being who, in order to reign, need not even exist.
Charles Baudelaire : 340 : Baudelaire, Charles


Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time to get absolutely drunk - on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.
Charles Baudelaire : 4226 : Baudelaire, Charles


A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
Charles Baudelaire, on hatred : 4665 : Baudelaire, Charles


Anyone, provided he can be amusing, has the right to talk to himself.
Charles Baudelaire : 9174 : Baudelaire, Charles


A sweetheart is a bottle of wine; a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire : 10252 : Baudelaire, Charles


The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music.
Charles Baudelaire : 12924 : Baudelaire, Charles


Artificial intelligence is devoid of intelligence because it is devoid of artifice.
Jean Baudrillard : 13433 : Baudrillard, Jean


Hard work never kills anybody who supervises it.
Harry Bauer : 8844 : Bauer, Harry


What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America.
Henry C. Bauer : 9782 : Bauer, Henry C.


Thou shall not be a perpetrator, thou shall not be a victim, and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer : 12721 : Bauer, Yehuda


I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
Bruce Baum : 5715 : Baum, Bruce


I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, "Whoa, I'm way too high!"
Bruce Baum : 5736 : Baum, Bruce


The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Stephen Bayley : 8924 : Bayley, Stephen


I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp: I know what I ought to do, but I don't know where to begin.
Stephen Bayne : 8999 : Bayne, Stephen


Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
E. R. Beadle : 13042 : Beadle, Elias Root


Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Louise Beal : 9172 : Beal, Louise


And finally winter, with its bitin' whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean : 11413 : Bean, Roy


Too few people truly understand a good sandwich.
James Beard : 4137 : Beard, James


The artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personal.
Romare Bearden : 9611 : Bearden, Romare


The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
Cecil Beaton : 4847 : Beaton, Cecil


Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Cecil Beaton : 5099 : Beaton, Cecil


In all those expressions of conscious beauty, which when imitated become clumsy, or arrogant, or ridiculous, there is a manifestation of what Hollywood cannot destroy.
Cecil Beaton, on Greta Garbo : 7503 : Beaton, Cecil


Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
Cecil Beaton : 12702 : Beaton, Cecil


All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Cecil Beaton : 12716 : Beaton, Cecil


There are things that get whispered about that writers are there to overhear.
Ann Beattie : 8051 : Beattie, Ann


Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
Melody Beattie : 11351 : Beattie, Melody


Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie : 11401 : Beattie, Melody


Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.
Melody Beattie : 12260 : Beattie, Melody


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.
Melody Beattie : 12578 : Beattie, Melody


Oscar night is enjoyable in the way that bobbing for apples is enjoyable. You can't take the game seriously.
Warren Beatty : 8991 : Beatty, Warren


It is not necessary to believe things in order to reason about them.
Beaumarchais : 221 : Beaumarchais


The ideal of the average western man is a woman who freely accepts his domination, who does not accept his ideas without discussions, but who yields to his arguments, who resists him intellectually, and ends by being convinced.
Simone de Beauvoir : 1654 : Beauvoir, Simone de


One's life has value so long as one attribute value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir : 2322 : Beauvoir, Simone de


When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir : 4987 : Beauvoir, Simone de


In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir : 6426 : Beauvoir, Simone de


It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.
Simone de Beauvoir : 9198 : Beauvoir, Simone de


Garbo's visage had a kind of emptiness into which anything could be projected - nothing can be read into Bardot's face.
Simone de Beauvoir : 10697 : Beauvoir, Simone de


I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling.
Simone de Beauvoir : 12138 : Beauvoir, Simone de


No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.
Earl R. Beck : 8533 : Beck, Earl R.


No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck : 12404 : Beck, Martha


Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
Martha Beck : 12883 : Beck, Martha


Better are the blows of a friend than the false kisses of an enemy.
Thomas a Becket : 2080 : Becket, Thomas a


Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.
Michael Beckwith : 10186 : Beckwith, Michael


There are two golden rules for an orchestra; start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Thomas Beecham : 3445 : Beecham, Thomas


Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty.
Thomas Beecham : 3536 : Beecham, Thomas


When inviting company, do not tempt the palate with a great variety of unhealthful dainties.
Catherine Beecher : 3208 : Beecher, Catherine


A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself.
H. W. Beecher : 785 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Fear is a kind of bell ...it is the soul's signal for rallying.
H. W. Beecher : 786 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
H. W. Beecher : 787 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
H. W. Beecher : 788 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul.
Henry Ward Beecher : 857 : Beecher, Henry Ward


I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher : 858 : Beecher, Henry Ward


In this world, often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher : 859 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one.
Henry Ward Beecher : 1964 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2199 : Beecher, Henry Ward


We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2395 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2397 : Beecher, Henry Ward


God pardons like a mother kisses away the tears of a repentant child.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2506 : Beecher, Henry Ward


You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him take care of himself. He will make mistakes, and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
Henry Ward Beecher : 3013 : Beecher, Henry Ward


It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secrets acids; but love and trust
Henry Ward Beecher : 3223 : Beecher, Henry Ward


A proud man is seldom a grateful man for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
H. W. Beecher : 3673 : Beecher, Henry Ward


There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.
Henry Ward Beecher : 3709 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
H. W. Beecher : 3734 : Beecher, Henry Ward


He who hunts for flowers will find flowers; and he who loves weeds may find weeds.
H. W. Beecher : 3744 : Beecher, Henry Ward


We grow best when clouds hang over us because clouds bear rain and rain refreshes us.
H. W. Beecher : 3749 : Beecher, Henry Ward


I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Henry Ward Beecher : 4336 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The cynic puts all human actions into two classes: openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher : 5056 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Nowhere can one find so miscellaneous, so various an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
Henry Ward Beecher : 5219 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.
Henry W. Beecher : 5477 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6060 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6237 : Beecher, Henry Ward


When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6449 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6543 : Beecher, Henry Ward


It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6836 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher : 7148 : Beecher, Henry Ward


A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher : 7345 : Beecher, Henry Ward


A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not publicity rather than charity, which he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
Henry Ward Beecher : 7827 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher : 8393 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher : 8836 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every charitable act is a stepping-stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher : 8860 : Beecher, Henry Ward


In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher : 9042 : Beecher, Henry Ward


What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher : 9217 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher : 9578 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher : 11116 : Beecher, Henry Ward


We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.
Henry Ward Beecher : 11530 : Beecher, Henry Ward


No great advance has been made in science, politics or religion without controversy.
Lyman Beecher : 3718 : Beecher, Lyman


Never chase a lie; let it alone and it will soon run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher : 5323 : Beecher, Lyman


You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm : 9667 : Beerbohm, Max


Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Max Beerbohm : 11598 : Beerbohm, Max


I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Sir Max Beerbohm : 2691 : Beerbohm, Sir Max


To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm : 4343 : Beerbohm, Sir Max


There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm : 9074 : Beerbohm, Sir Max


Man sinks almost to the level of an animal when eating becomes his chief pleasure.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : 1196 : Beethoven, Ludwig Van


I will seize Fate by the throat; It shall certainly not bend and crush me completely.
Ludwig van Beethoven : 7318 : Beethoven, Ludwig Van


Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : 13332 : Beethoven, Ludwig Van


New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment; it is a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
Brendan Behan : 9351 : Behan, Brendan


Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn : 3593 : Behn, Aphra


You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
Daniel Behrman : 4330 : Behrman, Daniel


You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte : 4134 : Belafonte, Harry


If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco : 4315 : Belasco, David


Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.
James A. Belasco : 8058 : Belasco, James A.


Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell : 3312 : Bell, Alexander Graham


When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell : 3430 : Bell, Alexander Graham


Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander G. Bell : 11701 : Bell, Alexander Graham


Comics can be an extremely powerful way to express a message.
Sandra Bell-Lundy : 13030 : Bell-Lundy, Sandra


Don't worry if you forget something important - someone else will be sure to remember to point it out to you.
Guy Belleranti : 9709 : Belleranti, Guy


A man who talks a great deal talks a great deal of nonsense; he who talks very little hardly ever talks sense.
Hilaire Belloc : 5260 : Belloc, Hilaire


I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc : 5432 : Belloc, Hilaire


We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc : 12242 : Belloc, Hilaire


Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Hilaire Belloc : 12339 : Belloc, Hilaire


She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow : 5381 : Bellow, Saul


The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absentmindedness is spurious innocence.
Saul Bellow : 7292 : Bellow, Saul


A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow : 8117 : Bellow, Saul


Nobody likes being written about in their lifetime. It's as though the FBI and the CIA were suddenly to splash your files in the paper.
Saul Bellow : 8599 : Bellow, Saul


Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow : 12948 : Bellow, Saul


There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
Eleanor Robson Belmont : 4708 : Belmont, Eleanor Robson


In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion : 2904 : Ben-Gurion, David


There seems to be no limits to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. They can't believe that anything could be so funny just on its own hook.
Robert Benchley : 1533 : Benchley, Robert


In America there are two classes of travel; first class and with children.
Robert Benchley : 1534 : Benchley, Robert


Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley : 1535 : Benchley, Robert


My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.
Robert Benchley : 3394 : Benchley, Robert


I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
Robert Benchley : 4668 : Benchley, Robert


England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
Robert Benchley : 4760 : Benchley, Robert


Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley : 5543 : Benchley, Robert


If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.
Robert Benchley : 8990 : Benchley, Robert


There are several ways to apportion the family income - all of them unsatisfactory.
Robert Benchley : 10086 : Benchley, Robert


Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley : 10459 : Benchley, Robert


Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender : 13108 : Bender, Betty


The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by the eating of one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.
Francis G. Benedict : 11489 : Benedict, Francis G.


Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict : 4393 : Benedict, Ruth


A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict : 6301 : Benedict, Ruth


If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Ruth Benedict : 11171 : Benedict, Ruth


We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We though because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet : 2421 : Benet, Stephen Vincent


Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin : 9572 : Benjamin, Walter


Our age will be known as the age of committees.
Ernest Benn : 9846 : Benn, Ernest


It is well, when judging a friend, to remember he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
A. Bennett : 4 : Bennett, A.


We were put to dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan Bennett : 28 : Bennett, Alan


We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett : 7994 : Bennett, Alan


I've always felt that the past was over and somehow I'd missed it. Now it's starting all over again.
Alan Bennett : 10486 : Bennett, Alan


Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
Alan Bennett : 11502 : Bennett, Alan


Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett : 167 : Bennett, Arnold


To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett : 168 : Bennett, Arnold


You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
Arnold Bennett : 169 : Bennett, Arnold


A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels and one must be prepared to suffer for it. -- Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett : 2854 : Bennett, Arnold


A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Arnold Bennett : 6087 : Bennett, Arnold


Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Arnold Bennett : 6570 : Bennett, Arnold


The man of thirty who loves for the first time is usually the embodiment of cautious discretion. He does not fall in love with a violent descent, but rather lets himself gently down, continually testing the rope.
Arnold Bennett : 6571 : Bennett, Arnold


I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Arnold Bennett : 7843 : Bennett, Arnold


It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Arnold Bennett : 8715 : Bennett, Arnold


The moment you're born, you're done for.
Arnold Bennett : 9849 : Bennett, Arnold


Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Bo Bennett : 11717 : Bennett, Bo


As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Bo Bennett : 11718 : Bennett, Bo


I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
James Gordon Bennett : 9893 : Bennett, James Gordon


Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Roy T. Bennett : 12943 : Bennett, Roy T.


The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Thomas Arnold Bennett : 1766 : Bennett, Thomas Arnold


I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Tony Bennett : 9012 : Bennett, Tony


Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
W. C. Bennett : 2879 : Bennett, W. C.


Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett : 1894 : Bennett, William


Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
Warren Bennis : 8640 : Bennis, Warren


Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
Warren Bennis : 10424 : Bennis, Warren


Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing.
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus : 4504 : Bennis, Warren and Nanus, Burt


Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny : 7115 : Benny, Jack


A recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madame Benoit : 5275 : Benoit, Madame


It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps on to see, not, perhaps, the way out, but the way in.
A. C. Benson : 3078 : Benson, A. C.


I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
A. C. Benson : 3951 : Benson, A. C.


One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson : 9181 : Benson, A. C.


They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.
Dianne Benson : 4211 : Benson, Dianne


None of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
Margaret Benson : 6291 : Benson, Margaret


If we all wore crowns, the kings would go bareheaded.
R. H. Benson : 4869 : Benson, R. H.


A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old.
Jeremy Bentham : 2301 : Bentham, Jeremy


The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham : 8008 : Bentham, Jeremy


One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
Nicolas Bentley : 8629 : Bentley, Nicolas


Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Timothy Bentley : 9612 : Bentley, Timothy


The good may prove to be a hidden form of evil. The evil may prove to be a new and not yet recognized form of good.
Nicholas Berdyaev : 2423 : Berdyaev, Nicholas


The gain is not the having of children; It is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
Polly Berrien Berends : 12630 : Berends, Polly Berrien


Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson : 5105 : Berenson, Bernard


I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson : 5363 : Berenson, Bernard


All of the arts - poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater - must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all: a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.
Bernard Berenson : 5911 : Berenson, Bernard


Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity.
Yehuda Berg : 12710 : Berg, Yehuda


Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Yehuda Berg : 12720 : Berg, Yehuda


A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin : 5330 : Bergamin, Jose


I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one.
Candice Bergen : 11282 : Bergen, Candice


At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
John Berger : 3016 : Berger, John


At times, failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
John Berger : 8539 : Berger, John


Reinhart was never his mother's favorite - and he was an only child.
Thomas Berger : 4497 : Berger, Thomas


A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac : 7809 : Bergerac, Cyrano de


A kiss is a rosy dot over the "I" of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac : 9200 : Bergerac, Cyrano de


Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
George E. Bergman : 7484 : Bergman, George E.


I am not a writer. My plays and scripts are skeletons awaiting sinew.
Ingmar Bergman : 6102 : Bergman, Ingmar


Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
Ingmar Bergman : 6891 : Bergman, Ingmar


After years of playing with images of life and death, life has made me shy.
Ingmar Bergman : 7342 : Bergman, Ingmar


Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman : 10247 : Bergman, Ingmar


I always wanted to do comedies but nobody discovered this until my old age. They think all Swedes are like Garbo.
Ingrid Bergman : 887 : Bergman, Ingrid


I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman : 6640 : Bergman, Ingrid


Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
Ingrid Bergman, to daughter Isabella Rossellini : 9703 : Bergman, Ingrid


Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.
Henri Bergson : 9303 : Bergson, Henri


It is the emotion which drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
Hens Bergson : 8042 : Bergson, Hens


A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle : 4554 : Berle, Milton


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle : 13016 : Berle, Milton


The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
Irving Berlin : 889 : Berlin, Irving


Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin : 8173 : Berlin, Irving


Syncopation is the soul of every true American.
Irving Berlin : 10846 : Berlin, Irving


Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah Berlin : 2442 : Berlin, Isaiah


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Louis Berlioz : 3596 : Berlioz, Hector Louis


The sooner you are there (at the airport), the sooner you will find out how long you will be delayed.
Shelley Berman : 4903 : Berman, Shelley


To be able to find joy in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Georges Bernanos : 7146 : Bernanos, Georges


Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
Jeffrey Bernard : 7706 : Bernard, Jeffrey


In the theater, the audience wants to be surprised, but by things that they expect.
Tristan Bernard : 10304 : Bernard, Tristan


Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sandra Bernhardt : 4604 : Bernhardt, Sandra


If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein : 10248 : Bernstein, Al


The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing.
Carl Bernstein : 309 : Bernstein, Carl


The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed garbage.
Carl Bernstein : 310 : Bernstein, Carl


It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
Leonard Bernstein : 2771 : Bernstein, Leonard


A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein : 10686 : Bernstein, Leonard


You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra : 1950 : Berra, Yogi


You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.
Yogi Berra : 3774 : Berra, Yogi


It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
Yogi Berra : 6195 : Berra, Yogi


You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra : 9458 : Berra, Yogi


You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra : 10859 : Berra, Yogi


In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra : 11008 : Berra, Yogi


A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
John Berry : 8123 : Berry, John


The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry : 8428 : Berry, John


Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Mary Frances Berry : 3656 : Berry, Mary Frances


The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry : 4678 : Berry, Wendell


Our hair turns white with our ripening as though to fly away to some coming wind, bearing the seed lot what we know.
Wendell Berry : 11935 : Berry, Wendell


Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so... And moreover my mother taught me as a boy (repeatingly) "ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner resources."
John Berryman : 988 : Berryman, John


We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
Andre Berthiaume : 4262 : Berthiaume, Andre


For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
Henry Beston : 2947 : Beston, Henry


Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune : 7686 : Bethune,Mary McLeod


Friendly attacks should begin with faint praise, but be careful not to use adjectives or phrases of which the publisher can make use in advertisements.
John Betjeman : 8226 : Betjeman, John


Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
Ugo Betti : 3074 : Betti, Ugo


Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
Ugo Betti : 9421 : Betti, Ugo


We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
Ugo Betti : 10712 : Betti, Ugo


We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road: they get run over.
Aneurin Bevan : 103 : Bevan, Aneurin


He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination.
Aneurin Bevan, on Neville Chamberlain : 7501 : Bevan, Aneurin


If you have one chink in your psychological armor, playing the horses will bring it out.
Andrew Beyer : 10772 : Beyer, Andrew


There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.
Bhagavad-Gita : 8095 : Bhagavad-Gita


Much better to do one's own work, even if you have to do it imperfectly, than it is to do somebody else's work perfectly.
Bhagavad-Gita : 8623 : Bhagavad-Gita


Love is the crocodile on the river of desire.
Bhartrihari : 12070 : Bhartrihari


When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
Vinoba Bhave : 6886 : Bhave, Vinoba


He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Elizabeth Bibesco : 4331 : Bibesco, Elizabeth


The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
Georges Bidault : 8049 : Bidault, Georges


Consul: in American politics, a person who, having failed to secure an office from the people, is given one by the administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce : 79 : Bierce, Ambrose


International arbitration can be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one.
Ambrose Bierce : 80 : Bierce, Ambrose


Future: that period of time when our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce : 81 : Bierce, Ambrose


The gambling known as business looks with austere displeasure upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce : 2601 : Bierce, Ambrose


Knowledge: The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Ambrose Bierce : 3554 : Bierce, Ambrose


When Eve first saw her reflection in a pool, she sought Adam and accused him of infidelity.
Ambrose Bierce : 3706 : Bierce, Ambrose


Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce : 3842 : Bierce, Ambrose


Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce : 3955 : Bierce, Ambrose


Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce : 4117 : Bierce, Ambrose


Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce : 4364 : Bierce, Ambrose


Hospitality: The virtue that induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
Ambrose Bierce : 4534 : Bierce, Ambrose


Responsibility: a detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce : 4664 : Bierce, Ambrose


Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
Ambrose Bierce : 4786 : Bierce, Ambrose


The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce : 4983 : Bierce, Ambrose


Clergyman: A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
Ambrose Bierce : 5212 : Bierce, Ambrose


Politics - a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce : 5636 : Bierce, Ambrose


Peace - in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce : 5639 : Bierce, Ambrose


Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose Bierce : 6051 : Bierce, Ambrose


An international political alliance is the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce : 6262 : Bierce, Ambrose


To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary : 6715 : Bierce, Ambrose


Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary : 6735 : Bierce, Ambrose


Absurdity, noun: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" : 6935 : Bierce, Ambrose


The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" : 7047 : Bierce, Ambrose


Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce : 7346 : Bierce, Ambrose


Day: n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce : 7454 : Bierce, Ambrose


Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
Ambrose Bierce : 7656 : Bierce, Ambrose


Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce : 8331 : Bierce, Ambrose


Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce : 8592 : Bierce, Ambrose


Fashion: A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Ambrose Bierce : 8766 : Bierce, Ambrose


Philosophy: a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce : 8802 : Bierce, Ambrose


There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" : 9393 : Bierce, Ambrose


Opera: A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes.
Ambrose Bierce : 9653 : Bierce, Ambrose


Chop: A piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.
Ambrose Bierce : 10736 : Bierce, Ambrose


Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce : 11375 : Bierce, Ambrose


Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce : 11646 : Bierce, Ambrose


Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
Ambrose Bierce : 11789 : Bierce, Ambrose


Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce : 11976 : Bierce, Ambrose


Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce : 12310 : Bierce, Ambrose


I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
Kathryn Bigelow : 10203 : Bigelow, Kathryn


No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
Theodore Bikel : 10958 : Bikel, Theodore


The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force, but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
Steve Biko : 8555 : Biko, Steve


Better that a girl has beauty than brains, because boys see better than they think.
Josh Billings : 1050 : Billings, Josh


Solitude: a good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
Josh Billings : 1051 : Billings, Josh


About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings : 1052 : Billings, Josh


As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Josh Billings : 1053 : Billings, Josh


Most people repent of their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings : 1054 : Billings, Josh


Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
Josh Billings : 1055 : Billings, Josh


Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing well those cards you hold.
Josh Billings : 1056 : Billings, Josh


There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together
Josh Billings : 1057 : Billings, Josh


There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings : 1058 : Billings, Josh


If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings : 1059 : Billings, Josh


The road to ruin is always kept in good repair, and the travelers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings : 1060 : Billings, Josh


Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings : 1061 : Billings, Josh


Genuine grief is like penitence, not glamorous, but subdued.
Josh Billings : 1062 : Billings, Josh


The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings : 2381 : Billings, Josh


Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings : 2962 : Billings, Josh


Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings : 3321 : Billings, Josh


The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings : 4353 : Billings, Josh


As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings : 4494 : Billings, Josh


A man with a small head is like a pin without any, very apt to get into things beyond his depth.
Josh Billings : 4533 : Billings, Josh


Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.
Josh Billings : 4541 : Billings, Josh


Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
Josh Billings : 4544 : Billings, Josh


Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings : 4586 : Billings, Josh


There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings : 4744 : Billings, Josh


When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Josh Billings : 4877 : Billings, Josh


Friendship is like earthenware, once broken it can be mended; Love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
Josh Billings : 4897 : Billings, Josh


The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings : 5097 : Billings, Josh


The best time to hold your tongue is the time when you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings : 5337 : Billings, Josh


Fame is climbing a greasy pole for ten dollars and ruining trousers worth fifteen dollars.
Josh Billings : 5349 : Billings, Josh


I don't care how much a man talks if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings : 5409 : Billings, Josh


In youth, we run into difficulties. And in old age, difficulties run into us.
Josh Billings : 5501 : Billings, Josh


The morning paper is just as necessary to an American as dew is to the grass.
Josh Billings : 5511 : Billings, Josh


It is very easy to manage your neighbor's business, but our own sometimes bothers us.
Josh Billings : 5608 : Billings, Josh


There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings : 5657 : Billings, Josh


Every man has a perfect right to his opinion, provided it agrees with ours.
Josh Billings : 5876 : Billings, Josh


It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; We can dodge an elephant but we can't dodge a fly.
Josh Billings : 6209 : Billings, Josh


There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is twins.
Josh Billings : 6213 : Billings, Josh


I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings : 6242 : Billings, Josh


The Devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea. and the business now suffers from competition.
Josh Billings : 6330 : Billings, Josh


I have seen hypocrisy that was so artful that it was good judgment to be deceived by it.
Josh Billings : 7658 : Billings, Josh


Genuine laughter is a vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and it is just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
Josh Billings : 9985 : Billings, Josh


Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings : 10054 : Billings, Josh


Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings : 10299 : Billings, Josh


Good breeding is the art of making everybody satisfied with themselves and pleased with you.
Josh Billings : 10496 : Billings, Josh


There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings : 10610 : Billings, Josh


Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Josh Billings : 11420 : Billings, Josh


Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Josh Billings : 12035 : Billings, Josh


Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings : 12780 : Billings, Josh


Fiftieth birthdays should be times of huge goodwill. Only people who put on fake tan and pretend to be younger than they are don't get to join the party.
Maeve Binchy : 4640 : Binchy, Maeve


I had to face the facts. I was pear shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.
Charlotte Bingham : 366 : Bingham, Charlotte


Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird : 3263 : Bird, Larry


A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird : 4509 : Bird, Larry


I've got a theory that if you give a hundred percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird : 10211 : Bird, Larry


I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
Lord Birkett : 2686 : Birkett, Lord


Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell : 7816 : Birrell, Augustine


(Those born in November) ... should prize the topaz's amber hue - emblem of friends and lovers true.
Birthstone Rhymes : 4946 : Birthstone Rhymes


We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.
Jim Bishop : 6336 : Bishop, Jim


When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
Otto von Bismarck : 1419 : Bismarck, Otto von


People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck : 1420 : Bismarck, Otto von


Passions are like the trout in a pond; one devours the others until only one fat old trout is left.
Otto von Bismarck : 4713 : Bismarck, Otto von


With a gentleman, I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck : 6542 : Bismarck, Otto von


A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
Otto von Bismarck : 6569 : Bismarck, Otto von


Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck : 8403 : Bismarck, Otto von


Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Otto von Bismarck : 10540 : Bismarck, Otto von


A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset : 10014 : Bisset, Jacqueline


The chance of bread falling with the buttered side up is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
Arthur Black : 173 : Black, Arthur


It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone : 1895 : Blackstone, William


It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffers.
William Blackstone : 2387 : Blackstone, William


For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell : 7916 : Blackwell, Elizabeth


We wanted something for ourselves and for our children, so we took a chance with our lives.
Unita Blackwell : 10757 : Blackwell, Unita


The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair : 1803 : Blair, Tony


This is not the time for sound bites. I can feel the hand of history on our shoulders.
Tony Blair, on talks with Northern Ireland : 2336 : Blair, Tony


Most of the worthwhile, the beautiful, the progressive, and the useful achievements of Homo sapiens had been produced by introverted neurotics.
Anne Blaisdell : 7564 : Blaisdell, Anne


If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.
Eubie Blake : 2825 : Blake, Eubie


Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind; listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
Eubie Blake : 8864 : Blake, Eubie


East side, west side, all around the town
James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor : 10821 : Blake, James W.


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake : 1896 : Blake, William


No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake : 1897 : Blake, William


A robin red breast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage.
William Blake : 3326 : Blake, William


When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake : 6293 : Blake, William


When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake : 9524 : Blake, William


To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake : 11743 : Blake, William


The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
William Blake : 11958 : Blake, William


It's not that women try to do too much. It's that women have too much to do.
Mary Kay Blakely : 1280 : Blakely, Mary Kay


If somebody can do something eighty percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.
Sara Blakely : 12466 : Blakely, Sara


Embrace what you don't know ... because what you don't know can become your greatest asset.
Sara Blakely : 13429 : Blakely, Sara


A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Dr. Smiley Blanton : 12231 : Blanton, Dr. Smiley


The obstacles you face are ... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier : 7959 : Blasier, Clarence


When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
Countess of Blessington : 10640 : Blessington, Countess of


Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Lady Blessington : 1128 : Blessington, Lady


Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Lady Blessington : 5426 : Blessington, Lady


Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Marguerite Blessington : 10045 : Blessington, Marguerite


All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) : 12712 : Blixen, Karen


There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Allan Bloom : 6292 : Bloom, Allan


Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom : 10571 : Bloom, Allan


You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom : 12782 : Bloom, Amy


Fashion matters considerably more than horoscopes, rather more than dog shows, and slightly more than hockey.
Roy Blount, Jr. : 8283 : Blount, Roy, Jr.


If you were a member of Jesse James' band and, people asked you what you were, you wouldn't say, "Well, I'm a desperado." You'd say "I work in banks" or "I've done some railroad work"
Roy Blount, Jr. : 10355 : Blount, Roy, Jr.


As dreams are the fancies of those that sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those awake.
Sir Thomas Pope Blount : 3710 : Blount, Sir Thomas Pope


I have a great diet. Eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
Ed Bluestone : 495 : Bluestone, Ed


If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Judy Blume : 8415 : Blume, Judy


I learned to trust my obsessions. It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly : 2779 : Bly, Robert


Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
G. D. Boardman : 655 : Boardman, G. D.


Much of what we ascribe to human nature is no more than a reaction to the restraints put upon us by our civilization.
Franz Boas : 10716 : Boas, Franz


All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
Michael John Bobak : 12871 : Bobak, Michael John


They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett : 8260 : Bodett, Tom


In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett : 11091 : Bodett, Tom


The good life is the healthful life, the merry life. Life is health, joy, laughter.
Jean Bodin : 5475 : Bodin, Jean


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese : 9250 : Boese, Paul


Actors have always been a suspect breed. Socially, I find myself more admissible now in England because I've written books.
Dirk Bogarde : 442 : Bogarde, Dirk


A hot dog at the ball game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart : 4118 : Bogart, Humphrey


Money has only one use - to give one independence from his enemies.
Humphrey Bogart : 5120 : Bogart, Humphrey


The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart : 7150 : Bogart, Humphrey


Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
Humphrey Bogart : 8760 : Bogart, Humphrey


A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart : 11355 : Bogart, Humphrey


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 : 6643 : Bogart, John B.


If you hype something and it succeeds you're a genius, it wasn't hype; If you hype it and it fails, then it's just a hype.
Neil Bogart : 12680 : Bogart, Neil


In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm : 7912 : Bohm, David


One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd.
Niels Bohr : 1342 : Bohr, Niels


Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr : 8853 : Bohr, Niels


An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr : 9528 : Bohr, Niels


The opposite of a great truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr : 12195 : Bohr, Niels


Gold gives even to plainness the color of beauty.
Nicolas Boileau : 1341 : Boileau, Nicolas


There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
Derek Bok : 11708 : Bok, Derek


Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
Gary Bolding, in a commencement speech : 3019 : Bolding, Gary


The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to a martyr.
Anne Boleyn : 112 : Boleyn, Anne


Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Al Boliska : 7195 : Boliska, Al


One of the saddest lines in the world is, "Oh come now - be realistic." The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
Richard Nelson Bolles : 6245 : Bolles, Richard Nelson


There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
Usain Bolt : 12368 : Bolt, Usain


A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Bolton : 1536 : Bolton, Robert


To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans : 3175 : Bomans, Godfried


I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away.
Erma Bombeck : 576 : Bombeck, Erma


In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.
Erma Bombeck : 577 : Bombeck, Erma


People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow room to grow.
Erma Bombeck : 578 : Bombeck, Erma


If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck : 579 : Bombeck, Erma


Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class.
Erma Bombeck : 580 : Bombeck, Erma


Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.
Erma Bombeck : 581 : Bombeck, Erma


What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck : 1962 : Bombeck, Erma


The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
Erma Bombeck : 3357 : Bombeck, Erma


The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck : 3740 : Bombeck, Erma


As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma Bombeck : 5998 : Bombeck, Erma


I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.
Erma Bombeck : 7032 : Bombeck, Erma


Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Erma Bombeck : 7108 : Bombeck, Erma


For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays "Holiday for Strings" on water glasses.
Erma Bombeck : 7512 : Bombeck, Erma


When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Erma Bombeck : 8311 : Bombeck, Erma


When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck : 8915 : Bombeck, Erma


I work ridiculous hours every day, and people always ask me how I do it. But fourteen years of unemployment kind of rests a guy.
Danny Bonaduce : 10432 : Bonaduce, Danny


There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.
Joseph Bonaparte : 8689 : Bonaparte, Joseph


Why and how are words so essential that they cannot be too often used.
Napoleon : 1332 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon I : 1333 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Constitutions are the work of time; one cannot leave too large a space for improvements.
Napoleon I : 1334 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
Napoleon I : 1335 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


What a delightful thing rest is! The bed has become a place of luxury to me. I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
Napoleon I : 1336 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Circumstances! - I make circumstances!
Napoleon I : 2127 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon I : 2189 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Great men are like meteors: they glitter and are consumed to enlighten the world.
Napoleon : 2508 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


I defy anyone to trick me. Men would have to be exceptional rascals to be as bad as I assume them to be.
Napoleon I : 2776 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon I : 3334 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon I : 3618 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I : 4394 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon I : 4796 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon I : 5076 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon I : 6091 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. I love it as an artist.
Napoleon I : 6266 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit.
Napoleon I : 6508 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Soldiers are made on purpose to be killed.
Napoleon : 8407 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


If you wish to keep your private affairs secret, keep your servants well paid
Napoleon I : 9067 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon I : 9364 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Men are like ciphers: They acquire their value merely from their position.
Napoleon I : 9455 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


A leader is a dealer of hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte : 10178 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents.
Napoleon I : 10778 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon I : 11233 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; In life it has an even chance.
Napoleon Bonaparte : 11714 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


The old nobility would have survived if they had known enough to become masters of printing materials.
Napoleon I : 11975 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Come, let us give a little time to folly, and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Saint Bonaventura : 6627 : Bonaventura, Saint


The test of morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 438 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 5086 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 7886 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 8061 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 9534 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano : 4820 : Bonnano, Margaret


You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
Pierre Bonnard : 13212 : Bonnard, Pierre


The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Bono : 12766 : Bono


The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch : 10592 : Booch, Grady


Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, o Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.
Book of Common Prayer : 2705 : Book of Common Prayer


Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.
Book of Luke : 7445 : Book of Luke


All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone : 416 : Boone, Daniel


I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
Daniel Boone : 12679 : Boone, Daniel


Although politicians hold no monopoly on speaking without thinking, they certainly have a knack for it.
Louis E. Boone : 1190 : Boone, Louis E.


Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.
Daniel Boorstin : 3032 : Boorstin, Daniel


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin : 6420 : Boorstin, Daniel


Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel Boorstin : 7783 : Boorstin, Daniel


When the gods wish to punish us, they make us believe our own advertising.
Daniel Boorstin : 8443 : Boorstin, Daniel


Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet, we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models.
Daniel J. Boorstin : 9951 : Boorstin, Daniel J.


I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
Elayne Boosler : 4990 : Boosler, Elayne


I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler : 5709 : Boosler, Elayne


My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Elayne Boosler : 7579 : Boosler, Elayne


Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.
Elayne Boosler : 8993 : Boosler, Elayne


A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren : 4388 : Boren, James H.


Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
Victor Borge : 10150 : Borge, Victor


My father invented the burglar alarm - which unfortunately was stolen from him.
Victor Borge : 12022 : Borge, Victor


The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges : 1033 : Borges, Jorge Luis


You can't measure life in days the way you do money in dollars, because every day is different.
Jorge Luis Borges : 2534 : Borges, Jorge Luis


There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges : 3600 : Borges, Jorge Luis


Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Jorge Luis Borges : 6153 : Borges, Jorge Luis


In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
Jorge Luis Borges : 7527 : Borges, Jorge Luis


I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges : 9600 : Borges, Jorge Luis


So you plant your own garden and embellish your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring flowers to you.
Jorge Luis Borges : 12834 : Borges, Jorge Luis


You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland : 4709 : Borland, Hal


Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland : 9877 : Borland, Hal


If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland : 13213 : Borland, Hal


July is hot afternoons and sultry nights and mornings when it's joy just to be alive.
Hal Borland : 13541 : Borland, Hal


Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne : 10296 : Borne, Ludwig


I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch : 11115 : Bosch, Robert


I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
James Boswell : 4270 : Boswell, James


Nothing really sets human nature free but self-control.
Paul Bottome : 9108 : Bottome, Paul


There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome : 6540 : Bottome, Phyllis


Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome : 9088 : Bottome, Phyllis


Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Nadia Boulanger : 11272 : Boulanger, Nadia


A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger : 13060 : Boulanger, Nadia


Anyone who believes the exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
Kenneth Boulding : 5460 : Boulding, Kenneth


Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.
Anthony Bourdain : 13438 : Bourdain, Anthony


An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
Anthony Bourdain : 13534 : Bourdain, Anthony


When a man can observe himself suffering, and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, that means he was born for literature.
Edouard Bourdet : 3066 : Bourdet, Edouard


It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne : 10923 : Bourne, Alec


Good talk is like good scenery - continuous, yet constantly varying, and full of the charm of novelty and surprise.
Randolph Bourne : 1506 : Bourne, Randolph


Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton : 8960 : Bouton, Jim


How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always right?
Jim Bouton : 10539 : Bouton, Jim


You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton : 11898 : Bouton, Jim


Active natures are rarely melancholy; Activity and sadness are incompatible.
C. N. Bovee : 5613 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Kindess is a language the mute can speak and the deaf can hear.
Christian Bovee : 5614 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
C. N. Bovee : 5874 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
C. N. Bovee : 6240 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness - it is greatness itself.
C. N. Bovee : 6518 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Christian Nestell Bovee : 9189 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee : 9193 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Bovee : 9194 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
C. N. Bovee : 9195 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker Bowen : 11150 : Bowen, Catherine Drinker


On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.
Elizabeth Bowen : 3903 : Bowen, Elizabeth


The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Elizabeth Bowen : 5905 : Bowen, Elizabeth


It is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Elizabeth Bowen : 8262 : Bowen, Elizabeth


When I hear of an "equity" in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
Lord Bowen : 2307 : Bowen, Lord


Common exercises indulged in by the average middle-aged American male are running down their friends, jumping to conclusions, sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their luck.
W. J. Bowerman and W. E. Harris : 9941 : Bowerman, W. J. & Harris, W. E.


I want to be a Frank Sinatra figure. And I will succeed.
David Bowie : 427 : Bowie, David


It wasn't why he painted a Campbell's soup can. It was "What sort of man paints a Campbell's soup can?" That's what aggravates people.
David Bowie, on Andy Warhol : 7556 : Bowie, David


I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
David Bowie : 8465 : Bowie, David


I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
David Bowie : 12681 : Bowie, David


However crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.
David Bowie : 13156 : Bowie, David


Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
L. M. Boyd : 4527 : Boyd, L. M.


You are not as bright as you feel after the second drink.
Peg Bracken : 1294 : Bracken, Peg


What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
Peg Bracken : 6027 : Bracken, Peg


A slight tax increase costs you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents.
Peg Bracken : 10070 : Bracken, Peg


Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry christmas.
Peg Bracken : 12652 : Bracken, Peg


I've noticed your hostility towards him - I ought to have guessed you were friends.
Malcolm Bradbury : 3185 : Bradbury, Malcolm


The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury : 6418 : Bradbury, Malcolm


You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury : 5292 : Bradbury, Ray


Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
Ray Bradbury : 7444 : Bradbury, Ray


I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
Ray Bradbury : 7865 : Bradbury, Ray


There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Ray Bradbury : 8420 : Bradbury, Ray


Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
Ray Bradbury : 8893 : Bradbury, Ray


You've got to jump off the cliff all the time, and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury : 12334 : Bradbury, Ray


My stories run up and bite me in the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite.
Ray Bradbury : 12683 : Bradbury, Ray


Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
Ray Bradbury : 12950 : Bradbury, Ray


I've found two gray hairs in my head the week before last, and an impertinent crow has planted a delicate impression of his foot under my right eye.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon : 1278 : Braddon, Mary Elizabeth


Ambition is the path to success persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley : 13417 : Bradley, Bill


Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ideals, he is unfit to command.
Omar N. Bradley : 3010 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 6847 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 6854 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 6861 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 13447 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad that the human mind can envision.
Marion Zimmer Bradley : 12678 : Bradley, Marion Zimmer


I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities.
Preston Bradley : 7635 : Bradley, Preston


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet : 2132 : Bradstreet, Anne


Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet : 2828 : Bradstreet, Anne


Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; And anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
Anne Bradstreet : 12685 : Bradstreet, Anne


Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker : 8710 : Braiker, Harriet


Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
Berton Braley : 243 : Braley, Berton


Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.
Lord Bramwell : 5686 : Bramwell, Lord


Why is the king of hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
James Branch : 918 : Branch, James


When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
Stewart Brand : 8682 : Brand, Stewart


Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis Brandeis : 1187 : Brandeis, Louis D.


If we would be guided by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis : 1188 : Brandeis, Louis D.


I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis : 8887 : Brandeis, Louis D.


Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis : 9537 : Brandeis, Louis D.


The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando : 7317 : Brando, Marlon


If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando : 8633 : Brando, Marlon


Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando : 10508 : Brando, Marlon


Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt : 10329 : Brandt, Anthony


There would be no pleasure properly so called if a man were sure to win. It is the reconciling of uncertainty to our desires that creates the satisfaction.
Frederick Brandt : 8912 : Brandt, Frederick


A heretic is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
William Cowper Brann : 2464 : Brann, William Cowper


If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: Get there on time.
Richard Branson : 12478 : Branson, Richard


Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude : 10924 : Braude, Jacob Morton


The fence that makes good neighbors needs a gate to make good friends.
Jacob M. Braude : 12518 : Braude, Jacob Morton


Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and sought advantage over no one.
Robert Brault : 2393 : Brault, Robert


Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault : 4248 : Brault, Robert


Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Robert Brault : 10321 : Brault, Robert


There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit front porch.
Robert Brault : 11128 : Brault, Robert


I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.
Robert Brault : 13357 : Brault, Robert


Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Carol Moseley Braun : 13209 : Braun, Carol Moseley


With every new answer unfolded, science has consistently discovered at least three new questions.
Wernher Von Braun : 1878 : Braun, Wernher von


For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher Von Braun : 2255 : Braun, Wernher von


I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun : 8360 : Braun, Wernher von


Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher Von Braun : 9522 : Braun, Wernher Von


We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork gets to be overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun : 12014 : Braun, Wernher von


The source of status is no longer the ability to make things but simply the ability to purchase them.
Harry Braverman : 2765 : Braverman, Harry


A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.
Sarah Ban Breathnach : 11260 : Breathnach, Sarah Ban


Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
Sarah Ban Breathnach : 12904 : Breathnach, Sarah Ban


New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written.
Sarah Ban Breathnach : 12908 : Breathnach, Sarah Ban


Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States.
J. Bartlet Brebner : 6002 : Brebner, J. Bartlet


Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht : 3281 : Brecht, Bertolt


The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht : 3965 : Brecht, Bertolt


Because I don't trust him, we are friends.
Bertolt Brecht : 7723 : Brecht, Bertolt


Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht : 7775 : Brecht, Bertolt


He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
Bertolt Brecht : 9492 : Brecht, Bertolt


Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Marjorie Barstow Breenbie : 3781 : Breenbie, Marjorie Barstow


Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
Drew Brees : 12698 : Brees, Drew


Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. the poor know that it is money.
Gerald Brenan : 3817 : Brenan, Gerald


Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is so say, their own ideas and other people's values.
Gerald Brenan : 10669 : Brenan, Gerald


A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
David Brenner : 3350 : Brenner, David


Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.
David Brenner : 11396 : Brenner, David


As a reporter, I like to keep in the middle and be disliked by both sides.
Jimmy Breslin : 2622 : Breslin, Jimmy


Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin : 9894 : Breslin, Jimmy


Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin : 12082 : Breslin, Jimmy


An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson : 6469 : Bresson, Robert


When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson : 8663 : Bresson, Robert


All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton : 8458 : Breton, Andre


We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Regina Brett : 11825 : Brett, Regina


If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
Regina Brett : 12358 : Brett, Regina


If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
Regina Brett : 12899 : Brett, Regina


Diligence is that energy and industry which we show when we do what we like.
E. C. Brewer : 3834 : Brewer, E. C.


Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard, indisputable, factual information.
Kingman Brewster : 10690 : Brewster, Kingman


Memory is the storehouse in which the substance of our knowledge is treasured up.
Charles Bridges : 12170 : Bridges, Charles


I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges : 4830 : Bridges, Robert


Conduct lies in masterful administration of the unforeseen.
Robert Bridges : 10546 : Bridges, Robert


Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.
Ruby Bridges : 13331 : Bridges, Ruby


Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Bridges : 9338 : Bridges, William


There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Percy Williams Bridgman : 8005 : Bridgman, Percy Williams


Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
Brillat-Savarin : 286 : Brillat-Savarin


I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 183 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 184 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


No man is an island, but some of us are pretty long peninsulas.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 3609 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 4000 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 10767 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.
Christie Brinkley : 3022 : Brinkley, Christie


A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley : 5435 : Brinkley, David


To be constantly skeptical is to believe in doubt, which is after all a form of faith.
Crane Brinton : 8019 : Brinton, Crane


Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
Steuart Henderson Britt : 11791 : Britt, Steuart Henderson


The horse is a companion like a dog or cat and can go places a car cannot.
Debbie Britt-Hay : 10799 : Britt-Hay, Debbie


The vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
William Broad : 4081 : Broad, William


Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock : 3270 : Brock, Lou


You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Lou Brock : 11494 : Brock, Lou


Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder : 2694 : Broder, David


Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.
Paul Brodeur : 4857 : Brodeur, Paul


In Scotland we have a verdict "not proven." That means "not guilty, but don't do it again."
Andrew Brodie : 9420 : Brodie, Andrew


A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie : 6282 : Brodie, Fawn M.


Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie : 8249 : Brodie, Fawn M.


There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky, at a press conference, Washington, D.C. : 10707 : Brodsky, Joseph


No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.
Joseph Brodsky : 11227 : Brodsky, Joseph


The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski : 2762 : Bronowski, Jacob


The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski : 7570 : Bronowski, Jacob


Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski : 9631 : Bronowski, Jacob


Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
Jacob Bronowski : 10412 : Bronowski, Jacob


I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte : 6150 : Bronte, Charlotte


A memory without a blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment.
Charlotte Bronte : 10034 : Bronte, Charlotte


No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mold, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte : 10639 : Bronte, Charlotte


Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte : 11951 : Bronte, Charlotte


I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte : 12273 : Bronte, Charlotte


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte : 9874 : Bronte, Emily


It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.
Beth Brooke : 11455 : Brooke, Beth


A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke : 7486 : Brooke, Rupert


Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke : 10158 : Brooke, Rupert


Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.
Charlie Brooker : 13114 : Brooker, Charlie


Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman : 11780 : Brookman, Adele


Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Bellamy Brooks : 3172 : Brooks, Bellamy


Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks : 7464 : Brooks, Fred


Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks : 4142 : Brooks, Garth


With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
Gwendolyn Brooks : 4404 : Brooks, Gwendolyn


To be in love is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
Gwendolyn Brooks : 13439 : Brooks, Gwendolyn


Directing is preventing the bad picture from happening, rather than making the good movie.
James L. Brooks : 8679 : Brooks, James L.


Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks : 1295 : Brooks, Mel


I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
Mel Brooks : 8643 : Brooks, Mel


As long as the world is turning, we're going to be dizzy.
Mel Brooks : 10154 : Brooks, Mel


My Uncle Joe was a philosopher, very deep, very serious. Never eat chocolate after chicken, he'd tell us, wagging his finger. Don't buy a cardboard belt.
Mel Brooks : 10660 : Brooks, Mel


It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips Brooks : 5031 : Brooks, Phillips


Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks : 9146 : Brooks, Phillips


Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Phillips Brooks : 9326 : Brooks, Phillips


Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Phillips Brooks : 13058 : Brooks, Phillips


Emerson advised his fellow townsmen to manufacture schoolteachers and make them the best in the world.
Van Wyck Brooks : 3689 : Brooks, Van Wyck


Joe Garagiola is considered a humorist, like Mark Twain, who also came from Missouri. The resemblance is purely residential.
Jim Brosnan : 11921 : Brosnan, Jim


Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers : 3245 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers : 4338 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


Marriage is not just spiritual communion; It is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers : 5887 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


Listening, not imitation, may be the sheerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers : 6485 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers : 12209 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my needs.
Brotherton : 287 : Brotherton


Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham : 6361 : Brougham, Henry


Loving kindness, warm hearts and the stretched out hand of tolerance. All the shining gifts that make peace on earth.
Bishop Henry Brougham ("The Bishop's Wife") : 10911 : Brougham, Henry


All there is to be said for work as opposed to dancing is that it is so much easier.
Heywood Broun : 9772 : Broun, Heywood


Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
Heywood Broun : 10068 : Broun, Heywood


Almost nobody means precisely what he says when he makes the declaration, "I'm in favor of free speech."
Heywood Broun : 871 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Repartee is what you wish you'd said.
Heywood Broun : 2652 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
Heywood Broun : 3200 : Broun, Heywood Hale


The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Broun : 3839 : Broun, Heywood Hale


The underdog can and will lick his weight in the wildcats of the world.
Heywood Broun : 4429 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Brotherhood is not just a bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Heywood Broun : 5609 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Hale Broun : 8086 : Broun, Heywood Hale


A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Charlie Brower : 3890 : Brower, Charlie


I have always thought the nuclear threat was blown way out of proportion. I have a feeling our descendants are going to look back at all this nuclear hysteria from the bottom of their toxic waste dumps and laugh their feelers off. Philosophically, I would
A. Whitney Brown : 5648 : Brown, A. Whitney


Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown : 5703 : Brown, A. Whitney


Actually, I became a vegetarian not so much because I love animals but because I hate plants. I still like to hunt though. In fact, I've found that plants are a lot easier than animals to sneak up on.
A. Whitney Brown : 6253 : Brown, A. Whitney


That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail, no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown : 12262 : Brown, A. Whitney


The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown : 12292 : Brown, A. Whitney


Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brene Brown : 12443 : Brown, Brene


Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Brene Brown : 12980 : Brown, Brene


There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters - I could be their leader.
Charlie Brown : 7126 : Brown, Charlie


Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
Craig Brown : 10820 : Brown, Craig


The only reason you were born was to be better than your parents and to make this world better for your children.
Drew Brown : 8295 : Brown, Drew


Spy and the world spies with you; get caught and you're on your own.
G. Brown : 651 : Brown, G.


Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 7133 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 7155 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. : 9869 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. : 10136 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 10284 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. : 10446 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


My mother said, "No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs you back."
H. Jackson Brown : 12186 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
H. Jackson Brown : 12375 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 12719 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Time is God's way to keep everything from happening at once.
James Brown : 3613 : Brown, James


The insatiable appetite for campaign dollars virtually has turned the government into a stop-and-shop for every greed and special interest in the country.
Jerry Brown : 9648 : Brown, Jerry


How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington D. C. as a city that goes around in circles.
John Mason Brown : 1009 : Brown, John Mason


Reasoning with a child is fine, If you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
John Mason Brown : 5254 : Brown, John Mason


You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
Les Brown : 7956 : Brown, Les


Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Les Brown : 8716 : Brown, Les


Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown : 9047 : Brown, Les


Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
Les Brown : 9080 : Brown, Les


Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown : 9120 : Brown, Les


Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown : 10182 : Brown, Les


When life knocks you down, try to fall on your back because if you can look up, you can get up.
Les Brown : 10764 : Brown, Les


Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown : 12374 : Brown, Les


Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Les Brown : 12989 : Brown, Les


You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown : 13124 : Brown, Les


You know you're old when you have lost all your marvels.
Merry Brown : 5424 : Brown, Merry


Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.
Pam Brown : 3876 : Brown, Pam


If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
Pam Brown : 4694 : Brown, Pam


When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of fifty bucks. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
Pat Brown : 11504 : Brown, Pat


Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown : 1529 : Brown, Rita Mae


Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring.
Rita Mae Brown : 2919 : Brown, Rita Mae


The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown : 3005 : Brown, Rita Mae


You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown : 3608 : Brown, Rita Mae


Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of
Rita Mae Brown : 5897 : Brown, Rita Mae


You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If somebody drives it off a cliff, that's it.
Rita Mae Brown : 6176 : Brown, Rita Mae


A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown : 6497 : Brown, Rita Mae


About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown : 7205 : Brown, Rita Mae


Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown : 7707 : Brown, Rita Mae


The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Ruth Brown : 2833 : Brown, Ruth


The blues itself knows no color line. It is about people learning how to go inside themselves and touch something. The blues is like vocal crying. It is a way for a man to cry with dignity.
Ruth Brown : 7185 : Brown, Ruth


Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown : 3601 : Brown, Sam


It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
Sherrill Brown : 4841 : Brown, Sherrill


Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Steve Brown : 8059 : Brown, Steve


A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
T. E. Brown : 10176 : Brown, T. E.


The sweetest sounds to mortals given; are heard in mother, home and heaven.
William Goldsmith Brown : 7410 : Brown, William Goldsmith


Character is the trademark of the trustworthy.
Merry Browne : 11683 : Browne, Merry


It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike
Thomas Browne : 3993 : Browne, Sir Thomas


It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne : 5981 : Browne, Sir Thomas


But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Sir Thomas Browne : 7568 : Browne, Sir Thomas


A man may be in as just possession of truth as a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Sir Thomas Browne : 8009 : Browne, Sir Thomas


I was only a poor poet, made for singing at her casement, as the finches or the thrushes, while she thought of other things.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 2415 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 3165 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 4075 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 6131 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


Love me sweet, With all thou art, Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 9686 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 11060 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
Robert Browning : 6486 : Browning, Robert


Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning : 10622 : Browning, Robert


Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth.
Robert Browning : 10843 : Browning, Robert


All we have gained then by our unbelief! Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt; We called the chess-board white - we call it black.
Robert Browning : 11174 : Browning, Robert


Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning : 13361 : Browning, Robert


The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Lenny Bruce : 2883 : Bruce, Lenny


If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed.
Beau Brummel : 10922 : Brummel, Beau


You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
Jerome Brunner : 8694 : Brunner, Jerome


There's just something beautiful about walking in snow that nobody else has walked on.
Carol Rifka Brunt : 12658 : Brunt, Carol Rifka


New Yorkers are nice about giving street directions - in fact, they seem proud of knowing where they are themselves.
Katherine Brush : 4982 : Brush, Katherine


The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe Bryant : 11400 : Bryant, Kobe


Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant : 12927 : Bryant, Kobe


Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant : 6341 : Bryant, William Cullen


Medicine: the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
James Bryce : 920 : Bryce, James


Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce : 4599 : Bryce, James


The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce : 11141 : Bryce, James


I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container.
Bill Bryson : 3439 : Bryson, Bill


It is the mistake of youth to think imagination a substitute for experience; it is the mistake of age to think experience a substitute for intelligence.
Lyman Bryson : 7550 : Bryson, Lyman


True ecstasy hails neither from spirit nor from nature, but from the union of these two.
Martin Buber : 2445 : Buber, Martin


The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Martin Buber : 5221 : Buber, Martin


Solitude is the place of purification.
Martin Buber : 7398 : Buber, Martin


The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan : 8531 : Buchan, John


The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
John Buchan : 12457 : Buchan, John


I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor; 2. Never trust an editor; 3. Never trust an editor.
Edna Buchanan : 518 : Buchanan, Edna


True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan : 519 : Buchanan, Edna


There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Frank Buchman : 2805 : Buchman, Frank


Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald : 4366 : Buchwald, Art


This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
Art Buchwald : 10501 : Buchwald, Art


I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
Art Buchwald : 12008 : Buchwald, Art


It is indeed exasperating to have a memory that begins too young and continues too long.
Pearl Buck : 2495 : Buck, Pearl S.


None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck : 2712 : Buck, Pearl S.


Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. Buck : 6711 : Buck, Pearl S.


One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck : 8406 : Buck, Pearl S.


Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl S. Buck : 9609 : Buck, Pearl S.


The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck : 10427 : Buck, Pearl S.


Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck : 12726 : Buck, Pearl S.


Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Buckley : 10921 : Buckley, Mary


All civilized men want peace. And all truly civilized men must despise pacifism.
William F. Buckley : 1902 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley, Jr. : 1903 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


The Beatles are not merely awful ... they are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic.
William F. Buckley, Jr. : 7822 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks, and extremists this side of the giggle house.
William F. Buckley, Jr. : 11900 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust the greatest of qualities.
Buddha : 291 : Buddha


Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Buddha : 3754 : Buddha


Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law eternal.
The Buddha : 3996 : Buddha


As a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise persons remain unaffected by praise or censure.
Buddha : 4735 : Buddha


Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha : 6844 : Buddha


Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha : 7782 : Buddha


The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha : 8203 : Buddha


If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha : 8355 : Buddha


Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha : 8646 : Buddha


There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha : 10877 : Buddha


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Buddha : 10908 : Buddha


No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha : 11834 : Buddha


If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha : 12951 : Buddha


You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha : 13092 : Buddha


Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha : 13550 : Buddha


Isn't it refreshing to know that just because we've always been a certain way, it doesn't mean we have to stay that way forever? Our beliefs are merely stories in our minds that we ourselves wrote long ago. Knowing that, don't you feel empowered to rewrit
Buddhist Boot Camp : 10267 : Buddhist Boot Camp


We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.
Buddy the elf in Elf : 10913 : Buddy


When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far.
Eustace Budgell : 7369 : Budgell, Eustace


You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Frederick Buechner : 4656 : Buechner, Frederick


It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sheriock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner : 8214 : Buechner, Frederick


It has been said that cigarettes are the only product that, if used according to the manufacturer's instructions, have a very high chance of killing you.
Michael Buerk : 3396 : Buerk, Michael


Advertising - the driving force behind supply-and-demand economics: the stimulation of demand for useless products through the supply of misleading claims.
Chaz Bufe : 5643 : Bufe, Chaz


We're not the descendants of philosophers. We're the children of court jesters.
Jimmy Buffet : 12026 : Buffet, Jimmy


It didn't matter how big our house was; It mattered that there was love in it.
Peter Buffett : 11404 : Buffett, Peter


Wall street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Warren Buffett : 1868 : Buffett, Warren


Investment must be rational. If you can't understand it, don't do it.
Warren Buffett : 2898 : Buffett, Warren


In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitations on stupidity.
Warren Buffett : 5100 : Buffett, Warren


Rule Number One: Never lose money. Rule Number Two: Never forget Rule Number One.
Warren Buffett : 8030 : Buffett, Warren


You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett : 10227 : Buffett, Warren


Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett : 11343 : Buffett, Warren


Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett : 12802 : Buffett, Warren


It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Warren Buffett : 13071 : Buffett, Warren


It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett : 13167 : Buffett, Warren


We might have had a two party system, but one of the two parties would be in office and the other in prison.
Nikolai Bukharin : 1344 : Bukharin, Nikolai


The difference between a Democracy and a Dictatorship is that in a Democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a Dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski : 8195 : Bukowski, Charles


Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine, I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski : 8576 : Bukowski, Charles


Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski : 12130 : Bukowski, Charles


You must have the score (music) in your head, not your head in the score.
Hans von Bulow : 5557 : Bulow, Hans von


Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; Every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 12700 : Bulwer-Lyton, Edward George


Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Bulwer : 292 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


A fool flatters himself; the wise man flatters the fool.
Bulwer-Lytton : 293 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Bulwer-Lytton : 294 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Everyone who observes vigilantly and observes steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 521 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when he loves.
Baron Bulwer-Lytton : 2147 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 2594 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 3786 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 3963 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 4578 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : 7595 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 8613 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 8653 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 9164 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 9180 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 9994 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 10954 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
Henry Bulwer-Lytton : 4614 : Bulwer-Lytton, Henry


We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act. it is often only through taking action that we can discover some of them.
Charlotte Bunch : 11198 : Bunch, Charlotte


Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than winning an Oscar. Nothing in the world would make me accept it. I wouldn't have it in my home.
Luis Bunuel : 7575 : Bunuel, Luis


Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Luis Bunuel : 12968 : Bunuel, Luis


There was a man, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away, the more he had.
John Bunyan : 5320 : Bunyan, John


When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
John Bunyan : 11313 : Bunyan, John


Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Mario Burata : 8093 : Burata, Mario


Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
Luther Burbank : 2537 : Burbank, Luther


Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; They are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank : 12553 : Burbank, Luther


Buckle up, and know that it's going to be a tremendous amount of work, but embrace it.
Tory Burch : 12551 : Burch, Tory


The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Robert Burchfield : 2316 : Burchfield, Robert


Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill : 7768 : Burchill, Julie


Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden : 8672 : Burden, Virginia


There are two days in the week when I never worry: one is yesterday, the other is tomorrow.
Robert Burdette : 1537 : Burdette, Robert


You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.
Eric Burdon : 7927 : Burdon, Eric


Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone
Anthony Burgess : 158 : Burgess, Anthony


A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
Anthony Burgess : 10006 : Burgess, Anthony


When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
Gelett Burgess : 674 : Burgess, Gelett


When a person visits you, remember he's your guest; receive him very kindly, and be sure he has the best.
Gelett Burgess : 675 : Burgess, Gelett


A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
Gelett Burgess : 8413 : Burgess, Gelett


If you stop and think about it, you'll realize that three out of four persons do not know exactly what they're doing a large part of the time.
Gelett Burgess : 8929 : Burgess, Gelett


It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
G. B. Burgin : 9426 : Burgin, G. B.


If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: I'm cheap."
Delta Burke : 2085 : Burke, Delta


I wanted to be Miss America so bad. I didn't make it to the top ten and I'm listening to all the names ... and I thought, I bet if I ran down there and ripped the crown off her head, I'd get on Johnny Carson.
Delta Burke : 9934 : Burke, Delta


A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke : 515 : Burke, Edmund


The people have been in the wrong, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favor of the people.
Edmund Burke : 516 : Burke, Edmund


Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend.
Edmund Burke : 1997 : Burke, Edmund


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke : 2167 : Burke, Edmund


People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke : 2209 : Burke, Edmund


No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke : 2814 : Burke, Edmund


Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke : 3279 : Burke, Edmund


Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke : 5173 : Burke, Edmund


Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke : 5368 : Burke, Edmund


Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke : 6141 : Burke, Edmund


He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke : 6960 : Burke, Edmund


In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish. But the works of malice and injustice are finished with a bold, masterly hand.
Edmund Burke : 7237 : Burke, Edmund


To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke : 7469 : Burke, Edmund


Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke : 8400 : Burke, Edmund


The elevation of the mind ought to be the principal end of all our studies.
Edmund Burke : 9073 : Burke, Edmund


An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke : 10082 : Burke, Edmund


All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke : 10114 : Burke, Edmund


The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again.
Edmund Burke : 11556 : Burke, Edmund


The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
Leo Burke : 2469 : Burke, Leo


People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Leo Burke : 9826 : Burke, Leo


Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
Michael Burke : 5294 : Burke, Michael


We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
Carol Burnett : 12613 : Burnett, Carol


You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it.
Carol Burnett : 13024 : Burnett, Carol


Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett : 13469 : Burnett, Carol


If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett : 13475 : Burnett, Frances Hodgson


When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett : 6360 : Burnett, Leo


It's a delightful thing to think of perfection; but it's vastly more amusing to talk of errors and absurdities.
Fanny Burney : 3504 : Burney, Fanny


The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.
Fanny Burney : 10362 : Burney, Fanny


Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham : 10466 : Burnham, Daniel H.


Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.
Sophy Burnham : 1677 : Burnham, Sophy


A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.
Charles Wesley Burns : 4831 : Burns, Charles Wesley


Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns : 687 : Burns, George


There were twelve kids in my family, and my mother's idea of liberation was to get into the kitchen.
George Burns : 688 : Burns, George


You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns : 689 : Burns, George


When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
George Burns : 690 : Burns, George


Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns : 2526 : Burns, George


I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.
George Burns : 4435 : Burns, George


I smoke cigars because at my age, if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.
George Burns : 4477 : Burns, George


It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns : 4772 : Burns, George


When I went to school, I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns : 5389 : Burns, George


I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.
George Burns : 5410 : Burns, George


Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal. a good cigar, and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns : 6289 : Burns, George


Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns : 10880 : Burns, George


Ignorance is when you don't know something and somebody finds it out.
Jethro Burns : 10301 : Burns, Jethro


I have seen the Mississippi. That is muddy water. I have seen the St. Lawrence. That is crystal water. But the Thames is liquid history.
John Burns : 7583 : Burns, John


Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
Robert Burns : 1538 : Burns, Robert


Those who think that composing a Scotch song is a trifling business - let them try.
Robert Burns : 9434 : Burns, Robert


Some parents get better children than they deserve.
Raymond Burr : 4115 : Burr, Raymond


All that I have accomplished has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.
Elihu Burritt : 3018 : Burritt, Elihu


A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs : 989 : Burroughs, John


The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs : 11014 : Burroughs, John


I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
John Burroughs : 11964 : Burroughs, John


Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs : 12417 : Burroughs, John


How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs : 12846 : Burroughs, John


Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
William Burroughs : 6317 : Burroughs, William Seward


Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
W. S. Burroughs : 12937 : Burroughs, William Seward.


I am an American and therefore what I do, however small, is of importance.
Maxwell Struthers Burt : 5615 : Burt, Maxwell Struthers


If there is a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
Robert Burton : 1539 : Burton, Robert


A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton : 2097 : Burton, Robert


One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton : 9789 : Burton, Robert


Cookery is become an art, a noble science; Cooks are gentlemen.
Robert Burton : 10279 : Burton, Robert


When the chips are not exactly down but just scattered about, you discover who your real friends are.
Richard Burton : 1520 : Burton, Sir Richard


Of all the vanities and fopperies, the vanity of high birth is the greatest. True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth.
Sir Richard Burton : 10682 : Burton, Sir Richard


The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.
Sir Richard Burton : 12405 : Burton, Sir Richard


Don't brood, get on with living and loving, you don't have forever.
Leo Buscaglia : 10879 : Buscaglia, Leo


A single rose can be my garden ... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia : 10881 : Buscaglia, Leo


Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation.
Leo Buscaglia : 13411 : Buscaglia, Leo


Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.
Wilhelm Busch : 9523 : Busch, Wilhelm


Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
Barbara Bush : 8591 : Bush, Barbara


Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush : 8898 : Bush, Barbara


I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush : 10256 : Bush, Barbara


I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
Barbara Bush : 12103 : Bush, Barbara


Giving peace a chance does not mean taking a chance on peace.
George Bush : 7065 : Bush, George


I've watched so much Olympics that when Barbara asked me to move a piece of furniture, I asked her, "What's the degree of difficulty?"
George Bush : 691 : Bush, George H. W.


I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
George H. W. Bush : 9437 : Bush, George H. W.


Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.
George H. W. Bush : 11367 : Bush, George H. W.


I don't want to win? If that were the case, why the heck am I on the bus sixteen hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundred of speeches, getting pilloried in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?
George W. Bush : 4611 : Bush, George W.


Chew before you swallow.
George W. Bush, about his passing out while eating a pretzel : 6742 : Bush, George W.


No matter how old you are and no matter what you do, you can never escape your mother.
George W. Bush : 6993 : Bush, George W.


I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
George W. Bush : 7309 : Bush, George W.


By being myself I will distinguish myself from my father, because we're two separately different people.
George W. Bush : 7625 : Bush, George W.


The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
George W. Bush : 8193 : Bush, George W.


You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush : 8934 : Bush, George W.


I'm not going to be the guy who promises something he can't deliver. I don't believe in "ready, fire, aim."
George W. Bush : 11268 : Bush, George W.


Once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush : 11811 : Bush, Laura


Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Nolan Bushnell : 10072 : Bushnell, Nolan


The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
Nicholas Murray Butler : 1339 : Butler, Nicholas Murray


Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler : 1603 : Butler, Samuel


The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler : 1604 : Butler, Samuel


The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan, and the whole fixed upon stilts.
Samuel Butler : 1605 : Butler, Samuel


He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. It is in strife that life lies, and were there no opposing forces there would be neither moral nor immoral, neither victory nor defeat.
Samuel Butler : 1606 : Butler, Samuel


If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler : 1607 : Butler, Samuel


Example is not only the best way of propagating an opinion, but it is the only way worth taking into account.
Samuel Butler : 1608 : Butler, Samuel


The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler : 1609 : Butler, Samuel


To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.
Samuel Butler : 2082 : Butler, Samuel


The lions would not eat Daniel; they would eat most anything but they drew the line at prophets.
Samuel Butler : 2145 : Butler, Samuel


An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler : 2714 : Butler, Samuel


Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler : 3407 : Butler, Samuel


Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
Samuel Butler : 3441 : Butler, Samuel


The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called "The Old Sailor."
Samuel Butler : 4341 : Butler, Samuel


A definition is the enclosing of a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler : 4392 : Butler, Samuel


All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler : 4452 : Butler, Samuel


Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler : 4652 : Butler, Samuel


Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.
Samuel Butler : 5063 : Butler, Samuel


An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
Samuel Butler : 5144 : Butler, Samuel


If the better part of valor is discretion, how much more is not discretion the better part of vice?
Samuel Butler : 6055 : Butler, Samuel


One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler : 6347 : Butler, Samuel


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 : 6665 : Butler, Samuel


The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler : 8252 : Butler, Samuel


Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler : 8487 : Butler, Samuel


America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.
Samuel Butler : 8880 : Butler, Samuel


Life is like music; It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler : 10266 : Butler, Samuel


Imagination depends mainly on memory, but there is a small percentage of creation of something out of nothing with it. We can invent a trifle more than can be got at by mere combination of remembered things.
Samuel Butler : 10343 : Butler, Samuel


There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
Samuel Butler : 11243 : Butler, Samuel


Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler : 11790 : Butler, Samuel


Every man's work, whether it is literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler : 11914 : Butler, Samuel


Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Samuel Butler : 12076 : Butler, Samuel


Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum : 4252 : Buxbaum, Martin


The fact is, nothing comes; at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched.
Charles Buxton : 2034 : Buxton, Charles


Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton : 2119 : Buxton, Charles


You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.
C. Buxton : 2812 : Buxton, Charles


Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton : 8947 : Buxton, Charles


A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
Richard E. Byrd : 6970 : Byrd, Richard E.


A library, a garden, a grove, a purling stream, are the innocent scenes that divert our leisure
William Byrd : 1899 : Byrd, William


There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne : 12739 : Byrne, Robert


Science has not yet found a cure for the pun.
Robert Byrne : 12748 : Byrne, Robert


No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
Byron : 297 : Byron, Lord


Man's love is of man's life a part; it is woman's whole existence.
Byron : 298 : Byron, Lord


All is to be feared where all is to be lost.
Lord Byron : 2125 : Byron, Lord


Society is now one polish'd horde, formed of two might tribes, the bores and the bored.
Lord Byron : 2849 : Byron, Lord


It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores.
Lord Byron : 4567 : Byron, Lord


Here's a sigh to those who love me, and a smile to those who hate; and whatever sky's above me, here's a heart for every fate.
Lord Byron : 4768 : Byron, Lord


It is the hour when from the boughs the nightingale's high note is heard.
Lord Byron : 6101 : Byron, Lord


I wish he would explain his explanation.
Lord Byron : 6170 : Byron, Lord


We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord Byron : 6468 : Byron, Lord


All who would win joy must share it - Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron : 7139 : Byron, Lord


'Tis strange - but true, for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron : 8052 : Byron, Lord


But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron : 8551 : Byron, Lord


As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron : 8935 : Byron, Lord


Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron : 11047 : Byron, Lord


When one subtracts from life infancy - which is vegetation, sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
Lord Byron : 11488 : Byron, Lord


The American dream is that any citizen can rise to the highest office in the land. The British dream is that the Queen drops in for tea.
Michael Bywater : 2345 : Bywater, Michael


The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell : 919 : Cabell, James Branch


Virtue has always been conceived of as victorious resistance to one's vital desire.
James Branch Cabell : 3988 : Cabell, James Branch


I regret that I have but one life to live in San Francisco.
Herb Caen : 2639 : Caen, Herb


The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Herb Caen : 12707 : Caen, Herb


Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar : 11888 : Caesar, Julius


The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Sid Caesar : 4588 : Caesar, Sid


Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar : 7753 : Caesar, Sid


The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Sid Caesar : 9004 : Caesar, Sid


I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage : 10254 : Cage, John


With me, a career was the simple matter of putting groceries on the table.
James Cagney : 5115 : Cagney, James


A song-and-dance man is what I am basically. I think dancing is a primal urge coming to life at the first moment we need to express joy.
James Cagney : 10005 : Cagney, James


It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.
Michael C. Cahill : 1301 : Cahill, Michael C.


Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Tim Cahill : 10929 : Cahill, Tim


Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.
Sammy Cahn : 1602 : Cahn, Sammy


There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
Susan Cain : 12983 : Cain, Susan


The sins of the flesh have always been very attractive to me - all of them.
Michael Caine : 5089 : Caine, Michael


Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Mary S. Calderone : 10397 : Calderone, Mary S.


The secret of negotiation is to harmonize the real interests of the parties concerned.
Francois de Calieres : 2613 : Calieres, Francois de


A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Hortense Calisher : 8981 : Calisher, Hortense


A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has its boots on.
James Callaghan : 921 : Callaghan, James


I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
Italo Calvino : 7521 : Calvino, Italo


A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo Calvino : 7961 : Calvino, Italo


When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist.
Helder Camara : 3534 : Camara, Helder


It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
James Cameron : 9720 : Cameron, James


In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Julia Cameron : 10196 : Cameron, Julia


Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Julia Cameron : 11015 : Cameron, Julia


You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Roy Campanella : 4998 : Campanella, Roy


Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute.
C. G. Campbell : 7841 : Campbell, C. G.


Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
Glenn Campbell : 3672 : Campbell, Glenn


The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.
Joseph Campbell : 1039 : Campbell, Joseph


Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.
Joseph Campbell : 8819 : Campbell, Joseph


Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell : 10943 : Campbell, Joseph


Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell : 11465 : Campbell, Joseph


Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell : 12017 : Campbell, Joseph


I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell : 12253 : Campbell, Joseph


Tallulah Bankhead is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell : 1328 : Campbell, Mrs. Patrick


Wedlock: The deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell : 7315 : Campbell, Mrs. Patrick


Golf is the only game in the world in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn you a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
Patrick Campbell : 7257 : Campbell, Patrick


An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus : 32 : Camus, Albert


You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having to ask any clear question.
Albert Camus : 33 : Camus, Albert


If there is a sin against life, it lies perhaps less in despairing of it than in hoping for another and evading the implacable grandeur of the one we have.
Albert Camus : 34 : Camus, Albert


I don't want to be a genius; I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Albert Camus : 35 : Camus, Albert


Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus : 2224 : Camus, Albert


With freedom of the press, nations are not sure of going toward justice and peace. But without it, they are sure of not going there.
Albert Camus : 2411 : Camus, Albert


I have said the world is absurd but I spoke too soon. All we can say is that this world in and of itself is not reasonable. What is absurd, though, is the conflict between this irrationality and man's desperate wish for intelligibility.
Albert Camus : 2943 : Camus, Albert


A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus : 5199 : Camus, Albert


It is indeed true that we live in tragic times, but too many people confuse tragedy with despair.
Albert Camus : 5304 : Camus, Albert


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus : 5576 : Camus, Albert


Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and "historical tasks" is an actual or potential assassin.
Albert Camus : 5983 : Camus, Albert


There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus : 6230 : Camus, Albert


But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus : 6872 : Camus, Albert


A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus : 6881 : Camus, Albert


Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom.
Albert Camus : 7986 : Camus, Albert


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus : 8084 : Camus, Albert


If it is true that talent recreates life while genius has the additional gift of crowning it with myths, Melville is first and foremost a creator of myths.
Albert Camus : 8221 : Camus, Albert


Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into a liar than into a person telling the truth. Truth, like light, is blinding. Falsehood, on the other hand, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus : 8521 : Camus, Albert


Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus : 8668 : Camus, Albert


Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus : 8762 : Camus, Albert


A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus : 9484 : Camus, Albert


Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus : 10138 : Camus, Albert


Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus : 10253 : Camus, Albert


Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus : 10303 : Camus, Albert


Real nobility is based on scorn, courage and profound indifference.
Albert Camus : 10982 : Camus, Albert


Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus : 11009 : Camus, Albert


As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus : 11269 : Camus, Albert


Truth is mysterious, elusive, ever to be won anew. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
Albert Camus : 11569 : Camus, Albert


Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus : 12060 : Camus, Albert


Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Albert Camus : 13211 : Camus, Albert


If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents.
Hortense Canady : 7881 : Canady, Hortense


We are drawn to our television sets each year the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Vincent Canby on the Academy Awards Show : 4500 : Canby, Vincent


When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Elias Canetti : 7306 : Canetti, Elias


All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti : 7703 : Canetti, Elias


Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word "I."
Elias Canetti : 8843 : Canetti, Elias


All the pessimists in world history are nothing against reality.
Elias Canetti : 9565 : Canetti, Elias


I would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
Elias Canetti : 12059 : Canetti, Elias


Some people think doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Dorothy Canfield : 4916 : Canfield, Dorothy


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
George Canning : 9895 : Canning, George


I know one star in Hollywood who hasn't been spoiled by success and that is Mickey Mouse.
Eddie Cantor : 501 : Cantor, Eddie


The two most common causes of divorce? Men and women.
Eddie Cantor : 502 : Cantor, Eddie


It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor : 7715 : Cantor, Eddie


Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor : 11041 : Cantor, Eddie


Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
Jerry Cantrell : 13175 : Cantrell, Jerry


There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
Mortimer Caplan : 11279 : Caplan, Mortimer


Many women are poor cooks only because their native greatness has been beaten down by ingratitude.
Robert Capon : 1540 : Capon, Robert


You can get much further with a kind word and a gun that you can get with a kind word alone.
Al Capone : 2847 : Capone, Al


Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for a the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the p
Truman Capote : 1806 : Capote, Truman


Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote : 6127 : Capote, Truman


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote : 7806 : Capote, Truman


The art of dealing with one's enemies is an art no less necessary than knowing how to appreciate one's friends.
Truman Capote : 9711 : Capote, Truman


Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp : 4901 : Capp, Al


Art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp : 9052 : Capp, Al


Make a blockbuster - you're the lion of the cocktail circuit. Make a bomb - you buy your own drinks.
Frank Capra : 8660 : Capra, Frank


I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
Frank Capra : 9407 : Capra, Frank


We give them the love we can spare, the time we can spare. In return dogs have given us their absolute all. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
Roger Caras : 8560 : Caras, Roger


All living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
Orson Scott Card : 3873 : Card, Orson Scott


Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card : 12570 : Card, Orson Scott


If you're not English, you're a foreigner, so you must be sexy. It's an old British film cliche.
Claudia Cardinale : 389 : Cardinale, Claudia


Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
Benjamin Cardozo : 7470 : Cardozo, Benjamin


Unaccompanied Bach is for me one of the severest hardships of the calling of musical critic. It is probably good, even jolly, to play, but to have to listen to it is worse than breaking stones.
Neville Cardus : 7181 : Cardus, Neville


I see my face in the mirror and go, "I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?"
Drew Carey : 5042 : Carey, Drew


I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.
Drew Carey : 5722 : Carey, Drew


The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight - And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.
Emma Carleton : 7847 : Carleton, Emma


I saw a sign that said, "coming soon - a 24-hour restaurant." and I thought, "well, that's unusual. At least try it for a week or two, and see if you can build a clientele."
George Carlin : 692 : Carlin, George


As grown-ups, we never get to "wave bye-bye." I think it would be fun. "Steve, the boss is sailing for Europe; we're all going down to the dock to wave bye-bye."
George Carlin : 693 : Carlin, George


My parents chose what, at the time, was the very latest method of childbirth. You've heard of Lamaze? This was La Paz. The mother receives powerful narcotics, the father is sent to Bolivia, and the nurse does all the screaming.
George Carlin : 694 : Carlin, George


The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin : 1987 : Carlin, George


I think when you eat out you should have a little fun; it's good for digestion. Simple things. After the waiter recites a long list of specials, ask him if they serve cow feet.
George Carlin : 2184 : Carlin, George


I don't like to lose my bearings, so I keep them in the cabinet near my bed.
George Carlin : 3572 : Carlin, George


The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
George Carlin : 4092 : Carlin, George


Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin : 5028 : Carlin, George


I enjoy chaos and disorder, and not just because they help me professionally.
George Carlin : 5087 : Carlin, George


Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. "200 dead as Number Three slams ashore" is not nearly as interesting a headline as "Charlie kills 200." Death
George Carlin : 5645 : Carlin, George


There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin : 6713 : Carlin, George


As a matter of principle. I never attend the first annual anything.
George Carlin : 6762 : Carlin, George


If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
George Carlin : 6919 : Carlin, George


It is impossible to know accurately how you look in your sunglasses.
George Carlin : 7045 : Carlin, George


Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
George Carlin : 7245 : Carlin, George


I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin : 8194 : Carlin, George


They keep saying you can't compare apples and oranges. I can. An apple is red and distinctly non-spherical; an orange is orange and nearly spherical. So, what's the big problem?
George Carlin : 8540 : Carlin, George


Sometimes, when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.
George Carlin : 8614 : Carlin, George


If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin : 8937 : Carlin, George


The other night, I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin : 9756 : Carlin, George


I could mention plenty of things that contribute to violence. One is simply the condition of being violent; the predisposition. Everyone knows this is a cranky species.
George Carlin : 10382 : Carlin, George


The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
George Carlin : 11122 : Carlin, George


Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
George Carlin : 11564 : Carlin, George


I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin : 11913 : Carlin, George


If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.
George Carlin : 12167 : Carlin, George


Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin : 12198 : Carlin, George


After the Go-Gos sold three or four million albums, we thought we wouldn't be treated like an all-girl band anymore, but as a rock 'n' roll band. That never really worked.
Belinda Carlisle : 5917 : Carlisle, Belinda


TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a point never to eat TV cameras.
Kitty Carlisle : 1111 : Carlisle, Kitty


Happiness is the result of my decision to be happy. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Richard Carlson : 9913 : Carlson, Richard


The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Richard Carlson : 12332 : Carlson, Richard


Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Carlyle : 316 : Carlyle, Thomas


Thought works in silence, so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence.
Thomas Carlyle : 1769 : Carlyle, Thomas


Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle : 1770 : Carlyle, Thomas


Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle : 2124 : Carlyle, Thomas


Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle : 2327 : Carlyle, Thomas


Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle : 2399 : Carlyle, Thomas


It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle : 2916 : Carlyle, Thomas


Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
Thomas Carlyle : 3898 : Carlyle, Thomas


Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle : 4560 : Carlyle, Thomas


Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Thomas Carlyle : 4780 : Carlyle, Thomas


If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that.
Thomas Carlyle : 5195 : Carlyle, Thomas


If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle : 7613 : Carlyle, Thomas


The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Thomas Carlyle : 8088 : Carlyle, Thomas


Music is well-said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle : 9842 : Carlyle, Thomas


A man lives by believing, not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle : 10113 : Carlyle, Thomas


The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle : 13063 : Carlyle, Thomas


A "fact" merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman : 7962 : Carman, Bliss


No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Andrew Carnegie : 2065 : Carnegie, Andrew


People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Andrew Carnegie : 3310 : Carnegie, Andrew


Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Andrew Carnegie : 3379 : Carnegie, Andrew


As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie : 4053 : Carnegie, Andrew


Concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket."
Andrew Carnegie : 4607 : Carnegie, Andrew


There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Andrew Carnegie : 4661 : Carnegie, Andrew


You cannot push a man up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie : 5324 : Carnegie, Andrew


The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie : 5519 : Carnegie, Andrew


Eight hours to work; Eight hours to play; Eight hours to sleep; seems the ideal division.
Andrew Carnegie : 6212 : Carnegie, Andrew


Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie : 6309 : Carnegie, Andrew


People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie : 10950 : Carnegie, Andrew


No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie : 11044 : Carnegie, Andrew


Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie : 11521 : Carnegie, Andrew


You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie : 2238 : Carnegie, Dale


The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie : 3241 : Carnegie, Dale


Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie : 4690 : Carnegie, Dale


The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie : 6191 : Carnegie, Dale


Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie : 6337 : Carnegie, Dale


If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie : 8153 : Carnegie, Dale


The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie : 8169 : Carnegie, Dale


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie : 10001 : Carnegie, Dale


Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie : 10941 : Carnegie, Dale


We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie : 11211 : Carnegie, Dale


Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie : 12886 : Carnegie, Dale


Little acts of kindness, little words of love make our earth an Eden like heaven above.
Julia Carney : 5725 : Carney, Julia


Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under the tree.
Charlotte Carpenter : 9916 : Carpenter, Charlotte


What the historian is called on to investigate is what lies behind the act; and to this the conscious thought or motive of the individual actor may be quite irrelevant.
Edward Hallett Carr : 2225 : Carr, Edward Hallett


After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Emily Carr : 553 : Carr, Emily


Every day we have some weather, and yesterday was no exception.
John Carr : 11779 : Carr, John


All students are gifted; Some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr : 5288 : Carr, Michael


The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel : 3009 : Carrel, Alexis


All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel : 13381 : Carrel, Alexis


You can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Jim Carrey : 12760 : Carrey, Jim


Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey : 13504 : Carrey, Jim


The difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism is simple: any criticism you give is constructive; any criticism you get is destructive.
Jon Carroll : 5659 : Carroll, Jon


Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Lewis Carroll : 1155 : Carroll, Lewis


They drew all manner of things - everything that begins with M, such as mousetraps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness.
Lewis Carroll : 3086 : Carroll, Lewis


Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll : 6472 : Carroll, Lewis


If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Lewis Carroll : 6855 : Carroll, Lewis


Begin at the beginning ... and go on till you come to the end: Then stop.
Lewis Carroll : 7350 : Carroll, Lewis


Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic, Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Lewis Carroll : 9271 : Carroll, Lewis


Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll : 10162 : Carroll, Lewis


If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
Lewis Carroll : 10679 : Carroll, Lewis


I said it very loud and clear; I went and shouted in his ear.
Lewis Carroll : 10826 : Carroll, Lewis


If you drink much from a bottle marked "POISON", it is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Lewis Carroll : 11793 : Carroll, Lewis


I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll : 11843 : Carroll, Lewis


No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Johnny Carson : 1027 : Carson, Johnny


If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson : 2541 : Carson, Johnny


If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson : 5734 : Carson, Johnny


Any time four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has taken place.
Johnny Carson : 8665 : Carson, Johnny


Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson : 9009 : Carson, Johnny


The best things in life are free. And the cheesiest things in life are free with a paid subscription to "Sports Illustrated."
Johnny Carson : 9682 : Carson, Johnny


Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Johnny Carson : 9897 : Carson, Johnny


The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "Sucking up to the Stars."
Johnny Carson : 12958 : Carson, Johnny


It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
Rachel Carson : 1484 : Carson, Rachel


For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
Rachel Carson : 5188 : Carson, Rachel


The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
Rachel Carson : 6003 : Carson, Rachel


In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Rachel Carson : 6819 : Carson, Rachel


When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.
Laura Carstensen : 10740 : Carstensen, Laura


Not knowing you can't do something is sometimes all it takes to do it.
Ally Carter : 13126 : Carter, Ally


But you have no silver linings without a cloud.
Angela Carter : 10570 : Carter, Angela


There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
Angela Carter, on being a mother : 11192 : Carter, Angela


There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
Hodding Carter : 8305 : Carter, Hodding


The sheltering of upper-income children in private schools not only accelerates the deterioration of public education, it hides its consequences from precisely those people who could do something about it.
Hodding Carter : 8870 : Carter, Hodding


A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.
Jimmy Carter : 3447 : Carter, Jimmy


The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter : 8180 : Carter, Jimmy


America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter : 10078 : Carter, Jimmy


We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.
Jimmy Carter : 11571 : Carter, Jimmy


Always remember the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment.
John Mack Carter : 9963 : Carter, John Mack


I wanted to give our community permission to dream, to plan for healthy air, healthy jobs, healthy children, and safe streets.
Majora Carter : 12731 : Carter, Majora


Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion of his own.
Mark Bonham Carter : 1247 : Carter, Mark Bonham


First Ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.
Rosalyn Carter : 1576 : Carter, Rosalynn


Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
Rosalynn Carter : 4762 : Carter, Rosalynn


A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter : 10011 : Carter, Rosalynn


Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Rosalynn Carter : 10934 : Carter, Rosalynn


You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter : 11850 : Carter, Rosalynn


The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson : 4804 : Cartier-Bresson, Henri


The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty : 8724 : Carty, Margaret


Watermelon, it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
Enrico Caruso : 564 : Caruso, Enrico


I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast, but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver : 6006 : Carver, George Washington


Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
George Washington Carver : 8200 : Carver, George Washington


Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver : 10261 : Carver, George Washington


When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver : 11940 : Carver, George Washington


There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary : 12640 : Cary, Alice


It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
Joyce Cary : 10676 : Cary, Joyce


Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make.
Joyce Cary : 12317 : Cary, Joyce


The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals : 4824 : Casals, Pablo


The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Pablo Casals : 10151 : Casals, Pablo


The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals : 10554 : Casals, Pablo


Poison put to sound - a brutalization of both life and art.
Pablo Casals, on rock-and-roll : 10801 : Casals, Pablo


It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova : 10940 : Casanova, Giacomo


I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Casanova : 11891 : Casanova, Giacomo


A woman broke up with me and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed together. Solution? I sent them to her dad.
Christopher Case : 5695 : Case, Christopher


Nightclubs are places where the tables are reserved and the guests aren't.
Frank Caspar : 6096 : Caspar, Frank


The biggest word in the language of business is not gross, but net.
Herbert Casson : 6227 : Casson, Herbert


The more parking spaces you provide, the more cars will come to fill them. It's like feeding pigeons.
Sir Hugh Casson : 1662 : Casson, Sir Hugh


The one big target for the crusaders was the tango. I suppose its opponents objected to the man bending the woman over backwards and peering into her eyes with a smoldering passionate look.
Irene Castle : 8879 : Castle, Irene


I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro : 7531 : Castro, Fidel


The Cuban movement is not a Communist movement. Its members are Roman Catholics, mostly.
Fidel Castro : 11620 : Castro, Fidel


I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather : 1891 : Cather, Willa


In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
Willa Cather : 1980 : Cather, Willa


Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather : 2236 : Cather, Willa


Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather : 2443 : Cather, Willa


What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather : 4177 : Cather, Willa


That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Willa Cather : 6110 : Cather, Willa


To simplify is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process, finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without - and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.
Willa Cather : 8885 : Cather, Willa


I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather : 9924 : Cather, Willa


Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Willa Cather : 10558 : Cather, Willa


The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather : 12132 : Cather, Willa


The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great : 11368 : Catherine the Great


To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.
Mary Catherwood : 10734 : Catherwood, Mary


The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Cato : 325 : Cato


The wise man does no wrong in changing his habits with the times.
Cato : 326 : Cato


We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato : 327 : Cato


Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato the Elder : 9096 : Cato the Elder


There are two kinds of restrictions upon human liberty - the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt : 10351 : Catt, Carrie Chapman


Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
Bruce Catton : 9085 : Catton, Bruce


When I finished school I took one of those career aptitude tests and, based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime.
Tim Cavanagh : 10425 : Cavanagh, Tim


If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Dick Cavett : 5699 : Cavett, Dick


The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo Di Cavour : 307 : Cavour, Camillo Di


A contemplative life has more the appearance of piety than any other; but the divine plan is to bring faith into activity and exercise.
Richard Cecil : 11540 : Cecil, Richard


Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
William Cecil : 10572 : Cecil, William


I have a great dog. She's half Lab, half pit bull. A good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
Jim Celeste : 4680 : Celeste, Jim


I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
Brian Celio : 12542 : Celio, Brian


Good Manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf : 3848 : Cerf, Bennett


Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Cervantes : 330 : Cervantes, Miguel de


A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Cervantes : 331 : Cervantes, Miguel de


There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Cervantes : 332 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Cervantes : 333 : Cervantes, Miguel de


By the street of by-and-by one arrives at the house of never.
Cervantes : 334 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Miguel Cervantes : 1306 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes : 1995 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Cervantes : 4138 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Cervantes : 5157 : Cervantes, Miguel de


No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
Miguel De Cervantes : 5472 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes : 6504 : Cervantes, Miguel de


When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes : 7320 : Cervantes, Miguel de


'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes : 8053 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Absence, that is the common cure of love.
Cervantes : 10174 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Cervantes : 11851 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.
Jeff Cesario : 12429 : Cesario, Jeff


I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Claude Chabrol : 9464 : Chabrol, Claude


When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Marc Chagall : 2321 : Chagall, Marc


Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Marc Chagall : 6066 : Chagall, Marc


All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Marc Chagall : 9176 : Chagall, Marc


In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
Marc Chagall : 9479 : Chagall, Marc


I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
Marc Chagall : 9887 : Chagall, Marc


No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
George Chakiris : 12668 : Chakiris, George


The Americans are a funny lot. They drink whiskey to keep them warm, then they put ice in it to make it cool; then they put some sugar in it to make it sweet, and then they put a slice of lemon in it to make it sour. Then they say, "Here's to you" and dri
B. N. Chakravarty : 2660 : Chakravarty, B. N.


The grand essentials of life are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
Allan Chalmers : 1953 : Chalmers, Allan


In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Neville Chamberlain : 8313 : Chamberlain, Neville


Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek if in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers : 4196 : Chambers, Oswald


When a man is at his wits' end, it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers : 4261 : Chambers, Oswald


Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas Chamfort : 3964 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


Nowadays, those who love nature are accused of being romantic.
Chamfort : 5448 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.
Sebastien Chamfort : 5984 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


Fortune, in order to come to me, must conform to certain conditions imposed on her by my character.
Chamfort : 7648 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort : 9551 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world.
Nicolas Chamfort : 10007 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort : 10926 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
Champfleury : 4870 : Champfleury


Big results require big ambitions.
James Champy : 8106 : Champy, James


The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind, but the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Chanakya : 11461 : Chanakya


Take away the newspaper and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos.
Harry Chandler : 5530 : Chandler, Harry


Opportunity does not knock; It presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler : 10225 : Chandler, Kyle


A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there.
Loma Chandler : 4034 : Chandler, Loma


The edges of the folded handkerchief in her breast pocket looked sharp enough to slice bread.
Raymond Chandler : 1508 : Chandler, Raymond


Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler : 2777 : Chandler, Raymond


It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Raymond Chandler : 4043 : Chandler, Raymond


If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Raymond Chandler : 6830 : Chandler, Raymond


A preoccupation with words for their own sake is fatal to good filmmaking. It's not what films are for.
Raymond Chandler : 9400 : Chandler, Raymond


Yes, I am exactly like the characters in my books. I am very tough and have been known to break a Vienna roll with my bare hands. I am very handsome, have a powerful physique, and change my shirt every Monday.
Raymond Chandler : 9930 : Chandler, Raymond


I am, by tradition and long study, a complete snob. Phillip Marlowe and I do not despise the upper classes because they take baths and have money; we despise them because they are phony.
Raymond Chandler : 10358 : Chandler, Raymond


Los Angeles is a city with the personality of a paper cup.
Raymond Chandler : 11357 : Chandler, Raymond


The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
Raymond Chandler : 12749 : Chandler, Raymond


Fashion is architecture: It is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel : 11675 : Chanel, Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel : 395 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel : 3581 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel : 6115 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


God knows I wanted love. But the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses, I chose the dresses.
Coco Chanel : 7280 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel : 8637 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


You ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European. To be contented - that's for the cows.
Coco Chanel : 8992 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel : 9505 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
Coco Chanel : 10928 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel : 13136 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


April is the month when the green returns to the lawn, the lilac, and the IRS.
Changing Times : 337 : Changing Times


Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing : 6390 : Channing, Carol


A man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find, creates them.
W. E. Channing : 1841 : Channing, William Ellery


The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
W. E. Channing : 1842 : Channing, William Ellery


He is to be educated not because he is to make shoes, nails and pins, but because he is a man.
William Ellery Channing : 2529 : Channing, William Ellery


No human being, man or woman, can act up to a sublime standard without giving offense.
W. E. Channing : 4535 : Channing, William Ellery


Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Channing : 5434 : Channing, William Ellery


The young soldier is taught as his first duty to obey his superior without consulting his conscience.
William Ellery Channing : 8290 : Channing, William Ellery


Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing : 12370 : Channing, William Ellery


One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing : 13147 : Channing, William Ellery


Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
Buwei Yan Chao : 296 : Chao, Buwei Yan


At the bottom of a great deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Edwin H. Chapin : 2405 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
E. H. Chapin : 2616 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin : 7538 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin : 11033 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy Chapin, Jr. : 1582 : Chapin, Roy, Jr.


All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin : 2867 : Chaplin, Charlie


They are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.
Charlie Chaplin, on talkies : 5959 : Chaplin, Charlie


I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin : 6913 : Chaplin, Charlie


Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin : 10245 : Chaplin, Charlie


Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; No matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.
Charlie Chaplin : 10626 : Chaplin, Charlie


People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman : 2975 : Chapman, John Jay


So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
John Jay Chapman : 6370 : Chapman, John Jay


The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
Warren Chappell : 9548 : Chappell, Warren


The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Dave Chappelle : 12954 : Chappelle, Dave


Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "how?," but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "why?"
Erwin Chargaff : 8958 : Chargaff, Erwin


To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers - or both.
Elizabeth Charles : 8535 : Charles, Elizabeth


Politicians are necessary, and it'd be foolish to blame them for our troubles. They're just doing what they've always done - looking to survive, looking to climb, trying to please everyone at once, and grinning and lying while they're doing it.
Ray Charles : 1507 : Charles, Ray


Little comfort can be sucked from a perhaps.
Stephen Charnock : 5159 : Charnock, Stephen


He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Pierre Charron : 1462 : Charron, Pierre


Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier) : 11668 : Chartier, Alain


Found a Society of Honest Men, and all the thieves will join it.
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier) : 11696 : Chartier, Alain


The obstinacy of human beings is exceeded only by the obstinacy of inanimate objects.
Alexander Chase : 3275 : Chase, Alexander


There are few successful adults who were not at first successful children.
Alexander Chase : 5093 : Chase, Alexander


The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.
Alexander Chase : 8315 : Chase, Alexander


Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna Woolman Chase : 12064 : Chase, Edna Woolman


Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.
Ilka Chase : 2906 : Chase, Ilka


When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beaten us to it.
Ilka Chase : 7626 : Chase, Ilka


The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase : 9111 : Chase, Ilka


America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
Ilka Chase : 10837 : Chase, Ilka


An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Viscount De Chateaubriand : 1833 : Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene De


One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
Chateaubriand : 3342 : Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene De


The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand : 11016 : Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene De


Good and bad luck is a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
John Chatfield : 9018 : Chatfield, John


In some cases, non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chaves : 335 : Chaves, Cesar


In the distance, the gestures of animals look human; the gestures of human beings bestial.
Malcolm De Chazal : 11795 : Chazal, Malcolm De


Homesickness is absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
John Cheever : 4685 : Cheever, John


A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
John Cheever : 5913 : Cheever, John


One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov : 161 : Chekhov, Anton


If you cry, "forward," you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions.
Anton Chekhov : 162 : Chekhov, Anton


Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov : 3589 : Chekhov, Anton


Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov : 7278 : Chekhov, Anton


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov : 7777 : Chekhov, Anton


The Lord God has given us vast forests, immense fields, wide horizons; surely we ought to be giants, living in such a country as this.
Anton Chekhov : 11543 : Chekhov, Anton


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov : 11788 : Chekhov, Anton


It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney : 10519 : Cheney, Dick


People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, "How do you think I got the job?"
Dick Cheney : 11881 : Cheney, Dick


All people are made alike. They are made of bones, flesh and dinners. Only the dinners are different.
Gertrude L. Cheney : 3832 : Cheney, Gertrude L.


If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better, and that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth : 12157 : Chenoweth, Kristin


The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him.
Cher : 2015 : Cher


If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher : 3583 : Cher


I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, and the rest is a fraud.
Cher : 6294 : Cher


They call me the Queen of the Newsstands. There are not enough hours in the day for me to do all the things they say I do, and with all the people they say I do them with.
Cher : 7537 : Cher


The truth is, I hardly ever see men I'm attracted to. Plus, there's the problem of being Cher. No man wants to be Mr. Cher.
Cher : 11572 : Cher


Capitalism requires people to be pious souls in the workplace, wily pagans at the cash register.
Ron Chernow : 1569 : Chernow, Ron


How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal ownership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never get to know their sons and daughters very well.
Phyllis Chesler : 10337 : Chesler, Phyllis


In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always as bad as the thief.
Earl Of Chesterfield : 494 : Chesterfield, Earl Of


Lay aside the best book whenever you can go into the best company; and depend upon it, you change for the better.
Lord Chesterfield : 1171 : Chesterfield, Lord


Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield : 1172 : Chesterfield, Lord


He who has the most friends and the fewest enemies is the strongest.
Lord Chesterfield : 1173 : Chesterfield, Lord


It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment, the former being never forgiven, but the latter sometimes forgot. Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never.
Lord Chesterfield : 1174 : Chesterfield, Lord


Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield : 1175 : Chesterfield, Lord


A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield : 1176 : Chesterfield, Lord


Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield : 2108 : Chesterfield, Lord


Never hold any one by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield : 2269 : Chesterfield, Lord


Abhor a knave and pity a fool in your heart, but let neither of them unnecessarily see that you do.
Lord Chesterfield : 2587 : Chesterfield, Lord


I recommend you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield : 3284 : Chesterfield, Lord


An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield : 3325 : Chesterfield, Lord


A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things yet cannot receive giant ones.
Lord Chesterfield : 3790 : Chesterfield, Lord


Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Lord Chesterfield : 3942 : Chesterfield, Lord


Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.
Lord Chesterfield : 4675 : Chesterfield, Lord


The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield : 4730 : Chesterfield, Lord


Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Lord Chesterfield : 4815 : Chesterfield, Lord


In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield : 5123 : Chesterfield, Lord


A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man of business.
Lord Chesterfield : 5480 : Chesterfield, Lord


There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing and is glad to talk about that one thing.
Lord Chesterfield : 6889 : Chesterfield, Lord


When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.
Lord Chesterfield : 6916 : Chesterfield, Lord


Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Lord Chesterfield : 7918 : Chesterfield, Lord


When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.
Lord Chesterfield : 8631 : Chesterfield, Lord


Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield : 8675 : Chesterfield, Lord


The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Lord Chesterfield : 8747 : Chesterfield, Lord


If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt; you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.
Lord Chesterfield : 9688 : Chesterfield, Lord


Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield : 11495 : Chesterfield, Lord


Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton : 661 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters.
G. K. Chesterton : 662 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton : 663 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


A vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
G. K. Chesterton : 664 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
G. K. Chesterton : 665 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump. You may be freeing him from being a camel.
G. K. Chesterton : 666 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people.
G. K. Chesterton : 667 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton : 668 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. Chesterton : 669 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Tradition does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are living.
Gilbert Chesterton : 730 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G. K. Chesterton : 2352 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton : 2570 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
G. K. Chesterton : 3114 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Music with dinner is an insult to both the cook and violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 3359 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
G. K. Chesterton : 4216 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. Chesterton : 4346 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton : 4829 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I shall continue to praise the English climate till I die, even if I die of the English climate.
G. K. Chesterton : 5015 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. Chesterton : 5416 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 6196 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
G. K. Chesterton : 6359 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; It is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
G. K. Chesterton : 7214 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.
G. K. Chesterton : 7279 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
G. K. Chesterton : 7456 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 7492 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
G. K. Chesterton : 7651 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 7788 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton : 8610 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the dean.
G. K. Chesterton : 8666 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
G. K. Chesterton : 9050 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
G. K. Chesterton : 9234 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton : 9886 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
G. K. Chesterton : 9936 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Elderly people are often much more romantic than young people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.
G. K. Chesterton : 9978 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
G. K. Chesterton : 10134 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


My brother and I devoted all our boyhood to one long argument, unfortunately interrupted by meals, school, and work.
G. K. Chesterton : 10708 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
G. K. Chesterton : 10930 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton : 10952 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11005 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


All architecture is great architecture after sunset; Perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11055 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11131 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11453 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton : 11853 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 12643 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. Chesterton : 12667 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence.
Henry Chestor : 8703 : Chestor, Henry


Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier : 2775 : Chevalier, Maurice


Kissing is a custom in France. We kiss a man we haven't seen in five years - or a woman we haven't seen in five minutes.
Maurice Chevalier : 9359 : Chevalier, Maurice


When the last red man shall have vanished from this earth, and his memory is only a story among the whites, these shores will still swarm with the invisible dead of my people.
Chief Seattle : 2678 : Chief Seattle


If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
Chief Seattle : 4159 : Chief Seattle


Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
Julia Child : 1073 : Child, Julia


The dinner table in America is becoming a trap. People are so scared, they don't have any butter or anything. When they talk about healthy food, they usually mean things that don't taste very good.
Julia Child : 2982 : Child, Julia


It's (food) so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
Julia Child : 5378 : Child, Julia


Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
Julia Child : 8270 : Child, Julia


The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of family and community and sharing.
Julia Child : 11205 : Child, Julia


Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.
Julia Child : 12414 : Child, Julia


People who love to eat are always the best people.
Julia Child : 13512 : Child, Julia


An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
L. M. Child : 1116 : Child, Lydia M.


Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my win
Lydia M. Child : 3868 : Child, Lydia M.


An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child : 8858 : Child, Lydia M.


Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child : 9463 : Child, Lydia M.


You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child : 11481 : Child, Lydia M.


Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.
Alice Childress : 2700 : Childress, Alice


I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
Alice Childress : 7362 : Childress, Alice


I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Alice Childress : 8269 : Childress, Alice


I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
Edward Chilton : 10925 : Chilton, Edward


Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm : 2635 : Chisholm, Shirley


There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm : 11510 : Chisholm, Shirley


You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining.
Shirley Chisholm : 13178 : Chisholm, Shirley


It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation for new ones; too much money can put us out of touch with life; too much free time can dull the edge of the soul.
Joan Chittister : 4986 : Chittister, Joan


But goodness, how we lose our heads at the mention of a wedding! Especially the older women, who should know better. At the sound of the word, all basic standards of elegance fly to the wind.
Susan Chitty : 8528 : Chitty, Susan


If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky : 3995 : Chomsky, Noam


We were going to make "The Corsican Brothers" in Salzburg, but I said no. One really doesn't feel funny in Austria.
Tommy Chong : 11570 : Chong, Tommy


The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
Kate Chopin : 1078 : Chopin, Kate


The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
Deepak Chopra : 7835 : Chopra, Deepak


To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Deepak Chopra : 8101 : Chopra, Deepak


Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra : 8746 : Chopra, Deepak


There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra : 11511 : Chopra, Deepak


No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
Deepak Chopra : 13125 : Chopra, Deepak


Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
Agatha Christie : 23 : Christie, Agatha


It was the kind of desperate, headlong, adolescent calf love that he should have experienced years ago and got over.
Agatha Christie : 2426 : Christie, Agatha


One of the oddest things in life, I think is the things one remembers.
Agatha Christie : 2870 : Christie, Agatha


There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
Agatha Christie : 7358 : Christie, Agatha


An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie : 7776 : Christie, Agatha


Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie : 8339 : Christie, Agatha


Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as well; your taste, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul are revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie : 8565 : Christie, Agatha


I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming ... suddenly you find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Agatha Christie : 11042 : Christie, Agatha


Trains are wonderful. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
Agatha Christie : 11547 : Christie, Agatha


Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to a wrong question.
Warren Christopher : 1869 : Christopher, Warren


The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.
Celestine Chua : 13104 : Chua, Celestine


No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives and he lives forever.
Francis P. Church : 618 : Church, Francis P.


An awkward man never does justice to himself; to his intelligence, to his intentions, or to his actual merit. A fine person, or a beauteous face are in vain without the grace of deportment.
Charles Churchill : 11160 : Churchill, Charles


I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.
Lady Randolph Churchill : 9952 : Churchill, Lady Randolph


I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill : 1933 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
Winston Churchill : 1934 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It is no use saying, "we are doing our best." you have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill : 1935 : Churchill, Sir Winston


In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used frequently to take my advice.
Winston Churchill : 1936 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they may not dismount and the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill : 1937 : Churchill, Sir Winston


My wife and I used to breakfast together. But we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Winston Churchill : 1938 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I shall always be glad to have seen it - for the same reason papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon - namely "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again."
Winston Churchill, On Calcutta : 1939 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Houses are built of bricks, mortar and good will, not politics, prejudices and spite.
Winston Churchill : 2141 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill : 2291 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill : 2834 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill : 3456 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill : 3557 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.
Winston Churchill : 3694 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill : 3850 : Churchill, Sir Winston


There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill : 3912 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Continuous efforts - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill : 3984 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill : 4106 : Churchill, Sir Winston


There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
Winston Churchill : 4340 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill : 4785 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. (paraphrased duplicate)
Sir Winston Churchill : 5654 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It's not good enough that we do our best; Sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6194 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I do not like elections, but it is in my many elections that I have learnt to know and honor the people of this island. They are good through and through.
Winston Churchill : 6268 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6279 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Without measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill : 6400 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill : 6567 : Churchill, Sir Winston


From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6674 : Churchill, Sir Winston


An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6725 : Churchill, Sir Winston


History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6778 : Churchill, Sir Winston


All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6915 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill : 6946 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The fulfillment of spiritual duty in our daily life is vital to our survival.
Winston Churchill : 7329 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Sir Winston Churchill : 7348 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill : 7405 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.
Winston Churchill : 7533 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill : 7608 : Churchill, Sir Winston


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill : 8122 : Churchill, Sir Winston


There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill : 8436 : Churchill, Sir Winston


My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill : 8825 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill : 8855 : Churchill, Sir Winston


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill : 9066 : Churchill, Sir Winston


During a long life I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.
Winston Churchill : 9394 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill : 9514 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill : 9530 : Churchill, Sir Winston


He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Winston Churchill : 9809 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill : 11035 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Sir Winston Churchill : 11302 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill : 11459 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Winston Churchill : 11536 : Churchill, Winston


In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill : 11736 : Churchill, Winston


Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill : 12857 : Churchill, Winston


Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill : 13020 : Churchill, Winston


A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill : 13538 : Churchill, Winston


Modem art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi : 4306 : Ciardi, John


The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi : 6423 : Ciardi, John


A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of ideas.
John Ciardi : 9953 : Ciardi, John


You don't have to suffer to be a poet; Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi : 11063 : Ciardi, John


Old houses mended cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber : 4838 : Cibber, Colley


Sometimes the biggest accomplishment in life is to find yourself.
Luisa Fernanda Cicero : 13435 : Cicero, Luisa Fernanda


Even the best pilots are willing to take advice from their passengers in bad weather.
Cicero : 379 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he comes down to human affairs.
Cicero : 380 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


No man who depends on the caprice of the ignorant rabble can be accounted great.
Cicero : 381 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


As if anything were so common as ignorance! The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Cicero : 382 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Cicero : 383 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Cicero : 2588 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
Cicero : 2858 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


What I enjoy is not the fruits alone, but I also enjoy the soil itself, its nature and its power.
Cicero : 3191 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero : 3448 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The good of the people is the chief law.
Cicero : 3637 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero : 4074 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Cicero : 4863 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Cicero : 5085 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Let us not go over old ground; let us rather prepare for what is to come.
Cicero : 5356 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero : 5438 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
Cicero : 6604 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Cicero : 6631 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Cicero : 6795 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero : 6932 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Cicero : 6982 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero : 7035 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero : 7394 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Cicero : 7721 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero : 7745 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency, in giving them no offense.
Cicero : 8361 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero : 8390 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
Cicero : 8638 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
Cicero : 8978 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


If you have a garden and library, you have everything you need.
Cicero : 9220 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


It is not enough merely to possess virtue, as if it were art; it should be practiced.
Cicero : 9788 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Cicero : 10322 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Cicero : 10951 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero : 10975 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Cicero : 11000 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Cicero : 11065 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Everyone clings to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by a tempest.
Cicero : 11961 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero : 12036 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero : 12079 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
E. M. Cioran : 8575 : Cioran, E. M.


We had seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it was out
John C. Clancy : 2546 : Clancy, John C.


The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy : 1795 : Clancy, Tom


Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
John Clapham : 9227 : Clapham, John


We didn't really have a band with Cream. We rarely played as an ensemble; We were three virtuosos, all of us soloing all the time.
Eric Clapton : 7256 : Clapton, Eric


Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Cassandra Clare : 12144 : Clare, Cassandra


One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
Cassandra Clare : 12174 : Clare, Cassandra


You see, George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away?
Clarence, The Angel in It's A Wonderful Life : 10914 : Clarence, The Angel


No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.
Lord Clarendon : 1177 : Clarendon, Lord


There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark : 2419 : Clark, Alan


Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark : 8736 : Clark, Alexander


We've got a name for sushi in Georgia - bait.
Blake Clark : 11374 : Clark, Blake


What a lot of people are saving for a rainy day is somebody else's umbrella.
Caroline Clark : 5422 : Clark, Caroline


Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.
Esther M. Clark : 13463 : Clark, Esther M.


It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank A. Clark : 2873 : Clark, Frank A.


Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark : 4019 : Clark, Frank A.


If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark : 4038 : Clark, Frank A.


Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Frank A. Clark : 4352 : Clark, Frank A.


We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't.
Frank A. Clark : 8045 : Clark, Frank A.


Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
Frank A. Clark : 9145 : Clark, Frank A.


A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little while longer.
Frank A. Clark : 9390 : Clark, Frank A.


The only thing that continues to give us more for our money is a weighing machine.
George Clark : 695 : Clark, George


Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
Laurel Clark : 12331 : Clark, Laurel


A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take from you.
Ramsey Clark : 1504 : Clark, Ramsey


You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susanna Clark : 7823 : Clark, Susanna


There is no such thing as chance or accident, the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
Adam Clarke : 15 : Clarke, Adam


If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke : 2675 : Clarke, Arthur C.


It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke : 4189 : Clarke, Arthur C.


The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke : 6381 : Clarke, Arthur C.


It has yet to be proved that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke : 6482 : Clarke, Arthur C.


The intelligence of the planet is constant and the population is growing.
Arthur C. Clarke : 7025 : Clarke, Arthur C.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke : 7105 : Clarke, Arthur C.


How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke : 8366 : Clarke, Arthur C.


Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
Arthur C. Clarke : 10116 : Clarke, Arthur C.


I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke : 13498 : Clarke, Arthur C.


And O! She was the Sunday, in every week.
Austin Clarke : 6166 : Clarke, Austin


A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.
J. F. Clarke : 900 : Clarke, J. F.


He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
J. F. Clarke : 8692 : Clarke, J. F.


A word spoken is past recalling.
John Clarke : 7736 : Clarke, John


Better to be alone than in bad company.
John Clarke : 8408 : Clarke, John


The most terrible of lies is not that which is uttered but that which is lived.
W. G. Clarke : 1843 : Clarke, W. G.


A successor is almost always deemed not as adequate as the incumbent, and that's almost always not true.
A. W. Clausen : 2757 : Clausen, A. W.


The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.
Allen E. Claxton : 7921 : Claxton, Allen E.


The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.
Henry Clay : 4399 : Clay, Henry


Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.
Henry Clay : 6456 : Clay, Henry


The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity - unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay : 8208 : Clay, Henry


I would rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay : 12077 : Clay, Henry


Truth is that which serves the interests of a people. Two groups of people locked in combat cannot be expected to have the same truth.
Albert B. Cleage, Jr. : 10411 : Cleage, Albert B., Jr.


I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
Beverly Cleary : 13398 : Cleary, Beverly


Children should learn that reading is a pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary : 13401 : Cleary, Beverly


I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary : 13406 : Cleary, Beverly


I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane.
Eldridge Cleaver : 10451 : Cleaver, Eldridge


Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.
Emanuel Cleaver : 12879 : Cleaver, Emanuel


Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
Mark A. Clement : 10672 : Clement, Mark A.


If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
Logan Clendening : 4205 : Clendening, Logan


We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
Cleobulus : 7291 : Cleobulus


The ship of democracy, which has weathered many storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
Grover Cleveland : 766 : Cleveland, Grover


He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland : 10689 : Cleveland, Grover


The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
Patricia Clifford : 8472 : Clifford, Patricia


We have a generation enslaving itself to drugs, young men and women doing to our race what slavery couldn't.
Lucille Clifton : 6349 : Clifton, Lucille


All our artists and cultural institutions are an integral part of what we call America, and we must work very hard not only to preserve and nurture, but to love them, because of the impact they make on our lives.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 872 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


There is no such thing as other people's children.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 3617 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. But what I decided was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 10381 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


Don't confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the same.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 10788 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


In every era, society must strike the right balance between the freedom businesses need to compete for a market share and to make profits and the preservation of family and community values.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 11476 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


The bad news is our only child is going to college. The good news is it opens up another bedroom.
Bill Clinton : 6684 : Clinton, William J.


There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right in America.
William J. Clinton : 7813 : Clinton, William J.


We must not let the Iron Curtain be replaced with a veil of indifference.
Bill Clinton : 10535 : Clinton, William J.


If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then Hillary tells me, "I told you so."
Bill Clinton : 11238 : Clinton, William J.


All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
Glenn Close : 4126 : Close, Glenn


Like a tall woman walking across the hayfield, The rain came slowly, dressed in crystal and the sun.
Elizabeth Coatsworth : 11959 : Coatsworth, Elizabeth


His face looked like a face that had refused to gel and was about to run down on his clothes.
Irvin S. Cobb : 3257 : Cobb, Irvin S.


If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb : 3645 : Cobb, Irvin S.


As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb : 8455 : Cobb, Irvin S.


It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap, that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett : 5005 : Cobbett, William


The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.
Chris Cobbs : 9370 : Cobbs, Chris


A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks : 4017 : Cocks, Sir Barnett


Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau : 948 : Cocteau, Jean


History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
Jean Cocteau : 2420 : Cocteau, Jean


An artist cannot speak about his work any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau : 2476 : Cocteau, Jean


When I wrote that Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo, I was not joking.
Jean Cocteau : 2819 : Cocteau, Jean


Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
Jean Cocteau : 4139 : Cocteau, Jean


Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
Jean Cocteau : 4269 : Cocteau, Jean


A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau : 7409 : Cocteau, Jean


One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau : 8196 : Cocteau, Jean


Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau : 9032 : Cocteau, Jean


I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau : 9053 : Cocteau, Jean


The awful thing about getting old is that you stay young inside.
Jean Cocteau : 10135 : Cocteau, Jean


Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau : 10480 : Cocteau, Jean


Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's.
Andrei Codrescu : 9413 : Codrescu, Andrei


Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts ideas, opinions.
Paulo Coelho : 12125 : Coelho, Paulo


The first step to get what you want is to get rid of what you don't.
Paulo Coelho : 12825 : Coelho, Paulo


Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Paulo Coelho : 12888 : Coelho, Paulo


One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho : 13173 : Coelho, Paulo


The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin : 9075 : Coffin, Harold


I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
George M. Cohan : 8976 : Cohan, George M.


Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen : 12912 : Cohen, Alan


If you know your true worth, you do not need anyone else to confirm it.
Alan Cohen : 13389 : Cohen, Alan


I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen : 1146 : Cohen, Leonard


Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen : 2451 : Cohen, Leonard


Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen : 4784 : Cohen, Leonard


This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled.
Leonard Cohen : 13159 : Cohen, Leonard


Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. Cohen : 11067 : Cohen, Mark B.


To be celebrated is nothing. To be loved is everything.
Claudette Colbert : 2920 : Colbert, Claudette


It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Claudette Colbert : 8374 : Colbert, Claudette


Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
Claudette Colbert : 11066 : Colbert, Claudette


A "new thinker," when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Frank L. Colby : 620 : Colby, Frank L.


Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby : 5204 : Colby, Frank Moore


Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby : 5979 : Colby, Frank Moore


You don't drown my falling in the water; You drown my staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole : 13415 : Cole, Edwin Louis


There are a lot of notes lying around on that old piano. I just pick at the ones I like.
Nat "King" Cole : 10497 : Cole, Nat "King"


Prose is words in their best order; poetry is the best words in the best order.
Charles Coleridge : 343 : Coleridge, Charles


She is not fair to outward view, as many maidens be; her loveliness I never knew, until she smiled on me.
Hartley Coleridge : 8297 : Coleridge, Hartley


The fruits of the tree of knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.
Mary Coleridge : 3365 : Coleridge, Mary


Solitude affects some people like wine; they must not take too much of it, for it flies to the head.
Mary Coleridge : 6954 : Coleridge, Mary


Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Samuel Coleridge : 8023 : Coleridge, Samuel


Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house.
Samuel Coleridge : 9641 : Coleridge, Samuel


Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones, you must keep them wet.
Samuel Coleridge : 1610 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


A man of maxims only is like a cyclops with one eye, and that eye placed in the back of his head.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1625 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


I have no faith in act-of-parliament reform. All the great - the permanently great - things that have been achieved in the world have been so achieved by individuals, working from the instinct of genius or of goodness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1626 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1627 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause - a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1628 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 3366 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind
Samuel Coleridge : 4577 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Poor little Foal of an oppressed race, I love the languid patience of thy face.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 8691 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 9571 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Contempt is egotism in ill humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 10581 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 11071 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 11372 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
Colette : 7711 : Colette


I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Colette : 9722 : Colette


As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Colette : 10644 : Colette


It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Colette : 11335 : Colette


To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette : 12152 : Colette


What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette : 13345 : Colette


There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.
Colette : 13346 : Colette


You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.
Joan Walton Collaso : 2272 : Collaso, Joan Walton


Music is almost as dangerous as gunpowder; and it maybe requires looking after no less than the press, or the mint. 'Tis possible a public regulation might not be amiss.
Jeremy Collier : 962 : Collier, Jeremy


We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collier : 10504 : Collier, Jeremy


See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Robert Collier : 8751 : Collier, Robert


The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.
Robert Collier : 9083 : Collier, Robert


As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it!
Robert Collier : 13112 : Collier, Robert


Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
R. G. Collingwood : 1480 : Collingwood, R. G.


One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
Billy Collins : 8917 : Collins, Billy


If you want to be a writer, stop talking about it and sit down and write!.
Jackie Collins : 9072 : Collins, Jackie


Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than walking around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins : 7587 : Collins, Joan


I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins : 8320 : Collins, Joan


To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
John Churton Collins : 5110 : Collins, John Churton


Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
John Churton Collins : 10964 : Collins, John Churton


What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Kitty O'Neill Collins : 5421 : Collins, Kitty O'Neill


The good teacher makes the poor student good, and the good student superior.
Marva Collins : 3769 : Collins, Marva


I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
Michael Collins : 10816 : Collins, Michael


Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton : 341 : Colton, Charles Caleb


None are so fond of secrets as those who do not keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton : 342 : Colton, Charles Caleb


If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton : 2727 : Colton, Charles Caleb


There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton : 3148 : Colton, Charles Caleb


All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them.
Charles Caleb Colton : 3597 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that
Charles Caleb Colton : 4596 : Colton, Charles Caleb


A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton : 4659 : Colton, Charles Caleb


The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Charles Caleb Colton : 4717 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Marriage is like a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton : 4944 : Colton, Charles Caleb


If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
C. C. Colton : 5454 : Colton, Charles Caleb


He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton : 6348 : Colton, Charles Caleb


True friendship is like sound health; The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Colton : 7143 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Wealth after all is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
C. C. Colton : 7267 : Colton, Charles Caleb


By paying our other debts, we are equal with mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
C. C. Colton : 8293 : Colton, Charles Caleb


The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
Charles Caleb Colton : 8606 : Colton, Charles Caleb


There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
Charles Caleb Colton : 11256 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Charles Caleb Colton : 11583 : Colton, Charles Caleb


If the music doesn't say it, how can the words say it for the music?
John Coltrane : 5127 : Coltrane, John


Although it is dangerous to have too much knowledge of certain subjects, it is still more dangerous to be totally ignorant of them.
Columbat : 7593 : Columbat


You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus : 11103 : Columbus, Christopher


I don't call it gossip. I call it "emotional speculation."
Laurie Colwin : 1133 : Colwin, Laurie


A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
Laurie Colwin : 4478 : Colwin, Laurie


My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.
Sean Combs : 13094 : Combs, Sean


Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
Gary Comer : 9674 : Comer, Gary


Management must be concerned first with the opportunity for a decent living.
Hugh Comer : 2198 : Comer, Hugh


We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alexander Comfort : 8685 : Comfort, Alexander


People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins : 7990 : Comins, David H.


The conservation of natural resources is, and has been for half a century, the paramount domestic issue before the American people.
Henry Steele Commager : 853 : Commager, Henry Steele


We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present.
Henry Steele Commager : 2266 : Commager, Henry Steele


The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager : 3888 : Commager, Henry Steele


Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.
Henry Steele Commager : 7167 : Commager, Henry Steele


For a people to be without history, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory.
Henry Steele Commager : 7277 : Commager, Henry Steele


With the United States, history was rather a creation of the nation, and it is suggestive that in the New World the self-made nation was as familiar as the self-made man.
Henry Steele Commager : 11492 : Commager, Henry Steele


If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry Commoner : 2545 : Commoner, Barry


The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
Barry Commoner : 12214 : Commoner, Barry


The audience knows I'm not going to do anything after all these years to upset them.
Perry Como : 1445 : Como, Perry


Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett : 4325 : Compton-Burnett, Ivy


Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful opiates for the conscience.
James Conant : 922 : Conant, James


Liberty, like charity, must begin at home.
James Bryant Conant : 9839 : Conant, James Bryant


The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
Confucius : 398 : Confucius


Virtue is like the polar star, which keeps its place, and all stars turn toward it.
Confucius : 399 : Confucius


It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Confucius : 400 : Confucius


Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or stars.
Confucius : 401 : Confucius


When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius : 402 : Confucius


The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.
Confucius : 2644 : Confucius


In education there should be no class distinction.
Confucius : 2931 : Confucius


The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius : 3303 : Confucius


I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and understand.
Confucius : 4495 : Confucius


Chi Wen Tsu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
Confucius : 4807 : Confucius


The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius : 5077 : Confucius


It is by the odes that the man is aroused. It is by the rules of propriety that the character is established. It is from music that the finish is received.
Confucius : 5134 : Confucius


Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.
Confucius : 5316 : Confucius


The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius : 6492 : Confucius


What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius : 6704 : Confucius


He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius : 6737 : Confucius


Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius : 6808 : Confucius


If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius : 6924 : Confucius


When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius : 7007 : Confucius


Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius : 7090 : Confucius


Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius : 7389 : Confucius


Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius : 7688 : Confucius


They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius : 7791 : Confucius


With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Confucius : 7919 : Confucius


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life: reciprocity.
Confucius : 8024 : Confucius


Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius : 8386 : Confucius


Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
Confucius : 8701 : Confucius


The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
Confucius : 8728 : Confucius


As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
Confucius : 9006 : Confucius


The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Confucius : 9025 : Confucius


Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
Confucius : 9122 : Confucius


The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius : 9417 : Confucius


To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius : 9603 : Confucius


When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Confucius : 9748 : Confucius


Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius : 11344 : Confucius


He who wished to secure the good of others has already secured himself.
Confucius : 12032 : Confucius


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius : 13199 : Confucius


Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.
Confucius : 13486 : Confucius


He who chases two rabbits catches neither.
Confucius : 13492 : Confucius


What, he speaks unseasonable truths sometimes, because he has not wit enough to invent an evasion.
William Congreve : 1900 : Congreve, William


It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of humankind.
William Congreve : 9776 : Congreve, William


I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
William Congreve : 10530 : Congreve, William


To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve : 11559 : Congreve, William


I felt the rush of happiness and warmth coming out of the people and I was carried out among them on a surge of joy. I suppose when you die and go to heaven you get a feeling like that.
Gerry Conlon : 8882 : Conlon, Gerry


More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
Sean Connery : 5027 : Connery, Sean


I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.
Sean Connery : 7420 : Connery, Sean


If you compromise your independence for any reason, there's not much use for living. If you compromise it for something as fleeting as money you are already dead.
Sean Connery : 8213 : Connery, Sean


Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly : 263 : Connolly, Billy


I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Billy Connolly : 5033 : Connolly, Billy


Have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
Billy Connolly : 7033 : Connolly, Billy


Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away, and you've got his shoes.
Billy Connolly : 8975 : Connolly, Billy


Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
Cyril Connolly : 410 : Connolly, Cyril


He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry.
Cyril Connolly : 411 : Connolly, Cyril


Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly : 3945 : Connolly, Cyril


All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly : 7620 : Connolly, Cyril


Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly : 10213 : Connolly, Cyril


Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control.
Cyril Connolly : 11262 : Connolly, Cyril


I like my image. It's me. I'm a louse, but if you're going to be a louse, I say be a good one. I play to win and I play to entertain.
Jimmy Connors : 8598 : Connors, Jimmy


I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
James Conrad : 4348 : Conrad, James


The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad : 1040 : Conrad, Joseph


All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad : 1041 : Conrad, Joseph


The intention of every other piece of prose may be discussed and even mistrusted; but the purpose of a cookery book is one and unmistakable. Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind.
Joseph Conrad : 1042 : Conrad, Joseph


Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad : 3840 : Conrad, Joseph


A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad : 5239 : Conrad, Joseph


You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad : 5365 : Conrad, Joseph


It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.
Joseph Conrad : 7242 : Conrad, Joseph


The sea never changes, and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.
Joseph Conrad : 7325 : Conrad, Joseph


Gossip is what nobody claims to like but everyone enjoys.
Joseph Conrad : 10147 : Conrad, Joseph


It was amazing to think that in those miles of human habitations there was not probably half a dozen pounds of nails.
Joseph Conrad, on Bangkok : 10431 : Conrad, Joseph


I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself.
Joseph Conrad : 12099 : Conrad, Joseph


All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it - an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.
Peter Conrad : 9313 : Conrad, Peter


I really don't want to have on my tombstone the inscription, "She was a good duster." I would rather write bestseller books or ride a camel across the Sahara than stay home and vacuum.
Shirley Conran : 9947 : Conran, Shirley


Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
Pat Conroy : 3997 : Conroy, Pat


I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not.
Bob Considine : 2892 : Considine, Bob


St. Patrick's day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.
Adrienne Cook : 5307 : Cook, Adrienne


If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.
Catherine Cook : 12564 : Cook, Catherine


Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.
Eliza Cook : 8068 : Cook, Eliza


Say and do something positive that will help the situation; It doesn't take any brains to complain.
Robert A. Cook : 12208 : Cook, Robert A.


Calvin Coolidge's perpetual expression was of smelling something burning on the kitchen stove.
Sherwin L. Cook : 1649 : Cook, Sherwin L.


Nearly every move in baseball - the windup, the pitch, the motion of the infielders - is different from other games.
Alistair Cooke : 6324 : Cooke, Alistair


Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke : 6896 : Cooke, Alistair


Calvin Coolidge believed that the least government was the best government; he aspired to become the least President the country had ever had; he attained his desire.
Alistair Cooke : 10389 : Cooke, Alistair


Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head and kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Cooke : 4728 : Cooke, Edmund


We rarely gain a high or larger view except as it is forced upon us through struggles which we would have avoided if we could.
Charles Horton Cooley : 3079 : Cooley, Charles Horton


Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley : 7758 : Cooley, Charles Horton


No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
Charles Horton Cooley : 8197 : Cooley, Charles Horton


We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
Charles Horton Cooley : 11477 : Cooley, Charles Horton


Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.
Mason Cooley : 9157 : Cooley, Mason


If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
Mason Cooley : 12005 : Cooley, Mason


No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge : 303 : Coolidge, Calvin


A school is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
Calvin Coolidge : 304 : Coolidge, Calvin


Few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
Calvin Coolidge : 305 : Coolidge, Calvin


One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
Calvin Coolidge : 3775 : Coolidge, Calvin


Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persist
Calvin Coolidge : 4431 : Coolidge, Calvin


Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge : 4943 : Coolidge, Calvin


Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge : 8479 : Coolidge, Calvin


Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge : 9336 : Coolidge, Calvin


I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge : 9587 : Coolidge, Calvin


Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge : 9791 : Coolidge, Calvin


Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge : 10584 : Coolidge, Calvin


I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin Coolidge : 11230 : Coolidge, Calvin


To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge : 12653 : Coolidge, Calvin


If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
Robert N. Coons : 5285 : Coons, Robert N.


Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper : 12656 : Cooper, Alice


The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
Alice Cooper : 13457 : Cooper, Alice


I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
Gary Cooper (on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone with the Wind.") : 5675 : Cooper, Gary


Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
James Fenimore Cooper : 2264 : Cooper, James Fenimore


Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon.
Jilly Cooper : 973 : Cooper, Jilly


Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
Wendy Cope : 1876 : Cope, Wendy


I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers; whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Wendy Cope : 8243 : Cope, Wendy


To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copeland : 6871 : Copeland, Aaron


When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland : 4843 : Copeland, Bill


The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.
Misty Copeland : 12268 : Copeland, Misty


To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.
Robert Copeland : 3960 : Copeland, Robert


Listening to the fifth symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.
Aaron Copland : 2540 : Copland, Aaron


The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.
Aaron Copland : 4674 : Copland, Aaron


Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
Francis Ford Coppola : 7019 : Coppola, Francis Ford


The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
Barbara Corcoran : 12400 : Corcoran, Barbara


I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli : 1239 : Corelli, Marie


Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you think you want to hear.
Alan Coren : 29 : Coren, Alan


Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country (Holland) is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren : 3062 : Coren, Alan


The Act of God designation on all insurance policies means roughly that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. If your ox kicks a hole in your neighbor's Maserati, however, indemnity is instantaneous.
Alan Coren : 4660 : Coren, Alan


TV is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Coren : 8642 : Coren, Alan


There is nothing love cannot face; There is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance.
Corinthians 13:7 : 7451 : Corinthians


He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Corneille : 403 : Corneille


Just vengeance doesn't call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille : 12069 : Corneille, Pierre


Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Francis M. Cornford : 3049 : Cornford, Francis M.


I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart that can be cured only with gold.
Hernando Cortes : 870 : Cortes, Hernando


My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't, because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby : 257 : Cosby, Bill


I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby : 258 : Cosby, Bill


A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby : 7461 : Cosby, Bill


No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Bill Cosby : 8215 : Cosby, Bill


Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby : 8438 : Cosby, Bill


Like most kids today, my school friends and I majored in one timeless subject: writing notes.
Bill Cosby : 11616 : Cosby, Bill


Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, persecuting, distasteful, verbose, a show-off. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
Howard Cosell : 9997 : Cosell, Howard


The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
Joseph Cossman : 4398 : Cossman, E. Joseph


Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.
E. Joseph Cossman : 5400 : Cossman, E. Joseph


Love is a friendship set to music.
E. Joseph Cossman : 9129 : Cossman, E. Joseph


In any sport, the anticipation of what might happen is almost as important as what actually happens.
Bob Costas : 11605 : Costas, Bob


But in truth there are only three types of people in the world: people who work, people who are not allowed to, and people who don't have to.
Elvis Costello : 5936 : Costello, Elvis


Acting has always been holy to me. When I act I don't get caught lying very often.
Kevin Costner : 1094 : Costner, Kevin


Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
Smile Coue : 6146 : Coue, Smile


I don't think that a band can really swing on just a kick-off, you know; I think you've got to set the tempo first.
Count Basie : 8635 : Count Basie


Love matches are formed by people who pay for a month of honey with a life of vinegar.
Countess Of Blessington : 405 : Countess Of Blessington


Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug Coupland : 8856 : Coupland, Douglas


What if it was cats who invented technology? Would they have tv shows starring rubber squeak toys?
Douglas Coupland : 11074 : Coupland, Douglas


If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on halloween.
Douglas Coupland : 11133 : Coupland, Douglas


I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
Fred Couples : 3973 : Couples, Fred


Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Gustave Courbet : 8464 : Courbet, Gustave


One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.
Georges Courteline : 3891 : Courteline, Georges


Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he, He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney : 9954 : Courtney, Margaret


Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin : 2647 : Cousin, Victor


The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Norman Cousins : 7565 : Cousins, Norman


To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins : 9023 : Cousins, Norman


We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.
Norman Cousins : 9958 : Cousins, Norman


Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins : 10156 : Cousins, Norman


It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally, without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins : 10721 : Cousins, Norman


Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins : 11809 : Cousins, Norman


A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins : 11816 : Cousins, Norman


Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Norman Cousins : 13028 : Cousins, Norman


How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
Parks Cousins : 8027 : Cousins, Parks


The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Cousteau : 13481 : Cousteau, Jacques


I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey : 11099 : Covey, Stephen


Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen Covey : 11394 : Covey, Stephen


It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward : 1348 : Coward, Noel


At this particular moment, I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.
Noel Coward : 1349 : Coward, Noel


I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health. It upsets my stomach more than anything else. I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.
Noel Coward : 3949 : Coward, Noel


I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel Coward : 10058 : Coward, Noel


Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
Noel Coward : 11316 : Coward, Noel


I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden.
Abraham Cowley : 3901 : Cowley, Abraham


Five minutes - Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my lifetime.
Hannah Cowley : 6095 : Cowley, Hannah


I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
C. E. Cowman : 10331 : Cowman, C. E.


Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.
Richard Cowper : 4763 : Cowper, Richard


Variety's the very spice of life that gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper : 1901 : Cowper, William


Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper : 2357 : Cowper, William


With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
William Cowper : 4724 : Cowper, William


Boys are, at best, but pretty buds unblown, whose scent and hues are rather guessed than known.
William Cowper : 5261 : Cowper, William


Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper : 8439 : Cowper, William


A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
William Cowper : 8781 : Cowper, William


The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper : 9079 : Cowper, William


Reasoning at every step he treads, man yet mistakes his way, whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper : 9349 : Cowper, William


The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper : 10129 : Cowper, William


Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Coleman Cox : 396 : Cox, Coleman


Now that it's all over. What did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
Coleman Cox : 10184 : Cox, Coleman


Heredity: the thing a child gets from the other side of the family.
Marcelene Cox : 1215 : Cox, Marcelene


No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan, and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox : 9348 : Cox, Marcelene


Life is a camel: You can make it do anything except back up.
Marcelene Cox : 10144 : Cox, Marcelene


Divorce: that's when a husband no longer has to bring the money home to his wife. He can mail it.
Morty Craft : 1325 : Craft, Morty


A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.
Dinah Craik : 7925 : Craik, Dinah


You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
Robert Crandall : 7943 : Crandall, Robert


You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
Frank Crane : 1966 : Crane, Frank


The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Frank Crane : 8602 : Crane, Frank


Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
George Crane : 9374 : Crane, George


When you praise a child, focus on his accomplishments rather than on himself. Thus, you encourage good works instead of mere egotism.
George Crane : 9675 : Crane, George


Congealed thinking is, in the long run, the forerunner of failure. An open mind is the mark of real leadership in top executives. Make sure that you are always receptive to new ideas.
George Crane : 9950 : Crane, George


There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
George Crane : 11073 : Crane, George


There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Monta Crane : 9398 : Crane, Monta


Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Stephen Crane : 10579 : Crane, Stephen


To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
Toller Cranston : 3883 : Cranston, Toller


When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
William Crashaw : 9345 : Crashaw, William


The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
Wes Craven : 12084 : Craven, Wes


I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford : 385 : Crawford, Cindy


They fell, but o'er their glorious grave, floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Francis Marion Crawford : 12245 : Crawford, Francis Marion


I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford : 2067 : Crawford, Joan


Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford : 11072 : Crawford, Joan


The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton : 9387 : Creighton, Bishop Mandell


History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstance.
Donald Creighton : 9445 : Creighton, Donald


Don't think of it as wrinkles. Think of it as relaxed fit skin.
Cathy Crimmins : 8828 : Crimmins, Cathy


There was no need to do any housework after all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp : 1477 : Crisp, Quentin


If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp : 1478 : Crisp, Quentin


Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp : 4409 : Crisp, Quentin


Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp : 4627 : Crisp, Quentin


There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite : 7109 : Cronkite, Walter


Where the blue of the night, meets the gold of the day, someone waits for me.
Bing Crosby : 11645 : Crosby, Bing


Make a bigger space in the universe for you head to live in and it will grow to fill the space.
David Crosby : 2450 : Crosby, David


Angels descending, bring from above, Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. (From Blessed Assurance)
Fanny Crosby : 4850 : Crosby, Fanny (Frances Jane)


You can tell how bad a musical is by the number of times the chorus yells "hooray."
John Crosby : 9436 : Crosby, John


Viewing with dismay the conditions in somebody else's backyard is the specialty of the New York Times.
John Crosby : 10741 : Crosby, John


In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
Amanda Cross : 2375 : Cross, Amanda


Life has this in common with prizefighting: If you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
Amanda Cross : 6910 : Cross, Amanda


It's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more.
Frank Cross, in Scrooged : 10909 : Cross, Frank


The opposite of love isn't hate - it's indifference. And if you hate me, that means you still care.
Marcia Cross : 10748 : Cross, Marcia


Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible - and perhaps it really is.
Richard Crossman : 11170 : Crossman, Richard


Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers : 4676 : Crothers, Samuel McChord


God has editing rights over our prayers. He will edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
Stephen Crotts : 4197 : Crotts, Stephen


Making a big hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
Cameron Crowe : 12571 : Crowe, Cameron


A relationship isn't meant to be an insurance policy, a life preserver, or a security blanket.
Diane Crowley : 11292 : Crowley, Diane


War destroys men but luxury destroys mankind; at once it corrupts the body and mind.
John Crowne : 990 : Crowne, John


Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet.
Thomas Crum : 11771 : Crum, Thomas


The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.
Thalassa Cruso : 12172 : Cruso, Thalassa


I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
Victor Cruz : 12402 : Cruz, Victor


Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor, and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth : 1488 : Cudworth, Ralph


Games must be regarded not as conscious inventions, but as survivals from primitive conditions, under which they originated in magical rites and chiefly as means of divination.
Stewart Culin : 7522 : Culin, Stewart


My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
Countee Cullen : 12264 : Cullen, Countee


It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Richard Cumberland : 9119 : Cumberland, Richard


I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings : 485 : cummings, e. e.


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 : 2951 : cummings, e. e.


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings : 3324 : cummings, e. e.


He had no nose, properly speaking, but a large beak of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliterated the unimportant chin.
e. e. cummings : 5234 : cummings, e. e.


I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings : 8002 : cummings, e. e.


Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings : 9097 : cummings, e. e.


Do not save your loving speeches for you friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins : 3667 : Cummins, Anna


I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo : 7288 : Cuomo, Mario


A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.
Don Cupitt : 447 : Cupitt, Don


Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Will Cuppy : 5090 : Cuppy, Will


All modern men are descended from a wormlike creature, but it shows more on some people.
Will Cuppy : 10087 : Cuppy, Will


Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy : 11952 : Cuppy, Will


All my life through, the new sight of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie : 1240 : Curie, Marie


I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie : 1241 : Curie, Marie


Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie : 6123 : Curie, Marie


Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie : 6828 : Curie, Marie


Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.
Marie Curie : 7281 : Curie, Marie


One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie : 7473 : Curie, Marie


I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me a wedding dress, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
Marie Curie : 11152 : Curie, Marie


We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie : 11856 : Curie, Marie


In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.
Curnonsky : 5486 : Curnonsky


A color commentator is a guy who's paid to talk while everyone goes to the bathroom.
Bill Curry : 6451 : Curry, Bill


There's enormous power - both motivational and transformational power - in love.
Bishop Michael Curry : 12806 : Curry, Bishop Michael


Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.
Richard Curtis : 11002 : Curtis, Richard


When I first got to Hollywood, I made forty dollars a week and they named a hair style after me and made me into a kind of male Yvonne DeCarlo, fooling around in Arabian Nights rubbish.
Tony Curtis : 2991 : Curtis, Tony


If you asked me for my New Year resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
Cyril Cusack : 10918 : Cusack, Cyril


Plan ahead; it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Richard Cushing : 11362 : Cushing, Richard


If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo : 5882 : D'Angelo, Anthony J.


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo : 10280 : D'Angelo, Anthony J.


The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious man those of extreme barbarism.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly : 4999 : d'Aurevilly, Jules Barbey


The defects of great men are the consolation of dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli : 10551 : D'Israeli, Isaac


For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At
Alfred D'Souza : 4595 : D'Souza, Alfred


A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.
Leonardo Da Vinci : 1150 : da Vinci, Leonardo


The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.
Leonardo da Vinci : 3474 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard and not seen.
Leonardo da Vinci : 3507 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci : 4419 : da Vinci, Leonardo


I have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da Vinci : 4874 : da Vinci, Leonardo


The time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they look on the murder of men.
Leonardo da Vinci : 5216 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci : 6895 : da Vinci, Leonardo


It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci : 7061 : da Vinci, Leonardo


I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci : 8677 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo Da Vinci : 11078 : da Vinci, Leonardo


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings a happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci : 11393 : Da Vinci, Leonardo


When I was six, I made my mother a little hat - out of her new blouse.
Lilly Dache : 3233 : Dache, Lilly


Mothers are basically a patient lot. They have to be or they would devour their offspring early on, like guppies.
Mary Daheim : 6032 : Daheim, Mary


A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl : 2279 : Dahl, Roald


Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners.
Roald Dahl : 10024 : Dahl, Roald


If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl : 10262 : Dahl, Roald


It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
Roald Dahl : 11862 : Dahl, Roald


There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
Edward Dahlberg : 522 : Dahlberg, Edward


Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
Edward Dahlberg : 523 : Dahlberg, Edward


Teddy bears shouldn't sit in closets when there's a child around who will love them.
Janet Dailey : 10511 : Dailey, Janet


Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.
Dalai Lama : 5575 : Dalai Lama


This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama : 8557 : Dalai Lama


Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama : 9909 : Dalai Lama


In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama : 10612 : Dalai Lama


In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama : 11021 : Dalai Lama


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama : 12562 : Dalai Lama


The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama : 13355 : Dalai Lama


Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama : 13434 : Dalai Lama


Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
Cass Daley : 11069 : Daley, Cass


Technology is reshaping this economy and transforming businesses and consumers. This is about more than e-commerce, or e-mail, or e-trades, or e-files. It is about the "e" in economic opportunity.
William Daley : 8873 : Daley, William


We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali : 1596 : Dali, Salvador


I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. - - Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali : 2318 : Dali, Salvador


The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali : 5962 : Dali, Salvador


Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali : 6334 : Dali, Salvador


The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali : 10401 : Dali, Salvador


The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali : 11443 : Dali, Salvador


Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali : 12347 : Dali, Salvador


The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali : 12894 : Dali, Salvador


Here's to the whole of it, stars, stripes and pole of it. Here's to the soul of it, red, white and blue.
John Jay Daly : 11037 : Daly, John Jay


For the whole world is Irish on the seventeenth o' March!
Thomas Augustine Daly : 13472 : Daly, Thomas Augustine


I think I care too much about what people think about me.
Matt Damon : 2111 : Damon, Matt


As I walk from crap game to crap game, my brain becomes active and agile and dwells on lofty thoughts.
Nick "The Greek" Dandalos : 1340 : Dandalos, Nick "The Greek"


Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane : 5390 : Dane, Frank


When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney Dangerfield : 10268 : Dangerfield, Rodney


I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Rodney Dangerfield : 11667 : Dangerfield, Rodney


Every private citizen has a public responsibility.
Myra Daniels : 5412 : Daniels, Myra


Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
C. Archie Danielson : 10828 : Danielson, C. Archie


The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
Christopher Darden : 9884 : Darden, Christopher


A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A. Dark : 6386 : Dark, Frank A.


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Dark : 6437 : Dark, Kenneth


Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they make (or maybe "as they break" - no known source for the quote).
Charles John Darling : 5094 : Darling, Charles John


History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history
Clarence Darrow : 386 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow : 387 : Darrow, Clarence S.


If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
Clarence Darrow : 2154 : Darrow, Clarence S.


I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow : 2677 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
Clarence Darrow : 3892 : Darrow, Clarence S.


I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it and I just hate it.
Clarence Darrow : 4472 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
Clarence Darrow : 5109 : Darrow, Clarence S.


True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow : 7838 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow : 8338 : Darrow, Clarence S.


When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow : 9741 : Darrow, Clarence S.


You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence S. Darrow : 10433 : Darrow, Clarence S.


The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow : 11075 : Darrow, Clarence S.


It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin : 344 : Darwin, Charles


Great is the power of steady misrepresentation - but the history of science shows how, fortunately, this power does not long endure.
Charles Darwin : 4236 : Darwin, Charles


A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin : 5468 : Darwin, Charles


It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin : 5886 : Darwin, Charles


As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin : 10605 : Darwin, Charles


I conclude that musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
Charles Darwin : 10661 : Darwin, Charles


The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin : 11062 : Darwin, Charles


In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin : 616 : Darwin, Francis


I eat what I eat. Don't make eating complicated. Rules are made only when food is plentiful; in times of famine, one eats what one can get.
Hari Dass : 11221 : Dass, Hari


Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
Rene Daumal : 12811 : Daumal, Rene


Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten : 9767 : Dauten, Dale


Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair, but a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David : 12885 : David, Larry


Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.
Peter Davies : 7940 : Davies, Peter


Canada is not really a place where you encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
Robertson Davies : 1565 : Davies, Robertson


Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter, it's the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies : 8707 : Davies, Robertson


Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when somebody tells them that the book is unfit to read.
Robertson Davies : 9977 : Davies, Robertson


Olivier brandished his technique like a kind of stylistic alibi. In catching the eye, he frequently disengaged the brain.
Russell Davies : 9691 : Davies, Russell


We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis : 253 : Davis, Bette


Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone, but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis : 254 : Davis, Bette


A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis : 8133 : Davis, Bette


I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis : 8161 : Davis, Bette


I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life.
Bette Davis : 8246 : Davis, Bette


I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis : 9638 : Davis, Bette


I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette Davis : 10758 : Davis, Bette


My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis : 11223 : Davis, Bette


The best time I ever had with her was when I pushed her downstairs in "Baby Jane."
Bette Davis, on Joan Crawford : 11969 : Davis, Bette


I always wanted to do Peter Pan. I've always resented that only women get to do it, It's about a boy who refused to grow up, not a girl.
Brad Davis : 7906 : Davis, Brad


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis : 9223 : Davis, Chili


I have often wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences following the First World War would have been different if Woodrow Wilson had been a poker player.
Clyde Brian Davis : 10643 : Davis, Clyde Brian


The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin R. Davis : 12868 : Davis, Colin R.


This will remain the land of the free only as long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis : 7426 : Davis, Elmer


Data helps us understand what it is we need to encourage creators to do. Small things can have a huge impact.
Geena Davis : 12534 : Davis, Geena


To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
Hubbard Davis : 8007 : Davis, Hubbard


Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis : 3716 : Davis, Jefferson


Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis : 7132 : Davis, Jim


I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis : 8396 : Davis, Miles


My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis : 11803 : Davis, Miles


Material deprivation is horrible, but it does not compare to spiritual deprivation.
Ossie Davis : 9778 : Davis, Ossie


Come in the evening, or come in the morning, come when you're looked for, or come without warning.
Thomas Davis : 8314 : Davis, Thomas


Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Sir Humphry Davy : 1661 : Davy, Sir Humphry


Consistency in regard to opinions is the slow poison of intellectual life.
Sir Humphry Davy : 8467 : Davy, Sir Humphry


Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Charles G. Dawes : 8757 : Dawes, Charles G.


By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Rchard Dawkins : 9553 : Dawkins, Rchard


I think it is likely that there is life out there. I fear we shall never know about it.
Richard Dawkins : 6985 : Dawkins, Richard


As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Christopher Dawson : 9975 : Dawson, Christopher


The great consulting room of a wise man is the library.
G. Dawson : 658 : Dawson, G.


As time goes on, new and remote aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day : 3091 : Day, Clarence


The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
Clarence Day : 5184 : Day, Clarence


Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day : 6493 : Day, Clarence


You can't sweep other people off their feet if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day : 9573 : Day, Clarence


We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day : 9681 : Day, Clarence


The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll outgrow it.
Doris Day : 457 : Day, Doris


If a man does something silly, people say, "Isn't he silly?" If a woman does something silly, people say, "Aren't women silly?"
Doris Day : 7265 : Day, Doris


Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day : 7810 : Day, Doris


I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
Doris Day : 12320 : Day, Doris


Knitting is very conducive to thought.
Dorothy Day : 12081 : Day, Dorothy


You know my views about some regulations - they're written for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Harry Day : 3487 : Day, Harry


If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan : 11312 : Dayan, Moshe


The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis : 12098 : De Angelis, Barbara


Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get, it's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De Angelis : 12257 : De Angelis, Barbara


Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis : 12270 : De Angelis, Barbara


Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward De Bono : 11755 : De Bono, Edward


Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
Alain de Botton : 12922 : de Botton, Alain


Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.
Catherine Crook de Camp : 9654 : de Camp, Catherine Crook


The strength or weakness of our conviction depends more on our courage than on our intelligence.
Luc De Clapiers : 11094 : De Clapiers, Luc


She is a fool, who trusts a man.
Marie de France : 3638 : de France, Marie


A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles de Gaulle : 345 : de Gaulle, Charles


You have to be sure the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles de Gaulle : 3077 : de Gaulle, Charles


History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.
Charles de Gaulle : 3877 : de Gaulle, Charles


Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Charles De Gaulle : 4794 : de Gaulle, Charles


A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle : 9973 : de Gaulle, Charles


Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles De Gaulle : 11554 : de Gaulle, Charles


How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle : 12746 : de Gaulle, Charles


The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt : 5915 : de Goncourt, Edmond and Jules


What I love best about music is the women who listen to it.
Jules de Goncourt : 3826 : de Goncourt, Jules


Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs - you may live.
Remy de Gourmont : 1514 : de Gourmont, Remy


We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Remy de Gourmont : 6384 : de Gourmont, Remy


Oh, no man knows, Through what wild centuries, Roves back the rose.
Walter de la Mare : 8063 : de la Mare, Walter


Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar De La Renta : 9923 : De La Renta, Oscar


What a relaxed life is that which flees the worldly clamor, and follows the hidden path down which have gone the few wise men there have been in the world!
Fray Luis de Leon : 10649 : de Leon, Fray Luis


The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; It is essentially a part of it.
Charles De Lint : 9233 : De Lint, Charles


False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Joseph de Maistre : 3895 : de Maistre, Joseph


Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Paul de Man : 10580 : de Man, Paul


Great artists impose their particular illusion on humanity.
Guy de Maupassant : 3516 : de Maupassant, Guy


A good education is harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes De Mille : 3770 : de Mille, Agnes


Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
Agnes de Mille : 4747 : de Mille, Agnes


If takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative, especially in the theater. You have to care so much that you can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't talk to people.
Agnes de Mille : 7510 : de Mille, Agnes


I learned three important things in college: to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
Agnes de Mille : 9274 : de Mille, Agnes


When you perform, you are out of yourself - larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours, nightly.
Agnes de Mille : 11490 : de Mille, Agnes


Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
Diane De Poitiers : 10428 : De Poitiers, Diane


Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.
Thomas de Quincey : 4174 : de Quincey, Thomas


It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
Thomas de Quincey : 6273 : de Quincey, Thomas


It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade : 9014 : de Sade, Marquis


The surface of American society is covered with a layer of Democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville : 2681 : de Tocqueville, Alexis


There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville : 3469 : de Tocqueville, Alexis


History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de Tocqueville : 7807 : de Tocqueville, Alexis


Skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Miguel de Unamuno : 5938 : de Unamuno, Miguel


The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Miguel De Unamuno : 6971 : de Unamuno, Miguel


Love is the child of illusion, and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno : 11663 : de Unamuno, Miguel


We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
Vauvenargues : 6655 : de Vauvenargues


Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
de Vauvenargues : 11299 : de Vauvenargues


The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
Vauvenargues : 12025 : de Vauvenargues


You can't be happy with a woman who pronounces both d's in Wednesday.
Peter de Vries : 1449 : de Vries, Peter


The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds; they mature slowly.
Peter de Vries : 1450 : de Vries, Peter


Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter de Vries : 4817 : de Vries, Peter


There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter de Vries : 5338 : de Vries, Peter


Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.
Peter de Vries : 5556 : de Vries, Peter


I love being a writer. what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter de Vries : 7416 : de Vries, Peter


The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter de Vries : 7655 : de Vries, Peter


When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter de Vries : 11068 : de Vries, Peter


Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.
Peter De Vries : 11359 : de Vries, Peter


The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries : 11433 : de Vries, Peter


It ain't bragging if you can do it.
Dizzy Dean : 10863 : Dean, Dizzy


For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Jimmy Dean : 8695 : Dean, Jimmy


When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
Eugene Debs : 2417 : Debs, Eugene V.


The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. They have always taught you that it is your patriotic duty to go to war and slaughter yourselves at their command.
Eugene V. Debs : 2667 : Debs, Eugene V.


I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs : 4319 : Debs, Eugene V.


While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene Debs : 11430 : Debs, Eugene V.


People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
Claude Debussy : 388 : Debussy, Claude


Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur : 7270 : Decatur, Stephen


The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe : 7285 : Defoe, Daniel


Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas : 507 : Degas, Edgar


What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists. One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas : 6346 : Degas, Edgar


It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.
Edgar Degas : 12608 : Degas, Edgar


I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, "because it's such a beautiful animal." There you go. Well, I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen Degeneres : 543 : DeGeneres, Ellen


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen Degeneres : 544 : DeGeneres, Ellen


In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres : 4251 : DeGeneres, Ellen


Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen Degeneres : 12105 : DeGeneres, Ellen


I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Ellen Degeneres : 12460 : DeGeneres, Ellen


Never follow someone else's path. Unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means you should follow that.
Ellen Degeneres : 12765 : Degeneres, Ellen


I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
Ellen Degeneres : 12942 : Degeneres, Ellen


People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant.
Ellen Degeneres : 12955 : Degeneres, Ellen


Shall we call ourselves benevolent when the gifts we bestow do not cost us a single privation?
Degerando : 5453 : Degerando


The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
Fred Dehner : 11744 : Dehner, Fred


O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker : 2126 : Dekker, Thomas


Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker : 12323 : Dekker, Thomas


The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix : 584 : Delacroix, Eugene


What is most real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
Eugene Delacroix : 4991 : Delacroix, Eugene


Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing.
Eugene Delacroix : 7749 : Delacroix, Eugene


Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue, it's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret DeLand : 5326 : DeLand, Margaret


I'm not to blame for an old body, but I should be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
Margaret Deland : 11577 : Deland, Margaret


In our dreams, we are always young.
Sadie Delany : 1595 : Delany, Sadie


I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
Don Delillo : 448 : Delillo, Don


Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it. Tattooing, therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.
Michelle Delio : 4166 : Delio, Michelle


When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.
Michelle Delio : 4741 : Delio, Michelle


There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
Frederick Delius : 12302 : Delius, Frederick


Idleness is not doing nothing, idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell : 10198 : Dell, Floyd


I've been fighting ten years to make people forget I'm just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I'll win it.
Alain Delon : 3088 : Delon, Alain


I'm actually a thin, serious person, but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.
Dom Deluise : 446 : Deluise, Dom


For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
Margo DeMello : 10817 : DeMello, Margo


Remember you are a star. Never go across the alley even to dump garbage unless you are dressed to the teeth.
Cecil B. DeMille, To Paulette Goddard : 328 : DeMille, Cecil B.


A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. DeMille : 3171 : DeMille, Cecil B.


Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
Cecil B. DeMille : 11873 : DeMille, Cecil B.


Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; Temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
Democritus : 432 : Democritus


The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
Democritus : 2842 : Democritus


Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus : 9165 : Democritus


And if a friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"
Democritus : 9323 : Democritus


Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus : 10538 : Democritus


Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold. Happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus : 10623 : Democritus


Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
Demosthenes : 9043 : Demosthenes


Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes : 9098 : Demosthenes


There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
Edwin Denby : 3971 : Denby, Edwin


They've brought me more publicity than any film I've done. I'm recognized on every street corner in New York.
Catherine Deneuve on her Chanel ads : 9676 : Deneuve, Catherine


Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John Denham : 8073 : Denham, Sir John


The most expensive bracelet you'll ever own isn't gold or silver. It's vinyl. They strap it on your wrist when you're admitted to the hospital.
Ron Dentinger : 11889 : Dentinger, Ron


I appreciate teamwork. I don't like a one-man show. I'm an interpreter, a sort of tool - I don't mean an object. The right tool is quite essential. Try pounding a nail in with a screwdriver.
Gerard Depardieu : 8874 : Depardieu, Gerard


I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp : 7424 : Depp, Johnny


Things are very bad when kids have to write to an actor for advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. I'm just as screwed up as the next guy.
Johnny Depp : 10678 : Depp, Johnny


The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp : 10981 : Depp, Johnny


Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek : 6876 : Derek, Bo


I was always the creative kid who was a nerd. I listened to Vivaldi, wrote poetry, and actually did my homework.
Laura Dern : 10464 : Dern, Laura


Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
Anita Desai : 104 : Desai, Anita


I seemed to have gained nothing in trying to educate myself unless it was to discover more and more fully how ignorant I was.
Rene Descartes : 2404 : Descartes, Rene


Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well-supplied with it.
Rene Descartes : 6013 : Descartes, Rene


Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes : 7779 : Descartes, Rene


Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes : 9184 : Descartes, Rene


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 : 11910 : Descartes, Rene


Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes : 13365 : Descartes, Rene


Have no more doubt of the omnipotence of a free people.
Camille Desmoulins : 306 : Desmoulins, Camille


There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Sarah Dessen : 12692 : Dessen, Sarah


Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers : 13370 : Devers, Gail


The British press is always looking for stuff to fill the space between the cartoons.
Bernadette Devlin : 6419 : Devlin, Bernadette


A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out anyway and before anybody else does.
Thomas Dewar : 10460 : Dewar, Thomas


Patience is the greatest of all shock absorbers. The only thing you can get in a hurry is trouble.
Thomas R. Dewar : 1790 : Dewar, Thomas R.


Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar : 5590 : Dewar, Thomas R.


Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey : 991 : Dewey, John


What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child that must the community want for all its children.
John Dewey : 992 : Dewey, John


Failure is instructive. The person who thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey : 993 : Dewey, John


Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
John Dewey : 3043 : Dewey, John


Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish w
John Dewey : 3866 : Dewey, John


Education is a social process. Education is growth.
John Dewey : 7778 : Dewey, John


Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey : 8378 : Dewey, John


Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey : 9802 : Dewey, John


To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey : 10873 : Dewey, John


Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.
John Dewey : 10960 : Dewey, John


I like viable women who are out there doing. I like women who are very involved with living and who haven't pulled out from life.
Colleen Dewhurst : 2412 : Dewhurst, Colleen


You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
Harvey Diamond : 6632 : Diamond, Harvey


If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
Diana, Princess of Wales : 436 : Diana, Princess of Wales


Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana : 6860 : Diana, Princess of Wales


Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
Princess Diana : 6865 : Diana, Princess of Wales


If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
Princess Diana : 12447 : Diana, Princess of Wales


Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.
Diana, Princess Of Wales : 13228 : Diana, Princess Of Wales


Roses are red, mud is brown, the woods are better than any night on the town.
Earl Dibbles Jr. : 12819 : Dibbles, Earl Jr.


If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people.
Leonardo DiCaprio : 12827 : DiCaprio, Leonardo


Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick : 4568 : Dick, Philip K.


Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and prism.
Charles Dickens : 346 : Dickens, Charles


Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many: not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens : 347 : Dickens, Charles


Philadelphia is a handsome city, but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street.
Charles Dickens : 2188 : Dickens, Charles


It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's
Charles Dickens : 2788 : Dickens, Charles


Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens : 4287 : Dickens, Charles


Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens : 4739 : Dickens, Charles


A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens : 5513 : Dickens, Charles


Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens : 6366 : Dickens, Charles


With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Charles Dickens : 6716 : Dickens, Charles


No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens : 6751 : Dickens, Charles


I do not know the American gentleman. God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens : 6983 : Dickens, Charles


It is well for a man to respect his own vocation, whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.
Charles Dickens : 7221 : Dickens, Charles


Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens : 7355 : Dickens, Charles


Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens : 8444 : Dickens, Charles


Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens : 8761 : Dickens, Charles


There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens : 11411 : Dickens, Charles


Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - How Not To Do It.
Charles Dickens : 11518 : Dickens, Charles


Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Charles Dickens : 12037 : Dickens, Charles


The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Charles Dickens : 12087 : Dickens, Charles


There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens : 12280 : Dickens, Charles


Adventures are an indication of inefficiency. Good explorers don't have them.
Herbert Spencer Dickey : 5046 : Dickey, Herbert Spencer


A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey : 7124 : Dickey, James


My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
Angie Dickinson : 9427 : Dickinson, Angie


To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson : 554 : Dickinson, Emily


Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson : 2156 : Dickinson, Emily


The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson : 3956 : Dickinson, Emily


Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson : 4124 : Dickinson, Emily


I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson : 4421 : Dickinson, Emily


The spider as an artist has never been employed, though his surpassing merit is freely certified.
Emily Dickinson : 4979 : Dickinson, Emily


Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson : 6880 : Dickinson, Emily


That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson : 7478 : Dickinson, Emily


How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson : 12538 : Dickinson, Emily


I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious.
Emily Dickinson : 12575 : Dickinson, Emily


Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of earth.
Emily Dickinson : 12939 : Dickinson, Emily


If you take care of the small things the big things take care of themselves.
Emily Dickinson : 13368 : Dickinson, Emily


You can gain more control of your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
Emily Dickinson : 13378 : Dickinson, Emily


A young man gave up his lucrative job to become a writer. He was asked, "Have you sold anything yet?" He replied, "Yes, my car and my television."
Patrick Dickinson : 7553 : Dickinson, Patrick


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson : 10760 : Dickson, Gordon R.


I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
Bo Diddley : 7449 : Diddley, Bo


Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.
Bo Diddley : 9824 : Diddley, Bo


In general, the more a people is civilized, refined, the less its morals are poetic; everything weakens and turns mild.
Denis Diderot : 433 : Diderot, Denis


Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter.
Denis Diderot : 2468 : Diderot, Denis


Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated Him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict His view; He does not exist outside of it.
Denis Diderot : 3027 : Diderot, Denis


Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Denis Diderot : 5465 : Diderot, Denis


Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
Denis Diderot : 8365 : Diderot, Denis


All children are essentially criminal.
Denis Diderot : 9186 : Diderot, Denis


Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
Denis Diderot : 10582 : Diderot, Denis


The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion : 4314 : Didion, Joan


A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Joan Didion : 8182 : Didion, Joan


Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion : 10996 : Didion, Joan


Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that mother is there.
Marlene Dietrich : 1267 : Dietrich, Marlene


Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich : 6160 : Dietrich, Marlene


The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich : 6922 : Dietrich, Marlene


It's the friends you can call up at four A. M. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich : 8115 : Dietrich, Marlene


The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.
Marlene Dietrich : 8319 : Dietrich, Marlene


Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. if possible you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
Marlene Dietrich : 11176 : Dietrich, Marlene


I think the dying pray at the last not "please" but "thank you" as a guest thanks his host at the door.
Annie Dillard : 113 : Dillard, Annie


There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard : 4361 : Dillard, Annie


There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard : 8178 : Dillard, Annie


Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard : 8288 : Dillard, Annie


A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard : 9967 : Dillard, Annie


You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
Annie Dillard : 11175 : Dillard, Annie


Fang, my husband, says the only thing domestic about me is that I was born in this country.
Phyllis Diller : 1457 : Diller, Phyllis


Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
Phyllis Diller : 1458 : Diller, Phyllis


Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Phyllis Diller : 1459 : Diller, Phyllis


When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.
Phyllis Diller : 2576 : Diller, Phyllis


A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller : 4840 : Diller, Phyllis


If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies."
Phyllis Diller : 7255 : Diller, Phyllis


Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller : 8301 : Diller, Phyllis


Never go to bed mad - stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller : 9847 : Diller, Phyllis


I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Ms. Congeniality.
Phyllis Diller : 10183 : Diller, Phyllis


I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller : 12281 : Diller, Phyllis


These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren.
John Dillinger : 6870 : Dillinger, John


Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
Don A. Dillman : 7186 : Dillman, Don A.


Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak.
Lewis W. Dilwyn : 3787 : Dilwyn, Lewis W.


A ballplayer's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
Joe Dimaggio : 2342 : Dimaggio, Joe


Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ernest Dimnet : 2772 : Dimnet, Ernest


I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen : 892 : Dinesen, Isak


The flamingos are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush.
Isak Dinesen : 893 : Dinesen, Isak


In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
Isak Dinesen : 6702 : Dinesen, Isak


Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me leave to do my utmost.
Isak Dinesen : 7969 : Dinesen, Isak


God made the world round so we could never see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen : 8470 : Dinesen, Isak


People need to respect each other's concerns and differences. And frankly, there's far more in common than divides us.
David Dinkins : 11561 : Dinkins, David


Over the door of a library in Thebes is the inscription, "Medicine For The Soul".
Diodorus Siculus : 440 : Diodorus Siculus


Aristotle said that education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Diogenes : 441 : Diogenes


A blush is the color of virtue.
Diogenes : 2131 : Diogenes


Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes : 7720 : Diogenes


We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes : 11398 : Diogenes


Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior : 5500 : Dior, Christian


A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior : 13141 : Dior, Christian


In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac : 5925 : Dirac, Paul


A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen : 3763 : Dirksen, Everett


I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen : 7173 : Dirksen, Everett


It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney : 1583 : Disney, Roy


I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney : 2924 : Disney, Walt


I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
Walt Disney : 8995 : Disney, Walt


Cartoon animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney : 9976 : Disney, Walt


You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney : 10294 : Disney, Walt


When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney : 10884 : Disney, Walt


The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney : 10984 : Disney, Walt


The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney : 12875 : Disney, Walt


Laughter is timeless; Imagination has no age; Dreams are forever.
Walt Disney : 13480 : Disney, Walt


Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli : 227 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli : 228 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man.
Benjamin Disraeli : 229 : Disraeli, Benjamin


A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.
Benjamin Disraeli : 230 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli : 231 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret
Disraeli : 443 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
Disraeli : 444 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Mankind may supply us with facts, but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Disraeli : 1993 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2115 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2475 : Disraeli, Benjamin


To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2557 : Disraeli, Benjamin


A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2623 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Benjamin Disraeli : 3632 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli : 3845 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli : 4342 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli : 4587 : Disraeli, Benjamin


There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
Benjamin Disraeli : 5071 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6249 : Disraeli, Benjamin


He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6701 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6752 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6769 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6933 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7010 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Wherever is found what is called a paternal government was found a State education. It had been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7177 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7448 : Disraeli, Benjamin


There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7691 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7740 : Disraeli, Benjamin


It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10258 : Disraeli, Benjamin


What we anticipate seldom occurs, but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10292 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10713 : Disraeli, Benjamin


As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10756 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10904 : Disraeli, Benjamin


It is well known what a middleman is: He is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli : 11594 : Disraeli, Benjamin


If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
Mike Ditka : 7490 : Ditka, Mike


Football is not really a contact sport, it's a collision sport. And it's a matter of skill, strength, endurance, and strategy. But I think when it comes down to it, people just like to hit each other.
Mike Ditka : 9940 : Ditka, Mike


While it is a misfortune to a woman never to be loved, it is a tragedy for her never to love.
Dorothy Dix : 2278 : Dix, Dorothy


The reason husbands and wives don't understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Dorothy Dix : 3347 : Dix, Dorothy


Surely the consolation of old age is finding out how few things are worth worrying over.
Dorothy Dix : 7418 : Dix, Dorothy


An unexpected fact is less readily absorbed than one which was expected.
Norman F. Dixon : 8050 : Dixon, Norman F.


Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners.
Byron Dobell : 11324 : Dobell, Byron


It is necessary to invent quotes more and more these days because professional golfers are gradually losing the power of speech. Already adverbs have been eliminated entirely from their vocabulary. "I hit the ball super but putted just horrible."
Peter Dobereiner : 1451 : Dobereiner, Peter


There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Arthur Dobrin : 7171 : Dobrin, Arthur


Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow : 11883 : Doctorow, E. L.


Honolulu: it's got everything: sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
Ken Dodd : 10259 : Dodd, Ken


Great individuals, not great organization men, make a college or university great.
Harold W. Dodds : 2521 : Dodds, Harold W.


Nowadays, people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Robert Doisneau : 1541 : Doisneau, Robert


Sometimes I think we're the only two lawyers who trust each other.
Elizabeth Dole, To Bob Dole : 539 : Dole, Elizabeth


When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
Elizabeth Dole : 11151 : Dole, Elizabeth


Happiness is the richest thing we will ever own.
Donald Duck (in an animated Disney Film) : 13522 : Donald Duck


Only the amateurs stay mad.
Sam Donaldson : 1597 : Donaldson, Sam


We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
Stephen Donaldson : 2820 : Donaldson, Stephen


Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. Donleavy : 6155 : Donleavy, J. P.


Remember me not for my abilities, but remember my labors and my endeavors.
John Donne : 2052 : Donne, John


Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.
John Donne : 2845 : Donne, John


All other things, to their destruction draw. Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
John Donne : 2978 : Donne, John


Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right; By these we reach divinity.
John Donne : 6739 : Donne, John


Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne : 7900 : Donne, John


No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne : 9222 : Donne, John


The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
R. S. Donnell : 8749 : Donnell, R. S.


The softer you sing, the louder you're heard.
Donovan : 12847 : Donovan


Individuals are considered sincere when there is little or no discrepancy between the goals they seek and those they claim to be seeking.
Leonard W. Doob : 2398 : Doob, Leonard W.


It's very dangerous if you keep love letters from someone who is not now your husband.
Diana Dors : 2439 : Dors, Diana


To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett : 11654 : Dorsett, Tony


The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
Larry Dossey : 4188 : Dossey, Larry


Man survives where swine perish, and laughs where gods go mad.
Dostoyevsky : 466 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Too high a price is asked for harmony, and so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket. It's not God that I don't accept, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 646 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 647 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


One stands perplexed and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love! If you resolved on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 2232 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


If the devil does not exist, and Man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky : 5650 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : 7154 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : 7207 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


The strongest and most influential memories are almost always those of childhood.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 10506 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Can one even as much as touch a gaming table without becoming immediately infected with superstition?
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 10733 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else'S.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : 11143 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


The formula "two and two is five" is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 12034 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
Gabby Douglas : 13222 : Douglas, Gabby


A man can wear a hat for years without being oppressed by its shabbiness.
James Douglas : 3408 : Douglas, James


I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
James Douglas : 8505 : Douglas, James


It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark, so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
James Douglas : 10406 : Douglas, James


Awkward, technically difficult: You've got to do acrobatics and contortions so the lighting and camera angles are right. Sorry guys, but love scenes are work.
Michael Douglas : 9972 : Douglas, Michael


Are we never to learn that socialism has its roots in envy and in nothing else?
Norman Douglas : 2016 : Douglas, Norman


You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas : 2632 : Douglas, Norman


The heroes, the saints, and sages - they are those who face the world alone.
Norman Douglas : 2871 : Douglas, Norman


A man who reforms himself has contributed his full share toward the reformation of his neighbor.
Norman Douglas : 3811 : Douglas, Norman


Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Norman Douglas : 4852 : Douglas, Norman


Perhaps one should not think so much of oneself, though it is an interesting subject.
Norman Douglas : 6433 : Douglas, Norman


The Liberals talk about a stable government, but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
Thomas Douglas : 6052 : Douglas, Thomas


Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.
Tommy Douglas : 8478 : Douglas, Tommy


The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
William O. Douglas : 7352 : Douglas, William O.


No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass : 3470 : Douglass, Frederick


A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass : 6199 : Douglass, Frederick


Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass : 9872 : Douglass, Frederick


We are one, our cause is one, and we must help each other, if we are to succeed.
Frederick Douglass : 12654 : Douglass, Frederick


It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass : 13184 : Douglass, Frederick


When I am asked, "What made you want to be a writer?" my answer has always been, "Books." First and foremost, now, then, and always, I have been passionate about books.
Rita Dove : 9293 : Dove, Rita


When the right man smiled it would be, music skittering up her calf, like a chuckle.
Rita Dove : 12013 : Dove, Rita


The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd : 3757 : Dowd, Maureen


Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Dowden : 470 : Dowden


Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.
Hugh Downs : 882 : Downs, Hugh


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs : 13100 : Downs, Hugh


I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously, with the throng, dancing, to put thy pale. lost lilies out of mind.
Ernest Dowson : 8233 : Dowson, Ernest


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 : 1656 : Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan


While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.
Arthur Conan Doyle : 4608 : Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan


Crime is common, logic is rare, therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Arthur Conan Doyle : 11123 : Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan


Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance.
Dr. Seuss : 4155 : Dr. Seuss


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss : 6179 : Dr. Seuss


My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
Dr. Seuss : 8179 : Dr. Seuss


Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss : 8425 : Dr. Seuss


Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is 'youer' than you.
Dr. Seuss : 8447 : Dr. Seuss


I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss : 9040 : Dr. Seuss


Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss : 9864 : Dr. Seuss


You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss : 10192 : Dr. Seuss


You're on your own, and you know what you know, and you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss : 11452 : Dr. Seuss


Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss : 13046 : Dr. Seuss


The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
Dr. Seuss : 13146 : Dr. Seuss


Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture. The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture has all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.
Margaret Drabble : 1219 : Drabble, Margaret


And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble : 1220 : Drabble, Margaret


Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
Margaret Drabble : 1221 : Drabble, Margaret


If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault.
Phil Drabble : 4127 : Drabble, Phil


Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.
Lovelle Drachman : 12598 : Drachman, Lovelle


Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
Drake : 12587 : Drake


Smile and let everyone know that today, you're a lot stronger than you were yesterday.
Drake : 12843 : Drake


A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of Life.
Lee Drake : 4861 : Drake, Lee


The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
Sir Francis Drake : 1659 : Drake, Sir Francis


The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.
Jean Drapeau : 951 : Drapeau, Jean


Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
Thomas Dreier : 1771 : Dreier, Thomas


Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser : 12708 : Dreiser, Theodore


Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.
H. W. Dresses : 7995 : Dresses, H. W.


It's not how old you are, but how you are old.
Marie Dressler : 10566 : Dressler, Marie


Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew : 7437 : Drew, Elizabeth


Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
Richard Dreyfuss : 2618 : Dreyfuss, Richard


I always knew that I could be a star for the audience that didn't relate to John Wayne or Al Pacino.
Richard Dreyfuss : 3151 : Dreyfuss, Richard


Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss : 9203 : Dreyfuss, Richard


The higher one is in a hierarchy, the more befuddled one becomes when one attempts to operate the photocopy machine.
Robert S. Driscoll : 9694 : Driscoll, Robert S.


There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker : 1452 : Drucker, Peter F.


The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter F. Drucker : 7160 : Drucker, Peter F.


Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker : 7671 : Drucker, Peter F.


Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker : 10974 : Drucker, Peter F.


Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker : 11337 : Drucker, Peter F.


A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
Peter Drucker : 12696 : Drucker, Peter F.


People never know what kind of hobby they're no good at until they've spent a fortune on it.
John Drybred : 11614 : Drybred, John


One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
John Dryden : 994 : Dryden, John


Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
John Dryden : 995 : Dryden, John


Shakespeare is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces, and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
John Dryden : 2304 : Dryden, John


He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
John Dryden, on Ben Jonson : 8988 : Dryden, John


Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden : 9038 : Dryden, John


For all the happiness mankind can gain, is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
John Dryden : 10517 : Dryden, John


But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much.
John Dryden : 11307 : Dryden, John


Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 1840 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, not that men are wicked, but that men know so little of men.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 2320 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 6789 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth, they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 9318 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.
Emilie du Chatelet : 12586 : du Chatelet, Emilie


Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.
Madame Marie Du Deffand : 11861 : Du Deffand, Madame Marie


There should be an invention that bottles up a memory like a perfume, and it never faded, never got stale, and whenever I wanted to I could uncork the bottle, and live the memory all over again.
Daphne du Maurier : 3491 : du Maurier, Daphne


The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Chef Urbain Dubois : 4480 : Dubois, Chef Urbain


Reporters keep asking me, "What did you do to research playing a doctor?" The answer is, I watched as much "ER" as I could.
David Duchovny : 11240 : Duchovny, David


Fame is based on what people say about you, reputation on what they think of you.
Louis Dudek : 1189 : Dudek, Louis


Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell(Commissioner, U. S. Office of Patents, 1899) : 5680 : Duell, Charles H.


You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Carol Ann Duffy : 12607 : Duffy, Carol Ann


I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington, on Napoleon : 7287 : Duke of Wellington


Social progress does not have to be bought at the price of individual freedom.
John Foster Dulles : 2524 : Dulles, John Foster


Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
John Dulles : 11848 : Dulles, John Foster


We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.
Alexandre Dumas : 2113 : Dumas, Alexandre


Kings will lose privilege, as stars which have completed their time lose their splendor.
Alexandre Dumas, pere : 2507 : Dumas, Alexandre


There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
Alexandre Dumas : 3929 : Dumas, Alexandre


I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas : 5398 : Dumas, Alexandre


How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas : 10471 : Dumas, Alexandre


Music is the only noise for which one is obliged to pay.
Alexandre Dumas : 10830 : Dumas, Alexandre


There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
Alexandre Dumas : 12145 : Dumas, Alexandre


All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas : 13410 : Dumas, Alexandre


The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple, and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe-walking.
Isadora Duncan : 5918 : Duncan, Isadora


Before I go out on the stage, I must place a motor in my soul. If I do not get time to put that motor in my soul, I cannot dance.
Isadora Duncan : 5960 : Duncan, Isadora


Dancing: the highest intelligence in the freest body.
Isadora Duncan : 6690 : Duncan, Isadora


Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan : 10657 : Duncan, Isadora


So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan : 11713 : Duncan, Isadora


Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Alan Dundes : 13072 : Dundes, Alan


I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.
Elaine Dundy : 4408 : Dundy, Elaine


I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
Katherine Dunham : 6822 : Dunham, Katherine


Everything one does enough of eventually generates its own interest and one then begins to believe in it.
Alan Dunn : 2462 : Dunn, Alan


Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
Elizabeth Clarke Dunn : 2391 : Dunn, Elizabeth Clarke


Athlete: A dignified bunch of muscles, unable to do dishes or mow the lawn.
H. Alan Dunn : 10111 : Dunn, H. Alan


I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Katherine Dunn : 1081 : Dunn, Katherine


What happened to Truman Capote was that he got inside the establishment and tried to stay. It's just a place to visit.
Dominick Dunne : 7271 : Dunne, Dominick


A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if he knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne : 600 : Dunne, Finley Peter


People tell me to be frank but how can I when I don't dare to know myself?
Finley Peter Dunne : 601 : Dunne, Finley Peter


It doesn't make much difference what you study as long as you don't like it.
Finley Peter Dunne : 2603 : Dunne, Finley Peter


The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne : 3793 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
Finley Peter Dunne : 4818 : Dunne, Finley Peter


There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5563 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5584 : Dunne, Finley Peter


A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5585 : Dunne, Finley Peter


An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5586 : Dunne, Finley Peter


There is one thing to be said in favor of drink, and that is that it has caused many a lady to be loved that otherwise might have died single.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5587 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5588 : Dunne, Finley Peter


You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5589 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5591 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Among men, Hennessy, wet eye means dry heart.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5592 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5593 : Dunne, Finley Peter


The best husbands stay bachelors; they're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5594 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Many a man that could rule a hundred million strangers with an iron hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway when he comes home late at night.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5595 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5596 : Dunne, Finley Peter


High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5597 : Dunne, Finley Peter


A man has more fun wishing for the things he hasn't got than enjoying the things he has got.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5598 : Dunne, Finley Peter


I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you never can read his prescription.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5599 : Dunne, Finley Peter


One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5600 : Dunne, Finley Peter


When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5601 : Dunne, Finley Peter


If you go to the zoo, always take something to feed the animals, even if the signs say "Do not feed animals". It wasn't the animals that put them signs up.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5602 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Like most poets, preachers, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusion at a spark of evidence.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5603 : Dunne, Finley Peter


A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5604 : Dunne, Finley Peter


The first thing to have in a library is a shelf. From time to time, this can be decorated with literature. But the shelf is the main thing.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5605 : Dunne, Finley Peter


No matter whether the country follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5616 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' 'pro-hy-bitionists' had best stay out of it.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5617 : Dunne, Finley Peter


But logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Edward Dunsany : 4347 : Dunsany, Edward


Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effects when taken in large quantities.
Lord Dunsany : 1178 : Dunsany, Lord


No doubt, it is not necessary to have an amount of wit or imagination; but it is indispensable that we should not think we have it when we don't.
Felix A. Dupanloup : 11197 : Dupanloup, Felix A.


The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Ariel and Will Durant : 11679 : Durant, Ariel and Will


Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
Kevin Durant : 11721 : Durant, Kevin


As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Will Durant : 1881 : Durant, Will


The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Will Durant : 1882 : Durant, Will


From the point of view of morals, life seems to be divided into two periods; in the first we indulge, in the second we preach.
Will Durant : 2314 : Durant, Will


The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
Will Durant : 2954 : Durant, Will


Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant : 3115 : Durant, Will


Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant : 3603 : Durant, Will


In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant : 5954 : Durant, Will


The great snare in human thought is unconditional acceptance or irrational assumptions.
Will Durant : 7000 : Durant, Will


Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant : 12155 : Durant, Will


Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante : 6829 : Durante, Jimmy


Just as a Hollywood pin-up represented sex, so I represented the ideal daughter millions of fathers and mothers wished they had.
Deanna Durbin : 5988 : Durbin, Deanna


There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
Leo Durocher : 10755 : Durocher, Leo


What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brush her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mom don't make it to third.
Leo Durocher : 11890 : Durocher, Leo


I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Leo Durocher : 12992 : Durocher, Leo


I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket.
Lawrence Durrell : 1136 : Durrell, Lawrence


Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell : 2452 : Durrell, Lawrence


A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell : 7333 : Durrell, Lawrence


No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell : 7679 : Durrell, Lawrence


I hate the outdoors. To me, outdoors is where the car is.
Will Durst : 4506 : Durst, Will


While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
Andrea Dworkin : 7544 : Dworkin, Andrea


Freedom is not an abstraction, nor is a little of it enough.
Andrea Dworkin : 10131 : Dworkin, Andrea


You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer : 2148 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer : 7836 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne Dyer : 8056 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer : 8616 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is."
Wayne Dyer : 8688 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Wayne Dyer : 9095 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Wayne Dyer : 9342 : Dyer, Wayne


When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne Dyer : 9617 : Dyer, Wayne


Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Wayne Dyer : 9644 : Dyer, Wayne


Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer : 10219 : Dyer, Wayne


He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan : 2655 : Dylan, Bob


Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Bob Dylan : 4865 : Dylan, Bob


We each have our own vision and a voice inside that talks only to us. We have to be able to hear it.
Bob Dylan : 5022 : Dylan, Bob


People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan : 6605 : Dylan, Bob


In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
Bob Dylan : 7340 : Dylan, Bob


The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan : 7482 : Dylan, Bob


I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom
Bob Dylan : 9151 : Dylan, Bob


The world don't need any more songs. If nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer it.
Bob Dylan : 9392 : Dylan, Bob


People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan : 10529 : Dylan, Bob


If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.
Bob Dylan : 12179 : Dylan, Bob


For insight into human affairs I turn to stories and poems rather than to sociology. I am not able to make use of the wisdom of the sociologists because I do not speak their language.
Freeman Dyson : 5914 : Dyson, Freeman


It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames : 10189 : Eames, Charles


I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart : 8223 : Earhart, Amelia


In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart : 8656 : Earhart, Amelia


The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart : 11100 : Earhart, Amelia


You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart : 12588 : Earhart, Amelia


The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart : 13113 : Earhart, Amelia


History is only a confused heap of facts.
Earl of Chesterfield : 9837 : Earl of Chesterfield


If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.
Earl of Sandwich : 4208 : Earl of Sandwich


Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.
Sylvia Earle : 13494 : Earle, Sylvia


Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.
Sylvia Earle : 13521 : Earle, Sylvia


I think there are only three things America will be known for two thousand years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
Gerald Early : 7201 : Early, Gerald


I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. : 13450 : Earnhardt, Dale, Jr.


The streets of the City of Failure are paved with alibis - some of which are absolutely perfect.
Harry A. Earnshaw : 3682 : Earnshaw, Harry A.


I've always had the ability to say to the audience: "Watch this if you like it and if you don't - take a hike."
Clint Eastwood : 392 : Eastwood, Clint


When you're not interested in trying new things, that's when you should start hitting golf balls.
Clint Eastwood : 393 : Eastwood, Clint


Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood : 394 : Eastwood, Clint


There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. I got where I am by coming off the wall.
Clint Eastwood : 2194 : Eastwood, Clint


I used to play a lot of lab assistants. I'd be the guy running in, yelling "The place is on fire!" I never got shot or died - if that had happened, I would've gotten more screen time than average.
Clint Eastwood : 7176 : Eastwood, Clint


They say marriages are made in heaven, but so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood : 10276 : Eastwood, Clint


I've always thought of myself as a character actor rather than a leading man.
Clint Eastwood : 10798 : Eastwood, Clint


If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwood : 13502 : Eastwood, Clint


People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of parliament.
Abba Eban : 6 : Eban, Abba


History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban : 7 : Eban, Abba


Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
Abba Eban : 3467 : Eban, Abba


Now more than ever do I realize that I shall never be content with a sedentary life, and that I shall always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
Isabelle Eberhardt : 7862 : Eberhardt, Isabelle


Tom Hanks must be fundamentally a good person, or he is an even better actor than we think
Roger Ebert : 11992 : Ebert, Roger


We don't believe in rheumatism and love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : 2853 : Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von


If there is a faith that can move mountains, it is a faith in your own power.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : 4917 : Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von


If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : 11802 : Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von


A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry; but money answereth all things.
The Bible, Ecclesiastes : 9158 : Ecclesiastes


If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank you," that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart : 6848 : Eckhart, Meister


To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart : 8013 : Eckhart, Meister


The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart : 12116 : Eckhart, Meister


I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom, and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Arthur Eddington : 9627 : Eddington, Arthur


Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with truth and love.
Mary Baker Eddy : 7360 : Eddy, Mary Baker


Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman : 9249 : Edelman, Marian Wright


Corruption never has been compulsory.
Anthony Eden : 11692 : Eden, Anthony


The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth : 1999 : Edgeworth, Maria


Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
Maria Edgeworth : 2324 : Edgeworth, Maria


Friends should quarrel to strengthen their attachment, and offend each other for the pleasure of being reconciled.
Maria Edgeworth : 10038 : Edgeworth, Maria


It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home, but it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
Maria Edgeworth : 11513 : Edgeworth, Maria


Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison : 1764 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison : 2040 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about one hundred years.
Thomas A. Edison : 2295 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison : 2517 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison : 3715 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison : 3855 : Edison, Thomas Alva


The inventor tries to meet the demands of a crazy civilization.
Thomas Edison : 5138 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas Edison : 5525 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison : 5893 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison : 6566 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison : 7226 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You've got to make the damn thing work.
Thomas Alva Edison : 8291 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas Edison : 8639 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison : 9325 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Alva Edison : 12215 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison : 12637 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII : 2222 : Edward VIII


One can always tell when one is getting old and serious by the way that holidays seem to interfere with one's work.
Bob Edwards : 273 : Edwards, Bob


Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards : 2003 : Edwards, Bob


I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings.
Elizabeth Edwards : 8130 : Edwards, Elizabeth


In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Flora Edwards : 7941 : Edwards, Flora


I once saw a very large spider, to my surprise, swimming in the air, and others have assured me that they often have seen spiders fly; the appearance is truly very pretty and pleasing.
Jonathan Edwards : 4616 : Edwards, Jonathan


Resolved: Never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Jonathan Edwards : 5526 : Edwards, Jonathan


I tried, in my time, to be a philosopher, but ... cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Oliver Edwards : 4950 : Edwards, Oliver


A good man who goes wrong is just a bad man who has been found out.
Robert Chambers Edwards : 3713 : Edwards, Robert Chambers


Imperfect knowledge is the parent of doubt; thorough and honest research dispels it.
Tryon Edwards : 1807 : Edwards, Tryon


Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards : 8414 : Edwards, Tryon


Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it.
Tryon Edwards : 10499 : Edwards, Tryon


Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston : 3576 : Eggleston, Edward


You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg : 5006 : Ehrenburg, Ilya


Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote midwestern campuses.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 217 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 2340 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, a
Barbara Ehrenreich : 2659 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


James Bond in his Sean Connery days was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 7536 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 8626 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann (from Desiderata) : 3838 : Ehrmann, Max


It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
Billie Eilish : 13350 : Eilish, Billie


A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Albert Einstein : 36 : Einstein, Albert


I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein : 37 : Einstein, Albert


I, at any rate, am convinced that God is not playing at dice.
Albert Einstein : 38 : Einstein, Albert


Perfections of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein : 39 : Einstein, Albert


The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
Albert Einstein : 40 : Einstein, Albert


My political ideal is democracy. Everyone should be respected as an individual but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein : 41 : Einstein, Albert


Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein : 42 : Einstein, Albert


I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein : 43 : Einstein, Albert


No amount of experimentation can prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein : 44 : Einstein, Albert


When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein : 2171 : Einstein, Albert


No one knows enough to be a pessimist.
Albert Einstein : 2196 : Einstein, Albert


He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein : 2215 : Einstein, Albert


I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein : 3111 : Einstein, Albert


I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious
Albert Einstein : 3193 : Einstein, Albert


I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein : 3443 : Einstein, Albert


An empty stomach is not a good political adviser
Albert Einstein : 3717 : Einstein, Albert


It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein : 3721 : Einstein, Albert


I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.
Albert Einstein : 3766 : Einstein, Albert


People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein : 3784 : Einstein, Albert


Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein : 3990 : Einstein, Albert


It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein : 4093 : Einstein, Albert


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein : 4141 : Einstein, Albert


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
Albert Einstein : 4178 : Einstein, Albert


People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein : 4374 : Einstein, Albert


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
Albert Einstein : 4428 : Einstein, Albert


Isn't it strange that I who have only written unpopular books should be such a popular fellow.
Albert Einstein : 4432 : Einstein, Albert


If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
Albert Einstein : 4669 : Einstein, Albert


If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein : 4926 : Einstein, Albert


Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
Albert Einstein : 4957 : Einstein, Albert


Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudice laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein : 4969 : Einstein, Albert


Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
Albert Einstein : 5049 : Einstein, Albert


Schools must not work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity, and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Albert Einstein : 5207 : Einstein, Albert


Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay without knowing why. To me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Albert Einstein : 5306 : Einstein, Albert


Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein : 5340 : Einstein, Albert


The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein : 5359 : Einstein, Albert


Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein : 5386 : Einstein, Albert


The world war after the next one will be fought with rocks.
Albert Einstein : 5640 : Einstein, Albert


The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax!
Albert Einstein : 5682 : Einstein, Albert


The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein : 5928 : Einstein, Albert


I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein : 6345 : Einstein, Albert


There are two ways to live: You can live as if nothing is a miracle; You can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein : 7119 : Einstein, Albert


We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein : 7158 : Einstein, Albert


Science without religion is lame; Religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein : 7419 : Einstein, Albert


Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein : 7471 : Einstein, Albert


Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein : 7495 : Einstein, Albert


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein : 8038 : Einstein, Albert


One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me.
Albert Einstein : 8299 : Einstein, Albert


You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein : 8676 : Einstein, Albert


The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein : 9310 : Einstein, Albert


Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein : 9861 : Einstein, Albert


The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein : 10257 : Einstein, Albert


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein : 10277 : Einstein, Albert


It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein : 10463 : Einstein, Albert


Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of its sovereignty in favor of international institutions.
Albert Einstein : 10636 : Einstein, Albert


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein : 10980 : Einstein, Albert


The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein : 11070 : Einstein, Albert


Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein : 11088 : Einstein, Albert


Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein : 11105 : Einstein, Albert


Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
Albert Einstein : 11190 : Einstein, Albert


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein : 11729 : Einstein, Albert


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein : 13174 : Einstein, Albert


To enjoy baseball, you do not need violence in your heart.
Charles Einstein : 349 : Einstein, Charles


A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 479 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


The true slogan of a true democracy is not "let the government do it" but rather, "let's do it ourselves." This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves - and one another.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 480 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 481 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half-hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 2245 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame Southern Methodist University football game and doesn't care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 2574 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 2940 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 3055 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


The best foreign policy is to live our daily lives in honesty, decency, and integrity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 3517 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 3970 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6596 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6685 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6705 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6726 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6926 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 7905 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 10220 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 11120 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 11129 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 13182 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Purpose is the central ingredient of power. Powerful people and organizations have a strong, sometimes even skewed, sense of purpose. A strong point of view is worth eighty IQ points.
Michael Eisner : 5002 : Eisner, Michael


If it's not growing, it's going to die.
Michael Eisner : 9126 : Eisner, Michael


Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge : 2878 : Eldridge, Paul


Esteem and knowledge of a person are generally as the two sides of a seesaw: When one rises, the other falls.
Paul Eldridge : 10052 : Eldridge, Paul


Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
Paul Eldridge : 5088 : Eldridnoge, Paul


Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot : 11144 : Eliot, Charles W.


Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thought about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
George Eliot : 696 : Eliot, George


As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
George Eliot : 697 : Eliot, George


I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
George Eliot : 698 : Eliot, George


He is like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot : 699 : Eliot, George


An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot : 2418 : Eliot, George


Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot : 2794 : Eliot, George


Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot : 3225 : Eliot, George


We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.
George Eliot : 3397 : Eliot, George


If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot : 3423 : Eliot, George


He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for poetic imagination.
George Eliot : 3451 : Eliot, George


There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot : 3519 : Eliot, George


Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
George Eliot : 3944 : Eliot, George


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot : 4041 : Eliot, George


Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
George Eliot : 4068 : Eliot, George


Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot : 4731 : Eliot, George


Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
George Eliot : 5278 : Eliot, George


It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
George Eliot : 6042 : Eliot, George


A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
George Eliot : 6139 : Eliot, George


Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
George Eliot : 6257 : Eliot, George


I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
George Eliot : 6352 : Eliot, George


What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot : 6843 : Eliot, George


What we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
George Eliot : 7184 : Eliot, George


Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot : 8779 : Eliot, George


Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot : 9230 : Eliot, George


There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot : 9376 : Eliot, George


The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
George Eliot : 9570 : Eliot, George


There's many a one who would be idle if hunger didn't pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work.
George Eliot : 9740 : Eliot, George


Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot : 9757 : Eliot, George


Justice is like the kingdom of God - it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
George Eliot : 10472 : Eliot, George


The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot : 10999 : Eliot, George


Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot : 11257 : Eliot, George


We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
George Eliot : 11997 : Eliot, George


There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot : 12097 : Eliot, George


More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot : 12148 : Eliot, George


It will never rain roses: When we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot : 12315 : Eliot, George


Hint to farmers: what ought to be done today, do it, for tomorrow it may rain.
Jared Eliot : 947 : Eliot, Jared


Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Robert Eliot : 8841 : Eliot, Robert


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot : 1746 : Eliot, T. S.


If you want to write poetry you must earn a living some other way.
T. S. Eliot : 1747 : Eliot, T. S.


The present and the past are perhaps both present in the future and the future is contained in the past.
T. S. Eliot : 1748 : Eliot, T. S.


Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
T. S. Eliot : 1749 : Eliot, T. S.


Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
T. S. Eliot : 1979 : Eliot, T. S.


The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
T. S. Eliot : 2282 : Eliot, T. S.


I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable.
T. S. Eliot : 2735 : Eliot, T. S.


Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. Eliot : 3298 : Eliot, T. S.


But the essential advantage for a poet is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.
T. S. Eliot : 3515 : Eliot, T. S.


Home is where one starts from. As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
T. S. Eliot : 3567 : Eliot, T. S.


And the wind shall say: "here were decent godless people: their only monument the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls."
T. S. Eliot : 3938 : Eliot, T. S.


Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium.
T. S. Eliot : 4111 : Eliot, T. S.


Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
T. S. Eliot : 5052 : Eliot, T. S.


This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot : 6124 : Eliot, T. S.


I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot : 6296 : Eliot, T. S.


Yes, I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot : 6853 : Eliot, T. S.


No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do, To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince. Midnight shakes the memory, As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
T. S. Eliot : 7819 : Eliot, T. S.


The one thing to do, is to do nothing. Wait. You will find that you survive humiliation, and that's an experience of incalculable value.
T. S. Eliot : 8595 : Eliot, T. S.


Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot : 9831 : Eliot, T. S.


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot : 10310 : Eliot, T. S.


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 : 10414 : Eliot, T. S.


April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire.
T. S. Eliot : 13501 : Eliot, T. S.


It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and able man.
Scott Elledge : 1633 : Elledge, Scott


If men rule the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee : 1162 : Ellerbee, Linda


There is a gentle absurdity about Washington D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.
Linda Ellerbee : 2172 : Ellerbee, Linda


If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee : 3038 : Ellerbee, Linda


In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
Linda Ellerbee : 4254 : Ellerbee, Linda


I was raised by, and have raised, people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.
Linda Ellerbee : 7589 : Ellerbee, Linda


I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee : 9626 : Ellerbee, Linda


There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Jules Ellinger : 5300 : Ellinger, Jules


My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being, blessedness comes from God.
Duke Ellington : 2193 : Ellington, Duke


Life has two rules: Number one, never quit; Number two, always remember rule number one.
Duke Ellington : 2531 : Ellington, Duke


Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.
Duke Ellington : 6332 : Ellington, Duke


A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington : 12067 : Ellington, Duke


He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot : 12918 : Elliot, Jim


Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott : 10805 : Elliott, Walter


Live in terms of your strong points. Magnify them. Let your weaknesses shrivel up and die from lack of nourishment.
William Young Elliott : 6917 : Elliott, William Young


The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis : 4617 : Ellis, Albert


You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis : 12917 : Ellis, Albert


One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
Havelock Ellis : 806 : Ellis, Havelock


Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis : 4636 : Ellis, Havelock


What we call "Progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis : 5081 : Ellis, Havelock


All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis : 6987 : Ellis, Havelock


Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis : 7388 : Ellis, Havelock


Dance is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis : 9983 : Ellis, Havelock


It has always been difficult for man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so.
Havelock Ellis : 11212 : Ellis, Havelock


All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis : 9516 : Ellis, Henry Havelock


Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph Ellison : 4403 : Ellison, Ralph


The true artist destroys the accepted world by way of revealing the unseen, and creating that which is new and uniquely his own.
Ralph Ellison : 6597 : Ellison, Ralph


All I know is I end up singin' the blues and while I'm singing them blues I makes up my mind that I ain't nobody but myself and ain't nothing I can do but let whatever is gonna happen happen.
Ralph Ellison : 8877 : Ellison, Ralph


Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison : 11854 : Ellison, Ralph


Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
James Ellroy : 11132 : Ellroy, James


You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
Ethan Embry : 5627 : Embry, Ethan


Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
Emerson : 549 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Emerson : 550 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.
Emerson : 551 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Rings and jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Emerson : 552 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1489 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Heaven is large and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1490 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1491 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1492 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1493 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1494 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1495 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1496 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1497 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1498 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1499 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Good men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1500 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1501 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1502 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1503 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if only we know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2075 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


No man is quite sane. Each has a vein of folly in his composition - a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2169 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsen
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2195 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2527 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2577 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2850 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


In Maine they have not a summer but a thaw.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2927 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3207 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3457 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The salvation of America and of the human race depends on the next election, if we believe in the newspapers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3523 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3560 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3725 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3783 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3830 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3858 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The new individual must work out the whole problem of science, letters and theology for himself; can owe his fathers nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3937 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It is always pleasant to be generous though very vexatious to pay debts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4012 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for me expression of all his history, and his wants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4186 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4223 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4381 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4522 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4618 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4688 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4854 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
R. W. Emerson : 4981 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5189 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Improve (your spare moments) and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5325 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5503 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Life is short but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5649 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5871 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A sufficient and sure method of civilization is the influence of good women.
R. W. Emerson : 5873 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It's never too soon or too late to build for your future.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5888 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


If you would lift me up, you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6222 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6239 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from the fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6363 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6447 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6681 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6780 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6834 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6921 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6949 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7034 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7112 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We do what we can and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7667 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is done to us. We are the builders of our fortunes.
R. W. Emerson : 7741 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7773 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A mechanic is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night; it has an end. But the scholar's work has none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7939 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 8136 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


He who does his own work frees a slave. He who does not his own work is a slaveholder.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 8326 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Win as if you were used to it; Lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 8846 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9256 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9412 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9549 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9554 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfaction is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9642 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9833 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9919 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10079 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10126 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Art is a jealous mistress.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10180 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10325 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The lesson is, to know that men are superficially very inflammable, but that these fervors do not strike down and reach the action and habit of the man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10650 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10774 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10917 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10953 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11025 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11106 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11110 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11340 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11464 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11610 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


I can reason down or deny everything except this perpetual belly: Feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11915 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 12928 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 13115 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 13542 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We have no choice, to be a human being is to be a latent fool. The choice we have is whether or not we are going to be practicing fools.
Stewart Emery : 10419 : Emery, Stewart


I am whatever you say I am; If I wasn't then why would you say I am.
Eminem : 11399 : Eminem


I just want you all to notice me, and people to see, that somewhere deep down there's a decent human being in me.
Eminem : 12801 : Eminem


I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
: 13059 : Emma Goldman


Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments
Emmons : 560 : Emmons


Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Nathaniel Emmons : 9093 : Emmons, Nathaniel


The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Sigmund Engel : 6699 : Engel, Sigmund


You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.
Jon English : 8000 : English, Jon


I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
Nora Ephron : 1350 : Ephron, Nora


If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Nora Ephron : 1351 : Ephron, Nora


I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron : 2401 : Ephron, Nora


What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron : 7496 : Ephron, Nora


You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron : 9796 : Ephron, Nora


There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.
Nora Ephron : 10547 : Ephron, Nora


I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron : 10986 : Ephron, Nora


Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there.
Nora Ephron : 11863 : Ephron, Nora


Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron : 13341 : Ephron, Nora


Whoever sins least, he is the best man; for no man is innocent, no one free from blame.
Epicharmus : 8337 : Epicharmus


And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?
Epictetus : 565 : Epictetus


If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.
Epictetus : 566 : Epictetus


If I were a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale, if a swan, like a swan. But, since I am a rational creature, my role is to praise God.
Epictetus : 2286 : Epictetus


There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus : 3659 : Epictetus


Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus : 3816 : Epictetus


Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus : 4130 : Epictetus


Good fortune, like ripe fruit, ought to be enjoyed while it is still present.
Epictetus : 5446 : Epictetus


It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus : 8373 : Epictetus


First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus : 9470 : Epictetus


You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
Epictetus : 11647 : Epictetus


Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus : 12313 : Epictetus


Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus : 12488 : Epictetus


The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus : 12556 : Epictetus


Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus : 13177 : Epictetus


The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus : 3612 : Epicurus


It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus : 8132 : Epicurus


The greatest good is prudence; a more precious thing even than philosophy; from it spring all the other virtues.
Epicurus : 9397 : Epicurus


It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus : 9873 : Epicurus


The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
William Epson : 2372 : Epson, William


Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we will live.
Joseph Epstein : 1044 : Epstein, Joseph


When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus : 2026 : Erasmus


If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
Erasmus : 9630 : Erasmus


Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception, and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
Erasmus : 10652 : Erasmus


Let a king recall that it is better to improve his realm than to increase his territory.
Desiderius Erasmus : 435 : Erasmus, Desiderius


You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
Louise Erdrich : 10422 : Erdrich, Louise


A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he got the biggest piece.
Ludwig W. Erhard : 6562 : Erhard, Ludwig W.


Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Arthur Erickson : 8131 : Erickson, Arthur


Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps on ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickson : 9721 : Erickson, Lou


Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson : 7764 : Erikson, Erik H.


The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
Max Ernst : 8279 : Ernst, Max


The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
Morris Ernst : 2299 : Ernst, Morris Leopold


Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Morris Leopold Ernst : 6550 : Ernst, Morris Leopold


A beautiful woman is one I notice; a charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine : 996 : Erskine, John


Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
John Erskine : 3764 : Erskine, John


I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine : 9785 : Erskine, John


That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
Lord Erskine : 2583 : Erskine, Lord


Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz : 2344 : Ertz, Susan


I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Julius Erving (Dr. J) : 13394 : Erving, Julius


We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about its width and depth.
Evan Esar : 2138 : Esar, Evan


The only job at which you start at the top is digging a hole.
Evan Esar : 3248 : Esar, Evan


If you have made up your mind that you cannot do it, you're absolutely right.
Evan Esar : 3663 : Esar, Evan


Hope: Tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Evan Esar : 3773 : Esar, Evan


No matter how much you nurse a grudge, it won't get better.
Evan Esar : 3962 : Esar, Evan


The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Evan Esar : 4466 : Esar, Evan


There is only one food for thought; more thought.
Evan Esar : 4511 : Esar, Evan


An ace in your hand is worth two in the deck.
Evan Esar : 10171 : Esar, Evan


America believes in education: The average professor earns more money in a year than the professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar : 11550 : Esar, Evan


Family: a social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar : 12348 : Esar, Evan


Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Lord Essex : 7991 : Essex, Lord


If youth only knew; if age only could.
Henri Estienne : 6516 : Estienne, Henri


When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
Sir George Etherege : 3514 : Etherege, Sir George


I always wanted the fire of Springsteen. I always wanted the melodies that Van Morrison could write. I always wanted the heart of Joni Mitchell. And I wanted the guitar rhythms of Keith Richards.
Melissa Etheridge : 8522 : Etheridge, Melissa


Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to f
Bob Ettinger : 5696 : Ettinger, Bob


The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides : 2061 : Euripides


There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides : 2887 : Euripides


To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides : 3280 : Euripides


He who neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides : 3653 : Euripides


Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides : 6698 : Euripides


In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
Euripides : 6741 : Euripides


Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
Euripides : 6799 : Euripides


When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Euripides : 7036 : Euripides


Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides : 7086 : Euripides


The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides : 7393 : Euripides


Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
Euripides : 7719 : Euripides


In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Euripides : 8094 : Euripides


Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Euripides : 8401 : Euripides


The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides : 9281 : Euripides


Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides : 10577 : Euripides


Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides : 10849 : Euripides


Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides : 12786 : Euripides


No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth Thus preserving the face from congealing.
Anthony Euwer : 4201 : Euwer, Anthony


Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans : 6295 : Evans, Bergen


There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.
Bergen Evans : 9614 : Evans, Bergen


I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
George Bird Evans : 8609 : Evans, George Bird


Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people - singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.
Mari Evans : 1237 : Evans, Mari


Freedom has never been free ... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
Medgar Evers : 7213 : Evers, Medgar


In many instance, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to "Until debt do us part."
Sam Ewing : 3153 : Ewing, Sam


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing : 8977 : Ewing, Sam


Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing : 11800 : Ewing, Sam


If there isn't a law, there will be.
Harold Faber : 6171 : Faber, Harold


Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking,
Clifton Fadiman : 4239 : Fadiman, Clifton


Ennui, felt on the proper occasions, is a sign of intelligence.
Clifton Fadiman : 5516 : Fadiman, Clifton


To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Fadiman : 7665 : Fadiman, Clifton


Cheese - milk's leap forward to immortality.
Clifton Fadiman : 9498 : Fadiman, Clifton


Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Clifton Fadiman : 10420 : Fadiman, Clifton


A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman : 10668 : Fadiman, Clifton


Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull : 3481 : Faithfull, Marianne


Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine: they don't travel well.
Bernard Falk : 9087 : Falk, Bernard


When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary to not make a decision.
Lord Falkland : 12582 : Falkland, Lord


Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
Oriana Fallaci : 1393 : Fallaci, Oriana


One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
Rebecca Falls : 7993 : Falls, Rebecca


Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
Susan Faludi : 1737 : Faludi, Susan


To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Fanny Burney : 6618 : Fanny, Burney


Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!
Michael Faraday, when asked about the usefulness of electricity : 3096 : Faraday, Michael


Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature, and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Michael Faraday : 11869 : Faraday, Michael


Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.
Eleanor Farjeon : 12657 : Farjeon, Eleanor


A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun drenched beach and doesn't send you a card.
Farmer's Almanac : 4942 : Farmer's Almanac


I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer : 10695 : Farmer, Frances


No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William Faulkner : 1904 : Faulkner, William


A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner : 2783 : Faulkner, William


The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
William Faulkner : 2939 : Faulkner, William


I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner : 3287 : Faulkner, William


If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back as a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner : 3399 : Faulkner, William


Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner : 8437 : Faulkner, William


We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner : 9535 : Faulkner, William


The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William Faulkner : 11191 : Faulkner, William


I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally, Chance might deal you a good card.
Sebastian Faulks : 12092 : Faulks, Sebastian


God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as creator.
Elie Faure : 2958 : Faure, Elie


The reason the All-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that the All-American boy can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett : 595 : Fawcett, Farrah


Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather : 1905 : Feather, William


Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-class job under your direction.
William Feather : 3119 : Feather, William


Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Feather : 4992 : Feather, William


I'm a man of simple wants - all I want is my share of the best there is.
William Feather : 5482 : Feather, William


A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather : 6863 : Feather, William


The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
William Feather : 9140 : Feather, William


We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job.
William Feather : 11334 : Feather, William


If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
William Feather : 11946 : Feather, William


I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt, then my broker said the same thing.
Leopold Fechtman : 1151 : Fechtman, Leopold


Much of good manners is about knowing when to pretend that what's happening isn't happening.
Mrs. Falk Feeley : 1327 : Feeley, Mrs. Falk


I had a terrible nightmare. I dreamed that all the truths were known.
James Feibleman : 923 : Feibleman, James K.


Help a man in trouble and he will remember you when he's in trouble again.
James Feibleman : 924 : Feibleman, James K.


Every time we see Hamlet in a new and improved version, it almost seems as though we have lost him.
James Feibleman : 925 : Feibleman, James K.


Adults have trouble opening the safety cap on aspirin bottles but children can do it easily.
James Feibleman : 926 : Feibleman, James K.


Contract bridge was invented to save people the embarrassment of having to talk to each other.
James Feibleman : 927 : Feibleman, James K.


Every book has a strong individual character, like a leader among men.
James K. Feibleman : 930 : Feibleman, James K.


The really great are those who are able to make life meet them on their terms.
James Feibleman : 2078 : Feibleman, James K.


You can say one thing about ignorance: There seems to be more than enough to go around.
James Feibleman : 2485 : Feibleman, James K.


A scholar is one who thinks that if the meaning of a word changes with time, it is always for the worse.
James K. Feibleman : 3192 : Feibleman, James K.


We are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of our great technology. What man makes remakes man.
James Feibleman : 3211 : Feibleman, James K.


Old people maintain a conspiracy of silence. They never tell the young that they are having their best years.
James Feibleman : 3214 : Feibleman, James K.


Fiction takes many forms: novels, short stories, plays, campaign promises.
James K. Feibleman : 4964 : Feibleman, James K.


Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
Jules Feiffer : 9221 : Feiffer, Jules


With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.
Paul Feig : 12199 : Feig, Paul


Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.
Raymond Feist : 3934 : Feist, Raymond


Dad taught me all I know about remodeling by making an example of our house. Our house was like one of the great European cathedrals: never finished.
Michael Feldman : 9649 : Feldman, Michael


Society teaches us to lie. One of the first things parents teach kids is that they should try to look like they like a gift whether they do or not.
Robert Feldman : 8573 : Feldman, Robert


You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again.
Bob Feller : 13409 : Feller, Bob


In the mythology of cinema, Oscar is the supreme prize.
Federico Fellini : 3323 : Fellini, Federico


A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini : 4845 : Fellini, Federico


If not a director I would've been an actor, a singer, a painter, a circus performer, a musician, a writer, and a doctor in a mental hospital. I am very fortunate. As a director I can be all of these.
Federico Fellini : 8520 : Fellini, Federico


A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
Federico Fellini : 9900 : Fellini, Federico


People reproach me for not always telling the same story the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.
Federico Fellini : 11146 : Fellini, Federico


All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini : 12359 : Fellini, Federico


Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Fenelon : 599 : Fenelon


Love is conquered only by flight. Against such an enemy, true courage consists in fear and retreat, in retreat without deliberation, and without looking back.
Francois Fenelon : 11509 : Fenelon, Francois


The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.
Nevin Fenneman : 4753 : Fenneman, Nevin


A new baby is always the brightest cause for rejoicing in any house.
Edward Fenton : 5258 : Fenton, Edward


Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
James Fenton : 8593 : Fenton, James


To enjoy walking merely as walking was, and is, considered an eccentricity in the United States.
Edna Ferber : 520 : Ferber, Edna


A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber : 3024 : Ferber, Edna


About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
Edna Ferber : 5987 : Ferber, Edna


I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Edna Ferber : 11906 : Ferber, Edna


Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Marilyn Ferguson : 1242 : Ferguson, Marilyn


An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.
Marilyn Ferguson : 8921 : Ferguson, Marilyn


Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
Marilyn Ferguson : 12391 : Ferguson, Marilyn


The poet is like an acrobat, climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti : 4096 : Ferlinghetti, Lawrence


Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi : 3454 : Fermi, Enrico


Trust your gut, keep throwing darts at the dartboard. Don't listen to the critics and you will figure it out.
Will Ferrell : 12755 : Ferrell, Will


For many of you who maybe don't have it all figured out, it's OK. That's the same chair that I sat in.
Will Ferrell : 12764 : Ferrell, Will


Enjoy the process of your search without succumbing to the pressure of the result.
Will Ferrell : 12770 : Ferrell, Will


More husbands would leave home if they knew how to pack their suitcases.
Leopold Fetchner : 8047 : Fetchner, Leopold


The only suitable gift for the man who has everything is your deepest sympathy.
Imogene Fey : 886 : Fey, Imogene


You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
Tina Fey : 12398 : Fey, Tina


Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman : 1521 : Feynman, Richard


I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard Feynman : 9920 : Feynman, Richard


The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard Feynman : 12649 : Feynman, Richard


I am in love with high, far-seeing places.
Arthur Ficke : 9502 : Ficke, Arthur


Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig : 7772 : Fiebig, Jim


He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler : 7403 : Fiedler, Edgar R.


Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
Eugene Field : 585 : Field, Eugene


Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Eugene Field : 2514 : Field, Eugene


I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
Joanna Field : 11167 : Field, Joanna


I used to think I had ambition, but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field : 1485 : Field, Rachel


You don't have to do "issues" pictures to be worthwhile. Entertainment is one of the great values of mankind.
Sally Field : 8648 : Field, Sally


His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: That is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding : 3140 : Fielding, Henry


He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.
Henry Fielding : 3375 : Fielding, Henry


Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding : 9099 : Fielding, Henry


The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Sarah Fielding : 9865 : Fielding, Sarah


I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I have lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields : 4447 : Fields, Totie


The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a guy is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields : 1839 : Fields, W. C.


Start each day with a smile - and get it over with.
W. C. Fields : 2631 : Fields, W. C.


I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields : 2816 : Fields, W. C.


Women are like elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. Fields : 3297 : Fields, W. C.


Remember, a dead fish can swim downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields : 4486 : Fields, W. C.


Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields : 6948 : Fields, W. C.


I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields : 9478 : Fields, W. C.


My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
W. C. Fields : 10306 : Fields, W. C.


I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.
Guy Fieri : 12421 : Fieri, Guy


Cooking is like snow skiing: if you don't fall at least ten times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
Guy Fieri : 12451 : Fieri, Guy


Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together.
Guy Fieri : 12628 : Fieri, Guy


No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
Guy Fieri : 12639 : Fieri, Guy


Manage the heat, let the meat cook, and you'll get fantastic results.
Guy Fieri : 13217 : Fieri, Guy


Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein : 4237 : Fierstein, Harvey


Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
Harvey Fierstein : 11917 : Fierstein, Harvey


I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is "I love you," and one of them is bullets.
Nathan Fillion : 12319 : Fillion, Nathan


It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.
Nathan Fillion : 13482 : Fillion, Nathan


Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
Millard Fillmore : 1309 : Fillmore, Millard


I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.
Jennie Finch : 12382 : Finch, Jennie


A consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is.
Ed Finkelstein : 10100 : Finkelstein, Ed


Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the inner city
Ron Finley : 12975 : Finley, Ron


I've never traveled, Dona Consolation blandly confessed, "but I dare say, dear, you can't judge Egypt by Aida.'"
Ronald Firbank : 2723 : Firbank, Ronald


Beneath the strain of expectation even the little iced sugar cakes upon the tea table looked green with worry.
Ronald Firbank : 8986 : Firbank, Ronald


To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Fischer : 2802 : Fischer, Ernst


Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.
Martin H. Fischer : 3978 : Fischer, Martin H.


Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
Martin Fischer : 4048 : Fischer, Martin H.


I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
Martin H. Fischer : 4299 : Fischer, Martin H.


Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker, and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.
Martin H. Fischer : 4771 : Fischer, Martin H.


Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window except that the birds might eat them.
Martin H. Fischer : 5010 : Fischer, Martin H.


First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
Martin H. Fischer : 5185 : Fischer, Martin H.


Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer : 9790 : Fischer, Martin H.


The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.
Martin H. Fischer : 11235 : Fischer, Martin H.


There's no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now, I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher : 321 : Fisher, Carrie


Perfect contentment can rarely be recognized. Maybe in Tibet. Maybe in toddlers.
Carrie Fisher : 2000 : Fisher, Carrie


As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Carrie Fisher : 7697 : Fisher, Carrie


I was street-smart - but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Carrie Fisher : 10541 : Fisher, Carrie


Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
Carrie Fisher : 11639 : Fisher, Carrie


All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.
Carrie Fisher : 13023 : Fisher, Carrie


You're not really famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
Carrie Fisher : 13479 : Fisher, Carrie


Stay afraid, but do it anyway. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.
Carrie Fisher : 13547 : Fisher, Carrie


Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Dorothy Fisher : 459 : Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy da
Dorothy Canfield Fisher : 4150 : Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher : 6314 : Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be safely insane every night of the week.
Dr. Charles Fisher : 6409 : Fisher, Dr. Charles


A world without love is a deadly place.
Helen Fisher : 10857 : Fisher, Helen


Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or june and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M. F. K. Fisher : 12772 : Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy


I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
Ella Fitzgerald : 6090 : Fitzgerald, Ella


The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald : 6174 : Fitzgerald, Ella


For a statesman - any schoolchild knows that hot air rises to the top.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 591 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 2711 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 3328 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 3524 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 4026 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Writers aren't exactly people ... they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 5397 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you've got something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 5890 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 6085 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbor's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 9363 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 9775 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


An unread book is just a block of paper.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 10166 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 10915 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 10995 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 13531 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Nobody has measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald : 1951 : Fitzgerald, Zelda


By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Zelda Fitzgerald : 7870 : Fitzgerald, Zelda


I warn you, I am only really myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Zelda Fitzgerald : 8597 : Fitzgerald, Zelda


Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry : 3112 : Fitzhenry, R. I.


I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret M. Fitzpatrick : 9102 : Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.


The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix : 5339 : Fix, Paul


The urban workaday economy would be unthinkable without coffee.
Irene Fizer : 8376 : Fizer, Irene


It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.
Wilson Flagg : 11528 : Flagg, Wilson


Sometimes it is only a change of viewpoint that is needed to convert a seemingly tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Alberta Flanders : 47 : Flanders, Alberta


Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert : 2605 : Flaubert, Gustave


Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert : 3400 : Flaubert, Gustave


A novelist, in my opinion, does not have the right to give advice on the affairs of the world. He must, in his occupation, imitate God in His; that is to say, create and keep quiet.
Gustave Flaubert : 3444 : Flaubert, Gustave


Someone is a critic when he cannot be an artist in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert : 3994 : Flaubert, Gustave


By dint of railing at idiots, you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself.
Gustave Flaubert : 4479 : Flaubert, Gustave


Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert : 5883 : Flaubert, Gustave


One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
Gustave Flaubert : 6374 : Flaubert, Gustave


Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert : 6411 : Flaubert, Gustave


Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert : 6978 : Flaubert, Gustave


My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.
Gustave Flaubert : 7820 : Flaubert, Gustave


Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert : 8462 : Flaubert, Gustave


Everything one invents is true, you can be sure of that. Beyond a doubt my poor Bovary is suffering and weeping in twenty French villages at this very moment.
Gustave Flaubert : 8904 : Flaubert, Gustave


The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert : 9704 : Flaubert, Gustave


The only way to be happy is to shut yourself up in art, and count everything as nothing.
Gustave Flaubert : 10763 : Flaubert, Gustave


I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. Flay : 13413 : Flay, K.


Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Ian Fleming : 3602 : Fleming, Ian


A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
Ian Fleming : 4803 : Fleming, Ian


A medium vodka dry martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
Ian Fleming : 7020 : Fleming, Ian


You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming : 7107 : Fleming, Ian


The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming : 9906 : Fleming, Peggy


Walking is a form of exercise that loses some appeal when it's done behind a lawn mower.
Gary Fletchall : 7654 : Fletchall, Gary


Other things being equal, the value of a book, and especially of an authors whole work, is proportional to its range, that is to the breadth and variety of the life and characters which it presents.
Robert Huntington Fletcher : 11468 : Fletcher, Robert Huntington


A child study institution has completed research on youngsters who suck their thumbs and has issued a report that such children have a distinct tendency toward one clean thumb.
D. O. Flynn : 9279 : Flynn, D. O.


My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn : 8793 : Flynn, Errol


It's hard for kids today to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own a snorkel.
June Flynn : 9747 : Flynn, June


The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch : 10265 : Foch, Ferdinand


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley : 5423 : Foley, Elizabeth


We shared everything all our lives, the important ones and the trivial ones, and it's the trivial ones that build ties between people.
Rae Foley : 5971 : Foley, Rae


Laws are felt only when the individual comes in conflict with them.
Suzanne La Follette : 8362 : Follette, Suzanne La


I'm not really Henry Fonda. Nobody could have that much integrity.
Henry Fonda : 837 : Fonda, Henry


You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda : 6093 : Fonda, Jane


I'm perfect. The areas that I need help on are not negotiable. They have to do with gravity.
Jane Fonda : 11998 : Fonda, Jane


It's always been the woman's disadvantage to be older, never the man's.
Jane Fonda : 12818 : Fonda, Jane


True philosophers are like elephants who when walking never place their second foot on the ground until the first is steady.
Bernard de Fontenelle : 3453 : Fontenelle, Bernard de


Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Margot Fonteyn : 1235 : Fonteyn, Margot


His technique is astounding, yet everything is accomplished with the air of someone sauntering through the park on a spring morning.
Margot Fonteyn, On Fred Astaire : 1236 : Fonteyn, Margot


Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn : 7873 : Fonteyn, Margot


Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn : 10761 : Fonteyn, Margot


It's enormously important that families eat together. One of the things that's wrong with us is the damn microwave. Kids come in one by one and fix themselves something to eat, and the family never sits down together.
Shelby Foote : 5197 : Foote, Shelby


There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes : 211 : Forbes, B. C.


A business, like an automobile, has to be driven in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes : 2562 : Forbes, B. C.


The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes : 3047 : Forbes, B. C.


Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. Forbes : 8674 : Forbes, B. C.


The size of your body is of little account; the size of your brain is of much account; the size of your heart is of the most account of all.
B. C. Forbes : 9664 : Forbes, B. C.


It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
Malcolm Forbes : 1213 : Forbes, Malcolm


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes : 8067 : Forbes, Malcolm


Diversity: The art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes : 11429 : Forbes, Malcolm


When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes : 12516 : Forbes, Malcolm


Few businessmen are capable of being in politics - they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance nor the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcom Forbes : 2246 : Forbes, Malcom


It is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.
Rosita Forbes : 1579 : Forbes, Rosita


Trying to run a presidential campaign is a little like driving a freight train while you're still building the tracks.
Steve Forbes : 8974 : Forbes, Steve


I enjoy the moment for the moment, take everything out of what I'm doing one step at a time, and when it's gone I will have lived that time to the fullest.
Betty Ford : 2285 : Ford, Betty


It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Betty Ford : 10646 : Ford, Betty


Why should my husband's job or yours prevent us from being ourselves? Being ladylike does not require silence.
Betty Ford : 11271 : Ford, Betty


Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
Gerald Ford : 722 : Ford, Gerald R.


The American people want a dialogue between them and their president. And if we can't have that opportunity of talking with one another, seeing one another, shaking hands with one another, something has gone wrong in our society.
Gerald R. Ford : 723 : Ford, Gerald R.


I know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford : 3315 : Ford, Gerald R.


A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford : 7953 : Ford, Gerald R.


If they try to rush me, I always say, "I've only got one other speed, and it's slower."
Glenn Ford : 2487 : Ford, Glenn


Los Angeles is where you've got to be as an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin - it came up New York. So I flipped it again.
Harrison Ford : 6581 : Ford, Harrison


We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford : 7796 : Ford, Harrison


I'm quite comfortable with the reality of my age, and I don't feel old. I'll continue to do physical roles until it begins to hurt too much.
Harrison Ford : 8586 : Ford, Harrison


Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live forever, and they're forty feet wide and twenty feet high.
Harrison Ford : 9377 : Ford, Harrison


Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
Henry Ford : 838 : Ford, Henry


Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick you shouldn't take it.
Henry Ford : 839 : Ford, Henry


Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.
Henry Ford : 840 : Ford, Henry


An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford : 841 : Ford, Henry


Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
Henry Ford : 842 : Ford, Henry


It is easy to give alms; it is better that we work to make the giving of alms unnecessary.
Henry Ford : 843 : Ford, Henry


I invented nothing new; I simply assembled into a car the discoveries of other men.
Henry Ford : 2212 : Ford, Henry


The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford : 2216 : Ford, Henry


The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford : 2964 : Ford, Henry


Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford : 3242 : Ford, Henry


People who have no time don't think. The more you think, the more time you have.
Henry Ford : 5484 : Ford, Henry


Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; and working together is success.
Henry Ford : 6187 : Ford, Henry


Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford : 6529 : Ford, Henry


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford : 6565 : Ford, Henry


Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford : 7417 : Ford, Henry


If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford : 9532 : Ford, Henry


When everything seems to be going against you, remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford : 9715 : Ford, Henry


It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford : 10725 : Ford, Henry


Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford : 11049 : Ford, Henry


A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford : 12047 : Ford, Henry


You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford : 13070 : Ford, Henry


I am a mushroom on whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
John Ford : 2922 : Ford, John


People are incorrect to compare a director to an author. If he's a creator, he's more like an architect. And an architect conceives his plans according to precise circumstances.
John Ford : 9272 : Ford, John


It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about.
Paul F. Ford : 6399 : Ford, Paul F.


Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Richard Ford : 1522 : Ford, Richard


One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
G. Fordyce : 659 : Fordyce, G.


The days of the whiny athlete should come to an end. I don't think much of guys who say, "I've been robbed" when they walk away with a million bucks in their pocket.
George Foreman : 3014 : Foreman, George


Even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.
George Foreman, on leaving boxing to become a preacher : 6277 : Foreman, George


I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
George Foreman : 8251 : Foreman, George


Why pose and posture a self that is other than you, when I know your true name.
Leon Forrest : 7021 : Forrest, Leon


I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
Eugene Forsey : 10675 : Forsey, Eugene


The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster : 486 : Forster, E. M.


Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
E. M. Forster : 487 : Forster, E. M.


It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's fifth symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. Forster : 488 : Forster, E. M.


Books have to be read. It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
E. M. Forster : 2241 : Forster, E. M.


Nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
E. M. Forster : 2330 : Forster, E. M.


Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
E. M. Forster : 2702 : Forster, E. M.


I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves
E. M. Forster : 7196 : Forster, E. M.


Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster : 7494 : Forster, E. M.


He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to the half-baked mind.
E. M. Forster : 8971 : Forster, E. M.


I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and I betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster : 9306 : Forster, E. M.


She felt that those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster : 10449 : Forster, E. M.


Choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. Forster : 11859 : Forster, E. M.


Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.
T. Thomas Fortune : 1750 : Fortune, T. Thomas


Mental inertia is death.
T. Thomas Fortune : 6173 : Fortune, T. Thomas


Democracy is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
H. E. Fosdick : 770 : Fosdick, Harry Emerson


It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it and sets it free.
H. E. Fosdick : 3820 : Fosdick, Harry Emerson


He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
Harry Emerson Fosdick : 4203 : Fosdick, Harry Emerson


Cordless phones are great. If you can find them.
Glenn Foster : 4867 : Foster, Glenn


It doesn't take intelligence to be an actor.
Jodie Foster : 980 : Foster, Jodie


Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster : 2083 : Foster, Jodie


An idea cannot well be accompanied by a stronger kind of interest than the earnest wish to escape from it.
John Foster : 2463 : Foster, John


Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me. Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.
Stephen Foster : 8353 : Foster, Stephen


Rainier, from Puget Sound, is a sight for the gods, and when one looks upon him he feels that he is in the presence of the gods.
Paul Fountain : 2708 : Fountain, Paul


Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.
C. H. Fowler : 7951 : Fowler, C. H.


The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Orson Squire Fowler : 2079 : Fowler, Orson Squire


In essence the renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles : 999 : Fowles, John


Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sans pareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devised of mind and body. For me it remains the Proust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past-and-present.
John Fowles : 3401 : Fowles, John


There are many reasons shy novelists write, but they all have one thing in common -- a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles : 9365 : Fowles, John


Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
John Fowles : 11574 : Fowles, John


I never feel lonely if I've got a book. They're like old friends.
Emilia Fox : 12583 : Fox, Emilia


Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.
George Fox : 2908 : Fox, George


A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
Vivica Fox : 11026 : Fox, Vivica


Being the designated driver is not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
Jeff Foxworthy : 7197 : Foxworthy, Jeff


Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx : 4370 : Foxx, Redd


For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Janet Frame : 3643 : Frame, Janet


There is always a moment when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always on the side of the learned.
Anatole France : 87 : France, Anatole


There are very honest people who do not think they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France : 88 : France, Anatole


If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France : 89 : France, Anatole


Let us create rational human beings, capable of crushing underfoot the futile magnificence of barbaric glories, and of resisting those bloody ambitions of nationalism and imperialism.
Anatole France : 2994 : France, Anatole


Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France : 3042 : France, Anatole


You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France : 3501 : France, Anatole


It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France : 4121 : France, Anatole


Never lend books, nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France : 6563 : France, Anatole


The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France : 7241 : France, Anatole


Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France : 7432 : France, Anatole


An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France : 7539 : France, Anatole


Ignorance is the necessary condition of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence for a single hour.
Anatole France : 7597 : France, Anatole


A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear so.
Anatole France : 7678 : France, Anatole


We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France : 8485 : France, Anatole


A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France : 12046 : France, Anatole


If the practice of virtue eludes you, then give yourself up to vice with such saintly dedication that eventually you will become one of the elect.
Brendan Francis : 3069 : Francis, Brendan


What an author likes to write most is his signaure on the back of a check.
Brendan Francis : 3390 : Francis, Brendan


Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis : 3992 : Francis, Brendan


When two men fight over a woman, it's the fight they want, not the woman.
Brendan Francis : 8801 : Francis, Brendan


A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis : 9543 : Francis, Brendan


Do what you love at least a little bit, and if you have to do something else to support what you love, do it.
James Franco : 12763 : Franco, James


Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race.
Maude Frandsen : 3578 : Frandsen, Maude


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank : 5894 : Frank, Anne


Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank : 6499 : Frank, Anne


Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank : 11345 : Frank, Anne


The supreme sin is to not be able to forgive yourself.
Waldo Frank : 7376 : Frank, Waldo


I don't know why in the West thirteen is considered an unlucky number, but in the East two is considered the unlucky number because it marks the first departure from one, unity.
Jor Frankel : 2999 : Frankel, Jor


When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken : 6539 : Franken, Al


A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.
Helen Frankenthaler : 811 : Frankenthaler, Helen


The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest, which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Felix Frankfurter : 3948 : Frankfurter, Felix


Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter : 5441 : Frankfurter, Felix


It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter : 13359 : Frankfurter, Felix


I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility in the West coast.
Victor Frankl : 9003 : Frankl, Victor


Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin : 163 : Franklin, Aretha


I sing to people about what matters. I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but to some, feelings take courage.
Aretha Franklin : 4995 : Franklin, Aretha


Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin : 12887 : Franklin, Aretha


He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Ben Franklin : 222 : Franklin, Benjamin


Visit your aunt, but not every day; and call at your brother's, but not every night.
Ben Franklin : 223 : Franklin, Benjamin


Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
Ben Franklin : 224 : Franklin, Benjamin


A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin : 232 : Franklin, Benjamin


To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Benjamin Franklin : 233 : Franklin, Benjamin


They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin : 234 : Franklin, Benjamin


Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Benjamin Franklin : 235 : Franklin, Benjamin


When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
Benjamin Franklin : 236 : Franklin, Benjamin


Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin : 237 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you really want to lose weight, there are only three things to give up: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Benjamin Franklin : 238 : Franklin, Benjamin


There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin : 239 : Franklin, Benjamin


As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin : 2002 : Franklin, Benjamin


The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin : 2160 : Franklin, Benjamin


Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin : 2202 : Franklin, Benjamin


Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin : 2637 : Franklin, Benjamin


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
Ben Franklin : 3059 : Franklin, Benjamin


Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin : 3203 : Franklin, Benjamin


Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin : 3332 : Franklin, Benjamin


Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin : 3683 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you.
Benjamin Franklin : 3720 : Franklin, Benjamin


Fraud and deciet are ever in a hurry; take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
Ben Franklin : 3733 : Franklin, Benjamin


Don't throw stones at you neighbors if your own windows are glass.
Benjamin Franklin : 3765 : Franklin, Benjamin


Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Ben Franklin : 3802 : Franklin, Benjamin


You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin : 4460 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.
Benjamin Franklin : 4523 : Franklin, Benjamin


Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin : 4716 : Franklin, Benjamin


Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin : 4873 : Franklin, Benjamin


The first mistake in public business is going into it.
Benjamin Franklin : 4920 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin : 5208 : Franklin, Benjamin


All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin : 5369 : Franklin, Benjamin


Constant complaints is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin : 5490 : Franklin, Benjamin


Constant complaints is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin : 5491 : Franklin, Benjamin


Content makes poor men rich; Discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin : 5544 : Franklin, Benjamin


You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Ben Franklin : 5565 : Franklin, Benjamin


Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Ben Franklin : 5566 : Franklin, Benjamin


God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Ben Franklin : 5567 : Franklin, Benjamin


A good example is the best sermon.
Ben Franklin : 5568 : Franklin, Benjamin


Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Ben Franklin : 5569 : Franklin, Benjamin


He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
Ben Franklin : 5570 : Franklin, Benjamin


Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Ben Franklin : 5571 : Franklin, Benjamin


Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Ben Franklin : 5572 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Ben Franklin : 5573 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Ben Franklin : 5574 : Franklin, Benjamin


But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin : 5688 : Franklin, Benjamin


Great beauty, great strength and great riches are really and truly of no great use; A right heart exceeds all.
Benjamin Franklin : 5908 : Franklin, Benjamin


A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
Benjamin Franklin : 5930 : Franklin, Benjamin


Trouble springs from idleness and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin : 6243 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin : 6658 : Franklin, Benjamin


Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin : 6804 : Franklin, Benjamin


Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin : 6984 : Franklin, Benjamin


Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin : 7073 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin : 7349 : Franklin, Benjamin


They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
Benjamin Franklin : 7622 : Franklin, Benjamin


Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin : 7965 : Franklin, Benjamin


A Man without a Wife is but half a Man.
Benjamin Franklin : 8097 : Franklin, Benjamin


Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin : 8392 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin : 8772 : Franklin, Benjamin


We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin : 9538 : Franklin, Benjamin


By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin : 10231 : Franklin, Benjamin


I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin : 10633 : Franklin, Benjamin


There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin : 10782 : Franklin, Benjamin


Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
Ben Franklin : 10966 : Franklin, Benjamin


A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin : 11032 : Franklin, Benjamin


The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin : 11585 : Franklin, Benjamin


Keep conscience clear, then never fear.
Benjamin Franklin : 11686 : Franklin, Benjamin


Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin : 12068 : Franklin, Benjamin


Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they're seventy-five.
Benjamin Franklin : 12753 : Franklin, Benjamin


Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin : 13176 : Franklin, Benjamin


Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin : 13360 : Franklin, Benjamin


Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin : 13499 : Franklin, Benjamin


The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be.
Jay Franklin : 2109 : Franklin, Jay


There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
Jonathan Franzen : 10994 : Franzen, Jonathan


It is an axiom of sports that the legs go first. For sportswriters, it's the enthusiasm.
Trent Frayne : 1805 : Frayne, Trent


Drive out prejudices through the door, and they will return through the window.
Frederick II : 633 : Frederick II


All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Frederick The Great : 634 : Frederick The Great


If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great : 635 : Frederick The Great


I think audiences come to hear older musicians like me just to see if we can pick up a horn without falling over.
Bud Freeman : 290 : Freeman, Bud


How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!
Eileen Elias Freeman : 4712 : Freeman, Eileen Elias


Sometimes the answer to a prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
James Dillet Freeman : 8681 : Freeman, James Dillet


Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Martin Freeman : 10937 : Freeman, Martin


I have been offered roles of black quasi-heroes who get hanged at the end. I won't do a part like that. If I do a hero, he's going to live to the end of the movie.
Morgan Freeman : 2254 : Freeman, Morgan


My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
Ace Frehley : 13440 : Frehley, Ace


Infatuation means, "A love that it is inconvenient to go on with."
Celia Fremlin : 10542 : Fremlin, Celia


I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always those damned dishes.
Marilyn French : 3431 : French, Marilyn


Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing.
Louise Fresco : 12121 : Fresco, Louise


Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud : 111 : Freud, Anna


I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud : 12994 : Freud, Anna


If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.
Clement Freud : 4483 : Freud, Clement


The mind is an iceberg; it floats with only one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Freud : 642 : Freud, Sigmund


As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.
Sigmund Freud : 2175 : Freud, Sigmund


The principal task of civilization, its actual raison d'etre, is to defend us against nature.
Sigmund Freud : 3552 : Freud, Sigmund


The most powerful obstacle to culture is the tendency to aggression, which is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man.
Sigmund Freud : 3953 : Freud, Sigmund


Neurosis seems to be a human privilege.
Sigmund Freud : 6514 : Freud, Sigmund


A good rule for letter writing is to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
Sigmund Freud : 10028 : Freud, Sigmund


A quack is anyone who undertakes a treatment without possessing the knowledge and capacities necessary for it.
Sigmund Freud : 10461 : Freud, Sigmund


The worst egoist is the person to whom the thought has never occurred that he might be one.
Sigmund Freud : 11615 : Freud, Sigmund


Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud : 12080 : Freud, Sigmund


We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Sigmund Freud : 12946 : Freud, Sigmund


A man cannot know everything, but everyone has to have something he knows thoroughly.
Gustav Freytag : 767 : Freytag, Gustav


The older I get, the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday : 1330 : Friday, Nancy


When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan : 3132 : Friedan, Betty


Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone. The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan : 9266 : Friedan, Betty


The time is at hand when the voices of the feminine mystique can no longer drown out the inner voice that is driving women on to become complete.
Betty Friedan : 9657 : Friedan, Betty


Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.
Edgar Friedenberg : 2986 : Friedenberg, Edgar


Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
Mickey Friedman : 5382 : Friedman, Mickey


No major institution in the U. S. has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
Milton Friedman : 3518 : Friedman, Milton


Thank heavens we do not get all of the government that we are made to pay for.
Milton Friedman : 8344 : Friedman, Milton


Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman : 10847 : Friedman, Milton


How did language develop? In much the same way as an economic order develops through the market - out of the voluntary interaction of individuals, in this case seeking to trade ideas or information or gossip rather than goods and services with one another
Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman : 3371 : Friedman, Milton and Rose


Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the new world in the first place.
Otto Friedrich : 6945 : Friedrich, Otto


Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch : 9768 : Frisch, Max


Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frohman : 4842 : Frohman, Charles


Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Allan Frome : 9228 : Frome, Allan


Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm : 574 : Fromm, Erich


A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living. No sensible answer can be given to the question because the question does not make any sense.
Erich Fromm : 2174 : Fromm, Erich


Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
Erich Fromm : 2365 : Fromm, Erich


There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.
Erich Fromm : 3117 : Fromm, Erich


One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm : 3707 : Fromm, Erich


The idea that egotism is the basis of the general welfare is the principle on which competitive society has been built.
Erich Fromm : 5210 : Fromm, Erich


Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm : 6444 : Fromm, Erich


Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm : 6578 : Fromm, Erich


The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm : 7967 : Fromm, Erich


The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm : 10526 : Fromm, Erich


Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. I should have called it something you somehow haven't to deserve.
Robert Frost : 1543 : Frost, Robert


Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost : 1544 : Frost, Robert


Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
Robert Frost : 1545 : Frost, Robert


Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost : 1546 : Frost, Robert


The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost : 1547 : Frost, Robert


Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
Robert Frost : 1548 : Frost, Robert


The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Robert Frost : 2383 : Frost, Robert


The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost : 2965 : Frost, Robert


Before I built a wall I'd ask to know, what I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was like to give offense.
Robert Frost : 3521 : Frost, Robert


Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost : 3647 : Frost, Robert


We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost : 4037 : Frost, Robert


Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Robert Frost : 4439 : Frost, Robert


Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost : 5494 : Frost, Robert


Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost : 6654 : Frost, Robert


I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost : 6682 : Frost, Robert


I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost : 6758 : Frost, Robert


Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in the position to look too close.
Robert Frost : 7024 : Frost, Robert


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost : 7067 : Frost, Robert


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost : 7100 : Frost, Robert


Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost : 7485 : Frost, Robert


A poem is never a put-up job so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a home-sickness, a love sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
Robert Frost : 7755 : Frost, Robert


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost : 8480 : Frost, Robert


The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost : 8596 : Frost, Robert


You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost : 8835 : Frost, Robert


Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason, To go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
Robert Frost : 8891 : Frost, Robert


Earth's the right place for love; I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Frost : 10524 : Frost, Robert


Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost : 10829 : Frost, Robert


The first duty of a historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.
J. A. Froude : 10800 : Froude, J. A.


You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.
James A. Froude : 10766 : Froude, James A.


Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
James Froude : 1998 : Froude, James Anthony


No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James A. Froude : 7935 : Froude, James Anthony


In football it is widely acknowledged that if both sides agree to cheat, cheating is fair.
C. B. Fry : 299 : Fry, C. B.


The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
Christopher Fry : 7647 : Fry, Christopher


Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher Fry : 9253 : Fry, Christopher


Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Christopher Fry : 10855 : Fry, Christopher


An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry : 12821 : Fry, Stephen


Recall it as often as you wish; a happy memory never wears out.
Libbie Fudim : 5428 : Fudim, Libbie


I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes : 5949 : Fuentes, Carlos


High on the agenda for the twenty-first century will be the need to restore some kind of tragic consciousness.
Carlos Fuentes : 7616 : Fuentes, Carlos


By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
Carlos Fuentes : 10719 : Fuentes, Carlos


In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
William Fulbright : 1906 : Fulbright, William


Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.
Dorothy Fuldheim : 7314 : Fuldheim, Dorothy


My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would someday graduate from Canada.
Robert Fulford : 3446 : Fulford, Robert


Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum : 6281 : Fulghum, Robert


The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
Robert Fulghum : 8187 : Fulghum, Robert


Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum : 10081 : Fulghum, Robert


Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.
J. William Fullbright : 10628 : Fullbright, J. William


I like the hair upon your shoulders, falling like water over boulders. I like the shoulders, too; they are essential. Your collar-bones have great potential, I'd like all your particulars in folders marked confidential.
John Fuller : 1001 : Fuller, John


A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Margaret Fuller : 10075 : Fuller, Margaret


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller : 13105 : Fuller, Margaret


It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller : 7619 : Fuller, Millard


I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of e
R. Buckminster Fuller : 2937 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 4271 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 5944 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 6316 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


I'd like to introduce myself as the world's most successful failure.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 7341 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Buckminster Fuller : 7833 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 8347 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Buckminster Fuller : 8740 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Buckminster Fuller : 9091 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Buckminster Fuller : 9490 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 10769 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 12445 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 12621 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 12699 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Sam Fuller : 7324 : Fuller, Sam


Let us spare where we can, so that we can spend where we should.
Thomas Fuller : 1772 : Fuller, Thomas


Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what there be.
Thomas Fuller : 1773 : Fuller, Thomas


If afflictions refine some, they consume others.
Thomas Fuller : 2930 : Fuller, Thomas


If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all.
Thomas Fuller : 3309 : Fuller, Thomas


Marriage is not like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.
Thomas Fuller : 3691 : Fuller, Thomas


We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Thomas Fuller : 5128 : Fuller, Thomas


Men of business must not break their word twice.
Thomas Fuller : 5158 : Fuller, Thomas


Light (God's eldest daughter} is a principal beauty in building.
Thomas Fuller : 6770 : Fuller, Thomas


He's my friend who speaks well of me behind my back.
Thomas Fuller : 8424 : Fuller, Thomas


Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
Thomas Fuller : 8483 : Fuller, Thomas


Regard not so much what the world thinks of you, as what you think of yourself.
Thomas Fuller : 8717 : Fuller, Thomas


Learn how to refuse favors. This is a great and very useful art.
Thomas Fuller : 8790 : Fuller, Thomas


All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas Fuller : 9112 : Fuller, Thomas


If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller : 9204 : Fuller, Thomas


It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller : 10561 : Fuller, Thomas


Choose not your friends by outward show, for the feather floats where the pearl lies low.
Faye Fullmer : 596 : Fullmer, Faye


Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
Annette Funicello : 10260 : Funicello, Annette


The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.
Julie Furtado : 9406 : Furtado, Julie


Art among a religious race produces relics among; a military one, trophies, among a commercial one, articles of trade.
Henry Fuseli : 844 : Fuseli, Henry


The forms of virtue are erect, the forms of pleasure undulate.
Henry Fuseli : 2914 : Fuseli, Henry


In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.
G-Dragon : 12916 : G-Dragon


The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
Geoffrey Gaberino : 11208 : Gaberino, Geoffrey


It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
Clark Gable : 2050 : Gable, Clark


The most important thing a man can know is that, as he approaches his own door, someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.
Clark Gable : 8231 : Gable, Clark


I hate to have my picture taken. I put it off just as long as I can possibly get away with it, then I finally go and act like a ham standing before a camera in riding boots or clutching a pipe between my teeth.
Clark Gable : 11470 : Gable, Clark


The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
Clark Gable : 12467 : Gable, Clark


Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable : 7790 : Gable, Dan


I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick to it.
Eva Gabor : 8345 : Gabor, Eva


I believe in large families. Every woman should have at least three husbands.
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 1952 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 3316 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 5392 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


I want a man who is kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a billionaire?
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 6999 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis : 1907 : Gaddis, William


He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.
Tarvald Gahlin : 9054 : Gahlin, Tarvald


The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman : 7110 : Gaiman, Neil


Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
Neil Gaiman : 10263 : Gaiman, Neil


You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman : 12112 : Gaiman, Neil


Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.
Neil Gaiman : 12614 : Gaiman, Neil


It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman : 13164 : Gaiman, Neil


I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and Regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
Thomas Gainsborough : 3402 : Gainsborough, Thomas


If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by a spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1004 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1005 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1006 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1007 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 4707 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Money differs from an automobile, a mistress, or cancer in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 5183 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 7198 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 8620 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


It's great to be with Bill Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite and you know you're right.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 8899 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a financial panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 9599 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


A junket is any business trip which, if taken by anyone but yourself, would be considered unnecessary.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 10047 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 11173 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale : 12371 : Gale, Susan


And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others?
Galileo Galilei : 4161 : Galilei, Galileo


You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei : 5342 : Galilei, Galileo


Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher : 3742 : Gallagher, Robert C.


I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
Mavis Gallant : 9601 : Gallant, Mavis


No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico : 3424 : Gallico, Paul


College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
Paul Gallico : 3525 : Gallico, Paul


Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
John Galsworthy : 1002 : Galsworthy, John


He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
John Galsworthy : 3513 : Galsworthy, John


Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
John Galsworthy : 11758 : Galsworthy, John


Well washed and well combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
Francis Galton : 8697 : Galton, Francis


It is next to impossible, I believe, to toss a brick in the air anywhere in County Galway without it landing on the head of some musician.
James Galway : 7247 : Galway, James


Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
Gambetta : 2589 : Gambetta, Leon


Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
Leon Gambetta : 13340 : Gambetta, Leon


My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi : 2966 : Gandhi, Indira


A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi : 9385 : Gandhi, Indira


If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi : 1210 : Gandhi, Mohandas


I hate privilege and monopoly. Whatever cannot be shared with the masses is taboo to me.
Mohandas Gandhi : 1315 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mohandas Gandhi : 2008 : Gandhi, Mohandas


If by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others, surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired!
Mohandas Gandhi : 2274 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mohandas Gandhi : 2770 : Gandhi, Mohandas


There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mohandas Gandhi : 3967 : Gandhi, Mohandas


It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom, it is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi : 5203 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Almost everything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi : 5656 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mohandas Gandhi : 6064 : Gandhi, Mohandas


One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6659 : Gandhi, Mohandas


As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6753 : Gandhi, Mohandas


You may never know what results come from your action, but if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6839 : Gandhi, Mohandas


It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6852 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6856 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6903 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi : 7012 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi : 7068 : Gandhi, Mohandas


We should be ashamed of resting or having a square meal so long as there is one able-bodied man or woman without work or food.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7259 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7459 : Gandhi, Mohandas


If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7604 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7895 : Gandhi, Mohandas


In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mohandas Gandhi : 8316 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Hate the sin and not the sinner.
Mohandas Gandhi : 8412 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.
Mohandas Gandhi : 9358 : Gandhi, Mohandas


There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi : 9834 : Gandhi, Mohandas


True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Mohandas Gandhi : 10421 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi : 11020 : Gandhi, Mohandas


I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi : 11034 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mohandas Gandhi : 11323 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi : 11397 : Gandhi, Mohandas


The earth has enough for every man's need, but not for every man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi : 11644 : Gandhi, Mohandas


A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi : 12225 : Gandhi, Mohandas


The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi : 12288 : Gandhi, Mohandas


A man is but the product of his thoughts - What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi : 12969 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
Sonia Gandhi : 12305 : Gandhi, Sonia


Never trust a base runner who's limping. Comes a base hit and you'd think he just got back from Lourdes.
Joe Garagiola : 4922 : Garagiola, Joe


Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola : 7774 : Garagiola, Joe


It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.
Greta Garbo : 758 : Garbo, Greta


Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
Greta Garbo : 759 : Garbo, Greta


I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
Greta Garbo : 9729 : Garbo, Greta


The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool
Frank A. Garbutt : 619 : Garbutt, Frank A.


I was a wiseguy, I talked too much, I spoke out of turn. And I was a notorious unachiever.
Jerry Garcia : 5222 : Garcia, Jerry


Our audience is like people who like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
Jerry Garcia : 5965 : Garcia, Jerry


Music is the timeless experience of constant change.
Jerry Garcia : 10159 : Garcia, Jerry


Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner : 12577 : Gardiner, Stephen


Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Ava Gardner : 11382 : Gardner, Ava


Opera is when a fella gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner : 3186 : Gardner, Ed


The image managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner : 2472 : Gardner, John


Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John Gardner : 5113 : Gardner, John


The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy; neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner : 4442 : Gardner, John W.


One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner : 8647 : Gardner, John W.


All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John W. Gardner : 12016 : Gardner, John W.


Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield : 670 : Garfield, James A.


The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
James A. Garfield : 912 : Garfield, James A.


Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield : 913 : Garfield, James A.


I am an advocate of paper money, but the paper money must represent what it professes on its face. I do not wish to hold in my hands the printed lies of government.
James A. Garfield : 5920 : Garfield, James A.


Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield : 8911 : Garfield, James A.


Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.
James A. Garfield : 9929 : Garfield, James A.


There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Hamlin Garland : 794 : Garland, Hamlin


We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland : 5240 : Garland, Judy


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland : 6556 : Garland, Judy


Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Alan Garner : 30 : Garner, Alan


A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Marion C. Garretty : 7837 : Garretty, Marion C.


Enslave but a single human being, and the liberty of the world is put in peril.
William Lloyd Garrison : 1973 : Garrison, William Lloyd


I wish I could tell you my age, but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
Greer Garson : 757 : Garson, Greer


If you think about a thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten : 13353 : Garten, Ina


A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey : 11054 : Garvey, Marcus


Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.
Marcus Garvey : 12058 : Garvey, Marcus


Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Roman Gary : 3166 : Gary, Roman


Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell : 4475 : Gaskell, Elizabeth


Yesterday's idea does not influence that of today. It influences a man who reacts with a new idea.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 1034 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Minorities are individuals or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 7563 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Jose Ortega Gasset : 7830 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 9166 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Tell be to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 12807 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 12817 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates (in 1981) : 5669 : Gates, Bill


E-mail is a unique communication vehicle for a lot of reasons. However, e-mail is not a substitute for direct interaction.
Bill Gates : 6616 : Gates, Bill


Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates : 7057 : Gates, Bill


The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
Bill Gates : 7183 : Gates, Bill


The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates : 10533 : Gates, Bill


Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates : 12554 : Gates, Bill


What has hurt me most about the glorious black awakening of the late sixties and early seventies is that we lost our sense of humor. Many of us thought that enlightened politics excluded it.
Henry Louis Gates : 11161 : Gates, Henry Louis


The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.
Amy Gatliff : 13121 : Gatliff, Amy


There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigor.
Paul Gauguin : 1434 : Gauguin, Paul


I prefer to have too much confidence, and thereby be deceived, than to be always mistrustful. For, in the first case, I suffer a moment at being deceived and in the second, I suffer constantly.
Paul Gauguin : 2971 : Gauguin, Paul


You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Paul Gauguin : 3403 : Gauguin, Paul


It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
Jean Paul Gaultier : 4059 : Gaultier, Jean Paul


Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
Carl Friedrich Gauss : 13390 : Gauss, Carl Friedrich


Fortune loves to give slippers to those with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
Theophile Gautier : 8508 : Gautier, Theophile


Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
Theophile Gautier : 8664 : Gautier, Theophile


To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier : 12537 : Gautier, Theophile


Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Peter Gay : 13118 : Gay, Peter


If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye : 2023 : Gaye, Marvin


The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
Willard Gaylin : 6350 : Gaylin, Willard


I've just heard that photons have mass. I didn't even know they were Catholics.
Don Geddis : 10803 : Geddis, Don


Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry : 8135 : Gehry, Frank


If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.
Theodor Seuss Geisel : 11732 : Geisel, Theodor Seuss


Nonsense wakes up the brain cells, and it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.
Theodor Geisel : 11753 : Geisel, Theodor Seuss


Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Michael Gelb : 5922 : Gelb, Michael


Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn : 1271 : Gellhorn, Martha


I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
Martha Gellhorn : 2768 : Gellhorn, Martha


A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Ernest Gellner : 4994 : Gellner, Ernest


There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:4 : 11467 : Genesis 6:4


Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Joan Genet : 11621 : Genet, Joan


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry : 7687 : Gentry, Dave Tyson


Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship.
Madame Marie Therese Geoffrin : 3800 : Geoffrin, Madame Marie Therese


When people once begin to deviate, they do not know where to stop.
George III : 2091 : George III


The most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in two jumps.
David Lloyd George : 2047 : George, David Lloyd


A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.
David Lloyd George : 2466 : George, David Lloyd


Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George : 7135 : George, David Lloyd


The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
David Lloyd George : 8756 : George, David Lloyd


We cannot suppose that some have a right to be in this world and others do not.
Henry George : 3752 : George, Henry


Poverty is the open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.
Henry George : 6450 : George, Henry


For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
Henry George : 10043 : George, Henry


Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George : 10413 : George, Henry


Washington is a town where more people probably contemplate writing a book than finish reading one.
Ann Geracimos : 108 : Geracimos, Ann


We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
David Gergen : 3527 : Gergen, David


She even sighed offensively... As if she meant to charge me with the necessity of doing so.
William Gerhardie : 1908 : Gerhardie, William


Learn to be sincere. Even if you have to fake it.
David Gerrold : 2633 : Gerrold, David


Feeding is an important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.
Gina Gershon : 11633 : Gershon, Gina


If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
Estelle Getty : 5238 : Getty, Estelle


If you can count your money, you are not really a rich man.
J. Paul Getty : 904 : Getty, J. Paul


The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty : 5644 : Getty, J. Paul


My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Paul Getty : 8466 : Getty, J. Paul


To be seriously rich means that one no longer counts money.
J. Paul Getty : 12050 : Getty, J. Paul


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Claudia Ghandi : 7149 : Ghandi, Claudi


A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.
Susan Ghanian : 8280 : Ghanian, Susan


My English test is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon : 525 : Gibbon, Edward


Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon : 2410 : Gibbon, Edward


Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon : 2482 : Gibbon, Edward


The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon : 2980 : Gibbon, Edward


The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon : 9912 : Gibbon, Edward


The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon, on London : 10744 : Gibbon, Edward


I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon : 10876 : Gibbon, Edward


I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon : 12071 : Gibbon, Edward


There are some things (like first love and one's reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
Stella Gibbons : 1727 : Gibbons, Stella


I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path fur a purpose.
Marla Gibbs : 12254 : Gibbs, Marla


For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Nancy Gibbs : 8003 : Gibbs, Nancy


It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs : 13044 : Gibbs, Philip


If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember.
Khalil Gibran : 729 : Gibran, Khalil


If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
Khalil Gibran : 1075 : Gibran, Khalil


Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran : 1076 : Gibran, Khalil


You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil Gibran : 1077 : Gibran, Khalil


It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Khalil Gibran : 2615 : Gibran, Khalil


Your body is the harp of your soul. And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
Khalil Gibran : 2764 : Gibran, Khalil


Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
Khalil Gibran : 4749 : Gibran, Khalil


Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran : 4827 : Gibran, Khalil


If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran : 4933 : Gibran, Khalil


I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran : 5929 : Gibran, Khalil


Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran : 6708 : Gibran, Khalil


The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Khalil Gibran : 6749 : Gibran, Khalil


If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran : 6963 : Gibran, Khalil


Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
Khalil Gibran : 7064 : Gibran, Khalil


There are those who give joy and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran : 7152 : Gibran, Khalil


Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran : 7480 : Gibran, Khalil


They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Khalil Gibran : 7928 : Gibran, Khalil


A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran : 8330 : Gibran, Khalil


Much of your pain is self-chosen.
Khalil Gibran : 8789 : Gibran, Khalil


Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran : 8832 : Gibran, Khalil


Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran : 9255 : Gibran, Khalil


March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Khalil Gibran : 9529 : Gibran, Khalil


We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
Khalil Gibran : 10786 : Gibran, Khalil


Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran : 10885 : Gibran, Khalil


The partition between the sage and the fool is more slender than the spider web.
Khalil Gibran : 11428 : Gibran, Khalil


For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran : 12119 : Gibran, Khalil


Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran : 12269 : Gibran, Khalil


Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran : 12484 : Gibran, Khalil


Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran : 13081 : Gibran, Khalil


You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Khalil Gibran : 13193 : Gibran, Khalil


In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
Althea Gibson : 3181 : Gibson, Althea


No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
Althea Gibson : 10132 : Gibson, Althea


Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!
William Hamilton Gibson : 4122 : Gibson, William Hamilton


The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre Gide : 90 : Gide, Andre


It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
Andre Gide : 91 : Gide, Andre


There is a law in life: when one door closes to us, another one opens.
Andre Gide : 92 : Gide, Andre


Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
Andre Gide : 3126 : Gide, Andre


Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide : 3528 : Gide, Andre


One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide : 4349 : Gide, Andre


Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide : 6342 : Gide, Andre


I believe it is harder to be fair to oneself than to others.
Andre Gide : 7370 : Gide, Andre


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide : 8504 : Gide, Andre


Art hates nature. If art is always seeking nature, it is like a hunter waiting in ambush, or a rival, embracing it only in order to strangle it.
Andre Gide : 10673 : Gide, Andre


It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide : 11699 : Gide, Andre


Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide : 12705 : Gide, Andre


Daniel Day Lewis has what every actor in Hollywood wants: talent. And what every actor in England wants: looks.
Sir John Gielgud : 3483 : Gielgud, Sir John


I know coincidence has a long arm, but it's not an octopus.
Anthony Gilbert : 159 : Gilbert, Anthony


Ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time.
Anthony Gilbert : 8379 : Gilbert, Anthony


When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert : 3145 : Gilbert, Arland


The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert : 8289 : Gilbert, Elizabeth


You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert : 12557 : Gilbert, Elizabeth


It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Rob Gilbert : 8482 : Gilbert, Rob


Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
W. S. Gilbert : 4072 : Gilbert, W. S.


No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
W. S. Gilbert : 5247 : Gilbert, W. S.


I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable.
W. S. Gilbert : 5972 : Gilbert, W. S.


I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote their fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
W. S. Gilbert : 8515 : Gilbert, W. S.


Things are seldom what they seem, Skimmed milk oft masquerades as cream.
W. S. Gilbert : 10537 : Gilbert, W. S.


Everyone needs something old in their space. It shows a sense of history and honors the past.
Ashley Gilbreath : 13069 : Gilbreath, Ashley


Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.
Nikita Gill : 13337 : Gill, Nikita


Now I can pay for the house, but I don't ever get to see it.
Vince Gill : 12053 : Gill, Vince


If it hadn't been for him there wouldn't have been none of us. I want to thank Mr. Louis Armstrong for my livelihood.
Dizzy Gillespie : 7273 : Gillespie, Dizzy


The world seems to be divided into two groups of people: those who say you can never get something for nothing, and those muddled but happy creatures who maintain that the best things in life are free.
Janet Gillespie : 5907 : Gillespie, Janet


The great thing about a double entendre is that it can only mean one thing.
Steve Gillette : 12531 : Gillette, Steve


The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
Jerry Gillies : 9062 : Gillies, Jerry


I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.
Dobie Gillis : 8683 : Gillis, Dobie


A limited fortune is no excuse for a deficiency in neatness.
Charlotte Gilman : 367 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : 6615 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : 7896 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : 10377 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.
Henry Gilmer : 8796 : Gilmer, Henry


A tree: the grandest and most beautiful of all the productions of the earth.
William Gilpin : 1909 : Gilpin, William


Two things are bad for the heart - running uphill and running down people.
Bernard Gimbel : 3819 : Gimbel, Bernard


I got all the schooling an actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contracts.
Hermione Gingold : 869 : Gingold, Hermione


Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich : 4779 : Gingrich, Newt


You were never no locomotive, sunflower, you were a sunflower! And you locomotive, you are a locomotive, forget me not!
Allen Ginsberg : 2713 : Ginsberg, Allen


A naked lunch is natural to us. We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg : 3549 : Ginsberg, Allen


So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 12982 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Cherish your daughters as much as your sons and teach them both to stand up for what is right.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13168 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13336 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13344 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13348 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni : 13421 : Giovanni, Nikki


If you don't understand yourself, you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni : 13442 : Giovanni, Nikki


No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.
Jean Giraudoux : 952 : Giraudoux, Jean


A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
Jean Giraudoux : 3404 : Giraudoux, Jean


The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux : 4966 : Giraudoux, Jean


The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux : 4967 : Giraudoux, Jean


There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux : 8919 : Giraudoux, Jean


The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux : 10970 : Giraudoux, Jean


I don't care for modern films - all crashing cars and close-ups of people's feet.
Lillian Gish : 6082 : Gish, Lillian


A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
Lillian Gish : 12695 : Gish, Lillian


I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
George Gissing : 4168 : Gissing, George


It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience.
George Gissing : 8207 : Gissing, George


Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies. and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles Givens : 7929 : Givens, Charles


All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
W. E. Gladstone : 2893 : Gladstone, William Ewart


Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
W. E. Gladstone : 9021 : Gladstone, William Ewart


We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone : 10684 : Gladstone, William Ewart


Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone : 12376 : Gladstone, William Ewart


Every man is naturally a Narcissus, and each passion in us no other but self-love sweetened by milder epithets.
Joseph Glanville : 5218 : Glanville, Joseph


Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow : 10563 : Glasgow, Arnold H.


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow : 10696 : Glasgow, Arnold H.


The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
Arnold Glasgow : 11630 : Glasgow, Arnold H.


Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Ellen Glasgow : 7724 : Glasgow, Ellen


She saw now that the strong impulses which had once wrecked her happiness were the forces that had enabled her to rebuild her life out of the ruins.
Ellen Glasgow : 7884 : Glasgow, Ellen


Of one thing alone I am very sure: It is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
Ellen Glasgow : 8238 : Glasgow, Ellen


The mob that would die for a belief seldom hesitates to inflict death upon any opposing heretical group.
Ellen Glasgow : 10474 : Glasgow, Ellen


The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow : 12249 : Glasgow, Ellen


Women have more imagination than men. They need it to tell us (men) how wonderful we are.
Arnold Glasow : 170 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


An ounce of convention is worth a pound of primaries.
Arnold H. Glasow : 171 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


It is harder to conceal ignorance than to obtain knowledge.
Arnold Glasow : 1991 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold Glasow : 3277 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold Glasow : 5401 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we are ready for it.
Arnold H. Glasow : 5442 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow : 6841 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold Glasow : 9051 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


Ever notice that no matter where you sit at the ball game, you're always between the hot dog peddler and his best customer?
Arnold H. Glasow : 10020 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow : 10208 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
Susan Glaspell : 9668 : Glaspell, Susan


We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser : 11017 : Glasser, William


The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you're off it.
Jackie Gleason : 4723 : Gleason, Jackie


You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.
James Gleick : 3264 : Gleick, James


I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.
John Glenn : 5978 : Glenn, John


I don't know what you could say about a day in which you've seen four beautiful sunsets.
John Glenn : 8496 : Glenn, John


You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell : 4308 : Glidewell, Jan


John Major delivers all his statements as though auditioning for the speaking clock.
Stephen Glover : 1729 : Glover, Stephen


Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn : 11759 : Glyn, Elinor


A salesman is a fellow with a smile on his face, a shine on his shoes, and a lousy territory.
George Gobel : 3054 : Gobel, George


If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
George Gobel : 4390 : Gobel, George


Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard : 6484 : Godard, Jean-Luc


It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard : 8612 : Goddard, Robert H.


Her arguments are like elephants. They squash you flat.
Rumer Godden : 1591 : Godden, Rumer


I'm proud to pay taxes in America. The only thing is I would be just as proud for half the money.
Arthur Godfrey : 5331 : Godfrey, Arthur


Instead of wondering when your next vacation is you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin : 12754 : Godin, Seth


Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater.
Gail Godwin : 3836 : Godwin, Gail


The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin : 6441 : Godwin, Gail


Life's not linear. It ebbs and flows. It's like Yang and Yin. It's contradictions, the Unnamable, the Inexplicable. People don't plot anymore; they just flow.
Gail Godwin : 10651 : Godwin, Gail


We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in the little things is what we are seldom equal to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 738 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Love is an ideal thing. Marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 739 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Deprive the average man of his illusions and you will rob him of his happiness.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 740 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


We do not become free by refusing to acknowledge something above us, but by respecting something above us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 741 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 742 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 743 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 744 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 745 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


It is as though eternal harmony were conversing with itself, as it may have happened in God's bosom shortly before he created the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, On Hearing Bach's Organ Works : 746 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 983 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2044 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If you would create something, you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2118 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2378 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2595 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2861 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2932 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3125 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3201 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3243 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3459 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4107 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4391 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4528 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4529 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
Goethe : 4750 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One man's word is no man's word; We should quietly hear both sides.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4928 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


God is constantly at work creating great geniuses to pull the common people.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 5126 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions may be made popular, but reason remains ever the property of the few.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 5187 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed.
Goethe : 5439 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with them.
Goethe : 5496 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Goethe : 6143 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Goethe : 6427 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Goethe : 6478 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Goethe : 6513 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Science arose from poetry - when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 6642 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 6720 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 6792 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.
Goethe : 7049 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 7069 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: We should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann von Goethe : 7546 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Goethe : 7699 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Goethe : 7890 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Impotent hatred is the most horrid of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
Goethe : 8004 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Goethe : 8568 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Goethe : 9070 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 9282 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Von Goethe : 9332 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Goethe : 9697 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Goethe : 9821 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert and wrong in what they deny.
Goethe : 10110 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
Goethe : 10671 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe : 10903 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A vain man can never be utterly ruthless; he wants to win applause, and, therefore, he accommodates himself to others.
Goethe : 11265 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.
Goethe : 11968 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Goethe : 12205 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One always has time enough if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 13377 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


There is a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
Nikolai Gogol : 1345 : Gogol, Nikolai


What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Thaddeus Golas : 3260 : Golas, Thaddeus


I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
Bill Gold : 7542 : Gold, Bill


If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Arthur Goldberg : 4376 : Goldberg, Arthur


Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Arthur Goldberg : 5515 : Goldberg, Arthur


Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg : 3822 : Goldberg, Isaac


My mother gave me really smart advice - you can do and be anything if you're willing to deal with how other people respond to you. I was willing to take whatever anybody would dish out for the right to be myself.
Whoopi Goldberg : 1880 : Goldberg, Whoopi


If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
Whoopi Goldberg : 11786 : Goldberg, Whoopi


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden : 4834 : Golden, Harry


Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.
Marita Golden : 9815 : Golden, Marita


Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding : 2813 : Golding, William


What is wrong with a revolution is that it is natural. It is as natural as natural selection, as devastating as natural selection, and as horrible.
William Golding : 5932 : Golding, William


My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
William Golding : 6403 : Golding, William


I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.
Emma Goldman : 557 : Goldman, Emma


The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman : 2068 : Goldman, Emma


The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman : 9495 : Goldman, Emma


True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
William Goldman : 12135 : Goldman, William


To make a fine gentleman several trades are required, but chiefly, a barber.
Goldsmith : 749 : Goldsmith, Oliver


As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
Oliver Goldsmith : 1381 : Goldsmith, Oliver


He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith : 1382 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith : 2059 : Goldsmith, Oliver


The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more: they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith : 2441 : Goldsmith, Oliver


People seldom improve when they have no model other than themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith : 2525 : Goldsmith, Oliver


I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith : 3154 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Blest be those feasts with simple beauty crowned, with all the ruddy family around...
Oliver Goldsmith : 3190 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith : 4882 : Goldsmith, Oliver


They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith : 5156 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith : 5955 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway. And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith : 7633 : Goldsmith, Oliver


There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith : 8271 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Nothing can exceed the vanity of our existence but the folly of our pursuits.
Oliver Goldsmith : 8348 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith : 9493 : Goldsmith, Oliver


He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings.
Stanley Goldstein : 9474 : Goldstein, Stanley


Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Andy Goldsworthy : 12675 : Goldsworthy, Andy


If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.
Bobcat Goldthwait : 5702 : Goldthwait, Bobcat


Animals are our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.
Bobcat Goldthwait : 10112 : Goldthwait, Bobcat


I'll give you a definite maybe.
Sam Goldwyn : 1598 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Sam Goldwyn : 1599 : Goldwyn, Samuel


I don't want any yes men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Sam Goldwyn : 4896 : Goldwyn, Samuel


When someone does something good, applaud! You'll make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn : 6094 : Goldwyn, Samuel


A hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn : 6811 : Goldwyn, Samuel


I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn : 7013 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn : 7083 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Sam Goldwyn : 7614 : Goldwyn, Samuel


For years I have been known for saying "include me out"; but today I am giving it up forever.
Samuel Goldwyn : 8318 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Don't be suckered into making "sucker" bets, unless, of course, you don't know the difference, in which case you're a sucker anyhow.
John Gollehon : 7908 : Gollehon, John


All his anxiety resolved itself into a sigh and dissolved into apathy and drowsiness.
Ivan Goncharov : 2832 : Goncharov, Ivan


A politician is a person who divides his time between running for office and running for cover.
Antonio Gonzalez : 9411 : Gonzalez, Antonio


If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
Gerald Good : 10212 : Good, Gerald


What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall : 11731 : Goodall, Jane


Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
Annette Goodheart : 6740 : Goodheart, Annette


The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
Alban Goodier : 4091 : Goodier, Alban


Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Brothers, the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Ellen Goodman : 545 : Goodman, Ellen


Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Ellen Goodman : 4345 : Goodman, Ellen


Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
Ellen Goodman : 12073 : Goodman, Ellen


There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Paul Goodman : 1435 : Goodman, Paul


It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman : 6900 : Goodman, Paul


The ability to divorce one's mind from one's actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman : 10493 : Goodman, Walter


The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.
Richelle E. Goodrich : 13535 : Goodrich, Richelle E.


The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin : 8787 : Goodwin, Jim


People come to Washington believing that it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine.
Richard Goodwin : 10630 : Goodwin, Richard


People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
Mikhail Gorbachev : 6435 : Gorbachev, Mikhail


The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.
Raisa Gorbachev : 7504 : Gorbachev, Raisa


Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon : 8972 : Gordon, Adam Lindsay


Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
Barbara Gordon : 3101 : Gordon, Barbara


Anything that begins "I don't know how to tell you this" is never good news.
Ruth Gordon : 1594 : Gordon, Ruth


To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never, under any conditions, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon : 7853 : Gordon, Ruth


Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in the decisive moments of their lives.
Winifred Gordon : 11249 : Gordon, Winifred


Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore : 9468 : Gore, Al


I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do but I don't know if I can make it interesting.
Al Gore, on being the twenty-third speaker at a political dinner : 10378 : Gore, Al


When a woman gets married, it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter; you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
Maxim Gorki : 10662 : Gorki, Maxim


Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky : 9867 : Gorky, Maxim


I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.
Ryan Gosling : 12832 : Gosling, Ryan


A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
Bill Gothard : 8684 : Gothard, Bill


Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
Anna Gould : 10210 : Gould, Anna


Some sense of security is necessary to happy or healthful living, but you cannot get it by refusing to take chances any more than a country can get it by living behind walls.
Lawrence Gould : 1137 : Gould, Lawrence


Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history.
Stephen Jay Gould : 4173 : Gould, Stephen Jay


Nature is amoral, not immoral. It existed for eons before we arrived, didn't know we were coming, and doesn't give a damn about us.
Stephen Jay Gould : 5946 : Gould, Stephen Jay


Many of us take hold of opportunity all right, but we let go too soon.
A. P. Gouthey : 5124 : Gouthey, A. P.


If you indicate willingness to be friendly, men are bound eventually to reciprocate by manifesting a spirit of friendliness.
Chas. Gow : 368 : Gow, Charles


One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian : 215 : Gracian, Baltasar


Excellence resides in quality not quantity; the best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
Gracian : 753 : Gracian, Baltasar


At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Gracian : 3655 : Gracian, Baltasar


One must not depend on one thing or trust to only one resource, however preeminent.
Baltasar Gracian : 3814 : Gracian, Baltasar


He who finds fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Baltasar Gracian : 4044 : Gracian, Baltasar


Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracian : 4301 : Gracian, Baltasar


Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian : 4872 : Gracian, Baltasar


It is better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian : 5440 : Gracian, Baltasar


It is one of the great gifts of mind to be able to offer what is needed at the moment.
Baltasar Gracian : 5449 : Gracian, Baltasar


It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Baltasar Gracian : 7652 : Gracian, Baltasar


Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult ones as if they were easy. In the one case that confidence may not fall asleep; in the other, that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian : 8881 : Gracian, Baltasar


The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian : 10233 : Gracian, Baltasar


If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.
Baltasar Gracian : 12645 : Gracian, Baltasar


Age does not endow all old things with strength and virtue, nor are all new things to be despised.
Henry W. Grady : 11285 : Grady, Henry W.


When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
Steffi Graf : 12085 : Graf, Steffi


A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
Samuel Grafton : 3844 : Grafton, Samuel


Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Samuel Grafton : 9836 : Grafton, Samuel


It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
Sue Grafton : 1736 : Grafton, Sue


If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
Sue Grafton : 11361 : Grafton, Sue


Most people think I'm a Republican; actually, I'm a Democrat.
Billy Graham : 264 : Graham, Billy


The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham : 265 : Graham, Billy


Whether you jump off a cliff or drive off a cliff, you're still off a cliff.
Sen. Lindsey Graham : 12184 : Graham, Lindsey


The body is a sacred garment.
Martha Graham : 1272 : Graham, Martha


Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.
Martha Graham : 4002 : Graham, Martha


Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham : 5162 : Graham, Martha


There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
Martha Graham : 6112 : Graham, Martha


Nothing is more revealing than movement.
Martha Graham : 6167 : Graham, Martha


No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham : 6406 : Graham, Martha


There is a supreme lucidity, which is the precisely calculated awareness which is called madness.
Martha Graham : 6966 : Graham, Martha


If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street, because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham : 8916 : Graham, Martha


Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham : 12481 : Graham, Martha


I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Gloria Grahame : 7640 : Grahame, Gloria


Come along... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
Kenneth Grahame : 1093 : Grahame, Kenneth


It is the restriction placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
Kenneth Grahame : 5241 : Grahame, Kenneth


The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Kenneth Grahame : 5950 : Grahame, Kenneth


What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
James Grainger : 8065 : Grainger, James


I should like to see every man tinkering with every other man's art; what kaleidoscopic multitudinous results we should see!
Percy Grainger : 5193 : Grainger, Percy


Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
Phil Gramm : 2367 : Gramm, Phil


Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant
Cary Grant : 3762 : Grant, Cary


Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Cary Grant : 10179 : Grant, Cary


My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant : 10972 : Grant, Cary


When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove that you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant : 3265 : Grant, R. H.


Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant : 2936 : Grant, Ulysses S.


English is a funny language - that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.
Mark Grasso : 7612 : Grasso, Mark


Give a book as a present. You can always borrow it back.
John Gratton : 12055 : Gratton, John


There is no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves : 2543 : Graves, Robert


The function of poetry is religious invocation of the Muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
Robert Graves : 3908 : Graves, Robert


Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
Robert Graves : 10520 : Graves, Robert


I use the word "profit" and "capitalism" proudly. Because when business is healthy, all of society is healthy.
Harry Gray : 2963 : Gray, Harry


Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray : 6162 : Gray, Thomas


There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.
Thomas Gray : 8848 : Gray, Thomas


Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson : 428 : Grayson, David


Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.
David Grayson : 9278 : Grayson, David


We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Grayson : 10834 : Grayson, David


Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wing; the only certainty is oblivion.
Horace Greeley : 876 : Greeley, Horace


The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley : 4487 : Greeley, Horace


Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley : 5170 : Greeley, Horace


The illusion that times that were are better than times that are has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley : 9563 : Greeley, Horace


Most people say that as you get old you have to give up things. I think you get old because you do give up things.
Theodore Green : 3738 : Green, Theodore


A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg : 5012 : Greenberg, Sidney


Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing-avoidance.
Dan Greenburg : 10051 : Greenburg, Dan


Advertising is nothing more than a technique to keep people in a state of perpetual dissatisfaction with what they possess and in a permanent state of itchy acquisitiveness.
Felix Greene : 598 : Greene, Felix


He (Fred Astaire) is the nearest we are ever likely to get to a human Mickey Mouse.
Graham Greene : 754 : Greene, Graham


Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Graham Greene : 755 : Greene, Graham


He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay.
Graham Greene : 2310 : Greene, Graham


He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the New Testament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.
Graham Greene : 2685 : Greene, Graham


His slang was always a little out of date, as though he had studied in a dictionary of popular usage, but not in the latest edition.
Graham Greene : 3463 : Greene, Graham


The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference: the doubter fights only with himself.
Graham Greene : 3543 : Greene, Graham


A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
Graham Greene : 3619 : Greene, Graham


The rich hate signing checks. Hence the success of credit cards.
Graham Greene : 7361 : Greene, Graham


Happiness is never as welcome as changelessness.
Graham Greene : 7718 : Greene, Graham


What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?
Graham Greene : 7945 : Greene, Graham


When we are not sure, we are alive.
Graham Greene : 9513 : Greene, Graham


For a writer, success is always temporary, success is only a delayed failure. And it is incomplete.
Graham Greene : 9736 : Greene, Graham


Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene : 10509 : Greene, Graham


There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene : 10598 : Greene, Graham


Everything is always impossible before it works. That is what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible.
Hunt Greene : 6283 : Greene, Hunt


I guess I should warn you. If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Alan Greenspan : 5220 : Greenspan, Alan


Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
Germaine Greer : 725 : Greer, Germaine


If a woman never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine Greer : 2337 : Greer, Germaine


Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer : 2745 : Greer, Germaine


Anyone can have the key to the executive washroom, but once a woman gets inside, what is there? A lavatory.
Germaine Greer : 3138 : Greer, Germaine


The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg : 3021 : Gregg, Alan


We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory : 4620 : Gregory, Dick


I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
Wayne Gretzky : 2953 : Gretzky, Wayne


Statistically, one hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Wayne Gretzky : 6827 : Gretzky, Wayne


A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky : 7114 : Gretzky, Wayne


Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Jane Grey : 12794 : Grey, Jane


The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
Lord Grey, on the eve of World War I : 2734 : Grey, Lord


Football is football and talent is talent, but the mindset of your team makes all the difference. -- Robert Griffin III
Robert Griffin III : 11414 : Griffin, Robert, III


A goal is nothing more than a dream with a time limit.
Joe L. Griffith : 981 : Griffith, Joe L.


A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
Francis James Grimke : 6459 : Grimke, Francis James


The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold : 8851 : Griswold, Alfred Whitney


In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
Alfred Whitney Griswold : 9155 : Griswold, Alfred Whitney


Nature didn't make us perfect so she did the next best thing. She made us blind to our faults.
Grit : 760 : Grit


Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard : 1156 : Grizzard, Lewis


I grew up in a family where water conservation was a way of life. I still cringe when I see pictures of Niagara Falls.
Lewis Grizzard : 5209 : Grizzard, Lewis


It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard : 10947 : Grizzard, Lewis


Springtime is the land awakening. The march winds are the Morning yawn.
Lewis Grizzard : 12715 : Grizzard, Lewis


I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Bruce Grocott : 6016 : Grocott, Bruce


Opportunities don't happen. You create them.
Chris Grosser : 12853 : Grosser, Chris


When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
Leslie Grossman : 10793 : Grossman, Leslie


What's the need of a home if you are never in it?
George and Weedon Grossmith : 11354 : Grossmith, George and Weedon


Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
Vernon Grounds : 8777 : Grounds, Vernon


People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken. What needs to be outlawed is war.
Leslie Richard Groves : 1152 : Groves, Leslie Richard


The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Matthew Gray Gubler : 13158 : Gubler, Matthew Gray


Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla : 4436 : Guedalla, Philip


Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla : 10139 : Guedalla, Philip


When turkey's on the table and good things I may scan, I'm thankful that I wasn't made a vegetarian.
Edgar Guest : 508 : Guest, Edgar


I would rather see a sermon than hear one any day.
Eddie Guest : 8091 : Guest, Edgar


To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.
Judith Guest : 8932 : Guest, Judith


Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara : 3607 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.
Che Guevara : 4123 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


We revolutionaries often lack the knowledge and the intellectual audacity to face the task of the development of a new man by methods different from the conventional ones.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara : 7190 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


The revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara : 7632 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


How can something bother you if you won't let it?
Terry Guillemets : 4132 : Guillemets, Terry


A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.
Terri Guillemets : 4868 : Guillemets, Terry


There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon : 7573 : Guinon, Albert


When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong - or absolutely right.
Albert Guinon : 8806 : Guinon, Albert


Food, love, career and mothers: The four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite : 9585 : Guisewite, Cathy


When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry : 3761 : Guitry, Sacha


You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry : 11390 : Guitry, Sacha


The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.
Nubar Gulbenkian : 1353 : Gulbenkian, Nubar


In Houston the air was warm and rich and suggestive of fossil fuel.
John Gunther : 2899 : Gunther, John


As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
Joan Gussow : 977 : Gussow, Joan


Your birthdays tell how long you've been on the road, but they don't tell you how far you've traveled.
Roy Gustafson : 10066 : Gustafson, Roy


To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Philip Guston : 13180 : Guston, Philip


It is often said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The Universe, however, is a free lunch.
Alan Guth : 10753 : Guth, Alan


The best way to get to knowing any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
Woody Guthrie : 5665 : Guthrie, Woody


While honey lies in every clover no doubt, it takes a bee to get the honey out.
Arthur Gutterman : 4952 : Gutterman, Arthur


A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
Philip Haberman : 3338 : Haberman, Philip


As a child, my family's meal consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett : 7681 : Hackett, Buddy


The actor who's in everything is Gerard Depardieu. I've never seen a French film he wasn't in except "La Cage aux Folles," and he might be in the chorus of that for all I know.
Gene Hackman : 6577 : Hackman, Gene


Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.
Uta Hagen : 13103 : Hagen, Uta


Don't doubt me, because that's when I get stronger. I like to see the smiles on people's faces when I show them I can do the impossible.
Marvin Hagler : 1277 : Hagler, Marvin


Ladies were ladies more by virtue of the things they didn't do than by the things they did.
Emily Hahn : 11301 : Hahn, Emily


I haven't changed my style in twenty years - and that style is to get mad when things go wrong.
Alexander Haig : 4502 : Haig, Alexander


The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Lord Hailsham : 1179 : Hailsham, Lord


Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta : 5308 : Hakuta, Ken


Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam : 10532 : Halberstam, David


Bad as our urban conditions often are, there is not a slum in the country which has a third of the infantile death rate of the royal family in the middle ages.
J. B. S. Haldane : 3410 : Haldane, J. B. S.


This is my prediction for the future - whatever hasn't happened will happen and no one will be safe from it.
J. B. S. Haldane : 7290 : Haldane, J. B. S.


Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.
H. R. Haldeman : 7677 : Haldeman, H. R.


I am the only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale : 524 : Hale, Edward Everett


Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale : 11794 : Hale, Edward Everett


If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.
Mandy Hale : 13000 : Hale, Mandy


Those who would enjoyment gain must find it in the purpose they pursue.
Sarah Hale : 3750 : Hale, Sarah


In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley : 11409 : Haley, Alex


Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half : 8074 : Half, Robert


Hard work without talent is a shape, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half : 12814 : Half, Robert


The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful. But it soon fades away. The memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Thomas Haliburton : 10642 : Haliburton, Thomas


Nicknames stick to people and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Thomas C. Haliburton : 1768 : Haliburton, Thomas C.


The great secret of life is to learn lessons, not to teach them.
Thomas C. Haliburton : 10813 : Haliburton, Thomas C.


The invisible thing called a good name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
Lord Halifax : 1180 : Halifax, Lord


They who are of the opinion that money will do everything may very well be expected to do everything for money.
Lord Halifax : 1181 : Halifax, Lord


The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
Catherine Hall : 4083 : Hall, Catherine


Soul is not about black or white music. Soul is a physical manifestation of higher consciousness. Soul is a howling at the moon - and having the moon respond.
Daryl Hall : 6270 : Hall, Daryl


It is not the correct thing to invite many people who like to monopolize conversation; one of this kind will be found amply sufficient.
Florence Howe Hall : 604 : Hall, Florence Howe


Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall : 9254 : Hall, G. Stanley


Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.
Joseph Hall : 1045 : Hall, Joseph


For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
Joseph Hall : 1046 : Hall, Joseph


He who has made the acquisition of a judicious and sympathizing friend, may be said to have doubled his mental resources.
Robert Hall : 1551 : Hall, Robert


The evils of controversy are transitory, while its benefits are permanent.
Robert Hall : 2049 : Hall, Robert


Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
W. Earl Hall : 8422 : Hall, W. Earl


Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
Richard Halliburton : 11741 : Halliburton, Richard


Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.
Sue Halpern : 10352 : Halpern, Sue


There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
Adm. William F. Halsey Jr. : 18 : Halsey, Adm. William F., Jr.


All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
William F. Halsey : 4066 : Halsey, Adm. William F., Jr.


Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Margaret Halsey : 1222 : Halsey, Margaret


It takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman, and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
Margaret Halsey : 5948 : Halsey, Margaret


Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
Halston : 8830 : Halston, Roy


The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of "half genius", is waiting for inspiration.
Philip Hamerton : 9369 : Hamerton, Philip


We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
Philip Hamerton : 1455 : Hamerton, Philip C.


There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the heart goes to the water brooks.
Philip C. Hamerton : 4764 : Hamerton, Philip C.


Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a gigantic fruit salad.
Mark Hamill : 9812 : Hamill, Mark


I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill : 5263 : Hamill, Pete


If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
Alexander Hamilton : 5877 : Hamilton, Alexander


There can be no truer principle than this: That every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
Alexander Hamilton : 5931 : Hamilton, Alexander


The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records.
Alexander Hamilton : 12454 : Hamilton, Alexander


There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton : 12619 : Hamilton, Alexander


There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than to plays they go to see.
Edith Hamilton : 510 : Hamilton, Edith


No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Edith Hamilton : 10418 : Hamilton, Edith


A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton : 11868 : Hamilton, Edith


The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Frank Hamilton : 2271 : Hamilton, Frank


Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton : 7235 : Hamilton, Gail


We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams - even if it takes a lifetime.
Vijali Hamilton : 7844 : Hamilton, Vijali


I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.
Mia Hamm : 12437 : Hamm, Mia


The "men of the hour," the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumph - on the level to which it belongs.
Dag Hammarskjold : 3383 : Hammarskjold, Dag


Luck seems to come to the guy who works fourteen hours a day, seven days a week.
Armand Hammer : 9056 : Hammer, Armand


A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Oscar Hammerstein II : 9966 : Hammerstein II, Oscar


I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
Oscar Hammerstein, on his partnership with Richard Rodgers : 11619 : Hammerstein, Oscar


It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Dashiell Hammett : 12181 : Hammett, Dashiell


If you think you have no faults, that makes one more.
Jack Hampasch : 11365 : Hampasch, Jack


Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
Patricia Hampl : 5943 : Hampl, Patricia


All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that, no one will support the artist.
Lionel Hampton : 11261 : Hampton, Lionel


There, I guess King George will be able to read that.
John Hancock : 1003 : Hancock, John


No plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.
Learned Hand : 7660 : Hand, Learned


All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question, and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.
Learned Hand : 9968 : Hand, Learned


What the English like is something they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.
George Frederic Handel : 10440 : Handel, George Frederic


Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind." Basically it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 3370 : Handey, Jack


How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 3558 : Handey, Jack


I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 3909 : Handey, Jack


I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they would never expect it.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 5181 : Handey, Jack


Scrapbooks, I believe, are useful therapy - they are a way of putting the past to bed, decorously. Then we can move forward.
Charles Handy : 10430 : Handy, Charles


Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it. You don't get anything out of it.
William Christopher Handy : 9731 : Handy, William Christopher


I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.
Helene Hanff : 818 : Hanff, Helene


My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
Thich Nhat Hanh : 13047 : Hanh, Thich Nhat


The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh : 13048 : Hanh, Thich Nhat


The only way you can truly control how you're seen is by being honest all the time.
Tom Hanks : 10518 : Hanks, Tom


I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.
Tom Hanks : 10938 : Hanks, Tom


Find something you really care about and mix that with something you love doing.
Kathleen Hanna : 12543 : Hanna, Kathleen


My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true.
Kristin Hannah : 12227 : Hannah, Kristin


There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each with our own little picture in front of us, our own little mirage that we think is the future.
Lorraine Hansberry : 1186 : Hansberry, Lorraine


For above all, on behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we never accept the notion of "our place."
Lorraine Hansberry : 7911 : Hansberry, Lorraine


The bowling alley is the poor man's country club.
Sanford Hansell : 4417 : Hansell, Sanford


Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Grace Hansen : 752 : Hansen, Grace


You were born rich with 18 billion bountiful, beautiful, totally available and in all probability under-used brain cells awaiting your desire, decision and directional compass to take you onward, upward, goodward and Godward.
Mark Victor Hansen : 5630 : Hansen, Mark Victor


I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.
Mark Victor Hansen : 7955 : Hansen, Mark Victor


When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Mark Victor Hansen : 8066 : Hansen, Mark Victor


I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Mark Victor Hansen : 9078 : Hansen, Mark Victor


America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
Warren G. Harding : 1870 : Harding, Warren G.


History, with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.
Elizabeth Hardwick : 5903 : Hardwick, Elizabeth


In letters, we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.
Elizabeth Hardwick : 7883 : Hardwick, Elizabeth


It's far more enjoyable pretending to be a doctor than actually being one.
Cedric Hardwicke : 329 : Hardwicke, Cedric


The good thing about a double entendre, it can only mean one thing.
Jack Hardy in an interview : 10308 : Hardy, Jack


If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have left him alone.
Thomas Hardy : 1774 : Hardy, Thomas


It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
Thomas Hardy : 1775 : Hardy, Thomas


Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy : 2617 : Hardy, Thomas


She whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
Thomas Hardy : 2739 : Hardy, Thomas


Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?
Thomas Hardy : 4706 : Hardy, Thomas


No man likes to see his emotions the sport of a merry-go-round of skittishness.
Thomas Hardy : 9060 : Hardy, Thomas


That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy : 11685 : Hardy, Thomas


Though a good deal is too strange to be believed. Nothing is too strange to have happened.
Thomas Hardy : 11747 : Hardy, Thomas


Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.
Thomas Hardy : 11880 : Hardy, Thomas


Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy : 13412 : Hardy, Thomas


The intellect of the wise is like glass; It admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare : 12379 : Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert


Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Charles Hare : 8686 : Hare, Charles


The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
David Hare : 429 : Hare, David


To portray only what you would like to be true is the beginning of censorship.
David Hare : 9068 : Hare, David


When you get angry, they tell you to count to five before you reply. Why should I count to five? It's what happens before you count to five which makes life interesting.
David Hare : 9635 : Hare, David


The greatest truths are the most simple; and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles Hare : 5 : Hare, Julius Charles


Surely people must know themselves. So few ever think about anything else.
J. C. Hare : 2890 : Hare, Julius Charles


How few are our real wants! and how easy it is to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare : 11207 : Hare, Julius Charles and Augustus William


Everyone liked Ike because Ike liked everyone. He radiated sunniness and optimism.
Erwin Hargrove, on Dwight D. Eisenhower : 11578 : Hargrove, Erwin


Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
John Harington : 2810 : Harington, John


Britain will be honored by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
Lord Harlech : 2315 : Harlech, Lord


Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
John Harold : 10488 : Harold, John


Men who are deaf to the claims of mercy, and oblivious to the demands of justice, can feel when money is slipping from their pockets.
Frances Watkins Harper : 611 : Harper, Frances Watkins


The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harper : 2860 : Harper, Lucille S.


Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.
Florence J. Harriman : 3235 : Harriman, Florence J.


Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
W. Averell Harriman : 10739 : Harriman, W. Averell


The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
Bob Harrington : 8077 : Harrington, Bob


One cannot raise the bottom of society without benefiting everyone above.
Michael Harrington : 7336 : Harrington, Michael


A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
Ella Harris : 13169 : Harris, Ella


Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris : 3301 : Harris, Frank


Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
Paul Harris : 11722 : Harris, Paul


Silence and egotism go together more commonly than we suspect; the chatterbox merely hopes to be liked for what he expresses; the taciturn demands to be respected for what he contains.
Sydney Harris : 1743 : Harris, Sydney J.


Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney Harris : 2709 : Harris, Sydney J.


If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris : 3980 : Harris, Sydney J.


Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris : 4249 : Harris, Sydney J.


We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris : 4275 : Harris, Sydney J.


When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
Sydney J. Harris : 4546 : Harris, Sydney J.


The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris : 4700 : Harris, Sydney J.


Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Sydney J. Harris : 5660 : Harris, Sydney J.


The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
Sydney Harris : 6328 : Harris, Sydney J.


The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Sydney Harris : 9110 : Harris, Sydney J.


When we commit a gross piece of stupidity, we call it an "honest mistake" - as if most other people make dishonest mistakes.
Sydney Harris : 9683 : Harris, Sydney J.


As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
Sydney Harris : 10645 : Harris, Sydney J.


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris : 11090 : Harris, Sydney J.


All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison : 11011 : Harrison, George


I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape this aloneness.
Jim Harrison : 2237 : Harrison, Jim


To be poor may be a misfortune, but it is not a fault.
Mary Harrison : 1279 : Harrison, Mary


Some people have a veneer that comes off easily with a little alcohol.
P. Harrison : 3798 : Harrison, P.


I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm as good as I never was.
Rex Harrison : 1515 : Harrison, Rex


Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
Rex Harrison : 4715 : Harrison, Rex


Once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation. And good Lord, there is nothing less charming than affectations!
Rex Harrison : 10627 : Harrison, Rex


Strong hands to weak, old hands to young, around this Christmas board, touch hands.
William Henry Harrison : 1911 : Harrison, William Henry


I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison : 7524 : Harrison, William Henry


You don't have to be tough to survive, you have to be vulnerable; it's that sensitivity that makes you know how other people feel, to reach them.
Deborah Harry : 11525 : Harry, Deborah


The art of secrecy lies in being so open about most things that the few things that matter are not even suspected to exist.
B. H. Liddell Hart : 2380 : Hart, B. H. Liddell


Are we so accustomed to our chains that we are no longer conscious of them?
B. H. Liddell Hart : 7674 : Hart, B. H. Liddell


Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
Josephine Hart : 4418 : Hart, Josephine


The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.
Kevin Hart : 13015 : Hart, Kevin


When love congeals it soon reveals the faint aroma of performing seals, the double crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!
Lorenz Hart : 3531 : Hart, Lorenz


Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.
Louise Hart : 5131 : Hart, Louise


The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
Moss Hart : 5057 : Hart, Moss


All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say "no" and said "yes."
Moss Hart : 8857 : Hart, Moss


Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
Bret Harte : 284 : Harte, Bret


The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte : 2649 : Harte, Bret


If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been," More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be!"
Bret Harte : 11219 : Harte, Bret


English is the perfect language to sell pigs in.
Michael Hartnett : 8391 : Hartnett, Michael


In times like these it is good to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey : 6851 : Harvey, Paul


Hollywood may be thickly populated but to me it's a bewilderness.
Sir Cedric Harwicke : 8368 : Harwicke, Sir Cedric


Save a little money each month, and at the end of the year, you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins : 4513 : Haskins, Ernest


Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry Haskins : 3282 : Haskins, Henry S.


Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
Henry S. Haskins : 4215 : Haskins, Henry S.


To play pianissimo, is to carry sweet words, to the old woman in the last dark row, who cannot hear anything else, land to lay them across her lap like a shawl.
Lola Haskins : 7876 : Haskins, Lola


There really are only five hundred people in the whole world. You just keep running into them over and over.
Beverly Hastings : 9712 : Hastings, Beverly


The spirit of this day has not changed. It remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings : 8452 : Hastings, Doc


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; It's the beginning.
Orrin Hatch : 11738 : Hatch, Orrin


There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katherine Butler Hathaway : 5096 : Hathaway, Katherine Butler


Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Vaclav Havel : 3391 : Havel, Vaclav


We are living at a time when humankind can face whatever threatens it only if we, by which I mean each of us, manage to revive, with new energy and a new ethos, a sense of responsibility for the rest of the world.
Vaclav Havel : 10338 : Havel, Vaclav


The only salvation of the world today ... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
Vaclav Havel : 10635 : Havel, Vaclav


That special time caught me up in its wild vortex and - in the absence of leisure to reflect on the matter - compelled me to do what had to be done.
Vaclav Havel : 11200 : Havel, Vaclav


Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
John Havlicek : 8012 : Havlicek, John


The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner : 3935 : Havner, Vance


The worst thing that can happen to old good music is that it might become dated for awhile, but watch out, in twenty years it will come drifting back like bell-bottoms and W. C. Fields movies.
Hampton Hawes : 7500 : Hawes, Hampton


In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.
Stephen Hawking : 2268 : Hawking, Stephen


However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking : 11436 : Hawking, Stephen


Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking : 11715 : Hawking, Stephen


Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen Hawking : 12512 : Hawking, Stephen


Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking : 12934 : Hawking, Stephen


People like Brigitte Bardot can speak with their bodies. I guess I speak with my face.
Goldie Hawn : 748 : Hawn, Goldie


There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and "Driving Miss Daisy."
Goldie Hawn : 7641 : Hawn, Goldie


No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 1337 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


How is it possible to say an unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 2733 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3004 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3411 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collect - so some writers are lost in their collected learning.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3533 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3569 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4010 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4218 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4455 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4635 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4755 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Once in every half-century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 5143 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 8142 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 9270 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 9660 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Language - human language - after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature - sometimes not so adequate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 10379 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 11113 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 11522 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
N. Hawthorne : 12089 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.
S. I. Hayakawa : 9801 : Hayakawa, S. I.


I'm going to speak my mind, because I have nothing to lose.
Samuel Hayakawa : 4555 : Hayakawa, Samuel I.


It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa : 5953 : Hayakawa, Samuel I.


Melody is the main thing. Harmony is useful only to charm the ears.
Haydn : 807 : Hayden, Robert


My poetry is a way of coming to grips with reality, a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
Robert Hayden : 1552 : Hayden, Robert


It is the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
Friedrich Hayek : 10409 : Hayek, Friedrich


We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Friedrich Hayek : 13019 : Hayek, Friedrich


The story of love is not important; what is important is that one is capable of love.
Helen Hayes : 3864 : Hayes, Helen


It (love) is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes : 4423 : Hayes, Helen


On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
Helen Hayes : 8417 : Hayes, Helen


The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes : 8753 : Hayes, Helen


We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes : 12117 : Hayes, Helen


Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes : 12256 : Hayes, Helen


Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.
Ed Hays : 11183 : Hays, Ed


Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt : 1910 : Hazlitt, William


It is difficulties that show what men are.
William Hazlitt : 2120 : Hazlitt, William


The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
William Hazlitt : 3381 : Hazlitt, William


Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
William Hazlitt : 4011 : Hazlitt, William


We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt : 5073 : Hazlitt, William


Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is o
William Hazlitt : 5646 : Hazlitt, William


To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt : 6004 : Hazlitt, William


Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt : 6431 : Hazlitt, William


His strength was in reflection, not in production: he was the surveyor, not the builder of science.
William Hazlitt, on Francis Bacon : 7600 : Hazlitt, William


The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
William Hazlitt : 8890 : Hazlitt, William


People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
William Hazlitt : 8963 : Hazlitt, William


Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
William Hazlitt : 9503 : Hazlitt, William


Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt : 9781 : Hazlitt, William


Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt : 9840 : Hazlitt, William


It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
William Hazlitt : 10491 : Hazlitt, William


The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt : 10787 : Hazlitt, William


Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head : 8838 : Head, Edith


It's a good rule to follow the first law of holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
Denis Healy : 3771 : Healy, Denis


Whenever I want a really nice meal, I start dating again.
Susan Healy : 11674 : Healy, Susan


To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries - old conversation that makes up our civilization.
Timothy Healy : 4190 : Healy, Timothy


Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests. I'll dig with it.
Seamus Heaney : 6184 : Heaney, Seamus


Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the sidelines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Gabriel Heatter : 3011 : Heatter, Gabriel


Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside : 12511 : Heaviside, Oliver


Lightning can light up the world, but it can't warm up a stove.
Friedrich Hebbel : 643 : Hebbel, Christian Friedrich


It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
Friedrich Hebbel : 644 : Hebbel, Christian Friedrich


That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel : 10711 : Hebbel, Christian Friedrich


Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
Bishop Reginald Heber : 13490 : Heber, Bishop Reginald


The moviemakers are able to put more reality into a picture about the terrors of life at the ocean bottom than into a tale of two Milwaukeeans in love.
Ben Hecht : 3412 : Hecht, Ben


Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
Ben Hecht : 11487 : Hecht, Ben


I wake up in the morning and make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. I should get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.
Mitch Hedberg : 5923 : Hedberg, Mitch


When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying, "Here, you throw this away".
Mitch Hedberg : 10603 : Hedberg, Mitch


Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
J. E. Hedges : 2582 : Hedges, Job Elmer


The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; They get that way by respecting them.
Tom Heehler : 10016 : Heehler, Tom


As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.
Margaret Heffernan : 12775 : Heffernan, Margaret


Ballroom dancing has been around in various forms since early civilization, and it has been a crucial factor in the development of mankind.
Howell Heflin : 9998 : Heflin, Howell


Experience and history teach that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : 3414 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.
Georg Hegel : 4047 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Education is the art of making man ethical.
George Hegel : 6512 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


What experience and history teach is this - that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Hegel : 7225 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Georg Hegel : 7861 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Georg Hegel : 11434 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
Robert Heilbroner : 13012 : Heilbroner, Robert


Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
Carolyn Heilbrun : 9989 : Heilbrun, Carolyn


I have never met a woman who, deep down in here core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.
Cynthia Heimel : 408 : Heimel, Cynthia


The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
Piet Hein : 6353 : Hein, Piet


The wedding march always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine : 809 : Heine, Heinrich


The men of action are, after all, the uncommon instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine : 810 : Heine, Heinrich


We live together very happily, that is, I don't have a moment's peace by day or night.
Heinrich Heine : 2456 : Heine, Heinrich


Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its condition. The essence of music is revelation.
Heinrich Heine : 3418 : Heine, Heinrich


Men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine : 8016 : Heine, Heinrich


If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine : 8306 : Heine, Heinrich


Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
Heinrich Heine : 10249 : Heine, Heinrich


Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Heinrich Heine : 10735 : Heine, Heinrich


I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein : 4088 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
Robert A. Heinlein : 5067 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein : 5580 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein : 6560 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Theology is never any help; It is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein : 7211 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
Robert Heinlein : 8323 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert Heinlein : 8800 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein : 10091 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein : 11052 : Heinlein, Robert A.


You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert Heinlein : 12303 : Heinlein, Robert A.


We may eliminate death someday, but I doubt if we'll ever eliminate taxes.
Robert A. Heinlein : 12492 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors ... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein : 13172 : Heinlein, Robert A.


The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
Robert Heinlein : 11001 : Heinlein, Robert, A.


Golf cart: a method of transporting clubs that has one big advantage; it can't count.
Joachim Heinrich : 975 : Heinrich, Joachim


An excellent monument might be erected to the unknown stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone arc of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.
Felix Heisenberg : 11186 : Heisenberg, Felix


Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
Louis J. Helle, Jr. : 4610 : Helle, Louis J., Jr.


He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller : 2486 : Heller, Joseph


So that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
Joseph Heller : 3050 : Heller, Joseph


Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Joseph Heller : 3385 : Heller, Joseph


A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.
Joseph Heller : 3498 : Heller, Joseph


Kissinger brought peace to Vietnam the same way Napoleon brought peace to Europe: by losing.
Joseph Heller : 6404 : Heller, Joseph


Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than in any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman : 1158 : Hellman, Lillian


God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman : 1159 : Hellman, Lillian


There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.
Lillian Hellman : 2244 : Hellman, Lillian


Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman : 2903 : Hellman, Lillian


The past, with its pleasure, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman : 3089 : Hellman, Lillian


If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman : 5025 : Hellman, Lillian


For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman : 7675 : Hellman, Lillian


Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman : 8356 : Hellman, Lillian


Grown people were always on the edge of telling you something valuable and then withdrawing it, a form of bully teasing.
Lillian Hellman : 10029 : Hellman, Lillian


It is best in the theater to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman : 10495 : Hellman, Lillian


Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman : 10773 : Hellman, Lillian


I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman : 12275 : Hellman, Lillian


Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman : 13226 : Hellman, Lillian


I was more pleased with possessing your heart than with any other happiness; the man was the thing I least valued in you.
Heloise : 6634 : Heloise


Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
Hinton Rowan Helper : 7162 : Helper, Hinton Rowan


The manufacture of sin is so easy a manufacture, that I am convinced man could readily be persuaded that it was wicked to use the left leg as much as the right; whole congregations would only permit themselves to hop.
Sir Arthur Helps : 2952 : Helps, Sir Arthur


The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps : 8705 : Helps, Sir Arthur


Those awful goddesses, Appearances, are to us what the Fates were to the Greeks.
Arthur Helps : 9058 : Helps, Sir Arthur


Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps : 9575 : Helps, Sir Arthur


The stately homes of England, how beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, o'er all the pleasant land.
Felicia Hemans : 2719 : Hemans, Felicia


Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway : 2267 : Hemingway, Ernest


All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons.
Ernest Hemingway : 2740 : Hemingway, Ernest


A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway : 3313 : Hemingway, Ernest


I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway : 4584 : Hemingway, Ernest


It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
Ernest Hemingway : 4702 : Hemingway, Ernest


Don't you like writing letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
Ernest Hemingway : 5192 : Hemingway, Ernest


What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway : 6233 : Hemingway, Ernest


Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway : 6440 : Hemingway, Ernest


Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway : 6515 : Hemingway, Ernest


People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Ernest Hemingway : 7987 : Hemingway, Ernest


Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway : 8492 : Hemingway, Ernest


To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway : 9371 : Hemingway, Ernest


Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway : 10140 : Hemingway, Ernest


But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -- Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway : 10169 : Hemingway, Ernest


When some people hear an echo, they think they originated the sound.
Ernest Hemingway : 10812 : Hemingway, Ernest


People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway : 11704 : Hemingway, Ernest


The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway : 12290 : Hemingway, Ernest


The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson : 3278 : Henderson, Nelson


Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
Evelyn Hendrickson : 9428 : Hendrickson, Evelyn


I can't express myself in any conversation. But when I'm up on stage, it's all the world. It's my whole life.
Jimi Hendrix : 5230 : Hendrix, Jimi


You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people.
Jimi Hendrix : 13080 : Hendrix, Jimi


Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.
Andrew Hendrixson : 13227 : Hendrixson, Andrew


We live a protracted adolescence. At some point, you must leave the party.
Don Henley : 10600 : Henley, Don


Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
Marilu Henner : 12246 : Henner, Marilu


Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri : 1553 : Henri, Robert


Nothing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at the sight of them. This is beauty.
Robert Henri : 11879 : Henri, Robert


Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
M. Henry : 1201 : Henry, M.


He looked like a composite picture of five thousand orphans too late to catch a picnic steamboat.
O. Henry : 1368 : Henry, O.


A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. Henry : 3556 : Henry, O.


Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live.
O. Henry : 6106 : Henry, O.


The city like a ragged purple dream, the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city.
O. Henry, on New York City : 10715 : Henry, O.


I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry : 1432 : Henry, Patrick


I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry : 3169 : Henry, Patrick


No disability or dictionary out there is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
Robert M. Hensel : 13419 : Hensel, Robert M.


Nothing is impossible; The word itself says "I'm possible!"
Audrey Hepburn : 10291 : Hepburn, Audrey


Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; It does for me.
Audrey Hepburn : 12127 : Hepburn, Audrey


I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
Audrey Hepburn : 12326 : Hepburn, Audrey


As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn : 12851 : Hepburn, Audrey


I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
Katharine Hepburn : 1079 : Hepburn, Katharine


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn : 3100 : Hepburn, Katharine


Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was. "Fine. If you don't ask for details."
Katharine Hepburn : 6024 : Hepburn, Katharine


If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn : 6823 : Hepburn, Katharine


When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn : 6925 : Hepburn, Katharine


Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn : 8263 : Hepburn, Katharine


I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn : 9001 : Hepburn, Katharine


I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good - or there because they're lucky.
Katharine Hepburn : 9298 : Hepburn, Katharine


The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn : 10394 : Hepburn, Katharine


Acting is the most minor of gifts - after all, Shirley temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn : 10602 : Hepburn, Katharine


Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
Heraclitus : 5112 : Heraclitus


No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus : 8816 : Heraclitus


Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus : 10332 : Heraclitus


An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
A. P. Herbert : 8021 : Herbert, A. P.


The Farmer will never be happy again; He carries his heart in his boots; For either the rain is destroying his grain, or the drought is destroying his roots.
A. P. Herbert : 8220 : Herbert, A. P.


Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert : 7799 : Herbert, Frank


I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to its path. Where the fear has go
Frank Herbert (from Dune) : 7800 : Herbert, Frank


Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
Frank Herbert : 8212 : Herbert, Frank


The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert (from Dune) : 12090 : Herbert, Frank


Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert : 12134 : Herbert, Frank


Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert : 702 : Herbert, George


Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
George Herbert : 703 : Herbert, George


Every mile is two in winter.
George Herbert : 2657 : Herbert, George


The rich knows not who is his friend.
George Herbert : 2934 : Herbert, George


A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
George Herbert : 4114 : Herbert, George


The eye is bigger than the belly.
George Herbert : 6172 : Herbert, George


Nothing we see, but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure: The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.
George Herbert : 7571 : Herbert, George


Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert : 8107 : Herbert, George


A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.
George Herbert : 9333 : Herbert, George


Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
George Herbert : 10560 : Herbert, George


The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
George Herbert : 11366 : Herbert, George


Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert : 12318 : Herbert, George


Whoever considers the study of anatomy can never be an atheist.
Lord Herbert : 2092 : Herbert, Lord


Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.
Oliver Herford : 1383 : Herford, Oliver


If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
Oliver Herford : 1384 : Herford, Oliver


The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet.
Oliver Herford : 3293 : Herford, Oliver


Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford : 4797 : Herford, Oliver


A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford : 11140 : Herford, Oliver


I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
Herodotus : 2058 : Herodotus


Neither snow. nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Herodotus : 6017 : Herodotus


It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
Herodotus : 6483 : Herodotus


Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all; the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus : 7258 : Herodotus


Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
Christopher Herold : 1978 : Herold, Christopher


A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
Don Herold : 450 : Herold, Don


Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
Don Herold : 451 : Herold, Don


I say let's banish Bridge: let's find some pleasanter way of being miserable together.
Don Herold : 452 : Herold, Don


Before the advent of the radio, there were advantages in being a shut in.
Don Herold : 453 : Herold, Don


Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herold : 454 : Herold, Don


Women give us solace, but if it were not for women, we should never need solace.
Don Herold : 3702 : Herold, Don


Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
Don Herold : 5281 : Herold, Don


There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold : 6202 : Herold, Don


But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick : 9128 : Herrick, Robert


The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.
Eugene Herrigel : 3017 : Herrigel, Eugene


I have long held the notion that if a vet can't catch his patient there's nothing much to worry about.
James Herriot : 3535 : Herriot, James


Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.
Robert Herrman : 7997 : Herrman, Robert


The departing world leaves behind not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
Alexander Herzen : 9804 : Herzen, Alexander


I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Whitey Herzog : 10311 : Herzog, Whitey


The most important thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore M. Hesburgh : 1759 : Hesburgh, Theodore M.


The essence of man, his uniqueness, is in his power to surpass the self, to rise above his needs and selfish motives.
Abraham Heschel : 2402 : Heschel, Abraham


In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible.
Abraham Heschel : 2789 : Heschel, Abraham


The course of life is unpredictable; no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham Heschel : 4021 : Heschel, Abraham


Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Heschel : 6357 : Heschel, Abraham


There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
Michael Heseltine : 3392 : Heseltine, Michael


Admire a little ship, but put your cargo in a big one.
Hesiod : 10165 : Hesiod


As a cub reporter for the old United Press, I learned the following rueful lesson: The competition kills you twice with a phony story - first with the exclusive and the next day with the news that it wasn't so.
John L. Hess : 9931 : Hess, John L.


It is possible to be a great scoundrel without ever doing anything that is forbidden.
Hermann Hesse : 2839 : Hesse, Hermann


Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse : 6498 : Hesse, Hermann


The bourgeoisie prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse : 7909 : Hesse, Hermann


A man who is "ill-adjusted to the world" is always on the point of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
Hermann Hesse : 10374 : Hesse, Hermann


I feel very strongly that the director is supposed to be the boss. Art was never created by democracy.
Charlton Heston : 6045 : Heston, Charlton


You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston : 7988 : Heston, Charlton


If you need a ceiling painted, a chariot race run, a city besieged, or the Red Sea parted - you think of me.
Charlton Heston : 9710 : Heston, Charlton


I wouldn't be so rash as to say I played Moses and found God, but one learns from it, certainly. You'd be a bloody fool if you couldn't.
Charlton Heston : 10417 : Heston, Charlton


An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.
Charlton Heston : 11363 : Heston, Charlton


There is nothing like education for bringing to light, and assessing, the essential inequality between one mind and another.
Lord Hewart : 1182 : Hewart, Lord


When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
John Heywood : 13135 : Heywood, John


The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen : 12316 : Hiaasen, Carl


If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
Geoffrey Hickson : 8738 : Hickson, Geoffrey


Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
Tom Hiddleston : 11458 : Hiddleston, Tom


I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
Tom Hiddleston : 13160 : Hiddleston, Tom


I grew up watching "Superman." When I first learned to dive, I wasn't diving; I was flying, like Superman.
Tom Hiddleston : 13545 : Hiddleston, Tom


Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson : 3735 : Higginson, Thomas Wentworth


Few things are more important to a community than the health of its women. All men need mothers of strong frame.
T. Higginson : 6530 : Higginson, Thomas Wentworth


No matter what your age, you are one day younger than you will be tomorrow.
Cullen Hightower : 407 : Hightower, Cullen


We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but congress can.
Cullen Hightower : 4947 : Hightower, Cullen


There is nothing wrong with being addicted to money. It is the withdrawal symptoms that are so painful.
Cullen Hightower : 5259 : Hightower, Cullen


Some people never hold a grudge ... they develop a new one every day.
Cullen Hightower : 5277 : Hightower, Cullen


Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
Cullen Hightower : 8834 : Hightower, Cullen


Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower : 10307 : Hightower, Cullen


Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert : 12203 : Hilbert, David


Deceit is the false road to happiness. And all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
Aaron Hill : 2323 : Hill, Aaron


When people say, "It can't be done" or "you don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
Lynn Hill : 2329 : Hill, Lynn


The starting point for all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.
Napoleon Hill : 3240 : Hill, Napoleon


Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill : 10586 : Hill, Napoleon


Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill : 11102 : Hill, Napoleon


Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill : 12369 : Hill, Napoleon


Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.
Napoleon Hill : 13373 : Hill, Napoleon


Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill : 13388 : Hill, Napoleon


Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Reestablish cont
Etty Hillesum : 4151 : Hillesum, Etty


Life may be brimming over with experiences, but somewhere, deep inside, all of us carry a vast and fruitful loneliness.
Etty Hillesum : 6020 : Hillesum, Etty


Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum : 12627 : Hillesum, Etty


The shortest night of the year is Christmas Eve; from sundown to son up.
Burton Hillis : 295 : Hillis, Burton


I encourage boldness because the danger of our seniority and pension plans tempt a young man to settle in a rut named security rather than find his own rainbow.
Conrad Hilton : 2251 : Hilton, Conrad


Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
Chester Himes : 369 : Himes, Chester


I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
Gordon B. Hinckley : 11735 : Hinckley, Gordon B.


Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with a great and strong purpose in your heart.
Gordon B. Hinckley : 12485 : Hinckley, Gordon B.


There are only twelve notes. You must treat them carefully.
Paul Hindemith : 2915 : Hindemith, Paul


People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Paul Hindemith : 9218 : Hindemith, Paul


I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
Duncan Hines : 8043 : Hines, Duncan


If you share a flat with a biologist, don't eat anything in the fridge.
Faith Hines : 8370 : Hines, Faith


Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates : 6693 : Hippocrates


Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates : 12910 : Hippocrates


Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of Summer and Winter.
Carol Bishop Hipps : 12861 : Hipps, Carol Bishop


We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education. We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. : 8198 : Hirsch, E. D., Jr.


Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch : 12029 : Hirsch, Mary


I was a sculptor. But that's really drawing - a drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
Al Hirschfeld : 2738 : Hirschfeld, Al


Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
Al Hirschfeld, on Edward Lear and James Thurber : 3416 : Hirschfeld, Al


Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
Al Hirschfeld : 9242 : Hirschfeld, Al


The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples; The other turns them to cider.
Jane Hirshfield : 12336 : Hirshfield, Jane


I put a million monkeys on typewriters to see if they would type the works of Shakespeare, but all I got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
Bill Hirst : 7560 : Hirst, Bill


In films, murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is, and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock : 66 : Hitchcock, Alfred


The invention of television can be compared to the introduction of indoor plumbing. Fundamentally it brought no change in the public's habits. It simply eliminated the necessity of leaving the house.
Alfred Hitchcock : 2178 : Hitchcock, Alfred


If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell, "Follow that car!"
Alfred Hitchcock : 2699 : Hitchcock, Alfred


The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock : 4924 : Hitchcock, Alfred


I find commercials fascinating. They are so exquisitely vulgar and so delightfully tasteless that they must be irresistible to everyone save the few who aren't enchanted by discussions of nasal passages and digestive tracts.
Alfred Hitchcock : 6248 : Hitchcock, Alfred


Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock : 8128 : Hitchcock, Alfred


Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock : 8237 : Hitchcock, Alfred


A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock : 9878 : Hitchcock, Alfred


I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock : 10553 : Hitchcock, Alfred


I've never gone in for the creaking door type of suspense. To me, murder by a babbling brook drenched in sunshine is more interesting.
Alfred Hitchcock : 11535 : Hitchcock, Alfred


This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop
Alfred Hitchcock : 12743 : Hitchcock, Alfred


A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
Raymond Hitchcock : 10170 : Hitchcock, Raymond


That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher Hitchens : 13200 : Hitchens, Christopher


Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
Edward Hoagland : 11584 : Hoagland, Edward


The feeling of "aha, that's it," which accompanies the clothing of a situation with meaning, is emotionally very satisfying, and is the major charm of scientific research, of artistic creation, and of the solution of crossword puzzles. It is why the intel
Hudson Hoagland : 2658 : Hoagland, Hudson


A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
John Hobbes : 6340 : Hobbes, John


Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock : 12735 : Hock, Dee


Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question; What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?
John Hockenberry : 11517 : Hockenberry, John


Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney : 4939 : Hockney, David


Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges : 3272 : Hodges, Leigh Mitchell


Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though. That's the problem.
Benjamin Hoff : 4087 : Hoff, Benjamin


Irate wife, in throes of washing and ironing, to husband filling in tax return: "Don't you dare list me as a dependent!"
Syd Hoff : 9378 : Hoff, Syd


What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise, can you imagine what awful screeching?
Samuel Hoffenstein : 1611 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


Babies haven't any hair; old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lies a haircut and a shave.
S. Hoffenstein : 3665 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Samuel Hoffenstein : 8778 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.
Samuel Hoffenstein : 9337 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer : 567 : Hoffer, Eric


The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
Eric Hoffer : 568 : Hoffer, Eric


Intolerance is the "do not touch" sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
Eric Hoffer : 569 : Hoffer, Eric


It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer : 1958 : Hoffer, Eric


It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
Eric Hoffer : 2379 : Hoffer, Eric


Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
Eric Hoffer : 2884 : Hoffer, Eric


The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
Eric Hoffer : 3090 : Hoffer, Eric


It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer : 4993 : Hoffer, Eric


There is radicalism in all getting, and conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
Eric Hoffer : 5200 : Hoffer, Eric


When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other
Eric Hoffer : 5539 : Hoffer, Eric


Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
Eric Hoffer : 6458 : Hoffer, Eric


Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer : 6775 : Hoffer, Eric


Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Eric Hoffer : 6936 : Hoffer, Eric


Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Eric Hoffer : 7295 : Hoffer, Eric


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer : 7673 : Hoffer, Eric


Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer : 8336 : Hoffer, Eric


Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer : 8574 : Hoffer, Eric


The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence and even riches without depriving others of them.
Eric Hoffer : 8634 : Hoffer, Eric


We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffer : 9309 : Hoffer, Eric


To be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of it strength.
Eric Hoffer : 10350 : Hoffer, Eric


Some kind of widespread enthusiasm or excitement is apparently needed for the realization of vast and rapid change.
Eric Hoffer : 10456 : Hoffer, Eric


The sterile radical is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.
Eric Hoffer : 11188 : Hoffer, Eric


How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
Eric Hoffer : 11764 : Hoffer, Eric


Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer : 11884 : Hoffer, Eric


Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffer : 12154 : Hoffer, Eric


If I'd seen me at a party, I'd never have gone up and met me.
Dustin Hoffman : 7702 : Hoffman, Dustin


The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann : 11298 : Hofmann, Hans


Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
Hans Hofmann : 12976 : Hofmann, Hans


Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Hans Hofmann : 13219 : Hofmann, Hans


We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition - "the tradition of the new." yesterday's avant-garde experience is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
Richard Hofstadter : 2946 : Hofstadter, Richard


The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.
Richard Hofstadter : 3417 : Hofstadter, Richard


Americans are, if not the most self-critical, at least the most anxiously self-conscious people in the world, forever concerned about the inadequacy of something or other.
Richard Hofstadter : 5029 : Hofstadter, Richard


Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Simon Hoggart : 8191 : Hoggart, Simon


You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
John H. Holcomb : 11966 : Holcomb, John H.


Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Thomas Holdcroft : 1776 : Holdcroft, Thomas


Sophia Loren didn't walk into the room, she swept in. I never saw so much woman coming at me in my entire life.
William Holden : 8985 : Holden, William


I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday : 262 : Holiday, Billie


In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love.
Billie Holiday : 2366 : Holiday, Billie


No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday : 13400 : Holiday, Billie


Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
Billie Holiday : 13407 : Holiday, Billie


The person who agrees with everything you say either isn't listening to you or plans to sell you something.
Bud Holiday : 6947 : Holiday, Bud


Life is too short to dust things that don't have dust on them.
Barbara Holland : 11664 : Holland, Barbara


Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Henry Scott Holland : 9019 : Holland, Henry Scott


Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
Isabelle Holland : 12596 : Holland, Isabelle


That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.
J. G. Holland : 902 : Holland, J. G.


The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is being unselfish.
J. G. Holland : 4430 : Holland, J. G.


He who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
J. G. Holland : 4889 : Holland, J. G.


Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
Anne Hollander : 9596 : Hollander, Anne


Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Raymond Holliwell : 11874 : Holliwell, Raymond


We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm : 3305 : Holm, Celeste


Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
Ernest Holmes : 11665 : Holmes, Ernest


The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
John Holmes : 12193 : Holmes, John


Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
John Andrew Holmes : 985 : Holmes, John Andrew


Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes : 986 : Holmes, John Andrew


The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
John Andrew Holmes : 4282 : Holmes, John Andrew


The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
John H. Holmes : 10794 : Holmes, John H.


To be seventy years young is sometimes far more hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1385 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original shape.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1387 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1388 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1389 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1390 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1391 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2192 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2551 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2676 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2969 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 3455 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 3875 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 4350 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 4547 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 4626 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


I despise making the most of one's time: half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5273 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5445 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
O. W. Holmes : 5457 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5473 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in a quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5579 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6217 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6220 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6244 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


We need an education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6443 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6838 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Friendship is a breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 7145 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 8525 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 8926 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9541 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9552 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9561 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Men do not quit playing because they grow old; They grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9584 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 10819 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 11512 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 12461 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


I have not found juries specially inspired for the discovery of truth. I have not found them freer from prejudices than an ordinary judge would be.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : 2275 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : 6008 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


If it is a bad rule, that is no reason for making a bad exception to it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : 9770 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. : 11751 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. : 1392 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.


The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. : 4800 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.


I firmly believe that if whole Materia Medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind - and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. : 10367 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.


Tackling a job that seems worth doing, and doing it in a competent manner, is the best way for a person to gain self-esteem.
John Holt : 2403 : Holt, John


Sidney Sheldon is a graduate of "The Terrible Secret" School of Fiction Writing, in which most of his characters hide huge chunks of their past from each other so we'll keep the pages turning.
Patricia Holt : 11479 : Holt, Patricia


Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
Winifred Holtby : 7545 : Holtby, Winifred


A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz : 6862 : Holtz, Lou


It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to demotivate them.
Lou Holtz : 8615 : Holtz, Lou


When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Lou Holtz : 9457 : Holtz, Lou


I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz : 9810 : Holtz, Lou


I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
Lou Holtz : 12552 : Holtz, Lou


'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.
Richard Henry Home : 6159 : Home, Richard Henry


Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer : 4351 : Homer


Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer : 6645 : Homer


I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
Homer : 6719 : Homer


It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
Homer : 6728 : Homer


There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Homer : 6800 : Homer


It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
Homer : 6964 : Homer


A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Homer : 7044 : Homer


The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Homer : 7091 : Homer


I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Homer : 7356 : Homer


Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Homer : 7387 : Homer


Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer : 7717 : Homer


Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
Homer : 8395 : Homer


He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer : 8938 : Homer


Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than of war.
Homer : 10824 : Homer


Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
Homer : 11922 : Homer


To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
Arthur Honegger : 3376 : Honegger, Arthur


If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
Leroy Hood : 12513 : Hood, Leroy


Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton Hood : 9308 : Hood, Paxton


An irritable man is like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.
Thomas Hood : 2242 : Hood, Thomas


Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my valentine!
Thomas Hood : 11451 : Hood, Thomas


Peace is not made at the council table, or by treaties, but in the hearts of men
Herbert Hoover : 861 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
Herbert Hoover : 862 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


We are in danger of developing a cult of the common man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Herbert Hoover : 2831 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Herbert Hoover : 6629 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover : 8064 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


In the great mass of our people there are plenty of individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert Clark Hoover : 8604 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Clark Hoover : 12162 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover : 13064 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
Lou Henry Hoover : 10935 : Hoover, Lou Henry


Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
Anthony Hope : 2731 : Hope, Anthony


When I look into a girl's eyes I can tell what she thinks of me. It's pretty depressing.
Bob Hope : 274 : Hope, Bob


The audience was swell. They were so polite. They covered their mouths when they yawned.
Bob Hope : 275 : Hope, Bob


If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope : 2392 : Hope, Bob


I've always felt England was a great place to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.
Bob Hope : 2493 : Hope, Bob


A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope : 3322 : Hope, Bob


My ankles crunch, my knees crunch, my stomach gurgles constantly. I'm not getting older, I'm getting noisier.
Bob Hope : 4569 : Hope, Bob


I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope : 5151 : Hope, Bob


My old movies have been on so many channels lately, I can flip the dial and watch the hairline recede.
Bob Hope : 7638 : Hope, Bob


I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope : 7792 : Hope, Bob


If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope : 7804 : Hope, Bob


People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope : 9851 : Hope, Bob


You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope : 10588 : Hope, Bob


To give you an idea of how fast we traveled: We left Spokane with two rabbits and when we got to Topeka, we still only had two.
Bob Hope : 11557 : Hope, Bob


I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope : 12239 : Hope, Bob


I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the statue of liberty.
Bob Hope : 13027 : Hope, Bob


Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry A. Hopf : 6722 : Hopf, Harry A.


My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
Anthony Hopkins : 12798 : Hopkins, Anthony


I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything, and it makes life so much easier.
Anthony Hopkins : 12804 : Hopkins, Anthony


The glassy pear tree leaves and blooms, they brush the descending blue; That blue is all in a rush with richness.
Gerard Manley Hopkins : 10703 : Hopkins, Gerard Manley


Look well to this day for it is life itself. In its brief course lie all the realities of existence, for yesterday is but a memory and tomorrow only a dream.
Thomas Hopkins : 9527 : Hopkins, Thomas


You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming and encouraging your greatest asset.
Tom Hopkins : 10945 : Hopkins, Tom


Old men declare wars because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. They then send young men to go fight them. Of course, the old men have to make up patriotic and emotional rationales to justify their stupidity.
Arthur Hoppe : 174 : Hoppe, Arthur


If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper : 12986 : Hopper, Edward


The most damaging phrase in the language is "it's always been done that way."
Grace Hopper : 4055 : Hopper, Grace


It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper : 4839 : Hopper, Grace


In anger, you look ten years older.
Hedda Hopper : 7401 : Hopper, Hedda


And if you include me among the lyric poets, I'll hold my head so high it'll strike the stars.
Horace : 875 : Horace


He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace : 2786 : Horace


We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace : 2933 : Horace


In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.
Horace : 4286 : Horace


Who can hope to be safe? Who is sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
Horace : 4311 : Horace


That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Horace : 4848 : Horace


You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace : 5111 : Horace


He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses, yet on it glides, and will glide on forever.
Horace : 6271 : Horace


Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace : 6607 : Horace


Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Horace : 6796 : Horace


Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace : 6927 : Horace


Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace : 6953 : Horace


Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
Horace : 7014 : Horace


The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Horace : 7072 : Horace


Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace : 7385 : Horace


The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
Horace : 7732 : Horace


Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow.
Horace : 8104 : Horace


His thinking does not produce smoke after the flame, but light after smoke.
Horace : 8371 : Horace


Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything. We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.
Horace : 8581 : Horace


This was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these.
Horace : 8894 : Horace


The fickle populace has changed its taste and burns with a craze for scribbling.
Horace : 9453 : Horace


Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor.
Horace : 10502 : Horace


He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Horace : 10823 : Horace


When many beauties grace a poem, I shall not take offense at a few faults.
Horace : 11659 : Horace


O Imitators, a servile race, how often have your attacks roused my pile and often my laughter!
Horace : 13464 : Horace


We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants; Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.
Donald Horban : 4253 : Horban, Donald


At some point in the future, it would theoretically be possible to store all sixteen million volumes in the Library of Congress on a disk the size of a penny.
Paul M. Horn : 10392 : Horn, Paul M.


What an endless chain of unhappiness prejudice forges.
Lena Horne : 6148 : Horne, Lena


It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne : 8071 : Horne, Lena


Always be smarter than the people you hire.
Lena Horne : 10856 : Horne, Lena


The thing to do for insomnia is to get an opera score and read that. That will bore you to death.
Marilyn Horne : 5019 : Horne, Marilyn


I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby : 4076 : Hornsby, Rogers


People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby : 11706 : Hornsby, Rogers


Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz : 4488 : Horowitz, Stanley


Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz : 12338 : Horowitz, Stanley


Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Doug Horton : 12078 : Horton, Doug


Whistling to keep up courage is good practice for whistling.
Henry Hoskins : 7368 : Hoskins, Henry


To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.
Eric Hotter : 5975 : Hotter, Eric


Plants stand so patiently in the fields that we are accustomed to think that they are calm and immovable, whereas there is a feverish activity going on at all times.
Alfred Carl Hottes : 9619 : Hottes, Alfred Carl


When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "give crowns and pounds and guineas but not your heart away; give pearls away and rubies, but keep your fancy free." but I was one-and-twenty, no use to talk to me.
A. E. Housman : 2666 : Housman, Alfred Edward


Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough. / And stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide.
A. E. Housman : 6290 : Housman, Alfred Edward


Don't worry about failure; You only have to be right once.
Drew Houston : 13426 : Houston, Drew


He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty.
Sam Houston, discussing an enemy : 4876 : Houston, Sam


I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
Whitney Houston : 1879 : Houston, Whitney


With women, you don't get the genius title, you get the diva title.
Whitney Houston : 11657 : Houston, Whitney


Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Richard Hovey : 3276 : Hovey, Richard


Art is a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
Aaron Howard : 12023 : Howard, Aaron


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 : 12360 : Howard, Jane


One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up to get it.
Sidney Howard : 1651 : Howard, Sidney


You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard : 9730 : Howard, Vernon


A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard : 12362 : Howard, Vernon


The first mean thing a newly-married man does is to notice the pretty girls again.
Ed Howe : 9792 : Howe, Ed


If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.
E. W. Howe : 492 : Howe, Edgar Watson


The average man's judgement is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Ed Howe : 496 : Howe, Edgar Watson


The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Ed Howe : 497 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Ed Howe : 498 : Howe, Edgar Watson


One of the surprising things of this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Ed Howe : 499 : Howe, Edgar Watson


When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.
Ed Howe : 500 : Howe, Edgar Watson


If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
Edgar Watson Howe : 2208 : Howe, Edgar Watson


When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe : 2755 : Howe, Edgar Watson


No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
Edgar Watson Howe : 3304 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
E. W. Howe : 3661 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Every time a boy shows his hands, someone suggests that he wash them.
E. W. Howe : 3666 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Half the world does not know how the other half lives, but is trying to find out.
E. W, Howe : 3732 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Ed Howe : 3943 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Ed Howe : 4936 : Howe, Edgar Watson


I believe in grumbling; It is the politest form of fighting known.
Ed Howe : 5551 : Howe, Edgar Watson


About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
E. W. Howe : 5612 : Howe, Edgar Watson


The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.
Edgar Watson Howe : 6015 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
Ed Howe : 6205 : Howe, Edgar Watson


If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Edgar Watson Howe : 6383 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe : 6394 : Howe, Edgar Watson


What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. Howe : 6535 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Edgar Watson Howe : 8367 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Half the times when men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. Howe : 9148 : Howe, Edgar Watson


To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
E. W. Howe : 9209 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Doesn't it seem some days as though other people were put into the world for no other reason than to aggravate you?
E. W. Howe : 9708 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Another person's secret is like another person's money; you are not as careful with it as you are with your own.
E. W. Howe : 10053 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe : 10128 : Howe, Edgar Watson


I never knew a man so mean that I was not willing he should admire me.
Edgar Watson Howe : 10806 : Howe, Edgar Watson


All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and Profanity.
Gordie Howe : 7463 : Howe, Gordie


What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe : 4265 : Howe, John


Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Julia Ward Howe : 6541 : Howe, Julia Ward


The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda about the model family, is how few Americans actually live this way.
Louise Kapp Howe : 7263 : Howe, Louise Kapp


The way of the world is to praise dead saints and to persecute living ones.
Nathaniel Howe : 5092 : Howe, Nathaniel


To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
James Howell : 9555 : Howell, James


You don't know what faith you have until it is tested.
Rees Howells : 10157 : Howells, Rees


Today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion.
William Dean Howells : 2648 : Howells, William Dean


There is trouble and sorrow enough in the world without making it on purpose.
William Dean Howells : 6207 : Howells, William Dean


Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
William Dean Howells : 11651 : Howells, William Dean


When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.
Fred Hoyle : 2374 : Hoyle, Fred


Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
Tony Hsieh : 12869 : Hsieh, Tony


It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard : 529 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Repartee: any reply that is so clever that it makes the listener wish he had said it himself.
Elbert Hubbard : 530 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


No one needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard : 531 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard : 532 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Speak well of every one if you speak of them at all - none of us are so very good.
Elbert Hubbard : 2012 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Elbert Hubbard : 2283 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.
Elbert Hubbard : 2602 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
Elbert Hubbard : 2706 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard : 3046 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Little minds are interested in the extraordinary, great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard : 3063 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Elbert Hubbard : 3266 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard : 3295 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Green Hubbard : 3539 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard : 3604 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Friend: One who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard : 3726 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record on the face as to what became of it.
Elbert Hubbard : 3825 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard : 3860 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want
Elbert Hubbard : 4233 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard : 4243 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself.
Elbert Hubbard : 4425 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard : 4503 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Get your happiness out of your work or you may never know happiness.
Elbert Hubbard : 4576 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Every man is a fool for at least five minutes a day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard : 4591 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard : 5024 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Elbert Hubbard : 5037 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard : 5282 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard : 5284 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If you want work done well, select a busy man. The other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard : 5302 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard : 6133 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard : 6382 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard : 7705 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard : 8394 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard : 8729 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Logic is one thing, and common sense another.
Elbert Hubbard : 8774 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful and keep busy.
Elbert Hubbard : 8829 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard : 8900 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there is so little competition!
Elbert Hubbard : 9419 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard : 10230 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard : 11348 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard : 11460 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
Elbert Hubbard : 11993 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard : 13131 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


One good thing about living on a farm is that you can fight with your wife without being heard.
Kin Hubbard : 1096 : Hubbard, Kin


Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard : 1097 : Hubbard, Kin


The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.
Kin Hubbard : 1098 : Hubbard, Kin


The worst sensation I know of is getting up at night and stepping on a toy train of cars.
Kin Hubbard : 1099 : Hubbard, Kin


An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard : 1100 : Hubbard, Kin


It is going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard : 1101 : Hubbard, Kin


The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard : 1102 : Hubbard, Kin


It would be a swell world if everybody was as pleasant as the fellow who is trying to skin you.
Kin Hubbard : 1103 : Hubbard, Kin


Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.
Kin Hubbard : 1104 : Hubbard, Kin


Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard : 1105 : Hubbard, Kin


Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
Kin Hubbard : 1106 : Hubbard, Kin


Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard : 1107 : Hubbard, Kin


There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
Kin Hubbard : 1108 : Hubbard, Kin


It seems the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Kin Hubbard : 1109 : Hubbard, Kin


I don't know anything as willing, and that seems to enjoy its work, as a revolving door.
Kin Hubbard : 1110 : Hubbard, Kin


The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
F. M. Hubbard : 2161 : Hubbard, Kin


The reason the way of the transgressor is so hard is that it's so crowded.
Kin Hubbard : 2474 : Hubbard, Kin


A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of your friends.
Kin Hubbard : 2515 : Hubbard, Kin


Whoever wrote "to win success we must deserve it" must have been the same fellow who gave out the statement that two can live as cheaply as one.
Kin Hubbard : 3044 : Hubbard, Kin


After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up who used to sit by him in school.
Kin Hubbard : 3668 : Hubbard, Kin


Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
Kin Hubbard : 3670 : Hubbard, Kin


Married life ain't so bad after you get so you can eat the things your wife likes.
Kin Hubbard : 3699 : Hubbard, Kin


I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
Kin Hubbard : 3728 : Hubbard, Kin


It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten.
Kin Hubbard : 3741 : Hubbard, Kin


The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Kin Hubbard : 3753 : Hubbard, Kin


When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
Kin Hubbard : 4063 : Hubbard, Kin


There's another advantage of being poor: a doctor will cure you faster.
Kin Hubbard : 4598 : Hubbard, Kin


Kindness goes a long way lots of times when it should stay at home.
Kin Hubbard : 4912 : Hubbard, Kin


About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain folk is the stork.
Kin Hubbard : 4962 : Hubbard, Kin


One of the commonest ailments of the present day is premature formation of an opinion.
Kin Hubbard : 5069 : Hubbard, Kin


Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
Kin Hubbard : 5520 : Hubbard, Kin


It makes no difference what it is, a woman will buy anything she thinks a store is losing money on.
Kin Hubbard : 6216 : Hubbard, Kin


When a woman says, "I don't wish to mention any names," it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.
Kin Hubbard : 6231 : Hubbard, Kin


My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who's lost three husbands.
Kin Hubbard : 6265 : Hubbard, Kin


Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
Kin Hubbard : 6519 : Hubbard, Kin


Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Kin Hubbard : 6520 : Hubbard, Kin


Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard : 6521 : Hubbard, Kin


Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard : 6522 : Hubbard, Kin


We'd all like to vote fer the best man, but he's never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard : 6523 : Hubbard, Kin


When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
Kin Hubbard : 6524 : Hubbard, Kin


There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard : 6525 : Hubbard, Kin


There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.
Kin Hubbard : 6526 : Hubbard, Kin


Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration.
Kin Hubbard : 7975 : Hubbard, Kin


A bee is never as busy as it seems. It's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard : 8813 : Hubbard, Kin


A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.
Kin Hubbard : 8821 : Hubbard, Kin


There ought to be some way to eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you were stepping on a basket.
Kin Hubbard : 9017 : Hubbard, Kin


Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard : 9208 : Hubbard, Kin


The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard : 10752 : Hubbard, Kin


Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard : 11341 : Hubbard, Kin


There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
L. Ron Hubbard : 8687 : Hubbard, L. Ron


Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.
Edwin Hubble : 10621 : Hubble, Edwin


Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Vanessa Hudgens : 11463 : Hudgens, Vanessa


May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.
Fennel Hudson : 13503 : Hudson, Fennel


He was a short man, well below average, and he walked with his chin up, gazing about as though searching for his missing inches.
Helen Hudson : 7261 : Hudson, Helen


Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
Kate Hudson : 12835 : Hudson, Kate


Etiquette is what you are doing when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.
Virginia Cary Hudson : 10452 : Hudson, Virginia Cary


Have you ever observed a hummingbird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem. It is a creature of such fairylike loveliness as to mock all description.
W. H. Hudson : 3882 : Hudson, W. H.


If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta : 12623 : Huerta, Dolores


Liberation is an ever-shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.
Arianna Huffington : 5013 : Huffington, Arianna


The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.
Arianna Huffington : 11990 : Huffington, Arianna


We have, if we're lucky, about thirty thousand days to play the game of life.
Arianna Huffington : 12762 : Huffington, Arianna


If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Shirley Hufstedler : 1650 : Hufstedler, Shirley


We not only praise individual liberty but our constitution has the unique distinction of ensuring it.
Charles Evans Hughes : 350 : Hughes, Charles Evans


There will always be a multitude who are congenitally unable to think straight.
Charles Evans Hughes : 4880 : Hughes, Charles Evans


Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
Charles Evans Hughes : 8054 : Hughes, Charles Evans


Melting pot Harlem - Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall - where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
Langston Hughes : 4623 : Hughes, Langston


The blues can be real sad, else real mad, else real glad, and funny, too, all at the same time. I ought to know. I grooved up with blues. I heard so many blues when I was a child until my shadow is blue.
Langston Hughes : 10341 : Hughes, Langston


Birthing is hard, and dying is mean, so get yourself a little loving in between.
Langston Hughes : 11427 : Hughes, Langston


Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes : 11716 : Hughes, Langston


Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes : 11774 : Hughes, Langston


Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes : 12180 : Hughes, Langston


The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes : 11353 : Hughes, Robert


Imagination isn't merely a surplus mental department meant for entertainment, but the most essential piece of machinery we have if we are going to live the lives of human beings.
Ted Hughes : 3386 : Hughes, Ted


Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor.
Victor Hugo : 1824 : Hugo, Victor


Be it true of false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Victor Hugo : 1825 : Hugo, Victor


No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo : 1826 : Hugo, Victor


The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo : 1827 : Hugo, Victor


How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss and all was said.
Victor Hugo : 4603 : Hugo, Victor


To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo : 4748 : Hugo, Victor


No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo : 6113 : Hugo, Victor


A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
Victor Hugo : 6391 : Hugo, Victor


Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo : 6448 : Hugo, Victor


Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
Victor Hugo : 7232 : Hugo, Victor


Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo : 7457 : Hugo, Victor


Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Victor Hugo : 8782 : Hugo, Victor


Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
Victor Hugo : 9077 : Hugo, Victor


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo : 9486 : Hugo, Victor


Common sense is in spite of, and not the product of, education.
Victor Hugo : 10142 : Hugo, Victor


Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo : 10858 : Hugo, Victor


Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo : 12146 : Hugo, Victor


If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
Victor Hugo : 12744 : Hugo, Victor


When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo : 13075 : Hugo, Victor


Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
Wayne Huizenga : 12550 : Huizenga, Wayne


He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull : 8431 : Hull, Raymond


I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt : 7850 : Humboldt, Wilhelm Von


In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our skepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.
David Hume : 3415 : Hume, David


The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
David Hume : 3679 : Hume, David


A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume : 11007 : Hume, David


Poets, though liars by profession, always endeavor to give an air of truth to their fictions.
David Hume : 11297 : Hume, David


Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume : 11882 : Hume, David


Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother in law.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 881 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


Poverty is now an inhuman anachronism.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 2653 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 3432 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 3818 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 8352 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert Humphrey : 8702 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert Humphrey : 12100 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


My biggest thrill came the night Elgin Baylor and I combined for seventy-three points in Madison Square Garden. Elgin had seventy-one of them.
Rod Hundley : 8585 : Hundley, Rod


Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions. Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
Ellen Hunnicutt : 5990 : Hunnicutt, Ellen


The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt : 5303 : Hunt, Leigh


It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Leigh Hunt : 8984 : Hunt, Leigh


There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt : 9679 : Hunt, Leigh


Colors are the smiles of nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs, as in the flowers.
Leigh Hunt : 11526 : Hunt, Leigh


Some of the best moments in life are not when you have achieved something, but when the thought first comes to you to have a go.
Lord Hunt : 11785 : Hunt, Lord


We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
Alberta Hunter : 48 : Hunter, Alberta


I'm not living the blues, I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.
Alberta Hunter : 2300 : Hunter, Alberta


It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter : 3150 : Hunter, Ian


Conduct is the great profession. Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.
F. D. Huntington : 590 : Huntington, F. D.


It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst : 594 : Hurst, Fannie


It's hard for a young girl to have patience for old age sitting and chewing all day over the past.
Fannie Hurst : 5018 : Hurst, Fannie


Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston : 8583 : Hurston, Zora Neale


I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
Zora Neale Hurston : 9321 : Hurston, Zora Neale


Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston : 11439 : Hurston, Zora Neale


Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston : 13225 : Hurston, Zora Neale


Humphrey Bogart regarded the somewhat gaudy figure of Bogart, the star, with amused cynicism; Bogart, the actor, he held in deep respect.
John Huston : 10004 : Huston, John


In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
Warren Hutcherson : 5707 : Hutcherson, Warren


A liberal education frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins : 4273 : Hutchins, Robert M.


The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Robert M. Hutchins : 11295 : Hutchins, Robert M.


Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Robert Hutchinson : 1554 : Hutchinson, Robert


They told me to fix my teeth, change my nose, even get out of the business. But I stayed, and learned, and didn't give up.
Lauren Hutton : 6920 : Hutton, Lauren


Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life, they are what we have been through and who we want to be.
Lauren Hutton : 13029 : Hutton, Lauren


The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds ceses to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
William Hutton : 3797 : Hutton, William


Love, the last defense against old age - the last, and for those whose good fortune it is to have some one person to care for, or who have learned the infinitely difficult art of loving all their neighbors, the best.
Aldous Huxley : 50 : Huxley, Aldous


There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley : 51 : Huxley, Aldous


To carry the spirit of a child into old age is the secret of genius.
Aldous Huxley : 52 : Huxley, Aldous


That life is meaningless may be a lie, so far as the whole of life is concerned. But it is the truth at any given instant.
Aldous Huxley : 53 : Huxley, Aldous


Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Aldous Huxley : 54 : Huxley, Aldous


When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
Aldous Huxley : 55 : Huxley, Aldous


Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley : 2053 : Huxley, Aldous


Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous Huxley : 2683 : Huxley, Aldous


You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats
Aldous Huxley : 3195 : Huxley, Aldous


I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley : 3540 : Huxley, Aldous


Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley : 3807 : Huxley, Aldous


Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Aldous Huxley : 3975 : Huxley, Aldous


That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Aldous Huxley : 4890 : Huxley, Aldous


There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley : 5011 : Huxley, Aldous


Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; but, without intelligence, love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
Aldous Huxley : 5992 : Huxley, Aldous


But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Aldous Huxley : 6312 : Huxley, Aldous


I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley : 6436 : Huxley, Aldous


What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
Aldous Huxley : 6633 : Huxley, Aldous


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley : 7452 : Huxley, Aldous


The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley : 7623 : Huxley, Aldous


Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Aldous Huxley : 9356 : Huxley, Aldous


A bad book is as much a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley : 10069 : Huxley, Aldous


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley : 11084 : Huxley, Aldous


The reason we like precious jewels so much is they remind us of planes of consciousness we've lived on where those are the pebbles.
Aldous Huxley : 11546 : Huxley, Aldous


Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley : 12001 : Huxley, Aldous


The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley : 12243 : Huxley, Aldous


No sound concentrates so much spitefulness and malice into a very small volume as the pinging of mosquitoes.
Elspeth Huxley : 2749 : Huxley, Elspeth


Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
Thomas Huxley : 13376 : Huxley, Thomas


The only medicine for suffering, crime and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley : 13383 : Huxley, Thomas


There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
Thomas Huxley : 2604 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


I am too much a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Thomas Huxley : 2627 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley : 5321 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


The great tragedy of science: The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley : 9422 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is.
Thomas H. Huxley : 9659 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.
Thomas H. Huxley : 11472 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Huxley : 11806 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


If you gave him a good script, actors, and technicians, Mickey Mouse could direct a movie.
Nicholas Hytner : 7316 : Hytner, Nicholas


The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iaccoca : 7063 : Iaccoca, Lee


Action should not be confused with haste.
Lee Iacocca : 10172 : Iacocca, Lee


If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca : 12792 : Iacocca, Lee


The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca : 12881 : Iacocca, Lee


A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen : 823 : Ibsen, Henrik


The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen : 824 : Ibsen, Henrik


Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen : 7016 : Ibsen, Henrik


You never realize how many palm trees there are in LA until you try to make shots look like the south.
Ice Cube : 2792 : Ice Cube


Without frugality few would be rich, and with it, few would be poor.
Ignatius : 884 : Ignatius


The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
William R. Inge : 2181 : Inge, William Ralph


A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
William R. Inge : 4725 : Inge, William Ralph


I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
W. R. Inge : 6304 : Inge, William Ralph


Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Inge : 6675 : Inge, William Ralph


Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge : 6846 : Inge, William Ralph


The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
W. R. Inge : 7330 : Inge, William Ralph


Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Dean W. R. Inge : 8842 : Inge, William Ralph


A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
William Ralph Inge : 11591 : Inge, William Ralph


A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow : 9525 : Ingelow, Jean


The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 1549 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 1550 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 1555 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


The time to be happy is now; The place to be happy is here; The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 3862 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
Robert Ingersoll : 4062 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Everything in nature tells a different story to all eyes that see and to all ears that hear.
R. G. Ingersoll : 4921 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Robert Ingersoll : 5279 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll : 5505 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Ingersoll : 6223 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Few rich men own their own property; the property owns them.
Robert Ingersoll : 7363 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.
Robert Ingersoll : 8302 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll : 11672 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 11799 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
Bob Inglis : 8622 : Inglis, Bob


One of the first things a bridge player learns is to take it on the shin.
Kay Ingram : 1091 : Ingram, Kay


If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inman : 10746 : Inman, Raymond


Aim for the top. There is a plenty of room there. There are so few at the top, it's almost lonely.
Samuel Instill : 10747 : Instill, Samuel


Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
Eugene Ionesco : 4811 : Ionesco, Eugene


Comedy, the institution of the absurd, seems to me more heart-rending than tragedy.
Eugene Ionesco : 7664 : Ionesco, Eugene


Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Eugene Ionesco : 8346 : Ionesco, Eugene


No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute.
Eugene Ionesco : 8554 : Ionesco, Eugene


The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammad Iqbal : 8149 : Iqbal, Muhammad


The road to honor is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your own heart.
Ralph Iron : 7932 : Iron, Ralph


Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.
Washington Irving : 1871 : Irving, Washington


Little minds are subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving : 1872 : Irving, Washington


A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving : 2197 : Irving, Washington


Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving : 2928 : Irving, Washington


There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving : 3881 : Irving, Washington


Some minds seem almost to create themselves, spring up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving : 3950 : Irving, Washington


Whoever heard of a fat man heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?
Washington Irving : 5048 : Irving, Washington


I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving : 5118 : Irving, Washington


The great British Library - one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or "pure English, undefiled" wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
Washington Irving : 5901 : Irving, Washington


An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving : 7826 : Irving, Washington


Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the female sex as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses and marrying mere mortals.
Washington Irving : 8546 : Irving, Washington


Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving : 9248 : Irving, Washington


A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving : 9564 : Irving, Washington


Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving : 12407 : Irving, Washington


You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers.
Steve Irwin : 12510 : Irwin, Steve


Reporters, especially those in Washington, face an old journalistic dilemma: Because their stature tends to rise and fall with that of the people they cover, they have a stake in the successes of their subject.
Walter Isaacson : 2221 : Isaacson, Walter


I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Christopher Isherwood : 2846 : Isherwood, Christopher


Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood : 3805 : Isherwood, Christopher


Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair.
Charles Ives : 352 : Ives, Charles


Political debates are sort of like stock-car races. No one really cares who wins; they just want to see the crashes.
Molly Ivins : 4695 : Ivins, Molly


The thing about democracy ... is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins : 9892 : Ivins, Molly


It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
Molly Ivins : 9907 : Ivins, Molly


It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson : 4793 : Jackson, Andrew


Beautiful impulses are good in themselves, but we Americans are inclined to trust them too exclusively.
Elizabeth Jackson : 2168 : Jackson, Elizabeth


The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson : 732 : Jackson, Glenda


I can't actually see myself putting makeup on my face at the age of sixty. But I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.
Glenda Jackson : 8942 : Jackson, Glenda


I haven't seen a woman take a moral stand in a film for about twenty years.
Glenda Jackson : 11642 : Jackson, Glenda


That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
Helen Hunt Jackson : 3141 : Jackson, Helen Hunt


By all these lovely tokens, September days are here, with summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.
H. H. Jackson : 12574 : Jackson, Helen Hunt


Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
Holbrook Jackson : 2656 : Jackson, Holbrook


The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: it does not pretend to
J. B. Jackson : 3872 : Jackson, J. B.


Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson : 970 : Jackson, Jesse


America is not like a blanket - one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - many patches, many pieces, many colors many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Jesse Jackson : 971 : Jackson, Jesse


I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
Jesse Jackson : 6079 : Jackson, Jesse


You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
Jesse Jackson : 12110 : Jackson, Jesse


It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson : 1208 : Jackson, Mahalia


I'm just a good, strong Louisiana woman who can cook rice so every grain stands by itself.
Mahalia Jackson : 1209 : Jackson, Mahalia


He's so good, blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
Reggie Jackson, On Tom Seaver : 1513 : Jackson, Reggie


This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
Reggie Jackson : 11607 : Jackson, Reggie


Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than money.
Robert H. Jackson : 2889 : Jackson, Robert H.


Your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.
Robert H. Jackson : 12736 : Jackson, Robert H.


Music was originally discreet, seemly, simple, masculine, and of good morals. Have not the moderns rendered it lascivious beyond measure?
Jacob of Liege, 1425 : 5934 : Jacob of Liege


We learned to be chary of roads; they mean people, and commotion, and lack of peace.
Herbert Jacobs : 3205 : Jacobs, Herbert


The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, is the one that ends in madness.
Mick Jagger : 7657 : Jagger, Mick


Dylan once told Keith [Richards], "I could have written Satisfaction, but you couldn't have written Tambourine Man" - That's true, but could he sing it?
Mick Jagger, on Bob Dylan : 11501 : Jagger, Mick


When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
Atifete Jahjaga : 12235 : Jahjaga, Atifete


When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty to Truth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and country are as nothing to that.
Alice James : 3378 : James, Alice


I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James : 11948 : James, Alice


The blues is my business, and business is good.
Etta James : 7750 : James, Etta


What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James : 845 : James, Henry


Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Henry James : 3421 : James, Henry


An egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.
Henry James : 3824 : James, Henry


I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James : 4220 : James, Henry


Summer afternoon; To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James : 7443 : James, Henry


I hear computers basically break down to a bunch of ones and zeros. I don't know how that means I can see naked women on my screen, but God bless you people.
Kevin James : 1095 : James, Kevin


Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James : 1913 : James, William


Language is the most imperfect and expansive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
William James : 1914 : James, William


To ignore, to disdain, to consider, to overlook, are the essence of the gentleman.
William James : 1915 : James, William


Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
William James : 2669 : James, William


Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
William James : 3093 : James, William


Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James : 4052 : James, William


Reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it.
William James : 4525 : James, William


A great many people think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
William James : 4573 : James, William


Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
William James : 4667 : James, William


The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.
William James : 5361 : James, William


Common sense is not sense common to everyone, but sense in common things.
William James : 5549 : James, William


I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology - the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James : 6302 : James, William


The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James : 6320 : James, William


Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James : 6462 : James, William


Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James : 7985 : James, William


A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
William James : 10731 : James, William


The details vanish in the bird's-eye view, bt so does the bird's-eye view vanish in the details.
William James : 11710 : James, William


Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James : 13170 : James, William


Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth, never.
Anna Jameson : 5510 : Jameson, Anna


Avarice is to the intellect and heart, what sensuality is to the morals.
Anna Jameson : 9082 : Jameson, Anna


Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson : 8920 : Jamieson, Kathleen Hall


Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way.
Judith Jamison : 6065 : Jamison, Judith


So many people dwell on negativity, and I've survived by ignoring it: It dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
Judith Jamison : 7236 : Jamison, Judith


Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that, you're dancing spirit.
Judith Jamison : 8543 : Jamison, Judith


I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable.
Judith Jamison : 8580 : Jamison, Judith


How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
Gerald Jampolsky : 4929 : Jampolsky, Gerald G.


The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
Gerald G. Jampolsky : 8722 : Jampolsky, Gerald G.


You can be right or you can be happy.
Gerald G. Jampolsky : 9124 : Jampolsky, Gerald G.


I have a problem with being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
Elizabeth Janeway : 9724 : Janeway, Elizabeth


The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee.
H. E. Jansen : 771 : Jansen, H. E.


Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques : 7851 : Jaques, Elliott


The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell : 1505 : Jarrell, Randall


The politician regards public opinion as a given fact and submits to it. whereas the statesman creates public opinion, seeing through the talk of the day to the hidden will, which he awakens.
Karl Jaspers : 6574 : Jaspers, Karl


Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski : 9613 : Jaworski, Ron


Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
Antony Jay : 12234 : Jay, Antony


My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
Wyclef Jean : 12631 : Jean, Wyclef


From space to the sky, from the sky to the hills, and the sea; this earth appears but a mote in that sunbeam by which we are conscious of one narrow streak in the abyss.
Richard Jefferies : 9267 : Jefferies, Richard


Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Richard Jefferies : 10899 : Jefferies, Richard


Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers : 8109 : Jeffers, Susan


Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson : 1777 : Jefferson, Thomas


In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson : 1778 : Jefferson, Thomas


It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.
Thomas Jefferson : 1779 : Jefferson, Thomas


Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson : 1780 : Jefferson, Thomas


The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson : 1781 : Jefferson, Thomas


He who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson : 1782 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing and talk by the hour.
Thomas Jefferson : 2204 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Thomas Jefferson : 2356 : Jefferson, Thomas


I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson : 2848 : Jefferson, Thomas


The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson : 3121 : Jefferson, Thomas


Liberty under the constitution is necessarily subject to the constraints of due process.
Thomas Jefferson : 3722 : Jefferson, Thomas


Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson : 3831 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson : 4035 : Jefferson, Thomas


A wise and frugal government shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Thomas Jefferson : 4296 : Jefferson, Thomas


He is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him. He is as disinterested as the Being who made him.
Thomas Jefferson, on John Adams : 4655 : Jefferson, Thomas


Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson : 5039 : Jefferson, Thomas


I like a little rebellion now and then. It's like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson : 5411 : Jefferson, Thomas


A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson : 6186 : Jefferson, Thomas


The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson : 6432 : Jefferson, Thomas


Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson : 6612 : Jefferson, Thomas


Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson : 6641 : Jefferson, Thomas


Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson : 6782 : Jefferson, Thomas


We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson : 6937 : Jefferson, Thomas


Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson : 7008 : Jefferson, Thomas


Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson : 7082 : Jefferson, Thomas


I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson : 7250 : Jefferson, Thomas


No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson : 7321 : Jefferson, Thomas


The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson : 7605 : Jefferson, Thomas


The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson : 7894 : Jefferson, Thomas


Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson : 8190 : Jefferson, Thomas


We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson : 8308 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is a part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
Thomas Jefferson : 8725 : Jefferson, Thomas


Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson : 9885 : Jefferson, Thomas


It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson : 10026 : Jefferson, Thomas


Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were the whole world looking at you, and act accordingly.
Thomas Jefferson : 10380 : Jefferson, Thomas


But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
Thomas Jefferson : 10838 : Jefferson, Thomas


The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson : 11050 : Jefferson, Thomas


I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson : 11059 : Jefferson, Thomas


Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson : 11483 : Jefferson, Thomas


Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson : 11653 : Jefferson, Thomas


Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson : 12165 : Jefferson, Thomas


There is a type of critic whose attitude suggests that the book he is reviewing was written by his kind permission and that the author has grossly abused the privilege.
Lambert Jeffries : 9289 : Jeffries, Lambert


The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
Mae Jemison : 12202 : Jemison, Mae


Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Mae Jemison : 12210 : Jemison, Mae


Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; Never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae Jemison : 12549 : Jemison, Mae


I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, "Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west."
Richard Jeni : 5740 : Jeni, Richard


To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
Josh Jenkins : 3267 : Jenkins, Josh


I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
Waylon Jennings : 12544 : Jennings, Waylon


The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
John Jensen : 4468 : Jensen, John


I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K. Jerome : 965 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome : 966 : Jerome, Jerome K.


The chief fault of American audiences is that they see the point before we get there, which is disconcerting.
Jerome K. Jerome : 2263 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Jerome. K. Jerome : 2752 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome : 3367 : Jerome, Jerome K.


When we reside in an attic we enjoy a supper of fried fish and stout. When we occupy the first floor it takes an elaborate dinner at the Continental to give us the same amount of satisfaction.
Jerome K. Jerome : 4662 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome : 4931 : Jerome, Jerome K.


We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
Jerome K. Jerome : 5041 : Jerome, Jerome K.


Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold : 469 : Jerrold, Douglas


Love is like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold : 3343 : Jerrold, Douglas


It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.
Douglas Jerrold : 3795 : Jerrold, Douglas


Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold : 12397 : Jerrold, Douglas


I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
Joan Jett : 11847 : Jett, Joan


Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
W. Stanley Jevons : 11887 : Jevons, W. Stanley


Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like seeing something from between the regions of truth and fiction.
Geraldine Jewsbury : 724 : Jewsbury, Geraldine


The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time, which means overreaching them.
Juan Ramon Jimenez : 1066 : Jimenez, Juan Ramon


You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.
Steve Jobs : 10207 : Jobs, Steve


Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs : 10691 : Jobs, Steve


Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs : 12548 : Jobs, Steve


It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people to tell us what to do.
Steve Jobs : 12745 : Jobs, Steve


If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs : 12860 : Jobs, Steve


It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel : 6790 : Joel, Billy


Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel : 8170 : Joel, Billy


The thing that impresses me most about Beethoven's Fifth is - da da da daa - it's fate knocking at the door. That's one of the biggest hits in history. There's no video to it; he didn't need one.
Billy Joel : 8875 : Joel, Billy


Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Billy Joel : 9779 : Joel, Billy


A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too."
Jake Johansen : 5698 : Johansen, Jake


I'm the Connie Francis of rock-and-roll.
Elton John : 9509 : John, Elton


Getting money is not all a man's business; to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Johnson : 2031 : Johnson


Walk away from it until you're stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back. but you'll be better able to cope.
Lady Bird Johnson : 6592 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


So I say: Don't hold back. Don't be shy. Step forward in every way you can to plan boldly, to speak clearly, to offer the leadership which the world needs.
Lady Bird Johnson : 7869 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


It always seemed significant to me that Thomas Jefferson equated the pursuit of happiness with life and liberty itself. Men were born to be happy - just as they were born free.
Lady Bird Johnson : 8884 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : 10936 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library, the only entrance requirement is interest.
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : 10955 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; It is the one thing that all of us share.
Lady Bird Johnson : 12213 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


The novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of a fool and reserves the right to disavow him.
Diane Johnson : 7904 : Johnson, Diane


Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
Dr. Samuel Johnson : 478 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
Johnson : 1028 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.
Samuel Johnson : 1612 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson : 1613 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson : 1614 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel Johnson : 1615 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson : 1616 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed.
Samuel Johnson : 1617 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good, and the fear of evil.
Samuel Johnson : 1618 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Samuel Johnson : 1619 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Men have been wise in very different modes, but they have always laughed the same way.
Samuel Johnson : 1620 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


We may take fancy for a companion, but must follow reason as our guide.
Samuel Johnson : 1621 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson : 1622 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
Samuel Johnson : 1623 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
Samuel Johnson : 1965 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
Samuel Johnson : 2093 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms that I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson : 2407 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Greece appears to me to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance.
Samuel Johnson : 2874 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson : 3103 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson : 3134 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
Samuel Johnson : 3595 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
Samuel Johnson : 3924 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Samuel Johnson : 3981 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
Samuel Johnson : 4060 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Samuel Johnson : 4157 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson : 4183 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Samuel Johnson : 4267 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Oats: A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson : 4317 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.
Samuel Johnson : 4622 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. You may talk as other people do, but don't think foolishly.
Samuel Johnson : 4767 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson : 5016 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson : 5244 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson : 5319 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson : 5447 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A blade of grass is always a blade of grass. Men and women are my subjects of inquiry.
Samuel Johnson : 5452 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson : 6236 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Whatever is universally necessary has been granted to mankind on easy terms.
Samuel Johnson : 6461 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson : 6505 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I have, all my life long, lain in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Samuel Johnson : 6579 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson : 6651 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
Samuel Johnson : 6755 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
Samuel Johnson : 7134 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float-fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson : 7532 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson : 7629 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
Samuel Johnson, on the existence of ghosts : 7666 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson : 7700 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive is a constant and determinate pursuit of justice, without regard to present dangers or advantages; a continual reference of every action to the divine will.
Samuel Johnson : 7817 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.
Samuel Johnson : 7973 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Envy feels not its own happiness but when it may be compared with the misery of others.
Samuel Johnson : 8329 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson : 8432 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
Samuel Johnson : 8477 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson : 9030 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Samuel Johnson : 9750 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Samuel Johnson : 9932 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
Samuel Johnson : 10368 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
Samuel Johnson : 10677 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The two most engaging powers of an author are, to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
Samuel Johnson : 11004 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson : 11773 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Johnson : 11972 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson : 12212 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Dwayne Johnson : 12778 : Johnson, Dwayne


Don't focus on the pain, focus on the progress.
Dwayne Johnson : 13384 : Johnson, Dwayne


The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
Gerald White Johnson : 2384 : Johnson, Gerald White


Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Gerald White Johnson : 6050 : Johnson, Gerald White


The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson : 12192 : Johnson, Jimmy


Strange what a difference a glorious day can make! How one revels in life, in being, in poetry, in the holy ridiculousness of things!
Lionel Johnson : 3081 : Johnson, Lionel


Reporters are puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
Lyndon Johnson : 1996 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 3846 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
Lyndon Johnson : 3907 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 4485 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 4938 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon Johnson : 5153 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


The world's wealthiest nation can never be satisfied until we are the world's healthiest.
Lyndon B. Johnson : 5310 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson : 6439 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 8001 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
Nicholas Johnson : 4334 : Johnson, Nicholas


The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.
Philander Johnson : 5133 : Johnson, Philander


Be careful what you say to children. ... When their bones are brittle and their hair silver, they will quote you in their hearts.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson : 5880 : Johnson, Rheta Grimsley


Asking your neighbors to tweet the "news" is not unlike asking your cocker spaniel to buy groceries.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson : 9539 : Johnson, Rheta Grimsley


The sea is our savings account of inspiration and well-being, and we draw from it only on special occasions.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson : 11079 : Johnson, Rheta Grimsley


We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson : 8566 : Johnson, Sonia


All along, one of my major complaints was his absence from home, and even worse, his absence when he was home.
Sonia Johnson : 9391 : Johnson, Sonia


Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that - where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you.
Steve Johnson : 4195 : Johnson, Steve


Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.
Tory Johnson : 12436 : Johnson, Tory


An apology is the super-glue of life. It can repair just about anything.
Lynn Johnston : 4382 : Johnston, Lynn


Without pain, there would ye no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.
Angelina Jolie : 11805 : Jolie, Angelina


If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
Angelina Jolie : 12439 : Jolie, Angelina


By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
Angelina Jolie : 12911 : Jolie, Angelina


Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
A. C. Jolly : 5119 : Jolly, A. C.


With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
Adam Jones : 12703 : Jones, Adam


Every human, we all have different genetic backgrounds, we all have lived separate lives. But our genomes are greater than 99 percent similar.
Allan Jones : 10674 : Jones, Allan


Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch course, the space between your ears.
Bobby Jones : 276 : Jones, Bobby


A rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm i
E. Stanley Jones : 4606 : Jones, Eli Stanley


We grow small trying to be great.
Eli Stanley Jones : 8784 : Jones, Eli Stanley


Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him.
Ernest Jones : 6453 : Jones, Ernest


Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
Franklin P. Jones : 2024 : Jones, Franklin P.


Anybody who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.
Franklin P. Jones : 2490 : Jones, Franklin P.


It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Franklin P. Jones : 4369 : Jones, Franklin P.


The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
Franklin Jones : 7609 : Jones, Franklin P.


A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns, whether they're loaded or not.
Franklin P. Jones : 8046 : Jones, Franklin P.


Make a better lawn, and the world will beat a path across it to your door.
Franklin P. Jones : 8718 : Jones, Franklin P.


Everybody should have a hobby, even if it's only avoiding people who want to talk about theirs.
Franklin P. Jones : 9735 : Jones, Franklin P.


The most fortunate thing about small boys is that they are washable.
Franklin P. Jones : 9800 : Jones, Franklin P.


What elderly workers need in this country is a choice between retirement and something they can afford.
Franklin P. Jones : 10059 : Jones, Franklin P.


Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones : 10729 : Jones, Franklin P.


You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit.
Franklin P. Jones : 11309 : Jones, Franklin P.


Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones : 11403 : Jones, Franklin P.


Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Franklin P. Jones : 11595 : Jones, Franklin P.


Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Howard Mumford Jones : 9416 : Jones, Howard Mumford


When a gambler walks around his chair to change his luck he is marking out a circle to keep out the evil spirits, and when he blows on the dice he is symbolically blowing life into a dying object.
J. Philip Jones : 7498 : Jones, J. Philip


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 : 12456 : Jones, John Paul


Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.
Raymond Jones : 4822 : Jones, Raymond


The greatest discovery is that man can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William Jones : 1916 : Jones, William


Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the catholic church. America gets Hollywood.
Erica Jong : 571 : Jong, Erica


My ideal of a writer's life is Colette's; to chronicle all the ages of woman; to take risks, try different kinds of expression - from novels to plays to journalism - and to steadfastly refuse to be trapped in a single persona.
Erica Jong : 572 : Jong, Erica


She ate lots of chocolate but never got fat - a sure sign of demonic possession.
Erica Jong : 573 : Jong, Erica


Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Erica Jong : 2105 : Jong, Erica


I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically he fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: Turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
Erica Jong : 2191 : Jong, Erica


Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or to pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong : 3419 : Jong, Erica


Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.
Erica Jong : 6089 : Jong, Erica


In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong : 8532 : Jong, Erica


You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
Erica Jong : 12088 : Jong, Erica


Talking and eloquence are not the same. - to speak and to speak well are two things. - a fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson : 225 : Jonson, Ben


The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly.
Ben Jonson : 226 : Jonson, Ben


We make ourselves slaves to our pleasures, and we serve fame and ambition; which is an equal slavery.
Ben Jonson : 2782 : Jonson, Ben


There is no sound but shall find some lovers, as the bitterest confections are grateful to some palates.
Ben Jonson : 6671 : Jonson, Ben


Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
Ben Jonson : 9452 : Jonson, Ben


Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same day. -- Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin : 5150 : Joplin, Janis


You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings.
Janis Joplin : 12166 : Joplin, Janis


What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Jordan : 6219 : Jordan, Barbara


Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we don't want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of citizens.
Barbara Jordan : 6894 : Jordan, Barbara


The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
D. S. Jordan : 3727 : Jordan, David Starr


Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan : 7999 : Jordan, David Starr


I don't do things half-heartedly. because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
Michael Jordan : 5896 : Jordan, Michael


Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan : 6104 : Jordan, Michael


I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan : 6837 : Jordan, Michael


The word "retire" means you can do anything you want. I'm not going to close the door on it. I will never say never. I don't close the door to any possibilities.
Michael Jordan : 8903 : Jordan, Michael


The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan : 10939 : Jordan, Michael


I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
Michael Jordan : 10962 : Jordan, Michael


I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan : 11030 : Jordan, Michael


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan : 13041 : Jordan, Michael


Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being.
Morris Joseph : 1323 : Joseph, Morris


Whatever makes for dealing with others exhilarates; whatever makes for dealing with oneself depresses.
Joseph Joubert : 1047 : Joubert, Joseph


A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and unquestionable truth.
Joseph Joubert : 5464 : Joubert, Joseph


To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert : 7737 : Joubert, Joseph


The soul has a taste for goodness, just as the body has an appetite for pleasure.
Joseph Joubert : 8028 : Joubert, Joseph


Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Joseph Joubert : 8734 : Joubert, Joseph


Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert, in "Persees" : 8768 : Joubert, Joseph


He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert : 10967 : Joubert, Joseph


A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Bertrand de Jouvenel : 8476 : Jouvenel, Bertrand de


The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce : 928 : Joyce, James


Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and environs.
James Joyce : 929 : Joyce, James


There's only one kind of critic I do resent: the kind that affects to believe that I am writing with my tongue in my cheek.
James Joyce : 6313 : Joyce, James


A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce : 6680 : Joyce, James


Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce : 7958 : Joyce, James


Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
James Joyce : 13527 : Joyce, James


Well, Jim, I haven't read any of your books but I'll have to someday because they must be good considering how well they sell.
Nora Joyce, to her husband James Joyce : 10659 : Joyce, Nora


It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee : 12333 : Joyner-Kersee, Jackie


Among individuals as among nations, the respect to other people's rights is peace.
Benito Juarez : 6857 : Juarez, Benito


We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung : 13403 : Jung, Carl


The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion, and desirousness which must be suppressed in a humanitarian ordering of society.
C. G. Jung : 302 : Jung, Carl Gustav


No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure. Where is the criterion by which you could say that such a life is not legitimate, that such an experience is not valid?
Carl G. Jung : 311 : Jung, Carl Gustav


If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung : 2089 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
C. G. Jung : 2807 : Jung, Carl Gustav


One who has a religious experience possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.
Carl G. Jung : 3880 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung : 4805 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung : 5583 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung : 6445 : Jung, Carl Gustav


The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet.
Carl Jung : 7252 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung : 7439 : Jung, Carl Gustav


The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl Jung : 9433 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung : 9888 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung : 10614 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung : 10871 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Carl Gustav Jung : 11154 : Jung, Carl Gustav


Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
C. G. Jung : 11506 : Jung, Carl Gustav


A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
Carl Jung : 11916 : Jung, Carl Gustav


How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
Junius : 1074 : Junius


All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.
Junius : 2032 : Junius


You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norton Juster : 4018 : Juster, Norton


Well, since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
Norton Juster : 9163 : Juster, Norton


Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.
Justinian : 5343 : Justinian


The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone his due.
Justinian I : 2606 : Justinian I


Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
Juvenal : 2116 : Juvenal


It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Juvenal : 2591 : Juvenal


Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy.
Juvenal : 5265 : Juvenal


Meryl Streep just about always seems miscast. She makes a career out of seeming to overcome being miscast.
Pauline Kael : 6662 : Kael, Pauline


Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
Pauline Kael : 7696 : Kael, Pauline


The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.
Pauline Kael : 8923 : Kael, Pauline


Quietness is indeed a sign of strength. But quietness may also help one to achieve strength.
Franz Kafka : 629 : Kafka, Franz


You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such.
Franz Kafka : 3124 : Kafka, Franz


You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could have avoided.
Franz Kafka : 8519 : Kafka, Franz


A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka : 8814 : Kafka, Franz


Accident is the name one gives to the coincidence of events, of which one does not know the causation. Accidents only exist in our heads, in our limited perceptions.
Franz Kafka : 9295 : Kafka, Franz


Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka : 10718 : Kafka, Franz


So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka : 12136 : Kafka, Franz


I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo : 12682 : Kahlo, Frida


Actually, I hold a degree in speech therapy. I was going to get my doctorate, but acting got in the way. Pity, I always thought I'd like to do something dignified.
Madeline Kahn : 9636 : Kahn, Madeline


Basketball, hockey, and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Roger Kahn : 3900 : Kahn, Roger


Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn : 7780 : Kahn, Roger


Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser : 6161 : Kaiser, Henry J.


When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser : 9197 : Kaiser, Henry J.


Look well to this day, for it is life, the very life of life. In it lies all the realities and verities of existence: the bliss of growth, the glory of action, splendor of beauty. For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision. But today well li
Kalidasa : 9526 : Kalidasa


The Democratic faith is that every human being born is born to live like a gentleman of leisure.
H. M. Kallen : 2206 : Kallen, Horace Meyer


No point in asking Greenfield what he was up to; he had pulled up his mental drawbridge and there was no way over the moat.
Lucille Kallen : 6010 : Kallen, Lucille


Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.
Wassily Kandinsky : 12985 : Kandinsky, Wassily


Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Carson Kanin : 10556 : Kanin, Carson


Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry skies above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant : 3129 : Kant, Immanuel


Man desired concord; but Nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but Nature compels him to leave ease and throw himself into roils and labors.
Immanuel Kant : 4625 : Kant, Immanuel


One is not rich by what one owns but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
Immanuel Kant : 5479 : Kant, Immanuel


From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant : 6430 : Kant, Immanuel


We cannot divide ourselves between right and expedience. Policy must bow the knee before morality.
Immanuel Kant : 8667 : Kant, Immanuel


Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.
Immanuel Kant : 9076 : Kant, Immanuel


The difference between no money and a small amount is much greater than that of a small amount and a vast amount.
Kaplan : 3758 : Kaplan


Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.
Janice Kaplan : 2838 : Kaplan, Janice


Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Louise J. Kaplan : 9301 : Kaplan, Louise J.


Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor : 13188 : Kapor, Mitchell


Without ice cream, there is darkness and chaos.
Don Kardong : 3631 : Kardong, Don


My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Bela Karolyi : 8755 : Karolyi, Bela


Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr : 77 : Karr, Alphonse


The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr : 2643 : Karr, Alphonse


It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex.
Alex Karras : 57 : Karras, Alex


Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.
Lindley Karstens : 4187 : Karstens, Lindley


Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world.
Frederick Ward Kates : 10050 : Kates, Frederick Ward


You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
Byron Katie : 11852 : Katie, Byron


Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie : 13138 : Katie, Byron


I don't do drugs anymore 'cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.
Johnathan Katz : 5738 : Katz, Johnathan


Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.
Lilian Katz : 9620 : Katz, Lilian


May there always be tradewinds behind you, rainbows above you, and aloha all around you.
Kauai Blessing : 13524 : Kauai Blessing


He's very superstitious. He thinks it's unlucky to walk under a black cat.
Max Kauffmann : 1288 : Kauffmann, Max


Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Danny Kaye : 9450 : Kaye, Danny


She had hard gray hair pressed into waves that grasped her scalp like a migraine.
Susanna Kaysen : 6075 : Kaysen, Susanna


Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis : 11830 : Kazantzakis, Nikos


It is only those who have no culture and no belief in culture who resent differences among men and the exploration of the human imagination.
Alfred Kazin : 67 : Kazin, Alfred


A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane : 4415 : Keane, Bil


In the race for quality, there is no finish line.
David Kearns : 9838 : Kearns, David


The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats : 3075 : Keats, John


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats : 4143 : Keats, John


To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
John Keats : 4198 : Keats, John


You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
John Keats : 9589 : Keats, John


Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley : 7934 : Keightley, Alan


Brilliance is like four-wheel drive: it enables a person to get stuck in even more remote places.
Garrison Keillor : 671 : Keillor, Garrison


Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.
Garrison Keillor : 672 : Keillor, Garrison


The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.
Garrison Keillor : 2950 : Keillor, Garrison


Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor : 3886 : Keillor, Garrison


The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.
Garrison Keillor : 3999 : Keillor, Garrison


I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keillor : 5129 : Keillor, Garrison


A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor : 7283 : Keillor, Garrison


Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor : 9141 : Keillor, Garrison


I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
Penelope Keith : 12576 : Keith, Penelope


There's really only one song in the whole wide world, and Adam and Eve hummed it to each other, and everything else is a variation on it in one form or another.
Keith Richards : 11870 : Keith, Richards


He didn't tell me how to live; He lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland : 12777 : Kelland, Clarence Budington


We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller : 812 : Keller, Helen


Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Life is a daring adventur
Helen Keller : 2571 : Keller, Helen


We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller : 3318 : Keller, Helen


Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller : 4536 : Keller, Helen


Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller : 5058 : Keller, Helen


It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Helen Keller : 5502 : Keller, Helen


Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller : 5578 : Keller, Helen


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller : 5889 : Keller, Helen


I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller : 6189 : Keller, Helen


Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller : 6300 : Keller, Helen


No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller : 6623 : Keller, Helen


People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller : 6660 : Keller, Helen


Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller : 6750 : Keller, Helen


There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller : 6939 : Keller, Helen


Alone we can do so little; Together we can do so much.
Helen Keller : 7488 : Keller, Helen


It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller : 8167 : Keller, Helen


The world has moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller : 9353 : Keller, Helen


Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller : 9685 : Keller, Helen


How I wish that mankind would take the sunrise for their slogan and leave the shadows of the sunset behind them.
Helen Keller : 10597 : Keller, Helen


The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller : 11855 : Keller, Helen


Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller : 12854 : Keller, Helen


Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
David Kelley : 8744 : Kelley, David


Remember the difference between a boss and a leader: A boss says "Go!"; A leader says "Let's go!"
E. M. Kelly : 11857 : Kelly, E. M.


Now it's time for us to claim ownership, to own a piece of the American rock.
Sharon Pratt Kelly : 6076 : Kelly, Sharon Pratt


Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly : 1834 : Kelly, Vista M.


Advertising is the lubricant for the free-enterprise system.
Leo Arthur Kelmenson : 10127 : Kelmenson, Leo Arthur


Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin (President of the Royal Society, 1895) : 5672 : Kelvin, Lord


Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
Richard Kemph : 10835 : Kemph, Richard


For a small reward a man will hurry away on a long journey, while for eternal life many will hardly take a single step.
Thomas A. Kempis : 10445 : Kempis, Thomas A.


Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
Murray Kempton : 3087 : Kempton, Murray


It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton : 8076 : Kempton, Sally


Nobody ever was - or again will be - as green as I was the day I landed in New York. That shade has been discontinued.
Carolyn Kenmore : 318 : Kenmore, Carolyn


You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one.
Carolyn Kenmore : 9744 : Kenmore, Carolyn


Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
Edward M. Kennedy : 9199 : Kennedy, Edward M.


Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward M. Kennedy : 9783 : Kennedy, Edward M.


It's a dream about America, what it means and what it can become, a place where we look to the Stars and explore the heavens, but never turn aside from those in need, in the forgotten corners of our country.
Edward M. Kennedy : 10339 : Kennedy, Edward M.


There are so many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy : 10933 : Kennedy, Jackie


History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future.
John F. Kennedy : 13181 : Kennedy, John F.


Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
John F. Kennedy : 997 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy : 998 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
John F. Kennedy : 3269 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy : 5036 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


There are risks and costs to action, but they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy : 5884 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy : 5926 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy : 6251 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy : 6412 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy : 6619 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy : 6700 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy : 6803 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy : 6940 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
John F. Kennedy : 7039 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.
John F. Kennedy : 7852 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy : 8183 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.
John F. Kennedy : 9881 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


I am proud of the revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought; the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but the hands of God.
John F. Kennedy : 10641 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy : 11057 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy : 11462 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy : 12044 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy : 12104 : Kennedy, John Fitzgerald


He may be President, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
Joseph P. Kennedy : 8369 : Kennedy, Joseph P.


The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy : 12346 : Kennedy, Marge


It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Kennedy : 11950 : Kennedy, Marilyn


All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy : 4170 : Kennedy, Mark


About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert F. Kennedy : 1542 : Kennedy, Robert F.


Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
Robert F. Kennedy : 2077 : Kennedy, Robert F.


What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant.
Robert Kennedy : 2371 : Kennedy, Robert F.


Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy : 3450 : Kennedy, Robert F.


Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy : 9858 : Kennedy, Robert F.


Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.
Robert F. Kennedy : 12463 : Kennedy, Robert F.


Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy : 12923 : Kennedy, Robert F.


I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
Rose Kennedy : 12211 : Kennedy, Rose


I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.
Kenny G : 9922 : Kenny G


I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.
Kenny G : 10200 : Kenny G


I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word "jazz" means to them, and that's fine.
Kenny G : 10216 : Kenny G


Remember, the force will be with you. Always.
Obi-Wan Kenobi : 13505 : Kenobi, Obi-Wan


When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land, and the missionaries had the bible; they taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the bible.
Jomo Kenyatta : 1029 : Kenyatta, Jomo


There are two literary maladies - writer's cramp and swelled head. The worst of writer's cramp is that it is never cured; the worst of swelled head is that it never kills.
Coulson Kernahan : 10373 : Kernahan, Coulson


In the electronic age, books, words, and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
Alvin Kernan : 11523 : Kernan, Alvin


All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac : 10595 : Kerouac, Jack


Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac : 11027 : Kerouac, Jack


It is not my fault that certain so-called Bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Jack Kerouac : 11534 : Kerouac, Jack


Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr : 953 : Kerr, Jean


Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
Jean Kerr : 954 : Kerr, Jean


As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr : 2353 : Kerr, Jean


If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: French fries are out.
Jean Kerr : 4169 : Kerr, Jean


I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.
Jean Kerr : 6041 : Kerr, Jean


The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Kerr : 6559 : Kerr, Jean


I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Jean Kerr : 7272 : Kerr, Jean


I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.
Jean Kerr : 7364 : Kerr, Jean


Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr : 7599 : Kerr, Jean


You don't lead by pointing a finger and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey : 9700 : Kesey, Ken


The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey : 10594 : Kesey, Ken


A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.
Alan S. Kesselheim : 12822 : Kesselheim, Alan S.


Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering : 13459 : Kettering, Charles


If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
C. F. Kettering : 301 : Kettering, Charles F.


We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
Charles F. Kettering : 351 : Kettering, Charles F.


In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
Charles Kettering : 353 : Kettering, Charles F.


People are very open-minded about new things; as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles Kettering : 354 : Kettering, Charles F.


The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
Charles Kettering : 355 : Kettering, Charles F.


We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering : 356 : Kettering, Charles F.


My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering : 2362 : Kettering, Charles F.


You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering : 5414 : Kettering, Charles F.


Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.
Charles F. Kettering : 6177 : Kettering, Charles F.


People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles F. Kettering : 6329 : Kettering, Charles F.


High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering : 7219 : Kettering, Charles F.


And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave; o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Francis Scott Key : 10298 : Key, Francis Scott


I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
Ken Keyes : 7831 : Keyes, Ken


To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
Ken Keyes : 10562 : Keyes, Ken


To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes Jr. : 6234 : Keyes, Ken, Jr.


My biological clock is ticking so loud I'm nearly deafened by it. They search me going into planes.
Marian Keyes : 3585 : Keyes, Marian


It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.
John Maynard Keynes : 6380 : Keynes, John Maynard


Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes : 9743 : Keynes, John Maynard


If marriage is to be a success one should obviously begin by marrying the right person.
Hermann Keyserling : 868 : Keyserling, Hermann


If you live among wolves, you have to act like a wolf.
Nikita Khrushchev : 1343 : Khrushchev, Nikita


What is there left for us to do? If we let things take their course the West would say we were either stupid or weak, and that's one and the same thing.
Nikita S. Khrushchev : 8909 : Khrushchev, Nikita S.


At this critical moment, let us reaffirm our commitment to empowering the marginalized and vulnerable.
Ban Ki-moon : 11936 : Ki-moon, Ban


Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam : 9168 : Kiam, Victor


The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.
Robert Kibbee : 4307 : Kibbee, Robert


A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. that is why so many persons don't fool with it.
Don Kidney : 414 : Kidney, Don


A "gracious living" sign on a new high rent apartment means only one thing; "no children"
Don Kidney : 455 : Kidney, Don


The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard : 1678 : Kierkegaard, Soren


Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard : 2056 : Kierkegaard, Soren


It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had fallen into it.
Soren Kierkegaard : 2841 : Kierkegaard, Soren


Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard : 3979 : Kierkegaard, Soren


I see it all perfectly; there are two possibilities: one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard : 4181 : Kierkegaard, Soren


Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action. The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented - and then do nothing.
Soren Kierkegaard : 7180 : Kierkegaard, Soren


Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard : 9383 : Kierkegaard, Soren


People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought that they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard : 11280 : Kierkegaard, Soren


I'm still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.
Laura Kightlinger : 10246 : Kightlinger, Laura


You know, when you get back together with an old boyfriend, it's pathetic. it's like having a garage sale and buying your own stuff back.
Laura Kightlinger : 11532 : Kightlinger, Laura


They sit around, they follow the owner going "Mmm, oops, happy; sad, angry, all right?" What else do they have to do all day? They don't watch the news.
Brian Kilcommons, on dogs : 7505 : Kilcommons, Brian


The world is grand, beautiful, thrilling. But I love New York.
Dorothy Kilgallen : 6109 : Kilgallen, Dorothy


Skiing is a battle against yourself, always to the frontiers of the impossible. But most of all, it must give you pleasure. It is not an obligation but a joy.
Jean-Claude Killy : 3520 : Killy, Jean-Claude


The air is like a butterfly, with frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky, and sings.
Joyce Kilmer : 9418 : Kilmer, Joyce


No amount of persuasion can change a man's reaction to what he knows. But what he knows can be changed, and the most direct manner is to alter the images within his mind.
Dennis Kimbro : 9602 : Kimbro, Dennis


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough : 555 : Kimbrough, Emily


There's something still better than silence, 'tis this - to speak the truth.
Joseph Kimchi : 2045 : Kimchi, Joseph


There's something wrong with people who go to Star Trek conventions. I mean, I like Mary Tyler Moore too, but I don't rent out a big hall and dress up like Rhoda.
Andy Kindler : 11189 : Kindler, Andy


Soon there will be only five kings left: the King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
King Farouk, 1948 : 3362 : King Farouk


Knavery seems to be so much the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they become aliens to this kingdom.
George III, on America : 9305 : King George III


The highest of distinctions is service to others.
King George VI : 9116 : King George VI


If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King : 31 : King, Alan


Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.
Alexander King : 3931 : King, Alexander


The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B. B. King : 12889 : King, B. B.


Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
Basil King : 12684 : King, Basil


A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King : 2062 : King, Billie Jean


Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
Billie Jean King : 3136 : King, Billie Jean


Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
Billie Jean King : 3565 : King, Billie Jean


I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing toward being a champion.
Billie Jean King : 13379 : King, Billie Jean


At almost any point in the world's history, people could have said that the world was in such terrible shape that it was immoral to bring children into it. I would not have liked to have had denied me the chance to live in these exciting times.
Coretta Scott King : 2941 : King, Coretta Scott


If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
Coretta Scott King : 11178 : King, Coretta Scott


Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King : 13339 : King, Coretta Scott


Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Dr. M. L. King Jr. : 473 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 1276 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 2170 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 3072 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 3461 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 5293 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr. : 6135 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 6355 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 6625 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 6683 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 6760 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 7074 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 7223 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 7676 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Martin Luther King Jr : 7743 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 8031 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
Martin Luther King Jr. : 8552 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


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. : 9283 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King : 9542 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. : 10255 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 10366 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr. : 10927 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr. : 11892 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King Jr. : 12829 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar.
Martin Luther King Jr. : 12945 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr. : 13120 : King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.


Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer, its anti-intellectualism, its puerile hymns, and its faith-healing are made to order for King Kid America.
Florence King : 605 : King, Florence


Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billion
Florence King : 3380 : King, Florence


Old-fashioned grandmothers take their grandchildren by the hand and lead them into the future.
Florence King : 11982 : King, Florence


Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
Larry King : 3920 : King, Larry


Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King : 4056 : King, Larry


Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Larry King : 13392 : King, Larry


No one who's in a position of success has gotten there without someone giving them a shot.
Regina King : 13134 : King, Regina


Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King : 6326 : King, Stephen


They're the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and large order of fries.
Stephen King, on his books : 11311 : King, Stephen


You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King : 11576 : King, Stephen


I like clam hats and I don't wear spats, but I want my neckties wild!
Stoddard King (from a song written in 1915) : 4886 : King, Stoddard


Democracy has the only approach to human relationships that you can make for a free flow of life forces.
Dr. Frank Kingdon : 472 : Kingdon, Dr. Frank


We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley : 357 : Kingsley, Charles


The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley : 358 : Kingsley, Charles


Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
Charles Kingsley : 4371 : Kingsley, Charles


It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley : 11029 : Kingsley, Charles


You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
Darwin P. Kingsley : 7849 : Kingsley, Darwin P.


It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income, one has better things to do than loving mankind.
Hugh Kingsmill : 6890 : Kingsmill, Hugh


People's dreams are made out of what they do all day, the same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver : 5912 : Kingsolver, Barbara


This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
Barbara Kingsolver : 6318 : Kingsolver, Barbara


The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver : 7438 : Kingsolver, Barbara


What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver : 11925 : Kingsolver, Barbara


The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
Barbara Kingsolver : 13204 : Kingsolver, Barbara


Industrial archaeology believes that a thing that doesn't work anymore is far more interesting than a thing that still works.
Miles Kington : 1308 : Kington, Miles


Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Miles Kington : 10896 : Kington, Miles


Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
Alfred Kinsey : 9142 : Kinsey, Alfred


A shopping cart flipped upside down forms a cage that I use to protect myself from consumerism.
Jarod Kintz : 12109 : Kintz, Jarod


If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.
Jarod Kintz : 12182 : Kintz, Jarod


Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made by singing: - "Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade, while better men than we go out and start their working lives at grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives.
Rudyard Kipling : 1587 : Kipling, Rudyard


Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliment reaching the proper ear.
Rudyard Kipling : 1588 : Kipling, Rudyard


A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling : 1589 : Kipling, Rudyard


If any question why he died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
Rudyard Kipling : 2901 : Kipling, Rudyard


You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
Rudyard Kipling : 4199 : Kipling, Rudyard


I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, and How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling : 6001 : Kipling, Rudyard


I never made a mistake in my life, at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterward.
Rudyard Kipling : 6393 : Kipling, Rudyard


All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.
Rudyard Kipling : 7481 : Kipling, Rudyard


I always try to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling : 7680 : Kipling, Rudyard


Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling : 8847 : Kipling, Rudyard


Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling : 9182 : Kipling, Rudyard


A kiddy laughing at jokes is one of the sweetest sights under heaven.
Rudyard Kipling : 10121 : Kipling, Rudyard


A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
Lisa Kirk : 1164 : Kirk, Lisa


A statesman's final test is whether he has made a contribution to the well-being of mankind.
Henry A. Kissinger : 825 : Kissinger, Henry A.


Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invented.
Henry Kissinger : 846 : Kissinger, Henry A.


Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger : 847 : Kissinger, Henry A.


The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry Kissinger : 4808 : Kissinger, Henry A.


University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger : 6733 : Kissinger, Henry A.


The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger : 7425 : Kissinger, Henry A.


As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.
Henry A. Kissinger : 8222 : Kissinger, Henry A.


To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry Kissinger : 9143 : Kissinger, Henry A.


History is often cruel and rarely logical, and yet the wisest of realists are those who recognize that fate can indeed be shaped by human faith and courage.
Henry A. Kissinger : 9297 : Kissinger, Henry A.


Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger : 9857 : Kissinger, Henry A.


The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger : 11142 : Kissinger, Henry A.


A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
Henry Kissinger : 12491 : Kissinger, Henry A.


Those are happy who have been brought up in the habit of being content with humble fare.
Dr. William Kitchiner : 3209 : Kitchiner, Dr. William


My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think, or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt : 7319 : Kitt, Eartha


Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Robert Kiyosaki : 12862 : Kiyosaki, Robert


Modern heretics are not burned at the stake. They are relegated to backwaters or pressured to resign.
Art Kleiner : 11978 : Kleiner, Art


By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Grenville Kleiser : 9902 : Kleiser, Grenville


Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
Karl Ludwig von Knebel : 8312 : Knebel, Karl Ludwig von


I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.
Evel Knievel : 11719 : Knievel, Evel


All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight : 10097 : Knight, Bobby


The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight : 10868 : Knight, Bobby


Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.
Mark Knopfler : 5638 : Knopfler, Mark


Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
Donald Knuth : 12494 : Knuth, Donald


You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it is good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
Edward Koch : 2798 : Koch, Edward


The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch : 11061 : Koch, Edward


We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.
Chanda Kochhar : 12468 : Kochhar, Chanda


The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth.
W. R. Koehler : 9680 : Koehler, W. R.


The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler : 2430 : Koestler, Arthur


Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.
Arthur Koestler : 4548 : Koestler, Arthur


Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.
Arthur Koestler : 10077 : Koestler, Arthur


God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
Arthur Koestler : 11641 : Koestler, Arthur


Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb : 6280 : Kolb, Barbara


To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose.
Marie Kondo : 12935 : Kondo, Marie


Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Willem De Kooning : 1892 : Kooning, Willem De


Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for a while, take a trip, do things - the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
Willem de Kooning : 5065 : Kooning, Willem de


I am here and I like New York City. But I love to go out in a car. I'm crazy about weekend drives, even if I drive in the middle of the week.
Willem de Kooning : 7230 : Kooning, Willem de


Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean Koontz : 12610 : Koontz, Dean


Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
Ted Koppel : 2396 : Koppel, Ted


History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel : 7811 : Koppel, Ted


Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: What is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.
Ted Koppel : 7875 : Koppel, Ted


The more people you yourself can put and keep on hold, the more successful you will seem.
Michael Korda : 2837 : Korda, Michael


The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda : 4256 : Korda, Michael


Never walk away from failure, on the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda : 5408 : Korda, Michael


One say to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda : 10235 : Korda, Michael


Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos.
Tony Kornheiser : 5055 : Kornheiser, Tony


Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm. One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz : 4648 : Kostelanetz, Andre


The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
Andre Kostelanetz : 5540 : Kostelanetz, Andre


I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Sandy Koufax : 4328 : Koufax, Sandy


Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Sandy Koufax : 8405 : Koufax, Sandy


The world believes that all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.
Anna Kournikova : 7313 : Kournikova, Anna


A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.
Ted Koysis : 6767 : Koysis, Ted


Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol : 8383 : Kozol, Jonathan


I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
Larry Kramer : 11957 : Kramer, Larry


Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful Utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.
Mark Kramer : 4646 : Kramer, Mark


How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus : 3482 : Kraus, Karl


If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus : 6980 : Kraus, Karl


It is not easy to get a truly and constantly productive spirit to read. He is to a reader as a locomotive is to a tourist. Also, one does not ask a tree how it likes the scenery.
Karl Kraus : 7523 : Kraus, Karl


The making of a journalist: No ideas and the ability to express them.
Karl Kraus : 11350 : Kraus, Karl


Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause : 7964 : Krause, Tom


It may be intellectually unsatisfying to imagine that time began with our universe, so asking what came before is not a sensible question.
Lawrence M. Krauss : 11424 : Krauss, Lawrence M.


Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
Zoe Kravitz : 12479 : Kravitz, Zoe


If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.
Sallie Krawcheck : 12433 : Krawcheck, Sallie


The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Alfred Kreymborg : 10333 : Kreymborg, Alfred


Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.
Lou Krieger : 4600 : Krieger, Lou


We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti : 6882 : Krishnamurti, Jiddu


It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray A. Kroc : 2563 : Kroc, Ray A.


The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc : 13079 : Kroc, Ray A.


In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.
Louis Kronenberger : 11181 : Kronenberger, Louis


The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger : 11923 : Kronenberger, Louis


Parking meters should remind us that we lose money standing still.
Bert Kruse : 2626 : Kruse, Bert


We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.
Kevin Kruse : 11107 : Kruse, Kevin


As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Joseph Wood Krutch : 1049 : Krutch, Joseph Wood


Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch : 2822 : Krutch, Joseph Wood


Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch : 4234 : Krutch, Joseph Wood


Comedy takes place in a world where the mind is always superior to the emotions.
Joseph Wood Krutch : 6071 : Krutch, Joseph Wood


People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross : 4217 : Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth


Confront a man in his office with a nuclear alarm, and you have a documentary. If the news reaches him in his living room, you have a drama. If it catches him in the lavatory, the result is comedy.
Stanley Kubrick : 5909 : Kubrick, Stanley


A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
Stanley Kubrick : 9914 : Kubrick, Stanley


Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointment, trials and illnesses.
Maggie Kuhn : 7567 : Kuhn, Maggie


A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love, and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.
Maggie Kuhn : 10012 : Kuhn, Maggie


Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy; animals.
Milan Kundera : 2400 : Kundera, Milan


The serial number of human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self.
Milan Kundera : 9268 : Kundera, Milan


For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera : 11216 : Kundera, Milan


An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on thanksgiving day.
Irv Kupcinet : 13356 : Kupcinet, Irv


The Interstate Highway System is a wonderful thing. It makes it possible to go coast to coast without seeing anything or meeting anybody.
Charles Kuralt : 2701 : Kuralt, Charles


The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.
Mary Kurtz : 9205 : Kurtz, Mary


I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
Rabbi Harold Kushner : 9346 : Kushner, Rabbi Harold


You can never put the message ahead of the music, because if it's uninteresting, it serves no purpose.
Talib Kweli : 3966 : Kweli, Talib


Life is an open sea, the truth is the wind in our sails.
Talib Kweli : 4140 : Kweli, Talib


You need bruises to know blessings, and I have known both.
Frances Shand Kydd : 9460 : Kydd, Frances Shand


The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi : 12272 : Kyi, Aung San Suu


What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
Louis L'Amour : 2876 : L'Amour, Louis


Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
Louis L'Amour : 2998 : L'Amour, Louis


It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.
Louis L'Amour : 8680 : L'Amour, Louis


Victory is won not in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
Louis L'Amour : 8997 : L'Amour, Louis


There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour : 9026 : L'Amour, Louis


One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
Louis L'Amour : 10802 : L'Amour, Louis


No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Louis L'Amour : 10866 : L'Amour, Louis


A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour : 10882 : L'Amour, Louis


Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L'Amour : 13196 : L'Amour, Louis


If God has to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
Ninon De Lenclos : 1346 : L'enclos, Ninon De


That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon De L'enclos : 1347 : L'enclos, Ninon De


The artistic temperament sometimes seems to me to be a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling, and when the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo "David" or a Beethoven symphony
Madeleine L'engle : 1202 : L'engle, Madeleine


You need a strong, unified family base to allow you to have courage to go out there and take risks that you probably wouldn't have taken had you not had the strong foundation to fall back on.
L. L. Cool J. : 6255 : L. L. Cool J.


The way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
Bruyere : 289 : La Bruyere, Jean de


Children think not of what is past nor what is to come, but they enjoy the present, which few of us do.
De La Bruyere : 431 : La Bruyere, Jean de


Sarcasm is the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Jean De La Bruyere : 949 : La Bruyere, Jean de


Next to sound judgement, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean De La Bruyere : 950 : La Bruyere, Jean de


The majority of men employ the first portion of their life in making the other portion miserable.
La Bruyere : 1119 : La Bruyere, Jean de


The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
De La Bruyere : 2584 : La Bruyere, Jean de


There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by your own industry or by the folly of others.
La Bruyere : 2801 : La Bruyere, Jean de


Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death, and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere : 3033 : La Bruyere, Jean de


If life is miserable, it is difficult to endure; if it is happy, it is horrible to lose. They come to the same thing.
Jean de La Bruyere : 3542 : La Bruyere, Jean de


Children have neither past nor future. They live in the present, something which rarely happens to us.
Jean de La Bruyere : 3577 : La Bruyere, Jean de


It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Jean De La Bruyere : 3690 : La Bruyere, Jean de


There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
Jean de La Bruyere : 3926 : La Bruyere, Jean de


We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean de La Bruyere : 3987 : La Bruyere, Jean de


There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
Jean de La Bruyere : 5074 : La Bruyere, Jean de


The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Jean de La Bruyere : 6402 : La Bruyere, Jean de


We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Jean de La Bruyere : 7878 : La Bruyere, Jean de


Things in which mediocrity is insupportable: poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
La Bruyere : 11308 : La Bruyere, Jean de


A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
La Bruyere : 13026 : La Bruyere, Jean de


Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine : 3861 : La Fontaine, Jean de


Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine : 7466 : La Fontaine, Jean de


No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
La Fontaine : 9512 : La Fontaine, Jean de


My first qualification for mayor of the city of New York is my monumental ingratitude to each and all of you.
Fiorello La Guardia : 11933 : La Guardia, Fiorello


If I have wasted my days in voluptuousness, ah! ye gods, give them back to me so I can waste them again.
La Mettrie : 8310 : La Mettrie


Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Marie Louise de La Ramee : 4298 : La Ramee, Marie Louise de


Greater qualities are necessary to bear good fortune than bad.
La Rochefoucauld : 1120 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold than of the office which one fills.
La Rochefoucauld : 1121 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Self-interest, though made responsible for all our crimes, often deserves the credit of our good actions.
La Rochefoucauld : 1122 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
La Rochefoucauld : 1123 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
La Rochefoucauld : 1124 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
La Rochefoucauld : 1125 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Passion often makes fools of the ablest men, and able men of the most foolish.
La Rochefoucauld : 1126 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
La Rochefoucauld : 1127 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


When the vices give us up, we flatter ourselves that we are giving them up.
La Rochefoucauld : 2028 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


We should manage our fortune 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.
La Rochefoucauld : 2177 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Nothing is so contagious as example. Never was any considerable good or evil done without producing its like.
La Rochefoucauld : 2736 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


In the great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.
La Rochefoucauld : 3110 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
La Rochefoucauld : 3472 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


The accent of the place in which one was born lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.
La Rochefoucauld : 3545 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
La Rochefoucauld : 3591 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
La Rochefoucauld : 3974 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?
La Rochefoucauld : 3991 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Behind many acts that many thought ridiculous, there lie many wise and weighty motives.
La Rochefoucauld : 4058 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
La Rochefoucauld : 4757 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


It is with true love as it is with ghosts: everyone talks of it, but few have ever seen it.
La Rochefoucauld : 4963 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


In the intercourse of life, we often please more by our defects than by our good qualities.
La Rochefoucauld : 5026 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld : 6099 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


True love is like a psychic experience. Everyone tells ghost stories, but few have ever seen a ghost.
La Rochefoucauld : 6365 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path.
La Rochefoucauld : 6396 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
La Rochefoucauld : 6557 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 6610 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 6691 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 6718 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 7026 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 7050 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


The pleasure of love is in loving.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 7077 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 7327 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 7357 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.
La Rochefoucauld : 8510 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Whatever disgrace we may have deserved or incurred, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
La Rochefoucauld : 8624 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


The fidelity of most men is merely an invention of self-love to win confidence; a method to place us above others and to render us depositories of the most important matters.
La Rochefoucauld : 8889 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


We all have strength enough to endure the troubles of others.
La Rochefoucauld : 9169 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


There is nothing men are so generous of as advice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld : 9192 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


We should manage our fortune 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.
La Rochefoucauld : 9292 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
La Rochefoucauld : 10143 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying small favors, and many people are grateful also for moderate ones, but hardly anyone fails to show ingratitude for great ones.
La Rochefoucauld : 10376 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
La Rochefoucauld : 10749 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 10987 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, As the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Rochefoucauld : 11076 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : 11080 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


Quarrels would not last so long if the fault were on only one side.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld : 11432 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


In the misfortune of our friends, we find something which is not displeasing to us.
La Rochefoucauld : 12004 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
La Rochefoucauld : 12475 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld : 12738 : La Rochefoucauld, Francois de


To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
Laberius : 4906 : Laberius


From the faults of another, a wise man will correct his own.
Laberius : 4907 : Laberius


Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Steve Lacy : 12591 : Lacy, Steve


Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself - love yourself.
Lady Gaga : 8430 : Lady Gaga


Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer.
Lady Gaga : 12722 : Lady Gaga


Though nought of me remains save smoke drawn out across the windless sky, yet shall I drift to thee unerringly amid the trackless fields of space.
Lady Murasaki : 7558 : Lady Murasaki


Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen.
Emeril Lagasse : 7427 : Lagasse, Emeril


I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfeld : 4801 : Lagerfeld, Karl


Style icons in our time can be chameleons; they need not be obsessed with the discipline and snobbery that were, in the past, important ingredients of style.
Karl Lagerfeld : 8217 : Lagerfeld, Karl


Fashion is the image of an age and can tell its story better than a speech.
Karl Lagerfeld : 10525 : Lagerfeld, Karl


Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
Karl Lagerfeld : 11408 : Lagerfeld, Karl


True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing : 4639 : Laing, R. D.


We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing : 5977 : Laing, R. D.


In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R. D. Laing : 6250 : Laing, R. D.


Some people say I've sold out, you know. I was this role model for heavy people. But I never set out to be a role model. It's not my goal. So I'm selfish. Sue me.
Ricki Lake : 4663 : Lake, Ricki


I was the first fat heroine - before Roseanne.
Ricki Lake : 5163 : Lake, Ricki


The soul, like the moon, is new, and always new again.
Lalleswari : 9113 : Lalleswari


Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr : 3302 : Lamarr, Hedy


I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
Hedy Lamarr : 13145 : Lamarr, Hedy


Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.
Lamartine : 6467 : Lamartine, Alphonse de


Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb : 359 : Lamb, Charles


The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
Charles Lamb : 360 : Lamb, Charles


I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
Charles Lamb : 361 : Lamb, Charles


Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
Charles Lamb : 2857 : Lamb, Charles


Your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Charles Lamb : 3094 : Lamb, Charles


I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
Charles Lamb : 5061 : Lamb, Charles


Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb : 7006 : Lamb, Charles


May my last breath be drawn through a pipe and exhaled in a pun.
Charles Lamb : 9477 : Lamb, Charles


Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb : 9761 : Lamb, Charles


Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Wally Lamb : 10919 : Lamb, Wally


Films have the emotional impact for the twentieth century that operas had for the nineteenth.
Constant Lambert : 11606 : Lambert, Constant


You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
Anne Lamott : 10473 : Lamott, Anne


Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott : 12139 : Lamott, Anne


I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott : 12306 : Lamott, Anne


Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
Anne Lamott : 12449 : Lamott, Anne


Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
Anne Lamott : 12671 : Lamott, Anne


To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to see yourself is to have found yourself, for now.
Anne Lamott : 12781 : Lamott, Anne


One of the best ways to measure people is to watch how they behave when something free is offered.
Ann Landers : 109 : Landers, Ann


Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers : 110 : Landers, Ann


Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers : 2431 : Landers, Ann


A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
Ann Landers : 6787 : Landers, Ann


Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.
Ann Landers : 7450 : Landers, Ann


People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
Ann Landers : 9396 : Landers, Ann


It isn't what a teenager knows that worries his parents. It's how he found out.
Ann Landers : 10105 : Landers, Ann


If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
Ann Landers : 10238 : Landers, Ann


A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
Ann Landers : 11631 : Landers, Ann


A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees the minority
Alfred Landon : 68 : Landon, Alfred


It was one of those wet, miserable evenings, gratis copies distributed by November through the year.
L. E. Landon : 1114 : Landon, L. E.


It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
L. E. Landon : 6137 : Landon, L. E.


Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
L. E. Landon : 7594 : Landon, L. E.


If there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
L. E. Landon : 9288 : Landon, L. E.


Absence quickens our love and elevates our affections. Absence is the invisible and incorporeal mother of ideal beauty.
Walter Savage Landor : 10022 : Landor, Walter Savage


The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
Wanda Landowska : 8545 : Landowska, Wanda


Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry : 7121 : Landry, Tom


If people knew as much about painting as I do they would never buy my pictures.
Edwin Landseer : 527 : Landseer, Edwin


Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Janet Lane : 10133 : Lane, Janet


He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang : 2835 : Lang, Andrew


A little present must not be allowed wholly to elbow the great past out of view.
Andrew Lang : 9442 : Lang, Andrew


You can cover a great deal of country in books.
Andrew Lang : 10850 : Lang, Andrew


The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
K. D. Lang : 12800 : Lang, K. D.


Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge : 2018 : Langbridge, Frederick


While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange : 4631 : Lange, Dorothea


Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
Jessica Lange : 12232 : Lange, Jessica


Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments.
Jessica Lange : 12769 : Lange, Jessica


I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
Frank Langella : 8018 : Langella, Frank


Wash what is dirty, water what is dry, heal what is wounded. Bend what is stiff, warm what is cold, guide what goes off the road.
Stephen Langton : 4718 : Langton, Stephen


By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love, he may rule the world forever.
Laozi (Lao-Tse) : 2328 : Laozi


Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Laozi (Lao-Tzu) : 4268 : Laozi


A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
Lao-Tze : 6175 : Laozi


Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Laozi (Lao-Tzu) : 6744 : Laozi


He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Laozi (Lao-Tzu) : 6773 : Laozi


To be worn out is to be renewed.
Laozi (Lao-Tzu) : 6817 : Laozi


People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Laozi (Lao-Tzu) : 7056 : Laozi


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Laozi (Lao-Tzu) : 7493 : Laozi


The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
Lao-Tzu : 8225 : Laozi


Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Laozi (Lao Tzu) : 12156 : Laozi


I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu : 12355 : Laozi


The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu : 12408 : Laozi


If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Lao Tzu : 13001 : Laozi


To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Laozi (Lao Tzu) : 13084 : Laozi


The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
Lewis H. Lapham : 7824 : Lapham, Lewis H.


People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham : 10710 : Lapham, Lewis H.


If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Lewis H. Lapham : 11876 : Lapham, Lewis H.


Grandkids ... take you back to childhood - theirs, the parents', your own: A three-time admittance to wonderland.
Adair Lara : 12594 : Lara, Adair


Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom : 4180 : Larcom, Lucy


The only exercise I get is when I take the studs out of one of my shirts and put them in another.
Ring Lardner : 1528 : Lardner, Ring


He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.
Ring Lardner : 10148 : Lardner, Ring


Watching an America's Cup race is like watching grass grow.
Ring Lardner : 12051 : Lardner, Ring


Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Philip Larkin : 6299 : Larkin, Philip


The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.
M. W. Larmour : 11210 : Larmour, M. W.


Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson : 13107 : Larson, Christian D.


The three leading reasons for going to a warmer climate are December, January, and February.
Doug Larson : 467 : Larson, Doug


If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson : 468 : Larson, Doug


A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson : 4006 : Larson, Doug


Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson : 4467 : Larson, Doug


The cat may very well be man's best friend, but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson : 4968 : Larson, Doug


Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson : 4972 : Larson, Doug


For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson : 6303 : Larson, Doug


Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson : 8062 : Larson, Doug


Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson : 8823 : Larson, Doug


When it comes to body language, there are some who have better vocabularies than others.
Doug Larson : 9041 : Larson, Doug


Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson : 9860 : Larson, Doug


Never put off until tomorrow what you can manage to wriggle out of today.
Doug Larson : 11431 : Larson, Doug


Among life's rudest awakenings are the alarm clock on workdays and rain on the roof on weekends.
Doug Larson : 11611 : Larson, Doug


A two-week vacation with four kids in a tent makes you appreciate the serenity of the workplace.
Doug Larson : 11985 : Larson, Doug


Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson : 12230 : Larson, Doug


If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
Doug Larson : 12573 : Larson, Doug


The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
Doug Larson : 12601 : Larson, Doug


The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda : 1802 : Lasorda, Tommy


About the press: Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon
Tommy Lasorda : 3409 : Lasorda, Tommy


No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
Tommy Lasorda : 3879 : Lasorda, Tommy


If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
Tommy Lasorda : 10827 : Lasorda, Tommy


When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.
Tommy Lasorda : 10985 : Lasorda, Tommy


The only angels in Los Angeles are in heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
Tommy Lasorda : 11051 : Lasorda, Tommy


There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda : 11056 : Lasorda, Tommy


Here was a born salesman. Every time he spoke, he convinced himself.
Emma Lathen : 7359 : Lathen, Emma


The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh Latimer : 9057 : Latimer, Hugh


It seemed obvious from the start that I should use my womanness as an asset rather than a liability.
Estee Lauder : 9011 : Lauder, Estee


I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.
Estee Lauder : 12401 : Lauder, Estee


I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.
Estee Lauder : 13034 : Lauder, Estee


Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.
Charles Laughton : 362 : Laughton, Charles


In some families, "please" is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was "sorry."
Margaret Laurence : 1223 : Laurence, Margaret


You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Lavater : 1134 : Lavater, Johann Kaspar


The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself.
Lavater : 1135 : Lavater, Johann Kaspar


Every man has his devilish moments.
Lavater : 2130 : Lavater, Johann Kaspar


You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Johann Kaspar Lavater : 2596 : Lavater, Johann Kaspar


Trust him not with your secrets who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Lavater : 5335 : Lavater, Johann Kaspar


He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
Lavater : 5455 : Lavater, Johann Kaspar


Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
Johann Kaspar Lavater : 6538 : Lavater, Johann Kaspar


Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law : 10513 : Law, Vernon


I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
Lucy Lawless : 11797 : Lawless, Lucy


The greatest virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence : 1970 : Lawrence, D. H.


The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colors. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.
D. H. Lawrence : 2220 : Lawrence, D. H.


Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence : 2720 : Lawrence, D. H.


Being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
D. H. Lawrence : 2989 : Lawrence, D. H.


I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
D. H. Lawrence : 3053 : Lawrence, D. H.


It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
D. H. Lawrence : 4023 : Lawrence, D. H.


One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
D. H. Lawrence : 4337 : Lawrence, D. H.


No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
D. H. Lawrence : 4632 : Lawrence, D. H.


California is a queer place - in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It's sort of crazy-sensible. Just the moment: hardly as far ahead as "carpe diem."
D. H. Lawrence : 4689 : Lawrence, D. H.


All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
D. H. Lawrence : 4761 : Lawrence, D. H.


We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
D. H. Lawrence : 4836 : Lawrence, D. H.


The blood also thinks inside a man, darkly and ponderously. It thinks in desires and revulsions, and it makes strange conclusions.
D. H. Lawrence : 5958 : Lawrence, D. H.


There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence : 6376 : Lawrence, D. H.


I like to write when I feel spiteful; It's like having a good sneeze.
D. H. Lawrence : 6850 : Lawrence, D. H.


If you try to nail anything down in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
D. H. Lawrence : 6912 : Lawrence, D. H.


And suddenly she craved again for the more absolute silence of America. English stillness was so soft, like an inaudible murmur of voices, of presences.
D. H. Lawrence : 10658 : Lawrence, D. H.


The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeonhole any idea. But it can't pigeonhole a real new experience.
D. H. Lawrence : 11267 : Lawrence, D. H.


I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. Lawrence : 12435 : Lawrence, D. H.


When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious.
D. H. Lawrence : 12752 : Lawrence, D. H.


Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence : 13149 : Lawrence, D. H.


I'm a big believer in accepting yourself and not really worrying about it.
Jennifer Lawrence : 12844 : Lawrence, Jennifer


The memory of having been read to is a solace one carries through adulthood. It can wash over a multitude of parental sins.
Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence : 1088 : Lawrence, Kathleen Rockwell


In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.
Helen Lawrenson : 7856 : Lawrenson, Helen


When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton : 6375 : Layton, Irving


Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
John Le Carre : 3473 : Le Carre, John


A critic is a man created to praise men greater than himself, but he is never able to find them
R. Le Galienne : 1482 : Le Galienne, R.


My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all this world and exiles me from it.
Ursula Le Guin : 1821 : Le Guin, Ursula K.


When action grows uncomfortable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula Le Guin : 3228 : Le Guin, Ursula K.


The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin : 12603 : Le Guin, Ursula K.


It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters.
Ursula K. Le Guin : 12815 : Le Guin, Ursula K.


The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed upon myth of its conquerors.
Meridel Le Sueur : 10475 : Le Sueur, Meridel


Far from being the basis of good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach : 9673 : Leach, Edmund


I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. It there's enough money, the children should live in a third.
Cloris Leachman : 11924 : Leachman, Cloris


Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock : 1730 : Leacock, Stephen


Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock : 6950 : Leacock, Stephen


If we are honest we have to admit that we will never fully know what happened to our ancestors in their journey toward modern humanity.
Richard Leakey : 1523 : Leakey, Richard


I hate to spread rumors - but what else can you do with them?
Amanda Lear : 78 : Lear, Amanda


Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.
Frances Lear : 6068 : Lear, Frances


If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Timothy Leary : 8112 : Leary, Timothy


If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary : 8869 : Leary, Timothy


The few really great - the major novelists are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
F. R. Leavis : 5935 : Leavis, F. R.


There's always room for improvement - it's the biggest room in the house.
Louise Heath Leber : 10102 : Leber, Louise Heath


Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
Michael LeBoeuf : 3841 : LeBoeuf, Michael


All civilizations have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, and never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.
Gustave LeBon : 9981 : LeBon, Gustave


Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people.
Fran Lebowitz : 606 : Lebowitz, Fran


When someone asks, "Why do you think he's not calling me?" there's always one answer - "He's not interested." There's not ever any other answer.
Fran Lebowitz : 607 : Lebowitz, Fran


Salad is not a meal. It is a style.
Fran Lebowitz : 608 : Lebowitz, Fran


Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz : 609 : Lebowitz, Fran


Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
Fran Lebowitz : 610 : Lebowitz, Fran


Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
Fran Lebowitz : 2743 : Lebowitz, Fran


It is by this painstaking method of careful examination and eventual rejection that we reach a conclusion: life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz : 3425 : Lebowitz, Fran


Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.
Fran Lebowitz : 3801 : Lebowitz, Fran


There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
Fran Lebowitz : 4089 : Lebowitz, Fran


Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz : 4923 : Lebowitz, Fran


Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.
Fran Lebowitz : 5101 : Lebowitz, Fran


The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz : 5388 : Lebowitz, Fran


I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz : 6077 : Lebowitz, Fran


Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz : 6307 : Lebowitz, Fran


Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem.
Fran Lebowitz : 7027 : Lebowitz, Fran


Now, nature, as I am only too well aware, has her enthusiasts, but on the whole, I am not to be counted among them.
Fran Lebowitz : 7276 : Lebowitz, Fran


Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.
Fran Lebowitz : 8534 : Lebowitz, Fran


Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz : 8605 : Lebowitz, Fran


Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz : 9823 : Lebowitz, Fran


I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
Fran Lebowitz : 10832 : Lebowitz, Fran


If a man who cannot count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
Stanislaw Lec : 1726 : Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy


One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them.
Stanislaw Lec : 2815 : Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy


You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
Stanislaw J. Lec : 7739 : Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy


There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why ... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Stanislaw J. Lec : 7924 : Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy


On the neck of a giraffe, a flea begins to believe in immortality.
Stanislaw Lec : 8795 : Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy


I don't agree with mathematics; The sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
Stanislaw J. Lec : 9226 : Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy


It is so much easier to assume than to prove, less painful to believe than to doubt; there is such a charm in the repose of prejudice, when no discordant voice jars upon belief.
W. E. H. Lecky : 10372 : Lecky, W. E. H.


Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
Anna Lee : 12664 : Lee, Anna


A goal is not always meant to be reached; It often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee : 7487 : Lee, Bruce


I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee : 10204 : Lee, Bruce


Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee : 10217 : Lee, Bruce


Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee : 11010 : Lee, Bruce


Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.
Bruce Lee : 11705 : Lee, Bruce


As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee : 12161 : Lee, Bruce


It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee : 12697 : Lee, Bruce


A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee : 13461 : Lee, Bruce


The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee : 801 : Lee, Harper


Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee : 6059 : Lee, Harper


Introductions inhibit pleasure, kill the joy of anticipation, frustrate curiosity.
Harper Lee : 9440 : Lee, Harper


Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee : 13057 : Lee, Harper


I make stained-glass contact lenses - for people who want to sleep in church.
London Lee : 9447 : Lee, London


He speaks the kindest words, and looks such things, Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace. That 'tis a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.
Nathaniel Lee : 6584 : Lee, Nathaniel


Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans.
Robert E. Lee : 5148 : Lee, Robert E.


Duty is the sublimest word in the language; you can never do more than your duty; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee : 8630 : Lee, Robert E.


Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
Spike Lee : 6067 : Lee, Spike


Marketing is something I'm very proud of. The only artist that does it better than me is Madonna. She's the champ.
Spike Lee : 8989 : Lee, Spike


When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
Sam Lefkowitz : 13354 : Lefkowitz, Sam


Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.
Kim Lehman : 12785 : Lehman, Kim


My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Annie Leibovitz : 12284 : Leibovitz, Annie


At least I got out of a bad situation. It was a mixed marriage: I'm human, he's a Klingon.
Carol Leifer : 317 : Leifer, Carol


New York: The only city where people make radio requests like "This is for Tina - I'm sorry I stabbed you."
Carol Leifer : 5231 : Leifer, Carol


When your life flashes before you, do you think that includes every trip you made to the bank?
Carol Leifer : 11293 : Leifer, Carol


If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
H. S. Leigh : 3333 : Leigh, H. S.


Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
Vivien Leigh : 8453 : Leigh, Vivien


Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Vivien Leigh : 9319 : Leigh, Vivien


There is nothing more satisfying than to lie in bed at night, secure and warm, with a whistling wind outside.
Clare Leighton : 3143 : Leighton, Clare


Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.
Frederick Leith-Ross : 10494 : Leith-Ross, Frederick


Judging films should be the same as judging jokes. It's no good saying this is a wonderful joke if no one laughs at it.
Anthony Lejeunne : 6310 : Lejeunne, Anthony


The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets.
Stanislaw Lem : 12973 : Lem, Stanislaw


If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon : 5095 : Lemmon, Jack


I won't quit acting until I get run over by a truck, a producer, or a critic.
Jack Lemmon : 6466 : Lemmon, Jack


The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons : 10316 : Lemons, Abe


I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success.
Tamara De Lempicka : 12987 : Lempicka, Tamara De


Liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
Lenin : 2645 : Lenin


Those in the cheap seats clap, the rest of you rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon : 1008 : Lennon, John


I'm an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I'll bring something out of it.
John Lennon : 6748 : Lennon, John


If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon : 7212 : Lennon, John


My little rebellion was to have my tie loose, with the top button of my shirt undone, but Paul'd always come up to me and put it straight.
John Lennon : 11539 : Lennon, John


A new report from the government says raw eggs may have salmonella and may be unsafe, in fact, the latest government theory says it wasn't the fall that killed Humpty-Dumpty; he was dead before he hit the ground.
Jay Leno : 5217 : Leno, Jay


If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Jay Leno : 5728 : Leno, Jay


My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?
Jay Leno : 7365 : Leno, Jay


I looked up the word "politics" in the dictionary and it's actually a combination of two words: "poli," which means many, and "tics," which means bloodsuckers.
Jay Leno : 7548 : Leno, Jay


Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.
Jay Leno : 8166 : Leno, Jay


Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
George Leonard : 12617 : Leonard, George


Never under any circumstances write comedy for laughs. This is as ruinous as believing that your wife means it when she says, "Tell me all about her. I swear I don't mind."
Hugh Leonard : 883 : Leonard, Hugh


I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.
Sugar Ray Leonard : 13192 : Leonard, Sugar Ray


We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
Aldo Leopold : 4781 : Leopold, Aldo


Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; You cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Aldo Leopold : 8839 : Leopold, Aldo


When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold : 11108 : Leopold, Aldo


Nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid service performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.
Gerda Lerner : 8908 : Lerner, Gerda


If men talked about only what they understood, the silence would become unbearable.
Max Lerner : 1289 : Lerner, Max


Men have always found it easy to be governed. What is hard is for them to govern themselves.
Max Lerner : 1975 : Lerner, Max


In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to love, but a family man's duties turn heavily towards the household chores that need doing but never get done.
Max Lerner : 3040 : Lerner, Max


I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner : 9829 : Lerner, Max


Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free rein and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
Alain Rene Lesage : 7832 : Lesage, Alain Rene


Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing : 458 : Lessing, Doris


To be in love with a country or a political regime is a tricky business. You get your heart broken even more surely than by being in love with a person.
Doris Lessing : 3426 : Lessing, Doris


There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
Doris Lessing : 3499 : Lessing, Doris


Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.
Doris Lessing : 10137 : Lessing, Doris


Should a single disappointed hope make us so hostile toward the world?
Lessing : 1153 : Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim


He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
G. E. Lessing : 11095 : Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim


USA today has come out with a new survey. Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
David Letterman : 5727 : Letterman, David


President Clinton, at the White House, in the Oval Office, had his own seance. That's right - he tried to bring back the McRib sandwich.
David Letterman : 10415 : Letterman, David


There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman : 10498 : Letterman, David


Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
David Letterman : 13074 : Letterman, David


If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.
David Letterman : 13466 : Letterman, David


Second in importance to having good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
Elmer G. Letterman : 5495 : Letterman, Elmer G.


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig : 11762 : Leunig, Michael


What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant : 1401 : Levant, Oscar


Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant : 2624 : Levant, Oscar


Happiness isn't something you experience. It's something you remember.
Oscar Levant : 5125 : Levant, Oscar


A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first.
Oscar Levant : 6225 : Levant, Oscar


Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.
Sam Levenson : 1600 : Levenson, Sam


The ability to say no is perhaps the greatest gift a parent has.
Sam Levenson : 1601 : Levenson, Sam


One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson : 3149 : Levenson, Sam


If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson : 4302 : Levenson, Sam


You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson : 6232 : Levenson, Sam


The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson : 6424 : Levenson, Sam


Insanity is hereditary; You can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson : 6536 : Levenson, Sam


It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow He didn't consult a decorator, or He would still be picking colors.
Sam Levenson : 10709 : Levenson, Sam


Don't watch the clock; Do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson : 12380 : Levenson, Sam


Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm.
Sam Levenson : 12867 : Levenson, Sam


You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
Denise Levertov : 4644 : Levertov, Denise


The truth in these matters may be stated as a scientific law: "The persistence of public officials varies inversely with the importance of the matter on which they are persisting."
Bernard Levin : 7509 : Levin, Bernard


Children first conceive morality as rules for pleasing their parents - only with the fullness of time comes a grasp of the idea of conscientious choice.
Michael Levin : 10398 : Levin, Michael


It is something other than a coexistence of a multitude of humans, or a participation in new and complex laws imposed by the masses. Society is the miracle of moving out of oneself.
Emmanuel Levinas : 559 : Levinas, Emmanuel


You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Joseph E. Levine : 1043 : Levine, Joseph E.


Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
Michael Levine : 10201 : Levine, Michael


Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine : 12496 : Levine, Michael


Women live longer than men because it's not polite to interrupt them when they're talking.
Sam Levine : 3746 : Levine, Sam


Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
Stephen Levine : 10469 : Levine, Stephen


We might be more eager to accept advice if it didn't continually interfere with our plans.
L. L. Levinson : 1115 : Levinson, Leonard Louis


You never know how dirty your hands are until you peel a hard cooked egg or go into politics.
Leonard L. Levinson : 1147 : Levinson, Leonard Louis


People who live in stone houses should never throw glasses.
Leonard Louis Levinson : 1148 : Levinson, Leonard Louis


If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
Leonard Louis Levinson : 1149 : Levinson, Leonard Louis


Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
David Levithan : 12095 : Levithan, David


Character is built out of circumstances. - from exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
G. H. Lewes : 660 : Lewes, George Henry


No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
George Henry Lewes : 3285 : Lewes, George Henry


The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Bernard Lewis : 8627 : Lewis, Bernard


I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
C. Day Lewis : 300 : Lewis, C. Day


Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
C. Day Lewis : 11783 : Lewis, C. Day


Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis : 6959 : Lewis, C. S.


How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis : 7786 : Lewis, C. S.


Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis : 10188 : Lewis, C. S.


You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
C. S. Lewis : 11092 : Lewis, C. S.


The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis : 11137 : Lewis, C. S.


Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
C. S. Lewis : 11763 : Lewis, C. S.


A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
C. S. Lewis : 12178 : Lewis, C. S.


Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
C. S. Lewis : 12836 : Lewis, C. S.


Unless the job means more than the pay, it will never pay more.
H. Bertram Lewis : 768 : Lewis, H. Bertram


It is intriguing and useful to listen to the sacred rhetoric of the cinema groups and intellectual critics, but very little of it gets up on the screen in the next picture.
Jerry Lewis : 9616 : Lewis, Jerry


Just point me to the piano and give me my money. In fifteen minutes I'll have 'em shaking, shouting, shivering, and shacking.
Jerry Lee Lewis : 5991 : Lewis, Jerry Lee


I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.
Joe E. Lewis : 6062 : Lewis, Joe E.


I play golf in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis : 8357 : Lewis, Joe E.


I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Joe E. Lewis : 10046 : Lewis, Joe E.


The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Joseph Lewis : 10405 : Lewis, Joseph


Remember, your basic assignment as a parent is to work yourself out of a job.
Paul Lewis : 9797 : Lewis, Paul


People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis : 6151 : Lewis, Sinclair


There are two insults which no human will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis : 9629 : Lewis, Sinclair


Life would be tolerable if it were not for its amusements.
Sir George Cornwell Lewis : 1660 : Lewis, Sir George Cornwell


Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis : 1946 : Lewis, Wyndham


British rail porters are trained at the Pol Pot School Of Charm, while guards are either frustrated broadcasters, ceaselessly blaring out incomprehensible messages, or trappist monks who have taken a holy vow forbidding any form of communication whatsoeve
Victor Lewis-Smith : 1828 : Lewis-Smith, Victor


Our spiritual peril is the new idolatry - the worship of the god of bigness and the god of speed.
McIlyar Lichliter : 1293 : Lichliter, McIlyar


A book is like a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : 203 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 652 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


You can make a better living in the world as a soothsayer than as a truthsayer.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 653 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 654 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Lichtenberg : 1157 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 1961 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
G. C. Lichtenberg : 3989 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


One of the main conveniences of marriage is that if you can't stand a visitor, you can pass him along to your wife.
Lichtenberg : 4891 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


Don't hudge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 6551 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


Sometimes men come by the name of "genius" in the same way that certain insects come by the name of "centipede" - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 6572 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg : 7757 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 7877 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


You Can make a good living from soothsaying, but not truthsaying.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : 8495 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : 8914 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


If people should ever start to do only what is necessary, millions would die of hunger.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 10762 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
G. C. Lichtenberg : 11894 : Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph


Visualization, that seeing of that which is not yet, which is not actually before us, as yet, is essential for all the good that man may aspire to.
Tehilla Lichtenstein : 10654 : Lichtenstein, Tehilla


If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
A. J. Liebling : 8852 : Liebling, A. J.


A jazz performance centers upon the process of creation. The final objective is not only the finished product, but the path and process taken towards it.
David Liebman : 3427 : Liebman, David


Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
Joshua Loth Liebman : 7880 : Liebman, Joshua Loth


At one early, glittering dinner party at Buckingham Palace, the trembling hand of a nervous waiter spilled a spoonful of decidedly hot soup down my neck. How could I manage to ease his mind, except to say, without thinking: "Never darken my Dior again!"
Beatrice Lillie : 4985 : Lillie, Beatrice


In your twenties you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you kind wisdom and depth.
Evangeline Lilly : 12357 : Lilly, Evangeline


Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind.
Lilo & Stitch : 13543 : Lilo & Stitch


I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya Lin : 8150 : Lin, Maya


Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln : 9 : Lincoln, Abraham


Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln : 10 : Lincoln, Abraham


The future belongs to those who believe in their abilities.
Abraham Lincoln : 11 : Lincoln, Abraham


A person will be just as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Abraham Lincoln : 12 : Lincoln, Abraham


My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln : 13 : Lincoln, Abraham


No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln : 14 : Lincoln, Abraham


Those who deny freedom for others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln : 2072 : Lincoln, Abraham


I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other man's rights.
Abraham Lincoln : 2187 : Lincoln, Abraham


If this is coffee, please bring me some tea, and if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abe Lincoln : 2539 : Lincoln, Abraham


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln : 2811 : Lincoln, Abraham


When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln : 3354 : Lincoln, Abraham


Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Abraham Lincoln : 3671 : Lincoln, Abraham


To be fruitful in invention, it is indispensable to have a habit of observation and reflection.
Abraham Lincoln : 3914 : Lincoln, Abraham


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln : 4406 : Lincoln, Abraham


And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln : 4590 : Lincoln, Abraham


No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln : 5106 : Lincoln, Abraham


You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln : 5357 : Lincoln, Abraham


Politicians - a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician m
Abraham Lincoln : 5641 : Lincoln, Abraham


I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so every poor man can have a home.
Abraham Lincoln : 5875 : Lincoln, Abraham


Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln : 6206 : Lincoln, Abraham


It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims. kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln : 6603 : Lincoln, Abraham


I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
Abraham Lincoln : 6923 : Lincoln, Abraham


If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln : 6981 : Lincoln, Abraham


Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln : 7096 : Lincoln, Abraham


Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln : 7128 : Lincoln, Abraham


Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln (unverified attribution) : 7136 : Lincoln, Abraham


My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.
Abraham Lincoln : 7193 : Lincoln, Abraham


When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln : 7771 : Lincoln, Abraham


I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln : 8165 : Lincoln, Abraham


You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln : 8578 : Lincoln, Abraham


I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Abraham Lincoln : 9008 : Lincoln, Abraham


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln : 9461 : Lincoln, Abraham


It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln : 9868 : Lincoln, Abraham


He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln : 10146 : Lincoln, Abraham


Be not deceived, revolutions do not go backward.
Abraham Lincoln : 10161 : Lincoln, Abraham


I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln : 10613 : Lincoln, Abraham


When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln : 10737 : Lincoln, Abraham


To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln : 10870 : Lincoln, Abraham


A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
Abraham Lincoln : 11214 : Lincoln, Abraham


Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Abraham Lincoln : 11386 : Lincoln, Abraham


The fight must go on. The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even one hundred defeats.
Abraham Lincoln : 11558 : Lincoln, Abraham


His reason is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
Abraham Lincoln, on Stephen Douglas : 11885 : Lincoln, Abraham


Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln : 12043 : Lincoln, Abraham


Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln : 12163 : Lincoln, Abraham


If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln : 12191 : Lincoln, Abraham


A budget is a mathematical confirmation of your worst fear.
John A. Lincoln : 10141 : Lincoln, John A.


This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln : 10353 : Lincoln, Victoria


To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace and complete fulfillment.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 3025 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 5518 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 5527 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 7244 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 7645 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy. It's gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 9606 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


Thoughts die and are buried in the silences between sentences.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 10815 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike, he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 11545 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : 13418 : Lindbergh, Anne Morrow


I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
Charles A. Lindbergh : 2761 : Lindbergh, Charles A.


In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles A. Lindbergh : 12114 : Lindbergh, Charles A.


You must adjust. This is the legend imprinted in every schoolbook, the invisible message on every blackboard. Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
Robert Lindner : 2248 : Lindner, Robert


Nothing helped me toward a conscientious performance so much as a conscious interest in the royalties.
Howard Lindsay : 9404 : Lindsay, Howard


Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders, and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Ben Lindsey : 8983 : Lindsey, Ben


A banker may write a bad poem, but the poet had better not write a bad check.
Houghton Line : 10104 : Line, Houghton


You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.
Lisa Ling : 12432 : Ling, Lisa


I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.
Charles Lingsley : 9034 : Lingsley, Charles


While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link : 6351 : Link, Henry C.


She looks like a million dollars, but she only knows a hundred and twenty words and she's only got two ideas in her head. The other one's hats.
Eric Linklater : 7231 : Linklater, Eric


The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
Art Linkletter : 3737 : Linkletter, Art


I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American flag, Motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
Art Linkletter : 9520 : Linkletter, Art


It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Walter Linn : 8303 : Linn, Walter


I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
Carl Linnaeus : 4162 : Linnaeus, Carl


I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.
Linus : 9127 : Linus


Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
Jacques Lipchitz : 11289 : Lipchitz, Jacques


I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.
Maureen Lipman : 1285 : Lipman, Maureen


Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann : 2869 : Lippmann, Walter


Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
Walter Lippmann : 3916 : Lippmann, Walter


There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.
Walter Lippmann : 4013 : Lippmann, Walter


People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann : 7989 : Lippmann, Walter


There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Walter Lippmann : 8192 : Lippmann, Walter


Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
Walter Lippmann : 10205 : Lippmann, Walter


Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
Walter Lippmann : 10426 : Lippmann, Walter


While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.
Walter Lippmann : 10705 : Lippmann, Walter


The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann : 11187 : Lippmann, Walter


It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann : 13090 : Lippmann, Walter


To us musicians the work of Beethoven parallels the pillars of smoke and fire which led the Israelites through the desert.
Franz Liszt : 11929 : Liszt, Franz


One thought driven home is better than three left on base.
James Liter : 8081 : Liter, James


A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; A youth with his first girl makes everyone sick.
M. W. Little : 6210 : Little, M. W.


I try to believe like I believed when I was five ... when your heart tells you everything you need to know.
Lucy Liu : 6878 : Liu, Lucy


If I'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself.
Blake Lively : 12602 : Lively, Blake


One never, of course, knows what people in portraits are thinking.
Penelope Lively : 4095 : Lively, Penelope


Clasp my love around your neck, Wear my heart on your finger. My soul will be your pendant: I live to adorn you - You're the precious one.
Grey Livingston : 9987 : Livingston, Grey


I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
David Livingstone : 11371 : Livingstone, David


Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.
Livy : 1165 : Livy


A genius is someone a computer can't program.
Taban Lo Liyong : 10164 : Liyong, Taban Lo


There is no incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Mario Vargas Llosa : 1246 : Llosa, Mario Vargas


They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth - just to prove that they are first of the litter.
David Lloyd-George, On The House Of Lords : 430 : Lloyd-George, David


I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Lock : 9737 : Lock, William J.


The end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
John Locke : 3300 : Locke, John


No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke : 3327 : Locke, John


New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke : 4274 : Locke, John


The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
John Locke : 5483 : Locke, John


Crooked things may be as stiff and inflexible as straight: and men may be as positive in error as in truth.
John Locke : 6666 : Locke, John


The love of truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
John Locke : 10434 : Locke, John


Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; It is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke : 12140 : Locke, John


The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke : 12930 : Locke, John


The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Belva Lockwood : 12984 : Lockwood, Belva


(The United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. : 5270 : Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.


Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and, probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger : 4246 : Loevinger, Lee


Truth has one fatal defect. When she was launched upon the world, a group of gods gave her every grace, every charm, every virtue, and every strength; but one envious god, unable to take away what other gods had given her, made her forever unprofitable.
Algernon S. Logan : 2938 : Logan, Algernon S.


Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois : 8980 : Lois, George


Hollywood is where they write the alibis before they write the story.
Carole Lombard : 11655 : Lombard, Carole


A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi : 2461 : Lombardi, Vince


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi : 3218 : Lombardi, Vince


Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi : 6144 : Lombardi, Vince


If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi : 6178 : Lombardi, Vince


There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything, and I do.
Vince Lombardi : 6415 : Lombardi, Vince


Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi : 12325 : Lombardi, Vince


Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
Guy Lombardo : 9544 : Lombardo, Guy


A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London : 12351 : London, Jack


Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.
Stacy London : 12300 : London, Stacy


Don't write anything you can phone, don't phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink and don't wink anything you can nod.
Earl Long : 2182 : Long, Earl


Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
R. L. Long : 1481 : Long, R. L.


A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsorth Longfellow : 6221 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsorth


The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, kisses the blushing leaf.
Henry Longfellow : 848 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 854 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


The soul is audible, not visible.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 855 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 856 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Be still sad heart and cease repining, behind the clouds the sun is still shining.
Longfellow : 1169 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
Longfellow : 1170 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Give what you have. To some one it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 1986 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambition.
Henry Longfellow : 2513 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.
H. W. Longfellow : 2516 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


It is a sublime thing to suffer and be stronger.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 3630 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Not ten yoke of oxen have the power to draw us like a woman's hair.
H. W. Longfellow : 3664 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 3923 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 4562 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 4828 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry W. Longfellow : 5379 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 5980 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do.
H. W. Longfellow : 6182 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 6275 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 7534 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 8523 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 8948 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


The men that women marry, and why they marry them, will always be, a marvel and a mystery to the world.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 11258 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 11897 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 12006 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Simplicity in character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 12349 : Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


I published a small book on humility... A pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge been superseded.
Lord Longford : 1183 : Longford, Lord


In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superseded.
Lord Longford : 3486 : Longford, Lord


Old people have one advantage compared with young ones. They have been young themselves, and young people haven't been old.
Lord Longford : 3522 : Longford, Lord


I'm just an amiable kindly old thing, as I've always been. I was born a kindly old thing. If anyone takes that seriously, hah! My speciality is detached malevolence.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth : 74 : Longworth, Alice Roosevelt


My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth : 4696 : Longworth, Alice Roosevelt


I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth : 7797 : Longworth, Alice Roosevelt


If you can't say something good about someone, just sit right here by me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth : 9771 : Longworth, Alice Roosevelt


Kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos : 105 : Loos, Anita


She said she always believed in the old adage, "leave them while you're looking good."
Anita Loos : 106 : Loos, Anita


I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
Anita Loos : 107 : Loos, Anita


Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
Anita Loos : 6147 : Loos, Anita


I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
Anita Loos : 8953 : Loos, Anita


People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous.
Jennifer Lopez : 11360 : Lopez, Jennifer


Great champions are those who are driven to show the world - and prove to themselves - just how good they are.
Nancy Lopez : 7289 : Lopez, Nancy


It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lord : 13349 : Lord, Audre


We must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre Lord : 13352 : Lord, Audre


The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
Audre Lorde : 6125 : Lorde, Audre


I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde : 9594 : Lorde, Audre


Anger is loaded with information and energy.
Audre Lorde : 11376 : Lorde, Audre


When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde : 12248 : Lorde, Audre


Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Audre Lorde : 13334 : Lorde, Audre


A woman's dress should be like a barbed wire fence, serving its purpose without obstructing the view
Sophia Loren : 1675 : Loren, Sophia


Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Sophia Loren : 3628 : Loren, Sophia


There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you will learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Sophia Loren : 3739 : Loren, Sophia


Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren : 6502 : Loren, Sophia


As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
Sophia Loren : 10438 : Loren, Sophia


Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren : 11474 : Loren, Sophia


If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
Sophia Loren : 13224 : Loren, Sophia


I was out on a date recently and the guy took me horseback riding. That was kind of fun, until we ran out of quarters.
Susie Loucks : 9372 : Loucks, Susie


If you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
Louis C. K. : 12282 : Louis C. K.


Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.
Louis C. K. : 12335 : Louis C. K.


I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.
Phil Lout : 7933 : Lout, Phil


Las Vegas: all the amenities of modem society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.
Jason Love : 4809 : Love, Jason


In my home, we've got a system for ending arguments: We just talk and talk until my wife is right.
Jason Love : 8491 : Love, Jason


If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
Mike Love : 13022 : Love, Mike


When it's breezy, hit it easy.
Davis Love, Jr. : 11695 : Love,Davis, Jr.


But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft : 12129 : Lovecraft, Howard Phillips


No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H. P. Lovecraft : 12953 : Lovecraft, Howard Phillips


The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.
Bernard Lovell : 3512 : Lovell, Bernard


When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it, but the scratching of a pen.
Samuel Lover : 6676 : Lover, Samuel


Television is simply automated day-dreaming.
Lee Lovinger : 4851 : Lovinger, Lee


All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell : 85 : Lowell, Amy


Art is the desire of man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell : 10048 : Lowell, Amy


They are slaves who fear to speak for the fallen and the weak.
James R. Lowell : 933 : Lowell, James Russell


He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
James Russell Lowell : 935 : Lowell, James Russell


What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell : 936 : Lowell, James Russell


Democracy is a form of government that gives every man a right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell : 937 : Lowell, James Russell


It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
James Russell Lowell : 938 : Lowell, James Russell


Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
J. R. Lowell : 2503 : Lowell, James Russell


Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell : 4264 : Lowell, James Russell


Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
James R. Lowell : 4440 : Lowell, James Russell


The only faith that wears well and holds its color in ail weathers is that which is woven of convictions and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell : 5924 : Lowell, James Russell


Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time: It's ten-to-one if they hang long together.
James Russell Lowell : 6204 : Lowell, James Russell


If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell : 6241 : Lowell, James Russell


Not what we give but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
James Russell Lowell : 7144 : Lowell, James Russell


All God's angels come to us disguised.
James Russell Lowell : 9845 : Lowell, James Russell


Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.
James Russell Lowell : 10383 : Lowell, James Russell


In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell : 11604 : Lowell, James Russell


And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
James Russell Lowell : 13517 : Lowell, James Russell


If we see a light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of an oncoming train.
Robert Lowell : 1558 : Lowell, Robert


Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
William Lowndes : 4094 : Lowndes, William


Our own happiness ought not, of course, to be our main object.
Sir John Lubbock : 4915 : Lubbock, Sir John


Before buying anything it is well to ask whether one could do without it.
John Lubbock : 5497 : Lubbock, Sir John


A curse? You should have a lot of money, but you should be the only one in your family with it.
Ernst Lubitsch : 8671 : Lubitsch, Ernst


Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
Ernst Lubitsch : 12018 : Lubitsch, Ernst


A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado : 9567 : Lucado, Max


The apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Lucan : 1194 : Lucan


I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely.
E. V. Lucas : 490 : Lucas, E. V.


People who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas : 491 : Lucas, E. V.


I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas : 2750 : Lucas, E. V.


One of the most serious thoughts that life provokes is the reflection that we can never tell, at the time, whether a word, a look, a touch, an occurrence of any kind, is trivial or important.
E. V. Lucas : 2992 : Lucas, E. V.


The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas : 9938 : Lucas, E. V.


I'm hoping that a twelve-year-old boy or girl will enjoy it. But I'm not dumbing it down. I think I'm making it with enough credibility so that anybody can watch it.
George Lucas, On "Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace" : 707 : Lucas, George


Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
George Lucas : 3546 : Lucas, George


Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.
George Lucas : 13483 : Lucas, George


No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H. E. Luccock : 9229 : Luccock, H. E.


No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable.
Claire Booth Luce, on Eleanor Roosevelt : 7982 : Luce, Claire Booth


I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
Clare Boothe Luce : 6630 : Luce, Clare Boothe


It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
Henry R. Luce : 10992 : Luce, Henry R.


Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what pe
John Luckacs : 4148 : Luckacs, John


If a man would guide his life by true philosophy, he will find ample riches in a modest livelihood enjoyed with a tranquil mind.
Lucretius : 2406 : Lucretius


The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius : 2778 : Lucretius


To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
Lucretius : 3629 : Lucretius


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius : 8490 : Lucretius


I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
Bela Lugosi : 6840 : Lugosi, Bela


To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
Joanna Lumley, on the Booker Prize : 8946 : Lumley, Joanna


I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
Charles F. Lummis : 8764 : Lummis, Charles F.


I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
Charles Fletcher Lummis : 9615 : Lummis, Charles Fletcher


Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.
Alison Lurie : 3559 : Lurie, Alison


As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie : 10061 : Lurie, Alison


God works by contraries, so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
Martin Luther : 2376 : Luther, Martin


I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
Martin Luther : 3580 : Luther, Martin


If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Martin Luther : 4042 : Luther, Martin


No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
Martin Luther : 4657 : Luther, Martin


Peace, if possible, but the truth at any rate.
Martin Luther : 10848 : Luther, Martin


Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Martin Luther : 11245 : Luther, Martin


Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg : 9059 : Luxemburg, Rosa


Man was predestined to have free will.
Hal Luyah : 9132 : Luyah, Hal


The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.
David Lynch : 12944 : Lynch, David


I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
Peter Lynch : 2885 : Lynch, Peter


Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.
Peter Lynch : 9241 : Lynch, Peter


If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Peter Lynch : 12009 : Lynch, Peter


It is in part the very uniqueness of every individual that makes one not only a member of a family, race, nation, or class, but a human being.
Helen Merrell Lynd : 3039 : Lynd, Helen Merrell


It is only in literature that coincidences seem unnatural.
Robert Lynd : 1559 : Lynd, Robert


It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Lynd : 1560 : Lynd, Robert


There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.
Robert Lynd : 1561 : Lynd, Robert


In Europe the most obstreperous nations are those most addicted to coffee. We rightly speak of a storm in a teacup as the tiniest disturbance in the world, but out of a coffee cup come hurricanes.
Robert Lynd : 2985 : Lynd, Robert


It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
Robert Lynd : 3594 : Lynd, Robert


If everybody remembered the past, nobody would forgive anybody.
Robert Lynd : 3812 : Lynd, Robert


There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd : 3940 : Lynd, Robert


Knowledge is power, but only if one knows what facts not to bother about.
Robert Lynd : 8737 : Lynd, Robert


Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun had risen.
Robert Lynd : 10009 : Lynd, Robert


Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The thing that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
Robert Lynd : 10027 : Lynd, Robert


Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Joseph Russell Lynes Jr. : 1048 : Lynes, Joseph Russell, Jr.


The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
Russell Lynes : 4184 : Lynes, Joseph Russell, Jr.


Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons : 7952 : Lyons, Kay


Like actors in the days of Henry VIII, dance-band musicians - and jazzmen are inextricably mixed in with them - are generally regarded by their fellow men today as rogues and vagabonds.
Humphrey Lyttelton : 6254 : Lyttelton, Humphrey


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening.
Hamilton Wright Mabie : 11466 : Mabie, Hamilton Wright


Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie : 12647 : Mabie, Hamilton Wright


There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
Douglas MacArthur : 2114 : MacArthur, Douglas


Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals.
Douglas MacArthur : 3048 : MacArthur, Douglas


I came through and I shall return.
Douglas MacArthur : 3635 : MacArthur, Douglas


There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur : 4097 : MacArthur, Douglas


You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas MacArthur : 7541 : MacArthur, Douglas


You are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur : 9459 : MacArthur, Douglas


Advice is worth what it costs - that is, nothing.
Douglas MacArthur : 10153 : MacArthur, Douglas


We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction.
Douglas MacArthur : 11352 : MacArthur, Douglas


Gentlemen know that fresh air should be kept in its proper place - out of doors - and that, God having given us indoors and out-of-doors, we should not attempt to do away with this distinction.
Rose Macaulay : 2173 : Macaulay, Rose


It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labor that man and womankind have devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow.
Rose Macaulay : 5910 : Macaulay, Rose


A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?
Rose Macaulay : 8514 : Macaulay, Rose


His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
Thomas Babington Macaulay : 1767 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and reflect the dawn.
Thomas Macaulay : 1783 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
Thomas Macaulay : 2693 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever.
Lord Macaulay : 3160 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
Thomas Macaulay : 5168 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both.
Thomas Macaulay : 9350 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Lord Macaulay : 9827 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
Thomas Babington Macaulay : 11979 : Macaulay, Thomas Babington


The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
Betty MacDonald : 255 : MacDonald, Betty


A foundation is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.
Dwight MacDonald : 2459 : MacDonald, Dwight


The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald : 7130 : MacDonald, George


It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.
Niccolo Machiavelli : 2620 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Machiavelli : 2882 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


It never or rarely happens that a republic or monarchy is well constituted, or its old institutions entirely reformed, unless it is only done by one individual.
Machiavelli : 3436 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
Machiavelli : 3897 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
Niccolo Machiavelli : 6331 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be loved than one who wishes to be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli : 6392 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


Fortune is the ruler in half our actions, but she allows the other half or thereabouts to be governed by us.
Machiavelli : 6944 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli : 7343 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


It seldom happens that men rise from low conditions to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.
Niccolo Machiavelli : 10369 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


Success or failure lies in conforming to the times
Machiavelli : 12065 : Machiavelli, Niccolo


The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
Robert MacIver : 4209 : MacIver, Robert


Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Harvey Mackay : 2150 : Mackay, Harvey


Find something you love to do, and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Harvey Mackay : 13229 : Mackay, Harvey


Cute teenagers only exist on television, I suspect. I know there are none in my neighborhood.
Robert Mackenzie : 9016 : Mackenzie, Robert


Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Sir Compton Mackenzie : 1658 : Mackenzie, Sir Compton


The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine : 5079 : MacLaine, Shirley


I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment, my life changed.
Shirley MacLaine : 8594 : MacLaine, Shirley


At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
Norman Maclean : 9962 : Maclean, Norman


The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Archibald MacLeish : 11903 : MacLeish, Archibald


Give me the writing of a nation's advertising and propaganda, and I care not who governs its politics.
Hugh MacLennan : 11278 : MacLennan, Hugh


When you're abroad you're a politician; when you're at home you're just a politician.
Harold MacMillan : 798 : MacMillan, Harold


A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Harold MacMillan : 9566 : MacMillan, Harold


Tradition does not mean that the living are dead; it means that the dead are living.
Harold Macmillan : 9765 : Macmillan, Harold


In a long experience in politics, I have never found that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan : 10477 : Macmillan, Harold


Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton : 7954 : MacNaughton, John


Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails, Man's heart expands to tinker with his car! For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar.
Louis MacNeice : 10354 : MacNeice, Louis


The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.
Malcolm F. MacNeil : 3314 : MacNeil, Malcolm F.


Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
Agnes Macphail : 3202 : Macphail, Agnes


Conservative ideal of freedom and progress: everyone to have an unfettered opportunity of remaining exactly where they are.
Geoffrey Madan : 3466 : Madan, Geoffrey


The road to easy street goes through the sewer.
John Madden : 13055 : Madden, John


If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.
Rachel Maddow : 12462 : Maddow, Rachel


People are easily anesthetized by overstatement, and there is a danger that the environmental movement will fall flat on its face when it is most needed, simply because it has pitched its tale too strongly.
John Maddox : 8871 : Maddox, John


Language expands the brain, increases one's knowledge bank, enlarges the world, and challenges the vision of those who may not have a vision.
Haki Madhubuti : 8931 : Madhubuti, Haki


It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison : 4009 : Madison, Dolley


There is one secret, and that is the power we all have in forming our own destinies.
Dolley Madison : 8026 : Madison, Dolley


The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison : 6339 : Madison, James


The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
James Madison : 11203 : Madison, James


I've always known this was going to happen to me. My success was something that was meant to be.
Madonna : 1203 : Madonna


When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
Madonna : 6877 : Madonna


A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
Madonna : 11842 : Madonna


I've never gotten any good advice. I've had to figure it out for myself.
Tom Magliozzi : 1796 : Magliozzi, Tom


Self-interest is not only a legitimate but a fundamental cause for national policy, one which needs no cloak of hypocrisy.
Alfred Thayer Mahan : 10435 : Mahan, Alfred Thayer


I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
Mohamad Mahathir : 3551 : Mahathir, Mohamad


Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Bill Maher : 5724 : Maher, Bill


The kids from fifteen countries took math and science tests. The USA came in fourteenth, behind Slovenia, which has been a country only since last Tuesday.
Bill Maher : 6583 : Maher, Bill


Ever since Moses came down from the mountain with the tablets, the world has been moved by salesmen.
David Mahoney : 5003 : Mahoney, David


Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.
Margaret Mahy : 1224 : Mahy, Margaret


Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.
Norman Mailer : 2471 : Mailer, Norman


No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
Norman Mailer : 3434 : Mailer, Norman


Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman Mailer : 3464 : Mailer, Norman


With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of you defiance.
Norman Mailer : 3977 : Mailer, Norman


The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer : 4766 : Mailer, Norman


There's no force more powerful in filmmaking than the fear of an audience's boredom.
Norman Mailer : 5053 : Mailer, Norman


Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers, and female movie stars.
Norman Mailer : 5233 : Mailer, Norman


Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer : 6494 : Mailer, Norman


You don't know anything about a woman until you meet her in court.
Norman Mailer : 7695 : Mailer, Norman


Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
Norman Mailer : 9678 : Mailer, Norman


Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer : 11155 : Mailer, Norman


I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer : 11542 : Mailer, Norman


I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart : 8451 : Maillart, Ella


The well-being of the soul can only be obtained after that of the body has been secured.
Moses Maimonides : 8011 : Maimonides, Moses


Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides : 10173 : Maimonides, Moses


Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.
Simon Mainwaring : 12533 : Mainwaring, Simon


Face challenges, fear, and frustration by seeking out knowledge and opportunities for growth.
Fanny Mairena : 13436 : Mairena, Fanny


Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba : 9961 : Makeba, Miriam


The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
Bernard Malamud : 2180 : Malamud, Bernard


You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X : 3509 : Malcolm X


There is no better school than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X : 11499 : Malcolm X


Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X : 12616 : Malcolm X


Rivers in the United States are so polluted that acid rain makes them cleaner.
Andrew Malcolm : 5376 : Malcolm, Andrew


Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Nicolas Malebranche : 11986 : Malebranche, Nicolas


To name an object is to destroy three-quarters of the pleasure given by a poem, which is gained little by little: to suggest it, that is the ideal.
Stephane Mallarme : 11196 : Mallarme, Stephane


It takes a long time to learn simplicity.
Louis Malle : 5169 : Malle, Louis


Nothing is more moving than beauty which is unaware of itself, except for ugliness which is.
Robert Mallet : 9139 : Mallet, Robert


Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.
Merritt Malloy : 9820 : Malloy, Merritt


I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Michael Malone : 11126 : Malone, Michael


I'll always be number one to myself.
Moses Malone : 3341 : Malone, Moses


The truth about a man is, first of all, what it is that he keeps hidden.
Andre Malraux : 5631 : Malraux, Andre


An art book is a museum without walls.
Andre Malraux : 9462 : Malraux, Andre


When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower."
Maxwell Maltz : 7842 : Maltz, Maxwell


The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
David Mamet : 3874 : Mamet, David


The mind of man is less perturbed by a mystery he cannot explain than by an explanation he cannot understand.
David Mamet : 5236 : Mamet, David


There is such a thing as luck. There is such a thing as a run of luck. This is an instructive insight I have gained from poker - that all things have a rhythm, even the most seemingly inanimate of statistics.
David Mamet : 8867 : Mamet, David


The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
Morris Mandel : 11690 : Mandel, Morris


No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, the can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its oppos
Nelson Mandela : 3382 : Mandela, Nelson


Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela : 4973 : Mandela, Nelson


A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela : 8810 : Mandela, Nelson


We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela : 10215 : Mandela, Nelson


There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela : 10977 : Mandela, Nelson


Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela : 10990 : Mandela, Nelson


After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela : 11024 : Mandela, Nelson


When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Nelson Mandela : 11125 : Mandela, Nelson


For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela : 11826 : Mandela, Nelson


There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela : 12483 : Mandela, Nelson


Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela : 12774 : Mandela, Nelson


Who has not felt envious of chess players? You sense in the room a peculiar field of alienation from which a chill inimical to nonparticipants flows.
Osip Mandelstam : 4704 : Mandelstam, Osip


Most writers are always teaching men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are.
Bernard Mandeville : 7572 : Mandeville, Bernard


Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino : 8152 : Mandino, Og


Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
Og Mandino : 8773 : Mandino, Og


Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino : 9726 : Mandino, Og


Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino : 11726 : Mandino, Og


Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
Og Mandino : 13127 : Mandino, Og


There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.
Edouard Manet : 8449 : Manet, Edouard


If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.
Ruby Manikan : 1586 : Manikan, Ruby


I grew up wanting to be Nelson Riddle.
Barry Manilow : 9506 : Manilow, Barry


If foreign policy is conducted by those who consider the moral dimension an irritant, if not an obstacle, we should not be surprised by the victory of our enemy.
Christopher Manion : 8206 : Manion, Christopher


If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
Herbie Mann : 7339 : Mann, Herbie


The object of punishment is prevention from evil: it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace Mann : 877 : Mann, Horace


If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and seek truth, and he shall find both.
Horace Mann : 2165 : Mann, Horace


Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men.
Horace Mann : 6369 : Mann, Horace


False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann : 9431 : Mann, Horace


What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Louis L. Mann : 1191 : Mann, Louis L.


Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact; it is silence which isolates.
Thomas Mann : 1784 : Mann, Thomas


I shall have to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann : 1785 : Mann, Thomas


We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.
Thomas Mann : 2227 : Mann, Thomas


Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered throughout the course of hours.
Thomas Mann : 2803 : Mann, Thomas


There is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.
Thomas Mann : 5528 : Mann, Thomas


The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann : 7747 : Mann, Thomas


But self-examination, if it is thorough enough, is nearly always the first step towards change. I was to discover that no one who learns to know himself remains just what he was before.
Thomas Mann : 9949 : Mann, Thomas


It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
Thomas Mann : 10040 : Mann, Thomas


The suppression of civil liberties is to many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
Marya Mannes : 3123 : Mannes, Marya


The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya Mannes : 11566 : Mannes, Marya


If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
Jayne Mansfield : 10988 : Mansfield, Jayne


The hours that make us happy make us wise.
John Mansfield : 8776 : Mansfield, John


Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
Katherine Mansfield : 2297 : Mansfield, Katherine


If only one could tell true love from false love, as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Katherine Mansfield : 4457 : Mansfield, Katherine


How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.
Katherine Mansfield : 4672 : Mansfield, Katherine


The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield : 9137 : Mansfield, Katherine


Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.
Katherine Mansfield : 9999 : Mansfield, Katherine


Overheard in a diner: "I have a feeling he's about to pop the question. Last night he took me home to meet his computer."
Mickey Mansfield : 11555 : Mansfield, Mickey


You must always explain things frankly and explicitly to your lawyer... it is for him to embroil them afterward.
Alessandro Manzoni : 3748 : Manzoni, Alessandro


There's no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.
Jenna Marbles : 12520 : Marbles, Jenna


Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.
Elizabeth Marbury : 540 : Marbury, Elizabeth


Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.
Marcel Marceau : 3492 : Marceau, Marcel


Do not the most moving moments in our lives find us without words?
Marcel Marceau : 5329 : Marceau, Marcel


In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.
Marcel Marceau : 9280 : Marceau, Marcel


Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct.
Marcel Marceau : 11321 : Marceau, Marcel


People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos : 8617 : Marcos, Imelda


There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which individual freedom can develop.
Herbert Marcuse : 2697 : Marcuse, Herbert


The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their souls in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Herbert Marcuse : 3952 : Marcuse, Herbert


There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden : 6180 : Marden, Orison Swett


All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden : 7103 : Marden, Orison Swett


Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden : 8621 : Marden, Orison Swett


We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden : 10221 : Marden, Orison Swett


Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden : 13111 : Marden, Orison Swett


The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself.
Orison Swett Marden : 13117 : Marden, Orison Swett


The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.
Orson Swett Marden : 1399 : Marden, Orson Swett


A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Diane Mariechild : 11839 : Mariechild, Diane


You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris : 5406 : Maris, Roger


A coward flees backward, away from new things. A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain : 911 : Maritain, Jacques


What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:36 : 2868 : Mark 8:36


I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
Mary Ellen Mark : 9622 : Mark, Mary Ellen


In the family of continents, Africa is the silent brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight- errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
Beryl Markham : 251 : Markham, Beryl


Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.
Beryl Markham : 10010 : Markham, Beryl


For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear. When you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham : 7948 : Markham, Edwin


We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham : 11849 : Markham, Edwin


Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Edwin Markham : 13123 : Markham, Edwin


I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
Merrill Markoe : 1297 : Markoe, Merrill


It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!
Merrill Markoe : 8334 : Markoe, Merrill


Great cartoonists are like great athletes: Their talent dominates you. They get around and through your defenses and force you to play their game - to see through their eyes.
Doug Marlette : 8542 : Marlette, Doug


One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley : 10206 : Marley, Bob


Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob Marley : 11031 : Marley, Bob


Don't gain the world and lose your soul; Wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley : 12900 : Marley, Bob


Truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley : 13465 : Marley, Bob


Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe : 3633 : Marlowe, Christopher


It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hardworking ancestry.
John Phillips Marquand : 4960 : Marquand, John Phillips


Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez : 5963 : Marquez, Gabriel Garcia


Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues; always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis : 456 : Marquis, Don


Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis : 3743 : Marquis, Don


Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis : 4542 : Marquis, Don


Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis : 4996 : Marquis, Don


Bores bore each other too, but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis : 5287 : Marquis, Don


Don't cuss the climate; It probably doesn't like you any better than you like it.
Don Marquis : 5548 : Marquis, Don


If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading.
Don Marquis : 6012 : Marquis, Don


Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis : 9340 : Marquis, Don


It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
Don Marquis : 10457 : Marquis, Don


Young man, if she asks you if you like her hair that way, beware; the woman has already committed matrimony in her heart.
Don Marquis : 11938 : Marquis, Don


How I dislike "Technicolor," which suffuses everything with stale mustard.
Edward Marsh : 10108 : Marsh, Edward


The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh : 11317 : Marsh, Mary


You may write your term papers in any manner you choose, only, please observe the copyright laws.
Prof. F. G. Marsh : 1471 : Marsh, Prof. F. G.


Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
Alfred Marshall : 13362 : Marshall, Alfred


I cannot help being happy. I've struggled against it but to no good. Apart from an odd five minutes here and there, I have been happy all my life.
Arthur Marshall : 8232 : Marshall, Arthur


When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
Gen. George C. Marshall : 2569 : Marshall, Gen. George C.


Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall : 6818 : Marshall, Peter


Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall : 8148 : Marshall, Peter


A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall : 9104 : Marshall, Peter


If the first amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall : 1794 : Marshall, Thurgood


In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall : 13338 : Marshall, Thurgood


Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees.
Boris Marshalov : 9386 : Marshalov, Boris


Remember Babe Ruth and think about just one thing - hitting the ball.
Marston : 1270 : Marston


You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Ralph Marston : 9094 : Marston, Ralph


Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston : 12629 : Marston, Ralph


Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.
Ralph Marston : 12909 : Marston, Ralph


Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say; today's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
Martial : 1275 : Martial


There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
Martial : 2897 : Martial


I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
Dean Martin : 9473 : Martin, Dean


Two of the biggest turning points in my career: First, meeting Jerry Lewis; second, leaving Jerry Lewis.
Dean Martin : 10742 : Martin, Dean


The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Demetri Martin : 9856 : Martin, Demetri


In truth, they were never great collaborators in the sense of Rodgers and Hart. It was a competitive collaboration.
George Martin, on Lennon and McCartney : 8936 : Martin, George


A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
Judith Martin : 1067 : Martin, Judith


It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Miss Manners (Judith Martin) : 1311 : Martin, Judith


The cherry tomato is a marvelous invention, producing, as it does, a satisfactorily explosive squish when bitten.
Judith Martin : 4462 : Martin, Judith


The one prediction that never comes true is, "You'll thank me for telling you this."
Judith Martin : 5054 : Martin, Judith


What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show and Tell, and bullied out of any desire for privacy, is not democracy, it is kindergarten.
Judith Martin : 5904 : Martin, Judith


There is nothing so simple that it cannot be made difficult.
Merle P. Martin : 2909 : Martin, Merle P.


They wanted fifteen bucks a square yard for carpeting. I am not going to pay that. So what I did, I bought two square yards and when I go home I strap them to my feet.
Steve Martin : 1731 : Martin, Steve


I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin : 4862 : Martin, Steve


All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
Steve Martin : 9807 : Martin, Steve


I have a garden of my own, but so with roses overgrown, and lilies, that you would it guess, to be a little wilderness.
Andrew Marvell : 10706 : Marvell, Andrew


If your home burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.
Lee Marvin : 10527 : Marvin, Lee


I wasn't kissing her, I was just whispering in her mouth.
Chico Marx : 370 : Marx, Chico


I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
Groucho Marx : 761 : Marx, Groucho


Pardon me, ma'am, I thought you were a guy I know in Pittsburgh.
Groucho Marx : 762 : Marx, Groucho


She got her good looks from her father; he's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx : 763 : Marx, Groucho


I was so long in writing the review that I never got around to reading the book.
Groucho Marx : 764 : Marx, Groucho


Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and misapplying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx : 765 : Marx, Groucho


Age is not particularly interesting. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx : 2454 : Marx, Groucho


The man who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx : 3212 : Marx, Groucho


My mother loved children. she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx : 5509 : Marx, Groucho


A moose is an animal with horns on the front of his head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it.
Groucho Marx : 6379 : Marx, Groucho


I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
Groucho Marx : 6621 : Marx, Groucho


Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx : 6714 : Marx, Groucho


I never forget a face, but in your case, I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx : 6759 : Marx, Groucho


Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx : 7030 : Marx, Groucho


I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx : 7066 : Marx, Groucho


Go, and never darken my towels again.
Groucho Marx : 7093 : Marx, Groucho


Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx : 7377 : Marx, Groucho


There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "Yes," you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx : 9734 : Marx, Groucho


Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx : 12066 : Marx, Groucho


I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx : 12741 : Marx, Groucho


I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx : 13507 : Marx, Groucho


If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.
Groucho Marx : 13528 : Marx, Groucho


He was a man of principle. He never sponged off anybody he didn't admire.
Harpo Marx, on Oscar Levant : 8696 : Marx, Harpo


Unchanging work at a uniform task kills the explosive flow of a man's animal spirits, which draw refreshing zest from a simple change of activity.
Karl Marx : 10410 : Marx, Karl


Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx (author is in dispute - no authoritative answer found yet) : 11118 : Marx, Karl


Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx : 11378 : Marx, Karl


All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield : 9832 : Masefield, John


If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Abraham Maslow : 11778 : Maslow, Abraham


In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow : 12933 : Maslow, Abraham


If a man is not content in the state he is in, he will not be content in the state he would be in.
Erskine Mason : 3724 : Mason, Erskine


Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason : 2494 : Mason, Jackie


It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason : 4449 : Mason, Jackie


The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his first friend.
Marsha Mason : 1268 : Mason, Marsha


The sum of all that makes a man happy consists in the well choosing of his wife.
Massinger : 1283 : Massinger


It is impossible to remain silent in the face of tyranny without, by this very act of silence becoming an agent of that tyranny.
Jeffrey Masson : 6591 : Masson, Jeffrey


There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Tom Masson : 1797 : Masson, Tom


Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give some people.
Tom Masson : 10130 : Masson, Tom


In the West, the past is very close. In many places, it still believes it's the present.
John Masters : 10775 : Masters, John


There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for b
Bat Masterson (last words found on his typewriter after he died while writing his last newspaper column) : 3731 : Masterson, Bat


There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
Bat Masterson : 4164 : Masterson, Bat


A man is too apt to forget that in this world, he cannot have everything. a choice is all that is left.
Harry Mathews : 5504 : Mathews, Harry


He comes on like a cross between a toreador and Miss World. Shortly after he opens his mouth, any critical response leaps into the foxhole.
Paul Mathur, On David Lee Roth : 1436 : Mathur, Paul


I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henry Matisse : 4101 : Matisse, Henri


I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
Henri Matisse : 7682 : Matisse, Henri


There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse : 8125 : Matisse, Henri


Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse : 8670 : Matisse, Henri


There is an inherent truth which must be disengaged from the outward appearance of the object to be represented. This is the only truth that matters. Exactitude is not truth.
Henri Matisse : 8892 : Matisse, Henri


When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
Leonard Matlovich : 2753 : Matlovich, Leonard


The dying process begins the minute we ae born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
Carol Matthau : 11760 : Matthau, Carol


Every door that swings wide for you has somebody on the other side opening it.
Chris Matthews : 12019 : Matthews, Chris


There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
Reginald Maudling : 2863 : Maudling, Reginald


It is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge others, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.
Somerset Maugham : 1673 : Maugham, W. Somerset


It is recommended for your soul's sake to do each day two things you dislike. It is a precept that I have followed scrupulously. For every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
Somerset Maugham : 1674 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
W. Somerset Maugham : 1851 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham : 1852 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
W. Somerset Maugham : 1853 : Maugham, W. Somerset


People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.
W. Somerset Maugham : 1854 : Maugham, W. Somerset


At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham : 1855 : Maugham, W. Somerset


There are few minds in a century that can look upon a new idea without terror. Fortunately for the rest of us, there are very few new ideas about.
W. Somerset Maugham : 2265 : Maugham, W. Somerset


The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham : 2664 : Maugham, W. Somerset


There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Somerset Maugham : 3288 : Maugham, W. Somerset


From the standpoint of pure reason, there are no good grounds to support the claim that one should sacrifice one's own happiness to that of others.
W. Somerset Maugham : 3395 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham : 3449 : Maugham, W. Somerset


The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. Somerset Maugham : 4551 : Maugham, W. Somerset


The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham : 4737 : Maugham, W. Somerset


I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
Somerset Maugham : 4776 : Maugham, W. Somerset


But old age can have its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham : 4959 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Mrs. Carey thought there were only four professions for a gentleman: the Army, the Navy, the Law, and the Church. She had added medicine, but did not forget that in her young days no one ever considered the doctor a gentleman.
Somerset Maugham : 5175 : Maugham, W. Somerset


The trouble with our younger writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham : 5348 : Maugham, W. Somerset


If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
W. Somerset Maugham : 5916 : Maugham, W. Somerset


I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. Somerset Maugham : 6321 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Somerset Maugham : 6457 : Maugham, W. Somerset


He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. Somerset Maugham : 6647 : Maugham, W. Somerset


She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham : 6712 : Maugham, W. Somerset


The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
W. Somerset Maugham : 6934 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham : 7003 : Maugham, W. Somerset


There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham : 7041 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the comer.
W. Somerset Maugham : 7042 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
W. Somerset Maugham : 7372 : Maugham, W. Somerset


There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
W. Somerset Maugham : 7868 : Maugham, W. Somerset


The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham : 8126 : Maugham, W. Somerset


There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish; to bewail it, senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham : 8562 : Maugham, W. Somerset


A good hairdresser can express every mood and every passion of the human heart.
W. Somerset Maugham : 8792 : Maugham, W. Somerset


I'll give you my opinion of the human race: Their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
Somerset Maugham : 8949 : Maugham, W. Somerset


If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham : 9448 : Maugham, W. Somerset


You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. Somerset Maugham : 10300 : Maugham, W. Somerset


The ideal has many names, and Beauty is but one of them.
W. Somerset Maugham : 10545 : Maugham, W. Somerset


Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
W. Somerset Maugham : 10771 : Maugham, W. Somerset


I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels written.
Somerset Maugham : 11226 : Maugham, W. Somerset


You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
William Somerset Maugham : 11841 : Maugham, W. Somerset


People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham : 12052 : Maugham, W. Somerset


It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
Somerset Maugham : 12816 : Maugham, W. Somerset


We owe to the middle ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
Andre Maurois : 93 : Maurois, Andre


Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois : 94 : Maurois, Andre


The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
Andre Maurois : 95 : Maurois, Andre


Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois : 96 : Maurois, Andre


A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois : 97 : Maurois, Andre


You don't love a woman for what she says, but love what she says because you love her.
Andre Maurois : 98 : Maurois, Andre


The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Andre Maurois : 99 : Maurois, Andre


Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois : 2123 : Maurois, Andre


To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois : 2585 : Maurois, Andre


In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois : 3344 : Maurois, Andre


Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois : 9921 : Maurois, Andre


A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois : 11766 : Maurois, Andre


I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
Elsa Maxwell : 546 : Maxwell, Elsa


Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being boring.
Elsa Maxwell : 547 : Maxwell, Elsa


No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida S. Maxwell : 4445 : Maxwell, Florida S.


A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C. Maxwell : 10021 : Maxwell, John C.


We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
Neal A. Maxwell : 12947 : Maxwell, Neal Ash


The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
Elaine May : 6586 : May, Elaine


Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
Gerald May : 8708 : May, Gerald


It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May : 8854 : May, Rollo


The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May : 12536 : May, Rollo


I voted for the Democrats because I didn't like the way the Republicans were running the country. Which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache.
Jack Mayberry : 5708 : Mayberry, Jack


Physics is puzzle-solving, puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.
Maria Goeppert Mayer : 6442 : Mayer, Maria Goeppert


Good health is an essential to happiness, and happiness is an essential to good citizenship.
Charles H. Mayo : 4549 : Mayo, Charles H.


Do whatever you do so well that no man living and no man yet unborn could do it better.
Benjamin Mays : 2610 : Mays, Benjamin E.


The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
Benjamin E. Mays : 9646 : Mays, Benjamin E.


We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
Benjamin Mays : 10360 : Mays, Benjamin E.


It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays : 2824 : Mays, Willie


A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister : 3925 : McAllister, Ward


An old dog can learn new tricks. If your enthusiasm has lost its vitality, do everything possible to revive it.
Don Mcart : 13122 : Mcart, Don


A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter McArthur : 3918 : McArthur, Peter


I liked rain. The hiss of the water and the earth so soft bright green plants would nearly sprout beside you.
Patrick McCabe : 3538 : McCabe, Patrick


We should not wrap ourselves in a banner of so-called principle when we are really concerned only with economic advantage.
J. L. McCaffrey : 5196 : McCaffrey, J. L.


Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history, we make history.
Sen. John McCain : 5879 : McCain, John


If Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people, Hollywood is a Washington for the simple-minded.
John McCain : 6977 : McCain, John


The best thing about getting old is that all the things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.
L. S. McCandless : 9379 : McCandless, L. S.


You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac Mccarthy : 11860 : McCarthy, Cormac


You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Cormac Mccarthy : 12083 : McCarthy, Cormac


They were at their wits; end, and it hadn't taken them long to get there.
Desmond McCarthy : 2862 : McCarthy, Desmond


There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
Mary McCarthy : 1281 : McCarthy, Mary


People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthy : 5135 : McCarthy, Mary


An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Mary McCarthy : 10688 : McCarthy, Mary


For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.
Mary McCarthy : 11866 : McCarthy, Mary


The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
Paul McCartney : 1437 : McCartney, Paul


Ballads and babies. That's what happened to me.
Paul McCartney : 3586 : McCartney, Paul


Pop music is the classical music of now.
Paul McCartney : 3636 : McCartney, Paul


If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney : 6732 : McCartney, Paul


All you need is love is basically the message of the "Yellow Submarine" movie. I think that is still what people need.
Paul McCartney : 10030 : McCartney, Paul


A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
Paul McCartney : 11270 : McCartney, Paul


Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
Stella Mccartney : 13393 : Mccartney, Stella


Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan : 9489 : McClanahan, Rue


Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Mac McCleary : 4024 : McCleary, Mac


Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it.
Mark McClinchie : 9381 : McClinchie, Mark


Every time I walk on grass, I feel sorry because I know the grass is screaming at me.
Barbara McClintock : 12808 : McClintock, Barbara


I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey : 9911 : McCloskey, Robert


Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
Matthew McConaughey : 12859 : McConaughey, Matthew


Whatever punsishment does to a nation, it does not induce a sense of guilt.
Anne O'Hare McCormick : 3730 : McCormick, Anne O'Hare


Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
Frank McCourt : 8254 : McCourt, Frank


Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt : 4015 : McCourt, Malachy


The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
Elizabeth McCracken : 12568 : McCracken, Elizabeth


I had never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
Carson McCullers : 5985 : McCullers, Carson


There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
Carson McCullers : 7661 : McCullers, Carson


The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough : 3502 : McCullough, Colleen


A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David McCullough : 4826 : McCullough, David


There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.
Hattie McDaniel : 805 : McDaniel, Hattie


There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross McDonald : 5395 : McDonald, Ross


There is nothing wrong with California that the San Andreas fault cannot cure.
Ross McDonald : 10797 : McDonald, Ross


For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
William McElcheran : 3941 : McElcheran, William


The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
John McEnroe : 9822 : McEnroe, John


To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire : 12474 : McEntire, Reba


Her eyes, nose, mouth, skin, all might have been designed in committee to meet the barest requirements of feasibility.
Ian McEwan : 3547 : McEwan, Ian


Nostalgia is a longing for something you couldn't stand anymore.
Fibber McGee : 9816 : McGee, Fibber


One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill : 10883 : McGill, Bryant H.


A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, ripe on a plate. And while you live, relentlessly she understands you.
Phyllis McGinley : 1460 : McGinley, Phyllis


Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
Phyllis McGinley : 5900 : McGinley, Phyllis


Gossip isn't scandal and it isn't malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Phyllis McGinley : 7978 : McGinley, Phyllis


There are some books one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come upon too late to savor.
Phyllis McGinley : 8625 : McGinley, Phyllis


The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned: freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.
Phyllis McGinley : 11491 : McGinley, Phyllis


I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt? The one who wins gets a purse. They do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love.
John McGivern : 8529 : McGivern, John


If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion, ... you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
Jane McGonigal : 11162 : McGonigal, Jane


I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
Elizabeth McGovern : 12283 : McGovern, Elizabeth


You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
George McGovern : 3789 : McGovern, George


I must admit, it would be nice if I had a few more exciting personal qualities than I do.
George McGovern : 5038 : McGovern, George


When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead - it takes people off my mind.
Tug McGraw : 2716 : McGraw, Tug


Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.
Tug McGraw : 9480 : McGraw, Tug


A team should be an extension of the coach's personality. My teams were arrogant and obnoxious.
Al McGuire : 9751 : McGuire, Al


Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
William McIlvanney : 6663 : McIlvanney, William


If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
Jean Asper McIntosh : 4309 : McIntosh, Jean Asper


Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight. Indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.
Jan McKeithen : 7584 : McKeithen, Jan


If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
Jan McKeithen : 8750 : McKeithen, Jan


Animation is not the art of drawings that move put rather the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren : 10957 : McLaren, Norman


The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.
Michael McLaughlin : 2057 : McLaughlin, Michael


Our strength is often composed of the weaknesses we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin : 1985 : McLaughlin, Mignon


There are a handful of people money won't spoil - and we count ourselves among them.
Mignon McLaughlin : 2817 : McLaughlin, Mignon


It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin : 4040 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Mignon McLaughlin : 4057 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
Mignon McLaughlin : 4120 : McLaughlin, Mignon


If an article is attractive, or useful or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
Mignon McLaughlin : 4219 : McLaughlin, Mignon


In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin : 4313 : McLaughlin, Mignon


True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
Mignon McLaughlin : 4358 : McLaughlin, Mignon


I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
Mignon McLaughlin : 4726 : McLaughlin, Mignon


There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
Mignon McLaughlin : 5214 : McLaughlin, Mignon


There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin : 6049 : McLaughlin, Mignon


It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin : 6503 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Marriage represents the intervention of the state in a love affair which probably wasn't going too well anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin : 7274 : McLaughlin, Mignon


It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Mignon McLaughlin : 7300 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin : 8499 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
Mignon McLaughlin : 8827 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
Mignon McLaughlin : 9689 : McLaughlin, Mignon


You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Mignon McLaughlin : 9749 : McLaughlin, Mignon


What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin : 10185 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Mignon Mclaughlin : 11448 : Mclaughlin, Mignon


A car is useless in Now York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin : 11618 : McLaughlin, Mignon


If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
Mignon McLaughlin : 12000 : McLaughlin, Mignon


Every thread of creation is held in position, by still other strands of things living.
Don Mclean (from Tapestry") : 12530 : Mclean, Don


What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.
Vern McLellan : 11415 : McLellan, Vern


There are no passengers on spaceship earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan : 1269 : McLuhan, Marshall


The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound.
Marshall McLuhan : 2348 : McLuhan, Marshall


Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan : 3337 : McLuhan, Marshall


For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan : 3462 : McLuhan, Marshall


Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Marshall McLuhan : 3529 : McLuhan, Marshall


What disqualifies war from being a true game is probably what also disqualifies the stock market and business - the rules are not fully known nor accepted by all the players.
Marshall McLuhan : 6576 : McLuhan, Marshall


Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it, but ahead of it.
Marshall McLuhan : 8445 : McLuhan, Marshall


The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan : 9546 : McLuhan, Marshall


The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
Marshall McLuhan : 10365 : McLuhan, Marshall


Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Tim McMahon : 4318 : McMahon, Tim


We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy - doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
Terry McMillan : 1757 : McMillan, Terry


Can't nothin' make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Terry McMillan : 8375 : McMillan, Terry


He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
John McPhee : 9481 : McPhee, John


I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.
Lucy McRae : 10667 : McRae, Lucy


I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.
Michael McShane : 5704 : McShane, Michael


We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead : 1225 : Mead, Margaret


I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead : 1226 : Mead, Margaret


Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead : 1227 : Mead, Margaret


Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that has.
Margaret Mead : 2538 : Mead, Margaret


Other people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what yo
Margaret Mead : 5623 : Mead, Margaret


The need to find meaning in the universe is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
Margaret Mead : 6005 : Mead, Margaret


If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead : 6247 : Mead, Margaret


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Margaret Mead : 6564 : Mead, Margaret


I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind - which was also his mother's - I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
Margaret Mead : 7511 : Mead, Margaret


A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead : 7828 : Mead, Margaret


Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
Margaret Mead : 8384 : Mead, Margaret


Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead : 9992 : Mead, Margaret


The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
Margaret Mead : 10340 : Mead, Margaret


Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead : 13508 : Mead, Margaret


If we want to make something really superb of this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.
Shepherd Mead : 11593 : Mead, Shepherd


In sport you either get tremendous fulfillment or tremendous disappointment. Nothing else in life is so cut and dried.
Richard Meade : 11248 : Meade, Richard


I've been doing the Fonda Workout: the Peter Fonda Workout. That's where I wake up, take a hit of acid, smoke a joint, and go to my sister's house and ask her for money.
Kevin Meaney : 5697 : Meaney, Kevin


To finish first, you must first finish.
Rick Mears : 9131 : Mears, Rick


The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein - it rejects it.
Peter Medawar : 3174 : Medawar, Peter


A judge is surrounded by people who keep telling hem what a wonderful fellow he is. And if he once begins to believe it, he is a lost soul.
Harold R. Medina : 2288 : Medina, Harold R.


Nothing in life just happens. You have to have the stamina to meet the obstacles and overcome them.
Golda Meir : 747 : Meir, Golda


One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir : 4775 : Meir, Golda


It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
Golda Meir : 7311 : Meir, Golda


Moses dragged us for forty years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.
Golda Meir : 8277 : Meir, Golda


Don't be humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir : 10175 : Meir, Golda


Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir : 12007 : Meir, Golda


Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir : 12403 : Meir, Golda


Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.
Lise Meitner : 9487 : Meitner, Lise


Before filling your wheelbarrow, point it in the direction you intend to go.
B. A. Mello : 9171 : Mello, B. A.


Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Bernard Meltzer : 6859 : Meltzer, Bernard


We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
Bernard Meltzer : 13065 : Meltzer, Bernard


There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Bernard Meltzer : 13142 : Meltzer, Bernard


Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer : 13153 : Meltzer, Bernard


A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
Herman Melville : 867 : Melville, Herman


We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and the come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville : 2230 : Melville, Herman


What plays mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Herman Melville : 2317 : Melville, Herman


He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
Herman Melville : 3319 : Melville, Herman


The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
Herman Melville : 4160 : Melville, Herman


A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Herman Melville : 6158 : Melville, Herman


It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville : 8743 : Melville, Herman


Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville : 9850 : Melville, Herman


The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
Herman Melville : 12502 : Melville, Herman


No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Herman Melville : 12507 : Melville, Herman


To live is not to live for one's self alone; let us help one another.
Menander : 2063 : Menander


A man's character is revealed by his speech.
Menander : 8404 : Menander


Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
Mencius : 1296 : Mencius


I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
H. L. Mencken : 774 : Mencken, H. L.


Most philosophical treatises show the human cerebrum loaded far beyond its plimsoll mark.
H. L. Mencken : 775 : Mencken, H. L.


The talk of small boys among themselves consists almost entirely of boasting.
H. L. Mencken : 776 : Mencken, H. L.


Love is based on a view of women that is impossible to those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken : 777 : Mencken, H. L.


Every man sees in his relatives a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken : 778 : Mencken, H. L.


Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken : 779 : Mencken, H. L.


High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.
H. L. Mencken : 780 : Mencken, H. L.


Some politicians, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken : 781 : Mencken, H. L.


Metaphysics: an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
H. L. Mencken : 782 : Mencken, H. L.


Self-respect. The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken : 2071 : Mencken, H. L.


Any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
H. L. Mencken : 2176 : Mencken, H. L.


It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken : 2774 : Mencken, H. L.


I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived.
H. L. Mencken : 3232 : Mencken, H. L.


No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
H. L. Mencken : 3475 : Mencken, H. L.


Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken : 3503 : Mencken, H. L.


Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
H. L. Mencken : 3561 : Mencken, H. L.


A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken : 3685 : Mencken, H. L.


It takes as much time to breed a libertarian as it takes to breed a race horse.
H. L. Mencken : 3751 : Mencken, H. L.


Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken : 3957 : Mencken, H. L.


For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken : 4008 : Mencken, H. L.


'Tis more blessed to give than to receive; for example, wedding presents
H. L. Mencken : 4492 : Mencken, H. L.


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken : 5164 : Mencken, H. L.


Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken : 5347 : Mencken, H. L.


We are here, and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken : 5360 : Mencken, H. L.


If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken : 5663 : Mencken, H. L.


The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken : 5664 : Mencken, H. L.


Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken : 6367 : Mencken, H. L.


Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken : 6805 : Mencken, H. L.


The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
H. L. Mencken : 6914 : Mencken, H. L.


I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken : 6967 : Mencken, H. L.


A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H. L. Mencken : 7028 : Mencken, H. L.


It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken : 7332 : Mencken, H. L.


A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken : 7366 : Mencken, H. L.


The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken : 7662 : Mencken, H. L.


It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. Mencken : 8799 : Mencken, H. L.


A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.
H. L. Mencken : 8928 : Mencken, H. L.


The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken : 9299 : Mencken, H. L.


The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; If it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken : 9905 : Mencken, H. L.


Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently - and a good half of it is palpably useless.
H. L. Mencken : 9942 : Mencken, H. L.


Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
H. L. Mencken : 10448 : Mencken, H. L.


Love's like war: easy to begin but hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken : 10567 : Mencken, H. L.


Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. Mencken : 11356 : Mencken, H. L.


The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek; not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.
H. L. Mencken : 11419 : Mencken, H. L.


The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.
H. L. Mencken : 11500 : Mencken, H. L.


Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
John Mendoza : 5710 : Mendoza, John


If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?
John Mendoza : 5735 : Mendoza, John


Attitudes are more important than facts.
Karl Menninger : 8100 : Menninger, Karl A.


Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger : 12589 : Menninger, Karl A.


I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
Rick Mercer : 9898 : Mercer, Rick


Sitting has become the smoking of our generation.
Nilofer Merchant : 12981 : Merchant, Nilofer


Rock 'n' roll's a man's job, little brother.
Freddie Mercury, to Michael Jackson : 7048 : Mercury, Freddie


I always knew I was a star, and now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
Freddie Mercury : 8803 : Mercury, Freddie


When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury : 11013 : Mercury, Freddie


Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
James Meredith : 13453 : Meredith, James


Mary Martin is okay if you like talent.
Ethel Merman : 11379 : Merman, Ethel


Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to Broadway.
Ethel Merman : 12706 : Merman, Ethel


A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Cardinal Gaspard Mermillod : 12226 : Mermillod, Cardinal Gaspard


Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
Susan Scarf Merrell : 4176 : Merrell, Susan Scarf


It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick : 9101 : Merrick, David


There is no true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
Thomas Merton : 1786 : Merton, Thomas


What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
Thomas Merton : 2742 : Merton, Thomas


Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton : 5327 : Merton, Thomas


Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton : 8862 : Merton, Thomas


We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton : 11965 : Merton, Thomas


I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.
Lionel Messi : 12670 : Messi, Lionel


Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Pietro Metastasio : 6908 : Metastasio, Pietro


The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.
Elizabeth Metcalf : 12147 : Metcalf, Elizabeth


There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
Pat Metheny : 11926 : Metheny, Pat


Intuition: that strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
Methodist Reader : 1299 : Methodist Reader


Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
Abraham Meyerson : 4279 : Meyerson, Abraham


Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books - they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
Esther Meynell : 8276 : Meynell, Esther


Out of the belly-spasms of this frenzy-jammed country a brand-new voice sang out. It was the voice of jazz making itself heard above the rattle of machine guns and the clink of whiskey bottles.
Mezz Mezzrow : 4619 : Mezzrow, Mezz


I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning.
Daniel D. Mich : 417 : Mich, Daniel D.


Do you realize Beethoven composed all his music without ever having looked upon the sea?
Anne Michaels : 5044 : Michaels, Anne


Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo : 1304 : Michelangelo


It is only well with me when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo : 2636 : Michelangelo


I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.
Michelangelo : 3584 : Michelangelo


Recollect that trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo : 5130 : Michelangelo


If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful.
Michelangelo : 6979 : Michelangelo


There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo : 13387 : Michelangelo


My greatest inspiration is a challenge to attempt the impossible.
Albert A. Michelson : 2510 : Michelson, Albert A.


An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener : 8442 : Michener, James


Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
James Michener : 11767 : Michener, James


If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James Michener : 12410 : Michener, James


I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create a reasonably decent society.
James Michener : 12532 : Michener, James


What price do we pay when we risk-manage our lives into something safe, flat, and empty?
Lynnell Mickelson : 3177 : Mickelson, Lynnell


We need to help young people and their parents understand that it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help.
Kate Middleton : 13004 : Middleton, Kate


Charity is never lost: it may meet with ingratitude, or be of no service to those on whom it was bestowed, yet it ever does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of the giver.
Thomas Middleton : 1787 : Middleton, Thomas


Cherish forever what makes you unique, because you're really a yawn if it goes.
Bette Midler : 2020 : Midler, Bette


I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler : 4954 : Midler, Bette


Never despair because of your sins. Counterbalance them now with many good deeds.
Midrash : 2872 : Midrash


America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
Barbara Ann Mikulski : 12190 : Mikulski, Barbara Ann


Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Barbara Ann Mikulski : 12251 : Mikulski, Barbara Ann


Fear is like fire: If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you.
John F. Milburn : 7298 : Milburn, John F.


Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
John F. Milburn : 9663 : Milburn, John F.


The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.
Harvey Milk : 5878 : Milk, Harvey


It takes no compromise to give people their rights ... It takes no money to respect the individual.
Harvey Milk : 13432 : Milk, Harvey


It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.
Harvey Milk : 13510 : Milk, Harvey


All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John Stuart Mill : 1021 : Mill, John Stuart


The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill : 1022 : Mill, John Stuart


A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.
John Stuart Mill : 2281 : Mill, John Stuart


Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill : 6356 : Mill, John Stuart


The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill : 6438 : Mill, John Stuart


One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill : 8157 : Mill, John Stuart


No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
John Stuart Mill : 10400 : Mill, John Stuart


In the human mind one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while the other rises.
John Stuart Mill : 11480 : Mill, John Stuart


Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
Margaret Millar : 1228 : Millar, Margaret


It's not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways.
Edna St. Vincent Millay : 4050 : Millay, Edna St. Vincent


Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
Edna St. Vincent Millay : 8286 : Millay, Edna St. Vincent


God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay : 8463 : Millay, Edna St. Vincent


Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink, nor slumber nor a roof against the rain: Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.
Edna St. Vincent Millay : 9341 : Millay, Edna St. Vincent


I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of Geometry.
Edna St. Vincent Millay : 9955 : Millay, Edna St. Vincent


The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay : 12605 : Millay, Edna St. Vincent


Life is a quest and love a quarrel. Here is a place for me to lie.
Edna St. Vincent Millay : 12940 : Millay, Edna St. Vincent


Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
Susanne Millen : 7147 : Millen, Susann


Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
Arthur Miller : 177 : Miller, Arthur


The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
Arthur Miller : 3508 : Miller, Arthur


Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller : 9518 : Miller, Arthur


A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller : 11669 : Miller, Arthur


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley Miller : 13493 : Miller, Bradley


I don't know why people complain about secondhand smoke. At nearly three dollars a pack, don't they realize how much money they're saving?
Dennis Miller : 6284 : Miller, Dennis


As of yet there have been no deaths attributed to the killer bees in Texas. However, two bees were caught this week planning a murder.
Dennis Miller : 7251 : Miller, Dennis


There is the challenge of self-control, of calculating coolness and unshakability in the face of wildly fluctuating fortunes and the mercilessness of chance. Gambling, more than any other test of "grace under pressure" besides actual combat - puts it on t
Don Ethan Miller : 449 : Miller, Don Ethan


Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.
Emily Miller : 3230 : Miller, Emily


Rainy days are when mother's little jewels are only semiprecious.
Floyd R. Miller : 11660 : Miller, Floyd R.


The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again.
George Miller : 4476 : Miller, George


Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious.
Henry Miller : 849 : Miller, Henry


One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller : 850 : Miller, Henry


Man will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality.
Henry Miller : 851 : Miller, Henry


We create our fate every day; most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller : 2751 : Miller, Henry


A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
Henry Miller : 3352 : Miller, Henry


I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Henry Miller : 4049 : Miller, Henry


Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Henry Miller : 6488 : Miller, Henry


The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Henry Miller : 6600 : Miller, Henry


If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller : 7649 : Miller, Henry


The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller : 8723 : Miller, Henry


Who is original? Everything that we are doing, everything that we think, exists already, and we are only intermediaries, that's all, who make use of what is in the air.
Henry Miller : 9291 : Miller, Henry


I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller : 9472 : Miller, Henry


Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller : 10455 : Miller, Henry


It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry Miller : 11229 : Miller, Henry


What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Henry Miller : 11586 : Miller, Henry


The sky is full of tokens that speak to the intelligent.
Hugh Miller : 5149 : Miller, Hugh


The road to success is always under construction.
Jim Miller : 5160 : Miller, Jim


That man who lives for self alone lives for the meanest mortal known.
Joaquin Miller : 3853 : Miller, Joaquin


Your precious moments are the times when you can be alone.
John Miller : 5471 : Miller, John


If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John R. Miller : 2960 : Miller, John R.


I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
Jonathan Miller : 11318 : Miller, Jonathan


I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was, "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?"
Larry Miller : 5729 : Miller, Larry


If there's "always room at the top," why is there so much shoving going on up there?
Olin Miller : 9773 : Miller, Olin


One of the heaviest burdens a person can carry is a chip on his shoulder.
Olin Miller : 10122 : Miller, Olin


Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.
Roger Miller : 8765 : Miller, Roger


All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. -- Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan : 1721 : Milligan, Spike


Well, we can't stand around here doing nothing, people will think we're workingmen.
Spike Milligan : 9048 : Milligan, Spike


Money can't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan : 9475 : Milligan, Spike


Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.
Dan Millman : 8748 : Millman, Dan


My life is a gift to me from my Creator. What I do with my life is my gift back to the Creator.
Billy Mills : 3478 : Mills, Billy


Status refers to the amounts of deference received.
C. Wright Mills : 7374 : Mills, C. Wright


Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
C. Wright Mills : 11218 : Mills, C. Wright


Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne : 1 : Milne, A. A.


The art of giving presents is to give something which others cannot buy for themselves.
A. A. Milne : 2 : Milne, A. A.


Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. Milne : 2326 : Milne, A. A.


One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne : 2599 : Milne, A. A.


It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
A. A. Milne : 3428 : Milne, A. A.


Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
A. A. Milne : 4401 : Milne, A. A.


When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
A. A. Milne : 4628 : Milne, A. A.


The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne : 8172 : Milne, A. A.


She turned to the sunlight; and shook her yellow head, and whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead."
A. A. Milne : 11703 : Milne, A. A.


Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. Milne : 11757 : Milne, A. A.


Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne : 12634 : Milne, A. A.


The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here's to October.
A. A. Milne : 12850 : Milne, A. A.


Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. Milne : 13163 : Milne, A. A.


In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Czeslaw Milosz : 3196 : Milosz, Czeslaw


Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton : 2107 : Milton, John


A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton : 2424 : Milton, John


None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton : 2621 : Milton, John


His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command.
John Milton : 5314 : Milton, John


What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
John Milton : 7383 : Milton, John


Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
John Milton : 8201 : Milton, John


English is the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty.
John Milton : 9429 : Milton, John


He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a king.
Milton : 11006 : Milton, John


Fear and dull disposition, lukewarmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of Moderation.
John Milton : 11236 : Milton, John


When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
Nicki Minaj : 11807 : Minaj, Nicki


I just want women to always feel in control. Because we're capable, we're so capable.
Nicki Minaj : 13032 : Minaj, Nicki


Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.
Valerie Miner : 1822 : Miner, Valerie


When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
Deng Ming-Dao : 7555 : Ming-Dao, Deng


In my music I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
Charles Mingus : 6849 : Mingus, Charles


Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
Marvin Minksy : 4765 : Minksy, Marvin


Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli : 11380 : Minnelli, Liza


The only way anybody'd get me to work was to make the hours from one to two with an hour off for lunch.
Minnesota Fats : 2756 : Minnesota Fats


The lowest pool hustler in the business is four times more respectable than some of those humbugs in Washington.
Minnesota Fats : 6338 : Minnesota Fats


When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
Newton Minow : 3548 : Minow, Newton


Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
Sakyong Mipham : 9225 : Mipham, Sakyong


I'm a firm believer in, once you start chasing awards, they go away.
Lin-Manuel Miranda : 12489 : Miranda, Lin-Manuel


The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro : 12978 : Miro, Joan


When you do Shakespeare they think you must be intelligent because they think you understand what you're saying.
Helen Mirren : 8287 : Mirren, Helen


When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time, except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.
Miss Piggy : 1312 : Miss Piggy


There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
D. G. Mitchell : 2146 : Mitchell, D. G.


Peace, political stability, and reconciliation are not too much to ask for. They are the minimum that a decent society provides.
George Mitchell : 5969 : Mitchell, George


All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
Henry Mitchell : 10125 : Mitchell, Henry


The true time to assist a plant that can be hurt by cold is before you plant it.
Henry Mitchell : 12952 : Mitchell, Henry


It's up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet.
Jeffrey Mitchell : 10293 : Mitchell, Jeffrey


Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us.
John Mitchell : 8497 : Mitchell, John


To see teenagers sitting around trying to solve the problems of the world, I figured, all things considered, I'd rather be dancing.
Joni Mitchell : 5951 : Mitchell, Joni


It has been said that a careful reading of "Anna Karenina," if it teaches you nothing else, will teach you how to make strawberry jam.
Julian Mitchell : 5945 : Mitchell, Julian


If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
Langdon Mitchell : 5213 : Mitchell, Langdon


There are so many New Yorks that you can always find the special one that fits your special pattern.
Lucy Sprague Mitchell : 10055 : Mitchell, Lucy Sprague


Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Margaret Mitchell : 3429 : Mitchell, Margaret


What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Margaret Mitchell : 7215 : Mitchell, Margaret


Death and taxes and childbirth: There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell : 10505 : Mitchell, Margaret


Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell : 12115 : Mitchell, Margaret


When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
Maria Mitchell : 12153 : Mitchell, Maria


One of the greatest starts that ever lived was Rin Tin Tin, so there can't be too much of a trick to it.
Robert Mitchum : 2763 : Mitchum, Robert


Only difference between me and other actors is I've spent more time in jail.
Robert Mitchum : 6727 : Mitchum, Robert


Things on the whole are much faster in America. People don't "stand for election"; they "run for office."
Jessica Mitford : 2560 : Mitford, Jessica


We should cherish kind wishes for a time may come when we may be able to put them in practice.
Mary R. Mitford : 1963 : Mitford, Mary R.


An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Nancy Mitford : 2703 : Mitford, Nancy


I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is "White Fang." It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Nancy Mitford : 3471 : Mitford, Nancy


He turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of "War and Peace" and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang, on Lyndon B. Johnson : 9643 : Mitgang, Herbert


We must embrace pain and bum it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa : 4410 : Miyazawa, Kenji


Popularity is exhausting: the life of the party always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Wilson Mizner : 1931 : Mizner, Wilson


He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
Wilson Mizner : 1932 : Mizner, Wilson


There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
Wilson Mizner : 4543 : Mizner, Wilson


A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him of what he meant.
Wilson Mizner : 4974 : Mizner, Wilson


Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it just in time.
Wilson Mizner : 6072 : Mizner, Wilson


If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner : 7413 : Mizner, Wilson


It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Wilson Mizner : 9300 : Mizner, Wilson


There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
Wilson Mizner : 13021 : Mizner, Wilson


We need - and should encourage and honor - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.
Walter Moberly : 4224 : Moberly, Walter


Confidence can change anyone's lifestyle for the better. All you have to do is believe you're a winner, and the world will get along better with you.
Mary Ann Mobley : 9984 : Mobley, Mary Ann


You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.
Deborah Moggach : 10687 : Moggach, Deborah


Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Moliere : 1316 : Moliere


The greater the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Moliere : 1317 : Moliere


Debts are nowadays like children... Begot with pleasure and brought forth with pain.
Moliere : 1318 : Moliere


In clothes as well as in speech, the man of taste will shun all these extremes that give offense.
Moliere : 2207 : Moliere


Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, follow the changes in the current taste.
Moliere : 2210 : Moliere


Almost all men die from their medicines and not from their illnesses.
Moliere : 3575 : Moliere


A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
Moliere : 4558 : Moliere


It's good food (and not fine word) that keeps me alive.
Moliere : 10841 : Moliere


Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
Moliere : 11304 : Moliere


Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
Moliere : 12056 : Moliere


It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere : 12704 : Moliere


I celebrate you as you remember the power of grace and pride, and I challenge you to choose freedom over fear.
Janelle Monae : 12756 : Monae, Janelle


You are only young once, but you can always be immature.
Pat Monahan : 10836 : Monahan, Pat


My mind's terrain has become exceedingly rough. Emotional scars are changing my internal geography faster than the mapmaker can keep pace. Wrong turns and dead ends abound, and I'm afraid someday I'll drown in a river I didn't know was there.
D. H. Mondfleur : 3869 : Mondfleur, D. H.


Nobody can count themselves an artist unless they can carry a picture in their head before they paint it.
Claude Monet : 3194 : Monet, Claude


Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world.
Bill Monroe : 12727 : Monroe, Bill


A little flattery will support a man through the great fatigue.
James Monroe : 932 : Monroe, James


I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe : 1243 : Monroe, Marilyn


A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe : 7433 : Monroe, Marilyn


I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe : 8029 : Monroe, Marilyn


I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe : 8457 : Monroe, Marilyn


Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.
Marilyn Monroe : 8507 : Monroe, Marilyn


I'm always running into people's unconscious.
Marilyn Monroe : 9499 : Monroe, Marilyn


To put it bluntly, I seem to be a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I am working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe : 9714 : Monroe, Marilyn


Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe : 10552 : Monroe, Marilyn


An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
Marilyn Monroe : 10685 : Monroe, Marilyn


Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe : 11276 : Monroe, Marilyn


Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe : 12137 : Monroe, Marilyn


Embrace your vulnerabilities, accept them, and forgive yourself.
Angelica Monroy : 13431 : Monroy, Angelica


Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Thomas S. Monson : 12107 : Monson, Thomas Spencer


The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
Ashley Montagu : 4597 : Montagu, Ashley


The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu : 11821 : Montagu, Ashley


The pretty fellows you speak of, I own, entertain me sometimes, but is it possible to be diverted with what one despises?
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : 1129 : Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley


More follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Mary Wortley Montagu : 4292 : Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley


A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.
Chris Montaigne : 4329 : Montaigne, Chris


Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
Michael Montaigne : 1302 : Montaigne, Michel De


Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel De Montaigne : 1303 : Montaigne, Michel De


We easily enough confess to others as to the advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty, but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.
Montaigne : 1319 : Montaigne, Michel De


Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of one's own.
Montaigne : 1320 : Montaigne, Michel De


Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen and I would starve.
Montaigne : 1321 : Montaigne, Michel De


When I play with my cat, who knows but that she regards me more as a plaything than I do her.
Montaigne : 1322 : Montaigne, Michel De


Any man may speak truly; but to speak with order, wisely, and competently, of that, few men are capable.
Montaigne : 1957 : Montaigne, Michel De


It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Montaigne : 2098 : Montaigne, Michel De


A Lacedaemonian was asked what had made him live healthy so long. "Ignorance of medicine," he replied.
Montaigne : 2791 : Montaigne, Michel De


If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
Montaigne : 4630 : Montaigne, Michel De


Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Montaigne : 4745 : Montaigne, Michel De


The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor causes a war betwixt princes.
Montaigne : 5176 : Montaigne, Michel De


If you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Montaigne : 5249 : Montaigne, Michel De


Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.
Montaigne : 7499 : Montaigne, Michel De


A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
Michel de Montaigne : 7526 : Montaigne, Michel De


Every man rushes elsewhere and into the future because no man has arrived at himself.
Montaigne : 7670 : Montaigne, Michel De


The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
Michel de Montaigne : 8044 : Montaigne, Michel De


The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne : 8713 : Montaigne, Michel De


The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne : 8785 : Montaigne, Michel De


The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
Michel de Montaigne : 9090 : Montaigne, Michel De


Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel De Montaigne : 9891 : Montaigne, Michel De


Ambition and curiosity are the two scourges of the soul: The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything; the former prevents our leaving anything in doubt or undecided.
Montaigne : 9957 : Montaigne, Michel De


Nothing so deeply imprints anything on our memory as the desire to forget it.
Montaigne : 11650 : Montaigne, Michel De


The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel De Montaigne : 12176 : Montaigne, Michel De


When looking for a job, tell the man what you can do for him, not how good you are.
Alfred A. Montapert : 62 : Montapert, Alfred A.


Don't discourage the other man's plans unless you have better ones to offer.
Alfred A. Montapert : 63 : Montapert, Alfred A.


Be a good listener; listen eighty-five percent of the time. Develop the art of listening.
A. A. Montapert : 5470 : Montapert, Alfred A.


Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert : 10228 : Montapert, Alfred A.


The wording of laws should mean the same thing to all men.
Montesquieu : 6126 : Montesquieu


If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.
Montesquieu : 8872 : Montesquieu


The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Montesquieu : 10796 : Montesquieu


If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Maria Montessori : 3236 : Montessori, Maria


Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are part of life's heritage.
Maria Montessori : 3238 : Montessori, Maria


Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; All politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori : 7169 : Montessori, Maria


The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori : 7899 : Montessori, Maria


The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
Maria Montessori : 9311 : Montessori, Maria


We need to be loved, and we need to give love. When we are thwarted in this, we suffer terribly.
G. H. Montgomery : 7303 : Montgomery, G. H.


Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire, that trembles in the breast.
James Montgomery : 9368 : Montgomery, James


It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
L. M. Montgomery : 1117 : Montgomery, Lucy Maud


Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L. M. Montgomery : 10976 : Montgomery, Lucy Maud


That is one good thing about this world - There are always sure to be more springs.
Lucy Maud Montgomery : 13476 : Montgomery, Lucy Maud


Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God! I could be eating a slow learner.
Lynda Montgomery : 5732 : Montgomery, Lynda


If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
Dwight L. Moody : 2033 : Moody, Dwight L.


God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Dwight L. Moody : 6791 : Moody, Dwight L.


The roaring street is hung for miles with fierce electric fire.
William Vaughan Moody, "In New York" : 4357 : Moody, William Vaughan


Drum solos are boring. Any kind of solo is. It detracts from the group identity.
Keith Moon : 5083 : Moon, Keith


To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
William Least Heat Moon : 2684 : Moon, William Least Heat


Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
William Least Heat Moon : 3413 : Moon, William Least Heat


So the years hang like old clothes, forgotten in the wardrobe of our minds. Did I wear that? Who was I then?
Brian Moore : 3500 : Moore, Brian


And the children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
Clement C. Moore : 9917 : Moore, Clement C.


'Twas the night before christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement C. Moore : 12123 : Moore, Clement C.


Contrary to the old belief, oil seems to be one of the principal causes of troubled waters.
Clyde Moore : 9759 : Moore, Clyde


'Tis now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Edward Moore : 11255 : Moore, Edward


I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.
F. Frankfort Moore : 3976 : Moore, F. Frankfort


A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
George Moore : 708 : Moore, George


Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
George Moore : 2334 : Moore, George


It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
George Moore : 3198 : Moore, George


I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
Grace Moore : 5226 : Moore, Grace


The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after we are in.
John H. Moore : 5242 : Moore, John H.


In many respects, Lucille Ball made television by giving real style and dimension to the genre we now call the sitcom.
Mary Tyler Moore : 9693 : Moore, Mary Tyler


I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
Roger Moore : 10860 : Moore, Roger


There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
T. Moore : 1745 : Moore, Thomas


What would the rose with all her pride be worth were there no sun to call her brightness forth?
Thomas Moore : 8321 : Moore, Thomas


Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid.
Thomas Moore : 11287 : Moore, Thomas


The personal is political. What seem to be "personal" problems of women have their roots in the political system which oppresses women.
Rosario Morales : 9322 : Morales, Rosario


The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
Hannah More : 796 : More, Hannah


Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More : 2011 : More, Hannah


Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
Hannah More : 6026 : More, Hannah


There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
Hannah More : 11909 : More, Hannah


Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas More : 3373 : More, Sir Thomas


It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the old crow loves his fledglings, and the ape his cubs.
Sir Thomas More : 3437 : More, Sir Thomas


They have no lawyers in Utopia, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
Sir Thomas More : 5201 : More, Sir Thomas


To age well it helps to have two things: fame and money.
Jeanne Moreau : 957 : Moreau, Jeanne


Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau : 9178 : Moreau, Jeanne


To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau : 11812 : Moreau, Jeanne


Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
Augustus de Morgan : 10704 : Morgan, Augustus de


A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it ... It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan : 9946 : Morgan, Edward P.


A man always has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan : 903 : Morgan, J. P.


I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
J. P. Morgan : 4580 : Morgan, J. P.


A man always has two reasons for doing something: A good reason, and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan : 10092 : Morgan, J. P.


In the United States, you say the customer is always right. In Japan, we say the customer is God. There is a big difference.
James Morgan, quoting a Japanese friend : 11886 : Morgan, James


Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan : 8143 : Morgan, Julia


Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
Robin Morgan : 1566 : Morgan, Robin


Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Morgan : 2880 : Morgan, Robin


If modern civilized man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
Christian Morgenstern : 11251 : Morgenstern, Christian


The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food.
Rhoda Morgenstern, In "Rhoda" : 1517 : Morgenstern, Rhoda


Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
H. J. Morgenthau : 3268 : Morgenthau, H. J.


America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else. History is like that, very chancy.
Samuel Eliot Morison : 2416 : Morison, Samuel Eliot


Man makes a great fuss about this planet, which is only a ball bearing in the hub of the universe.
Christopher Morley : 2360 : Morley, Christopher


A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
Christopher Morley : 3135 : Morley, Christopher


Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley : 4163 : Morley, Christopher


In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley : 4378 : Morley, Christopher


The greatest poem ever known is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, of being only four years old.
Christopher Morley : 4732 : Morley, Christopher


To many people, the word "God" is a formula on Sundays and an oath on weekdays.
Christopher Morley : 7004 : Morley, Christopher


When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley : 7738 : Morley, Christopher


There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley : 8721 : Morley, Christopher


It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
Christopher Morley : 9235 : Morley, Christopher


The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley : 9243 : Morley, Christopher


Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley : 11093 : Morley, Christopher


The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley : 12012 : Morley, Christopher


My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley : 12747 : Morley, Christopher


Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley : 13414 : Morley, Christopher


The next great task of Science is to create a religion for humanity.
John Morley : 2081 : Morley, John


Deeper than men's opinions are the sentiment and circumstances by which opinion is predetermined.
John Morley : 2780 : Morley, John


Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
John Morley : 8309 : Morley, John


I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.
Kenfield Morley : 3116 : Morley, Kenfield


What have I done to achieve longevity? Woken up each morning and tried to remember not to wear my hearing aid in the bath.
Robert Morley : 2427 : Morley, Robert


It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, it is absolutely essential. I genuinely like myself, and have no reason to believe that the feeling is not reciprocated.
Robert Morley : 2984 : Morley, Robert


There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama. Only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.
Sheridan Morley : 9928 : Morley, Sheridan


The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner.
Morris the Cat : 4934 : Morris the Cat


Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
Desmond Morris : 3294 : Morris, Desmond


Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jundle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris : 7440 : Morris, Desmond


Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
Desmond Morris : 9504 : Morris, Desmond


She made voluptuousness a common American commodity, as accessible as chewing gum.
Lloyd Morris, On Theda Bara : 1166 : Morris, Lloyd


Extreme wealth used to be a status symbol. Now you need it just to make ends meet.
Sam Morris : 9787 : Morris, Sam


Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris : 4335 : Morris, William


The only time I really open up is onstage. The mask of performing gives it to me, a place where I hide myself then I can reveal myself.
Jim Morrison : 8255 : Morrison, Jim


There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison : 9055 : Morrison, Jim


That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison : 9870 : Morrison, Jim


If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison : 10963 : Morrison, Jim


I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison : 12383 : Morrison, Jim


A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
Jim Morrison : 12878 : Morrison, Jim


The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.
Shiloh Morrison : 10295 : Morrison, Shiloh


American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
Toni Morrison : 2692 : Morrison, Toni


The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self. to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison : 6593 : Morrison, Toni


All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison : 6864 : Morrison, Toni


When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Toni Morrison : 8138 : Morrison, Toni


It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
Toni Morrison : 11003 : Morrison, Toni


If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison : 11388 : Morrison, Toni


Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison : 3624 : Morrison, Van


You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.
Steven Morrissey : 8459 : Morrissey, Steven


Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
Dwight Morrow : 3104 : Morrow, Dwight


If we build with wisdom, and with courage, and with patience, those that come after us will be helped by our work.
Dwight Morrow : 5610 : Morrow, Dwight


At school I never minded the lessons. I just resented having to work terribly hard at playing.
John Mortimer : 1010 : Mortimer, John


The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.
John Mortimer : 9263 : Mortimer, John


All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
John Mortimer : 10074 : Mortimer, John


There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer : 12965 : Mortimer, John


Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman : 3696 : Mortman, Doris


Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
Jelly Roll Morton : 960 : Morton, Jelly Roll


Imagination plays its part, too, in the game of pocket billiards, just as it does in any sport.
Willie Mosconi : 8317 : Mosconi, Willie


You can teach an elephant to dance, but the likelihood of its stepping on your toes is very high.
Gary Moss : 3526 : Moss, Gary


I didn't want to be rich. I just wanted to get the couch reupholstered.
Mrs. (Kate) Zero Mostel : 2548 : Mostel, Mrs. (Kate)


Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa : 1326 : Mother Teresa


Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa : 3306 : Mother Teresa


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa : 4033 : Mother Teresa


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa : 4304 : Mother Teresa


Love cannot remain by itself; it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
Mother Teresa : 6038 : Mother Teresa


We live surrounded by a sea of poverty. nevertheless, this sea can decrease in size.
Mother Teresa : 6826 : Mother Teresa


We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa : 7477 : Mother Teresa


Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa : 7839 : Mother Teresa


Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop.
Mother Teresa : 8426 : Mother Teresa


Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa : 8448 : Mother Teresa


The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa : 10318 : Mother Teresa


There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
Mother Teresa : 10386 : Mother Teresa


To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa : 10831 : Mother Teresa


I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa : 10875 : Mother Teresa


Let everyone sweep in front of his door and the whole world will be clean.
Mother Teresa : 11336 : Mother Teresa


God hasn't called me to be sccessful. He's called me to be faithful.
Mother Teresa : 12039 : Mother Teresa


Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa : 12142 : Mother Teresa


It is not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa : 13367 : Mother Teresa


Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it cannot appreciate it.
Lucretia Mott : 6343 : Mott, Lucretia


I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.
Lord Mountbatten : 2343 : Mountbatten, Lord


I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved a
Duke from the movie "The Notebook" : 3219 : Movie Quote


There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
Paul Scott Mowrer : 9276 : Mowrer, Paul Scott


Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is the essence of civilization. Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Bill Moyers : 3369 : Moyers, Bill


There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians. When bought, they stay bought.
Bill Moyers : 5035 : Moyers, Bill


Community is gathering around the fire and listening to someone tell us a story.
Bill Moyers : 8812 : Moyers, Bill


Once you decide to titillate instead of illuminate, you're on a slippery slope.
Bill Moyers : 10956 : Moyers, Bill


Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan : 8354 : Moynihan, Daniel Patrick


American women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.
Malcolm Muggeridge : 2979 : Muggeridge, Malcolm


The world is so overflowing with absurdity that it is difficult for the humorist to compete.
Malcolm Muggeridge : 10751 : Muggeridge, Malcolm


If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that i'm shortchanging myself.
Zanele Muholi : 13451 : Muholi, Zanele


The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
Frank Muir : 4474 : Muir, Frank


We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. Trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
John Muir : 4612 : Muir, John


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir : 4846 : Muir, John


In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir : 9608 : Muir, John


The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir : 9817 : Muir, John


When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir : 11728 : Muir, John


Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
John Muir : 12842 : Muir, John


The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers.
John Muir : 12966 : Muir, John


Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love.
Tom Mullen : 13194 : Mullen, Tom


A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller : 10274 : Muller, Max


I have among my purchases several original Mona Lisas and all painted (according to the signature) by the great artist Kodak.
Spike Mulligan : 4278 : Mulligan, Spike


What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.
Lewis Mumford : 2959 : Mumford, Lewis


More and more, our life has been governed by specialists, who know too little of what lies outside their province to be able to know enough about what takes place within it.
Lewis Mumford : 9260 : Mumford, Lewis


From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch : 7769 : Munch, Edvard


A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
H. H. Munro : 5986 : Munro, H. H.


A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. Munro : 10555 : Munro, H. H.


If you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.
Randall Munroe : 12751 : Munroe, Randall


A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself
Axel Munthe : 10209 : Munthe, Axel


Memories warm you up from the inside, but they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami : 11858 : Murakami, Haruki


Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch : 888 : Murdoch, Iris


A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Iris Murdoch : 6029 : Murdoch, Iris


Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch : 6694 : Murdoch, Iris


Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch : 6918 : Murdoch, Iris


One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
Iris Murdoch : 8377 : Murdoch, Iris


Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
Iris Murdoch : 9264 : Murdoch, Iris


A middling talent makes a more serene life.
Iris Murdoch : 10854 : Murdoch, Iris


There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken for granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch : 12151 : Murdoch, Iris


You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
Mike Murdock : 12276 : Murdock, Mike


Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
Murphy's Law : 10090 : Murphy's Law


Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
Sue Murphy : 5717 : Murphy, Sue


Middle age is when you're not inclined to exercise anything but caution.
Arthur Murray : 5117 : Murray, Arthur


I don't have to take this abuse from you. I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me.
Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman in "Ghostbusters" : 11228 : Murray, Bill


This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
Bill Murray as Phil Connors in "Groundhog Day" : 11440 : Murray, Bill


Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray : 7646 : Murray, Elizabeth


Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
Jim Murray : 3164 : Murray, Jim


I never bought an article of clothing because some famous athlete told me to, but then I never had a diamond in my ear, either.
Jim Murray : 9361 : Murray, Jim


A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people's minds for any length of time.
John Murray : 1011 : Murray, John


Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield : 11944 : Murray, William, Lord Mansfield


Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow : 9670 : Murrow, Edward R.


Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.
Edward R. Murrow : 10123 : Murrow, Edward R.


Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow : 10363 : Murrow, Edward R.


It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millennia.
Charles Muses : 9647 : Muses, Charles


The end of man is to let the spirit in him permeate his whole being, his soul, flesh, and affections. He attains his deepest self by losing his selfish ego.
Robert Musil : 11515 : Musil, Robert


When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk : 12219 : Musk, Elon


I'd like to dial it back five or ten percent and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.
Elon Musk : 13162 : Musk, Elon


Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Elon Musk : 13404 : Musk, Elon


In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund Muskie : 9746 : Muskie, Edmund


One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
M. M. Musselman : 11768 : Musselman, M. M.


Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset : 7762 : Musset, Alfred de


How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset : 11347 : Musset, Alfred de


My theory is that all of Scottish Cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers : 9855 : Myers, Mike


You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes.
Bess Myerson : 252 : Myerson, Bess


You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
Lauren Myracle : 12504 : Myracle, Lauren


The American creed is humanistic liberalism developing out of the Enlightenment when America received its national consciousness and its political structure.
Gunmar Myrdal : 3029 : Myrdal, Gunmar


Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
Caroline Myss : 12561 : Myss, Caroline


The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov : 4240 : Nabokov, Vladimir


Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Vladimir Nabokov : 12074 : Nabokov, Vladimir


I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader : 11960 : Nader, Ralph


In seeing ourselves from outside we find it difficult to take our lives seriously. This loss of conviction, and the attempt to regain it, is the problem of the meaning of life.
Thomas Nagel : 6888 : Nagel, Thomas


The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V. S. Naipaul : 12086 : Naipaul, V. S.


We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt : 8078 : Naisbitt, John


When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
Joe Namath : 10886 : Namath, Joe


Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash : 1372 : Nash, Ogden


People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash : 1373 : Nash, Ogden


Senescence begins and middle age ends, the day your descendants outnumber your friends.
Ogden Nash : 1374 : Nash, Ogden


Parents were invented to make children happy, by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash : 1375 : Nash, Ogden


Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash : 1376 : Nash, Ogden


If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash : 3289 : Nash, Ogden


Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash : 3610 : Nash, Ogden


Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash : 4003 : Nash, Ogden


God in His wisdom made the fly, and then forgot to tell us why.
Ogden Nash : 4119 : Nash, Ogden


I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash : 4257 : Nash, Ogden


Someone invented the telephone. And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
Ogden Nash : 4300 : Nash, Ogden


Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash : 5560 : Nash, Ogden


The camel has a single hump, the dromedary, two; Or else the other way around, I'm never sure. Are you?
Ogden Nash : 6053 : Nash, Ogden


I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Ogden Nash : 6489 : Nash, Ogden


I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Ogden Nash : 7574 : Nash, Ogden


Here lies my past, Good-bye I have kissed it; Thank you, kids I wouldn't have missed it.
Ogden Nash : 9046 : Nash, Ogden


When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
Ogden Nash : 9231 : Nash, Ogden


Confidence is the feeling you have before you really understand the problem.
Ogden Nash : 10117 : Nash, Ogden


One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash : 10575 : Nash, Ogden


I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash : 11247 : Nash, Ogden


An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for. Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
Ogden Nash : 11871 : Nash, Ogden


I hold that companionship is a matter of mutual weakness. We like that man or woman best who has the same faults we have.
George Jean Nathan : 704 : Nathan, George Jean


A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
George Jean Nathan : 705 : Nathan, George Jean


An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
George Jean Nathan : 706 : Nathan, George Jean


Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan : 4368 : Nathan, George Jean


Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
George Jean Nathan : 4777 : Nathan, George Jean


Indignation is the seducer of thought. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan : 5017 : Nathan, George Jean


Nothing lives on so fresh and evergreen as the love with a funny bone.
George Jean Nathan : 5104 : Nathan, George Jean


A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.
George Jean Nathan : 5535 : Nathan, George Jean


Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan : 7698 : Nathan, George Jean


Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she is tired.
George Jean Nathan : 7977 : Nathan, George Jean


Hollywood impressed me as being ten million dollars' worth of highly ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
George Jean Nathan : 9661 : Nathan, George Jean


The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
George Jean Nathan : 9798 : Nathan, George Jean


There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.
Robert Nathan : 9545 : Nathan, Robert


You put me in here a cub, but I will go out a roaring lion, and I will make all hell howl.
Carry Nation : 322 : Nation, Carry


Whoever said, "it's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.
Martina Navratilova : 3056 : Navratilova, Martina


Now me, when I want ready-made trouble. I dig up a handsome man.
Gloria Naylor : 6114 : Naylor, Gloria


Being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own history. And a time to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor : 6252 : Naylor, Gloria


It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body - an overwhelming sense of calm. I actually began to feel blessed.
Gloria Naylor : 7576 : Naylor, Gloria


People think if you're a musician, you have to change the world. You're expected to be a politician, a guru - and a funky bass player.
Me'Shell Ndegeocello : 8241 : Ndegeocello, Me'Shell


A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal : 1431 : Neal, Patricia


No meal is so good as when you have your feet under your own table.
Scott Nearing : 1634 : Nearing, Scott


During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the world.
Scott Nearing : 7269 : Nearing, Scott


People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard Needham : 4327 : Needham, Richard J.


A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru : 4244 : Nehru, Jawaharlal


We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru : 7199 : Nehru, Jawaharlal


Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.
Jawaharlal Nehru : 11485 : Nehru, Jawaharlal


There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent.
A. S. Neill : 11358 : Neill, A. S.


The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
Gaylord Nelson\ : 8567 : Nelson, Gaylord


Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
Horatio Nelson : 11625 : Nelson, Horatio


For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't play baseball story.
Mariah Burton Nelson : 1238 : Nelson, Mariah Burton


If you take away ideology, you are left with a case-by-case ethics which in practice ends up as "me-first, me-only," and in rampant greed.
Richard Nelson : 8588 : Nelson, Richard


There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.
Willie Nelson : 2983 : Nelson, Willie


Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson : 11019 : Nelson, Willie


When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson : 12913 : Nelson, Willie


Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams.
Corin Nemec : 12482 : Nemec, Corin


I can live only in my own country. I cannot live without having my feet and my hands on it and my ear against it, without feeling my roots reach down into its soil for maternal nourishment.
Pablo Neruda : 8530 : Neruda, Pablo


A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
Pablo Neruda : 10334 : Neruda, Pablo


The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
Pablo Neruda : 11567 : Neruda, Pablo


Life will give you what you ask of her if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
E. Nesbit : 5466 : Nesbit, Edith


Life will give you what you ask of her if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
Edith Nesbit : 5467 : Nesbit, Edith


Some kids want to join the circus when they grow up. Others want to be big-league baseball players. I feel lucky. When I came to the Yankees, I got to do both.
Craig Nettles : 11872 : Nettles, Craig


You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.
Jacob Neusner : 7913 : Neusner, Jacob


Persuasion deals in the coin of self-interest.
Richard E. Neustadt : 9562 : Neustadt, Richard E.


What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson : 6976 : Nevelson, Louise


Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom.
Louise Nevelson : 8468 : Nevelson, Louise


Rules are like flagpoles in a slalom race: You observe their presence religiously, skirt around them as closely as possible, and never let them cut your speed.
Katherine Neville : 4701 : Neville, Katherine


I've always thought there must be some reason why the French words for "attorney" and "avocado" were the same.
Katherine Neville : 7282 : Neville, Katherine


Living with a saint is more a grueling than being one.
Robert Neville : 3348 : Neville, Robert


If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.
Charles B. Newcomb : 5966 : Newcomb, Charles B.


It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Mabel Newcomer : 9373 : Newcomer, Mabel


The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.
Nancy Wynne Newhall : 12824 : Newhall, Nancy Wynne


I just don't think most people put myself and robert frost in the same category.
Bob Newhart : 13220 : Newhart, Bob


Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse : 3273 : Newhouse, Flower A.


When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk : 4670 : Newkirk, Ingrid


Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
Ingrid Newkirk : 12321 : Newkirk, Ingrid


The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to
Ernest Newman : 4147 : Newman, Ernest


The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.
Ernest Newman : 9444 : Newman, Ernest


We are so constituted, that if we insist upon being as sure as is conceivable, in every step of our course, we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.
John Henry Cardinal Newman : 2996 : Newman, John Henry Cardinal


Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Cardinal Newman : 4303 : Newman, John Henry Cardinal


Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
Cardinal Newman : 7949 : Newman, John Henry Cardinal


We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman : 12419 : Newman, John Henry Cardinal


Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Paul Newman : 1438 : Newman, Paul


Photographers are the most loathsome inconvenience. They're merciless. They're the pits.
Paul Newman : 1439 : Newman, Paul


A mature woman doesn't have to push, and she doesn't have to depend on gimmicks or beauty aids. It's her attitude toward life that makes her mature and attractive.
Paul Newman : 8902 : Newman, Paul


You can't be bored by fame. You can be pretty embarrassed by it, though. People don't seem to be willing to separate the allure of the character and the actor who plays him.
Paul Newman : 9595 : Newman, Paul


People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Paul Newman : 10194 : Newman, Paul


I can't take it with me I know, but will it last until I go?
Martha Newmeyer : 1273 : Newmeyer, Martha


I read for pleasure, mark you. In general I like wedding bells at the end of novels. "They married and lived happily ever after" - why not? It has been done.
A. Edward Newton : 8559 : Newton, A. Edward


Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard P. Newton : 4864 : Newton, Howard P.


People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.
Howard W. Newton : 880 : Newton, Howard W.


I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton : 11028 : Newton, Huey


Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton : 12367 : Newton, Isaac


If two angels were sent down from heaven, one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street, they would feel no inclination to change employments.
John Newton : 1012 : Newton, John


People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph F. Newton : 6201 : Newton, Joseph F.


I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.
Sir Isaac Newton : 1663 : Newton, Sir Isaac


If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton : 2722 : Newton, Sir Isaac


To every action there is always opposed and equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Isaac Newton : 3435 : Newton, Sir Isaac


If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton : 6190 : Newton, Sir Isaac


By always thinking unto them...! keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.
Sir Isaac Newton : 6585 : Newton, Sir Isaac


If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
Thandie Newton : 11274 : Newton, Thandie


The conscientious Canadian critic is one who subscribes to the "New York Times" so that he knows at first hand what his opinions should be.
Eric Nichol : 8250 : Nichol, Eric


If you wait for inspiration, you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas : 11587 : Nicholas, Ben


To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverley Nichols : 11111 : Nichols, Beverley


The day dawned gray and windless, as if the sky intended to hold its breath until it turned blue.
Mike Nichols : 9739 : Nichols, Mike


My best feature's my smile. And smiles - praise heaven - don't get fat.
Jack Nicholson : 906 : Nicholson, Jack


You say, "Let's get it done real," but acting is just one version of the unreal after another.
Jack Nicholson : 907 : Nicholson, Jack


There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
Jack Nicholson : 7286 : Nicholson, Jack


You've got to keep attacking the audience's values. If you pander to them, you lose your vitality.
Jack Nicholson : 10484 : Nicholson, Jack


The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson : 3488 : Nicolson, Harold


Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr : 5272 : Niebuhr, Reinhold


All you earnest young men out to save the world - please, have a laugh.
Reinhold Niebuhr : 9071 : Niebuhr, Reinhold


There is something both sublime and ridiculous in expecting either the meek or the weak to inherit the earth.
Reinhold Niebuhr : 9706 : Niebuhr, Reinhold


Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.
Martin Niemoller : 3493 : Niemoller, Martin


A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 1976 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


The postman is the agent of impolite surprises. Every week we ought to have an hour for receiving letters - and then go take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 2413 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


It is not so much the suffering as the senselessness of it that is unendurable.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 2806 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 3336 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 3791 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich Nietzsche : 4204 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


When one has a great deal to put into it, a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 4367 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 4605 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 5064 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 5072 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 6285 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 6465 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 6668 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 6756 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 6807 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 7053 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 7367 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 7787 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 8075 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
Friedrich Nietzsche : 8939 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 9107 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Having stripped myself of all illusions, I have gone mad.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 9558 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 10349 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


To become mature we must recover the sense of earnestness which we had as a child in play.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 10490 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 10811 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 10931 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 11327 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 11624 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; One cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 11804 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 11988 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 12298 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 12898 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 12926 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche : 13095 : Nietzsche, Friedrich


People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Earl Nightingale : 493 : Nightingale, Earl


If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
Earl Nightingale : 12604 : Nightingale, Earl


Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.
Earl Nightingale : 13097 : Nightingale, Earl


One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action which brings results.
Florence Nightingale : 2467 : Nightingale, Florence


Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where not one of the three can be exercised?
Florence Nightingale : 3438 : Nightingale, Florence


I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale : 7203 : Nightingale, Florence


I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale : 11097 : Nightingale, Florence


If we learn to cooperate with the inevitable, life can be a joy to the very end.
Albert J. Nimeth : 3780 : Nimeth, Albert J.


Age is wonderful. It enables us to recognize a mistake when we make it again.
Albert J. Nimeth : 3799 : Nimeth, Albert J.


So your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Lucky for you, because now the immigration laws are stricter.
Albert J. Nimeth : 3810 : Nimeth, Albert J.


One swallow doesn't make a summer, but it breaks a New Year's resolution.
Albert Nimeth : 3857 : Nimeth, Albert J.


Science has established two facts meaningful for human welfare: first, the foundation of the structure of human personality is laid down in early childhood; and second, the chief engineer in charge of this construction is the family.
Meyer Francis Nimkoff : 2944 : Nimkoff, Meyer Francis


The more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy : 7399 : Nimoy, Leonard


I think if I had one big complaint about playing Spock, it would be the hours. My makeup took longer than anyone else's.
Leonard Nimoy : 11246 : Nimoy, Leonard


I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin : 86 : Nin, Anais


Respect for the vulnerability of human beings is a necessary part of telling the truth, because no truth will be wrested from a callous vision or callous handling.
Anais Nin : 2234 : Nin, Anais


The very touch of the letter was as if you had taken me all into your arms.
Anais Nin : 2888 : Nin, Anais


The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
Anais Nin : 5956 : Nin, Anais


The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.
Anais Nin : 6670 : Nin, Anais


The softness of the summer day was like an ermine paw.
Anais Nin : 8087 : Nin, Anais


How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin : 10732 : Nin, Anais


And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin : 12413 : Nin, Anais


We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin : 12444 : Nin, Anais


It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see.
Anais Nin : 12728 : Nin, Anais


I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Anais Nin : 12892 : Nin, Anais


The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
Anais Nin : 13202 : Nin, Anais


I spent too much time in the last campaign on substance and too little time on appearance; I paid too much attention to what I was going to say and too little to how I would look.
Richard Nixon : 1524 : Nixon, Richard M.


Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon : 1525 : Nixon, Richard M.


Many times I have found that my best ideas have come when I thought I could not work for another minute and when I literally had to drive myself to finish the task before a deadline.
Richard M. Nixon : 2190 : Nixon, Richard M.


I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
Richard M. Nixon : 3496 : Nixon, Richard M.


Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.
Richard Nixon : 4133 : Nixon, Richard M.


If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood up for anything.
Richard Nixon : 5419 : Nixon, Richard M.


I wanted to be a sports writer, but it took me too long to turn out my stuff. I found I could become vice president faster than I could become a newspaperman.
Richard M. Nixon : 9637 : Nixon, Richard M.


After an era of confrontation, the time has come for an era of negotiation.
Richard M. Nixon : 10959 : Nixon, Richard M.


A beautiful lady is an accident of nature, a beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer : 1192 : Nizer, Louis


Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are.
Noah Porter : 2074 : Noah Porter


The pleasures to which we have given ourselves without let or hindrance become our most implacable enemies.
Charles Nodier : 11581 : Nodier, Charles


God wrote His loveliest poem on the day, He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale gold hill, For all the new enchanted earth to see.
Grace Noll : 9974 : Noll, Grace


Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
Peggy Noonan : 11971 : Noonan, Peggy


I love beautiful things, beauty in anything, beauty in an athlete, or just getting up early in the morning for rehearsals.
Jessye Norman : 10700 : Norman, Jessye


Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman : 13128 : Norman, Marsha


Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris : 7489 : Norris, Chuck


Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris : 1086 : Norris, Kathleen


Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris : 1087 : Norris, Kathleen


There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Kathleen Norris : 5140 : Norris, Kathleen


The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Eleanor Holmes Norton : 10701 : Norton, Eleanor Holmes


Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.
Peter Norvig : 11590 : Norvig, Peter


I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Henri Nouwen : 11700 : Nouwen, Henri


The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Henry Nouwen : 2866 : Nouwen, Henry


He tried to explain gambling by saying that it was the difference between walking through an abandoned orchard with a gun and a dog, looking for grouse, and just walking.
Craig Nova : 406 : Nova, Craig


If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.
Kim Novak : 2095 : Novak, Kim


Baseball is a Lockean game, a kind of contract theory in ritual form, a set of atomic individuals who assent to patterns of limited co-operation in their mutual interest.
Michael Novak : 3440 : Novak, Michael


A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis : 8454 : Novalis


Age wrinkles the body; Quitting wrinkles the soul. -- Douglas Macarthur
Macarthur, Douglas : 12795 : null


Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. -- Helena Rubinstein
Rubinstein, Helena : 13130 : null


Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest.
Gregory Nunn : 6121 : Nunn, Gregory


A conservative is a man who wants the rules changed so that no one can make a pile the way he did.
Gregory Nunn : 10073 : Nunn, Gregory


Expert: Someone who brings confusion to simplicity.
Gregory Nunn : 10842 : Nunn, Gregory


Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi : 3497 : Nurmi, Paavo


This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.
Diana Nyad : 12455 : Nyad, Diana


Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
Bill Nye : 10264 : Nye, Bill


The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
Bill Nye : 12521 : Nye, Bill


Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
Bill Nye : 12563 : Nye, Bill


Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, spring like, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm, and soft.
Cinematographer Sven Nykvist : 4207 : Nykvist, Sven


Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
Lupita Nyong'o : 13091 : Nyong'o, Lupita


Turning thirty-five isn't that traumatic for me, because I didn't hit puberty until I was thirty. The key is to pace yourself.
Conan O'Brien : 397 : O'Brien, Conan


A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh!
Conan O'Brien : 5712 : O'Brien, Conan


To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed.
Edna O'Brien : 3921 : O'Brien, Edna


I suppose that so long as there are people in the world, they will publish dictionaries defining what is unknown in terms of something equally unknown.
Flann O'Brien : 2363 : O'Brien, Flann


I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
Flann O'Brien : 3216 : O'Brien, Flann


Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially - with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
Flann O'Brien : 8561 : O'Brien, Flann


The desire of one man to live on the fruits of another's labor is the original sin of the world.
James O'Brien : 2809 : O'Brien, James


It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey : 3599 : O'Casey, Sean


Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Sean O'Casey : 7518 : O'Casey, Sean


There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor : 603 : O'Connor, Flannery


Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
Flannery O'Connor : 3756 : O'Connor, Flannery


Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
Flannery O'Connor : 8041 : O'Connor, Flannery


I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor : 12287 : O'Connor, Flannery


I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor : 13038 : O'Connor, Flannery


Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Sandra Day O'Connor : 10191 : O'Connor, Sandra Day


Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O'Hara : 10717 : O'Hara, Catherine


Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended.
Kevin O'Leary : 13399 : O'Leary, Kevin


When there is no will, there is no way for the lawyers.
Austin O'Malley : 185 : O'Malley, Austin


Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colorblind.
Austin O'Malley : 186 : O'Malley, Austin


The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Austin O'Malley : 187 : O'Malley, Austin


A homemade friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley : 188 : O'Malley, Austin


A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Austin O'Malley : 189 : O'Malley, Austin


If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
Austin O'Malley : 190 : O'Malley, Austin


The worst misfortune that can happen to a man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley : 191 : O'Malley, Austin


A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Austin O'Malley : 3669 : O'Malley, Austin


Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Austin O'Malley : 4539 : O'Malley, Austin


Some men are like a clock on a roof; They are useful only to the neighbors.
Austin O'Malley : 6226 : O'Malley, Austin


Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O'Malley : 6463 : O'Malley, Austin


I've won at every level, except college and pro.
Shaquille O'Neal, on his lack of championships : 3286 : O'Neal, Shaquille


One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Eugene O'Neill : 586 : O'Neill, Eugene


Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill : 8429 : O'Neill, Eugene


All politics is local.
Tip O'Neill : 2935 : O'Neill, Tip


The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.
Tip O'Neill : 3550 : O'Neill, Tip


The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men do have emotions and are not afraid to show them.
Jane O'Reilly : 2760 : O'Reilly, Jane


Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke : 1423 : O'Rourke, P. J.


No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, Dd. C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U. S. Farm policy.
P. J. O'Rourke : 1424 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Though the various scents of garages, showrooms, and racetracks have pleasing associations for me, I've yet to hear a woman say, "mmmmmmm, you smell like a car."
P. J. O'Rourke : 1425 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Don't hit things you aren't supposed to. An important aspect of golf is knowing what to hit.
P. J. O'Rourke : 1426 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
P. J. O'Rourke : 1427 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
P. J. O'Rourke : 3422 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friend
P. J. O'Rourke : 3865 : O'Rourke, P. J.


No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke : 4149 : O'Rourke, P. J.


The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke : 4222 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke : 4420 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Nationalism means that every little group of twerps with its own slang, haircut, and pet name for God should have a country.
P. J. O'Rourke : 4754 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
P. J. O'Rourke : 5642 : O'Rourke, P. J.


A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P. J. O'Rourke : 6558 : O'Rourke, P. J.


German is a language which was developed solely to afford the speaker the opportunity to spit at strangers under the guise of polite conversation.
P. J. O'Rourke : 7887 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Remember, your body needs six to eight glasses of fluid daily - straight up or on the rocks.
P. J. O'Rourke : 8474 : O'Rourke, P. J.


Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke : 9402 : O'Rourke, P. J.


This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on aerobic exercise programs.
P. J. O'Rourke : 11608 : O'Rourke, P. J.


We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. We are the movers and shakers, of the world forever, it seems.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy : 6011 : O'Shaughnessy, Arthur


Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education
O'Shea : 1418 : O'Shea


The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
Peter O'Toole : 2840 : O'Toole, Peter


A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.
Francis O'Walsh : 617 : O'Walsh, Francis


Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
Joyce Carol Oates : 1065 : Oates, Joyce Carol


Truth is something that works. It is a vehicle empowered to carry us to our destination.
Joyce Carol Oates : 2296 : Oates, Joyce Carol


The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
Joyce Carol Oates : 8913 : Oates, Joyce Carol


Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition.
Barack Obama : 12874 : Obama, Barack


We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own "to do" list.
Michelle Obama : 11823 : Obama, Michelle


People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
Michelle Obama : 12711 : Obama, Michelle


You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
Michelle Obama : 13208 : Obama, Michelle


I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
Michelle Obama : 13473 : Obama, Michelle


Is anyone educated in who the powers of conscious reasoning are untrained or undeveloped, however great may be the store of accumulated knowledge?
Joseph H. Odell : 5933 : Odell, Joseph H.


What is it about American fathers as they grow older that makes them dress like flags from other countries?
Cary Odes : 11589 : Odes, Cary


Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife; don't tell them to mine.
David Ogilvy : 10416 : Ogilvy, David


When television is bad, nothing is worse. When television is good, it's not much better. Why do you think it's called a medium?
Susan Ohanian : 1738 : Ohanian, Susan


There are only two ways to tell the one hundred percent truth; anonymously and posthumously.
Susan Ohanian : 2829 : Ohanian, Susan


The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surrounding.
Kakuzo Okakura : 12932 : Okakura. Kakuzo


The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Ben Okri : 7246 : Okri, Ben


If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.
Old Farmer's Almanac : 4879 : Old Farmer's Almanac


Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver : 12133 : Oliver, Mary


It was what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.
Mary Oliver : 12387 : Oliver, Mary


What is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?
Laurence Olivier : 6098 : Olivier, Laurence


I like to appear as a chameleon. So all my career I've attempted to disguise myself.
Laurence Olivier : 6429 : Olivier, Laurence


The main problem of the actor is not to let the audience go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.
Laurence Olivier : 6589 : Olivier, Laurence


Autograph hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
Laurence Olivier : 11623 : Olivier, Laurence


There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson (President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977) : 5666 : Olson, Ken


It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis : 8863 : Onassis, Aristotle


We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis : 11457 : Onassis, Aristotle


Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : 6117 : Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy


The hippie movement seemed like a worldwide movement, in concept, but still the establishment was bigger. The only criticism I have is that, although we were talking about freedom, women still got a very raw deal.
Yoko Ono : 11149 : Ono, Yoko


Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
Yoko Ono : 12625 : Ono, Yoko


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim : 3648 : Oppenheim, James


Science has, as its whole purpose, the rendering of the physical world understandable and beautiful. Without this you have only tables and statistics.
Robert Oppenheimer : 3398 : Oppenheimer, Robert


There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Robert Orben : 2544 : Orben, Robert


There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Robert Orben : 3139 : Orben, Robert


I could now afford all the things I never had as a kid, if I didn't have kids.
Robert Orben : 4512 : Orben, Robert


A sure sign of old age is when you hear "snap, crackle and pop" and it isn't your cereal.
Robert Orben : 4594 : Orben, Robert


A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben : 7435 : Orben, Robert


I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben : 8481 : Orben, Robert


A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.
Robert Orben : 9621 : Orben, Robert


Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
Robert Orben : 10275 : Orben, Robert


If medical science has made so much progress, why do I feel so much worse than I did twenty years ago?
Robert Orben : 10481 : Orben, Robert


Without the word "dream," or the concept "dream," and without the word "blue" and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.
Roy Orbison : 8896 : Orbison, Roy


The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Origen : 13363 : Origen


When our knowledge coalesces with our humanity and our humor, it can add up to wisdom.
Carol Orlack : 10507 : Orlack, Carol


When you have a taste for exceptional people you always end up meeting them everywhere.
Pierre Mac Orlan : 11989 : Orlan, Pierre Mac


No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.
Suze Orman : 11416 : Orman, Suze


A ship, to run a straight course, can have but one pilot and one steering wheel.
Jules Ormont : 1069 : Ormont, Jules


If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.
Lord Boyd Orr : 11627 : Orr, Lord Boyd


The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
Clara Ortega : 4788 : Ortega, Clara


In the next year or so, my signature will appear on sixty billion dollars of united states currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - the strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
Katherine D Ortega : 1080 : Ortega, Katherine D.


The existence of good bad literature - and the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
George Orwell : 709 : Orwell, George


You are noticed more if you stand on your head than you are if you are the right way up.
George Orwell : 710 : Orwell, George


The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.
George Orwell : 1994 : Orwell, George


To study any subject scientifically one needs a detached attitude, which is obviously harder when one's own interests or emotions are involved.
George Orwell : 2377 : Orwell, George


He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.
George Orwell : 2670 : Orwell, George


The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going around the sun.
George Orwell : 2997 : Orwell, George


Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
George Orwell : 3061 : Orwell, George


The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell : 3317 : Orwell, George


Four legs good two legs bad.
George Orwell : 3639 : Orwell, George


Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregarding all rules, an4 sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence.
George Orwell : 5047 : Orwell, George


Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell : 6014 : Orwell, George


Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell : 7060 : Orwell, George


If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell : 7636 : Orwell, George


The moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules or perish.
George Orwell : 8641 : Orwell, George


Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell : 9395 : Orwell, George


When one says that a writer is fashionable, one practically always means that he is admired by people under thirty.
George Orwell : 9702 : Orwell, George


No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell : 10442 : Orwell, George


Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell : 10785 : Orwell, George


Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell : 11045 : Orwell, George


All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell : 11765 : Orwell, George


We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun.
George Orwell : 12499 : Orwell, George


In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Robert Orwell : 3106 : Orwell, Robert


All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studies as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
Dorothy Osborne : 3095 : Osborne, Dorothy


I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
John Osborne : 1013 : Osborne, John


Reason and Progress, the old firm, is selling out! Everyone get out while the going's good. Those forgotten shares you had In the old traditions, the old beliefs are going up - up and up and up.
John Osborne : 7179 : Osborne, John


I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
Oscar II of Sweden : 2808 : Oscar II of Sweden


I love a hand that meets my own with a hold that causes some sensation.
Osgood : 1417 : Osgood


The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before.
Osho (aka Chandra Mohan Jain, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh) : 12997 : Osho


Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
William Osler : 1917 : Osler, William


We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osler : 1918 : Osler, William


Look wise, say nothing and grunt; speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler : 3796 : Osler, William


Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler : 9149 : Osler, William


The clean tongue, the clear head and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
William Osler : 12813 : Osler, William


If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond : 6555 : Osmond, Marie


Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you?
Joel Osteen : 12289 : Osteen, Joel


I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.
Patton Oswalt : 10989 : Oswalt, Patton


I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
Carre Otis : 13395 : Otis, Carre


And easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida : 1421 : Ouida


A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida : 4077 : Ouida


To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida : 11709 : Ouida


Frankness and complete trust in the natural kindness of human nature will seldom fail, perhaps because it gives one even greater satisfaction to be helpful than helped.
Fulton Charles Oursler : 7516 : Oursler, Fulton Charles


The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
John Ousterhout : 8657 : Ousterhout, John


Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby : 10326 : Overby, Mark


Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
Harry Overstreet : 803 : Overstreet, Harry A.


Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
Harry A. Overstreet : 6549 : Overstreet, Harry A.


There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid : 2087 : Ovid


We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
Ovid : 2913 : Ovid


How little you know about the age you live in if you think honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
Ovid : 3353 : Ovid


The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.
Ovid : 6140 : Ovid


Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; In the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid : 6652 : Ovid


Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
Ovid : 6774 : Ovid


Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid : 7092 : Ovid


A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; The burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
Ovid : 7228 : Ovid


All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid : 10852 : Ovid


The older you get, the faster you ran when you were a kid.
Steve Owen : 1732 : Owen, Steve


If you don't try to win you might just as well hold the Olympics in somebody's backyard.
Jesse Owens : 3178 : Owens, Jesse


I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
Jesse Owens : 3460 : Owens, Jesse


Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition.
Jesse Owens : 12661 : Owens, Jesse


Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens : 13205 : Owens, Jesse


I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution of the world.
Amos Oz : 11406 : Oz, Amos


Woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.
Cynthia Ozick : 409 : Ozick, Cynthia


We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick : 12599 : Ozick, Cynthia


Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
Pierre Pachet (Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872) : 5679 : Pachet, Pierre


Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
Ignace Paderewski : 8954 : Paderewski, Ignace


Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Pael : 10273 : Pael, Jean


This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.
Elliot Page : 13430 : Page, Elliot


A garden really lives insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope, and a song of praise.
Russell Page : 8298 : Page, Russell


It is my duty to my country to respect its flag and to defend it against its enemies.
William Tyler Page : 1929 : Page, William Tyler


A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels : 7157 : Pagels, Douglas


All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
Camille Paglia : 6276 : Paglia, Camille


Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia : 9632 : Paglia, Camille


One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
Marcel Pagnol : 4705 : Pagnol, Marcel


A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
Marcel Pagnol : 5068 : Pagnol, Marcel


The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
Marcel Pagnol : 5266 : Pagnol, Marcel


My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Pahlavi : 3076 : Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza


Let me tell you quite bluntly that this "king" business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi : 6035 : Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza


Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige : 4067 : Paige, Leroy "Satchel"


I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
Satchel Paige : 7351 : Paige, Leroy "Satchel"


Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige : 7462 : Paige, Leroy "Satchel"


Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige : 8833 : Paige, Leroy "Satchel"


Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Leroy "Satchel" Paige : 10297 : Paige, Leroy "Satchel"


Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Thomas Paine : 1788 : Paine, Thomas


It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
Thomas Paine, On John Adams : 1789 : Paine, Thomas


Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine : 2036 : Paine, Thomas


Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine : 2597 : Paine, Thomas


He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
Thomas Paine : 2607 : Paine, Thomas


The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine : 3041 : Paine, Thomas


Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine : 4918 : Paine, Thomas


There are two distinct classes of men; Those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
Thomas Paine : 5681 : Paine, Thomas


If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine : 8419 : Paine, Thomas


The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.
Thomas Paine : 10865 : Paine, Thomas


The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine : 11392 : Paine, Thomas


I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine : 12373 : Paine, Thomas


If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.
Brad Paisley : 13007 : Paisley, Brad


The goal isn't to live forever; The goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk : 7966 : Palahniuk, Chuck


Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley : 10118 : Paley, Grace


The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Arnold Palmer : 2679 : Palmer, Arnold


What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer : 10309 : Palmer, Arnold


The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer : 11737 : Palmer, Arnold


Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Palmer : 3229 : Palmer, Gretta


You are much deeper, much broader, much brighter than any idea you could have of yourself.
Harry Palmer : 13002 : Palmer, Harry


Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti : 7960 : Paolinetti, Jamie


When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know
Bill Parcells : 6554 : Parcells, Bill


You don't have to be crazy to be a goalie, but it helps!
Bernie Parent : 12677 : Parent, Bernie


All food starting with "p" is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, pizza, pastry.
Sara Paretsky : 10041 : Paretsky, Sara


The most precious thing that anyone, man or business, anybody or anything, can have is the goodwill of others.
Anne Parish : 11954 : Parish, Anne


It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes.
Charlie Parker : 3553 : Parker, Charlie


Music is your own experiences, your own thoughts, your own wisdom. If you don't live, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker : 11469 : Parker, Charlie


Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
Christopher Parker : 11018 : Parker, Christopher


Never serious be, nor true, and your wish will come to you - and if that makes you happy, kid, you'll be the first it ever did.
Dorothy Parker : 460 : Parker, Dorothy


The movie business is the only business in the world where the assets go home at night.
Dorothy Parker : 461 : Parker, Dorothy


The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed."
Dorothy Parker : 462 : Parker, Dorothy


This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker : 463 : Parker, Dorothy


Oh, don't worry about Alan (her ex-husband). Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
Dorothy Parker : 464 : Parker, Dorothy


The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker : 5232 : Parker, Dorothy


I've never been a millionaire but l just know I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker : 6757 : Parker, Dorothy


Men seldom make passes, at girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker : 7076 : Parker, Dorothy


Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
Dorothy Parker : 7249 : Parker, Dorothy


She looked as new as a peeled egg.
Dorothy Parker : 7400 : Parker, Dorothy


By the time you swear you're his, shivering and sighing, and he vows his passion is infinite, undying - Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker : 8570 : Parker, Dorothy


The only dependable law of life: Everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
Dorothy Parker : 8791 : Parker, Dorothy


Wit has truth in it; Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker : 9202 : Parker, Dorothy


Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
Dorothy Parker : 10320 : Parker, Dorothy


The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it will erase ink.
Dorothy Parker : 11087 : Parker, Dorothy


I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
Dorothy Parker : 11475 : Parker, Dorothy


She looked as new as a peeled egg.
Dorothy Parker : 11693 : Parker, Dorothy


Four be the things I'd been better without: love, curiosity, freckles, doubt.
Dorothy Parker : 11750 : Parker, Dorothy


Leaders think. They think because they are leaders. They are leaders because they think.
Dr. Paul Parker : 474 : Parker, Dr. Paul


The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker : 2355 : Parker, Theodore


The books which help you most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker : 6214 : Parker, Theodore


I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.
Trey Parker : 9581 : Parker, Trey


The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
Charles H. Parkhurst : 3847 : Parkhurst, Charles H.


I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks : 12559 : Parks, Rosa


I'd like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free.
Rosa Parks : 13540 : Parks, Rosa


Nice guys, when we turn nasty, can make a terrible mess of it, usually because we've had so little practice, and have bottled it up for too long.
Matthew Parris : 2349 : Parris, Matthew


Lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do; they just don't wear them all at the same time.
Dolly Parton : 445 : Parton, Dolly


The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton : 3616 : Parton, Dolly


If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton : 7106 : Parton, Dolly


If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Dolly Parton : 7131 : Parton, Dolly


I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.
Dolly Parton : 8209 : Parton, Dolly


I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Dolly Parton : 9723 : Parton, Dolly


If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.
Dolly Parton : 11121 : Parton, Dolly


A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.
Dolly Parton : 13106 : Parton, Dolly


Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton : 13116 : Parton, Dolly


A trifle consoles us because a trifle distresses us.
Blaise Pascal : 267 : Pascal, Blaise


If a soldier or a laborer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
Blaise Pascal : 268 : Pascal, Blaise


If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal : 269 : Pascal, Blaise


The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know to stay quietly in his room.
Blaise Pascal : 270 : Pascal, Blaise


It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Blaise Pascal : 271 : Pascal, Blaise


We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal : 272 : Pascal, Blaise


Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal : 2042 : Pascal, Blaise


All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Blaise Pascal : 4389 : Pascal, Blaise


The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal : 4770 : Pascal, Blaise


If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
Blaise Pascal : 5050 : Pascal, Blaise


The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal : 5493 : Pascal, Blaise


Art thou less a slave by being loved and favored by thy master? Thou art indeed well off, slave. Thy master favors thee; he will soon beat thee.
Blaise Pascal : 6278 : Pascal, Blaise


Most of the evils of life arise from man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal : 6730 : Pascal, Blaise


Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.
Blaise Pascal : 9162 : Pascal, Blaise


I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal : 9738 : Pascal, Blaise


Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Pascal : 10115 : Pascal, Blaise


When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal : 11012 : Pascal, Blaise


In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal : 11963 : Pascal, Blaise


Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Boris Pasternak : 282 : Pasternak, Boris


The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.
Boris Pasternak : 4802 : Pasternak, Boris


What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: Life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak : 11552 : Pasternak, Boris


They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris Pasternak : 12676 : Pasternak, Boris


Outside their laboratories, the physician and chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
Louis Pasteur : 1193 : Pasteur, Louis


When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur : 7598 : Pasteur, Louis


A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur : 11792 : Pasteur, Louis


Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur : 12418 : Pasteur, Louis


Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur : 12438 : Pasteur, Louis


Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
Kenneth Patchen : 11613 : Patchen, Kenneth


We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.
Ameesha Patel : 12244 : Patel, Ameesha


All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater : 3611 : Pater, Walter


Publicity is like poison; It doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno : 7479 : Paterno, Joe


February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
Katherine Paterson : 1082 : Paterson, Katherine


It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
Katherine Paterson : 1083 : Paterson, Katherine


Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
Katherine Paterson : 6058 : Paterson, Katherine


Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
Katherine Paterson : 7248 : Paterson, Katherine


To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore : 3071 : Patmore, Coventry


Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Coventry Patmore : 4332 : Patmore, Coventry


A woman without the vanity which delights in her power of attracting would be by that very fact without power to attract.
Coventry Patmore : 8272 : Patmore, Coventry


It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.
Floyd Patterson : 6677 : Patterson, Floyd


Love in any language, straight from the heart, pulls us all together - never apart.
Sandy Patti : 6080 : Patti, Sandy


If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton : 3625 : Patton, George S.


The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
George S. Patton : 6906 : Patton, George S.


A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton : 9766 : Patton, George S.


Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton : 11114 : Patton, George S.


Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton : 12216 : Patton, George S.


We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton : 13050 : Patton, George S.


Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
George S. Patton : 13056 : Patton, George S.


Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton : 13119 : Patton, George S.


The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
Kenneth Patton : 8399 : Patton, Kenneth


Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul : 12299 : Paul, Jean


Always be wary of the software engineer who carries a screwdriver.
Robert Paul : 12045 : Paul, Robert


You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way.
Stephen C. Paul : 8714 : Paul, Stephen C.


Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling : 7789 : Pauling, Linus


No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese : 336 : Pavese, Cesare


Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese : 6507 : Pavese, Cesare


We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese : 9926 : Pavese, Cesare


After baseball, America's favorite pastime may be the process of reinventing itself, continuously redefining its identity and searching for its soul.
Brenda Payton : 283 : Payton, Brenda


Language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz : 11949 : Paz, Octavio


There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim : 11456 : Peace Pilgrim


When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Peace Pilgrim : 12113 : Peace Pilgrim


Believe you are defeated; believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
Norman Vincent Peale : 1352 : Peale, Norman Vincent


Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale : 4235 : Peale, Norman Vincent


The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale : 4294 : Peale, Norman Vincent


Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Norman Vincent Peale : 4816 : Peale, Norman Vincent


People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
Norman Vincent Peale : 6039 : Peale, Norman Vincent


The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
Norman Vincent Peale : 7996 : Peale, Norman Vincent


Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale : 8460 : Peale, Norman Vincent


Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale : 10482 : Peale, Norman Vincent


What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
Donald Culross Peattie : 9698 : Peattie, Donald Culross


One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
M. Scott Peck : 8090 : Peck, M. Scott


Problems call forth our courage and wisdom; indeed they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck : 8906 : Peck, M. Scott


Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck : 12998 : Peck, M. Scott


The good we take with us at the last call is the good we do while here.
William Peck : 1919 : Peck, William


I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel : 13474 : Peel, John


Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel : 2479 : Peel, Robert


Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel : 4258 : Peel, Robert


One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
Dennis A. Peer : 9866 : Peer, Dennis A.


He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy : 7294 : Peguy, Charles


All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Lucy Van Pelt, "Peanuts" : 11617 : Pelt, Lucy Van


Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
Teddy Pendergrass : 4129 : Pendergrass, Teddy


The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they'll settle for a puppy every time.
Winston Pendleton : 3199 : Pendleton, Winston


Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
Julia Penelope : 10818 : Penelope, Julia


When buying a car, skip zippy and snazzy, and go directly to practical and running.
Marilyn Penland : 10089 : Penland, Marilyn


One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn : 12033 : Penn, Jack


The greatest violence is when you attack somebody with the notion that they're hopeless, that they can't change. That is violence.
Sean Penn : 6909 : Penn, Sean


We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
Sean Penn : 12250 : Penn, Sean


Do what good you can unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
William Penn : 1920 : Penn, William


I shall pass through life but once, let me show kindness now as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn : 1921 : Penn, William


If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn : 2228 : Penn, William


No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn : 2881 : Penn, William


Do good with what you have, or it will do you no good.
William Penn : 3723 : Penn, William


Justice is the insurance we have on our lives and property; obedience is the premium we pay for it.
William Penn : 5355 : Penn, William


No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn : 5562 : Penn, William


Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
William Penn : 5655 : Penn, William


True silence is the rest of the mind.
William Penn : 8411 : Penn, William


There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn : 9995 : Penn, William


He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn : 11899 : Penn, William


Oh Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn : 12042 : Penn, William


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn : 12509 : Penn, William


Golden Rule principles are just as necessary for operating a business as are trucks, typewriters or twine.
James Cash Penney : 2554 : Penney, James Cash


The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
Croft M. Pentz : 11333 : Pentz, Croft M.


Some persons dodder at age thirty, others at eighty, and some pass through life without doddering at all. Our concern should be with competency, not age, race, sex, or religion.
Claude Pepper : 7514 : Pepper, Claude


Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
Claude Pepper : 9449 : Pepper, Claude


Saw a wedding in the church; and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Samuel Pepys : 1624 : Pepys, Samuel


Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys : 2444 : Pepys, Samuel


We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.
Ian Percy : 9239 : Percy, Ian


The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere.
S. J. Perelman : 7117 : Perelman, S. J.


Just because you do not take an interest in politics, does not mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles : 4970 : Pericles


If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.
H. Ross Perot : 783 : Perot, H. Ross


Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.
H. Ross Perot : 8033 : Perot, H. Ross


When building a team, I first look for people who love to win, if I can't find any of those, then I look for people who hate to lose.
H. Ross Perot : 9347 : Perot, H. Ross


The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot : 13083 : Perot, H. Ross


What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
Gene Perret : 7275 : Perret, Gene


A manager made this presentation to a retiring employee: "We wanted to give you something you've had your eye on since you began working here." He gave him the clock on the wall.
Gene Perret : 10370 : Perret, Gene


We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love.
Gene Perret : 11761 : Perret, Gene


If it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
Anne Perry : 12240 : Perry, Anne


I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Katy Perry : 12206 : Perry, Katy


Democracy is both the best and the most difficult form of political organization - the most difficult because it is the best.
Ralph Barton Perry : 1486 : Perry, Ralph Barton


Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
Ralph Barton Perry : 1487 : Perry, Ralph Barton


It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Tyler Perry : 12723 : Perry, Tyler


Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J. Peter : 3210 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
Laurence Peter : 3767 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
Laurence Peter : 4470 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Laurence Peter : 5420 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Laurence J. Peter : 5531 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
Laurence Johnston Peter : 5658 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter : 6672 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Laurence J. Peter : 6771 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter : 6965 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
Laurence J. Peter : 6988 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter : 7040 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter : 7075 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter : 7637 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


I have to spend so much time explaining to Americans that I am not English and to Englishmen that I am not American that I have little time left to be Canadian.
Laurence J. Peter : 9294 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter : 9583 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Computers will never be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.
Laurence Peter : 10465 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter : 10601 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
Laurence J. Peter : 11124 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter : 12224 : Peter, Laurence Johnston


Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters : 2339 : Peters, Ellis


There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters : 9780 : Peters, Ellis


Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is in the doing something else.
Thomas Peters : 9935 : Peters, Thomas


If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Tom Peters : 9494 : Peters, Tom


Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
Jordan Peterson : 13223 : Peterson, Jordan


Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
Lester B. Peterson : 2498 : Peterson, Lester B.


Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.
Virginia Peterson : 9296 : Peterson, Virginia


A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life.
Wilferd Peterson : 12612 : Peterson, Wilferd


Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
Jean Petit-Senn : 3360 : Petit-Senn, Jean


We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Jean Petit-Senn : 7168 : Petit-Senn, Jean


Not that you can't write about a serious subject - everything can't be a goof - but I think you just get it a little easier if you don't get all puffed up.
Tom Petty, On Songwriting : 1798 : Petty, Tom


Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life.
Tom Petty : 12718 : Petty, Tom


Never use the word gossip in a pejorative sense. It's the stuff of biography and has to be woven in.
Joan Peyser : 10487 : Peyser, Joan


I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a smoker; but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
Michelle Pfeiffer : 4185 : Pfeiffer, Michelle


I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality.
Michelle Pfeiffer : 12342 : Pfeiffer, Michelle


When our friends are prosperous, we should wait till we are summoned. When they are unfortunate, we should go to them unbidden.
Demetrius Phalereus : 6901 : Phalereus, Demetrius


Until mountain hiking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
Jacquie Phelan : 4783 : Phelan, Jacquie


The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps : 2972 : Phelps, William Lyon


Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
William Phelps : 4446 : Phelps, William Lyon


I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something.
W. L. Phelps : 4454 : Phelps, William Lyon


At a certain age, some people's minds close up; They live on their intellectual fat.
W. L. Phelps : 4894 : Phelps, William Lyon


If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps : 7507 : Phelps, William Lyon


Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps : 8970 : Phelps, William Lyon


This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
William Lyon Phelps : 10905 : Phelps, William Lyon


And always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said, "Shit! A truck!"
Emo Philips : 5742 : Philips, Emo


A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.
Emo Philips : 7458 : Philips, Emo


The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.
Bill Phillips : 12858 : Phillips, Bill


I used to think the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I realized, well, look what's telling me that.
Emo Phillips : 10025 : Phillips, Emo


Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest that sound like important messages from the brain.
H. I. Phillips : 773 : Phillips, H. I.


You know you're old when you notice how young the derelicts are getting.
Jeanne Phillips : 12961 : Phillips, Jeanne


Only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle, not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.
Wendell Phillips : 1873 : Phillips, Wendell


As the Greek said, many men know how to flatter; few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips : 1874 : Phillips, Wendell


What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips : 1875 : Phillips, Wendell


Only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle, not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.
Wendell Phillips : 3068 : Phillips, Wendell


What is a defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips : 3271 : Phillips, Wendell


Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the pasts. Its foundations are laid far back.
Wendell Phillips : 3393 : Phillips, Wendell


The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell Phillips : 4022 : Phillips, Wendell


It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
Wendell Phillips : 5317 : Phillips, Wendell


You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the presidency.
Wendell Phillips : 7590 : Phillips, Wendell


Why do publishers use large print in books for children, whose eyes are excellent, and small print in books for adults?
William Lyon Phillips : 9357 : Phillips, William Lyon


The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts : 505 : Phillpotts, Eden


The trouble with being punctual is that no one's there to appreciate it.
Lettice Philpots : 1154 : Philpots, Lettice


Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
Edith Piaf : 13088 : Piaf, Edith


If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
Jean Piaget : 7879 : Piaget, Jean


If we could only pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso : 1428 : Picasso, Pablo


You invent something, and then someone comes along and does it pretty.
Pablo Picasso : 1429 : Picasso, Pablo


An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso : 1430 : Picasso, Pablo


Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso : 2100 : Picasso, Pablo


Every time I sell a painting of mine, I feel like I'm amputating an arm or leg.
Pablo Picasso : 2142 : Picasso, Pablo


I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso : 2358 : Picasso, Pablo


Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some respect. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso : 2673 : Picasso, Pablo


The world today doesn't make much sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso : 4054 : Picasso, Pablo


No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso : 4322 : Picasso, Pablo


Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso : 4510 : Picasso, Pablo


Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
Pablo Picasso : 6378 : Picasso, Pablo


Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
Pablo Picasso : 6779 : Picasso, Pablo


All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso : 7170 : Picasso, Pablo


I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso : 7491 : Picasso, Pablo


Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso : 7746 : Picasso, Pablo


God is really an artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps trying other things.
Pablo Picasso : 8259 : Picasso, Pablo


Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
Pablo Picasso : 8979 : Picasso, Pablo


Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso : 9742 : Picasso, Pablo


People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso : 11648 : Picasso, Pablo


As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
Pablo Picasso : 11878 : Picasso, Pablo


Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso : 12991 : Picasso, Pablo


What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford : 7101 : Pickford, Mary


You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Jodi Picoult : 10946 : Picoult, Jodi


Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
Jodi Picoult : 12389 : Picoult, Jodi


Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any questions.
C. S. Pierce : 1954 : Pierce, C. S.


Communication: It is not only the essence of being human but also a vital property of life.
John A. Pierce : 9754 : Pierce, John A.


Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
Mary Pierce : 11837 : Pierce, Mary


Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy : 10536 : Piercy, Marge


What we have done done for ourselves alone dies with us; What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike : 6832 : Pike, Albert


Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.
Paul Zane Pilzer : 8069 : Pilzer, Paul Zane


Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
Gifford Pinchot : 2394 : Pinchot, Gifford


Oh, my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
Pindar : 7338 : Pindar


Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Pindar : 12644 : Pindar


The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero : 4084 : Pinero, Arthur Wing


The blank slate has become the secular religion of modern intellectual life; however, it is being challenged by an even newer view of human nature.
Steven Pinker : 9161 : Pinker, Steven


They all want the truth - a truth, that is: Something specific, something concrete! They don't care what it is. All they want is something categorical, something that speaks plainly!
Luigi Pirandello : 2990 : Pirandello, Luigi


Behind every successful woman... is a substantial amount of coffee.
Stephanie Piro : 1728 : Piro, Stephanie


Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV, it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
Robert M. Pirsig : 8300 : Pirsig, Robert M.


The only zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the zen you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig : 9590 : Pirsig, Robert M.


To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig : 9713 : Pirsig, Robert M.


Being handsome can open doors. When I think about those who don't get the opportunity; I wrestle with that a bit.
Brad Pitt : 5228 : Pitt, Brad


What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?
Marilyn Pittman : 5693 : Pittman, Marilyn


Together with a few human beings, dead and living, and their achievements, trees are what I most love and revere.
Hildegard Planner : 6624 : Planner, Hildegard


How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and eighteen thousand people boo?
Hockey's Jacques Plante : 9908 : Plante, Jacques


I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath : 11769 : Plath, Sylvia


Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it. And the imagination to improvise.
Sylvia Plath : 13195 : Plath, Sylvia


When a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he may have the lesser.
Plato : 1463 : Plato


What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
Plato : 2435 : Plato


I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato : 2910 : Plato


For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Plato : 3494 : Plato


A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
Plato : 4191 : Plato


There are three classes of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain.
Plato : 4592 : Plato


When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the earth.
Plato : 5070 : Plato


Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
Plato : 5237 : Plato


When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato : 5683 : Plato


Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato : 6736 : Plato


Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato : 6813 : Plato


Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato : 7009 : Plato


Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato : 7088 : Plato


You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing: for that is the time when the character is being formed.
Plato : 7200 : Plato


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato : 7381 : Plato


The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato : 7730 : Plato


Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgment of a divine power.
Plato : 7930 : Plato


Our aim in founding the State was not the disproportionate happiness of any one class, but the greatest happiness of the whole.
Plato : 8282 : Plato


Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Plato : 8410 : Plato


The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
Plato : 8471 : Plato


All men are by nature equal, made, all, of the same earth by the same Creator, and, however we deceive ourselves, as dear to God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato : 9969 : Plato


Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Plato : 10979 : Plato


No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
Plautus : 6235 : Plautus


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus : 8141 : Plautus


Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus : 10590 : Plautus


Reality has become so absorbing that the streets, the television, and the journals have confiscated the public interest and people are no longer thirsty for culture on a higher level.
Andre Plesu : 8537 : Plesu, Andre


The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
Barbara Pletcher : 12393 : Pletcher, Barbara


Sports teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.
George Plimpton : 11524 : Plimpton, George


The dolphin, a creature fond not only of man but of the musical art, is charmed by harmonious melody, and especially the sound of the hydraulic organ.
Pliny the Elder : 2284 : Pliny the Elder


There is in opals a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painter, others the flame of burning
Pliny : 3870 : Pliny the Elder


The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.
Pliny : 7914 : Pliny the Elder


Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder : 12312 : Pliny the Elder


The erection of a monument is superfluous; our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
Pliny the Younger : 5001 : Pliny the Younger


An optimist is anyone who expects change.
John J. Plomp : 7390 : Plomp, John J.


You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John Plomp : 7669 : Plomp, John J.


Italian virtues of fantasy, passion, drama, creativity, color, and perspective have informed both the cuisine and the arts of that nation.
Fred Plotkin : 6286 : Plotkin, Fred


The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.
Mark Plotkin : 13532 : Plotkin, Mark


Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
Christopher Plummer : 4493 : Plummer, Christopher


To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch : 1464 : Plutarch


Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch : 1465 : Plutarch


Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear for a penny.
Plutarch : 1466 : Plutarch


They who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
Plutarch : 1467 : Plutarch


It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch : 3677 : Plutarch


All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch : 4323 : Plutarch


Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch : 5177 : Plutarch


Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Plutarch : 8693 : Plutarch


I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; My shadow does that much better.
Plutarch : 9258 : Plutarch


It is an observation no less than common, that there is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
Plutarch : 9944 : Plutarch


The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch : 10177 : Plutarch


It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
Plutarch : 11600 : Plutarch


Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
Norman Podhoretz : 8176 : Podhoretz, Norman


Of puns it has been said that those most dislike them who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe : 506 : Poe, Edgar Allan


In criticism I will be bold, and sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe : 6315 : Poe, Edgar Allan


Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon wilt be so.
Edgar Allan Poe : 6678 : Poe, Edgar Allan


Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, thy Naiad airs have brought me home, to the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome.
Edgar Allan Poe : 8253 : Poe, Edgar Allan


Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe : 9862 : Poe, Edgar Allan


All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe : 10149 : Poe, Edgar Allan


To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe : 10492 : Poe, Edgar Allan


I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe : 13082 : Poe, Edgar Allan


At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.
Edgar Allan Poe : 13525 : Poe, Edgar Allan


Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.
Amy Poehler : 10993 : Poehler, Amy


No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.
Amy Poehler : 12730 : Poehler, Amy


The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others.
Amy Poehler : 12742 : Poehler, Amy


What I hear when I'm being yelled at is people caring really loudly at me.
Amy Poehler, as Leslie Knope : 12938 : Poehler, Amy


We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Pogo : 9123 : Pogo


To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Henri Poincare : 5957 : Poincare, Henri


I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
Sidney Poitier : 12864 : Poitier, Sidney


He admits that there are two sides to every question - his own and the wrong side.
Channing Pollock : 4427 : Pollock, Channing


The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock : 7937 : Pollock, Channing


No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Channing Pollock : 9207 : Pollock, Channing


There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment.
Jackson Pollock : 9265 : Pollock, Jackson


Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock : 9943 : Pollock, Jackson


In military operations, what is done openly and by force is much less than what is done by stratagem and the use of opportunity.
Polybius : 11242 : Polybius


Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
Hart Pomerantz : 3772 : Pomerantz, Hart


A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Georges Pompidou : 3388 : Pompidou, Georges


When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela : 7770 : Poncela, Enrique Jardiel


Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.
Mimi Pond : 1310 : Pond, Mimi


If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
Catherine Ponder : 8699 : Ponder, Catherine


Most people - one may say the best sort of people - greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.
Arthur Ponsonby : 3031 : Ponsonby, Arthur


An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted.
Charles Poore : 363 : Poore, Charles


Although the life of a person is a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.
Pope Francis : 11832 : Pope Francis


Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Pope Francis : 13165 : Pope Francis


The worst prison would be a closed heart.
Pope John Paul II : 1469 : Pope John Paul II


Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
Pope John Paul II : 4571 : Pope John Paul II


Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II : 12271 : Pope John Paul II


Men are like wine; some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII : 1470 : Pope John XXIII


I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII : 9576 : Pope John XXIII


Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Pope Paul VI : 8808 : Pope Paul VI


We must take care that the forward movement does not degenerate into a headlong run. We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
Pope Paul VI : 10371 : Pope Paul VI


Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Pope Paul VI : 11402 : Pope Paul VI


The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI : 11818 : Pope Paul VI


There should be as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty, as a man for his prosperity, both being equally subject to change.
Alexander Pope : 58 : Pope, Alexander


An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope : 59 : Pope, Alexander


How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned.
Alexander Pope (from Eloisa to Abelard) : 2214 : Pope, Alexander


Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; it is the rust we value, not the gold.
Alexander Pope : 2492 : Pope, Alexander


The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming in.
Alexander Pope : 3105 : Pope, Alexander


For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope : 5165 : Pope, Alexander


The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.
Alexander Pope : 5999 : Pope, Alexander


Pride is the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope : 7725 : Pope, Alexander


A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
Alexander Pope : 7882 : Pope, Alexander


A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope : 8204 : Pope, Alexander


'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
Alexander Pope : 9044 : Pope, Alexander


Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Alexander Pope : 9259 : Pope, Alexander


True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Alexander Pope : 10243 : Pope, Alexander


The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
Alexander Pope : 11996 : Pope, Alexander


Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.
Karl Popper : 9650 : Popper, Karl


We make progress if, and only if, we are prepared to learn from our mistakes.
Sir Karl R. Popper : 312 : Popper, Sir Karl R.


There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Sir Karl Popper : 2672 : Popper, Sir Karl R.


In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing
Antonio Porchia : 4526 : Porchia, Antonio


I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
Antonio Porchia : 9015 : Porchia, Antonio


What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Antonio Porchia : 9699 : Porchia, Antonio


I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
Ferdinand Porsche : 10313 : Porsche, Ferdinand


No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignessses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.
Gene Stratton Porter : 676 : Porter, Gene Stratton


People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.
John Porter : 12392 : Porter, John


Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Katherine Anne Porter : 4989 : Porter, Katherine Anne


Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. It can also be translated into a source of bitterness.
Sylvia Porter : 8210 : Porter, Sylvia


He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
Porteus : 2117 : Porteus


Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.
Zac Posen : 13462 : Posen, Zac


An egoist is a man who thinks that if he hadn't been born, people would have wondered why.
Dan Post : 10088 : Post, Dan


Woman accepted cooking as a chore, man has made of it a recreation.
Emily Post : 556 : Post, Emily


Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post : 7864 : Post, Emily


The single essential ingredient of good manners is a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
Emily Post : 8798 : Post, Emily


Human beings are perhaps never more frightening that when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van Der Post : 2726 : Post, Laurens Van Der


Once upon a time, there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
Beatrix Potter : 10724 : Potter, Beatrix


The setting to music of a poem must be an act of love, never a marriage of convenience.
Francis Poulenc : 9424 : Poulenc, Francis


Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree.
Ezra Pound : 589 : Pound, Ezra


The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound : 7191 : Pound, Ezra


One of the pleasures of middle age is to find out that one was right, and that one was much righter than one knew at, say, seventeen or twenty-three.
Ezra Pound : 7227 : Pound, Ezra


The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound : 7627 : Pound, Ezra


My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I said, "Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim."
Paula Poundstone : 5705 : Poundstone, Paula


There was only one thing I could do - hammer relentlessly, continually crying aloud, even if in a wilderness, and force open, by sheer muscle power, every closed door.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. : 11168 : Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.


Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Anthony Powell : 160 : Powell, Anthony


Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell : 6319 : Powell, Anthony


There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell : 6371 : Powell, Colin


If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell : 12241 : Powell, Colin


What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Eleanor Powell : 4380 : Powell, Eleanor


All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell : 2688 : Powell, Enoch


For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.
Enoch Powell : 7644 : Powell, Enoch


Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
William Powell : 7549 : Powell, William


I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
William Powell : 9153 : Powell, William


A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
Llewelyn Powers : 11259 : Powers, Llewelyn


It cannot be denied that though a concentrated awareness is what we must aim at; there are many lovely and magical flashes of illumination which come sideways and indirectly.
John Cowper Powys : 2995 : Powys, John Cowper


Thorough preparation makes its own luck.
Joe Poyer : 9130 : Poyer, Joe


No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett : 3544 : Pratchett, Terry


There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
Terry Pratchett : 10998 : Pratchett, Terry


The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett : 11822 : Pratchett, Terry


In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; They have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett : 12497 : Pratchett, Terry


Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
Hugh Prather : 8092 : Prather, Hugh


What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to figure out how things "really are," when all the time they weren't.
Hugh Prather : 11215 : Prather, Hugh


Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator.
Richard Pratt : 11385 : Pratt, Richard


I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Steve Prefontaine : 7120 : Prefontaine, Steve


Farmers ought to learn to make better fences; why not establish a fencing school for their benefit?
G. D. Prentice : 656 : Prentice, George Dennison


A man bitten by a dog, no matter if the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
G. D. Prentiss : 657 : Prentice, George Dennison


Be sure not to tell a first falsehood and you needn't fear being detected in any subsequent ones.
G. D. Prentice : 3658 : Prentice, George Dennison


Some people use one half of their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
G. D. Prentice : 3704 : Prentice, George Dennison


It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
George Dennison Prentice : 3904 : Prentice, George Dennison


One swallow does not make a summer, but too many swallows make a fall.
G. D. Prentice : 4913 : Prentice, George Dennison


Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it.
Elvis Presley : 7759 : Presley, Elvis


I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis Presley : 10229 : Presley, Elvis


Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
Bill Press : 9496 : Press, Bill


The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.
Antoine Francois Prevost : 13529 : Prevost, Antoine Francois


Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
Ivy Baker Priest : 897 : Priest, Ivy Baker


The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest : 7129 : Priest, Ivy Baker


We cannot get grace from gadgets, in the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
J. B. Priestley : 4650 : Priestley, J. B.


Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
J. B. Priestley : 4799 : Priestley, J. B.


All the gold in the world has no significance. That which is lasting are the thoughtful acts which we do for our fellow man.
Adolfo Prieto : 6824 : Prieto, Adolfo


Recreation is not the highest kind act of enjoyment, but in its proper time and place, it is quite as proper as prayer.
Samuel Irenaeu Prime : 3782 : Prime, Samuel Irenaeu


Music allowed me to eat. But it also allowed me to express myself. I played because I had to play. I rid myself of bad dreams and rotten memories.
Prince : 8587 : Prince


If it hadn't been for Elvis, I'd probably be driving a snowplow in Minneapolis.
Prince : 10810 : Prince


There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline, and humility are required.
Prince Andrew : 7618 : Prince Andrew


A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics - not for the tenants.
Prince Charles : 9980 : Prince Charles


Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh : 4925 : Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh


When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
Princess Anne : 7264 : Princess Anne


Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
Princess Anne : 8450 : Princess Anne


If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.
Yvonne Prinz : 12841 : Prinz, Yvonne


They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior : 5374 : Prior, Matthew


The ends must justify the means.
Matthew Prior : 9133 : Prior, Matthew


A pessimist is a person who keeps an optimist from becoming satisfied with himself.
Herbert Prochnow : 10083 : Prochnow, Herbert


His joints creaked like those of an old weather beaten wooden farm gate.
Herbert Prochnow : 863 : Prochnow, Herbert V.


Self-confidence: a personal trait that is closely related to conceit.
Herbert Prochnow : 864 : Prochnow, Herbert V.


He was as polished, and as hard, as the brass plate upon which his name was etched.
Herbert Prochnow : 865 : Prochnow, Herbert V.


You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.
Herbert V. Prochnow : 3259 : Prochnow, Herbert V.


A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Herbert Prochnow : 4400 : Prochnow, Herbert V.


Unfortunately, Man never gets too old or too experienced to be stupid in some new way.
Herbert Prochnow : 5607 : Prochnow, Herbert V.


A bargain is something you can't use but which is so cheap you can't afford not to buy it.
Herbert Prochnow : 7310 : Prochnow, Herbert V.


Always read the preface of a book. It enables you to survey more completely the book itself.
B. W. Proctor : 4951 : Proctor, B. W.


Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
Jenn Proske : 12590 : Proske, Jenn


All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust : 1214 : Proust, Marcel


The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
Marcel Proust : 2252 : Proust, Marcel


Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust : 2518 : Proust, Marcel


All the greatest things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in
Marcel Proust : 4154 : Proust, Marcel


The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust : 4496 : Proust, Marcel


In order to possess, one must first have desired.
Marcel Proust : 6156 : Proust, Marcel


Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust : 6358 : Proust, Marcel


Often it is just a lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Marcel Proust : 6548 : Proust, Marcel


After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
Marcel Proust : 6969 : Proust, Marcel


A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Marcel Proust : 8866 : Proust, Marcel


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust : 10889 : Proust, Marcel


Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust : 11507 : Proust, Marcel


Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant.
Proverb : 1472 : Proverb


A fool and his money are soon parted.
Proverb : 10181 : Proverb


It's all right to look on the bright side, but it's wiser to look on both sides.
Old Proverb : 11422 : Proverb


If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
African Proverb : 22 : Proverb - African


If you want peace in the house, do what your wife wants.
African Proverb : 3330 : Proverb - African


Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
African Proverb : 3605 : Proverb - African


Man is like palm wine; when young, it's sweet but without strength, but in age, strong and harsh.
African Proverb : 4956 : Proverb - African


Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb : 10583 : Proverb - African


Adversity is the stuff that shows whether you are what you thought you were.
American Proverb : 2572 : Proverb - American


The dog with the bone is always in danger.
American Proverb : 5633 : Proverb - American


A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.
American Proverb : 9485 : Proverb - American


All the passions are extinguished with old age; self-love never dies.
American Proverb : 10809 : Proverb - American


Who ends the day with wholesome food begins the next in a happy mood.
Ancient Adage : 4914 : Proverb - Ancient


Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.
Arab Proverb : 10531 : Proverb - Arab


Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arabian Proverb : 2122 : Proverb - Arabian


When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken, you reign over it.
Arabian Proverb : 2480 : Proverb - Arabian


A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
Arabian Proverb : 3592 : Proverb - Arabian


He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb : 3680 : Proverb - Arabian


Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Arabic Proverb : 11250 : Proverb - Arabic


A dog that barks all the time gets little attention.
Argentine Proverb : 3614 : Proverb - Argentine


Rain beats a leopard's skin but does not wash off the spots.
Ashanti Proverb : 2144 : Proverb - Ashanti


When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced: live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Saying : 8440 : Proverb - Cherokee


He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb : 371 : Proverb - Chinese


The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Chinese Proverb : 372 : Proverb - Chinese


Patience is power; with time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Chinese Proverb : 373 : Proverb - Chinese


Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
Chinese Proverb : 374 : Proverb - Chinese


He that is without money might as well be buried in a rice tub with his mouth sewed up.
Chinese Proverb : 375 : Proverb - Chinese


If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
Chinese Proverb : 376 : Proverb - Chinese


If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Chinese Proverb : 377 : Proverb - Chinese


He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Chinese Saying : 378 : Proverb - Chinese


A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Chinese Proverb : 1969 : Proverb - Chinese


Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.
Chinese Proverb : 2523 : Proverb - Chinese


Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Chinese Proverb : 2590 : Proverb - Chinese


The tongue is like a sharp knife; it kills without drawing blood.
Chinese Proverb : 3227 : Proverb - Chinese


Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
Chinese Proverb : 3622 : Proverb - Chinese


What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
Chinese Proverb : 4065 : Proverb - Chinese


When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb : 4283 : Proverb - Chinese


Kissing is like drinking salted water. You drink, and your thirst increases.
Chinese Proverb : 4395 : Proverb - Chinese


He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
Chinese Proverb : 5139 : Proverb - Chinese


A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb : 5262 : Proverb - Chinese


Make your whole year's plan in the spring, and your day's plans early in the morning.
Chinese Proverb : 5407 : Proverb - Chinese


Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb : 6097 : Proverb - Chinese


If you would be happy for a week, get married. If you would be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it. If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
Chinese Proverb : 7208 : Proverb - Chinese


To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb : 9497 : Proverb - Chinese


Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears old age.
Chinese Proverb : 9811 : Proverb - Chinese


To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb : 10359 : Proverb - Chinese


The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Chinese Proverb : 10726 : Proverb - Chinese


Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb : 10965 : Proverb - Chinese


The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb : 11098 : Proverb - Chinese


A book is like a garden in one's pocket.
Chinese Proverb : 11689 : Proverb - Chinese


A peasant must sit in his chair with his mouth open for a very long time before a roast duck will fly in.
Chinese Proverb : 11787 : Proverb - Chinese


Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Chinese Proverb : 12686 : Proverb - Chinese


He who is not friendly toward a good guest will never have one.
Chinese Wisdom : 13101 : Proverb - Chinese


Treat thoughts as guests and wishes as Chinese.
Chinese Saying : 13102 : Proverb - Chinese


Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
Cree Indian Proverb : 4520 : Proverb - Cree Indian


He knows the water best who has waded through it.
Danish Adage : 422 : Proverb - Danish


Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not build its nest in your hair.
Danish Saying : 423 : Proverb - Danish


He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
Danish Proverb : 4482 : Proverb - Danish


It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.
Danish Proverb : 12560 : Proverb - Danish


The richest man, whatever his lot, is he who is content with what he has got.
Dutch Proverb : 3695 : Proverb - Dutch


He who is outside the door has already a good part of the journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb : 5082 : Proverb - Dutch


He that boasts of his ancestors confesses he has no virtue of his own.
English Proverb : 561 : Proverb - English


A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
English Proverb : 562 : Proverb - English


A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
English Proverb : 563 : Proverb - English


When the wind's in the east on Candlemas Day, there it will stick till the end of May.
English Saying : 2135 : Proverb - English


He who would climb the ladder must begin with the bottom step.
English Proverb : 2159 : Proverb - English


Reputation is often got without merit any lost without fault.
English Proverb : 2578 : Proverb - English


He is lifeless that is faultless.
English Proverb : 3634 : Proverb - English


Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.
English Proverb : 4955 : Proverb - English


A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, nor a garden without love.
English Adage : 4976 : Proverb - English


There are none so empty as those who are full of themselves.
English Proverb : 5662 : Proverb - English


They are not all saints who use holy water.
English Proverb : 7386 : Proverb - English


A good beginning makes a good ending.
English Proverb : 7728 : Proverb - English


One of these days is none of these days.
English Proverb : 9848 : Proverb - English


Spread the table and contention will cease.
English Proverb : 10576 : Proverb - English


Loyalty is more valuable than diamonds.
Filipino Proverb : 11688 : Proverb - Filipino


One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverb : 636 : Proverb - French


When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
French Proverb : 637 : Proverb - French


Children have more need of models than of critics.
French Proverb : 638 : Proverb - French


Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason.
French Proverb : 639 : Proverb - French


Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
French Proverb : 640 : Proverb - French


Forty is the old age of youth. Fifty is the youth of old age.
French Proverb : 641 : Proverb - French


The pleasure of love lasts but a moment. The pain of love lasts a lifetime.
French Proverb : 2134 : Proverb - French


It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones.
French Saying : 2143 : Proverb - French


The first step binds one to the second.
French Proverb : 4871 : Proverb - French


People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
French Proverb : 10145 : Proverb - French


Wait till it is night before saying it has been a fine day.
French Proverb : 10548 : Proverb - French


May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends below never fall out.
Gaelic Toast : 9446 : Proverb - Gaelic


There is no eel so small that it does not hope to become a whale
German Proverb : 726 : Proverb - German


One who buys needs one hundred eyes; one is enough for him who sells.
German Proverb : 5499 : Proverb - German


Everyone's companion is no one's friend.
German Proverb : 9501 : Proverb - German


The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.
Greek Proverb : 756 : Proverb - Greek


Nothing will content the one who is not content with little.
Greek Proverb : 2101 : Proverb - Greek


The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words.
Greek Proverb : 5251 : Proverb - Greek


A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
Greek Proverb : 13497 : Proverb - Greek


Do not insult the alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Haitian Proverb : 9469 : Proverb - Haitian


Should one person tell you you have donkey ears, take no notice, should two tell you so, procure a saddle for yourself.
Hebrew Proverb : 808 : Proverb - Hebrew


Whoever stops up his ear at the cry of the poor shall cry himself and not be heard.
Hebrew Proverb : 3250 : Proverb - Hebrew


They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
Hindu Proverb : 873 : Proverb - Hindu


Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
Hindu Proverb : 4812 : Proverb - Hindu


The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself.
Hindu Proverb : 8039 : Proverb - Hindu


He who has come through the fire will not fade in the sun.
Hindu Proverb : 10549 : Proverb - Hindu


To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
Hopi Proverb : 4145 : Proverb - Hopi


A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
Indian Proverb : 3570 : Proverb - Indian


Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
Indian Proverb : 4356 : Proverb - Indian


Don't bargain for fish that are still in the water.
Indian Proverb : 4844 : Proverb - Indian


Every time you wake up and ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?", remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
Indian Proverb : 7525 : Proverb - Indian


Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
Ancient Indian Proverb : 12364 : Proverb - Indian


A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.
Irish Adage : 2104 : Proverb - Irish


As we start the new year, let's get down on our knees to thank God we are on our feet.
Irish Toast : 4433 : Proverb - Irish


Only two things in this world are too serious to be jested on: potatoes and matrimony.
Irish Saying : 4451 : Proverb - Irish


May God grant you many years to live, for sure He must be knowing, the earth has angels all too few and Heaven is overflowing.
Irish Blessing : 4692 : Proverb - Irish


You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Irish Proverb : 8822 : Proverb - Irish


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
Irish Proverb : 9806 : Proverb - Irish


God made time, but man made haste.
Irish Proverb : 10862 : Proverb - Irish


May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
Irish Blessing : 10968 : Proverb - Irish


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb : 11739 : Proverb - Irish


May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
Irish Toast : 13157 : Proverb - Irish


We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
Italian Proverb : 894 : Proverb - Italian


Of three things the devil makes a stew: lawyers' tongues, lovers' promises and ungrateful children.
Italian Proverb : 895 : Proverb - Italian


Have you fifty friends? It is not enough. Have you one enemy? It is too much.
Italian Proverb : 2027 : Proverb - Italian


A happy heart is better than a full purse.
Italian Proverb : 6510 : Proverb - Italian


Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only in its paths.
Japanese Proverb : 5246 : Proverb - Japanese


Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb : 12329 : Proverb - Japanese


With money in your purse, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
Jewish Proverb : 3189 : Proverb - Jewish


Let your ears hear what your mouth says.
Jewish Proverb : 5621 : Proverb - Jewish


I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
Jewish Proverb : 9482 : Proverb - Jewish


He who eats and drinks, but does not bless the Lord, is a thief.
Jewish Proverb : 11661 : Proverb - Jewish


The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe to the pitcher. The pitcher fell on the stone? Woe to the pitcher.
Jewish Proverb : 12523 : Proverb - Jewish


If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
Korean Proverb : 4109 : Proverb - Korean


No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
Latin Proverb : 2389 : Proverb - Latin


A turtle lays thousands of eggs and no one knows but when a hen lays an egg, the whole world is informed.
Malay Proverb : 1211 : Proverb - Malaysian


A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a liana that can be bent but not broken.
Malaysian Adage : 1212 : Proverb - Malaysian


The body pays for a slip of the fool, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
Malaysian Proverb : 2076 : Proverb - Malaysian


Endurance pierces marble.
Moroccan Proverb : 5625 : Proverb - Moroccan


If you hear that a mountain has moved, believe; but if you hear that a man has changed his character, believe it not.
Muslim Proverb : 5205 : Proverb - Muslim


We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb : 4519 : Proverb - Native American


If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Adage : 1394 : Proverb - Oriental


Do little things now; so shall big things come to you by-and-by, by asking to be done.
Persian Proverb : 1446 : Proverb - Persian


He who wants a rose has to respect the thorn.
Persian Proverb : 2164 : Proverb - Persian


A closed fist is the lock of heaven and the open hand is the key of mercy.
Persian Proverb : 11104 : Proverb - Persian


The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's.
Polish Proverb : 12750 : Proverb - Polish


Visits always give pleasure; if not in the arriving, then in the departing.
Portuguese Proverb : 2102 : Proverb - Portuguese


When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes, when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
Russian Proverb : 1592 : Proverb - Russian


Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and man from all sides.
Russian Proverb : 1593 : Proverb - Russian


When rubles fall from heaven there is no sack; when there is a sack, rubles don't fall.
Russian Wisdom : 2136 : Proverb - Russian


No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.
Russian Proverb : 2152 : Proverb - Russian


If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
Russian Proverb : 4407 : Proverb - Russian


If we knew beforehand where we were going to fall, we could lay down a carpet.
Russian Proverb : 4948 : Proverb - Russian


The belly is ungrateful - it always forgets we already gave it something.
Russian Proverb : 5103 : Proverb - Russian


A house is beautiful not because of its walls, but because of its cakes.
Russian Saying : 5492 : Proverb - Russian


The church is near, but the road is icy; the tavern is far, but I'll walk very carefully.
Russian Proverb : 5538 : Proverb - Russian


A fortune is not always a friend, but a friend is always a fortune.
Russian Proverb : 5554 : Proverb - Russian


If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Russian Proverb : 9813 : Proverb - Russian


Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Sanskrit Proverb : 6181 : Proverb - Sanskrit


Even four horses cannot pull back what the tongue has let go.
Slovakian Proverb : 1668 : Proverb - Slovakian


Never whisper to the deaf or wink at the blind.
Slovenian Proverb : 8469 : Proverb - Slovenian


Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Spanish Proverb : 1718 : Proverb - Spanish


A man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman.
Spanish Proverb : 2140 : Proverb - Spanish


No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.
Spanish Proverb : 4434 : Proverb - Spanish


A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant: the best part is underground.
Spanish Proverb : 4905 : Proverb - Spanish


A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Spanish Proverb : 9410 : Proverb - Spanish


He that has no children brings them up well.
Spanish Proverb : 9844 : Proverb - Spanish


How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
Spanish Proverb : 11666 : Proverb - Spanish


He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.
Spanish Proverb : 12054 : Proverb - Spanish


Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish Proverb : 8402 : Proverb - Swedish


The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Swedish Proverb : 10833 : Proverb - Swedish


Fearless, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb : 11527 : Proverb - Swedish


The drink of which one never tires is water; the fruit of which one never wearies is a child.
Tamil Proverb : 4961 : Proverb - Tamil


Bulls can make money and bears can make money, but hogs just get slaughtered.
Wall Street Proverb : 3776 : Proverb - Wall Street


Three things it's best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood and a man who thinks he is wise.
Welsh Proverb : 8849 : Proverb - Welsh


Earth is but a marketplace; Heaven is home.
West African Proverb : 13110 : Proverb - West African


Nobody tries to steal your troubles, and nobody can take your good deeds.
Yiddish Proverb : 1947 : Proverb - Yiddish


He who does not have to borrow lives without cares.
Yiddish Proverb : 1948 : Proverb - Yiddish


The girl who can't dance says the band can't play
Yiddish Proverb : 1949 : Proverb - Yiddish


If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Yiddish Proverb : 3703 : Proverb - Yiddish


Better a sinner who knows he's a sinner than a saint who knows he's a saint.
Yiddish Saying : 4971 : Proverb - Yiddish


Time and words can't be recalled even if it was only yesterday.
Yiddish Proverb : 4978 : Proverb - Yiddish


If you pray for another, you will be helped yourself.
Yiddish Proverb : 5444 : Proverb - Yiddish


What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Yiddish Proverb : 5481 : Proverb - Yiddish


Tell the truth and run.
Yugoslavian Proverb : 3197 : Proverb - Yugoslavian


He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
Yugoslav Proverb : 11275 : Proverb - Yugoslavian


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Zen Proverb : 8780 : Proverb - Zen


When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Zen Proverb : 9117 : Proverb - Zen


A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17 : 4071 : Proverbs 17:17


You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden : 4937 : Prudden, Bonnie


Always play the hand you were dealt as though the guys with better hands will fold.
John Pryce : 10098 : Pryce, John


Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus : 1473 : Publilius Syrus


Fortune is like glass; the brighter the glitter, the more easily it is broken.
Publilius Syrus : 1474 : Publilius Syrus


It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Publilius Syrus : 1475 : Publilius Syrus


A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Publilius Syrus : 2110 : Publilius Syrus


He finds assistance in adversity who renders services in prosperity.
Publilius Syrus : 2907 : Publilius Syrus


It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
Publilius Syrus : 6763 : Publilius Syrus


Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus : 6772 : Publilius Syrus


How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus : 6810 : Publilius Syrus


A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
Publilius Syrus : 7058 : Publilius Syrus


Today is the pupil of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus : 7094 : Publilius Syrus


Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Publilius Syrus : 7391 : Publilius Syrus


Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Publilius Syrus : 7704 : Publilius Syrus


Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Publilius Syrus : 8089 : Publilius Syrus


Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
Publilius Syrus : 8381 : Publilius Syrus


He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus : 8769 : Publilius Syrus


A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus : 9121 : Publilius Syrus


A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus : 11681 : Publilius Syrus


Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
Publilius Syrus : 12061 : Publilius Syrus


Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Publilius Syrus : 12464 : Publilius Syrus


He is wise who gains wisdom from another's mishaps.
Publilus Syrus : 3249 : Publilus Syrus


Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilus Syrus : 9103 : Publilus Syrus


That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Philip Pullman : 12201 : Pullman, Philip


A vegetarian diet is best for those who would be beautiful, we read. Well, it does not seem to have done much for the elephant.
Punch : 4885 : Punch


Never ask a favor of a man until he has had his dinner.
Punch : 4908 : Punch


Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Putt's Law : 3779 : Putt's Law


A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo : 1244 : Puzo, Mario


Man needs his foolish dreams perhaps more than he needs anything else. It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
Mario Puzo : 1245 : Puzo, Mario


Life is short, but it's wide!
Chuck Pyle : 2139 : Pyle, Chuck


If you go long enough without a bath even the fleas will let you alone.
Ernie Pyle : 582 : Pyle, Ernie


Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Pythagoras : 1476 : Pythagoras


Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras : 7756 : Pythagoras


The greatest strength and wealth is self-control.
Pythagoras : 9843 : Pythagoras


When I was fifteen I had my own comedy act - even played a strip joint once until my mother found out. I remember a girl took off her clothes to "The Theme from Romeo and Juliet."
Dennis Quaid : 434 : Quaid, Dennis


Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Quarles : 1967 : Quarles


He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but the quality of the givers.
Francis Quarles : 11908 : Quarles, Francis


Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Dan Quayle : 6105 : Quayle, Dan


What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind. How true that is.
Dan Quayle : 9065 : Quayle, Dan


It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina : 7984 : Queen Christina


If I am to disclose to you what I should prefer if I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married!
Queen Elizabeth I : 2289 : Queen Elizabeth I


I'm the first queen who's ever been able to drive.
Queen Elizabeth I : 7710 : Queen Elizabeth I


Whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Queen Elizabeth II : 12126 : Queen Elizabeth II


There's little justice and certainly no mercy in this world.
Ellery Queen : 5142 : Queen, Ellery


Violent exercise is like a cold shower; you think it does you good because you feel better when you stop.
Robert Quillen : 1563 : Quillen, Robert


You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.
Robert Quillen : 4984 : Quillen, Robert


Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
Robert Quillen : 10064 : Quillen, Robert


My child looked at me, and I looked back at him. I realized that it had come down to this; a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
Anna Quindlen : 2662 : Quindlen, Anna


I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
Anna Quindlen : 8517 : Quindlen, Anna


I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen : 11038 : Quindlen, Anna


The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen : 12096 : Quindlen, Anna


The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
Anna Quindlen : 12426 : Quindlen, Anna


Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian : 5885 : Quintilian


One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
Quintilian : 10894 : Quintilian


In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
Jonathan Raban : 2553 : Raban, Jonathan


Oh thrice and four times happy are those who plant cabbages.
Francois Rabelais : 2625 : Rabelais, Francois


How should I be able to govern others when I don't know how to govern myself?
Rabelais : 2894 : Rabelais, Francois


Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Sergei Rachmaninov : 12592 : Rachmaninov, Sergei


I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
Daniel Radcliffe : 9167 : Radcliffe, Daniel


The trouble with a fellow who talks too fast is that he is liable to say something he hasn't thought of yet.
Don Radde : 7979 : Radde, Don


Not in novelty but in habit and custom do we find the greatest pleasure.
Raymond Radiguet : 7683 : Radiguet, Raymond


I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner : 3621 : Radner, Gilda


Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Gilda Radner : 7436 : Radner, Gilda


Dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
Gilda Radner : 10720 : Radner, Gilda


Stop finding all the ways that you can't do something and find all the ways that you can.
Issa Rae : 12820 : Rae, Issa


Alas, for our towns and cities. Monstrous carbuncles of concrete have erupted in gentle Georgian squares.
Raine, Countess Spencer : 7607 : Raine, Countess Spencer


You get a feeling that if "The Wizard of Oz" were remade today, the yellow brick road would be brought to you courtesy of "Carpeteria".
Peter Rainier : 8258 : Rainier, Peter


I don't have the drive to be a star. I just wanted to make a nice living and be on a bill with Jackson Browne.
Bonnie Raitt : 8296 : Raitt, Bonnie


I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
Bonnie Raitt : 12255 : Raitt, Bonnie


If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies.
Sir Walter Raleigh, at the scaffold : 8025 : Raleigh, Sir Walter


Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetuated by disciples of altruism?
Ayn Rand : 209 : Rand, Ayn


Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
Ayn Rand : 3311 : Rand, Ayn


Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.
Ayn Rand : 4642 : Rand, Ayn


The upper classes are merely a nation's past; The middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand : 7122 : Rand, Ayn


A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand : 8151 : Rand, Ayn


The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Ayn Rand : 8327 : Rand, Ayn


People create their own questions because they're afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
Ayn Rand : 8888 : Rand, Ayn


To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand : 10617 : Rand, Ayn


The closest to perfection a person comes is when he fills out a job application.
Stanley J. Randall : 4585 : Randall, Stanley J.


The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
James Randi : 11636 : Randi, James


A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph : 2219 : Randolph, A. Philip


Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph : 1015 : Randolph, John


I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold: It is "pay as you go".
John Randolph : 1810 : Randolph, John


Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer. The chances are he won't use it wisely.
Bette-Jane Raphael : 11984 : Raphael, Bette-Jane


The television critic, whatever his pretension, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Frederic Raphael : 10680 : Raphael, Frederic


A computer lets you make mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe : 12517 : Ratcliffe, Mitch


The dream begins with the teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".
Dan Rather : 2253 : Rather, Dan


Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather : 13511 : Rather, Dan


When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.
Terence Rattigan : 1756 : Rattigan, Terence


If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
Simon Rattle : 9362 : Rattle, Simon


The person who knows "how" will always have a job; the person who knows "why" will always be his boss.
Diane Ravitch : 437 : Ravitch, Diane


The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
John Rawls : 4073 : Rawls, John


Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls : 12558 : Rawls, Lou


There's nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.
E. Ray : 489 : Ray, E.


Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.
James Arthur Ray : 12693 : Ray, James Arthur


He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
John Ray : 4958 : Ray, John


Like a true Italian, Mom valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
Rachael Ray : 13017 : Ray, Rachael


I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, "Be kind to one another." This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.
Randolph Ray : 9623 : Ray, Randolph


I've always wanted responsibility because I want the power responsibility brings.
Sam Rayburn : 2856 : Rayburn, Sam


No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn : 6083 : Rayburn, Sam


You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Sam Rayburn : 13068 : Rayburn, Sam


The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems.
Chet Raymo : 10515 : Raymo, Chet


Sins become more subtle as you grow older: You commit sins of despair rather than lust.
Piers Paul Read : 6422 : Read, Piers Paul


Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade : 2741 : Reade, Charles


Beauty is power; a Smile is its sword.
Charles Reade : 8783 : Reade, Charles


A woman is like a tea bag. You don't know her strength until she is in hot water.
Nancy Reagan : 2013 : Reagan, Nancy


If I'd gotten this much applause in Hollywood, I never would have left.
Ronald Reagan : 1570 : Reagan, Ronald


Walter Mondale accuses us of ad-libbing our foreign policy. Not true. We read it right off the three-by-five cards.
Ronald Reagan : 1571 : Reagan, Ronald


Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
Ronald Reagan : 1572 : Reagan, Ronald


Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan : 1573 : Reagan, Ronald


While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan : 1574 : Reagan, Ronald


When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Ronald Reagan : 3299 : Reagan, Ronald


Never antagonize any group, no matter how small, if you can avoid it. If you have to choose between two groups, always choose to antagonize the one that is less vindictive and less organized.
Ronald Reagan : 3902 : Reagan, Ronald


A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan : 5689 : Reagan, Ronald


It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan : 6092 : Reagan, Ronald


Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald Reagan : 6452 : Reagan, Ronald


Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan : 6734 : Reagan, Ronald


Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan : 6809 : Reagan, Ronald


Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan : 6868 : Reagan, Ronald


I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan : 6930 : Reagan, Ronald


No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Ronald Reagan : 7001 : Reagan, Ronald


We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.
Ronald Reagan : 8940 : Reagan, Ronald


Approximately eight percent of air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan : 10356 : Reagan, Ronald


You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.
Ronald Reagan : 10730 : Reagan, Ronald


The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan : 11384 : Reagan, Ronald


There's an old saying that in raising taxes, as in shearing sheep, it is best to stop when one gets to the skin.
Ronald Reagan : 11575 : Reagan, Ronald


Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan : 11941 : Reagan, Ronald


Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
Harry Reasoner : 5982 : Reasoner, Harry


I am poor and naked, but I am chief of the nation. We do not want riches, we do not seek riches, but we want our children properly trained and brought up. Our riches will do us no good; we cannot take away into the other world anything we have.
Red Cloud : 6246 : Red Cloud


I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford : 7508 : Redford, Robert


I found a great salvation through acting. It did a fantastic amount for me - making the person that I really am feel free to be just that.
Lynn Redgrave : 7898 : Redgrave, Lynn


Acting is the most immediate art of all. The audience is either caught up entirely or not; it's now or nothing.
Michael Redgrave : 10042 : Redgrave, Michael


I choose my roles carefully so that when my career is finished, I'll have covered all our current history of oppression.
Vanessa Redgrave : 11241 : Redgrave, Vanessa


You can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.
John A. Redhead : 9716 : Redhead, John A.


I call a wrong number. A guy on the other end says, "Well, what number did you dial?" "Well, did it ring at your house? Then I guess I dialed yours, Mr. Wizard!"
Larry Reeb : 6582 : Reeb, Larry


The Chase is the worst thing that has happened to movies since Lassie played a war veteran with amnesia.
Rex Reed : 1516 : Reed, Rex


Doctors must really get typewriters. This lady is suffering from something unreadable.
Tudor Rees : 1808 : Rees, Tudor


If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Bette Reese : 2453 : Reese, Bette


A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve : 11829 : Reeve, Christopher


The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves : 13186 : Reeves, Keanu


One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.
Ruth Reichl : 12425 : Reichl, Ruth


If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Thomas Reid : 7825 : Reid, Thomas


Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler : 10283 : Reigler, Francesca


When you want to recognize and understand what takes place in the minds of others, you have first to look into yourself.
Theodor Reik : 3120 : Reik, Theodor


In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik : 7586 : Reik, Theodor


There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words: Love and Achievement.
Theodor Reik : 12448 : Reik, Theodor


The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
Theodor Reik : 12486 : Reik, Theodor


Columbus discovered America when he set out in quest of ginger and cinnamon, and historians are still debating the long-term benefits of his journey.
Abbe Reinal : 2695 : Reinal, Abbe


A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner : 4464 : Reiner, Carl


My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it."
Erich Maria Remarque : 575 : Remarque, Erich Maria


Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
Rembrandt : 2029 : Rembrandt


The relation of genius to talent is the same as that of instinct to reason
Jules Renard : 1070 : Renard, Jules


There are moments when everything turns out right. Don't let it alarm you; they pass
Jules Renard : 1071 : Renard, Jules


The reward of great men is that long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Jules Renard : 1072 : Renard, Jules


Talent is like money. You don't have to have some to talk about it.
Jules Renard : 3705 : Renard, Jules


We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but by then we realize it and admit it.
Jules Renard : 5009 : Renard, Jules


Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard : 5373 : Renard, Jules


It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Jules Renard : 5431 : Renard, Jules


It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Jules Renard : 5547 : Renard, Jules


Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.
Jules Renard : 6183 : Renard, Jules


When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
Jules Renard : 6368 : Renard, Jules


A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet and two wings.
Jules Renard : 10152 : Renard, Jules


The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard : 11286 : Renard, Jules


Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard : 11442 : Renard, Jules


Democracy is a team sport. It is not like going to a ballgame where you sit passively and decide if you like the players and evaluate their abilities after watching the game. We are the players, we are the team, in a democratic nation or a democratic worl
John Renesch : 5899 : Renesch, John


There's no reason people who work have to be resigned to situations and endure circumstances when we all possess the power to create better futures.
John Renesch : 8577 : Renesch, John


If we are on a path of getting nowhere fast, technology is allowing us to get nowhere faster and faster.
John Renesch : 11962 : Renesch, John


Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Ruth E. Renkel : 10282 : Renkel, Ruth E.


Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel : 12650 : Renkel, Ruth E.


Nothing should be rushed, because too often when we rush to justice, we don't get it.
Janet Reno : 2859 : Reno, Janet


In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir : 3173 : Renoir, Jean


Those persons are happiest in the restless and mutable world who are in love with change; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
Agnes Repplier : 24 : Repplier, Agnes


Edged tools are dangerous to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Agnes Repplier : 25 : Repplier, Agnes


We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
Agnes Repplier : 3274 : Repplier, Agnes


People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
Agnes Repplier : 6061 : Repplier, Agnes


We can know nothing of any nation unless we know its history.
Agnes Repplier : 6527 : Repplier, Agnes


The tea hour is the hour of peace. Strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
Agnes Repplier : 8240 : Repplier, Agnes


It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier : 11824 : Repplier, Agnes


A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
Agnes Repplier : 12196 : Repplier, Agnes


Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.
Lynda Resnick : 12779 : Resnick, Lynda


A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston : 2646 : Reston, James


Foreign relations are like human relations. They are endless. The solution of one problem usually leads to another.
James Reston : 6028 : Reston, James


This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston : 6929 : Reston, James


Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what's doing us in.
James Reston : 11588 : Reston, James


In my opinion, a man's ability to recognize his errors proves him greater than successful avoidance of them.
Cardinal De Retz : 308 : Retz, Cardinal De


If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
Walter Reuther : 6385 : Reuther, Walter


In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
Charles Revlon : 8752 : Revlon, Charles


The composer who stumbles in taking a step forward is worth more attention than the composer who shows us how easily he can step backwards.
Ernest Reyer : 5941 : Reyer, Ernest


A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Joshua Reynolds : 11671 : Reynolds, Joshua


You know it's not a good wax museum when there are wicks coming out of people's heads.
Rick Reynolds : 3364 : Reynolds, Rick


The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Sir Joshua Reynolds : 7192 : Reynolds, Sir Joshua


You can waste your lives drawing lines, or you can live your life crossing them.
Shonda Rhimes : 12412 : Rhimes, Shonda


Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen.
Shonda Rhimes : 12757 : Rhimes, Shonda


The most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself.
Jewell Parker Rhodes : 12956 : Rhodes, Jewell Parker


I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
Condoleezza Rice : 12428 : Rice, Condoleezza


If Nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
Elmer Rice : 9408 : Rice, Elmer


Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will eighteen years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice : 11544 : Rice, Grantland


For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, he writes - not that you won or lost - but how you played the Game.
Grantland Rice : 11911 : Rice, Grantland


Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Adrienne Rich : 20 : Rich, Adrienne


In order to live a fully human life, we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order.
Adrienne Rich : 5993 : Rich, Adrienne


Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich : 10569 : Rich, Adrienne


When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Adrienne Rich : 13342 : Rich, Adrienne


I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
Buddy Rich : 13089 : Rich, Buddy


If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Ann Richards : 12416 : Richards, Ann


The most exciting moment of my life was appearing on the stage with Little Richard.
Keith Richards : 1092 : Richards, Keith


We want our minds to be clear - not so we can think clearly, but so we can be open in our perceptions.
M. C. Richards : 2619 : Richards, M. C.


Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
Rebecca Richards : 5180 : Richards, Rebecca


My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.
Ron Richards : 5719 : Richards, Ron


The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
Sir Ralph Richardson : 1665 : Richardson, Sir Ralph


The head, like the stomach, is most easily infected when it is empty.
Jean Paul Richter : 1527 : Richter, Jean Paul


The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Richter : 4260 : Richter, Jean Paul


Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Jean Paul Richter : 4734 : Richter, Jean Paul


A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
Jean Paul Richter : 5537 : Richter, Jean Paul


Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter : 6203 : Richter, Jean Paul


A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter : 6344 : Richter, Jean Paul


Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
Jean Paul Richter : 9655 : Richter, Jean Paul


Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richter : 11942 : Richter, Jean Paul


Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Johann Paul Richter : 9488 : Richter, Johann Paul


I can give you a six word formula for success: think things through, then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker : 503 : Rickenbacker, Edward


Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker : 504 : Rickenbacker, Edward


The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality, and Independence.
Edward Rickenbacker : 8230 : Rickenbacker, Edward


Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman : 13198 : Rickman, Alan


Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Admiral Rickover : 19 : Rickover, Admiral


The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
Sally Ride : 13554 : Ride, Sally


No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers.
Wolfgang Riebe : 12665 : Riebe, Wolfgang


Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman : 6306 : Riesman, David


The metamorphosis of consumption from vice to virtue is one of the most important yet least examined phenomena of the twentieth century.
Jeremy Rifkin : 2351 : Rifkin, Jeremy


The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Donald Riggs : 8987 : Riggs, Donald


I don't do things for the response or the controversy. I must live by life.
Rihanna : 12828 : Rihanna


The slum is the measure of civilization.
Jacob Riis : 7396 : Riis, Jacob


Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke : 3998 : Rilke, Rainer Maria


Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke : 4284 : Rilke, Rainer Maria


Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke : 8380 : Rilke, Rainer Maria


And now, let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been.
Rainer Maria Rilke : 12659 : Rilke, Rainer Maria


Love is like the measles; The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Mary Roberts Rinehart : 4424 : Rinehart, Mary Roberts


I just decided, when someone says you can't do something, do more of it.
Faith Ringgold : 12979 : Ringgold, Faith


Throughout history, people have never before expected to be as comfortable as people do today.
Jens Risom : 12974 : Risom, Jens


A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
Antoine Rivarol : 2064 : Rivarol, Antoine


I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
Joan Rivers : 978 : Rivers, Joan


I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers : 979 : Rivers, Joan


A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake Mommy before noon.
Joan Rivers : 5921 : Rivers, Joan


Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.
Joan Rivers : 6764 : Rivers, Joan


My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
Joan Rivers : 8294 : Rivers, Joan


I'm such a bad housekeeper, people wipe their feet before they leave - and when I cook, I serve Tums for after-dinner mints.
Joan Rivers : 8965 : Rivers, Joan


Most people who are as attractive, witty, and intelligent as I am are usually conceited.
Joan Rivers : 12002 : Rivers, Joan


Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.
Mary Roach : 13515 : Roach, Mary


Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins : 10514 : Robbins, Tom


To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins : 11328 : Robbins, Tom


Life is too small a container for certain individuals.
Tom Robbins : 11678 : Robbins, Tom


Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins : 10223 : Robbins, Tony


The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
Tony Robbins : 10290 : Robbins, Tony


If you're gonna make a change you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me, but for me.
Tony Robbins : 12390 : Robbins, Tony


It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Tony Robbins : 12476 : Robbins, Tony


There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins : 12877 : Robbins, Tony


The words you attach to your experience become your experience.
Tony Robbins : 12977 : Robbins, Tony


Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
Cavett Robert : 13460 : Robert, Cavett


Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart, and they both take practice.
Nora Roberts : 12252 : Roberts, Nora


The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
Frederick William Robertson : 7901 : Robertson, Frederick William


Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
Frederick W. Robertson : 7936 : Robertson, Frederick William


Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.
Nan Robertson : 11596 : Robertson, Nan


The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.
Walter S. Robertson : 1863 : Robertson, Walter S.


Having been given, I must give. Man shall not live by bread alone, and what the farmer does I must do. I must feed the people with my song.
Paul Robeson : 2305 : Robeson, Paul


Solitude is the best means of getting acquainted with one's self, but if one gets too well acquainted there is likely to be trouble.
Edwin Arlington Robinson : 3067 : Robinson, Edwin Arlington


If anything is worthy of a man's best and hardest effort, that thing is the utterance of what he believes to be the truth.
Edwin Arlington Robinson : 3080 : Robinson, Edwin Arlington


I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me ... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson : 11784 : Robinson, Jackie


Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Robinson : 934 : Robinson, James Harvey


Teaching may hasten learning; it may also block it or kill it outright, or sometimes just render it comatose for years.
James Harvey Robinson : 3084 : Robinson, James Harvey


All kids have tremendous talents - and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.
Ken Robinson : 11338 : Robinson, Ken


Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson : 7111 : Robinson, Maria


I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do.
Marilynne Robinson : 11943 : Robinson, Marilynne


In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
Mary Robinson : 1282 : Robinson, Mary


Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.
Sylvia Robinson : 5433 : Robinson, Sylvia


Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
Dame Flora Robson : 8735 : Robson, Dame Flora


He regretted that he was not a bird, and could not be in two places at once.
Sir Boyle Roche : 1657 : Roche, Sir Boyle


Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.
Happy Rockefeller : 11169 : Rockefeller, Happy


A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller : 9252 : Rockefeller, John D.


If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. : 11919 : Rockefeller, John D., Jr.


The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller : 3247 : Rockefeller, John D., Sr.


I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller : 3261 : Rockefeller, John D., Sr.


Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller Sr. : 7468 : Rockefeller, John D., Sr.


The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller : 9645 : Rockefeller, John D., Sr.


There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.
Nelson A. Rockefeller : 5269 : Rockefeller, Nelson A.


Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller : 6413 : Rockefeller, Nelson A.


One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne : 9574 : Rockne, Knute


I think that business practices would improve immeasurable if they were guided by "feminine" principles - qualities like love and care and intuition.
Anita Roddick : 2346 : Roddick, Anita


I don't know anything about business. I'm proud of that. Fear those who do. They're the dangerous ones.
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop International : 8239 : Roddick, Anita


There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
Fred Rodell : 10893 : Rodell, Fred


Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
Frances Rodman : 2425 : Rodman, Frances


When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Chi Chi Rodriguez : 10323 : Rodriguez, Chi Chi


I'm on a grapefruit diet. I eat everything but grapefruit.
Chi Chi Rodriguez : 12964 : Rodriguez, Chi Chi


Strive to be a person of value, and success will undeniably follow.
Nenci Rodriguez : 13443 : Rodriguez, Nenci


Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
Paul Rodriguez : 5737 : Rodriguez, Paul


Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
Paul Rodriguez : 9784 : Rodriguez, Paul


Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet that clings fast to the heel that crushed it.
George Roemisch : 711 : Roemisch, George


Christmas, that time of year when people descend into the bunker of the family.
Byron Rogers : 3217 : Rogers, Byron


The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Carl Rogers : 8704 : Rogers, Carl


The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers : 11023 : Rogers, Carl


The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers : 11603 : Rogers, Carl


Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers : 11412 : Rogers, Dale Evans


I live for today; that's why people think I'm strange. I don't even have a psychiatrist.
Ginger Rogers : 3985 : Rogers, Ginger


The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
Ginger Rogers : 6487 : Rogers, Ginger


Grad school is the snooze button on the clock radio of life.
John Rogers : 10305 : Rogers, John


People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers : 127 : Rogers, Will


You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers : 1883 : Rogers, Will


(regarding income tax) It has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
Will Rogers : 1884 : Rogers, Will


Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eating.
Will Rogers : 1885 : Rogers, Will


My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower but they met the boat.
Will Rogers : 1886 : Rogers, Will


A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
Will Rogers : 1887 : Rogers, Will


A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
Will Rogers : 1888 : Rogers, Will


Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
Will Rogers : 1889 : Rogers, Will


I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
Will Rogers : 1890 : Rogers, Will


Communism is like Prohibition; it's a good idea, but it won't work.
Will Rogers : 2084 : Rogers, Will


Calvin Coolidge didn't say much. And when he did, he didn't say much.
Will Rogers : 2496 : Rogers, Will


I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
Will Rogers : 2565 : Rogers, Will


This country has come to feel the same when congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers : 2614 : Rogers, Will


There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers : 2821 : Rogers, Will


I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers : 3361 : Rogers, Will


If Americans are going to start worrying about whether they can afford a thing or not, you are going to ruin the whole characteristic of our people.
Will Rogers : 3420 : Rogers, Will


The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers : 3660 : Rogers, Will


With Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law, and every time they make a law, it's a joke.
Will Rogers : 3719 : Rogers, Will


We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers : 3821 : Rogers, Will


Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
Will Rogers : 4293 : Rogers, Will


I'm not a real movie star - I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers : 4443 : Rogers, Will


Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers : 4490 : Rogers, Will


Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
Will Rogers : 4540 : Rogers, Will


Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
Will Rogers : 4849 : Rogers, Will


Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.
Will Rogers : 5136 : Rogers, Will


In filling out your income tax return, let an accountant instead of your conscience be your guide.
Will Rogers : 5283 : Rogers, Will


Broadmindedness is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
Will Rogers : 5334 : Rogers, Will


Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers : 5362 : Rogers, Will


Regarding the vice president: all he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"
Will Rogers : 5391 : Rogers, Will


We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers : 5514 : Rogers, Will


People that pay for things never complain; It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
Will Rogers : 5552 : Rogers, Will


Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers : 6454 : Rogers, Will


An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
Will Rogers : 6687 : Rogers, Will


Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers : 6706 : Rogers, Will


We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers : 6781 : Rogers, Will


A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
Will Rogers : 6962 : Rogers, Will


There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers : 6995 : Rogers, Will


The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers : 7015 : Rogers, Will


Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers : 7070 : Rogers, Will


Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers : 7353 : Rogers, Will


The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers : 7634 : Rogers, Will


The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers : 7684 : Rogers, Will


We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
Will Rogers : 8060 : Rogers, Will


When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
Will Rogers : 8273 : Rogers, Will


Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers : 8503 : Rogers, Will


America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but can think of nothing to do when it gets there.
Will Rogers : 8608 : Rogers, Will


I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.
Will Rogers : 8712 : Rogers, Will


There is not a country in the world that can change our outlook as quick as we can. Just a dollar in our pocket makes a different man out of us.
Will Rogers : 8930 : Rogers, Will


The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
Will Rogers : 9081 : Rogers, Will


Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will travel twice as far.
Will Rogers : 9803 : Rogers, Will


Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers : 10564 : Rogers, Will


The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
Will Rogers : 11263 : Rogers, Will


Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers : 12365 : Rogers, Will


Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe : 8147 : Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der


Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Mies van der Rohe : 10124 : Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der


We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn : 3180 : Rohn, Jim


You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn : 7163 : Rohn, Jim


Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn : 7428 : Rohn, Jim


Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn : 8461 : Rohn, Jim


By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
E. James Rohn : 8770 : Rohn, Jim


Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn : 9568 : Rohn, Jim


Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn : 9580 : Rohn, Jim


If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn : 12866 : Rohn, Jim


Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
Richard Rohr : 13086 : Rohr, Richard


Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.
Anne Roiphe : 10364 : Roiphe, Anne


People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
Marie-Jeanne Roland : 5996 : Roland, Marie-Jeanne


Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.
Romain Rolland : 4305 : Rolland, Romain


One makes mistakes; That is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Romain Rolland : 12919 : Rolland, Romain


It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins : 10611 : Rollins, Henry


A universal human stupidity is the belief that our neighbor's success is the cause of our failure.
Charles V. Roman : 7983 : Roman, Charles V.


We who have a voice must speak for the voiceless.
Archbishop Oscar Romero : 2917 : Romero, Archbishop Oscar


Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel : 12902 : Rommel, Erwin


In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.
Ronaldinho : 13396 : Ronaldinho


Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; gather the roses of life today.
Pierre de Ronsard : 7423 : Ronsard, Pierre de


Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
Andy Rooney : 100 : Rooney, Andrew A.


I'd like to be rich enough so that I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off.
Andy Rooney : 101 : Rooney, Andrew A.


If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney : 4413 : Rooney, Andrew A.


We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
Andy Rooney : 6408 : Rooney, Andrew A.


Every builder of every home should be compelled to attach his name, in some permanent but inconspicuous way, to that house, for better or for worse.
Andy Rooney : 7559 : Rooney, Andrew A.


A good saver can always think of a reason not to throw something out.
Andrew A. Rooney : 10119 : Rooney, Andrew A.


Getting lost on the way into town from the airport, I learn a lot about a strange city.
Andy Rooney : 9432 : Rooney, Andy


You'd be surprised how often I find something in the place I've already looked.
Andy Rooney : 10523 : Rooney, Andy


You often see ten things you'd like to buy for one person, but nothing seems right for someone else.
Andy Rooney : 10750 : Rooney, Andy


By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable.
Andy Rooney : 11314 : Rooney, Andy


One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney : 12409 : Rooney, Andy


The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney : 13533 : Rooney, Andy


Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
Frank Rooney : 2388 : Rooney, Frank


Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
Mickey Rooney : 2213 : Rooney, Mickey


I'm the only man who has a marriage license made out, "To whom it may concern."
Mickey Rooney : 4899 : Rooney, Mickey


I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
Mickey Rooney : 8758 : Rooney, Mickey


You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney : 12663 : Rooney, Mickey


Living in the public eye accustoms one to accept criticism. One learns gradually to take it objectively and to try to think of it as directed at somebody else and evaluate whether it is just or unjust.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 533 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Peace, like freedom, is elusive, hard to come by, harder to keep. It cannot be put into a purse or a hip pocket and buttoned there to stay.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 534 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 535 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 3574 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 3681 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 4553 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


I have always been willing to make an explanation, but never an excuse, for doing anything I considered proper.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 5215 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 5393 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 5628 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 5892 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 6021 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 6568 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 6613 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 6637 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 6697 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 7031 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 7054 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


It's so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 7476 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 7893 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another human being creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 9598 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 10195 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 10222 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


I think I have been asked to do something about everything in the world except change the weather!
Eleanor Roosevelt : 10479 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


I don't know what kind of a future life I believe in, but I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 10694 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 10891 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 11119 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


If you speak to the mass of the people as though you were talking to any one individual in your living room, you will reach their hearts and that is all that you have to bother about.
Eleanor Roosevelt : 11484 : Roosevelt, Eleanor


I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 624 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 625 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


New ideas can be good or bad, the same as always.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : 626 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of the mankind passes with him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 2163 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


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 : 4326 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships.
F. D. Roosevelt : 5611 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 6481 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 6599 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 6689 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 6898 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 7043 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 7234 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 7530 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : 8185 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 8550 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 10036 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 11601 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 11727 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 12863 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt On D-day : 13519 : Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.
Theodore Roosevelt : 1760 : Roosevelt, Theodore


I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt : 1761 : Roosevelt, Theodore


In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt : 1762 : Roosevelt, Theodore


The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt : 1968 : Roosevelt, Theodore


Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt : 2600 : Roosevelt, Theodore


The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt : 3015 : Roosevelt, Theodore


For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily, let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt : 3884 : Roosevelt, Theodore


The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt : 5522 : Roosevelt, Theodore


Our aim is not to do away with corporations ... we draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
Theodore Roosevelt : 5870 : Roosevelt, Theodore


There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
Theodore Roosevelt : 6258 : Roosevelt, Theodore


The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt : 7889 : Roosevelt, Theodore


I hold that every man owes something of his time and substance to the upbuilding of the profession or industry from which he gains his livelihood.
Theodore Roosevelt : 8228 : Roosevelt, Theodore


The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Theodore Roosevelt : 8910 : Roosevelt, Theodore


To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt : 9285 : Roosevelt, Theodore


Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt : 10869 : Roosevelt, Theodore


To waste, to destroy, our natural resources will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Theodore Roosevelt : 11478 : Roosevelt, Theodore


Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt : 11730 : Roosevelt, Theodore


True homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
Theodore Roosevelt : 12345 : Roosevelt, Theodore


The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
Theodore Roosevelt : 12839 : Roosevelt, Theodore


Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt : 12929 : Roosevelt, Theodore


There is no sense in having an argument with a man so stupid he doesn't know you have the better of him.
John Roper : 6957 : Roper, John


Speech is man's most confused and egocentric expression; the most orderly and magnanimous utterance is song.
Ned Rorem : 4988 : Rorem, Ned


The current state of music presents a variety of solutions in search of a problem, the problem being to find somebody left to listen.
Ned Rorem : 6594 : Rorem, Ned


The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
Ned Rorem : 8333 : Rorem, Ned


Any good song must be of greater magnitude than either the words or music alone.
Ned Rorem : 10107 : Rorem, Ned


The difference between people and ideas is only superficial.
Richard Rorty : 1526 : Rorty, Richard


There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty : 8156 : Rorty, Richard


Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Lord Roscommon : 7726 : Roscommon, Lord


Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose : 10160 : Rose, Billy


You get a lot of tension. You get a lot of headaches. I do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two and keep away from children.
Roseanne : 8957 : Roseanne


TV is a language all its own, a land of one-dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.
Roseanne : 10346 : Roseanne


Humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.
Flash Rosenberg : 3983 : Rosenberg, Flash


Modern art has been a series of individual explosions tearing at strata accumulated by centuries of communal inertia.
Harold Rosenberg : 6322 : Rosenberg, Harold


No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
H. Rosenberg : 7123 : Rosenberg, Harold


In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
Isaac Rosenfeld : 8883 : Rosenfeld, Isaac


In painting you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers.
Bob Ross : 12301 : Ross, Bob


Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross : 12546 : Ross, Diana


Rock has the ability to embarrass you several years later. It takes itself so seriously, whereas pop never pretends to have any depth.
Jonathan Ross : 4714 : Ross, Jonathan


Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
Christina Rossetti : 2895 : Rossetti, Christina


Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor cricket chirping cheerily, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat, Nor harmless worms that creep.
Christina Rossetti : 8516 : Rossetti, Christina


Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : 3946 : Rossetti, Dante Gabriel


One can't judge Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.
Gioacchino Rossini : 2311 : Rossini, Gioacchino


A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
Edmond Rostand : 4225 : Rostand, Edmond


Freud found guilt the core, the center, and the censor of civilization. The repression of our instinctual demands makes human society possible. Guilt is our helmsman and our scourge.
Leo Rosten : 1140 : Rosten, Leo


You can understand people better if you look at them - no matter how old or important or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.
Leo Rosten : 1141 : Rosten, Leo


First-rate people hire first rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Leo Rosten : 1142 : Rosten, Leo


The difference between love and lust is like the difference between strolling and skiing.
Leo Rosten : 2844 : Rosten, Leo


The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten : 4516 : Rosten, Leo


The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait.
Leo Rosten : 6136 : Rosten, Leo


Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
Leo Rosten : 6471 : Rosten, Leo


Logic: a game invented by a race of beings who cannot define love, explain hate, or replace prejudice with distaste.
Leo Rosten : 6639 : Rosten, Leo


Nothing is more rewarding than the effort a man makes to matter - to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that he lived at all.
Leo Rosten : 8227 : Rosten, Leo


If you want to be popular, ask people for advice; don't do anything about it - just ask.
Leo Rosten : 10777 : Rosten, Leo


Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.
Theodore Roszak : 9219 : Roszak, Theodore


Rock 'n' roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
David Lee Roth : 5059 : Roth, David Lee


If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roth : 4385 : Roth, Dennis


When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth : 2090 : Roth, Philip


Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
Philip Roth : 12093 : Roth, Philip


We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
Veronica Roth : 12183 : Roth, Veronica


If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact, but give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
Patrick Rothfuss : 12131 : Rothfuss, Patrick


I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Sir Nathan Rothschild : 8709 : Rothschild, Sir Nathan


People are always making rules for themselves, and always finding loopholes.
William Rotsler : 5399 : Rotsler, William


For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault : 2428 : Rouault, Georges


When I look at a Kevin Costner film, I fall asleep.
Mickey Rourke : 1305 : Rourke, Mickey


Whoever blushes, is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Henri Rousseau : 2038 : Rousseau, Henri


Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean Rousseau : 955 : Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


Be honest and humble; learn how to be ignorant, then you will never deceive yourself or others.
Rousseau : 1580 : Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 3291 : Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 4602 : Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
Jean Jacques Rousseau : 6377 : Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 8055 : Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 11582 : Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Joan Jacques Rousseau : 11563 : Rousseau, Joan Jacques


There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth, and there are those who try to show their good hearts.
Joseph Roux : 9725 : Roux, Joseph


Just as no man is an island in the sea of human hopes and hatreds, so no man is capable of bashing alone the roadblocks to justice and human freedom.
Carl Rowan : 8553 : Rowan, Carl


The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent.
Sheila Rowbotham : 8205 : Rowbotham, Sheila


Memory is the treasurer to whom we must give funds if we would draw the assistance we need.
Rowe : 1581 : Rowe


The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment.
Edgar Rowe : 6500 : Rowe, Edgar


Distinction of rank is necessary for the economy of the world, and was never called in question but by barbarians and enthusiasts.
Nicholas Rowe : 5964 : Rowe, Nicholas


October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup.
Rainbow Rowell : 12343 : Rowell, Rainbow


October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.
Rainbow Rowell : 12366 : Rowell, Rainbow


Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Helen Rowland : 813 : Rowland, Helen


It's as hard to get a man to stay home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
Helen Rowland : 814 : Rowland, Helen


Marriage is like twirling a baton, or eating with chopsticks; it looks so easy till you try it.
Helen Rowland : 815 : Rowland, Helen


A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland : 816 : Rowland, Helen


The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
Helen Rowland : 817 : Rowland, Helen


There are three kinds of kissers: the fire extinguisher, the mummy, and the vacuum cleaner.
Helen Rowland : 1974 : Rowland, Helen


The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland : 2737 : Rowland, Helen


A bride at her second wedding does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland : 3755 : Rowland, Helen


Love, like a chicken salad or a restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland : 4456 : Rowland, Helen


Some men feel that the only thing they owe the woman who married them is a grudge.
Helen Rowland : 4530 : Rowland, Helen


A man never knows how to say goodbye; A woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland : 8809 : Rowland, Helen


For repeating themselves, from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
Helen Rowland : 10018 : Rowland, Helen


The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
Helen Rowland : 10781 : Rowland, Helen


You have a moral responsibility, when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
J. K. Rowling : 6561 : Rowling, J. K.


It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling : 6653 : Rowling, J. K.


The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution.
J. K. Rowling : 6695 : Rowling, J. K.


Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling : 6738 : Rowling, J. K.


I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
J. K. Rowling : 6997 : Rowling, J. K.


There is no good or evil; only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling : 7046 : Rowling, J. K.


There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling : 7347 : Rowling, J. K.


The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling : 7722 : Rowling, J. K.


It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling : 11676 : Rowling, J. K.


There's really no such thing as the "Voiceless." There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati Roy : 12691 : Roy, Arundhati


The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.
Darrell Royal : 2754 : Royal, Darrell


Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
Josiah Royce : 1063 : Royce, Josiah


It's been my policy to view the internet not as an "information highway," but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
Mike Royko : 9896 : Royko, Mike


Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.
Richard Royster : 10807 : Royster, Richard


All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.
Vasili Vasilievich Rozanov : 1823 : Rozanov, Vasili Vasilievich


A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.
Robert Ruark : 10039 : Ruark, Robert


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.
Christopher Paul Rubero : 11447 : Rubero, Christopher Paul


Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Theodore Isaac Rubin : 10906 : Rubin, Theodore Isaac


Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in a hear me.
Arthur Rubinstein : 3012 : Rubinstein, Arthur


Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Artur Rubinstein : 6327 : Rubinstein, Arthur


Your past does not define who you are, it's only muscle that you are building for your future.
Mayra Rubio : 13427 : Rubio, Mayra


There's two times of year for me: football season, and waiting for football season.
Darius Rucker : 11423 : Rucker, Darius


The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
Rita Rudner : 1530 : Rudner, Rita


Men think they're more important than women because their suit jackets have secret pockets on inside.
Rita Rudner : 1531 : Rudner, Rita


In high school, I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew academy.
Rita Rudner : 1532 : Rudner, Rita


Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.
Rita Rudner : 3152 : Rudner, Rita


Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner : 4007 : Rudner, Rita


I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner : 4312 : Rudner, Rita


I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner : 5000 : Rudner, Rita


I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight.
Rita Rudner : 5701 : Rudner, Rita


When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.
Rita Rudner : 5713 : Rudner, Rita


Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: "This looks much better on." On what? On fire?
Rita Rudner : 5721 : Rudner, Rita


Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.
Rita Rudner : 6048 : Rudner, Rita


I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Rita Rudner : 6721 : Rudner, Rita


In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner : 6793 : Rudner, Rita


If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children" - sometimes they leave skid marks.
Rita Rudner : 7578 : Rudner, Rita


My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.
Rita Rudner : 8264 : Rudner, Rita


If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.
Rita Rudner : 8658 : Rudner, Rita


My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner : 9284 : Rudner, Rita


Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
Rita Rudner : 9859 : Rudner, Rita


Most women are introspective; "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilIed?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"
Rita Rudner : 11202 : Rudner, Rita


Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner : 11634 : Rudner, Rita


Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner : 11895 : Rudner, Rita


When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was "Always."
Rita Rudner : 12207 : Rudner, Rita


When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph : 11036 : Rudolph, Wilma


The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Ruffini : 1590 : Ruffini


Rank and riches are chains of gold, yet still are chains.
Ruffini : 3687 : Ruffini


If thou wingest thine arrows, Eros, at once upon two hearts, thou art a god; but not if thou piercest one only.
Rufinus : 8650 : Rufinus


Do not give any time to your past, you can't change what happened five minutes ago.
Jan Ruhe : 5619 : Ruhe, Jan


Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule : 11046 : Rule, Ann


Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order.
Jane Rule : 6070 : Rule, Jane


Nothing is so disgraceful to society, and to individuals, as unmeaningful wastefulness.
Count Rumford : 3823 : Rumford, Count


The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Rumi : 13133 : Rumi


Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi : 13380 : Rumi


Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck : 3649 : Runbeck, Margaret Lee


Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
Margaret Lee Runbeck : 4787 : Runbeck, Margaret Lee


Gamblers are creatures of contractions - they are fiercely greedy, lavishly generous, wary in many things, reckless of life, ready to take any advantage, yet possessed of a diseased sense of honor.
James Runciman : 7175 : Runciman, James


We now live in the Era of incompetence; we have painters who can't paint, poets who can't rhyme, and composers who whistle dissonance.
Dagobert Runes : 10423 : Runes, Dagobert


The freeloader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.
Damon Runyan : 3183 : Runyan, Damon


Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
Salman Rushdie : 2785 : Rushdie, Salman


To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
Salman Rushdie : 6491 : Rushdie, Salman


One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable, and ask difficult questions.
Salman Rushdie : 7615 : Rushdie, Salman


One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears, by listening to them
Dean Rusk : 122 : Rusk, Dean


Analysts and policy makers alike tend to interpret information to support their own viewpoints.
Dean Rusk : 2446 : Rusk, Dean


Your railroad, when you come to understand it, is only a device for making the world smaller.
John Ruskin : 1016 : Ruskin, John


Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin : 1017 : Ruskin, John


Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin : 1018 : Ruskin, John


Every duty which we omit obscures some truth which we should have known.
John Ruskin : 2528 : Ruskin, John


No human being, however great or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin : 3060 : Ruskin, John


To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin : 3107 : Ruskin, John


All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin : 3184 : Ruskin, John


Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin : 3187 : Ruskin, John


There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
John Ruskin : 4213 : Ruskin, John


As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.
John Ruskin : 4250 : Ruskin, John


Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.
John Ruskin : 4883 : Ruskin, John


The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin : 5402 : Ruskin, John


No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John Ruskin : 6297 : Ruskin, John


In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin : 7845 : Ruskin, John


When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin : 9092 : Ruskin, John


When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin : 9830 : Ruskin, John


An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
John Ruskin : 10093 : Ruskin, John


Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin : 10647 : Ruskin, John


When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
John Ruskin : 11148 : Ruskin, John


You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
John Ruskin : 11473 : Ruskin, John


You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin : 12472 : Ruskin, John


Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Bertrand Russell : 244 : Russell, Bertrand


I was born in the wrong generation. When I was a young man, no one had any respect for youth. Now I am an old man, and no one has any respect for age.
Bertrand Russell : 245 : Russell, Bertrand


There is no reason why, in the ages to come, the sort of man who is now exceptional should not become usual, and if that were to happen, the exceptional man in that new world would rise as far above Shakespeare now rises above the common man.
Bertrand Russell : 246 : Russell, Bertrand


To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell : 247 : Russell, Bertrand


If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell : 248 : Russell, Bertrand


As long as hope remains, only the coward will despair.
Bertrand Russell : 249 : Russell, Bertrand


If you stick to any opinion long enough, it becomes respectable.
Bertrand Russell : 250 : Russell, Bertrand


Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing so futile.
Bertrand Russell : 2070 : Russell, Bertrand


The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
Bertrand Russell : 2247 : Russell, Bertrand


The whole conception of "sin" is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.
Bertrand Russell : 2758 : Russell, Bertrand


The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell : 2976 : Russell, Bertrand


Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell : 3102 : Russell, Bertrand


Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell : 3562 : Russell, Bertrand


The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell : 4255 : Russell, Bertrand


In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell : 4281 : Russell, Bertrand


Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
Bertrand Russell : 4601 : Russell, Bertrand


No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell : 4927 : Russell, Bertrand


Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell : 5078 : Russell, Bertrand


Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell : 5341 : Russell, Bertrand


Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to open her mouth.
Bertrand Russell : 6269 : Russell, Bertrand


Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell : 6333 : Russell, Bertrand


Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand Russell : 6446 : Russell, Bertrand


It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell : 6608 : Russell, Bertrand


Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Bertrand Russell : 6648 : Russell, Bertrand


Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell : 6745 : Russell, Bertrand


The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell : 6938 : Russell, Bertrand


Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Bertrand Russell : 6972 : Russell, Bertrand


Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell : 7017 : Russell, Bertrand


I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell : 7059 : Russell, Bertrand


Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell : 7125 : Russell, Bertrand


Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear if it.
Bertrand Russell : 7621 : Russell, Bertrand


An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.
Bertrand Russell : 7917 : Russell, Bertrand


My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
Bertrand Russell : 8486 : Russell, Bertrand


Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell : 9035 : Russell, Bertrand


I do not understand where the "beauty" and "harmony" of nature are supposed to be found. For my part, I am unable to see any very great beauty or harmony in the tapeworm.
Bertrand Russell : 9261 : Russell, Bertrand


We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: One which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell : 9316 : Russell, Bertrand


As far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell : 9752 : Russell, Bertrand


A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell : 10395 : Russell, Bertrand


The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell : 10745 : Russell, Bertrand


The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell : 11184 : Russell, Bertrand


It is generally admitted that most grown-up people, however regrettably, will try to have a good time.
Bertrand Russell : 11748 : Russell, Bertrand


The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things.
Bertrand Russell : 11912 : Russell, Bertrand


There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell : 12266 : Russell, Bertrand


The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell : 13045 : Russell, David


It is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as about his sweetheart.
J. R. Russell : 905 : Russell, J. R.


Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell : 11831 : Russell, Keri


A high fiber breakfast is very essential. Always eat your cereal before it shrinks.
Mark Russell : 1248 : Russell, Mark


The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are made up entirely of lost luggage.
Mark Russell : 4508 : Russell, Mark


Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
Rosalind Russell : 1575 : Russell, Rosalind


Flops are a part of life's menu, and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell : 6388 : Russell, Rosalind


All I can tell 'em is I pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell 'em I don't know except it looked good.
Babe Ruth : 212 : Ruth, Babe


Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth : 5895 : Ruth, Babe


It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth : 13039 : Ruth, Babe


All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford : 6128 : Rutherford, Ernest


There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
Joe Ryan : 9728 : Ryan, Joe


Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Paul Ryan : 12635 : Ryan, Paul


To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Saadi : 10907 : Saadi


The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi : 12324 : Saadi


The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts: wets, drys, and hypocrites.
Florence Sabin : 7569 : Sabin, Florence


There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar El Sadat : 7156 : Sadat, Anwar El


Education is the established church of the United States. It is one of the religions that Americans believe in. It has its own orthodoxy, its pontiffs, and its noble buildings.
Michael Sadler : 7513 : Sadler, Michael


Style in writing is not just elegance in phrasing; it should marshal argument and prose to move or persuade.
William Safire : 2747 : Safire, William


Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Safire : 4135 : Safire, William


Economic freedom cannot exist without political freedom.
William Safire : 5146 : Safire, William


The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
William Safire : 6875 : Safire, William


If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.
Peter Sagal : 13489 : Sagal, Peter


The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
Carl Sagan : 8158 : Sagan, Carl


We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan : 10335 : Sagan, Carl


If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan : 11635 : Sagan, Carl


Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan : 12508 : Sagan, Carl


For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan : 13555 : Sagan, Carl


Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francoise Sagan : 6958 : Sagan, Francoise


I am afraid of airplanes, deep-sea diving, psychiatry. The earth alone comforts me, regardless of how much dirt it may contain.
Francoise Sagan : 10336 : Sagan, Francoise


Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
Alain Le Sage : 27 : Sage, Alain Le


Only in show business could a guy with a C-Minus average be considered an intellectual.
Mort Sahl : 4900 : Sahl, Mort


My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.
Mort Sahl : 8955 : Sahl, Mort


All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba : 12903 : Sai Baba


Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
Sai Baba : 13513 : Sai Baba


Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
St. Augustine : 1992 : Saint Augustine


The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
St. Augustine : 2094 : Saint Augustine


My inner self was a house divided against itself.
St. Augustine : 2638 : Saint Augustine


Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine : 4859 : Saint Augustine


Learn to dance. Otherwise the angels in heaven won't know what to do with you.
St. Augustine : 8811 : Saint Augustine


He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
Saint Augustine : 9828 : Saint Augustine


Justice being taken away then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
Saint Augustine : 10019 : Saint Augustine


Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine : 10591 : Saint Augustine


Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine : 10878 : Saint Augustine


The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine : 13330 : Saint Augustine


Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself.
St. Francis De Sales : 1724 : Saint Francis de Sales


Spiritual rosebushes are not like natural rosebushes; with these latter the thorns remain but the roses pass, with the former the thorns pass and the roses remain.
Saint Francis de Sales : 3008 : Saint Francis de Sales


Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St. Francis de Sales : 8032 : Saint Francis de Sales


The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not "What a lovely sermon," but, "I will do something!"
St. Francis de Sales : 10429 : Saint Francis de Sales


The sermons I like best are those that have more love for one's neighbor than indignation against him.
Saint Francis de Sales : 11264 : Saint Francis de Sales


You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Francis de Sales : 12159 : Saint Francis de Sales


It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk.
St. Francis Of Assisi : 1725 : Saint Francis Of Assisi


Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
St. Francis Of Assisi : 5533 : Saint Francis Of Assisi


Preach the gospel everywhere you go, and, if necessary, use words.
Saint Francis of Assisi : 10804 : Saint Francis of Assisi


Start by doing what's necessary; Then do what's possible; And suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis Of Assisi : 10874 : Saint Francis Of Assisi


Almost everything said of God is unworthy, for the very reason that it is capable of being said.
St. Gregory the Great : 10062 : Saint Gregory the Great


Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.
Peter Saint James : 4795 : Saint James, Peter


Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome : 4397 : Saint Jerome


I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent : 4158 : Saint Laurent, Yves


Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila : 6164 : Saint Teresa of Avila


To have courage for whatever comes in life - Everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila : 13375 : Saint Teresa of Avila


What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none with us.
Saint Teresa Of Avila : 13386 : Saint Teresa Of Avila


Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
St. Therese of Lisieux : 8433 : Saint Therese of Lisieux


Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 2373 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 3465 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 4128 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


It's a question of discipline, the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 4206 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 4593 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Saint Exupery : 8652 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 9002 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


An isolated individual does not exist. He who is sad, saddens others.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 10790 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery : 11446 : Saint-Exupery, Antoine de


What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens : 4113 : Saint-Gaudens, Augustus


All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's
Saki : 2748 : Saki


The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Saki : 8324 : Saki


Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak : 8636 : Salak, John Charles


If I had my life to live over, I'd live over a delicatessen.
Soupy Sales : 4514 : Sales, Soupy


Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
Carol Saline : 11995 : Saline, Carol


I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Jerome D. Salinger : 967 : Salinger, Jerome D.


What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
Jerome D. Salinger : 3389 : Salinger, Jerome D.


We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition, of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
E. J. Salisbury : 4638 : Salisbury, E. J.


I feel that the greatest reward for doing nothing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk : 2478 : Salk, Jonas


Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust : 12189 : Sallust


Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
Edgar Saltus : 4090 : Saltus, Edgar


We often experience parental anger as a horrifying encounter with our worst selves. I never even knew I had a temper until I had children.
Nancy Samalin : 8589 : Samalin, Nancy


In America, journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history; in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
Anthony Sampson : 6614 : Sampson, Anthony


It is only when a man is through with history that he thinks of writing his biography.
Leon Samson : 5559 : Samson, Leon


When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it.
Samuel Johnson : 6573 : Samuel Johnson


Without doubt, the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
Herbert Samuel : 11153 : Samuel, Herbert


Insults - You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.
Jim Samuels : 5653 : Samuels, Jim


I look at a victory as milestones on a very long highway.
Joan Benoit Samuelson : 4086 : Samuelson, Joan Benoit


If you can't deliver the pie in the sky you promised, you'd better redefine the pie.
Paul A. Samuelson : 1433 : Samuelson, Paul A.


Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement go to las vegas.
Paul A. Samuelson : 13405 : Samuelson, Paul A.


Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
George Sand : 712 : Sand, George


Liszt said to me today that God alone deserves to be loved. It may be true, but when one has loved a man it is very difficult to love God. It is so different.
George Sand : 713 : Sand, George


To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
George Sand : 714 : Sand, George


Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand : 715 : Sand, George


Born under different skies we have neither the same thought nor the same language - have we, perhaps, hearts that resemble one another?
George Sand : 2414 : Sand, George


What is more beautiful than a road? It is the symbol and the image of an active, varied life.
George Sand : 2804 : Sand, George


Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand : 5994 : Sand, George


It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.
George Sand : 7859 : Sand, George


Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
George Sand : 9990 : Sand, George


Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand : 12386 : Sand, George


There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand : 12895 : Sand, George


I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg : 313 : Sandburg, Carl


I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg : 314 : Sandburg, Carl


A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg : 315 : Sandburg, Carl


Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg : 3170 : Sandburg, Carl


Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg : 4465 : Sandburg, Carl


Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg : 7729 : Sandburg, Carl


Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Carl Sandburg : 7760 : Sandburg, Carl


Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.
Carl Sandburg : 8950 : Sandburg, Carl


I see America, not in the setting of a black night of despair ahead of us; I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning creative hand of God.
Carl Sandburg : 9610 : Sandburg, Carl


Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg : 10234 : Sandburg, Carl


The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg : 13552 : Sandburg, Carl


Don't stress out about the white space - the path you can't draw - because therein lies both the surprises and the opportunities.
Sheryl Sandburg : 12759 : Sandburg, Sheryl


If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandburg : 13036 : Sandburg, Sheryl


It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.
George Sanders : 12177 : Sanders, George


Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
Harland "Colonel" Sanders : 4582 : Sanders, Harland "Colonel"


Oh look, another glorious morning. Makes me sick!
Winifred Sanderson : 12865 : Sanderson, Winifred


A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.
William Sansom : 8878 : Sansom, William


Rudolph, with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
Santa Claus ("Rudolph, The Red-nosed Reindeer") : 10910 : Santa Claus


The world is craving spirituality so much right now. If they could sell it at McDonald's, it would be there. But it's not something you can get like that. You can only wake up to it, and music is the best alarm.
Carlos Santana : 11147 : Santana, Carlos


The soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana : 716 : Santayana, George


A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interests in the present.
George Santayana : 717 : Santayana, George


Animal optimism is a great renovator and disinfectant in the world.
George Santayana : 718 : Santayana, George


For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterward be always old-fashioned.
Santayana : 1629 : Santayana, George


Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana : 2128 : Santayana, George


Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana : 2385 : Santayana, George


Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana : 2519 : Santayana, George


There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana : 2522 : Santayana, George


The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana : 2823 : Santayana, George


I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana : 3001 : Santayana, George


The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana : 3335 : Santayana, George


Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
George Santayana : 3640 : Santayana, George


The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to candor and humor.
George Santayana : 3792 : Santayana, George


To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana : 3813 : Santayana, George


Tyrants are seldom free; The cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana : 3843 : Santayana, George


Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
George Santayana : 3893 : Santayana, George


A man's feet should stand in his own country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana : 5354 : Santayana, George


Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana : 6308 : Santayana, George


The difficult is that which can be done immediately, the impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana : 6546 : Santayana, George


Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana : 6626 : Santayana, George


Advertising is the modem substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana : 6661 : Santayana, George


The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana : 6709 : Santayana, George


To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana : 6942 : Santayana, George


The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana : 6973 : Santayana, George


Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana : 7051 : Santayana, George


The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana : 7081 : Santayana, George


An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana : 7766 : Santayana, George


Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. Being, then, is the dazzle each of us makes as we thread the dance of those three rhythms of our lives.
George Santayana : 7818 : Santayana, George


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana : 8139 : Santayana, George


Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana : 8397 : Santayana, George


Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana : 9013 : Santayana, George


There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana : 9190 : Santayana, George


Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana : 9238 : Santayana, George


Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana : 9569 : Santayana, George


History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana : 13183 : Santayana, George


How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?
Esmeralda Santiago : 12388 : Santiago, Esmeralda


One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir : 12361 : Sapir, Edward


If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.
William Saroyan : 5517 : Saroyan, William


Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan : 6323 : Saroyan, William


In order to write, all a man needs is paper and a pencil.
William Saroyan : 9533 : Saroyan, William


Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.
May Sarton : 6397 : Sarton, May


Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.
May Sarton : 6897 : Sarton, May


Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
May Sarton : 7857 : Sarton, May


The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton : 10237 : Sarton, May


We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton : 10776 : Sarton, May


Man must be invented each day.
Jean-Paul Sartre : 958 : Sartre, Jean-Paul


You are free, therefore choose - that is to say, invent. No rule of general morality can show you what you ought to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre : 959 : Sartre, Jean-Paul


Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre : 2542 : Sartre, Jean-Paul


We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Jean Paul Sartre : 4320 : Sartre, Jean-Paul


Culture is a product of man: He projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.
Jean-Paul Sartre : 5942 : Sartre, Jean-Paul


Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times accompanied by myself.
Erik Satie : 5352 : Satie, Erik


Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
Virginia Satir : 3351 : Satir, Virginia


Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Virginia Satir (1916-1988) Therapist : 4426 : Satir, Virginia


We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us
Virginia Satir : 13428 : Satir, Virginia


We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir : 13429 : Satir, Virginia


Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant : 3057 : Savant, Marilyn vos


When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
Marilyn vos Savant : 12446 : Savant, Marilyn vos


Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
George Savile (Lord Halifax) : 2331 : Savile, Sir George


When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
George Savile (Lord Halifax) : 3161 : Savile, Sir George


He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
George Savile (Lord Halifax) : 6421 : Savile, Sir George


If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
Sir George Savile : 10516 : Savile, Sir George


No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch : 12220 : Savitch, Jessica


I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
Diane Sawyer : 3606 : Sawyer, Diane


I admit it is more fun to punt than to be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
Dorothy Sayers : 465 : Sayers, Dorothy L.


Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers : 2674 : Sayers, Dorothy L.


She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat.
Dorothy L. Sayers : 7650 : Sayers, Dorothy L.


What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Dorothy L. Sayers : 11928 : Sayers, Dorothy L.


I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done.
Dorothy L. Sayers : 12168 : Sayers, Dorothy L.


Hope feeds the soul but leaves your belly rumbling.
John Sayles : 2630 : Sayles, John


Goodness and nobility have an inherent power to attract, whereas self-seeking and evil inevitably repel.
Francis Bowes Sayre : 6033 : Sayre, Francis Bowes


Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.
Maggie Scarf : 11291 : Scarf, Maggie


My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says that your life depends on your power to master words.
Arthur Scargill : 178 : Scargill, Arthur


Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker : 4402 : Schabacker, Ruth Ann


Memory touches up an old love affair just as a good professional photographer touches up a portrait.
Ann Schade : 7639 : Schade, Ann


Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
Anne Wilson Schaef : 7113 : Schaef, Anne Wilson


Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
Anne Wilson Schaef : 12674 : Schaef, Anne Wilson


You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
Solomon Schechter : 9105 : Schechter, Solomon


By the time a man finds greener pastures, he also finds he can't climb the fence.
Irving Scheel : 890 : Scheel, Irving


It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.
Erica Lorraine Scheidt : 11407 : Scheidt, Erica Lorraine


True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius - for inequality, not mediocrity, and individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress
Felix E. Schelling : 597 : Schelling, Felix E.


Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
Elsa Schiaparelli : 548 : Schiaparelli, Elsa


A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli : 12049 : Schiaparelli, Elsa


The drama in a Gary Grant movie is always seeing whether the star can be made to lose his wry, elegant, and habitual aplomb.
Richard Schickel : 6000 : Schickel, Richard


Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Egon Schiele : 10232 : Schiele, Egon


Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.
Johann Von Schiller : 984 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe.
Schiller : 1631 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller : 2598 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Friedrich von Schiller : 4461 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller : 8121 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Johann Schiller : 8618 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


Even weak men when united are powerful.
Friedrich Schiller : 9500 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller : 9579 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich Von Schiller : 12344 : Schiller, Johann Friedrich von


If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, courage. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. : 175 : Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.


The statesman who is surest that he can divine the future most urgently invites his own retribution.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. : 176 : Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.


Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Helmut Schmidt : 9100 : Schmidt, Helmut


Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.
Walter Schmidt : 8820 : Schmidt, Walter


The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Artur Schnabel : 3495 : Schnabel, Artur


I know two kinds of audience only - one coughing and one not coughing.
Artur Schnabel : 10534 : Schnabel, Artur


The only people who learn from computer assisted instruction are the authors of the software.
Ben Schneiderman : 6968 : Schneiderman, Ben


The bigotry of civilization which is the taproot of intellectual prejudice begins far back and must be corrected at its source.
Arthur Schomburg : 5970 : Schomburg, Arthur


To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything he has ever eaten.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 179 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 180 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 181 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


With people of only moderate ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 2325 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 3598 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 3615 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 5385 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 8484 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 8901 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


Men alter their demeanor and sentiments just as fast as their interest changes.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 9045 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 9240 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


It is a source of consolation to look back upon those great misfortunes which never happened.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 10485 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably forgotten if we do not write it down.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 11782 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 12500 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer : 13061 : Schopenhauer, Arthur


If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
Olive Schreiner : 1380 : Schreiner, Olive


Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Olive Schreiner : 5186 : Schreiner, Olive


Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.
Theodore Schroeder : 3878 : Schroeder, Theodore


Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life have you left in our souls?
Franz Schubert : 7588 : Schubert, Franz


The film does best when it concentrates on a single character. It does "The Informer", superbly. It tends to lose itself in the ramifications of "War and Peace."
Budd Schulberg : 7867 : Schulberg, Budd


Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller : 5007 : Schuller, Robert H.


If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller : 7408 : Schuller, Robert H.


Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller : 8155 : Schuller, Robert H.


Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Robert Schuller : 8745 : Schuller, Robert H.


Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Robert H. Schuller : 10015 : Schuller, Robert H.


Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Robert H. Schuller : 10444 : Schuller, Robert H.


Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller : 12784 : Schuller, Robert H.


Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles Schulz : 4085 : Schulz, Charles M.


Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles Schulz : 7165 : Schulz, Charles M.


I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles Schulz : 7802 : Schulz, Charles M.


I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz : 8017 : Schulz, Charles M.


Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
Charles M. Schulz : 9247 : Schulz, Charles M.


Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
Charles Schulz : 10017 : Schulz, Charles M.


There is nothing funny about the person who gets to kick the football. Drama and humor come from trouble and sadness.
Charles Schulz : 10450 : Schulz, Charles M.


If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Charles Schulz : 10664 : Schulz, Charles M.


All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz : 12158 : Schulz, Charles M.


Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
E. F. Schumacher : 2347 : Schumacher, E. F.


Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, gro
E. F. Schumacher : 3867 : Schumacher, E. F.


Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher : 4182 : Schumacher, E. F.


The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
E. F. Schumacher : 5624 : Schumacher, E. F.


My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann : 10969 : Schumann, Clara


There are two very difficult things in the world. One is to make a name for oneself and the other is to keep it.
Robert Schumann : 2335 : Schumann, Robert


In order to compose, all you need is to remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
Robert Schumann : 2629 : Schumann, Robert


I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.
Amy Schumer : 12812 : Schumer, Amy


Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz : 4621 : Schurz, Carl


The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab : 364 : Schwab, Charles M.


A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab : 2961 : Schwab, Charles M.


The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Charles M. Schwab : 7305 : Schwab, Charles M.


A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab : 8952 : Schwab, Charles M.


As teachers, we should strive to be the ordinary heroes, the moral exemplars, to the people we mentor.
Barry Schwartz : 11277 : Schwartz, Barry


Collecting is the only socially commendable form of greed.
Eugene Schwartz : 587 : Schwartz, Eugene


The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz : 6869 : Schwartz, Morrie


Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger : 7566 : Schwarzenegger, Arnold


I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.
Arnold Schwarzenegger : 7971 : Schwarzenegger, Arnold


When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger : 12278 : Schwarzenegger, Arnold


Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
Arnold Schwarzenegger : 12294 : Schwarzenegger, Arnold


I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlish - that is, wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
Norman Schwarzkopf : 11145 : Schwarzkopf, Norman


I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
Albert Schweitzer : 45 : Schweitzer, Albert


Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Albert Schweitzer : 2650 : Schweitzer, Albert


There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer : 3296 : Schweitzer, Albert


The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer : 4100 : Schweitzer, Albert


Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright.
Albert Schweitzer : 4686 : Schweitzer, Albert


Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer : 4832 : Schweitzer, Albert


Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer : 5577 : Schweitzer, Albert


Civilization is such a good idea that somebody ought to start it.
Albert Schweitzer : 6103 : Schweitzer, Albert


Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer : 6531 : Schweitzer, Albert


Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer : 7204 : Schweitzer, Albert


Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer : 8120 : Schweitzer, Albert


Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.
Albert Schweitzer : 8536 : Schweitzer, Albert


The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Albert Schweitzer : 12666 : Schweitzer, Albert


At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Albert Schweitzer : 12901 : Schweitzer, Albert


Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer : 12931 : Schweitzer, Albert


I try not to be arty. But you do commit that sin a lot of the time.
Martin Scorsese : 2896 : Scorsese, Martin


Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese : 7102 : Scorsese, Martin


Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
Dana Stewart Scott : 11083 : Scott, Dana Stewart


There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott : 5952 : Scott, Hazel


A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott : 1959 : Scott, Howard


It is the people and the politicians who make war and the soldiers who make peace.
Hugh L. Scott : 5062 : Scott, Hugh L.


Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.
Rose Scott : 1577 : Scott, Rose


To the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott : 1864 : Scott, Sir Walter


The faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Sir Walter Scott : 2086 : Scott, Sir Walter


One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Sir Walter Scott : 2290 : Scott, Sir Walter


It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
Sir Walter Scott : 2682 : Scott, Sir Walter


A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
Sir Walter Scott : 2949 : Scott, Sir Walter


Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and saints above: for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Sir Walter Scott : 3113 : Scott, Sir Walter


To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
Sir Walter Scott : 4193 : Scott, Sir Walter


Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott, from the 1808 poem: "Marmion" : 6883 : Scott, Sir Walter


O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott : 9086 : Scott, Sir Walter


O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott : 9471 : Scott, Sir Walter


Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Sir Walter Scott : 10500 : Scott, Sir Walter


Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Sir Walter Scott : 10916 : Scott, Sir Walter


I begin to find ... that too good a character is inconvenient.
Sir Walter Scott : 11426 : Scott, Sir Walter


A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family.
Thomas Scott : 8726 : Scott, Thomas


It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Walter Dill Scott : 1862 : Scott, Walter Dill


Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Dill Scott : 8651 : Scott, Walter Dill


Whenever women do anything new, it is always said they are about to lose their femininity. Society is constantly alarmed about this, as though femininity were important but fugitive.
Florida Scott-Maxwell : 2988 : Scott-Maxwell, Florida


One cannot appreciate beauty on the run. When I can be motionless long enough, there is no limit I have ever reached to the revelations in an opening bud.
Vida Scudder : 3905 : Scudder, Vida


Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully : 9106 : Scully, Frank


Primitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness
Ronald Scutt : 4649 : Scutt, Ronald


No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
David Seabury : 8759 : Seabury, David


We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.
David Seabury : 9277 : Seabury, David


The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
David Searls : 10789 : Searls, David


If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
Sears, Roebuck "Consumer's Guide," 1897 : 4263 : Sears, Roebuck "Consumer's Guide," 1897


Some persons do first, think afterward, and repent forever.
Secker : 1635 : Secker, Thomas


He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and happy mind.
Thomas Secker : 1791 : Secker, Thomas


In most things, success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Baron Charles de Secondat : 3711 : Secondat, Baron Charles de


Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger : 5066 : Seeger, Pete


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal : 11449 : Segal, Erich


Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning.
Joel Segal : 3163 : Segal, Joel


A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
Lee Segall : 4484 : Segall, Lee


The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
Andres Segovia : 11273 : Segovia, Andres


Standup is essentially part of your personality with the volume turned up.
Tom Segura : 13150 : Segura, Tom


In the twentieth century what astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.
Morton Irving Seiden : 2226 : Seiden, Morton Irving


We're going to have to recognize that there are a lot of things that can be done only if we do them together.
Bert Seidman : 6036 : Seidman, Bert


I am so busy doing nothing that the idea of doing anything - which as you know always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
Jerry Seinfeld : 5021 : Seinfeld, Jerry


Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a t-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
Jerry Seinfeld : 5726 : Seinfeld, Jerry


The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little swiss army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. "Come on, buddy, le
Jerry Seinfeld : 5731 : Seinfeld, Jerry


Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
Jerry Seinfeld : 5739 : Seinfeld, Jerry


A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfeld : 9577 : Seinfeld, Jerry


Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Seitter : 1286 : Seitter, Maurice


The breakfast of champions is not cereal; It's the opposition.
Nick Seitz : 12581 : Seitz, Nick


Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie : 7189 : Selassie, Haile


Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
John Selden : 1019 : Selden, John


A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
John Selden : 8951 : Selden, John


No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden : 9335 : Selden, John


Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
John Selden : 10631 : Selden, John


As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
Will Self : 10681 : Self, Will


It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman : 4759 : Sellar, W. C. & Yeatman, R. J.


As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye : 9109 : Selye, Hans


The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
Hans Selye : 9170 : Selye, Hans


Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye : 12261 : Selye, Hans


There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak : 5154 : Sendak, Maurice


There is no evil without its compensation. Avarice promises money; luxury, pleasure; ambition, a purple robe.
Seneca : 1636 : Seneca


There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca : 1637 : Seneca


What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than a choice to him that is willing.
Seneca : 1638 : Seneca


Misfortune is an occasion to demonstrate character.
Seneca : 1639 : Seneca


Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
Seneca : 1640 : Seneca


It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
Seneca : 1641 : Seneca


That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Seneca : 1642 : Seneca


Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca : 2390 : Seneca


Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca : 2925 : Seneca


The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca : 3452 : Seneca


Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca : 4116 : Seneca


It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca : 4290 : Seneca


Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Seneca : 4699 : Seneca


Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca : 4919 : Seneca


The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca : 5174 : Seneca


However wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Seneca : 6088 : Seneca


There's one blessing only. the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self.
Seneca : 6455 : Seneca


Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the gods.
Seneca : 6601 : Seneca


The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
Seneca : 6628 : Seneca


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca : 6777 : Seneca


Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca : 6974 : Seneca


Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
Seneca : 7002 : Seneca


It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Seneca : 7071 : Seneca


Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca : 7373 : Seneca


We should give as we would receive: cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Seneca : 7577 : Seneca


It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca : 7712 : Seneca


An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Seneca : 8409 : Seneca


It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca : 8944 : Seneca


Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca : 9125 : Seneca


It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
Seneca : 9331 : Seneca


Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and mastery of appetite.
Seneca : 10278 : Seneca


We are members of one great body, planted by nature in a mutual love, and fitted for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
Seneca : 10393 : Seneca


Shame may restrain what the law does not prohibit.
Seneca : 10853 : Seneca


Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts.
Seneca : 11326 : Seneca


If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him.
Seneca : 11649 : Seneca


Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca : 12423 : Seneca


The shortest cut to riches is to despise riches.
Seneca the Younger : 2641 : Seneca the Younger


No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it.
Seneca the Younger : 2902 : Seneca the Younger


A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
Seneca the Younger : 6398 : Seneca the Younger


What reason is there to admire ourselves because we are not as bad as the worst?
Seneca the Younger : 8022 : Seneca the Younger


Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; Let speech harmonize with life.
Seneca The Younger : 8706 : Seneca The Younger


It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca The Younger : 11777 : Seneca The Younger


A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; A large one makes him an enemy.
Seneca The Younger : 13423 : Seneca The Younger


One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
Hannah Senesh : 8199 : Senesh, Hannah


Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.
Anasuya Sengupta : 10949 : Sengupta, Anasuya


It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service : 5626 : Service, Robert


Conversation should be like a salad, composed of various ingredients and well stirred with salt, oil and vinegar.
Setanti : 5313 : Setanti


She dreamed, lulled by the train, of getting off at heaven or New York City, whichever she got to first.
Mary Lee Settle : 7972 : Settle, Mary Lee


Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid : 8114 : Sevareid, Eric


I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
Anne Sexton : 10375 : Sexton, Anne


Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
Seymour Miller and Jill Jackson : 4387 : Seymour Miller and Jill Jackson


It may be a point of pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospect of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a good many devoted art lovers to rout.
Ben Shahn : 3007 : Shahn, Ben


If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
Shakespeare : 1643 : Shakespeare, William


His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, however, all disordered.
Shakespeare : 1644 : Shakespeare, William


O! Call back yesterday, bid time return.
William Shakespeare : 1922 : Shakespeare, William


One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare : 1923 : Shakespeare, William


Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare : 1924 : Shakespeare, William


When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare : 1925 : Shakespeare, William


He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
William Shakespeare : 1926 : Shakespeare, William


I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare : 1927 : Shakespeare, William


The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare : 1983 : Shakespeare, William


Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare : 2502 : Shakespeare, William


One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare : 2929 : Shakespeare, William


I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare : 3159 : Shakespeare, William


We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare : 3623 : Shakespeare, William


When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare : 3982 : Shakespeare, William


How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare : 4039 : Shakespeare, William


Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
William Shakespeare : 4070 : Shakespeare, William


She is mine own, and I as rich in having such a jewel as twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, the water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
William Shakespeare : 4210 : Shakespeare, William


The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rises weeping.
William Shakespeare : 4373 : Shakespeare, William


The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare : 4405 : Shakespeare, William


My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare : 4613 : Shakespeare, William


And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare : 4743 : Shakespeare, William


When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare : 4813 : Shakespeare, William


I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
William Shakespeare : 6022 : Shakespeare, William


Praising what is lost, makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare : 6130 : Shakespeare, William


Wise men never sit and wail their loss; They cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
William Shakespeare : 6198 : Shakespeare, William


He was a wise fellow that. being bid to ask what he would of the king. desired he might know none of his secrets.
William Shakespeare : 6325 : Shakespeare, William


For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
William Shakespeare : 6669 : Shakespeare, William


0 sleep, 0 gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
William Shakespeare : 7209 : Shakespeare, William


In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare : 7547 : Shakespeare, William


Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.
William Shakespeare : 8080 : Shakespeare, William


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare : 8129 : Shakespeare, William


Because I will not do the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; I will live a bachelor.
William Shakespeare : 8619 : Shakespeare, William


Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
William Shakespeare : 8720 : Shakespeare, William


Trust not him that hath once broken faith; he who betrayed thee once, will betray thee again.
William Shakespeare : 9010 : Shakespeare, William


Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare : 9327 : Shakespeare, William


At Christmas I no more desire a rose, than wish a snow in May's new fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
William Shakespeare : 9344 : Shakespeare, William


If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare : 9651 : Shakespeare, William


Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
William Shakespeare : 9695 : Shakespeare, William


Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare : 9841 : Shakespeare, William


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare : 9863 : Shakespeare, William


A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep - and I could laugh, I am light and heavy - welcome.
William Shakespeare : 10065 : Shakespeare, William


What dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.
William Shakespeare : 10218 : Shakespeare, William


When love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
William Shakespeare : 10503 : Shakespeare, William


Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare : 13382 : Shakespeare, William


My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
Shakira : 12773 : Shakira


Barbara Walters - manicurist, pedicurist, guru of kitsch, yenta, maven, gadfly, blabbermouth, and Mother Confessor to the world.
Tom Shales : 10693 : Shales, Tom


Success is what people settle for when they can't think of something noble enough to be worth failing at.
Laurence Shames : 8644 : Shames, Laurence


I go to couples therapy. I go alone. There are two therapists.
Garry Shandling : 4105 : Shandling, Garry


I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
Garry Shandling : 5700 : Shandling, Garry


I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
Garry Shandling : 12636 : Shandling, Garry


Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly : 259 : Shankly, Bill


I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food and good laughs.
Maria Sharapova : 12799 : Sharapova, Maria


Beliefs aren't worth envisioning unless they're backed up by actions. I have seen what is possible when very hard work is combined with a dream.
Mariah Sharkey : 7888 : Sharkey, Mariah


Who cares if the early bird gets the worm? I'll take cinnamon toast and coffee served by a handsome man at noon.
Kathy Shaskan : 1090 : Shaskan, Kathy


I used to think it was really important to be a size ten, but now I'm older and wider.
Kathy Shaskan : 2004 : Shaskan, Kathy


If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
William Shatner : 13488 : Shatner, William


The Good Old Days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Artie Shaw : 10768 : Shaw, Artie


All biological necessities have to be made respectable whether we like it or not.
Bernard Shaw : 241 : Shaw, George Bernard


If a woman rebels against high heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
G. B. Shaw : 648 : Shaw, George Bernard


He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
G. B. Shaw : 649 : Shaw, George Bernard


You see things and say "Why?" but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
G. B. Shaw : 650 : Shaw, George Bernard


Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw : 678 : Shaw, George Bernard


It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
George Bernard Shaw : 679 : Shaw, George Bernard


No man is bad enough to tell the truth about himself.
George Bernard Shaw : 680 : Shaw, George Bernard


The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw : 681 : Shaw, George Bernard


I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw : 682 : Shaw, George Bernard


The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw : 683 : Shaw, George Bernard


Do not try to live forever, you will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw : 684 : Shaw, George Bernard


Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw : 685 : Shaw, George Bernard


What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
George Bernard Shaw : 686 : Shaw, George Bernard


No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw : 2019 : Shaw, George Bernard


Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw : 2121 : Shaw, George Bernard


The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw : 2249 : Shaw, George Bernard


My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
George Bernard Shaw : 2717 : Shaw, George Bernard


The English church-goer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
George Bernard Shaw : 3099 : Shaw, George Bernard


A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George B. Shaw : 3356 : Shaw, George Bernard


Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true; They are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw : 3368 : Shaw, George Bernard


When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw : 3477 : Shaw, George Bernard


The photographer is like the cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw : 3530 : Shaw, George Bernard


Gambling promises for the poor what property performs for the rich - something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw : 3563 : Shaw, George Bernard


Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw : 3674 : Shaw, George Bernard


When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw : 3928 : Shaw, George Bernard


Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
George Bernard Shaw : 4029 : Shaw, George Bernard


A saint may be defined as a person of heroic virtue whose private judgment is privileged.
George Bernard Shaw : 4247 : Shaw, George Bernard


Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw : 4354 : Shaw, George Bernard


The businessman is the person to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
George Bernard Shaw : 4386 : Shaw, George Bernard


The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw : 4769 : Shaw, George Bernard


The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw : 4823 : Shaw, George Bernard


Instead of sympathizing with the poor and abolishing the rich, we must ruthlessly abolish the poor by raising their standard of life.
George Bernard Shaw : 5178 : Shaw, George Bernard


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw : 5332 : Shaw, George Bernard


My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
George Bernard Shaw : 5344 : Shaw, George Bernard


The government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw : 5684 : Shaw, George Bernard


The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw : 6261 : Shaw, George Bernard


The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw : 6364 : Shaw, George Bernard


Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw : 6373 : Shaw, George Bernard


Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw : 6636 : Shaw, George Bernard


Animals are my friends, and I do not eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw : 6788 : Shaw, George Bernard


Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw : 7475 : Shaw, George Bernard


The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw : 7502 : Shaw, George Bernard


Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw : 8124 : Shaw, George Bernard


Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw : 8160 : Shaw, George Bernard


If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw : 8340 : Shaw, George Bernard


Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw : 8711 : Shaw, George Bernard


Whatever man really wishes to do, he will finally discover a means of doing.
George Bernard Shaw : 8818 : Shaw, George Bernard


My own education operated by a succession of eye-openers, each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
George Bernard Shaw : 8959 : Shaw, George Bernard


Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw : 9144 : Shaw, George Bernard


Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw : 9188 : Shaw, George Bernard


A newspaper is a device unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
George Bernard Shaw : 9380 : Shaw, George Bernard


Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
George Bernard Shaw : 9672 : Shaw, George Bernard


There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
George Bernard Shaw : 9717 : Shaw, George Bernard


There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw : 9793 : Shaw, George Bernard


Nobel Prize money is a life belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
George Bernard Shaw : 10476 : Shaw, George Bernard


The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw : 10888 : Shaw, George Bernard


There is only one sort of genuine socialism, the democratic sort, by which I mean the organization of society for the benefit of the whole people.
George Bernard Shaw : 11520 : Shaw, George Bernard


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw : 11844 : Shaw, George Bernard


Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw : 11974 : Shaw, George Bernard


Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw : 12304 : Shaw, George Bernard


We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw : 12309 : Shaw, George Bernard


When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
George Bernard Shaw : 12354 : Shaw, George Bernard


We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw : 13037 : Shaw, George Bernard


Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes.
George Bernard Shaw : 13491 : Shaw, George Bernard


Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
H. W. Shaw : 789 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


Rumors are like bees; the more you fight with them the more you don't get rid of them.
H. W. Shaw : 790 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


Take the humbug out of this world and you haven't much left to do business with.
H. W. Shaw : 791 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


Laziness is a good deal like money - the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.
H. W. Shaw : 2153 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.
Henry W. Shaw (Josh Billings) : 3712 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


When good-natured people leave us, we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
Henry W. Shaw : 3729 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
H. W. Shaw : 3947 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
Henry Wheeler Shaw : 4324 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
Henry Wheeler Shaw : 4459 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
H. W. Shaw : 4531 : Shaw, Henry Wheeler


In high school my parents told me I ran with the wrong crowd. I was a loner.
Jeff Shaw : 11652 : Shaw, Jeff


The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.
Lord Shawcross : 1184 : Shawcross, Lord


Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
R. E. Shay : 1479 : Shay, R. E.


He who thanks but with the lips, thanks but in part; The full, the true thanksgiving comes from the heart.
J. A. Shedd : 12385 : Shedd, John Augustus


One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.
Frank Sheed : 8475 : Sheed, Frank


If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
George Sheehan : 7992 : Sheehan, George


If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy : 2014 : Sheehy, Gail


Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough, and when you have enough, you have
Gail Sheehy : 2661 : Sheehy, Gail


When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy : 5377 : Sheehy, Gail


If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy : 7781 : Sheehy, Gail


With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are keeping up.
Gail Sheehy : 11164 : Sheehy, Gail


The atomic bomb in the hands of a Francis of Assisi would be less harmful than a pistol in the hand of a thug; what makes the bomb dangerous is not the energy it contains, but the man who uses it.
Fulton J. Sheen : 645 : Sheen, Bishop Fulton J.


Baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true; blarney is flattery so thin we like it.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen : 3759 : Sheen, Bishop Fulton J.


Life is like a cash register in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton Sheen : 5371 : Sheen, Bishop Fulton J.


Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Fulton Sheen : 8996 : Sheen, Bishop Fulton J.


I am one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
Martin Sheen : 8649 : Sheen, Martin


Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John R. Sheerin : 8549 : Sheerin, John R.


Everywhere adult brains seem to resemble blighted trees that have died in the upper branches but yet cling to a struggling green wisp of life about the lower trunk.
William H. Sheldon : 11179 : Sheldon, William H.


Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Mary Shelley : 11840 : Shelley, Mary


Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Shelley : 12609 : Shelley, Mary


The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
Shelley : 1647 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 3292 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


The greatest instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 4102 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 6460 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 7467 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 7805 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 8229 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 10550 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 11294 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 11817 : Shelley, Percy Bysshe


A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone : 1928 : Shenstone, William


The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone : 9388 : Shenstone, William


When I first looked back at the earth, standing on the moon, I cried.
Alan Shepard : 13496 : Shepard, Alan


Interviews are like therapy. You don't get the same kind of feedback, but it's cheaper.
Cybill Shepherd : 9760 : Shepherd, Cybill


She preserved to the age of fifty-six that contempt for ideas which is normal among boys and girls of fifteen.
Odell Shepherd, on Louisa May Alcott : 8257 : Shepherd, Odell


If you see anybody fallen by the wayside and lying in the ditch, it isn't much good climbing into the ditch and lying by his side.
Dick Sheppard : 2350 : Sheppard, Dick


Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery - these days.
Eugenia Sheppard : 3109 : Sheppard, Eugenia


To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
Eugenia Sheppard : 10071 : Sheppard, Eugenia


He is the very pineapple of politeness!
Richard Sheridan : 12072 : Sheridan, Richard


Tale bearers are as bad as the tale makers - tis an old observation and a very true one.
Richard Sheridan : 12737 : Sheridan, Richard


Madam, a circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it, they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan : 1519 : Sheridan, Richard Brinsley


You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.
James Sherman : 12963 : Sherman, James


Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and mental willingness to endure it.
William T. Sherman : 3144 : Sherman, William Tecumseh


I think I understand what military fame is: to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman : 7233 : Sherman, William Tecumseh


A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.
Norman Shidle : 6023 : Shidle, Norman


Jogging keeps the spring in your step from becoming rusted.
Karl Shiflet : 2921 : Shiflet, Karl


The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert Shiller : 2612 : Shiller, Robert


No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
Warsan Shire : 13530 : Shire, Warsan


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple : 8275 : Shirley, Temple


Politicians make strange bedfellows, but they all share the same bunk.
Edgar Shoaff : 11658 : Shoaff, Edgar


The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
Edgar A. Shoaff : 2458 : Shoaff, Edgar A.


A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar A. Shoaff : 4082 : Shoaff, Edgar A.


Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
Dinah Shore : 439 : Shore, Dinah


Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore : 4277 : Shore, Dinah


The latest definition of an optimist is one who fills up his crossword puzzle in ink.
Clement King Shorter : 391 : Shorter, Clement King


The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.
Walter Gaston Shotwell : 4228 : Shotwell, Walter Gaston


Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself, the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.
Anita Shreve : 7871 : Shreve, Anita


This morning there was ice on the pipes in my apartment. But the landlord fixed it. He put antifreeze in the radiator.
Herb Shriner : 10037 : Shriner, Herb


When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver : 13014 : Shriver, Maria


Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
Sargent Shriver : 12624 : Shriver, Sargent


Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Shula : 3815 : Shula, Don


The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Shult : 719 : Shult, George


I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan : 10867 : Shyamalan, M. Night


Pay no attention to what critics say; No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius : 11086 : Sibelius, Jean


A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its great countenance in its lowest state.
Sir Phillip Sidney : 1664 : Sidney, Sir Phillip


Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
Mordecai Siegal : 11746 : Siegal, Mordecai


Don't ever forget the power of listening and the strength it takes just to be there not curing, but caring. The world is in need of listeners.
Bernie Siegel : 8584 : Siegel, Bernie


If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel : 9409 : Siegel, Bernie


Since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
Bernie Siegel : 12891 : Siegel, Bernie


Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems.
Bernie Siegel : 12915 : Siegel, Bernie


What is a bourgeois? I propose this definition: It is a person who has something put by.
Andre Siegfried : 5040 : Siegfried, Andre


The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
Igor Sikorsky : 10521 : Sikorsky, Igor


You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills : 256 : Sills, Beverly


I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
Beverly Sills : 3051 : Sills, Beverly


My singing is very therapeutic. For three hours, I have no troubles - I know how it's all going to come out.
Beverly Sills : 3224 : Sills, Beverly


Art is the signature of civilizations.
Beverly Sills : 6169 : Sills, Beverly


A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Beverly Sills : 8164 : Sills, Beverly


Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone : 10604 : Silone, Ignazio


There is a voice inside of you, that whispers all day long. I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong.
Shel Silverstein : 12662 : Silverstein, Shel


Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Georges Simenon : 6122 : Simenon, Georges


Since society exists, we have to believe that man wants to live in it, but from the beginning he has used a fair share of his energy to fight against it.
Georges Simenon : 7216 : Simenon, Georges


Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic : 2449 : Simic, Charles


The essence of life consists in longing for more life.
George Simmel : 720 : Simmel, George


No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
Charles Simmons : 365 : Simmons, Charles


Meditation is the nurse of thought, and thought is the food of meditation.
Charles Simmons : 1653 : Simmons, Charles


Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons : 9618 : Simmons, Charles


Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons : 10618 : Simmons, Charles


Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out, but your hair looked too good to stay home?
Jack Simmons : 10723 : Simmons, Jack


Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful.
W. G. Simms : 5291 : Simms, W. G.


I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
Neil Simon : 6951 : Simon, Neil


Money brings some happiness, but after a certain point, it just brings more money.
Neil Simon : 9216 : Simon, Neil


If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
Neil Simon : 12884 : Simon, Neil


Thing is, next to the interviews and photographs, touring is my least favorite thing, but then I get drawn into it and the next thing I know, I'm out on the road.
Paul Simon : 1440 : Simon, Paul


They always ask me if I'm happy when I'm finished with my work. Happy? Who's happy? What's happy? It's a dumb question.
Paul Simon : 10714 : Simon, Paul


If you're in a bad situation, don't worry, it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change.
John A. Simone, Sr. : 3932 : Simone, John A., Sr.


Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.
E. L. Simpson : 2800 : Simpson, E. L.


In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother you always looked at her mouth.
Mona Simpson : 7902 : Simpson, Mona


Burt Reynolds: He is the one me ladies like to dance with and their husbands like to drink with. He is the larger-than-life actor of our times. He is gifted, talented, naughty, and nice.
Frank Sinatra : 5075 : Sinatra, Frank


Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment.
Frank Sinatra : 12352 : Sinatra, Frank


Drunkenness places man as much below the level of the brutes, as reason elevates him above them.
Upton Sinclair : 1820 : Sinclair, Upton


I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've been well-supervised.
Upton Sinclair : 7307 : Sinclair, Upton


An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden : 6362 : Sinden, Donald


People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
Simon Sinek : 12972 : Sinek, Simon


Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
Smon Sinek : 13003 : Sinek, Simon


Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer : 3969 : Singer, Isaac Bashevis


The wastepaper basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac B. Singer : 7422 : Singer, Isaac Bashevis


We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer : 8509 : Singer, Isaac Bashevis


The greatnes of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Isaac Bashevis Singer : 12350 : Singer, Isaac Bashevis


I did not become a vegetarian for my health. I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer : 12515 : Singer, Isaac Bashevis


Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary : 7784 : Singletary, Mike


Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull : 12101 : Sitting Bull


The earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love.
Sitting Bull : 12473 : Sitting Bull


I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Dame Edith Sitwell : 412 : Sitwell, Dame Edith


My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell : 512 : Sitwell, Dame Edith


The trouble with most English women is that they dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation; they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell : 2287 : Sitwell, Dame Edith


I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
Dame Edith Sitwell : 3939 : Sitwell, Dame Edith


When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
Edith Sitwell : 6025 : Sitwell, Dame Edith


I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing, I considered her a beautiful little knitter.
Edith Sitwell. on Virginia Woolf : 6602 : Sitwell, Dame Edith


Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
Edith Sitwell : 11231 : Sitwell, Edith


I like winters because I can stay indoors without feeling guilty.
Theressa Skelton : 3355 : Skelton, Theressa


Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.
Skobeleff : 1667 : Skobeleff


The real challenge in life is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.
Michael Sky : 7926 : Sky, Michael


The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek : 4004 : Sladek, John


One thing must be said for idleness: It keeps people from doing the Devil's work. The great villains of history were busy men, since great crimes and slaughters require great industry and dedication.
Philip Slater : 2970 : Slater, Philip


If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.
Bobby Slayton : 277 : Slayton, Bobby


Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.
John French Sloan : 1000 : Sloan, John French


Politically I believe in democracy, but culturally, not at all. Whenever a cultural matter rolls up a majority I know it is wrong.
John Sloan : 3085 : Sloan, John French


For charity is cold in the multitude of possessions, and the rich are covetous of their crumbs.
Christopher Smart : 2796 : Smart, Christopher


The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles : 2905 : Smiles, Samuel


The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Samuel Smiles : 9557 : Smiles, Samuel


They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles : 9732 : Smiles, Samuel


It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles : 9939 : Smiles, Samuel


Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles : 12311 : Smiles, Samuel


She knew one of the great family truths, that aunts always help, while moms always think it would be good for you if you did it yourself.
Jane Smiley : 2370 : Smiley, Jane


My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.
Jane Smiley : 4736 : Smiley, Jane


I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
Jane Smiley : 8242 : Smiley, Jane


The ad in the paper said "Big Sale. Last Week." Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
Yakov Smirnoff : 5723 : Smirnoff, Yakov


Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith : 16 : Smith, Adam


To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith : 17 : Smith, Adam


What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in good health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith : 2555 : Smith, Adam


There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Adam Smith : 5685 : Smith, Adam


Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith : 11720 : Smith, Adam


A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles on the road.
Alexander Smith : 60 : Smith, Alexander


Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith : 5425 : Smith, Alexander


Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Alfred E. Smith : 64 : Smith, Alfred E.


No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Alfred E. Smith, On The New Deal : 65 : Smith, Alfred E.


Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumblebee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Ashley Smith : 11827 : Smith, Ashley


Common sense and education are highly compatible; In fact, neither is worth much without the other.
Donald G. Smith : 12519 : Smith, Donald G.


It sometimes happens, even in the best families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.
Elinor Goulding Smith : 536 : Smith, Elinor Goulding


Keeping a baby requires a good deal of time, effort, thought and equipment, so unless you are prepared for this, we recommend that you start with a hamster, whose wants are far simpler.
Elinor Goulding Smith : 4633 : Smith, Elinor Goulding


There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Elizabeth Elton Smith : 9899 : Smith, Elizabeth Elton


The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. Smith : 11612 : Smith, F. E.


The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith : 4666 : Smith, Hannah Whitall


When I'm tired, I rest. I say, "I can't be a Superwoman today."
Jada Pinkett Smith : 12453 : Smith, Jada Pinkett


Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.
Kevin Smith : 9236 : Smith, Kevin


How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there any danger of their coming true?
L. P. Smith : 1118 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Logan P. Smith : 1167 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 1168 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 2875 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 2956 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say?
Logan P. Smith : 3651 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 4020 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith : 4693 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 5383 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 6434 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 6961 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 8962 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into "penny in the slot" machines that are almost always empty.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 9339 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 9628 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 10302 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 10441 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


Growing old is no gradual decline, but a series of fumbles ... Yet when we pick ourselves up we find no bones are broken; while not unpleasing is the new terrace which stretches out unexplored before us.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 11471 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 11640 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; He is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
Logan Pearsall Smith : 12740 : Smith, Logan Pearsall


When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith : 1217 : Smith, Margaret Chase


In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith : 5032 : Smith, Patti


Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith : 11987 : Smith, Red


Some good book is usually responsible for the success of every really great man.
Roy L. Smith : 1584 : Smith, Roy L.


For every man who has the ability to lead, there are a thousand men waiting to be led.
Roy L. Smith : 1585 : Smith, Roy L.


It is a healthy symptom when a man is dissatisfied without being discouraged.
Roy L. Smith : 3859 : Smith, Roy L.


The thinking you do before you start a job will shorten the time you have to spend working on it.
Roy L. Smith : 5485 : Smith, Roy L.


No business is a success which must ruin men to make money.
Roy L. Smith : 5498 : Smith, Roy L.


He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith : 12122 : Smith, Roy L.


A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith : 2043 : Smith, Sydney


Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Sydney Smith : 4297 : Smith, Sydney


We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books.
Sydney Smith : 5461 : Smith, Sydney


Whatever you are from Nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Sydney Smith : 5906 : Smith, Sydney


It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
Sydney Smith : 6193 : Smith, Sydney


Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Sydney Smith : 8645 : Smith, Sydney


Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith : 8741 : Smith, Sydney


Why has not man a collar and a log? For this plain reason - man is not a dog. Why is not man served up with sauce in dish? For this plain reason - man is not a fish.
Sydney Smith : 8897 : Smith, Sydney


His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith : 10390 : Smith, Sydney


Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
Sydney Smith : 11560 : Smith, Sydney


Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith : 8040 : Smith, W. Eugene


Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.
Wes Smith : 9777 : Smith, Wes


A twenty-dollar haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a five-dollar haircut.
Wes Smith : 10120 : Smith, Wes


I feel like I could be President of the United States. People laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be President.
Will Smith : 8234 : Smith, Will


Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.
Will Smith : 11707 : Smith, Will


Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.
Will Smith : 12840 : Smith, Will


So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
Will Smith : 13458 : Smith, Will


Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett : 11684 : Smollett, Tobias


The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers : 4051 : Smothers, Tommy


Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
Tommy Smothers : 4379 : Smothers, Tommy


Censorship is more depraving and corrupting than anything pornography can produce.
Tony Smythe : 1804 : Smythe, Tony


Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Sam Snead : 6511 : Snead, Sam


Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.
Richard Snelling : 8739 : Snelling, Richard


When I'm no longer rapping, I want to open up an Ice Cream Parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg : 13520 : Snoop Dogg


Work is the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
Snoopy : 10861 : Snoopy


No man is fit to be trusted with power. Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of.
C. P. Snow : 3137 : Snow, C. P.


There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
Roscoe Snowden : 10385 : Snowden, Roscoe


The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman : 3307 : Sockman, Ralph Washington


He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates : 1669 : Socrates


Let him who would move the world, first move himself.
Socrates : 1670 : Socrates


That man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
Socrates : 1671 : Socrates


False words are not only evil in themselves, but they inject the soul with evil.
Socrates : 1672 : Socrates


He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates : 1977 : Socrates


From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hates.
Socrates : 4860 : Socrates


I am the gadfly, all day long, everywhere, always fastening on you the people, arousing, persuading, reproaching you.
Socrates : 5223 : Socrates


We cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than in having a clear conscience.
Socrates : 6046 : Socrates


Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates : 6703 : Socrates


I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates : 6776 : Socrates


How many things I can do without!
Socrates : 6814 : Socrates


Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates : 6902 : Socrates


By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates : 6943 : Socrates


Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates : 7980 : Socrates


To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates : 8108 : Socrates


Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates : 8398 : Socrates


True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates : 8628 : Socrates


All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates : 10193 : Socrates


Thank not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates : 11973 : Socrates


The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates : 12143 : Socrates


I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates : 12907 : Socrates


The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates : 12920 : Socrates


The American worker is merely a capitalist without money.
George Sokolsky : 5564 : Sokolsky, George


Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even our unconscious.
Philippe Sollers : 5235 : Sollers, Philippe


The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
Rebecca Solnit : 13335 : Solnit, Rebecca


You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Nancy D. Solomon : 13049 : Solomon, Nancy D.


A state is regulated by two things: reward and punishment.
Solon : 2926 : Solon


In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon : 4853 : Solon


Look to the end, no matter what it is you are considering. Often enough God gives a man a glimpse of happiness and then utterly ruins him.
Solon : 5961 : Solon


Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon : 10844 : Solon


It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness, but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : 56 : Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr


Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : 61 : Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr


Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn : 6267 : Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr


I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
Stephen Sondheim : 6470 : Sondheim, Stephen


A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: A secular, ostensible scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.
Susan Sontag : 2974 : Sontag, Susan


The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag : 3590 : Sontag, Susan


The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag : 4036 : Sontag, Susan


Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes
Susan Sontag : 4609 : Sontag, Susan


Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag : 6018 : Sontag, Susan


The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one, or both. Usually both.
Susan Sontag : 6387 : Sontag, Susan


Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Susan Sontag : 6501 : Sontag, Susan


The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag : 9633 : Sontag, Susan


Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Susan Sontag : 11538 : Sontag, Susan


I envy paranoids; They actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag : 12197 : Sontag, Susan


I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Susan Sontag : 12406 : Sontag, Susan


Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag : 12714 : Sontag, Susan


Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Sophocles : 1676 : Sophocles


There is no witness so terrible - no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles : 1981 : Sophocles


One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles : 3579 : Sophocles


Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Sophocles : 3678 : Sophocles


Truly, to tell ties is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles : 6635 : Sophocles


Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man.
Sophocles : 6765 : Sophocles


No man loves life like him that's growing old.
Sophocles : 7085 : Sophocles


Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles : 7378 : Sophocles


How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
Sophocles : 7716 : Sophocles


It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles : 8119 : Sophocles


Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
Sophocles : 8388 : Sophocles


The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles : 11632 : Sophocles


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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations.
Sonia Sotomayor : 11801 : Sotomayor, Sonia


A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
Sonia Sotomayor : 12434 : Sotomayor, Sonia


If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it.
Sonia Sotomayor : 13391 : Sotomayor, Sonia


Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Sonia Sotomayor : 13456 : Sotomayor, Sonia


Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
John Philip Sousa : 4930 : Sousa, John Philip


If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Robert South : 1564 : South, Robert


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard : 7104 : Southard, John E.


It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they bum.
Robert Southey : 4363 : Southey, Robert


No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey : 11629 : Southey, Robert


A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey : 13544 : Southey, Robert


My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name: you shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
Sissy Spacek : 1666 : Spacek, Sissy


Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Kevin Spacey : 5198 : Spacey, Kevin


Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn : 7795 : Spahn, Warren


It is some of the secrets of nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a
Muriel Spark : 2942 : Spark, Muriel


It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
Tris Speaker : 8805 : Speaker, Tris


If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
Tris Speaker : 8817 : Speaker, Tris


I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.
Winston Spear : 5714 : Spear, Winston


On cable TV they have a weather channel; twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
Dan Spencer : 415 : Spencer, Dan


Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer : 866 : Spencer, Herbert


The function of Liberalism in the past was that of putting a limit to the powers of kings. Its function in the future will be that of putting a limit to the powers of Parliaments.
Herbert Spencer : 2218 : Spencer, Herbert


That which the best human nature is capable of is within the reach of human nature at large.
Herbert Spencer : 2608 : Spencer, Herbert


To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth.
Herbert Spencer : 4110 : Spencer, Herbert


The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer : 4458 : Spencer, Herbert


Time: that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer : 8421 : Spencer, Herbert


Those who enslave other peoples enslave themselves.
Herbert Spencer : 8763 : Spencer, Herbert


Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings and not by the intellect.
Herbert Spencer : 12015 : Spencer, Herbert


Comparing yourself to others' success only slows you down from finding your own.
Octavia Spencer : 12758 : Spencer, Octavia


Renunciation of world politics offers no protection from its consequences.
Oswald Spengler : 9560 : Spengler, Oswald


He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.
Steven Spielberg, on George Lucas : 3290 : Spielberg, Steven


Today's youth have a tendency to live in the present and work for the future - and to be totally ignorant of the past.
Steven Spielberg : 8967 : Spielberg, Steven


Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
Mickey Spillane : 7161 : Spillane, Mickey


I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Leon Spinks : 7337 : Spinks, Leon


Peace is not absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza : 6037 : Spinoza, Baruch


An emotion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it.
Spinoza : 10101 : Spinoza, Baruch


Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza : 10226 : Spinoza, Baruch


A vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Spinoza : 11281 : Spinoza, Baruch


Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock : 2112 : Spock, Dr. Benjamin


A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
Benjamin Spock : 6188 : Spock, Dr. Benjamin


There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.
Dr. Benjamin Spock : 7421 : Spock, Dr. Benjamin


What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat : 1792 : Sprat, Thomas


We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
Bruce Springsteen : 288 : Springsteen, Bruce


I do not believe or comprehend the world I live in.
Bruce Springsteen : 4866 : Springsteen, Bruce


I didn't even make it to class clown. I had nowhere near the amount of notoriety. I didn't have the flair to be a complete jerk. It was like I didn't exist.
Bruce Springsteen : 7210 : Springsteen, Bruce


One of the problems in the United States is the "united in our prejudices we stand," you know? What unites people, very often, is their fear.
Bruce Springsteen : 11204 : Springsteen, Bruce


Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
Spurgeon : 1722 : Spurgeon, Charles H.


The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
C. H. Spurgeon : 6588 : Spurgeon, Charles H.


A child's back must be made to bend, but not be broken. He must be ruled, but not with a rod of iron. His spirit must be conquered, but not crushed.
Charles Spurgeon : 7551 : Spurgeon, Charles H.


Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon : 12990 : Spurgeon, Charles H.


A great difficulty today is that our knowledge has increased so much more than our wisdom.
Sr. Volunteers : 1723 : Sr. Volunteers


My failure to get the nomination was a good thing. A politician ought to know how it feels to be licked.
Katherine St. George : 6644 : St. George, Katherine


Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Henry St. John : 852 : St. John, Henry


It's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers.
Richard St. John : 10795 : St. John, Richard


My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
Peter Stack (in a movie review) : 4437 : Stack, Peter


Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael : 7602 : Stael, Madame de


Nothing recalls the past like music.
Madame de Stael : 9507 : Stael, Madame de


If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair : 7023 : Stair, Nadine


I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
Nadine Stair : 7474 : Stair, Nadine


If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
Nadine Stair : 7617 : Stair, Nadine


Change only comes by doing things you're afraid of.
Sylvester Stallone : 3329 : Stallone, Sylvester


The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.
Sylvester Stallone : 5947 : Stallone, Sylvester


I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer.
Sylvester Stallone : 6893 : Stallone, Sylvester


I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.
Sylvester Stallone : 9360 : Stallone, Sylvester


Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
Sylvester Stallone : 13216 : Stallone, Sylvester


Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.
Frank Stampfl : 4061 : Stampfl, Frank


The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, having things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Chief Luther Standing Bear : 7182 : Standing Bear, Chief Luther


His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.
Philip Dormer Stanhope : 4729 : Stanhope, Philip Dormer


Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
Constantin Stanislavski : 12632 : Stanislavski, Constantin


There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word that raises us above ourselves.
Arthur P. Stanley : 6044 : Stanley, Arthur P.


Life is short, so don't waste time by hating a body that has been more than a gift.
Jessamyn Stanley : 12732 : Stanley, Jessamyn


Good budgeting produces a uniform distribution of dissatisfaction.
Maurice Stans : 5132 : Stans, Maurice


The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : 538 : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady


In this long struggle I have never felt that we stood alone, for as the representatives of a living truth we are ever linked with the great and grand of all ages, in every latitude and clime, with those able and willing to live or die for a principle.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : 3372 : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady


I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : 5881 : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady


To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : 5891 : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady


To make laws that man cannot, and will not, obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : 6389 : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady


The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : 9755 : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady


Skill in education consists in taking off the newness of the next step in growth, by drawing those instincts into activity in an earlier stage, which are to function more strongly in a later one.
Edwin Diller Starbuck : 526 : Starbuck, Edwin Diller


They give you a round bat, and they throw you a round ball, and then they tell you to hit it square.
Willie Stargell : 13343 : Stargell, Willie


To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark : 12424 : Stark, Freya


Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr : 12646 : Starr, Pamela Vaull


The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.
Vincent Starrett : 4746 : Starrett, Vincent


Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance is lighting a fire underneath his own home.
Harold Stassen : 799 : Stassen, Harold


There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach : 13109 : Staubach, Roger


If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go round.
Christina Stead : 2408 : Stead, Christina


A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
Danielle Steel : 3468 : Steel, Danielle


If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
Danielle Steel : 11349 : Steel, Danielle


I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
Danielle Steel : 11656 : Steel, Danielle


Of all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Richard Steele : 5224 : Steele, Richard


We are always doing, says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."
Richard Steele : 7946 : Steele, Richard


Being in a band, you can wear whatever you want - It's like an excuse for Halloween every day.
Gwen Stefani : 9876 : Stefani, Gwen


Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens : 2483 : Steffens, Lincoln


The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger : 7701 : Steiger, Rod


The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein : 2258 : Stein, Ben


I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein : 727 : Stein, Gertrude


In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein : 728 : Stein, Gertrude


Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a terror to them.
Gertrude Stein : 2438 : Stein, Gertrude


Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein : 7005 : Stein, Gertrude


A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein : 7761 : Stein, Gertrude


Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein : 10032 : Stein, Gertrude


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 : 11533 : Stein, Gertrude


The money is always there, but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein : 12062 : Stein, Gertrude


You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don't dance. So you might as well dance.
Gertrude Stein : 13449 : Stein, Gertrude


A journey is like marriage. The one certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck : 2432 : Steinbeck, John


Across the Colorado river from Needles, the dark and jagged ramparts of Arizona stood up against the sky, and behind them the huge tilted plain rising toward the backbone of the continent again.
John Steinbeck : 2671 : Steinbeck, John


Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck : 3387 : Steinbeck, John


It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck : 3919 : Steinbeck, John


I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck : 4383 : Steinbeck, John


Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?
John Steinbeck : 5345 : Steinbeck, John


Man is the only kind of varmint that sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
John Steinbeck : 6707 : Steinbeck, John


A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck : 8175 : Steinbeck, John


The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck : 8840 : Steinbeck, John


What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
John Steinbeck : 10328 : Steinbeck, John


When a man is finally boxed and he has no choice, he begins to decorate his box.
John Steinbeck : 12020 : Steinbeck, John


I think of my life as a kind of music. Not always good music but still having form and melody.
John Steinbeck : 12258 : Steinbeck, John


Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck : 13397 : Steinbeck, John


Ask not what you can do for your country, for they are liable to tell you.
Mark Steinbeck : 4875 : Steinbeck, Mark


Winning is the most important thing in my life - after breathing.
George Steinbrenner : 5443 : Steinbrenner, George


America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Gloria Steinem : 733 : Steinem, Gloria


What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Gloria Steinem : 734 : Steinem, Gloria


A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem : 2634 : Steinem, Gloria


The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Gloria Steinem : 5121 : Steinem, Gloria


The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem : 7668 : Steinem, Gloria


I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem : 8343 : Steinem, Gloria


Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
Gloria Steinem : 8731 : Steinem, Gloria


Economic systems are not value free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
Gloria Steinem : 10663 : Steinem, Gloria


A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Gloria Steinem : 12048 : Steinem, Gloria


Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Gloria Steinem : 12458 : Steinem, Gloria


Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
Gloria Steinem : 12541 : Steinem, Gloria


I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal : 2308 : Stendhal


If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
Stendhal : 12010 : Stendhal


Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel : 323 : Stengel, Casey


You gotta lose 'em sometimes. When you do, lose 'em right.
Casey Stengel : 324 : Stengel, Casey


The secret of managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Casey Stengel : 5014 : Stengel, Casey


All you have to do is keep the five players who hate your guts away from the five who are undecided.
Casey Stengel, on managing a baseball team : 6595 : Stengel, Casey


You have to have a catcher, because if you don't, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
Casey Stengel : 6955 : Stengel, Casey


I got fired because of my age. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Casey Stengel : 8342 : Stengel, Casey


Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel : 10317 : Stengel, Casey


If you walk backwards, you'll find that you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.
Casey Stengel : 10467 : Stengel, Casey


There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
Casey Stengel : 12805 : Stengel, Casey


Unity is strength ... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek : 11833 : Stepanek, Mattie


Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James Stephens : 4027 : Stephens, James


Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James F. Stephens : 901 : Stephens, James F.


Life is not any use at all unless we find a laugh here and there.
James F. Stephens : 939 : Stephens, James F.


For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.
Edith Mendel Stern : 511 : Stern, Edith Mendel


Pity the people who have no opinion - for they shall go through life with no bumper sticker.
Gil Stern : 10080 : Stern, Gil


The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne : 1131 : Sterne, Laurence


Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Laurence Sterne : 1132 : Sterne, Laurence


To say a man is fallen in love, or is up to the ears in love, carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man.
Laurence Sterne : 2293 : Sterne, Laurence


Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood.
Laurence Sterne : 2332 : Sterne, Laurence


To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals, and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Laurence Sterne : 2470 : Sterne, Laurence


There is no such thing as modern art. There is art, and there is advertising.
Albert Sterner : 46 : Sterner, Albert


One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Mark Stevens : 4288 : Stevens, Mark


To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace Stevens : 1856 : Stevens, Wallace


The poet's function is to make his imagination become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people live their lives.
Wallace Stevens : 3070 : Stevens, Wallace


Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
Wallace Stevens : 7874 : Stevens, Wallace


At evening casual flocks of pigeons make, Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
Wallace Stevens : 8973 : Stevens, Wallace


All of our ideas come from the natural world: Trees equal umbrellas.
Wallace Stevens : 9808 : Stevens, Wallace


Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
Wallace Stevens : 11331 : Stevens, Wallace


The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens : 11808 : Stevens, Wallace


The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens : 12522 : Stevens, Wallace


Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
Adlai Stevenson : 10049 : Stevenson, Adlai


A politician is a man who approaches every situation with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson : 10109 : Stevenson, Adlai


Churchill was always rewriting his speeches until he had to give them. But that's where my similarity to Churchill ends.
Adlai Stevenson : 10702 : Stevenson, Adlai


The government must be trustee for the little man because no one else will be. The powerful can usually help themselves - and frequently do.
Adlai Stevenson : 11209 : Stevenson, Adlai


There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson : 11609 : Stevenson, Adlai


Patriotism ... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson : 12831 : Stevenson, Adlai


My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson : 2022 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


A diplomat's life is made up of three things: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
Adlai E Stevenson : 2361 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai Stevenson : 2433 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.
Adlai E. Stevenson : 2891 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


You will find that the truth is often unpopular, for, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Adlai Stevenson : 3128 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


Do not regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the Colonial status quo?
Adlai Stevenson : 4229 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble.
Adlai Stevenson : 5387 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


We have to serve the truth as candidates for public office and not mislead, misguide, misdirect the people merely to provoke emotional responses and win votes that way.
Adlai Stevenson : 5919 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai E. Stevenson : 6263 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai Stevenson : 7172 : Stevenson, Adlai E.


A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 1556 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 1557 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 2158 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 2277 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 2784 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 3030 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 4756 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a good hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 4975 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert L. Stevenson : 5403 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 6132 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 6256 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


If it is for fame that men do brave actions, they are only silly fellows after all.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 6405 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 7543 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 8341 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Give us to awaken with smiles; give us to labor smiling; and as the sun lightens the world, so let our loving-kindness make bright this house of our habitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 8547 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 8859 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 9799 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 10407 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 10596 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 10698 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Keep your fears to yourself. But share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 11130 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
Robert Louis Stevenson : 11568 : Stevenson, Robert Louis


No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which has caused a one-hundred percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.
Jon Stewart : 1030 : Stewart, Jon


You have to remember one thing about the will of the people; last year, we were swept away by the Macarena.
Jon Stewart : 5243 : Stewart, Jon


Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?
Jon Stewart : 5706 : Stewart, Jon


If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values; They're hobbies.
Jon Stewart : 13484 : Stewart, Jon


If you're not asking guys to wear heels and a dress, then you can't ask me either.
Kristen Stewart : 12810 : Stewart, Kristen


My sister Laura says I was born with a sewing needle in one hand and a hammer in the other. It isn't true. I was just born with some gumption and a few good recipes.
Martha Stewart : 11505 : Stewart, Martha


Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
Mary Stewart : 10031 : Stewart, Mary


I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: As you may have noticed I have no hair.
Patrick Stewart : 13471 : Stewart, Patrick


Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Potter Stewart : 4285 : Stewart, Potter


Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
Rod Stewart : 11391 : Stewart, Rod


I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be, but I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.
Jeff Stilson : 5716 : Stilson, Jeff


Rock-'n'-roll is a bit like Las Vegas; guys dressed up in their sisters' clothes pretending to be angry, but not really angry about anything.
Sting : 1735 : Sting


Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Sting : 11565 : Sting


A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett : 2364 : Stinnett, Caskie


A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
James B. Stockdale : 10000 : Stockdale, James B.


We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.
Margaret Stohl : 12880 : Stohl, Margaret


No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Bram Stoker : 12611 : Stoker, Bram


Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone : 541 : Stone, Elizabeth


I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
Emma Stone : 12838 : Stone, Emma


There are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: You can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.
Judith Stone : 9960 : Stone, Judith


Disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.
Lucy Stone : 7254 : Stone, Lucy


Satire is exaggeration and distortion to make a point.
Oliver Stone : 2640 : Stone, Oliver


Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy.
Oliver Stone : 12893 : Stone, Oliver


Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
Sharon Stone : 1645 : Stone, Sharon


My new policy is this: I have a life of my own. Just a little, tiny one, but it's mine.
Sharon Stone : 1646 : Stone, Sharon


That's why many fail - because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
W. Clement Stone : 7942 : Stone, W. Clement


If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
W. Clement Stone : 9880 : Stone, W. Clement


Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone : 11101 : Stone, W. Clement


You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
Marie Stopes : 4291 : Stopes, Marie


We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard : 1799 : Stoppard, Tom


The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard : 1800 : Stoppard, Tom


It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard : 5271 : Stoppard, Tom


A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard : 8168 : Stoppard, Tom


James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard : 8969 : Stoppard, Tom


It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
Tom Stoppard : 12669 : Stoppard, Tom


Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Tom Stoppard : 13140 : Stoppard, Tom


Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
David Storey : 5512 : Storey, David


Confidence that one is of value and significance as a unique individual is one of the most precious possessions which anyone can have.
Anthony Storr : 11222 : Storr, Anthony


There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout : 5417 : Stout, Rex


I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
Ruth Stout : 8427 : Stout, Ruth


Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
C. E. Stowe : 5322 : Stowe, C. E.


In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 1960 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


Never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 3244 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 4156 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 6656 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


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 : 7202 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 8111 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 11239 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 12633 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


The past the present and the future are really one: They are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : 13369 : Stowe, Harriet Beecher


The horror of getting up is unparalleled and I am filled with amazement every morning when I find that I have done it.
Lytton Strachey : 3122 : Strachey, Lytton


Facts don't lie - not if you've got enough of 'em.
John Stephen Strange : 1020 : Strange, John Stephen


You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.
Susan Strasberg : 1739 : Strasberg, Susan


Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
Michael Strassfeld : 4175 : Strassfeld, Michael


Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.
S. W. Straus : 4806 : Straus, S. W.


I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky : 6264 : Stravinsky, Igor


My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky : 9136 : Stravinsky, Igor


The only way to avoid Hollywood is to live there.
Igor Stravinsky : 10840 : Stravinsky, Igor


The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky : 11195 : Stravinsky, Igor


It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.
Cheryl Strayed : 13441 : Strayed, Cheryl


You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Meryl Streep : 1298 : Streep, Meryl


It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep : 4471 : Streep, Meryl


I had three children, and that's a lot like making a movie. There's a lot of the same worries. Will it have legs? Will it go wide? How will it do domestically and what if it goes foreign?
Meryl Streep : 4647 : Streep, Meryl


Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl Streep : 12394 : Streep, Meryl


You know, you don't have to be famous, you just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Meryl Streep : 12767 : Streep, Meryl


It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it.
Meryl Streep : 12830 : Streep, Meryl


Why does a woman work for ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand : 7944 : Streisand, Barbra


Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Barbra Streisand : 9764 : Streisand, Barbra


I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand : 11828 : Streisand, Barbra


I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Barbra Streisand : 11932 : Streisand, Barbra


There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
Barbra Streisand : 12027 : Streisand, Barbra


People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
August Strindberg : 2250 : Strindberg, August


When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
August Strindberg : 4241 : Strindberg, August


I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg : 5346 : Strindberg, August


The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.
William Strong : 2162 : Strong, William


Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky : 12585 : Strunsky, Simeon


People of many kinds ask question, but few and rare are people who listen to answers. Why?
Janet Erskine Stuart : 2793 : Stuart, Janet Erskine


Football causes fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of blood, as daily experience teaches.
Philip Stubbes, 1583 : 4742 : Stubbes, Philip


Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon Suenens : 1144 : Suenens, Leon


The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Annie Sullivan : 10447 : Sullivan, Annie


To produce an income tax return that has any depth to it, any feeling, one must have lived, and suffered.
Frank Sullivan : 622 : Sullivan, Frank


The fate of civilization is like needlework. You can take it up and worry about it at odd moments.
Frank Sullivan : 11772 : Sullivan, Frank


There is no such penalty for error and folly as to see one's children suffer for it.
W. G. Summer : 1844 : Summer, W. G.


Wealth, in itself considered, is only power, like steam or electricity, or knowledge.
William Graham Summer : 10759 : Summer, William Graham


Life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
Pat Summitt : 12297 : Summitt, Pat


Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.
Pat Summitt : 12314 : Summitt, Pat


If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject, because doctrines get inside of a man's reason and betray him against himself.
William Graham Sumner : 2977 : Sumner, William Graham


Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not yet dare to confess it to themselves.
William Graham Sumner : 9269 : Sumner, William Graham


Persecution of a dissenter is always popular in the group which he has abandoned. Toleration of dissent is no sentiment of the masses.
William Graham Sumner : 9658 : Sumner, William Graham


A people who are prosperous and happy, optimistic and progressive, will produce much slang; it is a case of play; they amuse themselves with the language.
William Graham Sumner : 9970 : Sumner, William Graham


Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday : 266 : Sunday, Billy


More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.
Linda Sunshine : 10319 : Sunshine, Linda


After the verb "to love", "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Bertha Von Suttner : 242 : Suttner, Bertha Von


Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Swami Sivananda : 12223 : Swami Sivananda


Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda : 13132 : Swami Sivananda


All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
Gloria Swanson : 735 : Swanson, Gloria


Writing the story of you own life, I know now, is an agonizing experience, a bit like drilling your own teeth.
Gloria Swanson : 736 : Swanson, Gloria


When I die my epitaph should read "She paid the bills."
Gloria Swanson : 737 : Swanson, Gloria


You can imagine me as a kid growing up in Redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm.
Patrick Swayze : 12949 : Swayze, Patrick


How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney : 4242 : Sweeney, Paul


True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney : 5296 : Sweeney, Paul


Experts say our country is facing an energy shortage. For once we middle-agers are in tune with the times.
Paul Sweeney : 10470 : Sweeney, Paul


How can a country that has lived with feet, fathoms, furlongs, acres, B-cups, petite and extra-large be confused by the metric system?
Paul Sweeney : 11904 : Sweeney, Paul


A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney : 12789 : Sweeney, Paul


We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland : 7166 : Sweetland, Ben


Happiness is a journey ... not a destination.
Ben Sweetland : 8775 : Sweetland, Ben


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 : 1031 : Swift, Jonathan


She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
Jonathan Swift : 1032 : Swift, Jonathan


Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
Swift : 1740 : Swift, Jonathan


There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Swift : 1741 : Swift, Jonathan


Violent zeal, even for truth, has a hundred to one odds to be either petulance, ambition or pride.
Swift : 1742 : Swift, Jonathan


He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift : 2262 : Swift, Jonathan


No man will take counsel, but every man will take money; therefore, money is better than counsel.
Jonathan Swift : 3777 : Swift, Jonathan


Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
Jonathan Swift : 4365 : Swift, Jonathan


Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift : 4414 : Swift, Jonathan


When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift : 6009 : Swift, Jonathan


I shall be like that tree. I shall die at the top.
Jonathan Swift : 6152 : Swift, Jonathan


Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift : 6185 : Swift, Jonathan


Gossip is what some invent and others enlarge.
Jonathan Swift : 7080 : Swift, Jonathan


Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Jonathan Swift : 7692 : Swift, Jonathan


Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
Jonathan Swift : 7731 : Swift, Jonathan


The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
Jonathan Swift : 7910 : Swift, Jonathan


When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift : 9354 : Swift, Jonathan


There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for that purpose, that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid.
Jonathan Swift, on lawyers : 10347 : Swift, Jonathan


He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Jonathan Swift : 10634 : Swift, Jonathan


Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift : 11682 : Swift, Jonathan


All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
Taylor Swift : 10607 : Swift, Taylor


Anytime someone tells me I can't do something, I want to do it more.
Taylor Swift : 12490 : Swift, Taylor


Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak. Sometimes you're just strong enough to let go.
Taylor Swift : 12566 : Swift, Taylor


A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll : 8865 : Swindoll, Charles R.


Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll : 9882 : Swindoll, Charles R.


I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.
Charles R. Swindoll : 12124 : Swindoll, Charles R.


We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll : 12247 : Swindoll, Charles R.


We have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
Charles R. Swindoll : 13161 : Swindoll, Charles R.


I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
Tilda Swinton : 12547 : Swinton, Tilda


Adversity has made many a man great, who had he remained prosperous would only have been rich.
Maurice Switzer : 1287 : Switzer, Maurice


The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
Maurice Switzer : 5476 : Switzer, Maurice


It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Maurice Switzer : 9904 : Switzer, Maurice


There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.
Arthur Symons : 9061 : Symons, Arthur


There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge : 2205 : Synge, John Millington


A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
John Millington Synge : 11945 : Synge, John Millington


A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz : 2767 : Szasz, Thomas


Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz : 8513 : Szasz, Thomas


The stupid neither forgive nor forget; The naive forgive and forget; The wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz : 8815 : Szasz, Thomas


The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas S. Szasz : 9666 : Szasz, Thomas S.


Blossoms crowd the branches; too beautiful to endure. Thinking of you, I break into bloom again.
Hsueh T'ao : 2826 : T'ao, Hsueh


A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.
Gladys Taber : 731 : Taber, Gladys


If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, "Give me the first day of June."
Gladys Taber : 5227 : Taber, Gladys


The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
Tacitus : 2005 : Tacitus


Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus : 6163 : Tacitus


To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus : 8359 : Tacitus


The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Tacitus : 9508 : Tacitus


The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus : 11680 : Tacitus


I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
Mrs. Robert A. Taft : 4634 : Taft, Mrs. Robert A.


Sometimes I think I might as well give up as far as being a candidate is concerned. There are so many people in the country who don't like me. Without knowing much about me, they don't like me.
William Howard Taft : 1912 : Taft, William Howard


I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.
Tagore : 1751 : Tagore, Rabindranath


I have gazed at your beauty from the beginning of my existence, I have kept you in my arms for countless ages, yet it has not been enough for me.
Rabindranath Tagore : 2270 : Tagore, Rabindranath


By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore : 4384 : Tagore, Rabindranath


The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore : 5114 : Tagore, Rabindranath


We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.
Rabindranath Tagore : 7224 : Tagore, Rabindranath


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore : 10269 : Tagore, Rabindranath


Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore : 10784 : Tagore, Rabindranath


Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way that silkworms produce their cocoons and bees their hives.
Hippolyte Taine : 2993 : Taine, Hippolyte


I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine : 12236 : Taine, Hippolyte


It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.
George Takei : 12233 : Takei, George


To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Talleyrand : 1752 : Talleyrand


You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
Talleyrand : 2465 : Talleyrand


Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and aff
Talleyrand : 3871 : Talleyrand


Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.
Talleyrand : 8351 : Talleyrand


Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
The Talmud : 1984 : Talmud, The


A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home.
The Talmud : 3308 : Talmud, The


Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee.
The Talmud : 4266 : Talmud, The


A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
The Talmud : 9399 : Talmud, The


Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
Shira Tamir : 12337 : Tamir, Shira


Overheard on a bus: "My worry about genetically altered vegetables is that my daughter seems to be dating one."
Bill Tammeus : 10722 : Tammeus, Bill


If we ever build a house, we're going to use the kind of wood we've been using in our fireplace. That way, we'll know the place will never burn down.
William D. Tammeus : 10655 : Tammeus, William D.


We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming, well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.
Amy Tan : 10288 : Tan, Amy


In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
Amy Tan : 11329 : Tan, Amy


Since charity is the queen and the soul of all virtues, every act inspired by it will have by far more merit than acts inspired by fear or by hope.
Adolphe Tanqueray : 7220 : Tanqueray, Adolphe


Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
Don Tapscott : 11508 : Tapscott, Don


The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
William Targ : 3736 : Targ, William


An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington : 280 : Tarkington, Booth


Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington : 281 : Tarkington, Booth


The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakower : 12593 : Tartakower, Savielly


Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things, like a double cheeseburger.
Channing Tatum : 12823 : Tatum, Channing


Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.
Carol Tavris : 10085 : Tavris, Carol


Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
Cecil Taylor : 12797 : Taylor, Cecil


If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I am certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
Elizabeth Taylor : 5194 : Taylor, Elizabeth


Success is a great deodorant.
Elizabeth Taylor : 5634 : Taylor, Elizabeth


There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor : 11820 : Taylor, Elizabeth


Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Elizabeth Taylor : 13549 : Taylor, Elizabeth


At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
James Hudson Taylor : 6845 : Taylor, James Hudson


Enjoy the blessings of the day if God sends them: and the evils bear patiently and sweetly; for this day only is ours: we are dead to yesterday, and not born to tomorrow.
Jeremy Taylor : 963 : Taylor, Jeremy


The greatest evils are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
Jeremy Taylor : 964 : Taylor, Jeremy


Observe yourself as your greatest enemy would do, so shall you be your greatest friend.
Jeremy Taylor : 2509 : Taylor, Jeremy


Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy; a friend shares my sorrow and makes it but a moiety, but he swells my joy and makes it double.
Jeremy Taylor : 11519 : Taylor, Jeremy


The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
John Taylor : 4751 : Taylor, John


With writing, you hear voices and give yourself over to them and they become flesh and blood by putting pen to paper.
Regina Taylor : 10453 : Taylor, Regina


Thoughts are energy, and you can make your world or break your world by your thinking.
Susan L. Taylor : 7323 : Taylor, Susan L.


Love in action is the answer to every problem in our lives and in this world. Love in action is the force that helped us make it to this place, and it's the truth that will set us free.
Susan Taylor : 11486 : Taylor, Susan L.


Seeds of faith are always within us; Sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan L. Taylor : 12307 : Taylor, Susan L.


Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan L. Taylor : 12725 : Taylor, Susan L.


All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
Ordway Tead : 9064 : Tead, Ordway


Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale : 2728 : Teale, Edwin Way


Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
Edwin Way Teale : 4214 : Teale, Edwin Way


Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
Edwin Way Teale : 13035 : Teale, Edwin Way


I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale : 3582 : Teasdale, Sara


Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale : 8181 : Teasdale, Sara


Oh better than the minting, of a gold-crowned king, is the safe-kept memory, of a lovely thing.
Sara Teasdale : 8325 : Teasdale, Sara


From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh : 12221 : Tecumseh


When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Tecumseh : 12849 : Tecumseh


Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh : 12882 : Tecumseh


I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
Dita Von Teese : 12921 : Teese, Dita Von


When a child abruptly quadruples her family's income, some changes may be expected.
Shirley Temple : 11999 : Temple, Shirley


I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the lifetime achievement award: Start early!
Shirley Temple : 12729 : Temple, Shirley


The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.
Sir William Temple : 7834 : Temple, Sir William


Good intentions are, at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave it to the soil and the seasons whether he or any other gather the fruit.
William Temple : 9273 : Temple, William


Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Boom : 4825 : ten Boom, Corrie


She was like a recorded telephone message - she didn't listen, she only spoke.
Silvia Tennenbaum : 1652 : Tennenbaum, Silvia


Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow: the year is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 73 : Tennyson, Alfred, Lord


Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - those three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Tennyson : 1754 : Tennyson, Alfred, Lord


A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss, Upon her perfect lips.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 9996 : Tennyson, Alfred, Lord


Words, like Nature, half reveal, and half conceal the Soul within.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 10808 : Tennyson, Alfred, Lord


The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson : 11039 : Tennyson, Alfred, Lord


Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson : 13197 : Tennyson, Alfred, Lord


My advice is to consult the lives of other men, as one would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for imitation.
Terence : 1755 : Terence


I am a human being so there is nothing human that I do not feel to by my concern.
Terence : 2865 : Terence


I am a man, I count nothing human foreign to me.
Terence : 5167 : Terence


I take it to be a principle rule of life not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Terence : 6200 : Terence


In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence : 6801 : Terence


Nothing has yet been said that's not been said before.
Terence : 7382 : Terence


On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know.
Studs Terkel : 10699 : Terkel, Studs


He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian : 3854 : Tertullian


Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey : 2039 : Tey, Josephine


I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray : 3968 : Thackeray, William Makepeace


How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy.
William Makepeace Thackeray : 6081 : Thackeray, William Makepeace


To be a gentleman is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and possessing all those qualities to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.
William Makepeace Thackeray : 8876 : Thackeray, William Makepeace


The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts.
Thackery : 9027 : Thackeray, William Makepeace


Hope is the only good that is common to all men; Those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Thales of Miletus : 4575 : Thales of Miletus


Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing.
Twyla Tharp : 1809 : Tharp, Twyla


Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp : 6145 : Tharp, Twyla


I don't mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher : 1229 : Thatcher, Margaret


You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher : 1230 : Thatcher, Margaret


If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher : 1231 : Thatcher, Margaret


I can trust my husband not to fall asleep on a public platform and he usually claps in the right places.
Margaret Thatcher : 1232 : Thatcher, Margaret


In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher : 1972 : Thatcher, Margaret


Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher : 2759 : Thatcher, Margaret


If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher : 4698 : Thatcher, Margaret


Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.
Margaret Thatcher : 8372 : Thatcher, Margaret


No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher : 8661 : Thatcher, Margaret


There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.
Margaret Thatcher : 9639 : Thatcher, Margaret


I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher : 10388 : Thatcher, Margaret


I think sometimes the Prime Minister should be intimidating. There's not much point being a weak, floppy thing in the chair, is there?
Margaret Thatcher : 11217 : Thatcher, Margaret


Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher : 12175 : Thatcher, Margaret


I think this is what hooks one on gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at the creation.
Phyllis Theroux : 1461 : Theroux, Phyllis


What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
Bodie Thoene : 9244 : Thoene, Bodie


There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.
Caitlin Thomas : 7642 : Thomas, Caitlin


We don't live here long enough to be mean. Everyone that lives should try to help one another. And if you help, you're really helping yourself.
Dave Thomas : 7238 : Thomas, Dave


Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
David Thomas : 7140 : Thomas, David


Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas : 3676 : Thomas, Dylan


Somebody's boring me - I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas : 9852 : Thomas, Dylan


The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Edward Thomas : 7754 : Thomas, Edward


When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
Eric Thomas : 10285 : Thomas, Eric


We have the great privilege - the only group with this privilege - to question a president.
Helen Thomas : 6192 : Thomas, Helen


We should never forget we have the power to ruin lives and reputations - and that should never be taken lightly.
Helen Thomas : 10589 : Thomas, Helen


In his day, Marlon Brando was a good-looking guy. He wasn't real tall, but he was dark and handsome, and his voice was real gravelly. He seemed kind of out there - untouched.
John Taylor Thomas : 2186 : Thomas, John Taylor


There is really no such creature as a single individual; he has no more life of his own that a cast-off cell marooned from the surface of your skin.
Lewis Thomas : 2294 : Thomas, Lewis


The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas : 4014 : Thomas, Lewis


One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas : 8235 : Thomas, Marlo


Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
Marlo Thomas : 11109 : Thomas, Marlo


If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
Michael Tilson Thomas : 11549 : Thomas, Michael Tilson


If you want the time to pass fast, just give your note for ninety days.
R. Thomas : 1483 : Thomas, R.


Do not assume that the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
Terry Thomas : 4911 : Thomas, Terry


Fiction is the great virus waiting to do away with fact - that is one of the most ominous meanings of the film.
David Thompson, on "Citizen Kane" : 7585 : Thompson, David


Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson : 7659 : Thompson, Dorothy


Marriages stop. Marriages change. People are always saying that a marriage "failed." it's such a negative way of putting it. Failure is terribly important. Perhaps that's why I'm saying: the notion that failure is a negative thing is wrong.
Emma Thompson : 558 : Thompson, Emma


I owe a lot of my performance to the corset I had to wear. The blood rushes to your face when you wear those things. So that explains "radiant."
Emma Thompson : 11206 : Thompson, Emma


They had not much original wit, but had inherited a stock of cheerful sayings which passed as such.
Flora Thompson : 7630 : Thompson, Flora


Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
Francis Thompson : 9367 : Thompson, Francis


You can never tell the depth of the well by the length of the pump handle.
H. W. Thompson : 13043 : Thompson, H. W.


A ring on the finger is worth two on the phone.
Harold Thompson : 800 : Thompson, Harold


The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson : 2200 : Thompson, Hunter S.


Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Hunter Thompson : 9211 : Thompson, Hunter S.


When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson : 10314 : Thompson, Hunter S.


The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
Hunter S. Thompson : 11838 : Thompson, Hunter S.


I probably couldn't play for me. I wouldn't like my attitude.
John Thompson : 12962 : Thompson, John


Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that.
Linda Thompson : 12626 : Thompson, Linda


It is easier for the generous to forgive than for the offenders to ask forgiveness.
James Thomson : 5318 : Thomson, James


Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is naught but the first slave.
James Thomson : 12539 : Thomson, James


The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.
Joseph Thomson : 3162 : Thomson, Joseph


Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson : 11497 : Thomson, Virgil


I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry D. Thoreau : 827 : Thoreau, Henry David


The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
Henry David Thoreau : 828 : Thoreau, Henry David


The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
Henry David Thoreau : 829 : Thoreau, Henry David


What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David Thoreau : 830 : Thoreau, Henry David


There will never be a free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau : 831 : Thoreau, Henry David


I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
Henry David Thoreau : 832 : Thoreau, Henry David


Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Henry David Thoreau : 833 : Thoreau, Henry David


Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau : 834 : Thoreau, Henry David


It is not worthwhile to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
Henry David Thoreau : 835 : Thoreau, Henry David


I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau : 836 : Thoreau, Henry David


Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau : 2069 : Thoreau, Henry David


If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau : 2183 : Thoreau, Henry David


I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Henry David Thoreau : 2201 : Thoreau, Henry David


To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be stillborn, rather
Henry David Thoreau : 2386 : Thoreau, Henry David


Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau : 2851 : Thoreau, Henry David


It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau : 2967 : Thoreau, Henry David


Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau : 3158 : Thoreau, Henry David


It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to listen.
Henry Thoreau : 3346 : Thoreau, Henry David


Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau : 3358 : Thoreau, Henry David


The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals.
Henry David Thoreau : 3485 : Thoreau, Henry David


To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau : 3564 : Thoreau, Henry David


Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
Henry David Thoreau : 4001 : Thoreau, Henry David


It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
Henry David Thoreau : 4098 : Thoreau, Henry David


Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
Henry David Thoreau : 4200 : Thoreau, Henry David


Thank God men cannot yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau : 4518 : Thoreau, Henry David


I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.
Henry David Thoreau : 4677 : Thoreau, Henry David


Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Henry David Thoreau : 4789 : Thoreau, Henry David


He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
Henry David Thoreau : 4997 : Thoreau, Henry David


Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.
Henry David Thoreau : 5451 : Thoreau, Henry David


Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau : 5536 : Thoreau, Henry David


What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Henry David Thoreau : 6040 : Thoreau, Henry David


In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau : 6288 : Thoreau, Henry David


Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
Henry David Thoreau : 6416 : Thoreau, Henry David


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau : 6611 : Thoreau, Henry David


In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
Henry David Thoreau : 6649 : Thoreau, Henry David


Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau : 6696 : Thoreau, Henry David


As you simplify life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau : 6833 : Thoreau, Henry David


How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau : 7022 : Thoreau, Henry David


My friend is one ... who take me for what I am.
Henry David Thoreau : 7375 : Thoreau, Henry David


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau : 7406 : Thoreau, Henry David


Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau : 7431 : Thoreau, Henry David


It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau : 7709 : Thoreau, Henry David


None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau : 7840 : Thoreau, Henry David


Silence alone is worthy to be heard.
Henry David Thoreau : 8099 : Thoreau, Henry David


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau : 8159 : Thoreau, Henry David


The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Henry David Thoreau : 8163 : Thoreau, Henry David


Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau : 8767 : Thoreau, Henry David


When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
Henry David Thoreau : 8824 : Thoreau, Henry David


There are few men who do not love better to give advice than to give assistance.
Henry David Thoreau : 9196 : Thoreau, Henry David


Better a monosyllabic life than a ragged and muttered one; let its report be short and round like a rifle so that it may hear its own echo in the surrounding silence.
Henry David Thoreau : 9287 : Thoreau, Henry David


To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau : 9456 : Thoreau, Henry David


Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau : 9517 : Thoreau, Henry David


The broadest philosophy is narrower than the worst poetry.
Henry David Thoreau : 9556 : Thoreau, Henry David


Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
Henry David Thoreau : 9727 : Thoreau, Henry David


What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau : 10224 : Thoreau, Henry David


Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
Henry David Thoreau : 10468 : Thoreau, Henry David


It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau : 10624 : Thoreau, Henry David


One of the attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Henry David Thoreau : 11135 : Thoreau, Henry David


If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau : 11389 : Thoreau, Henry David


Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life as a dog does with his master's chaise. Do what you love; know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau : 11482 : Thoreau, Henry David


A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Henry D. Thoreau : 11698 : Thoreau, Henry David


Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to me as my own thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau : 11775 : Thoreau, Henry David


There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau : 11798 : Thoreau, Henry David


A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
Henry David Thoreau : 12431 : Thoreau, Henry David


In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
Henry David Thoreau : 12501 : Thoreau, Henry David


No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.
Henry David Thoreau : 12852 : Thoreau, Henry David


Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau : 12856 : Thoreau, Henry David


Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau : 13152 : Thoreau, Henry David


You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau : 13385 : Thoreau, Henry David


Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
Henry David Thoreau : 13452 : Thoreau, Henry David


What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau : 13495 : Thoreau, Henry David


Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
David Thornburg : 13191 : Thornburg, David


Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.
Willis Thornton : 4653 : Thornton, Willis


Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
Jeremy Thorpe : 7334 : Thorpe, Jeremy


The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides : 2911 : Thucydides


We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides : 6119 : Thucydides


If your husband ceases to call you "sugarfoot" or "candy eyes" or "cutie fudge pie" during the first year of your marriage, it is not necessarily a sign that he has come to take you for granted or that he no longer cares.
James Thurber : 940 : Thurber, James


Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.
James Thurber : 941 : Thurber, James


No man who has wrestled with a self adjusting card table can ever be quite the man he once was.
James Thurber : 942 : Thurber, James


All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber : 943 : Thurber, James


Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber : 4131 : Thurber, James


The wit makes fun of persons; The satirist makes fun of the world; The humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber : 4146 : Thurber, James


Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
James Thurber : 4719 : Thurber, James


There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber : 5372 : Thurber, James


If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber : 5647 : Thurber, James


You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber : 6768 : Thurber, James


Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber : 6783 : Thurber, James


There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber : 6798 : Thurber, James


Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber : 7052 : Thurber, James


Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber : 7460 : Thurber, James


Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.
James Thurber : 8014 : Thurber, James


Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurber : 9290 : Thurber, James


Unfortunately, I have never been able to maintain a consistent attitude toward life or reality, or toward anything else. This may be entirely due to nervousness.
James Thurber : 10387 : Thurber, James


Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber : 11902 : Thurber, James


We want to be accepted just as we are, but at the same time we want the other person to win the right to our acceptance of him.
Howard Thurman : 7915 : Thurman, Howard


No external force, however great and overwhelming, can at long last destroy a people if it does not first win the victory of the spirit against them.
Howard Thurman : 8571 : Thurman, Howard


Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman : 12688 : Thurman, Howard


You are not lucky to be here. The world needs your perspective. They are lucky to have you.
Antonio Tijerino : 13445 : Tijerino, Antonio


People enjoy doubles more than singles because they have less work to do and a partner to blame.
Bill Tilden : 260 : Tilden, Bill


Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.
Paul Tillich : 11514 : Tillich, Paul


No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.
John Tillotson : 3006 : Tillotson, John


If you don't have good stories to tell on your deathbed, what good was living?
Jennifer Tilly : 961 : Tilly, Jennifer


Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
George Tilton : 6474 : Tilton, George


Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.
Edward Tivnan : 4232 : Tivnan, Edward


I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
Mike Todd : 1307 : Todd, Mike


The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler : 3098 : Toffler, Alvin


All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost, the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by frost.
J. R. R. Tolkien : 3052 : Tolkien, J. R. R.


One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
J. R. R. Tolkien : 6646 : Tolkien, J. R. R.


It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. Tolkien : 6794 : Tolkien, J. R. R.


Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien : 6815 : Tolkien, J. R. R.


I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
J. R. R. Tolkien : 7903 : Tolkien, J. R. R.


If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien : 8145 : Tolkien, J. R. R.


Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien : 8416 : Tolkien, J. R. R.


It would take only one generation of forgetfulness to put us back intellectually several thousand years.
Dean Tollefson : 7976 : Tollefson, Dean


The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
Count Leo Tolstoy : 404 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy : 1143 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


When a man is unable to understand a thing, he ridicules it.
Leo Tolstoy : 2642 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.
Leo Tolstoy : 2900 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
Leo Tolstoy : 4167 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice.
Leo Tolstoy : 4878 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.
Leo Tolstoy : 6116 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
Leo Tolstoy : 6517 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy : 7429 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


In difficult circumstances, always act on first impressions.
Leo Tolstoy : 8473 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy : 8500 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy : 9314 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. So remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
Leo Tolstoy : 10289 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


Error is the force that welds men together; Truth is communicated to men only my deeds of truth.
Leo Tolstoy : 10593 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


It is easier to write ten volumes of philosophy than to put one principle into practice.
Leo Tolstoy : 11622 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Leo Tolstoy : 11846 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy : 12540 : Tolstoy, Count Leo


Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy : 12713 : Tolstoy, Leo


The only qualities for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability. The capacity to steal other people's ideas and phrases is also invaluable.
Nicholas Tomalin : 11157 : Tomalin, Nicholas


If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin : 1160 : Tomlin, Lily


I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin : 5098 : Tomlin, Lily


Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin : 5691 : Tomlin, Lily


I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
Lily Tomlin : 5720 : Tomlin, Lily


I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin : 5730 : Tomlin, Lily


Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
Lily Tomlin : 6142 : Tomlin, Lily


For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin : 7392 : Tomlin, Lily


The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin : 8845 : Tomlin, Lily


I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore. What is reality? Nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin : 9022 : Tomlin, Lily


Being a New Yorker is never having to say you're sorry.
Lily Tomlin : 10155 : Tomlin, Lily


Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them.
Lily Tomlin : 11166 : Tomlin, Lily


I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.
H. M. Tomlinson : 2981 : Tomlinson, H. M.


Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
H. M. Tomlinson : 9684 : Tomlinson, H. M.


It has to be a good book which can maintain its value beside the lamp of a ship's berth at midnight - the best time and place in the world for reading.
H. M. Tomlinson : 11193 : Tomlinson, H. M.


Two centuries ago the tradesman made the difference; a hundred years ago it was a mechanic; in the fifties it was the engineer; but today it is the scientist.
Joseph F. Toot, Jr. : 2243 : Toot, Joseph F., Jr.


I like my crazy name. Even during the time I didn't work people remembered it because it was always cropping up -- in crossword puzzles, stuff like that.
Rip Torn : 11201 : Torn, Rip


You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.
Joe Torre : 2338 : Torre, Joe


I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day; I have never had the time for tobacco since.
Arturo Toscanini : 182 : Toscanini, Arturo


If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?
Kishida Toshiko : 12622 : Toshiko, Kishida


How softly runs the afternoon beneath the billowy clouds of June.
Charles Towne : 5364 : Towne, Charles


We must not allow prejudice to become a barrier to the full and effective use of our greatest national resources - the talents of our people.
Lynn A. Townsend : 1198 : Townsend, Lynn A.


Pop has become solemn, irrelevant, and boring. What it needs now is more noise, more size, more sex, more violence, more gimmickry, more vulgarity.
Pete Townshend : 1447 : Townshend, Pete


Quite simply, I feel that The Stones are the world's best rock and roll band.
Pete Townshend : 1448 : Townshend, Pete


Rock won't eliminate your problems, but it will let you sort of dance all over them.
Pete Townshend : 5051 : Townshend, Pete


Let's face it, you can't worship a guy for destroying an instrument in the name of rock.
Pete Townshend : 7653 : Townshend, Pete


Human society is a network of relations - spiritual, animate, physical - between human beings, alive, dead, and still unborn.
Arnold J. Toynbee : 2715 : Toynbee, Arnold J.


Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee : 7815 : Toynbee, Arnold J.


America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee : 10056 : Toynbee, Arnold J.


The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold J. Toynbee : 10606 : Toynbee, Arnold J.


Historical events are not inevitable; it is only in retrospect that they seem so.
Arnold Toynbee : 11096 : Toynbee, Arnold J.


I cannot conceive of a good life which isn't, in some sense, a self-disciplined life.
Philip Toynbee : 1456 : Toynbee, Philip


It is stupidvision - where most of the presenters look like they have to pretend to be stupid because they think their audience is.
Polly Toynbee : 1468 : Toynbee, Polly


You are nature's greatest miracle. There never has been and never will be anyone just like you.
Brian Tracy : 5629 : Tracy, Brian


Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy : 8036 : Tracy, Brian


Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy : 8662 : Tracy, Brian


Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy : 11022 : Tracy, Brian


A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
Brian Tracy : 12694 : Tracy, Brian


Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing.
Brian Tracy : 13093 : Tracy, Brian


Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy : 13218 : Tracy, Brian


You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't.
Buck Tracy : 11319 : Tracy, Buck


The national sport of England is obstacle racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.
Herbert Tree : 11503 : Tree, Herbert


I'm strong, powerful, and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone. And there are so many more things to life than skating - I hope.
Jill Trenary : 972 : Trenary, Jill


Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Trench : 4078 : Trench, Richard


History is the open Bible; we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
George Macaulay Trevelyan : 11172 : Trevelyan, George Macaulay


My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it.
Lee Trevino : 9762 : Trevino, Lee


It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of food offered in American clubs varies in proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
Calvin Trillin : 2229 : Trillin, Calvin


If law school is so tough, how come there are so many lawyers?
Calvin Trillin : 5137 : Trillin, Calvin


I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Calvin Trillin : 9020 : Trillin, Calvin


Any time an authority begins a sentence with "of course," he is almost certainly wrong.
Calvin Trillin : 10076 : Trillin, Calvin


As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin : 12411 : Trillin, Calvin


There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
Diana Trilling : 9210 : Trilling, Diana


Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel Trilling : 1163 : Trilling, Lionel


Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling : 5008 : Trilling, Lionel


What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all vices except this one.
Lionel Trilling : 8219 : Trilling, Lionel


What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Lionel Trilling : 12569 : Trilling, Lionel


Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue.
John R. Trimble : 3097 : Trimble, John R.


If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky : 1145 : Trotsky, Leon


An ally has to be watched just like an enemy.
Leon Trotsky : 10168 : Trotsky, Leon


America is the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
Garry Trudeau : 7296 : Trudeau, Garry


Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.
Justin Trudeau : 13537 : Trudeau, Justin


There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.
Marcel Trudel : 4720 : Trudel, Marcel


When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut : 4643 : Truffaut, Francois


The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
Harry S. Truman : 12003 : Truman, Harry S


Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all.
Harry S. Truman : 804 : Truman, Harry S.


The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
Harry S. Truman : 4721 : Truman, Harry S.


I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Harry S Truman : 6259 : Truman, Harry S.


If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
Harry S. Truman : 7079 : Truman, Harry S.


I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman : 7601 : Truman, Harry S.


Polls are like sleeping pills designed to lull voters into sleeping on election day. You might call them sleeping polls.
Harry S. Truman : 7923 : Truman, Harry S.


I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. Truman : 8174 : Truman, Harry S.


It is not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
Harry Truman : 9719 : Truman, Harry S.


Almost all current events in the affairs of governments and nations have their parallels and precedents in the past.
Harry S. Truman : 10035 : Truman, Harry S.


Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Harry S. Truman : 11127 : Truman, Harry S.


Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, probably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump : 2687 : Trump, Donald


I like thinking big. If You're going to be thinking anyway, you might as Well think big.
Donald Trump : 8162 : Trump, Donald


The majority rules. If they want anything, they get it. If they want anything not right, they get it, too.
Sojourner Truth : 6354 : Truth, Sojourner


Labor and abstinence are two of the best physicians in the world.
Thomas Tryon : 1793 : Tryon, Thomas


The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Meng Tse : 6149 : Tse, Meng


In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Mao Tse-Tung : 9814 : Tse-Tung, Mao


I had reasoned this out in my mind, there were two things I had a right to: liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive.
Harriet Tubman : 7520 : Tubman, Harriet


Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara Tuchman : 218 : Tuchman, Barbara W.


Selection in writing history is the task of distinguishing the significant from the insignificant. It must be honest, that is, true to the circumstances, and fair, that is, truly representative of the whole, never loaded. It can be used to reveal large me
Barbara W. Tuchman : 4152 : Tuchman, Barbara W.


We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then the few that punish them.
Allen Tucker : 5507 : Tucker, Allen


Humor: The ability to laugh at any mistake you survive.
Jerry Tucker : 8387 : Tucker, Jerry


The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race.
Nettie Hershey Tullis : 10510 : Tullis, Nettie Hershey


Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies.
John Tullius : 5529 : Tullius, John


The lawyer and the doctor and other professional men have often a touch of civilization. The banker and the merchant seldom.
Jim Tully : 974 : Tully, Jim


If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev : 896 : Turgenev, Ivan


However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Ivan Turgenev : 7742 : Turgenev, Ivan


Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.
Anne Turgot : 11370 : Turgot, Anne


No man is responsible for his father, that was entirely his mother's affair.
Margaret Turnbull : 4550 : Turnbull, Margaret


I am a professional tennis player. I have a friend who is a nun and her social life is better than mine.
Wendy Turnbull : 8304 : Turnbull, Wendy


Boy Scout leader to troop: "Remember, men, if you're lost in the woods at night, get your bearings from the sky. A glow will indicate the nearest shopping center."
Dick Turner : 9971 : Turner, Dick


A lot of people say, "how does it feel to be in the rock and roll hall of fame?" I don't feel nothing, I was just doing something I like doing.
Ike Turner : 885 : Turner, Ike


The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
Kathleen Turner : 1089 : Turner, Kathleen


It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner : 5191 : Turner, Lana


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 : 9467 : Turner, Lana


You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu : 11139 : Tutu, Desmond


Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu : 11702 : Tutu, Desmond


My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu : 13374 : Tutu, Desmond


Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain : 1249 : Twain, Mark


Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Mark Twain : 1250 : Twain, Mark


The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain : 1251 : Twain, Mark


The recurrent dream. Mine is appearing before lecture audiences in my shirttail. A most disagreeable dream.
Mark Twain : 1252 : Twain, Mark


The true statesman does not despise any wisdom, howsoever lowly may be its origin.
Mark Twain : 1253 : Twain, Mark


When I take up one of Jane Austen's books, I feel like a barkeeper entering the kingdom of heaven.
Mark Twain : 1254 : Twain, Mark


German is the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
Mark Twain : 1255 : Twain, Mark


I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
Mark Twain : 1256 : Twain, Mark


Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain : 1257 : Twain, Mark


Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second hand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain : 1258 : Twain, Mark


The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain : 1259 : Twain, Mark


George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain : 1260 : Twain, Mark


Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain : 1261 : Twain, Mark


In New England in the spring I have counted one hundred thirty-six kinds of weather in twenty-four hours.
Mark Twain : 1262 : Twain, Mark


You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain : 1263 : Twain, Mark


Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
Mark Twain : 1264 : Twain, Mark


Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain : 1265 : Twain, Mark


Always do right. This will gratify some and astound the rest.
Mark Twain : 1266 : Twain, Mark


Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits.
Mark Twain : 2149 : Twain, Mark


Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Mark Twain : 2151 : Twain, Mark


Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain : 2303 : Twain, Mark


A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination that gives immortality to a conversation.
Mark Twain : 2477 : Twain, Mark


The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain : 2533 : Twain, Mark


The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain : 2575 : Twain, Mark


There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
Mark Twain : 2580 : Twain, Mark


Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to the possibilities; truth isn't.
Mark Twain : 2592 : Twain, Mark


Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house.
Mark Twain : 2704 : Twain, Mark


Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain : 2886 : Twain, Mark


The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Mark Twain : 3157 : Twain, Mark


Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain : 3254 : Twain, Mark


Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain : 3349 : Twain, Mark


The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain : 3406 : Twain, Mark


There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain : 3479 : Twain, Mark


Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain : 3588 : Twain, Mark


Man - a figment of God's imagination.
Mark Twain : 3641 : Twain, Mark


If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain : 3693 : Twain, Mark


Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain : 3697 : Twain, Mark


Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain : 3701 : Twain, Mark


Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain : 3803 : Twain, Mark


In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain : 3910 : Twain, Mark


When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain : 4046 : Twain, Mark


The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
Mark Twain : 4227 : Twain, Mark


France has neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Mark Twain : 4362 : Twain, Mark


I am an old man and have known many great troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain : 4441 : Twain, Mark


There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.
Mark Twain : 4481 : Twain, Mark


Providence protects children and idiots. I know, because I have tested it.
Mark Twain : 4515 : Twain, Mark


Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain : 4545 : Twain, Mark


Always obey your superiors, if you have any.
Mark Twain : 4589 : Twain, Mark


I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Mark Twain : 4637 : Twain, Mark


It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain : 4790 : Twain, Mark


Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain : 4887 : Twain, Mark


Often it seems a pity that Noah and his party didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain : 5257 : Twain, Mark


When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
Mark Twain : 5290 : Twain, Mark


We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Mark Twain : 5309 : Twain, Mark


It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain : 5418 : Twain, Mark


Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain : 5450 : Twain, Mark


I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they haven't said enough.
Mark Twain : 5542 : Twain, Mark


The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain : 5622 : Twain, Mark


Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Mark Twain : 5632 : Twain, Mark


Can any plausible excuse be found for the crime of creating the human race?
Mark Twain : 5635 : Twain, Mark


We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.
Mark Twain : 5651 : Twain, Mark


Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Mark Twain : 5872 : Twain, Mark


Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their marriage were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain : 6372 : Twain, Mark


Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain : 6479 : Twain, Mark


Never run after your own hat - others will be delighted to do it; Why spoil their fun?
Mark Twain : 6532 : Twain, Mark


Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain : 6606 : Twain, Mark


Nobody ever went broke saving money.
Mark Twain : 6812 : Twain, Mark


Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Mark Twain : 6825 : Twain, Mark


If common sense is so common, why is there so little of it?
Mark Twain : 6835 : Twain, Mark


Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody said it before him.
Mark Twain : 6991 : Twain, Mark


It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain : 7217 : Twain, Mark


It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain : 7528 : Twain, Mark


A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain : 7765 : Twain, Mark


Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain : 7808 : Twain, Mark


The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Mark Twain : 7907 : Twain, Mark


I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain : 8113 : Twain, Mark


A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain : 8118 : Twain, Mark


The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But she won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
Mark Twain : 8265 : Twain, Mark


It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
Mark Twain : 8489 : Twain, Mark


A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper, the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Mark Twain : 8526 : Twain, Mark


Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
Mark Twain : 8564 : Twain, Mark


The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain : 8850 : Twain, Mark


Classic: A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain : 9835 : Twain, Mark


Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain : 10236 : Twain, Mark


First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure.
Mark Twain : 10244 : Twain, Mark


Adam was but human. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent - then he would have eaten the serpent.
Mark Twain : 10632 : Twain, Mark


Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "We".
Mark Twain : 10887 : Twain, Mark


If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain : 11225 : Twain, Mark


I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; It is very wearing to be good.
Mark Twain : 11901 : Twain, Mark


My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
Mark Twain : 11991 : Twain, Mark


Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life.
Mark Twain : 12038 : Twain, Mark


The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain : 12327 : Twain, Mark


The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain : 12597 : Twain, Mark


The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain : 13185 : Twain, Mark


The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's
Mark Twain : 13485 : Twain, Mark


As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?
William Marcy "Boss" Tweed : 10103 : Tweed, William Marcy "Boss"


Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger : 623 : Tyger, Frank


Swallow your pride occasionally. It's not fattening.
Frank Tyger : 9179 : Tyger, Frank


The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself.
Frank Tyger : 10599 : Tyger, Frank


On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror.
Frank Tyger : 11637 : Tyger, Frank


Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
Aisha Tyler : 9927 : Tyler, Aisha


While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
Anne Tyler : 11305 : Tyler, Anne


I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight.
Liv Tyler : 12259 : Tyler, Liv


A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan : 12960 : Tynan, Kenneth


It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink at facts because they are not to our taste.
John Tyndall : 9774 : Tyndall, John


Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress, I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
Cicely Tyson : 9262 : Tyson, Cicely


True wisdom has a curious way of revealing to yourself your own true ignorance.
Neil Degrasse Tyson : 10902 : Tyson, Neil Degrasse


Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
Neil Degrasse Tyson : 11082 : Tyson, Neil Degrasse


I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.
Neil Degrasse Tyson : 11836 : Tyson, Neil Degrasse


The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil Degrasse Tyson : 13201 : Tyson, Neil Degrasse


I love the smell of the universe in the morning.
Neil Degrasse Tyson : 13551 : Tyson, Neil Degrasse


Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.
Chuang Tzu : 7855 : Tzu, Chuang


Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Stewart Udall : 11444 : Udall, Stewart


Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland : 2790 : Ueland, Brenda


We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
James Ramsey Ullman : 7582 : Ullman, James Ramsey


Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman : 7866 : Ullman, Samuel


You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.
Samuel Ullman : 12620 : Ullman, Samuel


Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity.
Samuel Ullman : 13006 : Ullman, Samuel


It is only the untalented director who imagines himself in every part, wants his own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who makes his own limitations those of the actor as well.
Liv Ulmann : 2231 : Ulmann, Liv


Struggling to see does not help one to see. The light comes, when it does come, rather suddenly and strangely, I think. It is just like falling in love; a thing that never happens to those who are always trying to do it.
Evelyn Underhill : 2948 : Underhill, Evelyn


After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill : 5976 : Underhill, Evelyn


Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
Carrie Underwood : 11815 : Underwood, Carrie


No doing without some ruing.
Sigrid Undset : 7402 : Undset, Sigrid


Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
The United Church Observer : 4566 : United Church Observer, The


Adolescence is the age when children stop asking questions because they know all the answers.
Anon : 114 : Unknown


The easiest way to get rid of weight is leaving it lie untouched on the plate.
Anon : 115 : Unknown


Say it with jewelry, say it with drink, but always be careful not to say it with ink.
Anon : 116 : Unknown


Vacation: a period of travels and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
Anon : 117 : Unknown


Computers come in two varieties: the prototype and the obsolete.
Anon : 118 : Unknown


There are two sides to every question and a politician usually takes both.
Anon Voter : 119 : Unknown


A lot of people will be unhappy in heaven when they find out they can't institute any reforms there
Anonymous : 120 : Unknown


There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that the older generation didn't outgrow
Anonymous : 121 : Unknown


A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
Anonymous : 123 : Unknown


Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.
Anonymous : 124 : Unknown


Many a husband takes all the joy out of a domestic quarrel by refusing to talk back.
Anonymous : 125 : Unknown


The owl is supposed to be wise, but he is not wise enough to get off the night shift.
Anonymous : 126 : Unknown


A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
Anonymous : 128 : Unknown


The smallest good deed is greater than the greatest good intention.
Anonymous : 129 : Unknown


He that is poor, all his kindred scorn him; he that is rich, all are kin to him.
Anonymous : 130 : Unknown


Another change the game of bridge needs is a cross bar under the table.
Anonymous : 131 : Unknown


The first essential for leadership is a group of dumb guys to follow you.
Anonymous : 132 : Unknown


Summer resort: a town where the inhabitants live on your vacation money until next summer.
Anonymous : 133 : Unknown


Of all the ways of paying for a thing, cash is the cheapest.
Anonymous : 134 : Unknown


A hangover you get the morning after comes from not using your head the night before.
Anonymous : 135 : Unknown


Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment.
Anonymous : 136 : Unknown


All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
Anonymous : 137 : Unknown


The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Anonymous : 138 : Unknown


Metallurgy: the study of how to keep people from being allergic to metals.
Anonymous : 139 : Unknown


Put a go-getter out on a limb and he will start a branch factory.
Anonymous : 140 : Unknown


Remember that moderate riches will carry you; if you have more, you must carry them.
Anonymous : 141 : Unknown


She's the kind who can marry anyone she pleases. Too bad she doesn't seem to please anyone.
Anonymous : 142 : Unknown


If you look like your passport picture, you're too sick to travel.
Anonymous : 143 : Unknown


If you want everything done yesterday, what will you do tomorrow?
Anonymous : 144 : Unknown


We expect modern youth to be strong, courageous and prepared to pay more taxes than their fathers.
Anonymous : 145 : Unknown


Computers do everything but think, which, we must admit, makes them almost human.
Anonymous : 146 : Unknown


No one need be ashamed of plain dinners if given with a hearty welcome.
Anonymous : 147 : Unknown


Retirement is the period when you exchange the bills in your wallet for snapshots of your grandchildren.
Anonymous : 148 : Unknown


An x-ray reveals a lot about a man, but an ex-wife can reveal much more.
Anonymous : 149 : Unknown


It is difficult to get the weather of any season to live up to the poetry written about it.
Anonymous : 150 : Unknown


A highbrow is a person who can use the word "whom" without feeling self-conscious.
Anonymous : 151 : Unknown


Why are goods sent by ship called cargo while goods sent in a freight car called a shipment?
Anonymous : 152 : Unknown


No matter how great a warrior is, a chief cannot do battle without his Indians.
Anonymous : 153 : Unknown


If you think chickens are dumb, try planting some vegetables.
Anonymous : 154 : Unknown


It's a sign of age if you feel like the day after the night before and you haven't been anywhere.
Anonymous : 155 : Unknown


Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
Anonymous : 156 : Unknown


Volunteers are unpaid not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
Anonymous : 157 : Unknown


A wizard is a person who can keep up with the neighbors and the installments too.
Author Obscure : 192 : Unknown


Push is more important than pull, especially if you are going through a revolving door.
Author Unknown : 193 : Unknown


It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors, and shut up your countenance.
Author Unknown : 194 : Unknown


Nowadays every man wants life, liberty and two cars in which to pursue happiness.
Author Unknown : 195 : Unknown


Money is honey, my little sonny, and a rich man's joke is always funny.
Author Unknown : 196 : Unknown


Christmas is the season when all good men and true have presence of mind and presents in mind.
Author Unknown : 197 : Unknown


A hangover is where, having lost your head the night before, you wake up with two heads the morning after.
Author Unknown : 198 : Unknown


Many a man who celebrates the arrival of the new year should celebrate instead the survival of the old.
Author Unknown : 199 : Unknown


Does a kangaroo get irritated when its baby eats his crackers in bed?
Author Unknown : 200 : Unknown


A man as he manages himself, may die old at thirty, or young at eighty.
Author Unknown : 201 : Unknown


Why find fault with yourself, plenty of others will do it for you.
Author Unknown : 202 : Unknown


Kangaroo: nature's initial effort to produce a cheerleader.
Author Unknown : 204 : Unknown


About the only thing a nickel is good for nowadays is to make change for a quarter.
Author Unknown : 205 : Unknown


There is only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.
Author Unknown : 206 : Unknown


There are two kinds of voters: those who vote for your candidate, and the ignorant, prejudiced fools.
Author Unknown : 207 : Unknown


The exchange of Christmas presents should be reciprocal rather than retaliatory.
Author Unknown : 208 : Unknown


Nearly every man is a firm believer in heredity until his son makes a fool of himself.
Famous Anonymous : 593 : Unknown


Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Various Authors are credited - see https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/17/angry-speech/ : 1138 : Unknown


Every family has a choice of keeping up with the neighbors or the creditors.
Obscure Origin : 1369 : Unknown


Tree surgeons are taught to wear safety belts so they won't fall out of patients.
Obscure Source : 1370 : Unknown


For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
Old Adage : 1377 : Unknown


Advice to attorneys: never ask a question of a witness if you don't already know the answer.
Old Adage : 1378 : Unknown


Rags make paper, paper makes money, money makes banks, banks make loans, loans make beggars, beggars make rags.
Old Rhyme : 1379 : Unknown


A college education seldom hurts a man if he's willing to learn a little something after he graduates.
Origin Obscure : 1395 : Unknown


If parents haven't learned something from experience, they can always learn it from their children.
Origin Unknown : 1396 : Unknown


What good does it do for the worm to turn - he's the same on all sides.
Origin Unknown : 1397 : Unknown


People who want to get even with others are usually at odds with themselves.
Origin Unknown : 1398 : Unknown


The stork is charged with a lot of things which should be blamed on a lark.
Source Obscure : 1679 : Unknown


To err is human but this you should learn: don't be human on your tax return.
Source Obscure : 1680 : Unknown


I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: if at first I don't succeed, I quit.
Source Obscure : 1681 : Unknown


When Uncle Sam plays Santa Claus, it's the taxpayer who holds the bag.
Source Obscure : 1682 : Unknown


I tried but it didn't work is a lot better than "I wish I had tried."
Source Obscure : 1683 : Unknown


Patience is the ability to let your light shine after your fuse has blown.
Source Obscure : 1684 : Unknown


Probably the world's greatest humorist was the man who called "installments" "easy payments".
Source Obscure : 1685 : Unknown


Salary: an amount of money that, no matter how large it is, some people spend more than.
Source Obscure : 1686 : Unknown


What this country needs is a dollar which will not be so much elastic as adhesive.
Source Obscure : 1687 : Unknown


The kind of fallout that really disturbs most people is what gets dropped out of their paychecks.
Source Obscure : 1688 : Unknown


If you can smile when all around you have lost their heads, you must be the caddy.
Source Obscure : 1689 : Unknown


A few more payments and the Christmas gift you gave your wife is yours.
Source Obscure : 1690 : Unknown


If you don't have an education, you've got to use your brain.
Source Obscure : 1691 : Unknown


Bridge: next to hockey, the most dangerous shin bruising game in America.
Source Obscure : 1692 : Unknown


Married men have better halves, but bachelors have better quarters.
Source Obscure : 1693 : Unknown


Platonic love is like being invited down to the cellar for a glass of ginger ale.
Source Obscure : 1694 : Unknown


You can never tell about a woman, and if you can, you shouldn't.
Source Obscure : 1695 : Unknown


Don't worry about what people think about you because they aren't thinking about you.
Source Obscure : 1696 : Unknown


Love, music and money are easy to understand in any language.
Source Obscure : 1697 : Unknown


An optimist sees only the initial payment; the pessimist sees the future installments and the upkeep.
Source Obscure : 1698 : Unknown


The thicker the skull the sharper the hint must be to penetrate it.
Source Unknown : 1699 : Unknown


Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man, having caught a big fish, goes home through an alley.
Source Unknown : 1700 : Unknown


Always give one hundred percent, and you'll never have to second guess yourself.
Source Unknown : 1701 : Unknown


Don't be afraid of going slowly; be afraid of standing still.
Source Unknown : 1702 : Unknown


Sickness: not to feel well. There are three stages: ill, pill, bill. Sometimes there's another: will.
Source Unknown : 1703 : Unknown


Home: the place where you can enjoy your corn on the cob and soup.
Source Unknown : 1704 : Unknown


We used to say "What's cooking?" when we came home from work. Now it's "What's thawing?"
Source Unknown : 1705 : Unknown


Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
Source Unknown : 1706 : Unknown


Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.
Source Unknown : 1707 : Unknown


Discretion is when you are sure you are right and then ask your wife.
Source Unknown : 1708 : Unknown


As a rule, a man who doesn't know his own mind hasn't missed much.
Source Unknown : 1709 : Unknown


Every wife ought to know her husband's favorite dish and which restaurant serves it.
Source Unknown : 1710 : Unknown


After the unexpected has happened, there is always someone who knew it would.
Source Unknown : 1711 : Unknown


He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth - but it had someone else's initials.
Source Unknown : 1712 : Unknown


By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step he's too old to go anywhere.
Source Unknown : 1713 : Unknown


Volunteers don't necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
Source Unknown : 1714 : Unknown


If a man takes off his hat in an elevator it means he has good manners, and hair.
Source Unknown : 1715 : Unknown


An optimist is one who thinks he can get away with saying "thanks" to the head waiter.
Source Unknown : 1716 : Unknown


No sooner do they get the players off the gridiron than they start putting the coaches on the pan.
Source Unknown : 1717 : Unknown


One nice thing about a one-way street is that you may only be bumped in the rear.
Anonymous : 1719 : Unknown


Adam: the one man in the world who couldn't say, "Pardon me, haven't I seen you before?"
Anonymous : 1720 : Unknown


Blessed are those who go around in circles for they shall be called big wheels.
Uncertain Origin : 1811 : Unknown


Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
Unknown : 1812 : Unknown


Acrobat: the only person who can do what everyone else would like to do - pat himself on the back.
Unknown : 1813 : Unknown


The people hardest to convince that they should retire are children at bedtime.
Unknown Author : 1814 : Unknown


Appendicitis and tonsillitis: two sicknesses that made famous the line, "There's gold in them thar ills."
Unknown Origin : 1815 : Unknown


Public library building: the tallest building in town. It has more stories than any other.
Unknown Source : 1816 : Unknown


A diplomat is a man who can pull the wool over his wife's eyes with the right yarn.
Unknown Source : 1817 : Unknown


Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
Unknown Source : 1818 : Unknown


The only women who dress to please their husbands are wearing last year's clothes.
Unknown Source : 1819 : Unknown


When selling a horse, praise his bad points, and leave the good ones to look after themselves.
Old Adage : 2137 : Unknown


A good many car drivers don't need seat belts as much as they need straightjackets.
Anonymous : 2256 : Unknown


If they ever close up the Metropolitan Opera, where will society go to talk while opera is being sung?
Anonymous : 2259 : Unknown


Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WO
Anonymous : 2260 : Unknown


The real test of golf and in life is not keeping out of the rough, but getting out after we are in.
Anonymous : 2261 : Unknown


The advantage of working day and night is that you earn enough to pay the doctor when you break down.
Source Unknown : 2298 : Unknown


The two agencies that redistribute great fortunes are taxation and offspring.
Source Unknown : 2359 : Unknown


It's only during an eclipse that the man in the moon has a place in the sun.
Anonymous : 2481 : Unknown


None of my patients are hypochondriacs, but you should see some of their owners.
Anonymous Veterinarian : 2488 : Unknown


What is it that disappears when you make a U-Turn? A parking space.
Source Unknown : 2489 : Unknown


Francis Scott Key deserved fame because he knew all the verses of "The Star Spangled Banner."
Unknown Source : 2499 : Unknown


Unless you can look interested when you are bored, you will never be a success socially.
Anonymous : 2500 : Unknown


Some folks seem to think they're worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Source Unknown : 2504 : Unknown


Thirty is a nice age for a woman, especially if she happens to be forty.
Anonymous : 2505 : Unknown


Adolescence: the period when children are certain they will never be as stupid as their parents.
Source Unknown : 2511 : Unknown


Vacation Resort: a place that overlooks a lake and also overlooks comfortable beds and good food.
Source Obscure : 2535 : Unknown


Some people have nothing to say, but you have to listen a long time to find out.
Anonymous : 2536 : Unknown


Will the last person out of the tunnel please turn off the light?
Source Unknown : 2547 : Unknown


An intellectual is a person who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.
Source Obscure : 2552 : Unknown


Home is the place where you can enjoy corn on the cob, soup and watermelon.
Source Obscure : 2556 : Unknown


With the exception of world unrest, nothing breaks out in more places than an old garden hose.
Weary Gardner : 2558 : Unknown


Treat the earth well; it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
Anonymous Native American : 2559 : Unknown


Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will mankind find that money cannot be eaten.
Native American Saying : 2561 : Unknown


Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Anonymous : 2573 : Unknown


The polls are places where you stand in line for a chance to decide who will spend your money.
Source Obscure : 3108 : Unknown


The law of heredity is that all undesirable traits come from the other parent.
Anonymous : 3146 : Unknown


The habit of going to the bottom of things usually lands a man on top.
Origin Obscure : 3215 : Unknown


A magazine writer says we need a new religion, but let's not do anything rash until we try the old ones.
Anonymous : 3220 : Unknown


'Twas the night before Christmas, or so sayeth the book, not a creature was stirring, excepting the cook
Anonymous : 3222 : Unknown


Dutch Treat: when two businessmen have dinner and each uses his own expense account.
Anonymous : 3234 : Unknown


An elephant is a useful animal with a vacuum in front and a rug-beater at the back.
Witty Definition : 3252 : Unknown


The car to watch is the car behind the car in front of you.
Anonymous : 3253 : Unknown


You may not know when you are well off, but the Internal Revenue Service does.
Source Unknown : 3255 : Unknown


It takes three generations or one good guess in the stock market to make a gentleman.
Author Unknown : 3256 : Unknown


He talks like a man who is unable to keep up with his thoughts no matter how rapidly he speaks.
Obscure Source : 3262 : Unknown


He who hesitates is not only lost, but is also miles from the next exit.
Source Obscure : 3363 : Unknown


The best way to make a small fortune is to start with a big one.
Source Obscure : 3646 : Unknown


Some mornings I wake up grouchy, other days I let him sleep.
Source Unknown : 3654 : Unknown


An optimist is someone who thinks there are some big berries at the bottom of the basket.
Unknown : 3686 : Unknown


Scientists say we are what we eat. Nuts must be a commoner diet than we had thought.
Source Obscure : 3688 : Unknown


Patent medicine ads are so attractive that it makes a person in good health feel as though he is missing something.
Author Unknown : 3698 : Unknown


A luxury resort is a place with tropical plants outside and outstretched palms inside.
Anonymous : 3745 : Unknown


People who have time to burn usually spend it with someone who hasn't.
Anonymous : 3778 : Unknown


You must stay wide awake to make your dreams come true.
Source Obscure : 3785 : Unknown


I always thought I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure.
Anonymous : 3794 : Unknown


A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head.
Source Obscure : 3804 : Unknown


Even a mosquito rarely receives a pat on the back until he gets to work.
Unknown Origin : 3808 : Unknown


Some lecturers talk in their sleep, but some talk in other people's sleep.
Anonymous : 3852 : Unknown


The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
Anonymous : 4450 : Unknown


The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Unknown Source : 4473 : Unknown


When you are too old to chase other things, you can always chase golf balls.
Anonymous : 4491 : Unknown


The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Source Unknown : 4498 : Unknown


People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for
Source Unknown : 4501 : Unknown


The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds.
Source Obscure : 4505 : Unknown


Mothers write on the hearts of their children what the world's rough hand cannot erase.
Unknown : 4538 : Unknown


Behold the warranty: The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
Anonymous : 4552 : Unknown


An optimist is a person who takes a skillet on a fishing trip.
Anonymous : 4557 : Unknown


A moth leads an awful life; he spends the summer in a fur coat and the winter in a bathing suit.
Source Obscure : 4561 : Unknown


The trick in campaigning is to give them platitudes without fear or favor and straight from the shoulder generalities.
Unknown Source : 4570 : Unknown


In the money: A condition many men hope for, but only a bank teller experiences.
Source Unknown : 4572 : Unknown


Strange how a man not fit to be your son-in-law produces the most adorable grandchildren.
Speaker Unknown : 4579 : Unknown


You can be the happiest man on earth by falling in love with yourself. You won't have a single rival
Source Unknown : 4583 : Unknown


The cautious suitor who stays on the fence too long usually ends up getting the gate.
Origin Unknown : 4881 : Unknown


This we know about "hard" and "easy" money: Any kind is hard to get and easy to spend.
Anonymous : 4884 : Unknown


Before marriage, the three little words are "I love you." After marriage, they are "Let's eat out."
Origin Obscure : 4893 : Unknown


Never put off until tomorrow that which can be avoided altogether.
Anonymous : 4904 : Unknown


Each of us lives a life that has never been, or ever will be exactly like that of any other human being.
Source Unknown : 4910 : Unknown


Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon
Source Obscure : 4949 : Unknown


People live for tomorrow because the day after tomorrow is doubtful.
Source Obscure : 4977 : Unknown


We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
Old Winter Saying : 4980 : Unknown


A safety island is a marked-off area in a street that permits cars to strike you only from the side.
Timid Pedestrian : 5248 : Unknown


The lion and the lamb will lie down together when the lamb hasn't anything the lion wants.
Source Unknown : 5252 : Unknown


Traffic is so slow in New York City that the taxi meters run faster than the taxicabs.
Anxious Rider : 5253 : Unknown


What this country needs is a new type of mirror that will grow more charitable with the years.
Author Unknown : 5256 : Unknown


The secret of success is making hay with the grass that grows under other people's feet.
Author Unknown : 5264 : Unknown


Middle age is when a person your own age looks much older than you think you look.
Author Unknown : 5268 : Unknown


Stop worrying about what junior will do when he grows up - better go see what he's up to now.
Anonymous : 5274 : Unknown


If a sailor had a wife in every port, he'd also have a wife in every court.
Source Unknown : 5289 : Unknown


Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love, because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.
Author Unknown : 5298 : Unknown


Never cherish the worries that you meet each day, for the better you treat them, the longer they stay.
Source Obscure : 5301 : Unknown


The reckless driver is a person who passes you when you are exceeding the speed limit.
Self Described Expert : 5311 : Unknown


Your life is made up of years that mean nothing, moments that mean all.
Author Unknown : 5328 : Unknown


There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it
Source Obscure : 5380 : Unknown


I've met only four perfect people in my life, and I didn't like any of them.
Source Unknown : 5394 : Unknown


Tipping began when gratuities were dropped in a box marked "T. I. P. S." - To Insure Prompt Service.
Source Obscure : 5404 : Unknown


Drive-in banks were invented so that automobiles could visit their real owners.
Anonymous : 5405 : Unknown


A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Proud, Happy Daddy : 5427 : Unknown


If you don't like the games people play, make up your own games.
Source Obscure : 5429 : Unknown


Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the number of moments that take our breath away.
Anonymous : 5437 : Unknown


A football coach is a fellow who is willing to lay down your life for his school.
Author Unknown : 5458 : Unknown


Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you are locked up.
Author Unknown : 5474 : Unknown


Defeated politician: the candidate who never has to explain why he's unable to keep his campaign promises.
Author Unknown : 5489 : Unknown


Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.
Source Unknown : 5521 : Unknown


There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and chocolate truffles.
A Chocolate Addict : 5523 : Unknown


May you have a joyous day followed by years of peace and renewed prosperity.
Unknown : 5524 : Unknown


A man who never does anything he doesn't like rarely likes anything he does.
Anonymous : 5534 : Unknown


Take a lesson from tea: Its real strength comes out when it gets into hot water.
Anonymous : 5541 : Unknown


The word "alms" has no singular, as if to teach us that a single act of charity is no charity.
Source Obscure : 5545 : Unknown


All things come to him who waits for a taxi on rainy days - except a taxi.
Anonymous : 5546 : Unknown


Civilization will really start when the power of love replaces the love of power.
Source Unknown : 5550 : Unknown


No one has more trouble keeping up with the Joneses than old man Jones himself.
Origin Obscure : 5553 : Unknown


But what is it (the microchip) good for?
Anonymous (an engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.) : 5667 : Unknown


I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.
Anonymous (Editor in charge of Business Books for Prentice Hall, 1957) : 5668 : Unknown


This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Anonymous (Western Union internal memo, 1870s) : 5670 : Unknown


The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
Anonymous (David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s) : 5671 : Unknown


Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.
Anonymous (drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.) : 5673 : Unknown


We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Anonymous (Decca Recording Co. on rejecting the Beatles, 1962) : 5676 : Unknown


The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Anonymous (a Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service - Smith went on to found federal express corp.) : 5677 : Unknown


Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
Anonymous (from a 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work) : 5678 : Unknown


The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money.
Tax auditor : 5690 : Unknown


If the bee bites you once, it's the bee's fault. if the bee bites you twice, it's your fault.
Source Obscure : 6537 : Unknown


Fare often to find the friend you trust; Brambles grow in the rare-trodden road.
Source Obscure : 7141 : Unknown


Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
Source Unknown : 7159 : Unknown


A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook : 7434 : Unknown


In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and days long.
Source Obscure : 7801 : Unknown


Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.
Sioux Indian Prayer : 8654 : Unknown


Tell me who admires and loves you and I will tell you who you are.
Source Obscure : 8998 : Unknown


Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
Anonymous from "A Course in Miracles" : 9763 : Unknown


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Unknown : 10199 : Unknown


A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness.
Unknown : 11405 : Unknown


Dress a monkey as you will, it will remain a monkey still.
Source Unknown : 11425 : Unknown


Women always worry about the things men forget; men always worry about the things women remember.
Author Unknown : 11770 : Unknown


We are all here on earth to help others; What on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Source Uncertain : 12141 : Unknown


They don't care how much you know, unless they know how much you care.
Source Obscure : 12328 : Unknown


People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
Source Obscure : 12363 : Unknown


Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
Source Obscure : 12378 : Unknown


The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Source Obscure : 12415 : Unknown


Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Source Unknown : 12442 : Unknown


Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Source Obscure : 12450 : Unknown


St. Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth, drove all the snakes from ireland. Here's toasting to his health.
Anonymous : 12470 : Unknown


A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; Certainly both are worth the risk.
Unknown : 12493 : Unknown


If you can't be a pencil to write anyone's happiness, then try to be a nice eraser to remove their sadness.
Unknown : 12506 : Unknown


I wash everything on the gentle cycle. It's so much more humane.
Unknown : 12580 : Unknown


A perpetual optimist is a person who has nothing to worry about because he has nothing to worry with.
Source Obscure : 12638 : Unknown


Time well spent is time that was used treating other people well.
Source Unknown : 12648 : Unknown


When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.
Source Unknown : 12651 : Unknown


Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
Source Unknown : 12734 : Unknown


The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
Unknown : 12783 : Unknown


Success is not final; Failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Source Obscure : 12873 : Unknown


The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Anonymous : 12876 : Unknown


It's easy to make a friend. What's hard to make is a stranger.
Anonymous : 12970 : Unknown


Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the titanic!
Source Unknown : 13013 : Unknown


Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Source Unknown : 13139 : Unknown


To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Unknown : 13148 : Unknown


It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
Source Obscure : 13187 : Unknown


When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.
Source Unknown : 13366 : Unknown


Leave who you were. Love who you are. Look forward to who you will become.
Source Obscure : 13372 : Unknown


Doctors say hay fever can be positive or negative. Sometimes the eyes have it, and sometimes the nose.
Anonymous : 13408 : Unknown


Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution.
Anonymous : 13420 : Unknown


May The Fourth Be With You.
Your Puzzle Friends : 13506 : Unknown


If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur.
Unknown : 13516 : Unknown


You can't buy happiness, but you can buy donuts. And that's kind of the same thing.
Unknown : 13518 : Unknown


Tea has remedies for all difficulties, and iced tea has answers for all problems and the summer heat.
Unknown : 13523 : Unknown


Anyone can break thin wooden sticks, but it is hard to break a bundle of the same.
Old Saying : 13548 : Unknown


Punning, like poetry, is something everyone belittles and everyone attempts.
Louis Untermeyer : 9441 : Untermeyer, Louis


Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Robert Updegraff : 3168 : Updegraff, Robert


The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
John Updike : 1023 : Updike, John


One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike : 4679 : Updike, John


Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being "somebody," to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases. One can either see or be seen.
John Updike : 7188 : Updike, John


We still think of Gene Kelly as a guy in loafers and a tight T-shirt, tap dancing up a storm all by his lonesome.
John Updike : 8285 : Updike, John


You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
John Updike : 9640 : Updike, John


Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike : 11322 : Updike, John


Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
John Updike : 12200 : Updike, John


Dreams come true; Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike : 12204 : Updike, John


Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike : 12498 : Updike, John


Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us.
Jim Urbanovich : 4615 : Urbanovich, Jim


At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Peter Ustinov : 1453 : Ustinov, Peter


Thanks to the movies, gunfire has always sounded unreal to me, even when being fired upon.
Peter Ustinov : 1454 : Ustinov, Peter


The weakness in human nature is that which goes by the name of strength.
Peter Ustinov : 8364 : Ustinov, Peter


Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov : 9753 : Ustinov, Peter


I regard acting as an athletic performance, a more lucrative form of jogging.
Peter Ustinov : 10522 : Ustinov, Peter


Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov : 10851 : Ustinov, Peter


Top results are reached only through pain. But eventually you like this pain. You'll find the more difficulties you have on the way, the more you will enjoy your success.
Juha Vaatainen : 3894 : Vaatainen, Juha


Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore Vail : 9036 : Vail, Theodore


Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember.
Buddy Valastro : 12641 : Valastro, Buddy


Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez : 4444 : Valdez, Jeff


Most Americans want to be only comfortably cultivated. They dabble with the intellectual just enough to avoid being lowbrow and escape being highbrow.
Alan Valentine : 3034 : Valentine, Alan


The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery : 1441 : Valery, Paul


History is the science of what never happens twice.
Paul Valery : 1442 : Valery, Paul


Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery : 2795 : Valery, Paul


The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery : 5030 : Valery, Paul


A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it - that is to say, gives it to the public.
Paul Valery : 6638 : Valery, Paul


It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
Paul Valery : 6905 : Valery, Paul


A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery : 9438 : Valery, Paul


An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery : 9818 : Valery, Paul


A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery : 13010 : Valery, Paul


My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.
Jim Valvano : 10983 : Valvano, Jim


Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren : 8 : Van Buren, Abigail


In biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
Abigail Van Buren : 2497 : Van Buren, Abigail


If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren : 4344 : Van Buren, Abigail


A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an "undo it yourself" project.
Abigail Van Buren : 10096 : Van Buren, Abigail


The reason some women call it pin money is they have to needle their husbands to get it.
Abigail Van Buren : 11994 : Van Buren, Abigail


While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
Abigail Van Buren : 12229 : Van Buren, Abigail


I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?
Mamie Van Doren : 13009 : Van Doren, Mamie


The world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren : 8274 : Van Doren, Mark


Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
Mark Van Doren : 10106 : Van Doren, Mark


Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry van Dyke : 2088 : Van Dyke, Henry


No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
Henry van Dyke : 3127 : Van Dyke, Henry


Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry van Dyke : 4782 : Van Dyke, Henry


Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke : 12396 : Van Dyke, Henry


For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
Henry Van Dyke : 12422 : Van Dyke, Henry


The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke : 12471 : Van Dyke, Henry


The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely.
Henry Van Dyke : 12477 : Van Dyke, Henry


I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent Van Gogh : 2912 : Van Gogh, Vincent


The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm is terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh : 4711 : Van Gogh, Vincent


And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
Vincent Van Gogh : 5561 : Van Gogh, Vincent


An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh : 6335 : Van Gogh, Vincent


Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh : 9031 : Van Gogh, Vincent


I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh : 9324 : Van Gogh, Vincent


If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh : 10587 : Van Gogh, Vincent


Our life is so dependent on our relations with women - and the opposite, of course, is also true - that it seems to me one must never think lightly of them.
Vincent van Gogh : 10648 : Van Gogh, Vincent


I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh : 11445 : Van Gogh, Vincent


The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh : 11733 : Van Gogh, Vincent


I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh : 12905 : Van Gogh, Vincent


Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
H. W. Van Loan : 792 : Van Loan, H. W.


You're strong, you're a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this.
Jonathan Van Ness : 13210 : Van Ness, Jonathan


It is not knowledge of ways and means we lack; it is the will to put them into effect.
Alfred Vanderbilt : 2037 : Vanderbilt, Alfred


If I had learned education, I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt : 3851 : Vanderbilt, Cornelius


Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. it is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.
William Vanderbilt : 6533 : Vanderbilt, William


A conservative is a person who does not think anything should be done for the first time.
Frank Vanderlip : 2818 : Vanderlip, Frank


Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tend to balance out.
Raoul Vaneigem : 6617 : Vaneigem, Raoul


The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
Iyanla Vanzant : 13040 : Vanzant, Iyanla


Everybody is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese : 7099 : Varese, Edgard


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 : 8202 : Varro, Marcus Terentius


Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan : 261 : Vaughan, Bill


In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
Bill Vaughan : 3045 : Vaughan, Bill


A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan : 3837 : Vaughan, Bill


A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan : 4641 : Vaughan, Bill


Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan : 4687 : Vaughan, Bill


When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.
Bill Vaughan : 6019 : Vaughan, Bill


America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan : 6899 : Vaughan, Bill


Pipe smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling, and fooling around with their pipes they don't have any time to break the law.
Bill Vaughan : 9355 : Vaughan, Bill


About all we remember from ancient history is that a pharaoh could maintain a good-sized empire on what it costs to make a movie about it.
Bill Vaughan : 10002 : Vaughan, Bill


Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan : 10067 : Vaughan, Bill


If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice; if he leaves it empty, he gets actors;
Bill Vaughan : 11296 : Vaughan, Bill


Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughn : 11599 : Vaughn, Bill


What I wanted to be when I grew up was - in charge!
USAF Brigadier General Wilma Vaught : 2051 : Vaught, USAF Brigadier General Wilma


The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
Thorstein Veblen : 2945 : Veblen, Thorstein


Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen : 3476 : Veblen, Thorstein


There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
Thorstein Veblen : 6410 : Veblen, Thorstein


The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Thorstein Veblen : 6986 : Veblen, Thorstein


The chief factor in the gambling habit is the belief in luck; and this belief is apparently traceable, at least in its elements, to a stage in human evolution antedating the predatory culture.
Thorstein Veblen : 7178 : Veblen, Thorstein


Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
Carl Van Vechten : 8733 : Vechten, Carl Van


I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi : 12217 : Venturi, Ken


Oh, blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
Giuseppe Verdi : 9150 : Verdi, Giuseppe


The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
Louis Vermeil : 6228 : Vermeil, Louis


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs ... since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont : 11740 : Vermont, Mildred B.


We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.`
Jules Verne : 9550 : Verne, Jules


It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Jules Verne : 11937 : Verne, Jules


The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
Jackie Vernon : 12021 : Vernon, Jackie


What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.
Allegra Versace : 12274 : Versace, Allegra


To me, "sexy" is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
Allegra Versace : 13077 : Versace, Allegra


Avarice is like a pig which seeks its food in the mud, without caring where it comes from.
Jean Vianney : 956 : Vianney, Jean


Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal : 751 : Vidal, Gore


Having no talent is no longer enough.
Gore Vidal : 2654 : Vidal, Gore


I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.
Gore Vidal : 3433 : Vidal, Gore


With history one can never be certain, but I think I can safely say that Aristotle Onassis would not have married Mrs. Khrushchev.
Gore Vidal : 7260 : Vidal, Gore


Everyone is so anesthetized by scandal that if it turned out that Richard Nixon was the illegitimate son of Golda Meir, it wouldn't make the front pages.
Gore Vidal : 10402 : Vidal, Gore


Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal : 12041 : Vidal, Gore


When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.
King Vidor : 3020 : Vidor, King


I am not one of those who do not believe in love at first sight, but I believe in taking a second look.
H. Vincent : 3657 : Vincent, H.


The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer, and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
Madeleine Vionnet : 4259 : Vionnet, Madeleine


Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
Judith Viorst : 1068 : Viorst, Judith


Brevity may be the soul of wit. but not when saying "I love you."
Judith Viorst : 3221 : Viorst, Judith


The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever.
Judith Viorst : 7331 : Viorst, Judith


Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational, but how much does it cost to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst : 7974 : Viorst, Judith


Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. Then they are not barriers anymore.
Lasse Viren : 3972 : Viren, Lasse


I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil : 1830 : Virgil


Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on.
Virgil : 6622 : Virgil


Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
Virgil : 6802 : Virgil


Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Virgil : 7095 : Virgil


They can do all because they think they can.
Virgil : 7395 : Virgil


To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott : 7142 : Viscott, David


The purpose of life is to discover your gift, the meaning of life is to give it away.
David Viscott : 12788 : Viscott, David


Many people love democracy but do not know how to defend it. They take democracy for a lovely lady instead of seeing it as a vigorous comrade.
Andrei Vishinsky : 3922 : Vishinsky, Andrei


Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
Margaret Visser : 11597 : Visser, Margaret


Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture : 6208 : Voiture, Vincent


Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire : 1835 : Voltaire


He who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire : 1836 : Voltaire


It's not the scarcity of money, but the scarcity of men and talents, which make a state weak.
Voltaire : 1837 : Voltaire


Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire : 1838 : Voltaire


Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
Voltaire : 2035 : Voltaire


Men must have corrupted nature a little, for they were not born wolves, and have become wolves.
Voltaire : 2166 : Voltaire


I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire : 2313 : Voltaire


Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.
Voltaire : 3028 : Voltaire


The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Voltaire : 3246 : Voltaire


It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire : 3887 : Voltaire


Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Voltaire : 3930 : Voltaire


We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire : 4028 : Voltaire


Weakness on both sides, is, as we know, the trait of all quarrels.
Voltaire : 4112 : Voltaire


What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly- that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire : 4671 : Voltaire


Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Voltaire : 4935 : Voltaire


People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Voltaire : 5206 : Voltaire


One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more, and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire : 5456 : Voltaire


In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
Voltaire : 5687 : Voltaire


Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you.
Voltaire : 6118 : Voltaire


The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire : 6609 : Voltaire


God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire : 6786 : Voltaire


All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire : 6941 : Voltaire


There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire : 6990 : Voltaire


Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire : 7055 : Voltaire


God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Voltaire : 7084 : Voltaire


Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire : 7354 : Voltaire


The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire : 7446 : Voltaire


When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means - that is philosophy.
Voltaire : 7581 : Voltaire


Prejudice is opinion without judgment.
Voltaire : 7733 : Voltaire


Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire : 7814 : Voltaire


Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire : 8083 : Voltaire


To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire : 8110 : Voltaire


Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire : 8385 : Voltaire


If you are attacked on your style, never answer; your work alone should reply.
Voltaire : 8730 : Voltaire


Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire : 8771 : Voltaire


Satire lies about men of letters during their lives, and eulogy after their death.
Voltaire : 9063 : Voltaire


No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire : 9118 : Voltaire


One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.
Voltaire : 9624 : Voltaire


The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire : 9805 : Voltaire


Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
Voltaire : 10462 : Voltaire


I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire : 10565 : Voltaire


God gave us the gift of life; It is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire : 10791 : Voltaire


In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire : 11342 : Voltaire


Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire : 11450 : Voltaire


It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire : 11931 : Voltaire


Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut : 11819 : Vonnegut, Kurt


True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut : 13129 : Vonnegut, Kurt


You are at last officially full-grown men and women - what you were biologically by age fifteen or so. I am sorry as I can be that it took so long and cost so much for you to at last receive licenses as grown-ups.
Kurt Vonnegut, Commencement Address : 1112 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that a man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to laugh - or cry.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. : 1113 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


We are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. : 2568 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. : 3036 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. : 4654 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. : 5179 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt Vonnegut : 5997 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.
Kurt Vonnegut : 6480 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. : 6992 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut : 7194 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut : 7540 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. : 8493 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
Kurt Vonnegut : 9089 : Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.


When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted.
Mary Heaton Vorse : 11237 : Vorse, Mary Heaton


When they want to overpay you, there's usually a reason.
Diana Vreeland : 2106 : Vreeland, Diana


If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. You're not going to take a beautiful painting off the museum wall. It's there for your pleasure.
Diana Vreeland : 7863 : Vreeland, Diana


The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland : 10765 : Vreeland, Diana


Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
Diana Vreeland : 11310 : Vreeland, Diana


A college education is a good thing, but many a graduate finds himself overtrained.
H. H. Vreeland : 4537 : Vreeland, H. H.


Do not trouble your guest with many questions about himself; he will tell you what he wishes you to know.
Wabasha : 11284 : Wabasha


Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. Wade : 793 : Wade, H.


By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth : 7442 : Wadsworth, Charles


I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Walter Wager : 10190 : Wager, Walter


Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
Charles Wagner : 4673 : Wagner, Charles


After all, what is reality anyway? Nothing but a collective hunch.
Jane Wagner : 946 : Wagner, Jane


At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.
Jane Wagner : 7885 : Wagner, Jane


A sobering thought: What if, right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner : 9758 : Wagner, Jane


The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
Richard Wagner : 11927 : Wagner, Richard


Wholesome food and drink is cheaper than doctors and hospitals.
Dr. Carl C. Wahl : 471 : Wahl, Dr. Carl C.


Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
John Wain : 4855 : Wain, John


Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk, every step will show.
Denis Waitley : 8794 : Waitley, Denis


A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley : 12120 : Waitley, Denis


You didn't make yourself a poet - You entered a situation in which there was poetry.
Derek Walcott : 12565 : Walcott, Derek


Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience. someone thinks up a new course.
Mary Waldrip : 7414 : Waldrip, Mary


A laugh is a smile that bursts.
Mary H. Waldrip : 8788 : Waldrip, Mary H.


It's probably illegal to make soups, stews and casseroles without plenty of onions.
Maggie Waldron : 9531 : Waldron, Maggie


You have riches and freedom here but I have no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
Lech Walesa, In Paris : 1139 : Walesa, Lech


I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.
Christopher Walken : 9435 : Walken, Christopher


Her indifference to public opinion made her career unique.
Alexander Walker, on Greta Garbo : 3573 : Walker, Alexander


Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker : 75 : Walker, Alice


I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?
Alice Walker : 76 : Walker, Alice


Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.
Alice Walker : 4359 : Walker, Alice


The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker : 5995 : Walker, Alice


How one lives is, after all, one of the rights left to the individual -- when and if he has opportunity to choose.
Alice Walker : 6031 : Walker, Alice


How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
Alice Walker : 7631 : Walker, Alice


No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker : 7672 : Walker, Alice


I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can be found very close.
Alice Walker : 7858 : Walker, Alice


It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.
Alice Walker : 8918 : Walker, Alice


Yes, mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker : 9871 : Walker, Alice


For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker : 10008 : Walker, Alice


The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker : 11058 : Walker, Alice


Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.
Alice Walker : 12615 : Walker, Alice


It may be half full of water precious in itself, but in the other half there's a rainbow that could exist only in the vacant space.
Alice Walker : 12642 : Walker, Alice


Everyone brings us something of value, even if it seems totally negative to us at the time we receive it.
Alice Walker : 12768 : Walker, Alice


Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Alice Walker : 12848 : Walker, Alice


Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!
Madam C. J. Walker : 13424 : Walker, Madam C. J.


Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker : 8146 : Walker, Margaret


A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Edgar Wallace : 509 : Wallace, Edgar


Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace : 12618 : Wallace, Irving


The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Lew Wallace : 3917 : Wallace, Lew


The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she spoke, said, "How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"
Graham Wallas : 3023 : Wallas, Graham


Being on a tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
Karl Wallenda : 5353 : Wallenda, Karl


I think the nightly news is much more violent than anything I've seen in the movies.
Bruce Waller : 11628 : Waller, Bruce


They stopped me from swinging in church, so I had to swing outside.
Fats Waller : 11662 : Waller, Fats


In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind, but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
Horace Walpole : 878 : Walpole, Horace


Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Horace Walpole : 2437 : Walpole, Horace


Old age is no such uncomfortable thing, if one gives oneself up to it with good grace.
Horace Walpole : 9037 : Walpole, Horace


In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole : 7803 : Walpole, Hugh


You are afraid to die, and you're afraid to live. What a way to exist.
Neale Donald Walsch : 10286 : Walsch, Neale Donald


Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Barbara Walters : 219 : Walters, Barbara


Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
Barbara Walters : 7628 : Walters, Barbara


Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, and let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters : 8211 : Walters, Barbara


To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters : 8281 : Walters, Barbara


It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
Barbara Walters : 10408 : Walters, Barbara


Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton : 3911 : Walton, Izaak


Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the problem is that I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker : 1024 : Wanamaker, John


Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust.
Artemus Ward : 172 : Ward, Artemus


We wish genius and morality were affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies.
Artemus Ward : 5229 : Ward, Artemus


Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it with.
Artemus Ward : 6215 : Ward, Artemus


When you are right, you take the bows, and when you are wrong, you make the apologies.
Benjamin Ward : 2628 : Ward, Benjamin


If I can hold a banner for women in their forties that says life isn't over and sexiness isn't over, then great. So far, my forties have been the best time of my life.
Sela Ward : 8556 : Ward, Sela


Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us.
W. Ralph Ward : 11158 : Ward, W. Ralph


It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.
William Ward : 12796 : Ward, William


Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward : 3179 : Ward, William Arthur


Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward : 3283 : Ward, William Arthur


Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
William A. Ward : 3320 : Ward, William Arthur


Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward : 9232 : Ward, William Arthur


Little keys can open big locks. Simple words can express great thoughts.
William A. Ward : 9451 : Ward, William Arthur


The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward : 10728 : Ward, William Arthur


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward : 12111 : Ward, William Arthur


Life lived without forgiveness becomes a prison.
William Arthur Ward : 12791 : Ward, William Arthur


Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.
Marsha Warfield : 5692 : Warfield, Marsha


It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
Rita Warford : 6111 : Warford, Rita


An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol : 102 : Warhol, Andy


There should be supermarkets that sell things and supermarkets that buy things back, and until that equalizes, there'll be more waste than there should be.
Andy Warhol : 3505 : Warhol, Andy


If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am; There's nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol : 5182 : Warhol, Andy


What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol : 6587 : Warhol, Andy


As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.
Andy Warhol : 10163 : Warhol, Andy


Before I was shot I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there.
Andy Warhol : 10528 : Warhol, Andy


My instinct about painting says, "If you don't think about it, it's right." As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong.
Andy Warhol : 11551 : Warhol, Andy


You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
Andy Warhol : 12600 : Warhol, Andy


I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol : 12709 : Warhol, Andy


Years ago fairy tales all began with "Once upon a time...." Now we know they all begin with, "If I am elected."
Carolyn Warner : 7603 : Warner, Carolyn


Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner : 348 : Warner, Charles Dudley


A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
Charles Dudley Warner : 8669 : Warner, Charles Dudley


The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner : 11410 : Warner, Charles Dudley


Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner (1927) : 5674 : Warner, H. M.


Moguls? Don't like the word. It reminds me of some bad Turkish cigarettes I used to smoke.
Jack Warner : 2830 : Warner, Jack


For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
Sylvia Townsend Warner : 1744 : Warner, Sylvia Townsend


I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren : 8607 : Warren, Earl


Getting involved in issues you care about and fighting for them can reshape our country, and I guarantee it will reshape you.
Elizabeth Warren : 12761 : Warren, Elizabeth


I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
Robert Penn Warren : 1562 : Warren, Robert Penn


What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a mere stimulus to men.
Samuel Warren : 3000 : Warren, Samuel


It looks easy to break off a bad habit that somebody else has got.
Lemuel K. Washburn : 5652 : Washburn, Lemuel K.


It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
Booker T. Washington : 278 : Washington, Booker T.


I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
Booker T. Washington : 279 : Washington, Booker T.


No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington : 7624 : Washington, Booker T.


I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington : 9769 : Washington, Booker T.


In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants.
Booker T. Washington : 11182 : Washington, Booker T.


Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promises.
George Washington : 721 : Washington, George


Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington : 7127 : Washington, George


Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington : 8134 : Washington, George


In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
George Washington : 8548 : Washington, George


Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
George Washington : 9312 : Washington, George


Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington : 10727 : Washington, George


Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
George Washington : 10948 : Washington, George


Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
George Washington : 11213 : Washington, George


It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
George Washington : 12164 : Washington, George


It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
George Washington : 12169 : Washington, George


Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington : 12188 : Washington, George


Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington : 13539 : Washington, George


Most of our problems can be solved. Some of them will take brains, and some of them will take patience. But all of them will have to be wrestled with like an alligator in the swamp.
Harold Washington : 11165 : Washington, Harold


The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Martha Washington : 5581 : Washington, Martha


No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Wendy Wasserstein : 1877 : Wasserstein, Wendy


Getting people to laugh is the only way you get anyone to change their opinion.
John Waters : 12993 : Waters,


This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
Alice Waters : 12906 : Waters, Alice


It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.
Emma Watson : 12459 : Watson, Emma


Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.
Emma Watson : 12809 : Watson, Emma


Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas Watson : 3142 : Watson, Thomas John, Sr.


All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.
Thomas Watson : 5043 : Watson, Thomas John, Sr.


Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to proper use.
Thomas Watson : 5478 : Watson, Thomas John, Sr.


We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating.
Thomas J. Watson : 10670 : Watson, Thomas John, Sr.


To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
Thomas Watson Sr. : 11117 : Watson, Thomas John, Sr.


School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.
Lon Watters : 8072 : Watters, Lon


There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson : 4412 : Watterson, Bill


The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Bill Watterson : 7137 : Watterson, Bill


It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
Bill Watterson : 10327 : Watterson, Bill


It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Bill Watterson : 12149 : Watterson, Bill


The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson : 12277 : Watterson, Bill


If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
Bill Watterson : 12293 : Watterson, Bill


Consider whether the past may not be a result of the present. The past may be streaming back from the now, like the country as seen from an airplane.
Alan Watts : 10665 : Watts, Alan


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it. Move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts : 11712 : Watts, Alan


Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
J. C. Watts : 8186 : Watts, J. C.


Save your money, dress better, and catch a better husband.
Evelyn Waugh, To Nancy Mitford : 588 : Waugh, Evelyn


One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh : 2460 : Waugh, Evelyn


Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Evelyn Waugh : 2773 : Waugh, Evelyn


It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh : 5989 : Waugh, Evelyn


Any who have heard that sound will shrink at the recollection of it; it is the sound of English county families baying for broken glass.
Evelyn Waugh : 7580 : Waugh, Evelyn


I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Evelyn Waugh : 7938 : Waugh, Evelyn


The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Evelyn Waugh : 9665 : Waugh, Evelyn


She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
Evelyn Waugh : 11573 : Waugh, Evelyn


Curiosity is looking over other people's affairs, and overlooking our own.
H. L. Wayland : 2048 : Wayland, H. L.


A saint is a man of convictions who has been dead a hundred years, canonized now, but cannonaded while living.
H. L. Wayland : 3708 : Wayland, H. L.


Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne : 5384 : Wayne, John


To tell the truth, old-timers like myself find introspection about creativity to be much less interesting than launching new projects.
June Wayne : 11224 : Wayne, June


To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working.
Dennis Weaver : 8085 : Weaver, Dennis


I've lost roles because my shoulders were broader than those of the leading men.
Sigourney Weaver : 7326 : Weaver, Sigourney


A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Lord Webb-Johnson : 6274 : Webb-Johnson, Lord


Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
Max Weber : 7663 : Weber, Max


Cats always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.
Barbara Webster : 10345 : Webster, Barbara


Constant employment and well-paid labor produce, in a country like ours, general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.
Daniel Webster : 418 : Webster, Daniel


If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Daniel Webster : 419 : Webster, Daniel


The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster : 420 : Webster, Daniel


Let our object be our country, our whole country and nothing but our country.
Daniel Webster : 421 : Webster, Daniel


Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster : 1982 : Webster, Daniel


The world is governed more by appearance than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
Daniel Webster : 2690 : Webster, Daniel


Let it (the flag) rise! Let it rise till it meets the sun in his coming.
Daniel Webster : 4564 : Webster, Daniel


Let the earliest light of the morning gild it (the flag), and the parting day linger and play on its summit.
Daniel Webster : 4565 : Webster, Daniel


Mothers are, indeed, the affectionate and effective teachers of the human race.
Daniel Webster : 5280 : Webster, Daniel


There is nothing so powerful as the truth - and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster : 9794 : Webster, Daniel


Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster : 11907 : Webster, Daniel


Handling people need not be so difficult - all you need is inexhaustible patience, unfailing insight, unshakable nervous stability, an unbreakable will, decisive judgment, infrangible physique, irrepressible spirits, plus unfeigned affection for all peopl
Eric Webster : 570 : Webster, Eric


I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say, toward the kitchen
John Webster : 3058 : Webster, John


Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority.
Noah Webster : 6820 : Webster, Noah


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Flavia Weedn : 4733 : Weedn, Flavia


Barbarism should be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil : 1655 : Weil, Simone


What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Gasoline is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Simone Weil : 2663 : Weil, Simone


Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil : 3131 : Weil, Simone


A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
Simone Weil : 5004 : Weil, Simone


It is misery, not pleasure, which contains the secret of divine wisdom.
Simone Weil : 6754 : Weil, Simone


Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil : 8732 : Weil, Simone


Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
A. H. Weiler : 4469 : Weiler, A. H.


A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein : 8048 : Wein, Len


It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Darrin Weinberg : 424 : Weinberg, Darrin


The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Steven Weinberg : 8511 : Weinberg, Steven


With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg : 8512 : Weinberg, Steven


I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way.
Johnny Weir : 13096 : Weir, Johnny


We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.
Anne Weisberg : 9677 : Weisberg, Anne


A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Stanley Weiser : 8127 : Weiser, Stanley


Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
Chaim Weizmann : 5255 : Weizmann, Chaim


Without everybody embracing what we want to do, we haven't got a prayer.
Jack Welch : 908 : Welch, Jack


Don't finesse the numbers; tell it like it is, address the harsh realities of your situations.
Jack Welch : 909 : Welch, Jack


Self-confidence is the fuel of productivity and creativity, decisiveness and speed.
Jack Welch : 910 : Welch, Jack


Managing success is a tough job. There's a very fine line between self-confidence and arrogance.
Jack Welch : 3768 : Welch, Jack


Those who embrace change will be the winners; Those who resist it will be the losers.
Jack Welch : 7164 : Welch, Jack


Until this moment, Senator, I think I had never gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Joseph N. Welch, to Senator Joseph J. McCarthy : 8868 : Welch, Joseph N.


It's easy, perhaps to die for a dream, with banners unfurled - and be forgiving! It's the hardest part to follow the gleam, when scorned by the world - and go on living!
Myra Brooks Welch : 9275 : Welch, Myra Brooks


You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon : 6007 : Weldon, Fay


Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles : 1400 : Welles, Orson


I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles : 2006 : Welles, Orson


When you're down and out, something always turns up - and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles : 6224 : Welles, Orson


The trouble with a movie these days is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
Orson Welles : 7284 : Welles, Orson


In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Orson Welles : 7591 : Welles, Orson


If you try to probe, I'll lie to you. Seventy-five percent of what I say in interviews is false. I'm like a hen protecting her eggs.
Orson Welles : 8601 : Welles, Orson


I'm not bitter about Hollywood's treatment of me - but of its treatment of Griffith, von Sternberg, Buster Keaton and a hundred others.
Orson Welles : 9669 : Welles, Orson


I started at the top and worked my way down.
Orson Welles : 10578 : Welles, Orson


Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles : 10872 : Welles, Orson


My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles : 11077 : Welles, Orson


If our spirituality, no matter how disciplined, lofty and inspiring, is making us less warmly human, more detached, suspicious of our human feelings, emotions, and passions, then something has gone seriously wrong.
Flora Slosson Wellner : 3374 : Wellner, Flora Slosson


A canner can can anything he can, but a canner can't can a can, can he?
Carolyn Wells : 319 : Wells, Carolyn


The earth has rolled around again and harvest time is here, the glory of the seasons and the crown of all the years.
Carolyn Wells : 320 : Wells, Carolyn


Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, could we bestow the gifts we get, and keep the ones we give away, how happy were our Christmas day!
Carolyn Wells : 4738 : Wells, Carolyn


A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells : 5606 : Wells, Carolyn


One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
Carolyn Wells : 10792 : Wells, Carolyn


Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
H. G. Wells : 772 : Wells, H. G.


We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.
H. G. Wells : 2203 : Wells, H. G.


Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells : 3620 : Wells, H. G.


Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells : 4045 : Wells, H. G.


When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells : 4372 : Wells, H. G.


The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.
H. G. Wells : 4727 : Wells, H. G.


First we shall want the pupil to understand, speak, read, and write his mother tongue well.
H. G. Wells : 9033 : Wells, H. G.


Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
H. G. Wells : 9134 : Wells, H. G.


The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. Wells : 9491 : Wells, H. G.


Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
H. G. Wells : 10084 : Wells, H. G.


Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells : 10609 : Wells, H. G.


No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells : 10991 : Wells, H. G.


It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
H. G. Wells : 11845 : Wells, H. G.


The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Ida Bell Wells : 13051 : Wells, Ida Bell


There are fewer things more painful than to recognize one's own faults in others.
John Wells : 1025 : Wells, John


It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.
Eudora Welty : 583 : Welty, Eudora


Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley : 8332 : Wesley, John


Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
John Wesley : 9160 : Wesley, John


Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can.
John Wesley : 12173 : Wesley, John


We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Charles C. West : 2744 : West, Charles C.


Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Dame Rebecca West : 413 : West, Dame Rebecca


Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
Rebecca West : 1509 : West, Dame Rebecca


Ibsen cried out for ideas for the same reason that men call out for water, because he had not got any.
Rebecca West : 1510 : West, Dame Rebecca


People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West : 1511 : West, Dame Rebecca


There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that's all.
Rebecca West : 1512 : West, Dame Rebecca


I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
Rebecca West : 4624 : West, Dame Rebecca


Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
Rebecca West : 7515 : West, Dame Rebecca


She moved with a slowness that was a sign of richness; cream does not pour quickly.
Rebecca West : 8034 : West, Dame Rebecca


Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.
Rebecca West : 8572 : West, Dame Rebecca


Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West : 13214 : West, Dame Rebecca


Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well; and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.
James H. West : 11865 : West, James H.


A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor - for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West : 968 : West, Jessamyn


She is a gray cat, but around her eyes the fur is black, so that she looks a little like those fifteen-year-olds who believe that being Cleopatra is mostly a matter of mascara.
Jessamyn West : 969 : West, Jessamyn


There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.
Jessamyn West : 3003 : West, Jessamyn


July was the month when summer, like bread in the oven, might change color, but it would rise no higher. It was at its height.
Jessamyn West : 7592 : West, Jessamyn


You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood - and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
Jessamyn West : 11877 : West, Jessamyn


I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
Mae West : 1204 : West, Mae


You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West : 1205 : West, Mae


Save a boyfriend for a rainy day. And another in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West : 1206 : West, Mae


Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West : 1207 : West, Mae


It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West : 2434 : West, Mae


When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West : 2864 : West, Mae


When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West : 3339 : West, Mae


More people had seen me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln, or Cleopatra.
Mae West : 4416 : West, Mae


I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West : 4463 : West, Mae


You're never too old to become younger.
Mae West : 5171 : West, Mae


Just a little more loving and a lot less fighting and the world would be all right.
Mae West : 6084 : West, Mae


Few men know how to kiss well - fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.
Mae West : 7029 : West, Mae


Don't cry for a man who's left you. The next one may fall for your smile.
Mae West : 8441 : West, Mae


I wasn't always rich. No, there was a time I didn't know where my next husband was coming from.
Mae West : 9028 : West, Mae


Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West : 10057 : West, Mae


Fifty men outside? I'm tired. Send ten of them home.
Mae West : 10845 : West, Mae


If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West : 12118 : West, Mae


If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West : 10625 : West, Morris


Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance, whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.
Paul West : 1443 : West, Paul


A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer : 13514 : Westheimer, Dr. Ruth


Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. If everyone loves it, it's not original.
Vivienne Westwood : 2354 : Westwood, Vivienne


Each record company must do its best to fill the pulsating needs of mediocrity in order to maximize its potential for success. We might as well be selling hubcaps.
Jerry Wexler : 8558 : Wexler, Jerry


What I do goes beyond myself. There may be significance in being the first, but there is more significance in being the second, third, fourth, and fifth.
Clifton Wharton : 10653 : Wharton, Clifton


I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith Wharton : 513 : Wharton, Edith


There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton : 514 : Wharton, Edith


Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton : 2721 : Wharton, Edith


Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.
Edith Wharton : 5161 : Wharton, Edith


If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton : 5582 : Wharton, Edith


To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
Edith Wharton, to F. Scott Fitzgerald : 7596 : Wharton, Edith


My little old dog: a heartbeat at my feet.
Edith Wharton : 8116 : Wharton, Edith


I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy. I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton : 8498 : Wharton, Edith


Beware of monotony; It's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton : 12384 : Wharton, Edith


My little old dog; A heart beat at my feet.
Edith Wharton : 13364 : Wharton, Edith


If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
Richard Whately : 5080 : Whately, Richard


Lose an hour in the morning and you will spend all day looking for it.
Richard Whately : 5375 : Whately, Richard


I am a great believer in found families, and I'm not a great believer in blood.
Joss Whedon : 9540 : Whedon, Joss


Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity.
Joss Whedon : 11180 : Whedon, Joss


Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Bill Wheeler : 8098 : Wheeler, Bill


Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
William Whewell : 8905 : Whewell, William


Human passion is the hallucination of a distempered mind.
William Whipper : 6495 : Whipper, William


Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin Percy Whipple : 528 : Whipple, Edwin Percy


An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
James McNeill Whistler : 5152 : Whistler, James McNeill


If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
James Whistler : 9175 : Whistler, James McNeill


Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
James McNeill Whistler : 11553 : Whistler, James McNeill


You can bring a herring to water, but you have to walk really fast or they die.
Betty White, as Rose Nyland on "The Golden Girls" : 11254 : White, Betty


We never really grow up. We only learn how to act in public.
Bryan White : 8382 : White, Bryan


Someone once said Balzac's only fault is that he makes all of his characters into geniuses, like himself. What a wonderful fault!
Edmund White : 8267 : White, Edmund


There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White : 482 : White, Elwyn Brooks


An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. White : 483 : White, Elwyn Brooks


If a man is foolish enough to reveal his thoughts, the least he can do is conceal his whereabouts.
E. B. White : 484 : White, Elwyn Brooks


We sometimes wonder why the city government tilts so vigorously at the snow. The first flake has hardly fluttered down when every internal machine in town is rushing to do battle. Is snow such poisonous stuff?
E. B. White : 2957 : White, Elwyn Brooks


Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White : 4858 : White, Elwyn Brooks


Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife.
E. B. White : 5555 : White, Elwyn Brooks


I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Elwyn Brooks White : 7187 : White, Elwyn Brooks


Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White : 7243 : White, Elwyn Brooks


Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
E. B. White : 7335 : White, Elwyn Brooks


I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a ferris wheel.
E. B. White : 7794 : White, Elwyn Brooks


The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White : 8261 : White, Elwyn Brooks


To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White : 8350 : White, Elwyn Brooks


I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White : 9185 : White, Elwyn Brooks


New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
E. B. White : 11194 : White, Elwyn Brooks


We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White : 13478 : White, Elwyn Brooks


Our language is funny - a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.
J. Gustav White : 11643 : White, J. Gustav


Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
Minor White : 4230 : White, Minor


If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade ... and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White : 12285 : White, Ron


The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.
Slappy White : 13011 : White, Slappy


The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
Theodore H. White : 1758 : White, Theodore H.


The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H. White : 2827 : White, Theodore H.


America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
Theodore H. White : 7262 : White, Theodore H.


In any American village, North or South, East or West, there is no problem which cannot be solved in half an hour by the morons who lounge about the village store.
Walter White : 6892 : White, Walter


Either we must attain freedom for the whole world or there will be no world left for any of us.
Walter Francis White : 8307 : White, Walter Francis


I became the editor of a weekly newspaper because I wanted to be my own particular kind of a damn fool.
William White : 9403 : White, William


Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White : 1893 : White, William Allen


One grandmother will spoil a baby. Two working together will bring him up in the way he should go, for each will suspect the other of spoiling him and will check it.
William Allen White : 7535 : White, William Allen


Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
William Allen White : 10544 : White, William Allen


Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
William Hale White : 3092 : White, William Hale


Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead : 69 : Whitehead, Alfred North


True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead : 70 : Whitehead, Alfred North


A rule of men over women remained an established feature of highly civilized societies. It survived as a hangover from barbarism.
Alfred North Whitehead : 71 : Whitehead, Alfred North


Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
Alfred North Whitehead : 72 : Whitehead, Alfred North


The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead : 2054 : Whitehead, Alfred North


Democracy is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only half a dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
Alfred North Whitehead : 2987 : Whitehead, Alfred North


Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
Alfred North Whitehead : 3885 : Whitehead, Alfred North


The events which we see, and which look like freaks of chance, are only the last steps in long lines of causation.
Alfred North Whitehead : 7266 : Whitehead, Alfred North


Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parents. It may assent to them, but it brings them out into the open.
Alfred North Whitehead : 7561 : Whitehead, Alfred North


There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead : 8268 : Whitehead, Alfred North


What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happens to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead : 10666 : Whitehead, Alfred North


The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead : 11040 : Whitehead, Alfred North


A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or what is not known in the time when he lives.
Alfred North Whitehead : 11163 : Whitehead, Alfred North


The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead : 11893 : Whitehead, Alfred North


Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
Katharine Whitehorn : 8927 : Whitehorn, Katharine


An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea girl. It is the tea girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director.
Katharine Whitehorn : 9965 : Whitehorn, Katharine


I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
Katharine Whitehorn : 12150 : Whitehorn, Katharine


I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
Katherine Whitehorn : 1084 : Whitehorn, Katherine


A food is not necessarily essential because your child hates it.
Katherine Whitehorn : 1085 : Whitehorn, Katherine


A good listener is not someone who has nothing to say. A good listener is a great talker with a sore throat.
Katherine Whitehorn : 2520 : Whitehorn, Katherine


I wouldn't say when you've seen one western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
Katherine Whitehorn : 2696 : Whitehorn, Katherine


It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
Katherine Whitehorn : 9718 : Whitehorn, Katherine


The measure of success is not how much money you have in the bank, but rather how much money the bank will lend you.
Jack W. Whiteman : 2725 : Whiteman, Jack W.


Our ideals, laws, and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.
Alden Whitman : 49 : Whitman, Alden


I never ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman : 1857 : Whitman, Walt


In this broad earth of ours amid the measureless grossness and the slag enclosed and safe within its central heart, nestles the seed perfection.
Walt Whitman : 1858 : Whitman, Walt


I never see that man without feeling that he is one to become personally attach'd to, for his combination of purest heartiest tenderness, and native western form of manliness.
Walt Whitman, On Abraham Lincoln : 1859 : Whitman, Walt


What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman : 2001 : Whitman, Walt


A child said "What is the grass?" fetching it to me with full hands. How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Walt Whitman : 2306 : Whitman, Walt


There is that in me - I do not know what it is - but I know it is in me.
Walt Whitman : 2877 : Whitman, Walt


Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman : 3863 : Whitman, Walt


The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.
Walt Whitman : 3896 : Whitman, Walt


Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman : 5020 : Whitman, Walt


Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman : 5508 : Whitman, Walt


He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman : 6731 : Whitman, Walt


To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman : 6842 : Whitman, Walt


A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman : 6867 : Whitman, Walt


Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman : 8837 : Whitman, Walt


I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman : 10270 : Whitman, Walt


I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman : 11383 : Whitman, Walt


The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman : 11454 : Whitman, Walt


A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman : 11541 : Whitman, Walt


How beggarly arguments appear before a defiant deed!
Walt Whitman : 12063 : Whitman, Walt


I am as bad as the worst, but thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman : 13190 : Whitman, Walt


We can't all be the most talented, attractive, athletic or even the most healthy. But we can all be as happy as we choose to be. Take advantage of that gift.
Brian Austin Whitney : 3650 : Whitney, Brian Austin


When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
Joseph Whitney : 2746 : Whitney, Joseph


The child has every toy his father wanted.
Robert E. Whitten : 10573 : Whitten, Robert E.


Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey : 4339 : Whittlesey, Faith


Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton : 2729 : Whitton, Charlotte


Literature is an act of conscience. It is up to us to rebuild with memories, with ruins, and with moments of grace.
Elie Wiesel : 2341 : Wiesel, Elie


What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.
Elie Wiesel : 4194 : Wiesel, Elie


Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel : 8137 : Wiesel, Elie


Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Elie Wiesel : 8140 : Wiesel, Elie


Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel : 8418 : Wiesel, Elie


Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Elie Wiesel : 8446 : Wiesel, Elie


I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Elie Wiesel : 10399 : Wiesel, Elie


Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel : 11724 : Wiesel, Elie


There is a kind of magiccness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Kate Douglas Wiggin : 13206 : Wiggin, Kate Douglas


I have chosen to create things that can make people's everyday life richer and more beautiful.
Bjorn Wiinblad : 12771 : Wiinblad, Bjorn


Outside the open window, the morning air is all awash with angels.
Richard Purdy Wilbur : 4396 : Wilbur, Richard Purdy


There is new strength, repose of mind and inspiration in fresh apparel.
Ella W. Wilcox : 3700 : Wilcox, Ella W.


Give us that grand word "woman" once again and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen: and one's a word for lackeys.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox : 542 : Wilcox, Ella Wheeler


There's one sad truth in life I've found; While journeying east and west The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know; We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us
Ella Wheeler Wilcox : 4153 : Wilcox, Ella Wheeler


No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox : 7062 : Wilcox, Ella Wheeler


No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive.
E. W. Wilcox : 12957 : Wilcox, Ella Wheeler


Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox : 5413 : Wilcox, Frederick


If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Oscar Wilde : 1402 : Wilde, Oscar


The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Oscar Wilde : 1403 : Wilde, Oscar


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde : 1404 : Wilde, Oscar


Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde : 1405 : Wilde, Oscar


I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, for all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
Oscar Wilde : 1406 : Wilde, Oscar


He has one of those terribly weak natures that are not susceptible to influence.
Oscar Wilde : 1407 : Wilde, Oscar


Know him? I know him so well I haven't spoken to him in ten years.
Oscar Wilde : 1408 : Wilde, Oscar


I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes one far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde : 1409 : Wilde, Oscar


As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde : 1410 : Wilde, Oscar


Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde : 1411 : Wilde, Oscar


When a man acts, he is a puppet. When he describes, he is a poet.
Oscar Wilde : 1412 : Wilde, Oscar


He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Oscar Wilde : 1413 : Wilde, Oscar


Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde : 1414 : Wilde, Oscar


Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde : 1415 : Wilde, Oscar


Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Oscar Wilde : 1416 : Wilde, Oscar


I suppose I could make changes in my play, but who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
Oscar Wilde : 1989 : Wilde, Oscar


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde : 2409 : Wilde, Oscar


Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde : 2501 : Wilde, Oscar


I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde : 2799 : Wilde, Oscar


The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde : 2968 : Wilde, Oscar


There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde : 3156 : Wilde, Oscar


That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts the public attention from their own.
Oscar Wilde : 3484 : Wilde, Oscar


The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde : 3532 : Wilde, Oscar


A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde : 3566 : Wilde, Oscar


When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde : 3627 : Wilde, Oscar


My own business always bores me; I prefer other people's.
Oscar Wilde : 3652 : Wilde, Oscar


The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde : 3760 : Wilde, Oscar


We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde : 3788 : Wilde, Oscar


Don't give a woman advice. One should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
Oscar Wilde : 3809 : Wilde, Oscar


Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde : 3827 : Wilde, Oscar


I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde : 3828 : Wilde, Oscar


Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde : 3835 : Wilde, Oscar


A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde : 4005 : Wilde, Oscar


He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde : 4099 : Wilde, Oscar


It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde : 4295 : Wilde, Oscar


Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
Oscar Wilde : 4333 : Wilde, Oscar


Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde : 4375 : Wilde, Oscar


It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde : 4489 : Wilde, Oscar


The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde : 4758 : Wilde, Oscar


The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde : 4791 : Wilde, Oscar


The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde : 4898 : Wilde, Oscar


Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
Oscar Wilde : 4932 : Wilde, Oscar


Men always want to be a woman's first love; women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde : 4945 : Wilde, Oscar


The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Oscar Wilde : 5225 : Wilde, Oscar


The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Oscar Wilde : 5336 : Wilde, Oscar


To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist; that is all.
Oscar Wilde : 5469 : Wilde, Oscar


If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.
Oscar Wilde : 5558 : Wilde, Oscar


I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
Oscar Wilde : 5937 : Wilde, Oscar


I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.
Oscar Wilde : 6464 : Wilde, Oscar


Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde : 6743 : Wilde, Oscar


It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde : 7011 : Wilde, Oscar


To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Oscar Wilde : 7038 : Wilde, Oscar


The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde : 7138 : Wilde, Oscar


The world is divided into two classes: Those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde : 7301 : Wilde, Oscar


I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde : 7447 : Wilde, Oscar


A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde : 7497 : Wilde, Oscar


Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside; they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah, there is the sting of life.
Oscar Wilde : 7892 : Wilde, Oscar


I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde : 8256 : Wilde, Oscar


The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde : 8488 : Wilde, Oscar


The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde : 8982 : Wilde, Oscar


In war the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.
Oscar Wilde : 9039 : Wilde, Oscar


Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde : 9246 : Wilde, Oscar


In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde : 9401 : Wilde, Oscar


To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases: To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde : 9634 : Wilde, Oscar


When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; Now that I am old, I know it is.
Oscar Wilde : 9707 : Wilde, Oscar


A man who is much talked about is always attractive. One feels there must be something in him, after all.
Oscar Wilde : 10063 : Wilde, Oscar


If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde : 10281 : Wilde, Oscar


When I first saw the falls I was disappointed in the outline. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde : 10348 : Wilde, Oscar


I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics.
Oscar Wilde : 10692 : Wilde, Oscar


After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Oscar Wilde : 10890 : Wilde, Oscar


Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
Oscar Wilde : 10895 : Wilde, Oscar


It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde : 11112 : Wilde, Oscar


With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde : 11134 : Wilde, Oscar


We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Oscar Wilde : 11306 : Wilde, Oscar


The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and is never simple.
Oscar Wilde : 11670 : Wilde, Oscar


Society exists only as a mental concept; In the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde : 11725 : Wilde, Oscar


Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde : 13371 : Wilde, Oscar


I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you lived in a better neighborhood
Billy Wilder : 3644 : Wilder, Billy


An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder : 4710 : Wilder, Billy


Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder : 4821 : Wilder, Billy


You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder : 6831 : Wilder, Billy


If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Billy Wilder : 13078 : Wilder, Billy


The way Woody (Allen) makes a movie, it's as if he was lighting ten thousand safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one of them is a little epiphany.
Gene Wilder : 9652 : Wilder, Gene


I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder : 4574 : Wilder, Laura Ingalls


Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
Laura Ingalls Wilder : 11896 : Wilder, Laura Ingalls


My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder : 10898 : Wilder, Thornton


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder : 12102 : Wilder, Thornton


Count that month lost in which you have not been swept up in an enthusiasm.
Thornton Wilder : 13143 : Wilder, Thornton


We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Wilensky : 5637 : Wilensky, Robert


Football combines two grim features of American life, violence and committee meetings.
George F. Will : 700 : Will, George F.


To be an intelligent fan is to participate in something. It is an activity, a form of appreciating that is good for the individual's soul, and hence for society.
George F. Will : 701 : Will, George F.


The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George F. Will : 4856 : Will, George F.


Socialism is an expression of the disease for which it purports to be the cure.
George F. Will : 8035 : Will, George F.


Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain to long-term gain.
George F. Will : 8968 : Will, George F.


It is said that the titles of most bills in Congress are like the titles of Marx Brothers movies "Duck Soup," "Animal Crackers": They do not tell much about the contents.
George F. Will : 9959 : Will, George F.


The Washington style of apology is to say there were appearances of impropriety.
George F. Will : 10512 : Will, George F.


Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George F. Will : 11220 : Will, George F.


I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard : 10330 : Willard, Frances


I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
A. L. Williams : 5618 : Williams, A. L.


There is more law in the end of a policeman's nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court.
Alexander S. Williams : 2766 : Williams, Alexander S.


I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bern Williams : 9237 : Williams, Bern


There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams : 11752 : Williams, Bern


There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Bern Williams : 12381 : Williams, Bern


The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
Kenneth Williams : 2707 : Williams, Kenneth


As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for.
Lucinda Williams : 9819 : Williams, Lucinda


Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real.
Margery Williams : 7848 : Williams, Margery


Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams : 11418 : Williams, Miller


Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
Pat Williams : 8861 : Williams, Pat


We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
Pat Williams : 9156 : Williams, Pat


This imagination is a wonderful gizmo.
Robert Moore Williams : 10574 : Williams, Robert Moore


When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the royal family knew someone in the royal family?
Robin Williams : 5694 : Williams, Robin


I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
Robin Williams : 12286 : Williams, Robin


No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams : 13402 : Williams, Robin


I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
Serena Williams : 13067 : Williams, Serena


We tell lies when we are afraid: afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others Will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams : 4171 : Williams, Tad


Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams : 2422 : Williams, Tennessee


Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams : 6134 : Williams, Tennessee


Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams : 6874 : Williams, Tennessee


Isn't egomania always the precondition of all creative work? I have found little to dispel that notion.
Tennessee Williams : 7293 : Williams, Tennessee


When I stop working, the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
Tennessee Williams : 8659 : Williams, Tennessee


There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams : 10187 : Williams, Tennessee


When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams : 11749 : Williams, Tennessee


What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support and friendship.
Terry Tempest Williams : 11089 : Williams, Terry Tempest


You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams : 12237 : Williams, Venus


What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams : 3035 : Williams, William Carlos


We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson : 7606 : Williamson, Marianne


There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
Marianne Williamson : 12106 : Williamson, Marianne


You can't undo the past - but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis : 6120 : Willis, Bruce


On one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
Bruce Willis : 9173 : Willis, Bruce


If you don't like my movies, understand this: Attendance is not compulsory.
Bruce Willis : 11339 : Willis, Bruce


There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
Nathaniel Willis : 4798 : Willis, Nathaniel


A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell L. Willkie : 4411 : Willkie, Wendell L.


Education is the apprenticeship of life.
Robert A. Willmott : 11373 : Willmott, Robert A.


The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. Wilson : 9330 : Wilson, A. N.


The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Angus Wilson : 10403 : Wilson, Angus


Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you'll suck forever.
Brian Wilson : 8494 : Wilson, Brian


A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson : 5351 : Wilson, Colin


Vacation is time off to remind employees that the business can get along without them.
Earl Wilson : 2550 : Wilson, Earl


Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Earl Wilson : 5299 : Wilson, Earl


Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear when you ignore them long enough.
Earl Wilson : 6887 : Wilson, Earl


If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Earl Wilson : 8719 : Wilson, Earl


Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson : 9115 : Wilson, Earl


A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Earl Wilson : 9212 : Wilson, Earl


If you look like your passport photo, then in all probability you need the journey.
Earl Wilson : 11315 : Wilson, Earl


There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson : 517 : Wilson, Edmund


If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Edmund Wilson : 4179 : Wilson, Edmund


You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson : 2440 : Wilson, Flip


Somehow, I don't mind being such a bad golfer when I'm at Pebble Beach, because when I send a ball flying into a sand trap there, at least I know it's going first class.
Flip Wilson : 7860 : Wilson, Flip


The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.
Flip Wilson : 9191 : Wilson, Flip


Talent isn't good enough, you need common sense and good advice.
Hack Wilson (1930: 190 RBIs, 56 HRs; 1931: 61 RBIs, 13 HRs; 1932: 123 RBIs 23 HRs) : 3239 : Wilson, Hack


Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
Harold Wilson : 3064 : Wilson, Harold


I am an optimist. But I am an optimist who takes his raincoat.
Harold Wilson : 3258 : Wilson, Harold


I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Harold Wilson : 11977 : Wilson, Harold


Work is something you want to get done. Play is something you just like to be doing.
Harry Leon Wilson : 802 : Wilson, Harry Leon


Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson : 5940 : Wilson, Sloan


My first psychiatrist said I was paranoid, but I want a second opinion because I think he's out to get me.
Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" : 1801 : Wilson, Tom


The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Tom Wilson : 11381 : Wilson, Tom


If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson : 1940 : Wilson, Woodrow


The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
Woodrow Wilson : 1941 : Wilson, Woodrow


The use of the university is to make young gentlemen unlike their fathers.
Woodrow Wilson : 1942 : Wilson, Woodrow


The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson : 2073 : Wilson, Woodrow


I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson : 2532 : Wilson, Woodrow


No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Woodrow Wilson : 2586 : Wilson, Woodrow


We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
Woodrow Wilson : 2593 : Wilson, Woodrow


Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells.
Woodrow Wilson : 4080 : Wilson, Woodrow


One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson : 5366 : Wilson, Woodrow


In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbors on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson : 6598 : Wilson, Woodrow


Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson : 8804 : Wilson, Woodrow


Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.
Woodrow Wilson : 8886 : Wilson, Woodrow


If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Woodrow Wilson : 8922 : Wilson, Woodrow


The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson : 9536 : Wilson, Woodrow


What is at the heart of all our national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.
Woodrow Wilson : 11498 : Wilson, Woodrow


Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson : 12535 : Wilson, Woodrow


You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson : 13052 : Wilson, Woodrow


Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman : 9945 : Wiman, Erastus


This, it seems to me, is the most severe punishment, finding out you are wrong.
Walter Winchell : 1865 : Winchell, Walter


I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Walter Winchell : 1866 : Winchell, Walter


Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell : 1867 : Winchell, Walter


Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of observation.
Walter Winchell : 3188 : Winchell, Walter


People like to tell tales. If I take the rap for what they tell me, they'll tell a lot.
Walter Winchell : 3662 : Winchell, Walter


Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell : 9135 : Winchell, Walter


Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts.
Kenneth Winebrenner : 5034 : Winebrenner, Kenneth


I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey : 5155 : Winfrey, Oprah


Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
Oprah Winfrey : 6620 : Winfrey, Oprah


I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Oprah Winfrey : 6688 : Winfrey, Oprah


I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
Oprah Winfrey : 6723 : Winfrey, Oprah


Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
Oprah Winfrey : 6747 : Winfrey, Oprah


Cheers to the New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey : 6884 : Winfrey, Oprah


I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
Oprah Winfrey : 6989 : Winfrey, Oprah


We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
Oprah Winfrey : 7018 : Winfrey, Oprah


Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Oprah Winfrey : 7344 : Winfrey, Oprah


The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey : 7411 : Winfrey, Oprah


Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey : 7685 : Winfrey, Oprah


I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
Oprah Winfrey : 8349 : Winfrey, Oprah


Follow your instincts: That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey : 8807 : Winfrey, Oprah


Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey : 8945 : Winfrey, Oprah


If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey : 9879 : Winfrey, Oprah


In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Oprah Winfrey : 10404 : Winfrey, Oprah


Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
Oprah Winfrey : 12427 : Winfrey, Oprah


Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey : 12572 : Winfrey, Oprah


You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey : 12870 : Winfrey, Oprah


Be thankful for what you have; You'll end up having more.
Oprah Winfrey : 12914 : Winfrey, Oprah


The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
Oprah Winfrey : 13087 : Winfrey, Oprah


It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you.
Oprah Winfrey : 13098 : Winfrey, Oprah


A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey : 13137 : Winfrey, Oprah


Give us this day our daily bread is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.
P. J. Wingate : 4238 : Wingate, P. J.


Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler : 4136 : Winkler, Henry


It's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things.
Kate Winslet : 12803 : Winslet, Kate


I think - therefore, I'm single.
Lizz Winstead : 11694 : Winstead, Lizz


Even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.
Ella Winter : 10023 : Winter, Ella


While our hearts are pure, our lives are happy and our peace is sure.
William Winter : 1930 : Winter, William


If God had really intended men to fly, He'd make it easier to get to the airport.
George Winters : 7430 : Winters, George


I couldn't wait for success so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters : 7763 : Winters, Jonathan


In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
Shelly Winters : 1648 : Winters, Shelly


However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
Jeanette Winterson : 2223 : Winterson, Jeanette


Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.
Jeanette Winterson : 6260 : Winterson, Jeanette


As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Norman Wisdom : 11395 : Wisdom, Norman


The end of good government is to cultivate humanity, and promote the happiness of all.
John Wise : 6211 : Wise, John


The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein : 1197 : Wittgenstein, Ludwig


One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein : 2055 : Wittgenstein, Ludwig


A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein : 8010 : Wittgenstein, Ludwig


The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein : 9201 : Wittgenstein, Ludwig


Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
Ludwig Wittgenstein : 11253 : Wittgenstein, Ludwig


All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
P. G. Wodehouse : 1422 : Wodehouse, P. G.


Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
P. G. Wodehouse : 2836 : Wodehouse, P. G.


It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
P. G. Wodehouse : 3986 : Wodehouse, P. G.


The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
P. G. Wodehouse : 4289 : Wodehouse, P. G.


She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."
P. G. Wodehouse : 4778 : Wodehouse, P. G.


Where one goes wrong when looking for the ideal girl is in making one's selection before walking the full length of the counter.
P. G. Wodehouse : 7253 : Wodehouse, P. G.


It's always embarrassing to run unexpectedly into a girl you used to be engaged to.
P. G. Wodehouse : 9049 : Wodehouse, P. G.


I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
P. G. Wodehouse : 9656 : Wodehouse, P. G.


After all, golf is only a game, said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realize what they are saying.
P. G. Wodehouse : 9937 : Wodehouse, P. G.


Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not! They come out after dark, up to no good.
P. G. Wodehouse : 11266 : Wodehouse, P. G.


Maturing is realizing how many things don't require your comment.
Rachel Wolchin : 12999 : Wolchin, Rachel


Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf : 4814 : Wolf, David T.


We deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Naomi Wolf : 1331 : Wolf, Naomi


Women have face lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Naomi Wolf : 10770 : Wolf, Naomi


One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Thomas Wolfe : 2429 : Wolfe, Thomas


Solitude is something one enjoys, I think, when one has friends to run from; but when enforced, it loses much of its charm.
Thomas Wolfe : 3118 : Wolfe, Thomas


Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.
Tom Wolfe : 11529 : Wolfe, Tom


Women have always been the guardians of wisdom and humanity which makes them natural, but usually secret, rulers. The time has come for them to rule openly, but together with and not against men.
Charlotte Wolff : 11159 : Wolff, Charlotte


Spring is shoving up the front windows and resting your elbows on the sill, the sun burning your nose a little.
Ruth Wolff : 6657 : Wolff, Ruth


I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time.
Wolfman Jack : 13144 : Wolfman Jack


The Irish men are reckoned terrible heart stealers - but I do not find them so very formidable.
Mary Wollstonecraft : 10743 : Wollstonecraft, Mary


As one explores phenomena or ideas at the frontiers of scientific knowledge it is the unexpected that provides the clues to guide further work.
Lewis Wolpert : 3506 : Wolpert, Lewis


If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder : 10961 : Wonder, Stevie


Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness.
Stevie Wonder : 12959 : Wonder, Stevie


Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder : 13333 : Wonder, Stevie


The person who knows how will always have a job. But the person who knows why will be his boss.
Carl C. Wood : 11981 : Wood, Carl C.


All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
Grant Wood : 6476 : Wood, Grant


The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.
Natalie Wood : 4556 : Wood, Natalie


Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.
Victoria Wood : 1829 : Wood, Victoria


Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry : 9465 : Woodberry, George Edward


Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden : 1026 : Wooden, John


Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
John Wooden : 4888 : Wooden, John


A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden : 8188 : Wooden, John


Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden : 10202 : Wooden, John


If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden : 11697 : Wooden, John


There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.
Barbara Woodhouse : 220 : Woodhouse, Barbara


When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.
Shailene Woodley : 13358 : Woodley, Shailene


Letting someone know that you need help is a true show of strength.
Mecca Woods : 13448 : Woods, Mecca


Be mindful of measuring yourself by how much you do for other people. It's not your job to be a savior.
Mecca Woods : 13509 : Woods, Mecca


I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods : 7407 : Woods, Tiger


Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
Carter G. Woodson : 11905 : Woodson, Carter G.


One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf : 1831 : Woolf, Virginia


The first duty of a lecturer - to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
Virginia Woolf : 1832 : Woolf, Virginia


It was a very, very nice letter you wrote by the light of the stars at midnight. Always write then, for your heart requires moonlight to deliquesce it.
Virginia Woolf : 2217 : Woolf, Virginia


The beauty of the world has two edges. One of beauty, one of anguish cutting the heart asunder
Virginia Woolf : 2579 : Woolf, Virginia


Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf : 4740 : Woolf, Virginia


Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf : 6168 : Woolf, Virginia


Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Virginia Woolf : 6490 : Woolf, Virginia


Yet in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf : 6679 : Woolf, Virginia


This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf : 8527 : Woolf, Virginia


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf : 9206 : Woolf, Virginia


The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia Woolf : 10197 : Woolf, Virginia


One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf : 10454 : Woolf, Virginia


All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott : 2017 : Woollcott, Alexander


And since all this loveliness can not be heaven, I know in my heart it is June.
Abba Woolson : 13536 : Woolson, Abba


Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
Constance Fenimore Woolson : 11947 : Woolson, Constance Fenimore


If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever! We thought that it possibly could.
Elizabeth Wordsworth : 9986 : Wordsworth, Elizabeth


The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, lie scattered at the feet of men like flowers.
William Wordsworth : 1955 : Wordsworth, William


Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
William Wordsworth : 3913 : Wordsworth, William


Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
William Wordsworth : 4031 : Wordsworth, William


A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.
William Wordsworth : 4165 : Wordsworth, William


The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth : 5370 : Wordsworth, William


Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth : 6425 : Wordsworth, William


For I have learned, To look on nature, not as in the hour, Or thoughtless youth, but hearing often times, The still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth : 7891 : Wordsworth, William


An accursed thing it is to gaze upon prosperous tyrants with a dazzled eye.
William Wordsworth : 10099 : Wordsworth, William


Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.
William Wordsworth : 12837 : Wordsworth, William


An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
Henry Wotton : 11421 : Wotton, Henry


Equality is the soul of liberty; There is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright : 7483 : Wright, Frances


Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright : 621 : Wright, Frank Lloyd


The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright : 4681 : Wright, Frank Lloyd


The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
Frank Lloyd Wright : 6496 : Wright, Frank Lloyd


Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright : 6866 : Wright, Frank Lloyd


I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
Frank Lloyd Wright : 8245 : Wright, Frank Lloyd


Give me all the luxuries in life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright : 8797 : Wright, Frank Lloyd


Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright : 12936 : Wright, Frank Lloyd


An enemy is a successful person whose views oppose your own.
Gary Wright : 673 : Wright, Gary


The wonderful thing about a theory is that any fool can propose one.
Gary B. Wright : 5333 : Wright, Gary B.


The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Jerry M. Wright : 10324 : Wright, Jerry M.


We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity.
Orville Wright : 3377 : Wright, Orville


I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'm gonna use it.
Steven Wright : 1733 : Wright, Steven


I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.
Steven Wright : 1734 : Wright, Steven


What's another word for Thesaurus?
Steven Wright : 2129 : Wright, Steven


I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright : 3204 : Wright, Steven


The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, "Tell me about some of the people who were here last year."
Steven Wright : 3480 : Wright, Steven


I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time." So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright : 3510 : Wright, Steven


There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright : 3537 : Wright, Steven


How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?
Steven Wright : 3571 : Wright, Steven


Is saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
Steven Wright : 4079 : Wright, Steven


You can't have everything... where would you put it?
Steven Wright : 4581 : Wright, Steven


Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
Steven Wright : 4792 : Wright, Steven


If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?
Steven Wright : 5116 : Wright, Steven


I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright : 5350 : Wright, Steven


Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second.
Steven Wright : 5711 : Wright, Steven


I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.
Steven Wright : 5733 : Wright, Steven


I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes.
Steven Wright : 5741 : Wright, Steven


24 hours in a day - 24 beers in a case - coincidence?
Steven Wright : 5743 : Wright, Steven


42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Steven Wright : 5744 : Wright, Steven


99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Steven Wright : 5745 : Wright, Steven


A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Steven Wright : 5746 : Wright, Steven


A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Steven Wright : 5747 : Wright, Steven


A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Steven Wright : 5748 : Wright, Steven


A fool and his money are soon partying.
Steven Wright : 5749 : Wright, Steven


All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store, with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down
Steven Wright : 5750 : Wright, Steven


All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
Steven Wright : 5751 : Wright, Steven


Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Steven Wright : 5752 : Wright, Steven


Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
Steven Wright : 5753 : Wright, Steven


Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
Steven Wright : 5754 : Wright, Steven


Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
Steven Wright : 5755 : Wright, Steven


Clones are people two.
Steven Wright : 5756 : Wright, Steven


Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Steven Wright : 5757 : Wright, Steven


Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Steven Wright : 5758 : Wright, Steven


Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.
Steven Wright : 5759 : Wright, Steven


Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.
Steven Wright : 5760 : Wright, Steven


Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Steven Wright : 5761 : Wright, Steven


Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
Steven Wright : 5762 : Wright, Steven


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
Steven Wright : 5763 : Wright, Steven


Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Steven Wright : 5764 : Wright, Steven


For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Steven Wright : 5765 : Wright, Steven


George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge, you can't hear him talk.
Steven Wright : 5766 : Wright, Steven


Half the people you know are below average.
Steven Wright : 5767 : Wright, Steven


Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
Steven Wright : 5768 : Wright, Steven


How come abbreviated is such a long word?
Steven Wright : 5769 : Wright, Steven


How do I set my laser printer on stun?
Steven Wright : 5770 : Wright, Steven


How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
Steven Wright : 5771 : Wright, Steven


How is it possible to have a civil war?
Steven Wright : 5772 : Wright, Steven


I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
Steven Wright : 5773 : Wright, Steven


I collect rare photographs. I have one of Houdini locking his keys in his car.
Steven Wright : 5774 : Wright, Steven


I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly, and says, "Here, you can go."
Steven Wright : 5775 : Wright, Steven


I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me were furious!
Steven Wright : 5776 : Wright, Steven


I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
Steven Wright : 5777 : Wright, Steven


I thought about how mothers feed their babies with little tiny spoons and forks, so I wonder what Chinese mothers use. Toothpicks?
Steven Wright : 5778 : Wright, Steven


I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
Steven Wright : 5779 : Wright, Steven


I used to work at a factory where they made hydrants; but you couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright : 5780 : Wright, Steven


I was pulled over for speeding today. The officer said, "Don't you know the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" I replied, "Yes, but I wasn't going to be out that long."
Steven Wright : 5781 : Wright, Steven


I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me. They were cramming for their finals.
Steven Wright : 5782 : Wright, Steven


I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.
Steven Wright : 5783 : Wright, Steven


I was walking down the street and all of a sudden the prescription for my eye-glasses ran out.
Steven Wright : 5784 : Wright, Steven


I went for a walk last night and my kids asked me how long I'd be gone. I said, "The whole time."
Steven Wright : 5785 : Wright, Steven


I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Steven Wright : 5786 : Wright, Steven


If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
Steven Wright : 5787 : Wright, Steven


If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Steven Wright : 5788 : Wright, Steven


If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Steven Wright : 5789 : Wright, Steven


If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Steven Wright : 5790 : Wright, Steven


If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
Steven Wright : 5791 : Wright, Steven


If most car accidents occur within five miles of home, why doesn't everyone just move 10 miles away?
Steven Wright : 5792 : Wright, Steven


If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright : 5793 : Wright, Steven


If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
Steven Wright : 5794 : Wright, Steven


If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
Steven Wright : 5795 : Wright, Steven


If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of the stuff?
Steven Wright : 5796 : Wright, Steven


If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
Steven Wright : 5797 : Wright, Steven


If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
Steven Wright : 5798 : Wright, Steven


If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
Steven Wright : 5799 : Wright, Steven


If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
Steven Wright : 5800 : Wright, Steven


If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Steven Wright : 5801 : Wright, Steven


If you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons?
Steven Wright : 5802 : Wright, Steven


Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
Steven Wright : 5803 : Wright, Steven


Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?
Steven Wright : 5804 : Wright, Steven


Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
Steven Wright : 5805 : Wright, Steven


Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.
Steven Wright : 5806 : Wright, Steven


My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
Steven Wright : 5807 : Wright, Steven


No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Steven Wright : 5808 : Wright, Steven


OK, so what's the speed of dark?
Steven Wright : 5809 : Wright, Steven


One day I came home to my apartment and someone had stolen all of my furniture and replaced it with identical stuff.
Steven Wright : 5810 : Wright, Steven


One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read."
Steven Wright : 5811 : Wright, Steven


Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
Steven Wright : 5812 : Wright, Steven


Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
Steven Wright : 5813 : Wright, Steven


Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?
Steven Wright : 5814 : Wright, Steven


Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
Steven Wright : 5815 : Wright, Steven


Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
Steven Wright : 5816 : Wright, Steven


The colder the X-Ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
Steven Wright : 5817 : Wright, Steven


The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Steven Wright : 5818 : Wright, Steven


The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
Steven Wright : 5819 : Wright, Steven


The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Steven Wright : 5820 : Wright, Steven


The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
Steven Wright : 5821 : Wright, Steven


The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
Steven Wright : 5822 : Wright, Steven


To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism - to steal from many is research.
Steven Wright : 5823 : Wright, Steven


What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
Steven Wright : 5824 : Wright, Steven


What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Steven Wright : 5825 : Wright, Steven


What happens when none of your bees wax?
Steven Wright : 5826 : Wright, Steven


When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Steven Wright : 5827 : Wright, Steven


When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
Steven Wright : 5828 : Wright, Steven


Where are we going? And what's with this hand basket?"
Steven Wright : 5829 : Wright, Steven


Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?
Steven Wright : 5830 : Wright, Steven


Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
Steven Wright : 5831 : Wright, Steven


Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the post office? What are we supposed to do, write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?
Steven Wright : 5832 : Wright, Steven


Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Steven Wright : 5833 : Wright, Steven


Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
Steven Wright : 5834 : Wright, Steven


Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
Steven Wright : 5835 : Wright, Steven


I bought my brother some gift-wrap for christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.
Steven Wright : 5836 : Wright, Steven


I bought this thing for my car. You put it on your car, it sends out this little noise, so when you drive through the woods, deer won't run in front of your car. I installed it backwards by accident. Now I'm driving down the street with herds of deer chas
Steven Wright : 5837 : Wright, Steven


I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by.
Steven Wright : 5838 : Wright, Steven


I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one tiny little car.
Steven Wright : 5839 : Wright, Steven


I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now.
Steven Wright : 5840 : Wright, Steven


I was born by Cesarean Section, but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.
Steven Wright : 5841 : Wright, Steven


I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was "woman".
Steven Wright : 5842 : Wright, Steven


I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Steven Wright : 5843 : Wright, Steven


I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, "Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours." he said, "Yes, but not in a row."
Steven Wright : 5844 : Wright, Steven


I'd like to tell you a story about my old girlfriend. It's called, "They'll find her when the leaves blow away 'cause I'm not raking 'til spring".
Steven Wright : 5845 : Wright, Steven


I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
Steven Wright : 5846 : Wright, Steven


If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright : 5847 : Wright, Steven


If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Steven Wright : 5848 : Wright, Steven


If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
Steven Wright : 5849 : Wright, Steven


In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright : 5850 : Wright, Steven


Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang "Happy Birthday".
Steven Wright : 5851 : Wright, Steven


My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
Steven Wright : 5852 : Wright, Steven


My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of oreo cookies while I'm in the waiting room. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.
Steven Wright : 5853 : Wright, Steven


My girlfriend and I went on a picnic. I don't know how she did it, but she got poison ivy on the brain. When it itched, the only way she could scratch it was to think about sandpaper.
Steven Wright : 5854 : Wright, Steven


One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world.
Steven Wright : 5855 : Wright, Steven


Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
Steven Wright : 5856 : Wright, Steven


Smoking cures weight problems... Eventually.
Steven Wright : 5857 : Wright, Steven


The ice cream truck in my neighborhood plays "Helter Skelter".
Steven Wright : 5858 : Wright, Steven


The other day, I was walking my dog around my building - on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright : 5859 : Wright, Steven


There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright : 5860 : Wright, Steven


There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.
Steven Wright : 5861 : Wright, Steven


When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.
Steven Wright : 5862 : Wright, Steven


When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said, "No, I made a few mistakes."
Steven Wright : 5863 : Wright, Steven


Trees that grow in very smoggy cities are needed to make carbon paper.
Steven Wright : 5864 : Wright, Steven


What happens if you put a slinky on an escalator?
Steven Wright : 5865 : Wright, Steven


When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"
Steven Wright : 5866 : Wright, Steven


Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
Steven Wright : 5867 : Wright, Steven


You know how it is when you decide to lie and say the check is in the mail, and then you remember it really is?
Steven Wright : 5868 : Wright, Steven


I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
Steven Wright : 6473 : Wright, Steven


Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright : 6784 : Wright, Steven


Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright : 6797 : Wright, Steven


My grandfather invented Cliffs Notes. It all started back in 1912. Well, to make a long story short ...
Steven Wright : 7297 : Wright, Steven


I like to tease my plants. I water them with ice cubes.
Steven Wright : 7708 : Wright, Steven


Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright : 7968 : Wright, Steven


I have a seashell collection; maybe you've seen it? I keep it on beaches all over the world.
Steven Wright : 8322 : Wright, Steven


Broke a mirror in my house and I'm supposed to get seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright : 9384 : Wright, Steven


I hate when my foot falls asleep during the day, because I know it's going to be up all night.
Steven Wright : 9745 : Wright, Steven


My neighbor has a circular driveway, He can't get out.
Steven Wright : 9825 : Wright, Steven


I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the zebra did it.
Steven Wright : 9925 : Wright, Steven


When I die I'm going to leave my body to science fiction.
Steven Wright : 11673 : Wright, Steven


When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley, Jr. : 9454 : Wrigley, William, Jr.


Being treated like a thug makes being a thug an attractive choice.
Frank H. Wu : 4103 : Wu, Frank H.


There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
Bill Wulf : 10344 : Wulf, Bill


Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
Ralph "Bus" Wycherley : 12495 : Wycherley, Ralph "Bus"


For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.
William Wycherley : 3927 : Wycherley, William


I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Andrew Wyeth : 9515 : Wyeth, Andrew


Filmmakers have to know where they went wrong. People have a tendency to read only the good reviews. Read the bad ones, too.
William Wyler : 8964 : Wyler, William


An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.
Elinor Wylie : 8538 : Wylie, Elinor


Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Philip Wylie : 4310 : Wylie, Philip


The first step in making a soldier has always been to stamp the individuality out of him.
Philip Wylie : 8015 : Wylie, Philip


The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
Jon Wynne-Tyson : 4697 : Wynne-Tyson, Jon


The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon : 10864 : Xenophon


Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now, and then, somehow got everything back again.
Kobi Yamada : 3345 : Yamada, Kobi


I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion - or an itch.
Hisaye Yamamoto : 13416 : Yamamoto, Hisaye


The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming : 8632 : Yang-Ming, Wang


I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
Yanni : 12826 : Yanni


Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do that is to exchange life for a logical process.
William Butler Yeats : 1898 : Yeats, William Butler


It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and some thing in our sweetheart that we dislike.
William Butler Yeats : 2235 : Yeats, William Butler


This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats : 6580 : Yeats, William Butler


There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
W. B. Yeats : 8006 : Yeats, William Butler


Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.
W. B. Yeats : 8070 : Yeats, William Butler


How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats : 8435 : Yeats, William Butler


I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee loud glade.
William Butler Yeats : 8518 : Yeats, William Butler


I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats : 9257 : Yeats, William Butler


The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats : 9415 : Yeats, William Butler


Irish poets, learn your trade.
William Butler Yeats : 9511 : Yeats, William Butler


Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats : 9853 : Yeats, William Butler


When a country produces a man of genius, he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
W. B. Yeats : 11918 : Yeats, William Butler


To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown : 9795 : Yeats-Brown, Francis


Food is not just sustenance. It's a way of opening up entire worlds and new cultures in your little kitchen.
Molly Yeh : 12733 : Yeh, Molly


You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin : 7693 : Yeltsin, Boris


You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.
Yogi Shaman : 12995 : Yogi Shaman


The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James Yorke : 8754 : Yorke, James


Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world.
Andrew Young : 6054 : Young, Andrew


Once the photocopier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
Andrew Young : 11516 : Young, Andrew


Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Arthur Young : 4221 : Young, Arthur


God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young : 10271 : Young, Arthur


Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young : 11939 : Young, Brigham


An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; Legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young : 11053 : Young, Edward


Being published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honor is almost greater than the pleasure.
G. M. Young : 8943 : Young, G. M.


If you want a place in the sun you have to expect a few blisters.
Loretta Young : 1185 : Young, Loretta


Love isn't something you find love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young : 12160 : Young, Loretta


The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
Neil Young : 7752 : Young, Neil


I just play what I feel like playing, and every once in a while I'll wake up and feel like playing something else.
Neil Young : 8284 : Young, Neil


With the exception of Lassie, Sean Connery is the only person I know who's never been spoiled by success.
Terence Young : 6664 : Young, Terence


Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our inventions.
Whitney Young : 2447 : Young, Whitney


If at first you don't succeed - so much for skydiving.
Henny Youngman : 819 : Youngman, Henny


Have I got a mother in law! She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.
Henny Youngman : 820 : Youngman, Henny


Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, music and dancing. She goes on Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman : 4629 : Youngman, Henny


When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my x-rays.
Henny Youngman : 10608 : Youngman, Henny


If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henny Youngman : 11138 : Youngman, Henny


I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up: They have no holidays.
Henny Youngman : 12128 : Youngman, Henny


Down in Miami, I worked in a place called the Deauville Hotel - very exclusive. Room service had an unlisted number.
Henry Youngman : 11562 : Youngman, Henry


Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Marguerite Yourcenar : 10396 : Yourcenar, Marguerite


It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Malala Yousafzai : 12222 : Yousafzai, Malala


When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai : 12399 : Yousafzai, Malala


We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
Malala Yousafzai : 12545 : Yousafzai, Malala


One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai : 13446 : Yousafzai, Malala


Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lin Yutang : 1161 : Yutang, Lin


When you take a bath you are civilized. When you don't take a bath, you are cultured.
Lin Yutang : 3684 : Yutang, Lin


Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang : 4212 : Yutang, Lin


If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang : 4895 : Yutang, Lin


I believe world civilization can be built only upon the common basis of international living. The ideal life would be to live in an English cottage, with American heating, and have a Japanese wife, a French mistress, and a Chinese cook.
Lin Yutang : 5902 : Yutang, Lin


Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.
Lin Yutang : 8956 : Yutang, Lin


There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Lin Yutang : 11734 : Yutang, Lin


(You need) eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.
Paul Zak : 11638 : Zak, Paul


Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa : 4453 : Zappa, Frank


Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa : 8655 : Zappa, Frank


It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice - there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa : 11531 : Zappa, Frank


Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic.
Catherine Zeta-Jones : 12988 : Zeta-Jones, Catherine


Life comes from the earth, and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi : 9466 : Zhuangzi


People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar : 2276 : Ziglar, Zig


You can get everything in life you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar : 5267 : Ziglar, Zig


Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar : 10615 : Ziglar, Zig


What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar : 11064 : Ziglar, Zig


It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar : 11920 : Ziglar, Zig


Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.
Zig Ziglar : 12855 : Ziglar, Zig


Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
Zig Ziglar : 13053 : Ziglar, Zig


Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
Zig Ziglar : 13062 : Ziglar, Zig


Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
Zig Ziglar : 13189 : Ziglar, Zig


If God had meant us to travel tourist class, He would have made us narrower.
Martha Zimmerman : 1274 : Zimmerman, Martha


The essential problem is how to govern a large-scale world with small-scale minds.
Alfred Zimmern : 2007 : Zimmern, Alfred


We don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn : 3231 : Zinn, Howard


Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
William Zinsser : 9152 : Zinsser, William


Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser : 10997 : Zinsser, William


The best way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands, or butts.
Edith Zittler : 4819 : Zittler, Edith


The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola : 8456 : Zola, Emile


If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola : 8501 : Zola, Emile


There are two men inside the artist: the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Emile Zola : 12340 : Zola, Emile


Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker : 12187 : Zucker, David


Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
Mark Zuckerberg : 12108 : Zuckerberg, Mark


A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Markus Zusak : 12660 : Zusak, Markus


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